skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your conclusion—the Republican leadership seems to have convinced itself that their policies had nothing to do with their loss in the last round, so it will probably take a couple more iterations to figure out that they've alienated just enough of the country to lose elections consistently without a platform change.

I also think a tactic like this one could be extremely valuable to a rational Republican party. However, that doesn't mean the numbers work for this particular wedge. Thomas's point is that it isn't politically effective if it costs more than you make in profit and this particular policy position costs more than it's worth. You have to count the voters you gain versus the ones you lose, but you also have to worry about your cash flow.

Say this move netted the Republican party 4% of the vote. That would probably be enough to swing an election by itself. But if the move costs them $10B in funding, we have to weigh how much of that 4% the Democratic party can win back with a $10B advantage (or more, if Republican donors become Democratic donors). If they gain 4% of the voters but lose 2% due to cashflow problems they wind up in more-or-less the same place they were before. Following this example, it would have to gain them more like 6%+ to be worth the cost, and unless 6% of our country would swing on this one issue it's not likely.

If Thomas is right and the reforms weren't well-posed (I'm in no position to judge, but his point is well made) then it's a high-risk proposition of dubious value.

I wouldn't be surprised if they returned to this topic with a more modest proposal that doesn't anger all of their copyright-holding donors but still has a certain kind of appeal. But like you said, I would be surprised if it happened in the next four years—maybe in more like 6-8.
And it makes the fans on my rMBP go nuts
I'm actually having a hard time keeping my eyes on the text. It's almost sickening trying to focus.

I hope this developer isn't making content on real websites.
So... If all they are authorized to do is issue verbal warnings, the "warnings" are essentially meaningless, aren't they? Not saying this is a bad thing, just strikes me as a bit odd - "Warning - stop smoking or I'll... Issue you another warning?"
> Qyuki is hindi for "because" (usually spelled Kyunki and pronounced "Q"-"key")

A minor correction. The exact Hindi word for "because" is Qyunki (notice the 'n'). 'Qyun' => why. "ki" => that.
The judge has also: Ordered details on any other subjects caught in the illegal surveillance, allowed for Dotcom and his co-accused to sue the New Zealand police and spy agency for damages and allowed for those damages to include a copy of all data seized during the raid

(Echelon is an intelligence network of five countries: New Zealand, The United States, Australia, Canada and Britain)
Is there such thing as User eXperience evolution, and how to adapt?
Vertical line right in the middle. Like the OP said, once you see it you can't stop seeing it.
I can't on my MacBook or external screen. I tried on my iPhone—assuming that the screen might be lower quality—sadly the website blew up and there was no gradient to be found.
1) Focus and concentration, without distractions.

2) Think a little bit before writing on what you will write. Thus I have better program with less need to rewrite.

3) Using a 13inch laptop. The small screen estate forces me to concentrate on what I am doing right now. No place for other editor windows or browsers or anything else, just my code and my work.

What does NOT make you faster:

1) Having a special mechanical/ergonomic/whatever keyboard.

2) Having multiple large screens with tons of windows open. This is most of the time distraction and not helpful. Avoid it.
On the iPad it even blinks when scrolling. Though, it's a cool design.
you can still get one free account https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-appengine/pVZfd...
I'm not sure what's with the background, but it turned my laptop into a hairdryer.
I'm going to guess that you're not privy to their production scalability plans.

The first one is the hardest.
If you want to have a go rolling your own web analytics calculations, I would recommend setting up SnowPlow (https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow) and then following through the SnowPlow Web Analyst's Cookbook (start with the simple recipes here: http://snowplowanalytics.com/analytics/basic-recipes.html).

Here's a simple example for unique visitors by month:

SELECT
YEAR(dt),
MONTH(dt),
COUNT(DISTINCT(user_id))
FROM events
GROUP BY YEAR(dt), MONTH(dt) ;
I agree. Displays in general suck. The display on the RMBP is a step in the right direction, but there's still a lot of work to be done. Anyone who settles for "good enough" may as well live life like it's the 16th century. It was "good enough" then too.

