skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The internet brings out extremism in its users."

You don't say? Extremism like, "These are somewhat icky, sure, but not in the least surprising." and "When you begin using these services, you enter a legally binding contact with them, defined in the Terms of Service. Clicking “I agree” without reading that document is insanely irresponsible — you could be selling your soul without even realizing it."

If you're wondering why that's extremism, then you need to take a step back and get some perspective about where you lie on the pro-consumer<->pro-business spectrum. In my opinion, the author's views push pretty heavily toward the pro-business side. There are limits to what you can put in an EULA. They're pretty far reaching, but they're there.

Also, you can't simply tell users they shouldn't be upset and expect them to listen. That's not the way people work. You can enumerate bullet points and write lengthy essays until your fingers fall off, but a sufficiently large population of angry users will always have their voice heard.
Looks the same to me. Screenshot?

Edit: oh god http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/19/3783286/katy-perry-inspir...
>1. I don't understand wasn't the HTML5 model the portability everywhere? So why the constraint to mobile devices now?

Ideally, HTML5 apps would automatically be completely portable everywhere, but that ideal isn't realistic. HTML5 is still great for simplifying porting (which is not to say that it is without disadvantages) because it gives you a single code base that behaves nearly identically everywhere, and then you have to tweak it. Constrain your problem to a couple of mobile browsers, and the number of tweaks drops dramatically.

Now I understand the draw of simply maintaining separate code bases. It's the same draw as the urge developers have to rewrite a project from scratch. It feels like starting with a clean slate will be more efficient than hunting down and eliminating every blemish. But that's an illusion. Working from a clean slate, you'll still be tweaking out blemish — it'll just take longer before you even have the privilege of thinking about them.

>2. It is always fun to see junior developers learn the quirks of CSS across browser versions of the same browser.

Oh, they're there. But in aggregate, they aren't as bad as working across different native platforms.

>Have fun talking to our Fortune 500 customers doing pixel counting on web applications, before signing the pay-check.

Yes, I realize that some clients require it even though it's usually pointless. Some companies have more money than sense, after all. My point was that it's hard no matter how you develop the app.
Instagram withdraws policy change, won't put users' photos in ads
If people cared so much about this "natural right to share" they would vote out the people who pass restrictive copyright legislation.

That's the problem with a republic (where people elect representatives to do the voting for them): The people you elect don't always vote the way you want them to. You have to decide if e.g. a candidate's stance on tax reform outweighs his views on copyright reform. Instead of getting to vote on each law the way you want (as in a direct democracy), in a republic you always compromise your position on some issues in order to have a say in others.
Brain-Machine Interface
Filmmaker here. There's a lot more to having good 3D than parallax, and 'painted on' is a necessity to get better 3D today on live-action films even if you film with two cameras.

The only films that truly have great 3D today are Avatar (in the 3D animated scenes -- most of the movie) and modern 3D animated films (Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc.).

The reason is that you need different parallax settings (among other things) within the same shot. Let that sink in. There's no global setting for any of the stereoscopic cues that works well for all objects in a single image. Obviously, then, having two cameras alone doesn't really get you good 3D no matter how you do it.

Live-action recording like the Hobbit only ever gets one set of 3D settings per frame, unless you do the 3D 'painted' thing you claim sucks, and even then, the '3D painted' technique is time-consuming, expensive, and still not as good as what you can get when you're doing 3D stereoscopic rendering and can actually use different settings for different objects within the frame at the same time. FWIW, I'm certain that the Hobbit also used the '3D painted' technique. Everyone does it when they have the budget for it.

If anyone is really interested in how 3D is actually done by those in the industry, subscribe to cml-3d. The 3D supervisors post their techniques on films often; it's quite an interesting read.
Liquid5 launches three controversial apps
There are at least a dozen Redmond fanbois on HN who are more than happy to flag any article that doesn't speak well of microsoft.

And they raise hell about why their favorite ms-praising article was flagged to death.
Sure... And if I display the exact same frame twice in a row at 48fps I get 24fps.

So anything that 24fps can do, 48fps can do too.

And I don't buy the crazy idea that someone using 24fps during an entire movie would someone be the achievement of some visual art perfection.

This is wrong, wrong and wrong.

Also I have to laugh quite a bit at you describing a movie called "The hobbit" which shows dragon, trolls, elfes, magicians, etc. as "trying to reproduce reality".

; )
If you go into a HN thread like this and expect someone to not shit all over someone giving away millions of dollars to charity, you haven't been paying attention.

