skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, to put this in a USA perspective, it would be like ABC/CBS showing a single naked female breast on primetime TV and being "okay" with it. Usually someone would be fired for that...
“Trust no one! The minute God crapped out the third caveman, a conspiracy was hatched against one of them! ”

― Col. Hunter Gathers, OSI (venture brothers)

But to be honest I imagine that the vast majority of so-called conspiracy is just like seeing a face on the moon - we're highly complex social analysers and modern civilisation is at least an order (but more like several orders) of magnitude bigger/more complex than the machinery that has stood us in good stead for however many generations. Hence - we see a ghost in the machine pulling the strings when really "The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business" as is so eloquently put in Network.
Thinkpads are good as a work computer, but if you're looking for personal computer (for watching movies, playing some games, looking at pictures), the screen on anything but x200 series is going to hurt. And that one is pretty overpriced I think (it has worse cost/performance ratio than MacBook Air, and that's something).

Which is really sad.
Seriously? Some poorly described problem with Ubuntu with irrelevant banter about wiping Windows 8 is making the front-page of Hacker News ?

Half of the top comments then become a mix of wild guesses towards a solution, and the other half become a "[Windows|OS X|BSD] is so much better because ...".
I did this once. I installed Ubuntu on a new laptop, resizing the disk partition as I went. When I switched back to Windows, I realised I had left it hibernated and the partition resize upset it very much.

A day or so later, I tried to install some sound drivers in Ubuntu and somehow managed to uninstall xwindows entirely (I learnt to read and think before typing stuff in off a web site :)

A day later I rebuilt from the windows install disk and left things alone. I keep Linux on my servers, it's much happier there!
He's referring to Facebook's previous attempt to take him down, which centred around a trademark claim against his use of the word "facebook". According to him, that dispute was resolved when he agreed to use only "FB".

Obviously, their new attempt to undermine him uses a different angle, but you can't blame him for re-hashing his earlier woes.
"Crippling" seems a bit hyperbolic. I'd reckon most PC gamers probably don't even notice, though once you start noticing it's hard to "unsee" it, but that doesn't make the game unplayable.
At least in China, the "people" network is usually more trustworthy than the major media outlets. I can understand from the western perspective that we should be doubting social media first. People were posting pictures of the injured children. It's possible that the photos were doctored, but I doubt anyone would go to great lengths doing it. Also, when you stab 22 children, I'm sure it will be big local news at least...
Orwell had direct experience of Soviet-directed communist repression in Spain as a member of Trotsky-influenced POUM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homage_to_Catalonia
Some writers of dictionaries disagree: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quantum%20leap.

You're using the technical (or jargon) meaning, which is not the same as the mainstream ("popular") meaning.
Perhaps the answer is to have two modes, one at 60FPS with graphical compromises and one at 30FPS without.

That way the harder core can play at 60FPS and those more concerned about looks can play at 30.

The only worry is they introduce a 1FPS mode just for screenshots ;)
There's a real difficulty in getting a laptop with linux or with no OS. There are a few specialist companies that do it, and Dell (US only AFAICT) has released an Ubuntu Ultrabook. BUT, the ultrabook with Ubuntu is more expensive than the same model with windows 8.

I don't want to give cash to MS either, but I don't really understand the economics here.
It's static only relative to the output. You can readily write dependencies between your source (mdown, partials, whatever) files, just like your binaries/libraries depend on .o files, which themselves depend on .c and .h.

I fail to see how changing a typo in an article's content would require the whole thing to be rebuilt. Even adding a page would not require rebuilding every single page unless the new page appeared in a global navigation. Building the dependency graph automatically could even turn out to be not that hard.
This is awesome. I don't know much about typography but every time I try to learn something, I give up pretty quickly because of the overwhelming amount of (boring) information. I love how this guide is set out in easy to read and consume chunks that flow well from each other.
Theres a Kaggle competition going on where you are supposed to optimize the route: "Traveling Santa Problem" http://www.kaggle.com/c/traveling-santa-problem
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This is a well-written article, but it seems to me like a lot of words to say, "The association with other high-frame-rate media made me uncomfortable and the movie harder to sit back and lazily process." The author says as much in several places, but then does not seem to think that that should be considered in their points about "magic," immersion, and art. I found very little relevant evidence (even given that the premise is subjective and somewhat abstract), and they make foggy points like this with no real assertion:

> In the opening hour of The Hobbit shown in 3D HFR – I don’t recall hearing a single sigh, or laugh. Not one.

