skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I signed up early. I have 11 users now, for $0, and I still think my limit is 25.

That said, $50 a year is not really that much considering the service provided.
I saw the first image and thought "finally, a blimp car"....
Disappointed now.
On Reddit AMA: NASA astronaut Ron Garan
Ron Garan asking "What do you think NASA should do next? What's should be the next destination for human space exploration?"
It doesn't sound like you're the target market then. The Steam Box (at least in its current form) is targeted at PC gamers, who don't expect to have a single, static hardware platform that exists for a half-decade or more. This is more about taking what's great about PC gaming (the all-digital distribution system, customizability/flexibility of hardware, etc.) and bringing it to a living room, console-style gaming experience.
A bone? Sure. Land? Stock in a corporation? These are the property rights capitalism is made of. Entire cultures have existed well into written history without either concept (one of the things that made it easier to forcibly remove them from the land they lived on, which likely means that your "natural law" arguments for land ownership are insufficient to protect the property rights of almost anyone in North America).

What you need for capitalism is centrally enforced rights to things like land and corporate equity. That is not a simple extrapolation for protecting one's personal possessions any more than copyright is. And like copyright, they require a government.
Apple’s surprisingly bad day: What’s spooking its investors?
I do this with all my projects just to see both my progress in learning UX/UI and also my thoughts. I've learned a lot by taking a look at what I thought was "amazing" then the next "amazing" and so on until I got the "perfect" design. For me, the #1 thing I've learned is to leave trying to perfect the design until the real data is available. It makes such a huge difference that I always, without exception, change some aspects of the design as soon as the data is displayed. Just my experiences over the years.
Because obviously your experience is a much more reliable indicator for the overall state of Google+ than, you know, Google's actual numbers rollseyes
only assuming you have no other monthly / yearly subscriptions, those $5/months add up.
Safari renders both sides as rgba(72, 72, 72, 1.0). I have no idea why. Perhaps (ironically) a dithering algorithm gone wrong. In chrome the divide is visible.
Nope, never done DS homebrew (or even had a Nintendo handheld since the GBA).
Instagram kills its own pics on Twitter
Japan earthquake sparks tsunami scare
My first gen Zenbook has a higher resolution (1600 x 900) than the Mackook Air, but the colours / view angles aren't as good. That being said the newer Zenbook prime is supposed to have much improved colours / viewing angles, and also comes with a 1920 x 1080 resolution.
Yeah, but in 2017 your console games will completely suck versus what you will have your PC-Steam Box if you renew it every 2-3 years or so. And you will have access to literally thousands on games on it, while your PS4-Xbox720 will still be hard at work building such a library of titles. And online play is free on Steam (versus 50 dollars a year on Xbox), games are cheaper too and regularly on sale for a fraction of the original price - overall you are SAVING by playing on PC if you play many games. It only makes sense to own a console if you 1) want specific, exclusive titles 2) do not play many games at all (and then it becomes more economical than a PC).

That's why true hardcore gamers will remain on the PC no matter what consoles they bring on the market: best graphics, largest choice, and best use of your money is on PC.
Do you still need to worry about SSH brute force attacks if you disable password-based login?
> which you won't let me turn off

In the lower right corner of the site there is the word "normal". Hover over this area and select "stop animation" from the menu that appears.

(Not that this excuses any of it. Just saying it's possible.)
> People are absolutely right to stay away from such salesmen.

Which is mentioned halfway through the article, actually.

> Bunting and such is actually a pretty good strategy

I don't think the point was which strategy is better, it's just that bunting is another (more easily understandable to the layman?) example of how the Japanese are risk-averse.

The ultimate point was that Japan-levels of risk aversity lead to severe economic problems.
Google's Lost Social Network: Google Reader
You can take the middle ground; make your own complete mailserver, and have a forwarding GMail or similar account to act as a proxy receiver for forum registration and that sort of thing- services that are much more likely to get your address into the hands of spammers.
With all due respect, I don't see the gradient break. may be because of that gray animation rotating behind that div?, this posts reminds me of that yesterday's HN parody.
That's where people end up getting the most subsidized phone they can and sell them on Craigslist to make their money back.
I don't believe there are a "lot" of people who think this. There was a ton of talk around this coming from the opposition of this initiative, and now that it has passed, there's plenty of press on it. I think the public is pretty well informed.

You're right in the fact that it's terrifying, however, this is an issue that has to be pushed forward. Washington state residents have made it clear that they want to be the ones to do that. If we get nothing more out of this than a real conversation around real facts on a federal level, then I'll consider this a success.
On a Retina MacBook Pro using FireFox Nightly 20, I couldn't see the step.
Show HN: TakeOff conference, Lille, France, January 16th and 17th 2013
How are you supposed to know this link if you have no facebook account? It's not on the company page, it's nowhere available unless someone either sends it to you directly or you have a facebook account.
Missing wood for trees. RGB displays are deliberately made to be 'good enough' rather than 'great'. None of them can display whole areas of the visible spectrum [1]. Before taking issue with tiny amounts of visible banding, just maybe it would be better if monitors could actually display a reasonable amount of the visible spectrum...

