skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are so entirely wrong here that I have to guess you are either willfully trying to misrepresent things, or you have done so little research into this issue that your better sense should have told you to not comment.

On the very page you are commenting on as "grey" they explicitly mention that each API will be submitted to the W3C for standardization once they reach a point where it is suitable (ie it has an implementation demonstrating it).

Every single article I have seen about Firefox OS that includes comments from a dev has seen the dev explicitly call out that all the APIs they are creating will be submitted for standardization to allow the apps to run on any browser that supports these open standards.

Please, please either stop misrepresenting the intent of the Firefox OS team, or if you are honestly in error, do more research before attempting to speak authoritatively.
There was an article only the other day about how firefox is faster, on the front page. I've even switched to it (for a few days, to see) myself!
I imagine it's related to the infamous gang rape tape---a sort of morbid curiosity.
I'm not sure how you would even distinguish it from never being open. I tried to sign up at 7:01 and it said, "Registration closed." I reloaded 5 times and at one point saw the form but clicking through lead to the first 500 I've ever seen from Google.

How can they not scale this? This is 3rd-year-in-college 2 week project level scaling challenges.
That's not normal behavior around here..

Our culture may not be very crazy about punctuality, true, in that if you set something up and you or the other arrive 10 or 15 minutes late it's not an outrage, but if you don't show up or is hours late it's still fucking rude/may get your ass fired or start bittering a then-friendly relationship, for sure... there's a tolerance time(at least for business that is, social is another story )

a long time ago there existed the "carioca time" if I'm not mistaken(can't find where I read about this), when people were reaally loose about times, like going out for lunch and only getting back 2, 2.5, 3 hours later but this stopped as industrialization required more professional etiquette

Also, it depends on what region you're talking about, they vary a lot around here, in São Paulo they're probably really tight about this, it's the economic center and they're considered to only care about working, Cariocas maybe a bit less, Gaúchos(South) culture is so different that basically they do everything differently from the rest and on..

Also important to note that since bureaucracy and public services here are generally bad here.. if someone needs to go the bank by bus, for example, you can't know how much it will take, so you gotta see it through this lenses too
I can't agree more. But there are real concerns with sharing.

Even though people move around with their phones and laptops all the time, network protocols still want to trust the LAN. Things like rogue DHCP servers, unencrypted HTTP traffic and unsecured devices (like printers) are real problems.

Bandwith caps and accountability are also of concern.
Chortle, if only Chrome and IE weren't guilty of much worse.. I guess for a change they can have some 'standards' forced on them if they'd like to remain competitive
Compass' docs' code snippets have little tabs that allow you to switch between the SCSS and Sass syntaxes that I think would be great for people like you that need to see the CSS output. I wonder if anyone's made something like that (possibly with Stylus in addition to LESS), even though I agree with the sibling comment that suggests learning one (I prefer Sass).
Come on. Few nerds like us are concerned with benchmarks and perceived performance. Most people don't know what a browser is or what's their preference in the matter, they just use whatever is installed.
According to my Optometrist, unless you are suffering from Dry Eye, the best thing to take for Eye Care is Omega-3s.
I use the tweet buttons but often remove extraneous info or put what I would normally write in my tweet but keep the link. If I like an article enough to tweet it, why not add some social proof by boosting their tweet button count one higher? I think that's fair.
People in iceland like strange stuff, compared to other european countries.

edit: as other people noted, the sample size is probably too small there.
>It was also infamously buggy (something the modding community spent a lot of effort fixing) but it still was better than what we have now.

Indeed. For the amount of time I spent playing Sim City 4 with the Network Addon Mod (the one that changes the pathfinding and tweaks transportation usage to be more sane), I was taking for granted that Maxis would learn from those mistakes, and even take a nod from the community in terms of what is believable transit behavior.
That's sort of my line of reasoning, as well. Particularly when you move into any form of management or leadership position.
Sam Altman is not a blithering idiot
Not to mention they're impossible to use on a mobile device..

They frequently omit the little 'x' in the corner to close them out, they're rarely responsive, and they break zooming / scrolling.

What a terrible little login mechanism.
As a simple example, the hit gives them your IP address. Often, this is all they need in order to identify you. (My IP address is technically dynamic, but remains fixed for weeks at a time. And... even if I use a different browser to sign into Facebook, they still have that IP address as well as the relevant timeframe for my possession of it.

I could spin up a VM and route the FB or non-FB traffic through a proxy, but I haven't reached that point, yet. (Probably, foolishly and to my detriment...)

P.S. In other words, state is already stored on their servers, not (or rather, in addition to) your browser.
You are right, and unfortunately that has already happened. I have become more diligent about helping teachers who launched their class one or more years ago to host their content in other formats, or transfer them to PDFs. In some cases I was even going to the Google cache version, transferring it to a free blog, and making it available.