Okay? Correlation does not imply causation. Maybe the audience of the 3D HFR show was more Tolkien and/or cinema fans that were taking the movie less lightheartedly, or were more introverted. And what does this even mean to say? The related point further on saying that the movie is too comedic - and in the wrong places - doesn't serve his premise any better.

I hadn't read much from the perspective of those against HFR, but if this is the only real argument, I think it's time to start pushing. There's no reason not to have all the visual information we can, and lower technology-imposed limitations. If filmmakers actually think that stuttering and blurs improve a movie, they can still add them! That's no reason to limit the technology, though.

For the record, my experience was similar. It was hard to shake the "home movie" feeling as I was watching it, and suspension of disbelief was a little harder. However, I recognized this as a personal limitation, and I was able to enjoy the visuals and the experience regardless. I don't think that seeing more movies like this could be anything but an improvement.
I think that's generally how jokes work.
You're losing the thread. There was a claim that capitalism was failing as a desirable economic system because median real wage growth slowed or stopped. I've always found this presentation of 1975 America as the height of the golden age before the fall to be transparently silly. Who'd rather be the median worker in 1975, and miss out on three+ decades of very nice quality of life improvements, even if their wages in real terms were the same?

But yummyfajitas helpfully pointed out that the median worker continues to see compensation gains, just tilted toward ones that take a tax-advantaged form.
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Agreed - I can settle for 30fps if the game maintains that. Dark Souls on PS3 and 360 did dip down to 15/12 sometimes depending on the environments.

30fps to 60fps is night and day though -- running Dark Souls on a gaming PC with the 'dsfix' mod to toggle between 30 and 60 is astonishing how much more smooth and fluid the game is.
It's not so much that I would consider $250MM too much to spend on a PR exercise. I think there would be much more effective PR exercises available for that price.
Game looking uglier? I don't think that'll be completely related to 60fps, I'm sure that's more down to low-resolution textures (that look bad on your HD monitor) and things looking janky.

Skyrim with mods to upgrade textures and shaders and things looks freaking amazing.*

*And I'm not actually a fan of Skyrim, I dislike Bethesda sandbox games where nothing you do has an impact, but I digress...
I guess learning that there's a feature called "hibernation" would give OP the rapture...
I'm Chinese and I don't think it's a signal for relaxing censorship or something else. Just yesterday, People's Daily, the core newspaper of CCP, published a critique whose title is "Internet is not a place out of the law". Many Chinese netizen think it's a signal for tightening the censorship.
"some economists saw the financial crisis"

At least one Head of Risk at a large bank not only saw the financial crisis coming but was sacked for trying to point this out:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/4582535/Senior-HBOS-execu...
I wonder if we can fix the "too little motion blur" problem by creating a camera that doesn't have a shutter - one that's continuously filming with a sensor that has the same excitability properties as our eyes, and you can read off the sensor at whatever speed you choose.
I though the 48FPS version was only available in 3D?
Whats going on in the US is strange. What a dangerous and way of reacting to such tragedies...
I have friends that are teachers in the school of Winnenden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnenden_school_shooting). I know they would say the same.
Nobody here thought about arming the teachers... not at all...
You guys should take down the weapons lobby and help the victims. Not arm the teachers.
> Education and the surrounding social structure is basically a bioreactor for ideas.

In theory, yes. In reality, I sense is that this was destroyed in many places by the manic push to make everyone go to college. I went to an engineering college, and while I did meet brilliant people there, the "bio-reactor" was severely diluted by a large body of students who basically treated it like high school year 5-8.

Like Kamaal, I've met many students who chose "high school year 5-8" based on what is easy, commerce and humanities, so I wouldn't be surprised if many of these places were even more diluted.

I have no problem with people studying humanities and commerce, I even have little problem paying for it. I do have a problem with a candidate leaving with a humanities degree and them complaining that it's hard to get a job in her or her field. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand that there is a limited demand for pure literature degrees. In a way engineers don't have to as much, people with "soft" degrees need to articulate much more clearly how they're going to add value in a job - and that's hard, and it's not my impression it's taught in these programs.
The education is peripheral to the experience of the university. Harvard, Yale, and other brand-name colleges command a premium because they insert you into the network of a higher economic class. University is a coming-of-age experience, where teens become adults. Sitting in Mom's basement doing online coursework for a degree is fine, but misses the point.

Yes, the Internet has disrupted many business models, and there will definitely be losers: textbook manufacturers is an obvious example.

In the final analysis, kids need a transition from their parents. For some that is military service, for some it is going off to college at 18/19, for some it is a brief period of independence at minimum wage followed by living at home into their 30's or until they get married and their wife/husband becomes their new parent.