Unless HN is navel-gazing, negativity is the default.
The reason would be to incentivize people to make things which are valuable for more than 30 years. What's the point of making something of lasting value if someone else can just take it after 30 years?
US courts have been very liberal in their interpretation of the CFAA. I strongly disagree with it, and I believe it is downright dangerous, but this is the current legal environment in the US. Perhaps he should move to Germany. Stuff like this probably wouldn't happen there either:

http://news.yahoo.com/security-experts-blast-ipad-hackers-ch...
"a person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance" (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot)

You can criticize the poor and homeless, but too many completely reject the idea that their struggles can be something other than self-imposed. That rejection turns criticism into bigotry.
The spokes and spinning car wheel effects are only visible under flickering lights (eg. fluorescent) and in videos. The eye does not have a "frame rate", although individual cells in the retina and the visual system have slow integration times.
I have a cool story to tell you. It's called "Spiderguy". But you have to pay me first. Also once I tell you the story you can't tell it to anyone else. You can just tell them about it. Also if you don't pay me and anyone else will offer to tell you this story then no matter how curious you are you should stick fingers into your ears and not listen to it. Or I'll sue ya.

What do you say?
> You can't "vote out" an ideology that is shared by every single candidate presented to voters. Copyright isn't on the minds of voters because it has never been presented to them as something they could vote to change by the election media.

This is a contorted, disingenuous way of saying that people, in general, simply don't care about the issue.

I think most members of the public perceive "sharing" as "wrong," but in the same sense as they perceive double parking to be "wrong." Unusual cases aside, most peoples' everyday experience with copyright enforcement is their ISP sending them a "stop doing that" e-mail, which I think most people perceive as a slap on the wrist commensurate with the minor wrong they have committed. I think this is the most accurate characterization about how people feel about the copyright issue, and also explains why it's not an issue that gains any traction with voters.
Or, people can get angry and say "Hey Facebook that is shitty behavior, I reserve the right to go elsewhere.", and otherwise bitch to everybody and make news about it. In which Facebook can decide to stay with their course, or they can decide to back down. Just because you want to act passive aggressive about the situation, doesn't mean that is the best solution to the problem. A little bit of aggression can keep companies more in line. I cannot imagine a world where people just took whatever they were given silently. I do believe it would look something like slavery.
A little disappointing but not entirely unexpected considering. What's sad is an industry that fails to realise they have a supply problem and will never win that war
I think he mentioned 50-80 as the ideal measure. Here's one source that's pretty close in agreement (45-75, with 66 as an ideal): http://www.webtypography.net/Rhythm_and_Proportion/Horizonta...
The thing is: android point releases are open source and open. Changes in the codebase that happen during development however, are not. To some, that is enough. Using OSI definitions and everything, Android is open source.

What differs is whats "open" to you. For my tastes, Android is not open enough to be "_the_ open mobile OS", it is still developed by a corporate entity that could (potentially) decide to not release the next Android release.

For Firefox OS, all development, even before the launch of the OS happens in the open. If the engineering team decides to change something, it is immediately visible. I can see the cards they play. With Android, I cannot. Thats a different level.

Still, thats a very personal thing and only of interest for people that want to integrate with a platform and have certain expectations. I wouldn't start a fight over it, although I will immediately buy a Firefox OS device for philosophical reasons only :), with Android, I did not.
Ah but I didn't say it was "no good". Instead I said I was a user of Purity. Suing FB? Winning? We live in different world my friend ;-)
Markets are fluid - that's what the word means. So just because the market is crazy for engineers right now, 2 years from now they could be begging on the streets. If you've been working on your own startup, and depleting any savings you have, the opportunity cost is going to be obvious to you.
Your Broken Security Process
Aren't you at risk of losing some of the scope of your trademark if you do not consistently enforce it?
While I agree with your conclusions regarding copyright, the above seems to me a fallacious appeal to democracy. If abolishing intellectual monopolies is better for society, we should be able to make a case for that regardless whether most people think so or not.
I do want to share some things with my fellow people. I have lent or given them books and will continue to lend or give more. I did not find that purchasing said books suppressed my inherently human feeling, though it did affect my cash flow.

Copyright laws in the US and UK have been established by the national legislatures; in the US case, this is a power assigned to Congress by the Constitution. I am not aware of anything ever in the nature of a national referendum, or do you have in mind an international one?

I do agree that the copyright laws have got out of hand, though.
I didn't get that sense from the OP at all. In fact, they even mentioned that it may be related to luck after all. I'd be more careful about throwing the term "bigot" around in the future if I were you.
I agree with your initial point - I think the rhetoric is at odds with what people do, which is pirate hollywood "blockbusters" and popular music.

With regards to the democracy issue, I'm not so sure.

For example, all the major copyright laws and amendments tend to get negotiated in secret between "industry" and the government (at least in NZ).

