skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with a lot of your points; in 1962 a lot of people in us/europe went abroad once or twice in their lifetime. Now, many go twice a year.
Cloud computing showdown: Amazon vs. Rackspace (OpenStack) vs. Microsoft vs..
China Needs More Investors Like Carson Block
Twitter carries key lessons
Who's to say that modding is dead if you just have to buy your motherboard with the CPU welded on to it?
I'm slightly confused how to use this. I have a gaming PC and a 1080p projector. I was always planning to just run an HDMI cable from the 4th output of my 2 cards into the AVR, and then get a second wireless keyboard or something to use when gaming at the couch, rather than a dedicated HTPC for gaming (I use an old macbook pro for ht, along with ps3/xbox360/appletv/googletv)
I appreciate the cynicism as much as anyone, but to be fair:

A. The two groups are in reality about as disjoint as any sets of CSS functionality implementers could be.

B. The premise of WebGL is that it implements a security boundary. ActiveX did not.
SuperCollider: A programming environment for realtime audio synthesis
the amount of brainwashing

I'd love to hear you expand on that (specific cases? the progression of delusion? were they crazy to start out?).
"10 PRINT CHR$ (205.5 + RND (1)); : GOTO 10" from MIT Press, reviewed
This is why we have firewalls, right? If you're leaving your 3306 port flapping in the breeze, you're already hacked. It's just a matter of when.
Did Mark Penn Swiftboat Google?
More Than a Century Old, the QWERTY Keyboard Is Ripe for Reinvention
It seems tantalising for the compiler to also protest when return values of type error are not assigned to anything. An obvious inconvenience being that use of fmt.Println and similar would suddenly become noisy.
People get really annoyed when someone undeserving gets favorable treatment. So, stronger students will not take the chance to let weaker students copy their assignments. Penalize both equally, and a group mentality makes it more likely that they will take a chance again... at least, that's how I understand it worked out.
IsMargaretThatcherDead.com etc

This is boring and not worthy on the HN front page to be quite honest.
Quartz on Jolla
wouldn't have made for as good or as memorable an example. the guy who let the other guy copy his work now has to feel bad both about getting a zero, and about seeing the other guy unfairly get 100%.
I think that what we're seeing is actually just one service being repackaged as many. Echonest provides the data supporting all of these services, so it makes sense that they all look very similar and that there is no remarkable difference in quality from one to the next. However, even with this saturation there actually are a lot of successful music discovery services, so not really a money black hole. http://musicmachinery.com/2012/12/02/music_discovery_is_not_...
Google Ventures-Backed Start-Up TrueLens Nabs $1.2 Million
Regarding Hulu/Netflix, Microsoft would certainly have its work cut out to keep contracts and gain new ones. But they have the money to, and it's going to be a loss leader to get people to buy other things, like Xbox or in the future their cell phones. Microsoft already co-owns a network with NBC (MSNBC) so maybe they have enough connections to make TV contracts.

Pandora/Spotify are bleeding money because of the royalty structure. It's maybe a coin toss if the rates will change. A matter the congress can decide. I think it's worth the gamble. Plus they could leverage this on Xbox too as well as phones.

These businesses aren't that profitable which is why I think it makes sense to buy them. Microsoft if they bought all these companies (and if the SEC would allow) would greatly expand their ad network and open up possibilities for new integrations and businesses. Every other major tech company (Google, Amazon, Apple) has audio/video. Microsoft should want to compete too. I don't see MS Word and being able to run EXEs as enough reason to go Microsoft. I'm imagining them unlocking a wholly integrated entertainment setup.

Also, I see MySpace being what it once was. A place to friend all the weird and interesting strangers and follow new bands. It was great for that and a lot of fun. Social networks weren't all serious like they were before Facebook and LinkedIn.
The way I did it on my new laptop was to disable "secure boot", wipe the hard drive, and install Ubuntu from a live USB. It runs like a champ.