My vision for the future? Specifications that fully exceed the human capacity for discernibility.

2880x1800? Nope, I can still see aliasing (particularly in Terminal when I'm coding).

IPS? Nope. Move your head slightly up and down and -- while the chromaticity stays (roughly) the same -- the luminance does not.

Black levels? I can still distinguish a black screen from the bezel, so it needs some work too.

Color depth? See the provided banding examples. Not to mention that the three primaries in most LCD panels form a very small triangle in the chromaticity diagram.

Refresh rates also stink. It's 2012 -- motion should be so fluid it looks real by now.

Anyway, there's a lot of potential for improvement but I'm afraid if you're not OCD (like me) or a color scientist, most people just don't care too much.
Seth Godin on Good Life Project
Some dithering would help there...
My mario 64 cart has 120 stars (yes by me) and is autographed by Miyamoto. I waited in line all night to get my Wii. When its drive crapped out I bought a shiny new black one. I was honestly expecting to be able to play all the virtual console games on it. I used to have fun with my kids playing all the old games on the Wii. Now we don't play them.

I hadn't even realized it till I read this post. Subtly, subconsciously, Nintendo turned me off gaming on the Wii. I wasn't mad or angry. I recall now seeing the virtual console and thinking "I could buy this again ... nah maybe later". When I thought of buying a new game, instead of a happy feeling, the feeling I got was how I felt when I was thinking about buying the games I had on my old Wii for the second time: "nah maybe later". And later never came.

Haven't bought a Wii U.

And yes, it is fucking insane that as a parent, I can't set up an account, online, and buy games and activate consoles. There is no excuse Nintendo. I have iTunes. I have Amazon Instant Video. I have Netflix. This is how you sell to me now, and it will be how you sell to my kids. My 9yo has an iPhone and that's what she plays games on. COPPA is no excuse. My kids watch Netflix all day, but who signed up for it? Madness.
Right. "135 million active users checking their Google+ streams each month".

And what, we guess that Google is using the Facebook definition?
https://www.facebook.com/help/219375581424410/

Which means... unique user page views with 0 engagement metrics! Yay~

MAU and DAU are meaningless statistics. It's pure eye-views, that's all.

Show me some average aggregate visits per user per month, and I'll believe there's actually something happening (ie. the average number of times each unique user visited the site in a single month. Hint: for Facebook, this number is probably ~20-30).
The article doesn't show much understanding of Nintendo's general trajectory. They've been almost determined to explore the entire spectrum of copy protection, in order of least to most effective. The psychological impact on them has been to increase the paranoia factor in step with this (they're even encrypting saved game content.)

I can't really blame them either. It's not optimal and it sucks, but they seem to be approaching working solution which is something they need (in order to sell licenses if nothing else.)
Even The FCC Thinks Airplane Electronic Rules Are Bogus
Google apps for education is still free (I wonder for how long.) At least google is focusing on charging for things that are revenue generating, however for some education enterprise, that is debatable.

http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/education/
Personally, I like to write ideas down as they come but prefer to let them stew there for a while. My problem is that I get excited about something initially but that excitement fades over time especially when I get to the point where I have to do something hard and/or not fun.

So generally I'll try to do one of two things:

1) Find a partner. I find it a lot easier to get going and a lot harder to quit when there's someone else going through it with you; sort of like going to the gym...

2) Pick an idea that still excites me even after sitting in my list for a while. If I'm going to go it alone, whatever it is has to be important enough to me that I still care after that initial honeymoon. This time is really valuable to me personally. I find that in the beginning I focus on potential but given some time I'll eventually come back to earth and think more about what needs to be done, all the steps, and potential roadblocks. After all that, if I'm still excited to tackle the problem, I have at least some confidence that I'll have the conviction to push through the hard times.

Fair warning, my current list is long and the number completed is still zero (abandoned projects is also zero). I have just started working on something recently though, so there is some hope. I guess this is really a long winded way of saying try to find something that you're really passionate about, don't waste time on things you aren't, and don't get discouraged if you haven't found it yet.
Very impressive and bice background on the science.

