skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Problem is Zuck wants your soul and takes it for far less than $500 mil then sells it to other people and gives someone some stock with those strings attached...

When you put it that way, he can't be anything other than an asshole.
IBM Says Computers Will Have All Five Senses In Five Years
Another annoying aspect of 3D movies is that when you watch the non 3D version it usually is apparent the gimmicky shots only made because of the 3D version.

One very sore point I have with this film is just that.
It's pretty easy to understand why keywords are highlighted, even if it isn't justifiable. 1) Programmers are lazy, 2) regexes are the quickest way to implement basic syntax highlighting, and 3) if your keywords are reserved words (as most are), then you can get infallible highlighting with the expression /(^|\s):listofreservedwords:(/s|$)/.
'Ample opportunity to recover' does not equate to 'nothing to lose'.
> their ToS, which is a private contract.

the ToS is between a facebook user and facebook, not the author of the extension and facebook. In fact, the author has no obligation whatsoever with facebook. If facebook does not like their site messsed with, they could detect and block this extension like how some sites block users with adblock running.
I guess that my point is that anyone who thinks that a market will give them long-term stable institutions/companies is wrong.

I think that conclusion is likely to be surprising/controversial to some/many people.
Yes, the 48FPS is only available in 3D.
I thought I replied to this. I guess I didn't.

Taleb's model seems to miss the distinction between two properties of predictions: discrimination and calibration.

Discrimination is the correctness of the forecast of a single event. Did X happen?

Calibration is the closeness of fit between the predictions made and the distribution of outcomes. Given predictions X1, X2 ... Xn, how closely do the probabilities fit outcomes Y1, Y2 ... Yn?

Even if your calibration is very good, there are always outliers which will upset your model. You didn't discriminate them.
That's just Groo's (Charlie Demerjian) style. If you've been following him since his days at The Inquirer you know you're getting the work of probably the only person in tech that has done the legwork to build up connections and sources to get the true picture of the hardware industry. The rest of the prose is just his way of telling it. Entertaining for some, annoying for others, but it's always refreshing to get something other than rehashed PR releases, or fanboi advertorials.
Convince your friends that facebook as a platform is poor, and use another one (or, gasp meet face to face, or call each other up, or sms, or use good ol' email and flickr).
> I guess that my point is that anyone who thinks that a market will give them long-term stable institutions/companies is wrong.

Definitely. It's a complex, dynamic system that requires enormous amounts of failure, misattribution and foolish optimism to work.

The beautiful thing is that it turns these human inevitabilities from negatives into positives.
This is just lovely and very well-timed for people starting new year's resolution blogs next month :) Congratulations to the author.

Would supplement it with this: http://www.pearsonified.com/2011/12/golden-ratio-typography....

And the super-handy related tool: http://www.pearsonified.com/typography/
How long until DRM browsers where userscripts will be considered piracy?
It seems like what Canonical ought to do is release an "Android Distribution" which happens to include the GNU userland, but also runs all the Android apps.
Indeed. Having personally experienced power supply issues a few times (either due to malfunction or the mentioned problem of super-hungry GPU) and the resulting random crashes, I would have been greatly helped by this kind of detection in the OS.

It seems that in the PC world there is very little functionality in place to detect, isolate, and nail down hardware issues. Or if it exist somewhere deep in the firmware, at least no standardized way to access it.

On the positive side, I was recently very surprised when Linux started to give errors about a certain CPU core after programs started hanging. Somehow one of my cores had failed without crashing the OS(!). After disabling that core in the BIOS with the next reboot the issues went away.

So there is some level of hardware problem detection and robustness in modern OSes, but maybe not enough.
You still don't understand the situation. By taking down Instagram now we'll send a clear message that taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity and likeness is /not acceptable/.
The closest you can get to that is a consulting business.
Can higher CO2 be more beneficial to the world?
They should allow that for all their ip's

194.71.107.15 does a hard redirect to their domain
The point of The Hobbit wasn't defeating Smaug, it was the adventure along the way...
Instaback - Backup your Instagram pics easily
> Hacking the original nvidia drivers is pretty much impossible, they are closed source after all :)

You don't just open binaries in hex readers and see the program running before you like Neo in the Matrix? :P
The problem is, when reading that "apology" I get the feeling they just admitted they failed to fool their users with the first attempt.

As many stated, the document was not unclear or misinterpreted, it was very explicit.

Now they say they don't want to sell your pictures and will change their ToS to make it clearer. Since it was already clear, the conclusion I made, is that they'll just try hiding those "unclear" statements better.

Hope not, but I don't think they'll give up that "right" so easily.
Sometimes when these discussions appear, people talk of alternatives like "personal clouds" or "peer to peer photo sharing and blogging".