It was a fairly straightforward process except for determining the BIOS hotkey as this system hides the hotkey when secure boot is on, but shows it during boot when it's off. I had to call the OEM to figure it out -- it wasn't in the manual, the support site, or elsewhere on the internet.
Love the idea. Shouldn't be too hard to do.
Without knowing the full set of parameters & restrictions that Petraeus was operating under, it's impossible to say this is what he shoulda done. The likely explanation is that he knew exactly what his options were and the gmail 'alias' account draft-email-scheme was the best option for communication for him while sitting in his office.
Yeah, it's a real shame.

I wonder if any kind of antitrust case could be made against Microsoft for this, as it's clearly putting an impediment in the way of installing other operating systems.. and this is a form of anti-competitive behavior.
Have you tried OnSip? We use Lylix with a customized Asterisk install with Cisco SIP phones, but it's kind of a headache to manage.
No More Exploratory Bugs
'Comfort Is Largely a Social Construct': The Unsettled Design Ethos of the Chair
Holy shit! Only 9 years to pluto? That's waaaaayyyy shorter than I would have imagined possible with our current technology.
"The way I did it on my new laptop was to disable "secure boot", wipe the hard drive, and install Ubuntu from a live USB."

Would doing this void your laptop's warranty?
I bought windows 8 because of the cheap first day release price. I dislike it intensely.
... Straight mean bro.
Thats not a computation problem, but an latency issue thanks to the extra round-trips being made (see above about edge cases). Its also only the initial connection, as keep-alive is used to eliminate that particular problem with http and https in equal style.

Latency issues are real (ie, non-trivial problems), but they are of the nature where context is everything. If you have a small javascript file, then http instead of https will be a multitude faster. If however, you are running a dynamic site, not on a CDN, and are using some kind of javascript goodies, then the experienced latency for users are going to be complex. Add in some banners with ads, and round-trip might not be that relevant at all in the experience of loading the first page. What i am saying is that if latency is an issue, https is not the first place to go the address it.

To compare with a real world example, if I load a local news site (round-trip ping of say 30ms), the extra packages of https won't have any direct affect on latency, and the ad-networks from a continent away will be the biggest crime to latency. That is, if I don't enable javascript, as then the load time of the first page will increase a second or so.
Auto-Threading Compilers Are Here
De Jong Attractor in Javascript
The new Chrome and sandboxed IE web browsers seem to have a better track record on security than Oracle Java after a decade or more.

I guess the main lessons here are 1) you need your web platforms in another sandbox for defense in depth, and 2) you won't get there without obsessive attention to security, proactive fuzzing, and luck.
1T RMB = 157B USD

Online sales at walmart.com are estimated at 4.9B USD out of 447B USD total sales from all divisions.
Is Now The Right Time to Upgrade Your POS Equipment? Top 6 Questions To Ask
I thought the point was to use very low-res JPEG files and load the full versions later. The motion blur is still visible when the screenshots are not moving too.
Software-defined Networking Use Case: Multipath TCP at Caltech and CERN
Doesn't necessarily mean the PC is thrown out but where once they might have upgraded a computer or bought another (perhaps for a child/teenager) they might buy a tablet instead. The products are competing for the same disposable income and in very much the same field and also they compete for time and attention and the dollars will follow those.

What do most people spend most time doing on PCs? Web browsing, email, games, reading news and YouTube? All those things are well supported on tablets and for some they may be better suited to the tablet.

Sure the PC is better for development and serious writing but that is only a fraction of usage and writing doesn't need a very modern computer (or Windows 8).
What stops groups from consolidating and trading favors? Then you end up back where you started.
17 days is a bit shortlived lol.

But, I feel it can be expanded to encompass anything you wish to do with friends where you can publicly list goals, add photos from each accomplishment etc etc with friends and family.

I don't like when apps use Facebook as a prerequisite, but I would find a way to utilize Facebook's reach without requiring it to participate. Use it as a tool - not as the foundation.