I'd love to see him do the same with a nitro funny car... I saw one for the first time last month and it's impossible to convey the shear power that you can feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzOEz0Y3Lcc
Build Your Own Wasteland 2
2 good points in there, and as a zombie fan, I'm ashamed of my horde failure. And the comment on exploits is sharp, has AI ever noticed exploits/cheating? How? I know how I start to suspect and start to confirm suspicions, but its not much more than recognition of suspicious patterns.
Wolfram | Alpha predicts from the previous human input, I am getting "Assuming 'the future' is a song" on request "What is the future". But even kids are better than Wolfram in answering such a question. They can tell you that the future is a grammatical tense used for expression about things that will or can happen.

And from this limitations of the predictive interface are clear. If it does not have enough candidates, it will bring user nothing but weak excuse.
> How on Earth are they going to go from a single launch in 2012

They launched twice.

> He already has a track record of delaying, delivering late and overpromising with Tesla.

http://blogs.wsj.com/drivers-seat/2012/06/29/to-elon-musk-an...
There are alternatives to google that are free of charge.

For example, Live (Microsoft service)[1] or Yandex (Russian google vis-a-vis). [2][3]

[1] https://domains.live.com/

[2] http://pdd.yandex.ru

[3] Major caveat: the interface is in Russian only now, but after initial setup it shouldn't be a big deal;
Does it include chained map-reduce?
Silicon Valley Finally Gets the TV Treatment It Deserves: Mike Judge
You can go further. Undithered black-white gradients look even worse. Often they look green or yellow in bands — http://file.st/KWb7XS7x
Very nice guide. But I wouldn't build a Steam Box. There's something to be said about consoles and how they provide developers with one standardized specification that they can target over a span of 6+ years that enables them to optimize games so they run smoothly while squeezing out every last drop of power the console has to offer. Gaming PCs lack this standardization that consoles enjoy. Sure, there's infinite flexibility with what you're able to do with a PC -- such as using it as a HTPC -- but over time, a Steam Box built today won't be able to play the latest games that 2017 has to offer with any grace, while the PS3 will be running a title like "The Last of Us" nearly seven years after the console's introduction. Sure, you could always upgrade the graphics card, CPU, HD, and other components, but now you've already overpaid what you would have had you bought a PS4/Xbox 720.

Just something to keep in mind for anyone who decides to build a Steam Box in hopes that is can replace a console.
Software Founder Is Denied Asylum
Oddly enough, I can see it in Chrome but not in Safari. I'm on OS X.
Thank you for the most epic comment of HN.
'Journey' Earns the Videogame World's First Grammy Nomination
You are not the only one. I couldn't keep my eye focus on the text due to the rotating background, and closed the website after reading the first two paragraphs.
Gmail’s iOS Reboot Rocks
What on earth is with all the motion on the website.

Just because you can do animation doesn't mean you should.
Screenshot if your browser crashes/blows up: http://i.imgur.com/nWnqA.png
Prior to 10.6, actually.

I just upgraded from 10.5 to 10.6.8 for that very reason.
The problem with this is that a lot of people think that the battle is now over, that "it's legal".

It's not. Possession of marihuana is a federal crime in the US. If you are a user, you live at the mercy of the federal government not prosecuting you.

This means that, for normal plebs, it's effectively legal - but for anyone who assumes that and does something (otherwise legal) to piss off the federal government, they can lock you up at will.

That's a terrifying thought.
I thought the flickr interface was pretty slick: I only had to wait for an image to load once, right at the beginning.
BirdBuggy
The argument is not 'cutting off ad-supported free users' but 'sugarcoating'.

Blabling 'but time has shown that in practice, the experience isn't quite right for either group' when a statement about ~ we are sorry to remove the free ad supported option would have been the honest way.
Mobile first vs web first? Try "product market fit first"
My take on the ridiculousness of the recent "mobile first vs web first" bantering.
Try fiddling with your brightness/contrast settings.
Native compiled code?
I could, but barely. Not enough that this website made me care about the issue.
To address your points:

- Lion is very fast with a SSD, but definitely slower than 10.6 with a regular hard disk. Hence the difference in perception between various people.