I know of at least Diaspora but there is at least one other i can't remember the name of, that you can install on your own server but i doubt that these projects in their current form will ever take off and be of any competition to the Facebook/Instagram models, because the technical aspect is just too complicated to the average user (assuming it to be a kind of user that has no existing or minimal skills to install Wordpress on a shared hosting).

Was just wondering about this on my way here to the "office" and a solution for this mess regarding user content ownership, privacy and companies "slipping the rug" under the user's feet could be the separation of service provider, the software itself and hosting (where the content is) ?

Basically something along the lines of:

* the user signing up for the hosting part on his prefered provider (Amazon Cloud, Rackspace, Linode, Google appengine, etc)

* the user signing up for his favourite social software provider, let's say as example, software companies that provided on-demand installed software distributions that provided services similar to Facebook, Instagram, Posterous, etc ... including personal e-mail services. Could be addons on a base system or a full distribution per se, rolled on subdomains (photos.bilbobaggins.com, blog.bilbobaggins.com, ... )

* the software provider would be given access (through OAuth or whatever credential system) to roll their software on the hosting provided by the user)

* discoverability (ask aggregated public timelines and the sorts) could work based on a system akin to DNS for humans/peer to peer.

* a form of standard for interoperability between service/software providers would have to bee in place for the users to be able to switch between them and allow competition.

This would mean that:

* users would retain ownership of their content since they control the hosting, meaning they could pull the plug on a service provider or switch to the competition.

* since much of this can be abstracted from the user as automated devops keep getting better, the technical barrier would be lower.

* most of the hosting and networking costs would be shared between the users, so the software providers could focus more on business models relating to a better service/software, much like app stores work these days i guess?
hi saurik, i am the fbp dev, thanks for the critique and advice, to be honest, i don't know much about trademark law, but then again i expect 99% of the population dont either.
> Comment should be "why I did this", and code should be "how I did this"

the problem starts when the 'why' doesn't match the 'how'...which one is "correct"?
Right now, I would love a lifestyle business...something that doesn't require me to go to an office but at the same time earns enough money so that my wife doesn't have to work. It would be great to have both of us at home with our 7 week old daughter.
Oracle Beats the Street but Still Looks Boring
So I hear a lot of people saying that they really enjoyed the higher frame rate during the action scenes, but not so much during the quiet scenes. Would it be feasible for directors to switch between the frame rates as needed? For action scenes, let it roll at 48fps but for all other scenes, simply chop out half the frames and display one duplicate frame per frame to simulate 24fps. I wonder if the transition would be too jolting.. perhaps you could ease into it by ratcheting down the frame rate over a period of a few seconds. At any rate, it seems like you might get the best of both worlds.
At least until Google starts censoring keywords like that (probably not too far out), and then they'll have to use DDG or Blekko.
Express yourself: 25+ amazing portfolio sites
For some web designers, the process of creating a website for someone comes easy. You get a chance to really visualize how you feel about a company or client. However, one of the hardest things for almost every designer is creating a site for themselves. Designers want to show their creativity, skills, and express themselves all in one spot.
> Sports are irrelevant to living in the modern world

So am I not living in the modern world?

Playing (and following) sports helps improve communication, discipline, teamwork and leadership without mentioning the obvious health benefits.

Oh and guess what? A decent sports knowledge helps enormously with connecting with your fellow man, something I get the feeling you may have trouble with.
Incidentally, this is also the reason why Instagram-style photo filters are not necessarily a bad thing. Photography is not (only) an effort to, as you say, reproduce reality as closely as possible.
I guess that was exactly his point.
i dont think facebooks legal team like their missives being scrutinised as they put the "all rights reserved" disclaimer on each one. if i were to post a copy of their emails, im guessing they could use the DMCA law to get the posts taken down... is an "all rights reserved" signature legally binding?
Your point is valid if (and only if) your income stream from consulting or contracting can be scaled up and down fluidly enough to catch the ups and downs that your startup business generates.

Most enterprises/jobs prefer the 'surrender your soul' approach to hiring and contracting, partly to eliminate competition from current and former employees, partly because they prefer to get a stable stream of work from you.
There's a lot more than opportunity cost. There's the actual money in my pocket lost from the (probably very good) salary that I would be making at an established company. Most people still have to pay the rent or the mortgage. That's the main barrier of entry. It's not that we think we'll have to max out all our credit cards... the cost of renting some EC2 instances pales in comparison to my mortgage, I can tell you that much.
Why Google Should Encrypt Our Email
Carpentry learned in a library! Wow, no wonder that people make ignorant "just pick yourself up by your bootstraps"-type comments. Complete and utter disconnection from reality.
my god man, i guess it's just me but the contrast on this page is so bad i can't read a damn thing (it fades to gray 1 second after loading)
I wonder if adding motion blur in post production would help.
Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know how to use HTML5
3 years experince sounds like a lot from this side of the fence. Every rejection letter mentions the lack of any industry experience.

