skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that as the fidelity of signals become stronger we acclimate to it. Turn back 6 years and the connectedest Gen Y lighting up on the internet felt the same way, in the circles I traveled many espoused the same self-aware sentiment as this, some even without the benefit of being Gibsonites.

Now that Gen Z is lighting up, crowding into Instagram, inheriting Reddit, rebuilding Tumblr, you know what I see? The most connectedest again are repeating the same sentiment and make believing they're the only ones in all of history to hold such perspective.

It's the same generational gap meme. Over and over again. Eventually the Gen Z grow old and grow out of using whatever trends charmed them. Then we get the reverb about how awkward of phase it was in the aughts and 10's that we became a generation addicted to black mirrors in the palm of our hands like the 70's was about sparking up and 80's was about indulging in cocaine in social situations.

And as I get older and on my march of filing out of the 18-35 demographics the more I learn and realize it's always been this way, but took awhile for the education to reveal itself. From the times of pulp fiction to radio surfing. And it will forever be this way as each generation arrive.

Just wait until the babies having grown up entirely with glass become self aware.
Very cool.

I noticed (especially on the linked-in-another-comment detroiturbex) that there are tons of abandoned offices, buildings, libraries and schools in America. Who owns these? How difficult would it be to purchase one, and how expensive? It would be cool to live in one of these (with power and running water, of course) and have freight elevators, PA systems and escalators in your home.
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I always check github when it's included. It's a great way to determine a person's follow through, ability to organize a problem (or set of problems), code quality.

Oftentimes, the great coders are so anal about the code they write, that it's highly refined, well organized and thorough (mostly because they can't attach their name to bad code, especially when it's public). Those are the guys you really want on your team.
The fact that other cities have a worse crime rate does not make Chicago's crime rate okay.

Pretty sure it was a joke anyway, for some reason Chicago has replaced Detroit in "you'll get shot" references.
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As a gas-hybrid owner, I always thought that a diesel-hybrid would be the ultimate combo - a flat-torque-curve of electric motor for snappy starts and the thrumming late-curve power of a diesel.
He's not making a parody of the trademark. He's making a parody of their site, and representing it with their trademark. As a random visitor of the site, I could easily mistake this as the 'real onion'.

And it's also questionable whether this is a parody of 'The Onion'. It seems to be a parody of world news, branded with The Onion.
somebody checked in vim backup files :-)
It's a laptop with a good screen. Pretty much what people have been wanting for years.
Having a site that 50% links to the real onion, and otherwise is a real site branded like the Onion makes this very confusing for the user. It could be easily mistaken as the real Onion rather than being obviously a joke.
I've often wondered what it was like, for example, for Google to recruit Eric Brewer. I would imagine it was something similar to http://www.quora.com/How-Was-X-Recruited-to-Facebook/How-did... , but it could really be anything.
http://meteor.com/blog/2012/03/21/introducing-ddp

Basically, it's a protocol for a client to subscribe to and receive live data updates from a Meteor server, plus the ability to call server-side methods. By implementing a DDP client (which could be in Java, iOS or whatever -- not just Javascript) you can interact with a server running Meteor.
Disclaimer: I don't work anywhere near the QUIC, SPDY, or other protocol guys.

I heard someone here in a express it this way at a techtalk when asked about the motive for doing things like SPDY (paraphrased):

"We want the web to be as fast as possible for EVERYBODY. So some of us are building things like SPDY since we can implement it both the server and browser for Chrome users. Meanwhile, other folks are working to make the web faster for non-Chrome and mobile users too (PageSpeed, our public DNS, paying people like Steve Souders to do performance research, etc.)"
Thanks for including Hacker Newsletter! One you missed, that the HN folks will especially enjoy, is Wayback Letter (http://waybackletter.com), which is basically the best of HN from the last 6 years.
This adds another DNS lookup, which will slow down your page load times. Also, it is essentially leaching the bandwidth from theonion.com. However, if your users are already readers of theonion.com, the static files may be cached.
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I believe this issue is fixed now... feel free to give it a try and let me know if you're still having issues.

Thanks to everyone for the detailed info-- really helped me a lot.

For those interested, here's what happened:

When someone goes to a SETT blog, the first thing we do is fire off an ajax call to see if we can set a 3rd party cookie. If we can't, we bounce to a page on sett.com that sets a cookie and then redirects back. In some cases, like Safari with default settings, this allows us to use a 3rd party cookie.

To prevent infinite looping in cases where 3rd party cookies can't be accessed, we add a query string to the URL, telling SETT to skip the cookie check.

However, the old way we were doing it was just appending ?_ to the URL, rather than parsing it out and taking into consideration the query string of the URL.