- The whole-screen app stuff is a good idea, but the implementation sucks on multiple monitors, which many geeks use (the problem is: when you go full screen on one monitor, the other no longer shows anything by gray linen)

- Many features were removed for what seems to be no good reason, e.g. RSS feeds.

- Some iPad-like behaviors make little sense on a desktop, e.g. automatically closing Safari if idle for a while. It takes several seconds to open a web link just because it has to relaunch the application.

- Annoying for my company, Taodyne (3D presentations): stereoscopy used to be perfectly stable on 10.6, unstable since 10.7, to the point of causing kernel panics or system freezes regularly.

- Memory management has been a weak point since Rhapsody. In Rhapsody, you could crash the system simply by zooming in Preview. Today, you can still halt your top-of-the-line system to a crawl simply by running a process that eats all available memory. I'd much rather have an easy quota system where I can say "unless otherwise specified, no app can take more than 1/4th of available RAM". Or a paging system that makes smarter decisions and keeps the "interactive" stuff resident enough that I can still kill the offending process.

- Tons of annoying little bugs at the lowest levels, and you really wonder what was broken there that they needed to fix. Like the mouse cursor that sometimes disappears. Or the keyboard that sometimes forgets half the keys you type. Or Safari that stops refreshing part of the screen. Or moving a window across monitors that now causes the window and background icons to blink. And so on. Lion does not feel as polished as Snow Leopard.

Overall, I still like Apple products, but I definitely see them losing their edge on the software quality front. I think that Maps on iOS is just the most glaring example, but it's not the only one.
I tend to use http://myip.is/ because it's the shortest url for these things that I know of and an intuitive url at that too.
Chrome For iOS: A Failure?
Lumawake campaign on FuelByte
Holy cow. I wish I could make this sound when driving my 2001 Honda.
BSP/2012/12/be/Mechelen - Debian Wiki
I doubt it's "hacked", though it is down. The dreaded "error establishing a database connection" screen is just a generic WordPress error that can show up for a variety of reasons, usually because the database services of the host are down, but the PHP hosting is not (this happens more than you might think, even without malice, depending on the host). It could be a DDOS, but I doubt it's been hacked. A hacker would normally replace the site with something else (if possible), rather than just disable it.

Then again, it could be hacked, and the hacker is covering his trail. This I doubt.
Wait, in public where if they were drinking alcohol it would be illegal?

Were they over 18? Did they drive home afterwards?

Do it in your own home and I don't care. Do it in the street or drive stoned and I have a major problem with it.
Parallax:a first-person puzzle platformer with overlapping spatial dimensions
Found a workaround to still sign up for the standard plan, modify the following URL to include your domain: http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/standard/selectDomain?existin...

Likely to be disabled very soon.
Here are a few points to consider:

1) The notion that the systematic clipping of one or two sentences from every news story you can find on the Internet for the purpose of selling ads is "fair use" is totally absurd.

2) The "robots.txt" argument misses the point because the publishers never gave permission to use their content, so the presence of an "opt-out" mechanism is irrelevant. The mechanism must be "opt-in", i.e., Google must ask to use their content.

3)If we believe that intellectual property has become an obsolete concept altogether, we should be prepared to accept all of the consequences of this, e.g., a site might pop up using a new TLD that accepts a search query from a client, passes it on to Google using a spoofed IPv6 address, and passes the result back to the client. We also shouldn't care about plagiarism, trademark infringement, etc., because the Internet has clearly made these concepts obsolete and laws related to them unenforceable.
Founder of Seed-DB here. I'd love to get numbers on revenue, profits, etc. but it's essentially impossible to do this for private companies. Even average lifespan is difficult because death is often not a single day, but a slow transition.
Is Ubuntu Software Management User Friendly?
It's overreach to say high DPI displays eliminate the need for anti-aliasing. You will still get shimmering, pixel popping, and temporal aliasing, it will just be harder to notice. If you have thin shapes like hanging cables or chain-link fences being displayed, even at high resolution, you will get pixels coming in and out of existence. Higher sampled AA tends to add spatial "stability" so that slight shifts of viewpoint won't trigger this.
This is an article targeted to get more signups for Mixpanel and CrazyEgg more than anything else. I've seen much much better articles with depth on the same topic.
If you can't afford 0.15 % worth of overhead, using very conservative numbers, you need to rethink your business model. To break out that tired old analogy again - you're spending more than that on coffee for each of them, when you make it yourself and don't even factor in the depreciation of the coffee machine.
For me, the thing keeping me off of Google+ is that it's linked to my other accounts. Violations (or even suspected violations) of copyright and a long list of other things could get the entire account in trouble. I say this as someone who has received copyright notices on content I produced entirely on my own.