[1] For a reasonable graphic example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CIExy1931_srgb_gamut.png where grey is the entire visible spectrum and the coloured areas are the standard RGB colour space.
Waiting for the summer again to be able to do that...
> Poverty is a grave issue in Japan.

When compared to America, this is a grave exaggeration. Whatever poverty you might see in Japan, it doesn't come close to matching the utter hell that many urban Americans live in at this very moment.

The low birthrate has a lot of reasons behind it, gender discrimination in the workplace being one. Others include the high cost of education and a negative outlook on the future for any potential children.

Regarding the delay certificate （電車遅延証明書）, they're also used in Germany, where they're called "Bescheinigung über Zugverspätung" ("certificate about train delay").
There is no real way WhatsApp can fix this problem without large consumer backlash from existing customers. The reason WhatsApp took off is because 'it just works' without requiring creating accounts and other nastyness.

You just install it, whack in your phone number, and off it goes. Swap to a new phone? Whack in your phone number, and you're back on your account.

This is why WhatsApp has beaten out the competition (along with good marketing in airports, etc) - and there is A LOT of competition. By fixing this 'flaw', WhatsApp will fail. The best they could do is offer an 'advanced security' option for uses who want more secure communication, but the default insecurity will have to stay.

TLDR: Insecurity is the very bedrock of WhatsApp's popularity. It cannot be 'fixed' at this point.
yeah, i watched an old reposted matt cutts video the other day on G+, proud to be part of the 135 000 000.
> (seriously, don't people ever get tired of the same rehashed arguments?)

Is an argument only valid when it's fresh? Is e no longer equal to mc^2 because so many people keep rehashing the same tired formula over and over again?
Never thought I'd see the day when Google forced me into Microsofts' arms. Wow.

http://domains.live.com was actually far simpler and faster to setup than a free Google Apps account - which I've done probably 20 times and still struggle to figure out each time. MS version took me about two minutes and was extremely easy to understand - and I can't recall the last time I've signed up for an MS web product. Probably Hotmail in 2002 or something.

Great job Big G! lol
That was Google Buzz, didn't work out to too well.
Anyone know how the federal government would prosecute someone for possession of less than an ounce? What statutes would be violated? Who would prosecute you? What would the sentence be?
I was stating my personal experience and how different it is from what the numbers suggest. I am sorry hear that you had to generalize on your own.
>How on Earth are they going to go from a single launch in 2012 for the Falcon 9 to SEVEN launches in 2013, 10 in 2014 and 14 in 2015?

Mass production. That was the point of building nine small, identical rocket engines instead of, say, three larger ones. Ideally SpaceX is going to have an assembly line producing over a hundred copies of the same engine every year.
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I need some details of Solarnano sail
I see a lot of bashing in this thread, but those numbers might actually be true, because of the explosion of Android on mobile phones. There's high probability that lots of activity comes from mobile users.
Surely this should be a lesson that maybe free isn't always the best option...
I should point out that the area of a region in that diagram does not correspond with the ability to distinguish colors in that region. The diagram is misleading, but your point still stands.
Google believes the cloud/apps have enough providers now, so they aren't needed to drive it.

Their strategy is to grow the web. This works because they make more money from the web being used. It also makes people love Google, which is important because switching search engines is easy. The love also helps in hiring.

However... they have introduced internal cost accounting, so that products must pay their way - a little internal market. IMHO, this is potentially dangerous, since there already is a market (the real one), and it ignores the advantages of a firm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nature_of_the_Firm)
But they don't follow it absolutely, e.g. android isn't paying its way. (NB: Apple is focussed on making better products, not on growing the web).

If google can see that other firms are better placed to do a better job of growing the web in some respect (or they can apply pressure on them to do so), they are happy to step aside.
I'm guessing the process is:

Issue warning. If person heeds warning, move on. If person ignored warning, grab them for something related, like loitering, being a public nuisance, disorderly conduct, harassment or whatever the local equivalent of not doing as you're told is.
> just some fanboy bitching about how much iPhones suck

Two anecdotes still don't make a a solid point, but this is what made me exclude "popular postings" from my feed.

Twitter, which has a similar focus on following celebrities instead of people you know, suffers from the same problem...the top tweets on (German) Twitter sound terribly typical of things that Twitter users would say. I think networks should curate these "highlights" a lot more wisely.
Bootleg.css - Twitter Bootstrap JS redone with CSS
> Academics have told us that human eyes can't distinguish between the 16,777,216 colors provided by 24-bit depth, so we believe that even though it can't be true.