The NZ govt tried to bring in Bill 92A, ended up repealing it due to widespread protests. After things died down, they passed it (surprise!) "under urgency" in an emergency parliament session dealing with the Christchurch earthquake.

Also, politics suffers from "bundling". I can't unbundle a politician or party's stance on copyright infringement from their stance on say, social welfare or tax rates.

In NZ, both of the major parties supported Bill 92A, which makes "voting them out for it" very difficult.
Would any of these 2 be a good candidate for Linux?

http://store.vizio.com/ct15a4.html#techspecs

http://www.novatech.co.uk/laptop/?s=3

Thanks
In my country, only one of the 6 IMAX cinemas is showing the movie in IMAX 3D HFR, the others only show IMAX 3D. All of them offer non-IMAX 3D HFR versions, though.
An accidental, successful startup: 2012 in review
Banks use your money for interest and loans (or at least a percentage) and you get "free" money in the form of credit cards and interest. Facebook uses your data for ads in exchange for "free" services.

You can always opt out if you don't like it. Store your data in your mattress. :)
100 times more frequently I read code I already read (or wrote) before. It works differently.
I page through, scanning the code, noting its "shape" as I go without actually reading any lines.

Once I've found the place the problem might be, I start hand-executing (or eye-executing?) for problems.

Does it really matter much how we read new code? We read many tims faster than we write; re-reading is the norm.
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I would say that you must be offended that people have a differing opinions, because I see little offense among others. Yes, other people disagree, as they should.

Another poster hit on a point of contention that has always bothered me, which is the "I can correlate it with something different (soap operas, football, etc), therefore it is worse". That is not a credible position, yet it is returned to again and again in the piece.

Better technology always has the capacity to present worse (48fps can be 24fps if you want, and you can vaseline up high definition to the point of achieving low definition), while the opposite is not true.
Ask HN: RHEL based or Debian based?
Over the years I have worked with both systems and I generally prefer RHEL based systems, mainly due to familiarity. HN, what are the pros/cons to working with either system?
>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/.

I call BS. Having already accepted the Patriot Act, mass domestic surveillance, phone taps without a warrant, most of our data in Google/Facebook/MS/Apple/Dropbox/Amazon clouds, etc, we're now supposed "send a clear message that taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity and likeness is /not acceptable/."???

It's the opposite: few things have been MORE acceptable by american society than companies and governments taking liberties with our privacy and personal identity.

Sending a message to Instagram? It's like being inside a burning house and we respond by stomping on our cigarette.
Android botnet sends SMS Spam
Real life is seldom like a tv show. I don't think this should be news to anyone. I bet physicians don't like Grey's Anatomy either.

While I'm sorry things didn't work out for you, I don't see this as anything to do with this area. Your story is one that is playing out all over America in this economy.
Carmack's comment:

For the record, just in case it wasn't clear, we continue to target 60fps, and 120fps will be an option on PC. 120fps stereo VR, even. Eventually we will get displays with gaze tracked foveal insets, which will be rendered as a separate view. 120fpsstereofoveal=480vps

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/281409030369472512
We're all walking the tightrope. Its an important part of our mental gymnastics that we regard those who fall as 'deserving it' or at least that its their own fault, that we'll avoid their error. Otherwise we'd all clutch and panic.
Peter Thiel's Latest Pet Project: Tornado-Powered Energy
Meh. Frank Zappa said it better:

Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
>Why is it "messed up" if it makes advertising more engaging?

You do understand that "making advertising more engaging"
does not preclude something being messed up, right? If anything, it's the opposite.

Killing people on camera would also make for engaging advertising. Wouldn't you find it "messed up" for that reason?
Ideally, you have 60fps AND motion blur, for a picture most approximating reality. The fancy games have motion blur.

Any game without motion blur is going to show momentary disjointed images, which is alleviated by motion blur. However, you still want the high frame rate for smoothness and low response time for inputs.
Bundling forces voters to prioritize issues. If a particular issue consistently fails to decide votes, it just means that voters don't care about the issue relative to other issues. Which makes the whole question of "what do voters really think about the copyright issue" entirely theoretical--what does it matter what people think of an issue that they don't really care about?

But that's quite different from the assertion that the copyright issue is insulated from the democratic process.
I agree with most of what the article says, with one exception:

"We don’t determine what civil liberties our children get based on who can make money and who can’t; we base them on what our parents fought and bled for."

Lots of people fought and bled over lots of issues, but the act of fighting and bleeding has absolutely no bearing on whether they were right or wrong. This just seems to be deliberately emotionally-loaded language, and the article would be better off without it.
I would like to see the subdomain for entries. For example, github.com is used for official blog posts (blog.github.com), blogs from random users (username.github.com), project websites, and project repos (github.com). Having the subdomain displayed would make the distinction easier to make.
This is already the case with Chrome. See http://superuser.com/questions/450893/how-to-install-a-priva... which details how unauthorized userscripts are made difficult to install.