I would never want to jeopardize my Gmail or Adsense. It's much better to get my social fix from any other company.
Nice! I love the simplicity, and the fact that this is actually relatively semantic styling, and doesn't require any extra markup.
Cutting the Cord Part 2: Building your HTPC - The Hardware
That's probably the longest lucky streak, if not more luck, than most ever have in a lifetime!
Smells like code completion (not a bad thing). Like Dasher, for analysis.
Delta Air sued by California regarding mobile app data collection
Richard O'Dwyer (tvshack) happy US copyright case is over
That's his point though, right: you are saying "meh, it's good enough".
In Berlin people smoke all the time in public places. In U-bahn stations, in parks, in bars etc. And I wouldn't care less. It's not harming me in any way, like it's not also harmful if they drink a bottle of beer on their way home in the subway, which is totally accepted also.

This is one of the things I didn't understand when I visited SF and NY last spring. Especially the drinking part. Parks are the best place to drink some wine or beer, if you ask me.
Apple v Samsung round 2
How to Run Windows XP for Free in Windows 8
Not only that, it's such a processor hog it makes my MacBook Air fans whir at full volume.

I disabled JavaScript on the site, hoping that would make it behave, and got... no blog, only this:

> This blog uses a little JavaScript. Nothing dodgy, though, and nothing hosted at third-party sites. Just some jQuery and animation bits. So please, if you'd be so kind, ask Noscript to call off the hounds.

Congratulations, those “animation bits”, which you won't let me turn off, make your site unbearably annoying to read.
The mobile phone is a better comparison, but you're dealing in abstract concepts now, not the simple neurochemicals your brain has spent millions of years evolving to crave. Plus, email is probably one of the least satisfying forms of communication.
This: "the state’s working on setting up a system to license growers and sellers, but it could take up to a year)."

Excellent. Should have the criminals worried. Even in Holland we still don't have this. (Although we're allowed to have several cannabis plants for personal use).
It's trivial to get these values from software and it is (was) a very common practice amongst app developers, advertisers etc. to collect this information and store it in a database. I can guarantee you that the IMEI in the majority of these databases is stored as plaintext. Due to the easy access to these numbers as well as the large number of massive existing databases of them, IMEI numbers are simply not suitable password equivalents in any way and merely suggesting the contrary makes our world a less secure place.
Trusteer Research Identifies Five Most Dangerous Malware Trends for 2013
that's what the governments want of course
After Panda & Penguin, is Google Living Up to Its Great Expectations?
I'm talking about startups born and brought up and marketed in India. Except a handful like Redbus, Flipkart and Cleartrip, most others are not impressive.

Even sites like Redbus/FK were not great when they went live for the first time. Over time they whipped up better usability.
We just pushed a major performance upgrade; The delay should be fixed now.
Thanks for waiting!
As a Dutchman I agree with you (and your German beers)! People relaxing and having a drink/smoke in the park? No problem. In France it's the same, but with wine.
The free Google Apps was perfect for families: give each kid a nice kid@familyname.com and no problem with the silly 18 year limit that gmail has. The shared calendars work great in our family too.

It's certainly not worth $50 per year because the little ones get maybe 1 email a month from grandma. Since Google does not allow kids on gmail, where should families go now?
Ahead of the Bell: Apple