One of our main needs with Open Compass was the expenses that came with running servers all the time, and hosting said content. We did not officially define how that would work yet, but ideally the content would be housed in Open Compass, but the teacher still retains all rights/control. At least that way if their domain expired this would be less of an issue. Sadly we're just a very small team, and we are the sole investors.
Of course those things are possible in theory, but I've been doing this for 14 years and nothing bad has ever happened. I don't believe that it's as big a deal as people make it out to be.
I imagine the data is accurate. It's the same for a lot of conservative countries. I imagine they have less of an outlet to express their sexuality, so they search for porn. (E.g., people in New York wouldn't need as much gay porn---they have Grindr).
I'm wondering if the new iPhone is going to have better video capturing abilities due to the way the App Store is promoting video apps right now. They often feature video apps, and sometimes throw up large "In the director's chair" features on the front page, despite the fact that no one (at least right now) seems to be downloading the apps in them.
Generally, it isnt the job of the state to protect the ignorant and the lazy. Sorry, but this kind of precedent is going to lead to even more draconian judgements over "computer trespassing" and "hacking." Computer crime laws aren't reasonable as-is and now with this new case law, they're arguably worse.

The ISM band exists within strict FCC control. There is no "don't sniff" provision and if there was, it would make promiscuous mode or applications like inssider illegal.
Google Android Chief Andy Rubin Steps Aside
You should check out linkies.com - disclaimer I'm a co-founder. Anyways linkies organizes your posts/bookmarks based on the hashtags you use. You can even group hashtags into groups that we are calling grashtags. You can also subscribe to just the topics you are interested in to create a custom news feed of links updated by the people you trust. it's currently in private beta but let me know if you want early access and I will see what I can do.
> Not to mention that Chrome has figured out how to push updates, while a majority of Androids are still running a version released over two years ago.

The reason for the hold out is the carriers, not Google. Google is very good at pushing updates to phones when it's not limited by the carriers (and Android implemented over the air updates years before anyone else did. iPhones still require cables to be updated).
You're definitely not the only one. My order was canceled due to "unable to notify merchant of this order". Very frustrating.
Great, I'm already getting flamed by coworkers for that title. Probably fair :)
The various streaming packages are pretty good for live sports IF you live outside your home teams region AND your team isn't featured on national broadcasts often (applies to the NHL for sure, not sure about the others).

NHL Game Center Live - %149 for the year in normal years IIRC
MLB.TV - $129 for the year
NBA League Pass - $99
NFL Game Pass - $149 (only on PS3?)
Of course, then you get into a argument about proving independent invention. Given that applications for patents are published, it's hard convincingly show you weren't aware of another person's invention.

FWIW, I agree with the principle. There's a lot of obvious stuff that gets patented, particularly in software.
It might be standard issue, but it sure as hell isn't standardised. For instance: some (all? It's been a while) BMWs have the engine's CAN bus available on a couple of pins in the OBD-II socket. If you knew what you were doing, you could have an awful lot of fun with that, but the chances of it being compatible with any other manufacturer out of the box? Slim.

And it certainly isn't read-only :-)
merge conflict due to ninja throwing stars
But you're not going to do a

sed -i 's/const/var/g' *

right? So I'm not sure how any of the Gaia apps are going to run on non-Firefox browsers until other vendors start implementing ES6, so a year from now at least.
Fun game: Go to the fundraising page, wait one second and refresh. Crazy how fast this is getting funded. This is going to be a new defining moment for crowdfunding and companies like Kickstarter, Watsi, etc.
has FB given you a job offer yet?
The PPC model is essentially the same model as Direct Response Marketing, just more fine-grained.

Both of these, if used properly, can make insane amounts of money for a company. And, if used improperly, they are little more than a money sink.
I understand what you're saying, but when legislation is proposed I look at what it very easily could enable, not just what it's written to be for. When I look at what's being proposed I see that the government is using its sovereign power to trade away my right to civil suit against a company in event of a data loss, in exchange to that company for it handing over private information (that very well can include customer information) without a warrant. In big broad, abstract ways this is to my benefit if it improves "cyber security" but it also removes some specific rights I have.

"None of the agencies or companies involved want to share any private information about their citizens or customers." The telcos have monetized their lawful intercept programs and receive bad publicity protection from the government by being legally entitled to keep it a secret. They now have a profit motive and the risk of bad publicity is low. And the civil liability immunity agreement (as I understand it) in CISPA will effectively act as a giant gift that only a sovereign power can grant, we'll offer you protection from being sued if you just hand over business data without a warrant.

If you want to talk about confusing, I watch C-SPAN constantly (it's an illness) and whenever anybody in the legislative or executive branch talks about "cyber security" they always talk about IP protection and "preventing a cyber pearl harbor" in the same breath. So if you want to blame somebody for the confusion start with the people proposing this legislation.
Same here.