This URL was submitted with a trailing ?, which made the query string ??_, which didn't properly skip the cookie check. Thus... infinite refreshes.
Cortex-M0 sleeps on nothing and wakes in 400ns
One advantage to a high deductible policy (besides being covered in case of something big and bad happening) is that your normal care will be billed at the rate the insurance company negotiates for all its clients, even if you are paying out of pocket or via HSA because you haven't hit your deductible.
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Thank you for saying this. Reading the comments on this thread is making me very angry, because K-2052's piece speaks directly to my soul and captures so much of the frustration that I've had in life that by the end, I was cheering the guy on.

Coming back here and having everybody trivialize his experience like this...I don't know. Some problems are more fundamental than you've had to deal with in your life. Unfortunately, you (the people giving advice) will simply never understand -- you're an entire world apart from what it's like to view the world from K-2052 glasses.

I don't even know the guy. I just know what it's like to be truly isolated from the rest of the world.
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There is a huge technical difference between downloading your own copy of a file that you then serve to your visitors and pointing all your traffic at somebody else's server. No engineer in the world would look at those two plans and say, "Eh, I can't tell any difference."

> If The Onion has a problem with the amount of data they are serving, perhaps they should configure their server to reject those requests; putting the onus on the end user not to issue HTTP GET unless a certain non-technical context exists seems.... odd.

No clue what you're talking about. For one, we're talking about website creators here rather than end users, and it's these website creators' failure to issue an HTTP GET that's considered bad manners.
It sounds like PHP is to the teens what BASIC was to the 1960s.

From BASIC Considered Harmful, by Edsger Dijkstra:

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students
that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers
they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

This isn't meant to disparage the author of the linked article, who I suspect will recover from PHP -- in due time.
You have multiple good points. But I don't think that writing really requires Windows, that is a pretty extravagant claim. You can write with a typewriter or a text editor, it's not DTP. And I don't see how someone whose job is to operate sites like Twitter has any serious reason why they would need Windows per se.
> Groovy's dynamic compilation is reliable, but sloooooooooow.

I guess you mean execution speed, not compilation? Compilation is fast enough I think. Execution certainly compares fine with other dynamic languages, at least, in my usage (and for some things it is much faster).

> The static compilation added in Groovy 2 is much faster but still buggy

The bug you mention is certainly bad, but it was addressed extremely quickly. Are there other examples?

> It was written by one developer, and first shipped in Grails only 2 months ago

A little misleading - static compilation has been in core Groovy for 9 months or so and is now supported by the core groovy team.

> And does Grails actually use any of Groovy's static compilation features?

I don't know, but it's not really relevant. I'm not advocating for Grails here, I'm advocating use of Groovy with Play. Part of the reason I want that is that I'm not extremely fond of Grails for various reasons.
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It was connected to a mall called St. Louis Centre. The Macy's itself was the flagship store and headquarters of Famous Barr, a St. Louis based retailer bought by Macy's.
Being bi-polar.
It's hard to believe in someone when your pay depends on their failure.

I compare it to companies who take out life insurance policies on their low-level employees, sometimes called dead peasant insurance. Would you want to work for a company that has a financial interest in your death? What if they told you that they believe in you, they really do, but the life insurance was so cheap that it was a superior risk-reward decision?

I would still say the company is wrong to do so: you should not bet against what you believe in, no matter how good you think the bet is. The stock market is not a game, and weaponized short selling can and has destroyed companies.
Hmm, I can't copy and paste the url from the box for some reason. I can copy it, but can't paste as text...
Gchat concept app for iOS
I was surprised at how expensive this was seeing as how there is a $250 chromebook. It's a big step up in price and I don't see what the advantage of it over say a macbook pro would be.
Or an iPad which cost over $1000. Google isn't really unique here.
Gibson's point seem to be that the 1996 Web is not so much itself a waste of time as a great tool for wasting time, and that that's not necessarily a bad thing. He also notes how this state of freedom and freeform-ness that encourages "surfing the Web" is fleeting and will pass to be replaced with something more conventional and structured.

I came back to this essay several times over the years and each time I read it I take a moment to appreciate how true its core observation rings. It can be considered a successful if somewhat vague prophecy about what the WWW has since in large part become: a delivery mechanism for traditional, one-to-many media. You could see that same thing happen in miniature on YouTube throughout its short history: the many-to-many system of its early days has been overshadowed by prepackaged shows. I'm not saying it's a bad thing (personally, I enjoy some of the shows), but it's different.
That's actually really good advice. I believe Seneca had something simliar, acting as if the better version of yourself were watching.

Unfortunately, following through on those ideas probably requires closing this Hacker News tab....
To first approximation, the power needed to generate a given thrust is inversely proporional to the rotor diameter. See here;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum_theory
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"but it doesn't seem like any of them have had an effect."