It's a concept, needs some refining - but there's promise.
tl;dr -- Auto-Threading compilers are not actually here -- unless you happen to work at Microsoft Research (or another place doing research work in this area).

Terribly misleading title though in this case it originates from the original article.
Point taken, though it's generally a lot easier to buy a competing product than to move to a competing country.
I sort of agree, but again, Paypal is also enabling this to continue by refusing me the chance to bring my case to the credit card company.

Short of legal action, they would not let me get the contact info for the buyers credit card company in order for me to deal with them directly.
Yes. He is a very savvy and very experienced investor. He is a great resource for any startup imho.
I never said painless. However Apple doesn't have (yet) the power to imprison or execute anti-Apple subversives.

Vive la résistance!
I returned 2 15" Retina MBPs in 3 weeks. First had dead pixels, second had a very squeaky spacebar, and now this third machine has the same ghosting effect you've mentioned.

It's really not that much of an annoyance because it goes away quickly, but you do think they would have corrected it.

To protect my MBP, I rock this classic black briefcase, which fits the laptop and cables perfectly: http://refer.ly/agTA
I want to use HTML5 more often but I refrain because of comparability issues with IE for the users who still use it...
Thousand times this. Their buyer filtering options are laughable.

If they were to let me limit sales to people
with certain types of addresses, purchases of certain value, a reasonable number of feedback, etc, that would be very helpful in reducing a chance of being defrauded
Apologies for OT question: Which distro are you using to (presumably successfully) boot on the X1 Carbon?
The Question of Scale
>even things as mundane as scrolling webpages is pretty low-FPS
I mean, if you bought a $1300+ computer THIS YEAR shouldn't you expect better performance? OS X is pretty good, but I personally am tired of not being able to run intensive things without shelling out thousands.
I actually like it when I need to use it. Hitting the windows key and typing what I want is very useful and I find it more functional than what was in Windows 7. I don't really use Metro for much more than that, but on a desktop I don't really need to use it for anything else. The Desktop app runs great and is lighter than Windows 7, which was a really solid operating system.

Edit: Also, give some time for it, its app market and hardware designed for it to mature.
"The new Dell Ubuntu laptop is the only thing I can think of as a reasonable alternative to what Apple's doing."

Not with 768 vertical pixels it isn't.
I'm typing this on my second Macbook Pro retina screen (bought mine day of release). I've been through this "test" before. Both times I didn't have an issue demonstrating it. I'm not overly pleased that the retina displays apparently have an "acceptable" ghosting rate, my experiences haven't been as bad as this bloggers.

Just to contrast the problems. That said, I agree the test is crap, the first time I tested it with a genius the test was rather vague as to what they were supposed to do. That and to be honest the JJ Abrams Star Trek lighting in the apple store didn't help when looking for ghosting in the store.

All in all, its not much different from most of Apples first gen "revolutionary" products. This being the first real "retina" 15" display likely means teething issues. That said, no i'm not excited about being a beta tester. But whatever, the machine has made me despise low dpi screens.
"It's becoming increasingly clear that future Twitter clients are likely to carry premium price tags, but that's not the only worry; in a swipe at Twitter's new policies, the app description says the developers "cannot guarantee that this app will continue to function in the same way that it does in its purchased state."
And now, with a front page HN post, that effective hype has probably more than doubled!
How Not to Discuss Value in Your Sales Proposals (with charts)
And all of this, just to avoid the intermediaries. Why not just put the PGP encrypted messages on a pastebin and text the id (or, hell, agree on it beforehand).
Once you add a keyboard to a tablet, it's just a laptop with a touch screen, but whatever you call it, I just hope the keyboard has tactile feedback, the screen is big enough to see what I want, I can add a mouse and most importantly: I can run a general-purpose operating system on it.

(My paranoid side is convinced that our NWO techno-slave-masters are simply using these new form-factors as an excuse to kill freedom.)
And the award for link-bait author of the year goes to....