The current proliferation of online studies is fueled by the GI bill and employer tuition-reimbursement programs for people already employed. Online study is not for everyone, it takes a lot of dedication and commitment to complete a class, much less a degree.

We are seeing an evolution, not a revolution.
If any of you have Dark Souls on PC, with a decent graphics card, use the 'dsfix' mod to toggle between 30fps (the default) and an unlocked 60fps mode.

It's night and day - suddenly the game becomes that much more fluid, and when toggling between the two, 30fps feels amazingly 'shuttered'.
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Or you just have no idea what you're talking about.
A common good.

If you can define the work you want done as contributing to a common good--the health, broadly defined, of your community--you can find people to work for free. If the good it contributes to is primarily your own wealth, then you had better expect to pay.
maybe you should go there... the stories are mostly western propaganda
Downvoted, because you're completely ignoring the point, which is that 'anyone' is allowed use the letters FB just fine, except for people that make an app that modifies Facebook or is similarly involved with Facebook. Just repeating your point of view doesn't engage the arguments levelled against you.
Ask HN: How to Monetize my first free android app?
I would like to monetize my free app on play store, I have tried few ad networks but it looks like most of them pay per action, So I would like to know if there is any network that would pay per view/impression?

It's an PhoneGap/Cordova App
Though, if you never do anything with your money then it's pretty pointless.
But there's an infinite regress. How will your "bullet proof, well rehearsed, properly funded response plan" "go into catastrophic failure"?

What is the point where additional planning is counter-productive?
> Personally, I can't see how anything that replicates reality better can be intrinsically bad.

I'd agree if you were trying to display reality, like in a documentary, or a reality TV show. But when it comes to fictional settings, people wearing prosthetics, props made of plastic, etc. I think exposing the whole of reality certainly has potential downsides.
I do go there, maybe once every few years. Went there 2 years ago. Those stories are not western propaganda. Some of those stories are even deeper than western propaganda could provide. I've heard a dozen other smaller stories from relatives of mine who live there -- it's more telling when you hear it from a first person perspective. There are lots of news stories that never even make it out of the country.
I wrote a blog post not too long ago about my experience moving to a city with no job or apartment. I detail what my "unfair advantages" were and what the emotional impact was like. I think my experience would most likely to apply to young people from middle to upper middle class backgrounds.

The most surprising part to me was how little I got done with my side projects, especially considering all the free time I had. You get into a funk and you just really don't want to do anything. Small wins make you really happy, but the rest of your free time is spent in this kind of depressed funk.

Here's the link if you care to read it:

http://dalethoughts.com/2012/11/what-its-like-to-move-to-a-c...
I'm a Perl guy and don't know Ruby. Jekyll is excellent, but I ended up going with http://ruhoh.com which is based on (forked from?) Jekyll. That worked great. Ruhoh is sort of language agnostic. My biggest hurdle was grokking Mustache.

On a side note, I also had a problem with the RSS generator. I managed to submit a patch for my problem. I was pleased to discover Ruby is so Perlish! I guess thats obvious given that a lot of Ruby is inspired by Perl. I suspect switching back and forth between the two would not be hard.
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Ya, this part irked me the most:

"Traditional financial analysis, she said, is based on evaluating existing statistical data about past events. In her view, analysts can better anticipate market failures – like the financial crisis that began in 2008 – by recognizing precursors and warning signs, and factoring them into a systemic probabilistic analysis."

So, let's say you do provide a systemic probabilistic analysis about the impending education crisis the US is about hit? Don't you think a government would be gnawing their hands off to get that type of statistical analysis? Personally, I don't think it systematically exists.
It depends - does he benefit personally from a tax writeoff from this? From all of his previous behaviour it would seem that this would more likely be the motivating factor here.
I'm curious about if this benefits him (and/or the company) with tax writeoffs. Just want a clear picture to understand.
if I'm in someone's address book, and they use an app that grants the developer full, unfettered access to their address book, I've now had my information given without my consultation or consent to a developer, and I never even knew it was happening.