> It seems almost like a fix when the same positions are left open week after week but you've already been turned down (with and/or without an interview).

I have gotten the impression after about a hundred cover letters that a lot of these open positions are not meant to be filled by candidates fit for them, but they exist as HR's always available gap for the rock star with 10 years experience in every language to come and apply for so they can get a third the salary they can get elsewhere. Like they just leave positions open in case a genius feels dumb enough to take it.

> For me ideas are hard to come by so what I've been doing is finding things that annoy me as I do them. Can I do anything about that? Most of the time I can't but recently I've stumbled onto a couple ideas that I can.

I mentioned in another post but I do the same. Currently am implementing desktop keybinds in Firefox Mobile if you have a hardware keyboard connected, since I use my tablet + keyboard a lot and having no ctrl-t, ctrl-w, etc is annoying. Started today on that project :)
"I knew everything"

I can't tell if this is serious, or if it was intended as some self-deprecation or something. Obviously the person knows they didn't know everything. But I can't tell by the writing if it's earnest or sarcastic.
Facebook doesn't need to have a reason to ban you from their site. It's their site.
The source article can be found in the link below, however you do need an AMS membership to download the PDF. I have not found a free version yet.

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JAMC-D-12-039.1
Well, then you can read the actual serious intellectuals and researchers like Chomsky, for example. Read "Manufacturing Consent", no ufo stuff there just the real deal. There is extensive literature and documentation of what is really going on, but its not going to be part of the narrative, you have to look for it. Assange's new book is another example. There are tons of authors, just follow the thread.
Note: HN, any other reading material you would recommend to me or to stfu?
Is sewing still a viable source of income? There are a few shops where I live, but they all seem to be run by old people with immigrant background (no offense, it just might indicate that they are willing to work for little money).

Carpentry takes years to learn the official way where I live. And you need tools.
And the movie industry needs this. There are only so many stories to tell. If the back catalog was still first tier entertainment there wouldn't be nearly as many new movies.

Timeline:

• Silent movies: Tell all the stories.

• Sound!: Tell al the stories again, no one will watch a silent movie.

• Color: Tell all the stories again.

• Style change: Never look like a play. Look "real". Tell all the stories again.

• Decent CGI: Tell all the stories using special effects again.

• High frame rate? 3D? HD?: If one of these hits the industry is set for the next decade.

␄

[1] This is where I came in. Movies from before the '70s have either a video sitcom or musical theater look that does not engage me as "real".

[2] My 18 year old daughter can't really engage in a movie filmed before about 2000 if it has special effects. They are just too campy looking to her. She can tolerate some cinematography from the mid '90s, but before that it looks cheap and fake to her.
well at least you have came out significantly wiser
Much like a local news anchor that really should retire with the advent of the evening news in HD... (I suspect every market has at least one of those)
European Square clone “payleven” now on Android in UK, Italy, Poland
If you keep your Jekyll site on GitHub, you can edit your site in your browser with Prose. I imagine you use GitHub for its Jekyll building and mirror the built site elsewhere.

http://prose.io/about.html
Did you try out the interactive part (by clicking "Begin")? The greying is a cue that the right column is actually the presentation itself.

This is probably a good argument for using more nonsensical lorem ipsum text.
I've had a lot of CS professors that consult in industry for huge payouts (particularly in more applied fields like biometrics and graphics) and I know there are applied math people doing the same. It looks incredibly hard to get a tenured academic job, but I think once you're there in an applied field, your title can be very lucrative.
AFAICT the special Javascript APIs are implemented in Gecko itself and aren't specific to the OS. As in, if you're using Firefox right now, those same APIs exist in your browser regardless of your platform, though they may be dormant if your hardware doesn't have e.g. hardware support for vibration.

Beyond that, Mozilla's also submitting all of these new APIs for standardization, so that any app you build that uses them could potentially function in all browsers.
Given the context, it's pretty clear that he thought he knew everything at the time, but now realises he didn't.

One of life's more painful, but essential, lessons.
Off-topic but:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwins_law
Or maybe that's your moat. "The only people who'd even be capable of competing with me have to have a team of people willing to work 140 hours/week with no pay for 9 months - once I crack this I'll have no competitors!"
Interesting how google chrome can't 'find' noradsanta.org (but if you type in the full www.noradsanta.org it works).
I don't think you have a right to "share" episodes of Veronica Mars. The justification for sharing "culture" is dramatically diminished, in my opinion, when that "culture" is purely commercial. There are a huge number of artists willing to share their culture for free, yet sites like Pirate Bay seem nonetheless to be filled with commercial "culture" not created for the sake of culture itself, but for the sake of profit, and not intended to be shared.
However all governments are established by a revolution of some form or another.
Where does it say he watched 3DHFR twice?