Seriously though, I can't believe I actually just read this entire "article". There's no proof of anything, just a whole bunch of over-exaggerated claims. Does the author really think that people in offices are going to ditch computers entirely and type 15 page documents on a device that has glass so weak if you sneeze on it you risk cracking the screen? No USB ports, so means for connecting multiple external monitors, no CD/DVD/Blu-ray drive, no means of connecting an external drive, lack of internal space, no keyboard...

I feel sorry for any business that thinks it's a great idea to stop using PC's and instead opt for expensive tablets with a minimal feature set, investing in potentially tens of thousands of dollars in software and infrastructure to support an office of iPads is not feasible. You know why PC's are the number choice for most businesses, especially in the corporate sector? Because PC's are dirt cheap, cheap to build and upgrade, cheaper software, better support. I've had my Core i5 machine for ages now and I've been able to run games on the highest settings since I built it 2 or 3 years ago. RAM is cheap, new hard drives are cheap, every component of a computer except the CPU is cheap. You can't upgrade the internals of an iPad.

As for Office, even Google Docs and Zoho (amongst others) have failed to beat it. Microsoft Office isn't going anywhere for the foreseeable future and the very fact Microsoft have launched cloud versions of Office as well, it's definitely still in wide use and evolving. There are many people who still don't trust the cloud, I don't trust the cloud.

It was a nice try, but this is ridiculous. Windows 8 has been out for one month and the author is making extraordinary claims that it has failed to stop the iPad? Windows 8 is not about just capturing the tablet market, it's a great decision from Microsoft to streamline their operating system offering instead of having 15 different versions of an operating system there's only a couple.

Remember when journalism used to mean researching and spending sometimes weeks or months on one story? Me either. It's all become a race to get page views to increase ad revenues as evident by this article.
Just curious, how is this any different than using the TV as a projector/second screen? What exactly makes Big Picture, well, anything?
Can someone explain to me how you can have a general delivery as a confirmed PayPal address? Seems a bit silly that PayPal would allow this.
Making RAM virtually non-user-serviceable on a desktop is terrible for a number of reasons, chief among them being the fact that modern RAM chips have an absurdly high failure rate. A situation that is tolerable given how cheap new memory is but largely offset in this case by how difficult it is to do the replacement.
> The problem is that when you pick a motherboard, you also pick the CPU you want.

I think the issue here is that builders/gamers will be pushed into spending more. Right now you can get a < $100 ASRock board, pair it with a i5 3570K and a decent video card and you're off. Now you're more likely to have to grab a > $180 board if you want a top-end CPU.
Dilution in bad faith is lawsuit-worthy. Most founders these days have common stock just like everyone else, and get diluted in the same situations.

Dilution during fundraising isn't an absolute bad thing, either. There are shenanigans, and investors with preferred stock definitely get paid first, but the basic theory is that 20% equity dilution comes along with an investment that immediately makes the company 20% more valuable. It's basically a zero sum transaction ... except for preferred shares, options pools, etc.
Oh wow, that's even worse. Why would anybody be interested in that, especially children?

I learned Japanese as a foreign language in college, and very little time in class was spent on grammar, and not much time was spent on reading/writing. We spent the vast majority of our time on the spoken language, which we learned in the context of simulated real-world conversations. The result was that while we were weak in the written language, our pronunciation and grammar was top-notch.

We had no trouble subsequently teaching ourselves the written language (though children might not have the initiative to do that). But if we had not properly learned the spoken language in class and the grammar outside of class at the same time, we might not have had the foundation necessary to progress with the written language. It's much more difficult to teach yourself the spoken language than reading/writing/grammar.
Microsoft Quietly Releases Office 2013
Efforts and time required
In some ways, this is an advantage for selling games through Steam. If someone can't afford a decent computer, how likely are they to pay for games? And they will probably expect lower prices, especially if the assets are smaller and simpler.
>Edit: Also, give some time for it, its app market and hardware designed for it to mature.