== It used to be "pick your friends wisely"

But now, that's before the meaning of the term was of a different sort.
I live in china. I watched this movie last night from major video site in china, and I was shocked deeply by it's availability. Facebook , Twitter, Youtube.... All good stuff still are not accessible . anyway good sign though.
If it's over their tax writeoff benefits - sure.
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Going off in a tangent, it isn't necessarily the taxes that keep startups down:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/10/think-we...
What does it feel like to suddenly lose all your wealth?
I think we should go for some other alternative besides facebook before its too late.
This may be a valid argument for modern languages like Ruby or Python. For 90s' coding standards however comments are even MORE important than the code itself. For Assembly and C programming and for low level graphics and physics algorithms proper naming of variables and functions are never enough for readable code.
Good grief, it's a significant change to the way movies are made and displayed, and movies are huge part of the entertainment culture. It's got a fascinating technological component which HN tends to love, and a fascinating artistic component as well. Further, the implementation seems to be pretty divisive, though the tech-savvy HN crowd seems more forgiving/accepting of the technology than the public at large.

I think it's OK if we discuss it for a little while.
That code is jarring to my eye because of the variable name, my eye tracking would keep going back to 'winners'.

Why winners? What a bizarre variable name, to me anyway. Does anyone else use that? I always go with `matches`, `retVals` or `returnValues` depending on the language/IDE I'm using.
Even knowing some little things about typo, this guide is a pretty good example for an interactive tutorial.

Thanks to the author, as it reminded me of some things, I should change on my personal site.
I agree it is a weak argument but in any event I see the usage as legitimate in any event - as he is using the term 'FB' in a descriptive manner to help to describe the purpose of the product. There is nothing wrong with this in trade mark law generally provided in good faith (see nominative usage[0]).

Facebook would argue that the usage is piggy-backing on the goodwill in the name (as with the coffee shop example) but in this case, I think there is a very good reason why 'FB' is being utilised.

Personally speaking, I would argue this is why they are using other means to restrict the growth of the extension rather than using a more traditional cease and desist letter more geared to trade mark rights (at least as far as I'm aware).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use
"professional" env.
Fantastic, that would be a dream come true. A Jekyll site that I could update even when I'm not at my own machine.
I guess the biggest problem is the consistent track record of "the government" lying to the people while "word on the street" had it right. The long history from "smoking is harmless" to "there are WMDs in Iraq" has created the impression, that government is not working for the people but against the people.

That might be a wrong impression for most of the services government performs, but in other high profile areas (e.g. "security theater") these situations are set to repeat.
People have to stop acting like they have 'the right' to use facebook. It is a product; they set out a couple of rules and act a certain way. Don't like it? Just don't use Facebook.
How does a Makefile know which files depend on each other?
tl;dr version: movie critics are now experiencing what audiophiles once did, and are longing for the days of pleasant distortion. (Can't come up with an analogue of "euphonic" this early in the day.) Yes, it's true that directors took advantage of the limitations--but now they can learn to take advantage of what HFR provides, and eventually audiences will learn the new conventions.
They shouldn't be allowed to ban a company from having an account on Facebook for a web extension?

Will the developers of all the AdBlock variants need to worry about their accounts being blocked as well (as they surely are against Facebook's terms of service as well)?
I read parkr's above comment and was about to search for your blog (where I first read about the insane site generation times), but then I found your comment just below. :)
The problem is these days much of our society, in 1st world 'developed' countries, are sick - we aren't healthy; Physically, mentally or emotionally. You shouldn't view one context without taking the whole picture, the holistic aspect, into account when analyzing a situation. It's therefore best to structure societal and cultural rules around not what the 80% of healthy will do action wise, though what the 20% on the other end of the scale might do in times of great stress and sickness -- especially because in many countries, once you're sick it's a downward spiral trying to obtain full health again (and not just getting bandaids and 'functional enough to be productive to work a basic job' -- I'm talking about getting back to happiness, being socially capable and enjoying life).
Wait, I don't get something: how can there be any legal ground for forbidding someone to create a plugin that changes Facebook appearance?

How is that different from creating your own browser that render sites however you want? Is Facebook going to try & sue Google when there is a rendering bug in Chrome? Will Facebook sue Userextensions.org?

Would Facebook sue someone whose viewing condition alters the way it appears also?
I don't see why it can't use atompsheric braking, or reverse slingshot effect amount the planets to slow down?
Do you support Facebook blocking the developer pages of those who are creating the various AdBlock* browser extensions? Isn't that pretty much the same thing as FB Purity is doing but in a more general sense?
I am not a gamer, but aren't high FPS tiring to the eyes because of the lack of natural motion blur which gives the sense of unnatural movement? Isn't that more important than increasing FPS?
Actually you have nailed it. And I kid not.
> I can understand from the western perspective that we should be doubting social media first.

Should we? I have never seen a situation where social media were any less than an order or two of magnitude more trustworthy than traditional outlets.
Is firefox OS more open than android? Why?