Also, given that he says he couldn't hear dialogue very well in the 3DHFR version makes me think he either sat in a bad seat or the cinema had issues.

Did he sit in the same seat for all showings?

His stuff about motion blur is complete rubbish as well. They (Weta) had to add motion blur in post because the shutter speed meant they didn't get much of that on recorded footage. (They also had issues matching the motion blur on HDR shoots they did where they did multiple simultaneous exposure bracketing). Any CG out of PRMan will also have been rendered out to match that exact same shutter speed (48 fps at 270 deg). So I really can't understand how he can think that watching the 2D version - which he himself admits has half as much motion blur as it should do - gave a better impression of motion. It might look less "cinema-ry", but that doesn't seem to be his point.
I would at least believe that there is a point where most people start seeing money primarily as a tool (rather than something they primarily exchange for necessities...).

My qualification there was mostly intended to deflect the impression that I was sniping. I don't have any much knowledge of high end wealth management, but my understanding of it is that it is very difficult to use a charitable gift to actually make money. There is some tax benefit, but it is always smaller than the gift.

Apparently the big charity-as-tax-scam is to establish a bona fide foundation and then stack the board with people you would like to provide with income. But that foundation has to pass a smell test with the IRS, so it is really a tax and wealth management strategy, not a way to escape paying taxes (at least, paying taxes on income that gets used for something or other).
Why was this suddenly pulled from the front page? It's one of the first accurate posts I've seen about the Surface on HN.
The real reason I became a fulltime entrepreneur
I'm guessing since we're seeing this from Mozilla, those APIs will be implemented in their browsers as well. A while ago they started an initiative to standardize some native access APIs for mobile. Hopefully this means that native mobile browser offerings will implement these APIs as well, making it truly implement once, run everywhere. I think Firefox OS is a great driving force in this direction, whether or not it reaches mass appeal only time will show.
A pretty interesting read that addresses these questions is

Deep Space Propulsion: A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight

http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Space-Propulsion-Interstellar-Ast...
Top astronomy photos of 2012
Exactly. I hate when it tries to be too real, so I take the exact opposite position as the parent. It's a movie, not reality.

And they look like soap operas.
Introducing MoonBase
Facebook really couldn't have been more generous to this guy. He's really milking the free publicity, too, with all the talk of this being the end of the road (which clearly it won't be, since there's nothing to stop him from continuing work using an alternate account). I can't even imagine what Facebook was thinking, they must have known that attempting to shut this down would backfire.

If I were Facebook and I really didn't want this extension or others like it to stay afloat, my approach would be simple... hire one guy whose only job is to monitor new releases of these extensions, and then make minor structural changes to the Facebook site that break them as soon as they're out. Become the mouse in a game of cat and mouse. When the extension keeps breaking within a day or two of each release, users would get fed up and stop using it, the devs would get overwhelmed with bug reports and complaints, and they'd all die slow, quiet deaths.
2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President
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How big was that town? Perhaps the sample size is too small. Aren't there are statistics on gun accidents?

My personal rule is to avoid people who play with weapons. They are not playthings.
Pointer Events for WebKit... by Microsoft
Thanks. The responsiveness was retrofitted by me (not a designer) in 2011. Narrowing a design is easier than widening it.
This is exactly what Freddie Wong is talking about doing for Season 2 of VGHS (a web series) - HFR for the "video game" scenes and regular for the rest of them. I think it will work very well.
Facebook is also, as a piece of software, utter crap.
I wish they would implement an (open, as in, non-corporate) social network and single-sign-on system on top of that. It would be a killer combination, making a firefox tablet more easily marketable.
The StreeView cameramen are having way too much fun.
"Should take the money when a beta user offered to pay"

Not sure about this point. Why would we take money if we knew the product is not in a working condition. And what if, the product doesn't get to a stage where we feel the fee justifies.
Is there some kind of context? What did he fail at?
Yes, doing a lot of redeploys. Restarting the server process takes a bit too long. E.g. if I have 50 EJB's and 20-30 JAX-RS type web services, it does take the application about 15-20 seconds to load each time. Sometimes even longer. So incremental redeploys are really great, as it usually takes 2-3 seconds instead.
Non-invasive printf debugging
Stack Exchange Winter Bash
Persona perhaps? https://login.persona.org/
Emacs, at least, already provides primitive parsing / heuristics that work reasonably well for most languages. See the example in the link I posted above: All I had to do was customise the colour and font-weight of various things already recognised by Emacs: function-name, variable-name, type, etc.

Maybe what I don't understand is all the effort people put into making pretty themes for their editors --there are millions of these themes out there-- and almost all of them insist on highlighting (drawing attention to) the language's keywords of all things. The least important part of any program.