100,000 out of 300,000,000 people. What effect do you imagine it should have?

If you really want to give these petitions some weight, they should raise the threshold to 150,000,000. And there should be some way of letting people without computers sign it too. Maybe we could have places where people come to sign the petition. But that sounds like a big undertaking. Maybe we could gather several petitions and let people sign the ones they like, every say 4 years.. maybe with a smaller event in-between. And the results should be counted, and then the government forced to do what is decided.

Hmmm... If only there was something like that. That would be awesome.
Yep -- fixed ;)
Except everyone who uses linux on a macbook pro / macbook air.
They're about to hit a volume discount from Panasonic, according to the earnings call. There are a number of other efficiencies they've identified. On the call Elon recounts some anecdotes about parts suppliers not being prepared in 2012 for the volume of orders, inefficient tire shipments, etc.
I'm not sure what you're going on about.
He might have been saying it basically was at the time, like the analogy to television. I don't see how he could endorse the idea that it was a fundamental time-sink though. He expresses his inability to predict it, and prior to its widespread popularity he wrote of a cyberspace that was as woven into the fabric of daily machinations as ours is today, and not in the sense television is.

But he was right about it not feeling like a conversation. It still doesn't. We are still connected mostly to the things other people have done in the past. Even this particular mode of conversation, comment threads, is guilty of that.
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And possibly remove your foot.
i think you're missing some sarcasm.

edit: alternatively, I'm finding some non-existent sarcasm.
this app would be AWESOME
Yes. And when they said "no" to radical chemotherapy, they were sued and forced to pay for it. (It turns out to actually reduce patient outcomes.)
> Who owns these?

It varies. Sometimes they are still owned by the original tenants but often they are owned by a real estate investor that did triple net leases to large clients. In some cases, the buildings are owned by the city or some other government entity.

The best way to find out is to take a trip to the local courthouse.

> How difficult would it be to purchase one?

Assuming the owner wants to sell, probably a bit difficult. But no more difficult than any other large commercial real estate purchase. The buildings usually don't have some special status just because they are "abandoned". Things that WILL make acquisition more difficult, however, is if the building is an historical landmark, condemned, has asbestos or other environmental problems, is scheduled for demolition by the city, has lots of lien holders and a complicated title, etc. But all of this is just another way of saying that large real estate transactions can be challenging. There's a reason there are large law firms exclusively devoted to this stuff.

> how expensive?

It depends on why it was abandoned. If the existing tenant just went out of business or otherwise moved out due to their own problems or reasons, then the building will probably be priced similarly to other properties in the area (in other words, it's not a given that 'abandoned' somehow entails a price break).

If there are severe location problems (like many places in Detroit, for example) then there may be breaks based on that.

Lastly, if there are severe environmental, structural, or other problems with the property itself, you might be able to purchase it for a song, but that doesn't mean you won't have to spend megabucks to fix it so you can get a certificate of occupancy. Watch out!

Another way to think of all this is that the word 'abandoned' is a romantic term with connotations of artistic urban decay. However, sometimes it's just a vacant building. There's nothing special about it just because no one is currently in there.

> It would be cool to live in one of these (with power and running water, of course) and have freight elevators, PA systems and escalators in your home.

Probably not as cool as you're envisioning. Every one of these things has to be maintained and/or replaced. That's probably going to be just slightly more expensive than calling a residential plumber. Your heating, water, and sanitation bills are likely to be atrocious simply because it's a large building in (probably) an area zoned for commerce. What good is all that space if you have to keep all of it dark except for a few hundred square feet?

Then, of course, you have to worry about squatters and other people who won't realize or won't care that there's someone living in there. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer my home to be a sanctuary and not have to constantly worry whether I'm going to run into a trespasser who may or may not be friendly.

But hey, despite all this if you can find a really cool abandoned building and live in it, be sure to blog about it and take pictures so we can all live vicariously through you!
The contacts list menu on the side looks great, I love how so many apps are adopting a nice side menu instead of permanent tabs that get in the way.

How long did you spend on this?
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If you'll read to the last paragraph, you'll find Gibson's very profound conclusion: that the 1996 Web was the early "test pattern" for what he predicts will be a world-changing, but "less fun" medium. How right he was.
His book "Distrust That Particular Flavor" is full of his old articles, such as this one, and his thoughts on them after looking back at them in 2012. I really recommend it if you're into William Gibson at all.
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Someone used a petition to the White House/President as an excuse to lament about needing to use the petition process to appeal to 'law-makers,' presumably referring to Congress. I pointed out that we're talking about the President here, who is not a law-maker.