In particular, page rendering and repaints appear noticeably faster in Chrome than in Firefox of Opera. However, I notice the difference more on Linux than I do on my Windows machine.
No big deal, obviously all they need to do is push out a server update since all of the calculations are being done there.
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It really depends on the applications. WordPress, Drupal, etc. have built-in mechanisms for handling application upgrades and we configure them so it works out of the box. We have "native stack" deployments that hook up to the underlying Apache, MySQL, etc. so you can use the existing native package management tool for upgrading and patching your stack (the drawback is that support is restricted to the server versions supported by the OS). Finally, the most popular method, and what the Cloud makes really easy is to do: just spin up the new version of the app and move over the data. If everything goes well, just shutdown the old machine and use the new one.
Sorry to be so negative, but uggh... So much work has gone into KDE over the years and it still reminds me of 90's IT-guy art. From the rainbow colored icons to the cluttered layouts to the mixed light and dark themes.
The Growing Trend of Niche Social Media
In my opinion, for a bookmarking tool to be "ultimate" it at least has to store the content of the web page and allow searching the content. Basically it should be a search engine that uses your bookmarks as the source of sites to crawl. This removes the burden of having to properly tag/organize bookmarks and makes bookmarks easier to find later.

Google Bookmarks does this: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/

I've been using Google Bookmarks for years and am pretty happy with it even though it doesn't look like Google is developing it any further. There are other bookmarking products that provide this as well.
> Since Sundar Pichai is the head of ChromeOS, perhaps this move is part of a larger move to unify Android and ChromeOS.

I can't see both exist at the same time for much longer, and Android is encroaching on ChromeOS' domain much faster than the other way around.

I'm predicting that ChromeOS will be shut down within a couple of years.
I was on a (p)review team for a short-film festival for a number of years. I learned a lot about what makes a video appealing to me, roughly in order:

1) Sound! Bad sound can ruin a video even if everything else is perfect.

2) Editing is key, we rejected a lot of 10 minute films that could have been turned into great 2 or 3 minute pieces.

3) A good story trumps a series of pretty pictures

All of these are big problems for quickie mobile videos so I think tools for sound and editing could really help.
Interesting. Seems to me that giving away stuff is a bad idea then since the wrong people will be attracted.
I know something for sure and that is Java is not the future of Android. Android will run web apps in future. In makes sense in many different ways:

- Google is a huge pusher of web platform. They want it on mobile.

- They are pushing new APIs to HTML5 everyday to make it more suitable for mobile

- Google is the only one that can make real mobile web apps a reality

- Did you ever see that metal android status in Google campus? They want choromize the Andriod
I have developed a solution using the pocket api, whereby I can auto tag certain items based on a number of factors.

This has proved quite useful and has got rid of a lot of the pain points I had with these sort of services before.

https://github.com/Newky/PocketPy
The real story?

He won.

What's left for him to do?

Sit around and defend 70% market share for 10 years?

Get deposed in a lot of lawsuits?

I certainly wouldn't enjoy either :)
I disagree it happens on "most" legal blogs, maybe legal blogs written by lawyers who don't understand the law. Show me one case where a lawyer has been successfully sued for "offering legal advice" through a public blog post or comment. There is no basis for these disclaimers and the practice just pollutes discussion.
I haven't required a cable for an iOS update for a while.
iPhones have not required tethered updating for a year and a half now. OTA updating arrived in iOS 5.
I always cringe when I see shell code like this
> cat /etc/passwd | cut -f1 -d:

Usually this comes as
> ps -ef | grep something | grep -v grep | grep -v $myownpid

why not use one simple and concise awk statement which does it all in one go?

awk -F: '{print$1}' /etc/passwd
ps -ef | awk '/[h]ttpd/{print$2}'

But apart from that: very nice summary of things to consider and the sequence for analysis.
What's your take on stories told in photos -- eg this http://backspac.es/r/V0bCokJWnt/how-it-happens

That was also made on a mobile phone
2000 didn't use any pathfinding for fire and police. Each station simply covered a certain area when it come to suppressing crime or fire. When it came to fighting disasters, the position of a station didn't matter. You could simply deploy police and firefighters wherever you wanted, instantly.

I don't know about the one long winding rail line being the best possible layout, but more realistic layouts worked very well. It's not surprising that a simulation can be gamed to work better with unrealistic layouts (e.g. search for "Magnasanti"), but a city simulator should work reasonably well with realistic layouts, even if it's not necessarily the best. Real cities surely aren't the best layout either.
A Golang Redirection Service for DNSimple
> This meant you couldn't follow a sim's car from home to work and back

Note that in SimCity 2013 you still can't really do this. A sim finds a new job every day and finds a new home at the end of the day. Really.
UPnpLOAD - Dead simple file upload through UPnP routers
Greg KH gave a talk at Linaro Connect recently in which he mentions being contacted by somone who accidentally let slip they were in posession of very new silicon, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiED1K98lnw
Isolate and do one little thing. No, it doesn't need to be important. Maybe a blog post on the subject. Maybe a phone call. One little thing. Do it now. Then goto 1. Try it.