In other words, probably wait for Windows 9? =P
> Or, maybe, IM with OTR without logging, but that . . . might also fall prey to crazy counterparty either not disabling logging or intentionally recording and blackmailing.

I thought this was one of the benefits of OTR over, say, PGP. That is, with PGP if you sign a message the counterparty can wave it around and say "look at what this poerson said", while with OTR, since the encryption is done with a shared key, it could be just as likely that the counterparty made it up.

At least, that's what I gleaned from this wonderful video[1] someone linked to on HN yesterday.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG0KrT6pBPk
Bigger buttons and text, navigable with a gamepad and readable from a distance. Also, a text input method for use with a gamepad.
"lowest price this year" is a completely arbitrary time range limitation.
Or read only particular users' posts:

http://hackerfollow.com/
I think the 95% could have been better phrased as "a lot of people", but the OP's point holds for me personally. I'm currently typing this on my 3 year old VAIO I paid $600 for. I just bought a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 for $370ish, and don't intend to buy another computer for 2 or 3 years.

If it wasn't for the tablet, I'd probably be buying a new computer in the next 12 months. Effectively windows just lost a license sale to the Kindle.

Now, where things get interesting is when it stabilizes. What happens in 24 months when everyone has a tablet and a PC/Mac? Which do people replace, and what does that do to tablet sales vs laptop sales? I have no idea, and I'm sure it depends on new technology, but the future is not as clear to me as many writers assume.
Just what sort of "distributed" is this talking about, that there's a central DB to put the queue in?
LOL The problem with psychotics is that they can be so damn convincing. It's almost it's own filter for me: if this guy is so absolutely convinced that no argument is even worth considering, he's nuts. (Applies to women too).
I do this all the time to laptops ... boot Windows once to go through the whole "create backup DVDs" procedure, then put the DVDs away somewhere safe and wipe the machine. If you ever have to claim warranty, back up your Linux files, securely wipe the HDD, then restore from the backup DVDs and send the newly restored machine back.

This is also good security policy ...
If people start veering towards more work on a tablet, then the tablet is going to have to take on more characteristics of the PC like a keyboard and some of the features of a more flexible/general purpose OS.

So, what do we have then? Do we still have just a tablet? Maybe, but the definition will have changed.
> except that government has convinced society that its actions are acceptable.

Government is society, we are our government, it is not some entity that has tricked everyone. It does what it does because open your eyes and look around, people want it doing those things.
Valve did find OpenGL outperforming Direct3D with their engine.

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/linux/faster-zombies/
Since this is meant to be HN:

There's a lesson to be learnt. If you want to build a niche, build one that anyone can access. Better still, build a niche which stops people being locked out. Later on, you can screw the unwashed masses, and turn it into a B2C channel. See - Youtube, eBay, the iApp stores, the internet in general.
Why would that matter? They show their methodology, the "corruption" index is mostly taken from Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index, where Belize and Guatemala do not do well.
Well, I wouldn't put Win 8 and Vista on the same level, so I hope not. Sadly, that is a possibility.
This title is awful.

edit: I guess the title has been changed. It was something like First Real Alternative to iPhone and Android?
hashackernewsjumpedtheshark.com
That's a false dichotomy – there's (at least) a third option – a service that doesn't skim so much off the top – 2.5% made sense when credit cards were a rarer payment method, used only for a small fraction of transactions.

Now, nearly everyone has and uses multiple visa or mc branded credit or debit cards, yielding trillions in transactions, making billions for Visa/MC.

In short, they've grown much more profitable due to their scale and none of that has value has been returned to businesses or consumers in via rate reductions, AFAIK.
Similar service but allows you to have dynamic pages

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4025901
Personally, I don't really trust Facebook with my data. I still use Facebook, but as little as possible. I know WhatsApp may be data mining my conversations too, but Facebook is a known evil to me.
Yeah, true, okay, I will just be myself but start becoming more active.