Referencing a specific ability the President has which might qualify him as a 'law-maker' is at best a factoid in this conversation, especially because it doesn't even apply to the petition that we are discussing. The President's ability to classify drugs has little to do with banning/allowing phone unlocking (and one would be hard-pressed to apply a general label of 'law-maker' to the President based on a single power, which might better reside with Congress).

Also, where do I show a lack of abstract thinking? Where do I say that I agree with the President having such power? Are you assuming my response of, "Cool, but that's not what we are discussing here" is akin to, "I don't want to discuss this because I agree with it?" That would be a pretty huge leap to conclusions (if that's what you're reading into).

TL;DR - The President does not fit the generic term "law-maker," except for (maybe) very specific instance(s), none (that I know) of which apply to this situation.
Turns out the author of this article is actually 100% at fault. He actually pasted a link to the google doc publicly on one of his posts then scratched his head wondering how people were requesting access to this so called "private" doc.

Whoops!
May be true for desktops, but if you have ever tried to code on a 1366x768 14" laptop display, you'll agree.

8:5/16:10 or even 3:2 fill the horizontal field of view well while also delivering more vertical space.

Even if 16:9 is theoretically better, why shouldn't we have a choice? Every notebook computer out there besides Apple has a 16:9 display, and I'm sick of it, and many others are as well. At least offer us more than one choice.
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Some nifty code samples in PHP and Ruby detailing how to auth using Oauth 2.0 with LinkedIn: https://developer.linkedin.com/documents/code-samples
I wonder if they will keep doing this once the bitcoin bubble bursts in a few months time
Reminds me of "ICMP delay-line memory": http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12748246/sorting-1-millio...
You can only control a inverted pendulum using a PID if it's near one of its equilibrium points. You need a linearized model of the dynamics and this is usually done using the small angle aproximation for the sine. I don't think they are using a PID controller for the pendulum in that video.
And Linux would boot at native resolution, making the contents of your screen microscopic and useless. Linux isn't ready for High DPI.
I replied on the site, but I'll share my comment here as well.

I work on Facebook Platform. We never "turned off the Requests functionality for apps that are not labelled as games, breaking many live apps." We never turned off requests. We never broke a single app.

What we did do was test the impact of issuing a notification for a new app request for several categories of apps. The sending and delivering of requests still worked through this test and nothing broke. Users could still send requests and they could receive them on Facebook.

The key thing to bear in mind is that our APIs often express "intent", not specific UX actions on Facebook.com or our mobile apps. We are always testing new user experiences to see what the best experience is for a given intent from an app. Such was the case with this test.

Again, no apps were broken, we were simply testing if/when/how we should surface notifications for app requests to users.

We have concluded this particular set of tests and if we are going to make some permanent changes, we will make sure to inform our developer community.
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I have been moving towards new horizons for quite a while now, which made me realize where my issues came from. So yes, there is hope ! :)
Prof. Green has a great blog:

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/
This (and the top parent) are the only reasoned, insightful comments I've seen about the Pixel all day.

If you have to be on a laptop, the screens on the new Macbook Pros are simply a joy to use - as long as you aren't mucking with bitmaps too much, the clarity of web and code is really unmatched, eyestrain is greatly reduced.

Within the above restrictions (laptop, must be a locked/stripped-down OS), the Chromebook Pixel begins to make a lot more sense as an attractive laptop option.
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Yes! Thank you. How did you search for that by the way?
I wasn't claiming it requires windows whatsoever. Word is available for mac as well.

And if you're the kind of writer that doesn't need it, you probably already are using docs, on your $300 netbook, and you really don't care. This isn't going to improve your life in any way, because frankly, a computer from 1995 would be all you need for writing. I'd say earlier, but you at least need a half-decent print preview.
... and us nothing?
I drive a 30 year old Mercedes diesel. It runs like a clock. It cost me $3,000 when I bought it 10 years ago. It's never had a major problem. I highly recommend them.
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And when you buy that Macbook you have the OPTION to use it for more if you need it, with the Chromebook you simply need a second computer.
The Life video pretty clearly shows it running in Bochs. I assume they fixed it up.
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Copying the css to your own server could be considered a copyright violation.
Problem is, WebGL won't be worth a damn for 3d gaming for years to come. Hell, Chrome's Native Client is better than WebGL for that even now.
Planet of the Apes meets Terminator.
Monkey controls Robot using brain to machine interface, all the way across the world. Signal was faster than from the monkey's brain to their own legs! Awesome!
" Wonder what headlines we'll make fun of in 17 years?"

"Smartphones are a waste of time"----if you waste your time on them with useless apps and especially if you get in the stupid game of telling everyone, every bite you take.

Gibson realized it was a double edged sword, useful but also a procrastinator's dream.