This is a fallacy. That the human eye cannot distinguish N different colours does not imply that a given colour space of >N colours contains every colour that the human eye can distinguish.

To give an equivalent example that is easier to understand, consider a colour space with 16.7 million shades of red. 16.7 million colours is more than the human eye can distinguish, but there are clearly many colours that the human eye can distinguish that are not in that colour space (notably shades of green, shades of blue, and combinations of red, green, and blue).
I think it depends on gamma and brightness settings.
It'd be incredibly interesting for MUD development, if anyone still did that. No need to kick everybody out for bug fixes, just post a new build. Actually, I could see it for any game with a lot of built-in state that's hard to set up between test runs: Dwarf Fortress, physics engine tuning, that sort of thing. Make it work on the PS3 and XBox 360 (and with C++!), and you've got the start of a legitimate middleware company.

Saved in my "in case I ever go back to hacking on Nethack" folder.
"regular personal gmail can handle sending out email with a different from address"

for now
> the publishers never gave permission to use their content

Yes they did, yes they did. The publisher explicitly granted access by putting up the news content in an public subdirectory of a public webserver. News items don't just magically `pop up' in the public subdirectory of a webserver. Usually at least two employees (writer, reviewer) have to log into, and explicitly perform several steps in an CMS to publish a news item.

The decision of publisher is encoded as HTTP server configuration (including CMS, if any). The server obviously provides access only to some resources, as the operator wishes -- the ones meant for public consumption, while other resources are password-protected, only accessible from certain network addresses, or not accessible over HTTP at all.

Just as much as an image resource can be, and often is, protected from deep-linking based on HTTP `Referer' header, a news item can be protected from being indexed by Google News bot and displayed as a snipped in Google News based on `User-Agent' header.

In more details:

A typical User Agent that HTTP GETs some resources from the server describes itself with a `User-Agent' header. Google is honest here, and openly indicates its user agent as a spider bot, with explicit purpose of indexing content for web search.

Even better, Google uses a /separate/ spider bot for Google News service, and it is entirely reasonable to serve the general websearch bot with content -- so the website itself remains indexed -- and deny the news bot access, to prevent Google News from displaying news snippets.

Upon HTTP request, the server reads through request, including resource URL, headers (including User-Agent and Cookies, if any), compares that info to configuration. If, and only if, it matches configuration for unrestricted access, the resource is served. Otherwise, access denied condition is indicated and optionally authentication requested.

Let's assume for a moment the law goes through as requested by the press. The most probable implementation would be, Google includes a particular header in HTTP requests -- indicating itself as a `news-bot-that-has-subscription', and the server would, in turn, compare the header with configuration and either reply with news contents, or perhaps indicate access denied, should subscription expire, or for some other reason. The mechanics is pretty much same as it would be today to restrict Google News bot from gathering, and Google News from displaying (some or all) news snippets.

In short, the publishers have already configured some resources as protected from /some/ User Agents (based on request URL, headers, cookies, network address or anything else), and it is entirely their own choice they serve the news to both Google bots (websearch and news).
"No. No, no, no. (Points to a section of a wall.) That's the new Military Grey bit there, and that's the dowdy, old, nasty Ocean Grey bit there. Or was it the other way round?" -- Rimmer, 'Red Dwarf'
They wouldn't. It would be a waste of their time.

What sneak is referring to are the producers, distributors, and retailers that will eventually make up this system. The federal government would have interest in those dealing with large quantities.

The problem is that everyone is freaking out before anything is put in place. If the federal government plans to do any of this, they're going to let the state know, and we'll just have to see how it plays out from there.
And here's why those points don't matter:

1) The debate is centered on Google News. As far as I know, News is one of the few services where Google haven't, don't and won't show ads. "Systematic clipping of one or two sentences [...] for the purpose of providing an ad-free overview and linking to the respective stories" sounds like "fair use" to me.

2) They are publishing their material on the web, for the world to see. If you'd want an opt-in for every crawler out there, no search engine would ever be able to take off and index a significant portion of the web.
By the way, an opting out from all (obedient) crawlers is as simple as "Disallow: /"

3) Passing a query on to google through a spoofed IPv6 address doesn't make any sense. Apart from that, there's several services offering just that functionality. Try DuckDuckGo, for example. (I'm not quite sure which search engine they use nowadays, but afaik, the project started out using Google.)
Rackspace email. Equally good experience IMHO, absolutely fantastic support, $12 a year per mailbox. Best purchase of a web service I've ever made. Your email is the skeleton key and core of your online existence, that's far too important to leave to a company that considers support an exercise in statistic management.
Also FastMail.fm, which I'm very happy with.
> the timing of those older motors is mechanical and set to be optimal when the motor is at a peak (or near peak) performance.