Even better, try pasting

javascript:alert('hi');

into the address bar.
Probably the same they have been for along time, "fwb"....
South Korea Elects First Female President
1983 - The Christmas of Computer
Just to reinforce: Orion is still a rocket. And not a particularly efficient rocket, either. It uses an incredibly energy-dense fuel, but not so dense to allow you to ignore the rocket equation.
For me movies are about escaping reality for a few hours and enjoying good story. I didn't like the HFR, maybe because it looked too real or maybe because I found the story lacking a bit, but the net result was I found it hard to simply get whisked away to fantasy land.

Or maybe I just didn't like the movie that much and picking on HFR in 3D is the easiest way to express my dislike.
A truly open 'anything' means that fragmentation is neither good nor bad, and implementations of this open thing can exist on an island (unable to upgrade).

Truly open might be messy and a little scary for some people but it means that diversity and open access can thrive.

Android only goes part way towards this idea while still trying to maintain control and influence over several key (money making) parts (I don't blame them). This hybrid approach to being open however doesn't sit well with all users.
There's not one true definition, but it is often obvious when X is more open than Y. For instance, if Y has an open core but includes a ton of proprietary software but X is entirely open source.
That's true for copyrights and patents, but NOT trademarks. The latter are in a "defend it or lose it" regime.
> I'd really like to know which, so I can learn from them.

Pinboard is a great example http://pinboard.in/
Great list, well done Matt. Clear and concise as always.
I remember playing Outpost as a kid. Tau Ceti was definitely the best bet. I loved/hated the fact that you could send your colonists to a solar system that wasn't habitable and then the game would just be over in 5mins; your creepy AI giving you the bad news.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outpost_(video_game)
I don't think you have failed. I think your strategy has failed. Maybe a better strategy would have been to still have your job (part-time?) and still have a visa and then use the rest of the time to create your product. You might use a lot more time, but the great thing is that you always have something to fall back to (the chance of failure is huge when doing startups so it's good to have some kind of safety net). When/if your product starts to take off then you can then quit your job and apply for a entrepreneurship visa. I think it's a much more sane strategy than risking everything.
I'd be more careful about checking that the person you're replying to said the thing you're replying to. I was offering a definition and a criteria for distinguishing between criticism of the poor and bigotry against the poor. I haven't called anyone a bigot.
Podcast Episode 10 - Objects and Static keyword
Great news, QT is such an amazing platform, I'm happy to see it's being actively developed by their new owner :)
Ask HN: Would you call guys who come in 6 months after, Co-founders?
You have an idea. And you originally start out with 2 other people. You build the site and it goes live. However, after less than 6 months, two of the 3 original founders (one being the developer) decide that the project is not for them. It's too hard and it's a lot of work.

You then find another developer. He's great. He's talented and he's motivated. He also introduces you to a new designer, which you soon bring on. The project is back to 3 people and everyone is working super hard.

Being a non-technical founder, but being the originator of the idea, and being the one who gave birth to it 6 months prior and watched it come to life that entire time, do the other two guys (developer and designer) deserve to be called Co-founders? (It's been 6 months since they've come on)

There are other factors, of course. And there's no question that their contributions are huge. And without them the company would not moving to the places it's moving today. However, given the idea, the 6 months prior, the investments both financially and in time, the name, the logo, etc, and most importantly the fundamental idea, should they be called co-founders?
> Did I read this wrong or did it not say 500. MILLION. dollars?

This isn't directed at Zuck or Facebook, or anything. Because I really don't know him.

But regarding your shock about the dollar amount...

Keep in mind that it's incredibly easy to be generous when you are at the top. It's actually so easy, that it's almost effortless.

There really is a difference between a man that writes a check that makes no difference to him (in the amount), and a man with nothing that roles up his sleeves, goes out, and dedicates himself to helping others.

I'll celebrate the latter before I'll celebrate the former.

One throws money away, the other helps change everyone around him.
You Don't Own Anything - Instagram Edition
We've got our JS unit tests running in Jenkins via a Maven plugin (jasmine-maven-plugin). IMO Maven can be a pain to set up but the end result is less janky than custom shell scripts. Actually I think the same could be said for Jenkins itself. :)
Can anyone give some tips for using text on a dark background?
Tell me about it - I ride a bike to work. Riding in the lane is a no-go most of the time. Bike lanes are a joke around here (they paint a big bike stencil on the right side of the lane, but there's actually no extra room at all!)

I use trails thru town when I can, but that just puts me in the role of aggressor versus pedestrians. The delta-v is even greater, the accidents more frequent. At least they're low-velocity though.
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