Not true with mechanical variable valve phasing/timing/shifting systems, famed (and defamed) as VTEC for Honda, but available in other alternative forms (and often recently and in milder forms probably due to Honda and Toyota patents gradually expiring), like Toyota: VVT-i (famous as VVT in AE86's 4A-GE engine), Suzuki: VVT (e.g on Swift Sport M16A engine), Ford: VCT...

Or it can be completely electronic thanks to direct injection gasoline engines, like Fiat MultiAir.
Depends on how you measure it, employment or dollars. If in employment, yes, much left; in dollars, relative to what was produced domestically, not so much.

As to your "make in China" - you'd have to buy many, many t-shirts or DVD players to even approach the magnitude of money going around in making, for example, Caterpillar construction equipment or BMW X5's.
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Lack of Distribution Is “Killing” Surface
The only reason I created an account was because when following a link to an article on G+ it always asked for personal info, and cancelling that logged me out of Google Apps.

Seems like they have a lot of different ways of persuading us to sign up!
I've thought such DSU system for a while, and it came to me that using a simple fork/exec technique require you to save (or dump) you data somewhere, before the exec() call. If you do it with a file and your data is huge, your update is no longer "seamless". :-/

Some research (a while ago) showed me that exec() on Linux call may be parameterized in order to prevent it to cover data segment (while I am not 100% sure), but then I think it exist only for Linux and is not portable.
I went through the exact same experience.

Fortunately, I had Clojure to fall back on already from Scala.

Leiningen single-handedly embarrasses the current state of the Scala community and it does SO much more but so effortlessly.
1st wave ended up being 20cm: https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/276975852716167169
Thanks for the tip. I already have a Linode vps actually and it is great. I should have been clearer however, I'm really looking for a managed service.
My client will pay, so I'm looking for something that will still be around when I've moved on to others things. And the hosting firm will take care of patching, backups etc..
This site made my CPU go nuts, looks nice though, if a little distracting.
i see certain similarities to nevow stan (created about 10 years ago by my calculation). anybody care to point out the differences?

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/286210-very-basic-exampl...
$20/month would be fine. I have a linode vps which works great, but I'm looking for something managed for a client.
> The only way I can see this making sense is if it is an assembly plant rather than a real chips-to-finished-product factory.

Quote from the interview:

And next year we are going to bring some production to the U.S. on the Mac. We’ve been working on this for a long time, and we were getting closer to it.

It will happen in 2013. We’re really proud of it. We could have quickly maybe done just assembly, but it’s broader because we wanted to do something more substantial.

Note: more than just assembly. This doesn't mean everything is going to be made on one place, but it does mean more than just slapping a case on.
If bitcoin-central.net wants to buy bitcoincentral.com then they can get in touch with me. I've had a few offers but I'd like to see it go to the right company.
If that's all you want, go to nearlyfreespeech, set up your domain there, and tell it to forward emails to your gmail account. Your gmail account then can send email under that name. I did it for quite a while.
Me neither. I can't see the gradient break. Not even after tweaking the brightness of my monitor.

Edit: I can't see it because my config does automatic dithering. See my other posts.
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'It's true that G+ is driven more by "interest communities" than by "friends and family links".'

And that is one of the main reasons I prefer G+ over Facebook. Facebook is nice to keep in touch with ones family and friends (old and new), but G+ is where I can follow (and occasionally interact with) a number of luminaries, visionaries and tech leaders. God forbid my family and friends fill up my G+ stream!

If G+ never catches up with Facebook in terms of numbers, I'll be the happier for it.
How much do you pay your employees?
Where can we find the tool suite (xfgen etc) in order to test it?
Thanks they look good. I'm going to check them out.
Second report of a 1-meter wave hitting ground: https://twitter.com/japantimes/status/276976633565548546
It seems to be common in English too. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_poetry

Ovid, Virgil, Horace...
> It will half one more time then no more money for mining, it'll all be through transaction fees.

Wrong, it will halve 31 more times until the reward is 0.00000001 (i.e. the smallest bitcoin fraction that you can currently have) around the year 2136. Only after that will it "halve" to nothing.

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Controlled_Currency_Supply
An important item is missing in this discussion.

Several monitors turn your 8-bpp image to a 6-bpp image.
There are thousands upon thousands of websites and web apps designed by people from the US, or any other country for that matter, that have horrible design, usability, and buggy code. Poor usability is unfortunately the norm, not the exception and the origin of the website isn't a factor.

We don't always realize it simply because we tend to see and use a very small subset of sites that happens to be nicely designed.