No really.
Could be. Would be a great pick to drive Glass. Or build robots.
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Improvements to Timeline
Along with Sinofsky and Forstall late last year, this means the initial heads of all three major mobile platforms are now out.
Given a well-designed library that does something concrete related to a task you understand, I find that I generally don't have to learn the function names just to read code that uses it. Like, if see "HTTP.post(data, headers)" or "record.attach(file)", I have a pretty good idea what it's doing even if I don't know those particular libraries.
Check out the preponderance of ebony porn and black gay porn in the Deep South. Virginias, Kentucky, Mississippi, Georgia.

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map for comparison...
I couldn't figure out why one area of my city kept having brown outs and water shortages, until I read this help article. Then I realized it was my street traffic that was a bottleneck. Yes, busses and cars stacked up at the entrance to my city was preventing power and water from getting to an area, just like real life.
> Geez: is is that hard to serve videos in a HTML5 format recognized by a Flash-less Chrome browser?

Yes, it's hard. HTML5 standardized nothing but the tag. Each browser chose to support a different codec.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video#Browser_support
Bug: It thinks Oregon is Nevada.
Are you talking updates without prompting the user? My Nexus (original) updates itself every so often with a prompt.
Better title "Andy Rubin hands Android team to former Chrome lead, stays at Google".
The online videos are great. Although it would have been beneficial to sit down and talk some of the teams in person. Anecdotally I have heard that in talks with engineers on different teams you can learn a lot of little tips and tricks that aren't made widely available to the public because of a lack of interest and/or ability to make the information useful, or because they are little quirks in the system that can be helpful if you know them, but if everyone does then would cause problems.
Thanks for sharing that, I had no idea that existed and I loved TTD!
It is very popular in French-speaking countries
Building native ad products requires more than slapping on a "sponsored" tag
The web design feature I hate the most is when a site freezes the right or left hand column, after I begin to scroll the page...ggrrrrr!
Same, except it was 4AM sharp here.
Linode Partners with Treehouse for Video Tutorials Debut
You need to buy a lottery ticket today, I'm serious. You won't believe I logged in at 6:59 am and kept trying till 7:38am no luck :(
I think the customer got hacked some other way, and the hacker just wrote to the .htaccess file AFTER hacking the site. Probably the .htaccess is a quick and easy way of taking over the website.
schneier on open wifi networks (he's for them): http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/04/security_risks...
> Cars drive with purpose from one place to another.

Like down a dead end street to one house? Did you read the article?
It is exactly the job of the state, because the ignorant do not know how to protect themselves, or even that they are ignorant.

I dare say that every day you are protected by the state from those who would take advantage of your ignorance in many, many aspects of the world. The system works well enough that you don't even notice what you're ignorant of!
The single biggest question on my mind is how this ended up functioning worse than the community-made solutions such as NAM (Network Addon Mod) for Sim City 4. If all they did was monkey-copy that behavior, available for many years now, I would have been more satisfied.

I am reminded of Gabe Newell's recent comment of how “[Valve] can’t compete with our own customers. Our customers have defeated us, not by a little, but by a lot.”[1] and am starting to understand what he meant in a more visceral way: My low-bar for the experience, my expectation of quality, was not for Sim City 5 to outperform Sim City 4. My expectation was for Sim City 5 to outperform Sim City 4 Plus Community Content, because to my brain in consumer mode, those last 3 words don't exist, and it all just gets the label "Sim City 4" on the experience.

[1] http://www.penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/gabe-ne...
This morning (7AM EDT) that post was not present.

My impression is Stephen refused to make O'Reilly's comment visible until he had a chance to insert his claims into its content. Seems odd that he'd edit the comment to include his responses when he wasn't doing so for other replies, and it really makes it difficult to follow O'Reilly's take on the events.

Further, one of the 9 comments which follow it, excluding Stephen's, would have made reference to it had it been visible since that time, right?
I'm under the impression that FB's whitehat program is active enough that submitters don't experience the notification black hole that has required crackers to raise awareness by broadcast elsewhere. That is, "reasonable" has a way of taking on concrete meaning when the site/company actually responds.
I had quite a few random downvotes today too (for completely aseptic claims) so I suspect someone's trolling.
What If The Education System Isn’t Broken — Just Irrelevant?
How about countries like Romania... 'Mom and son'. -What?
I like your username btw :)
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I never really understood this sort of thing. Why would he stick around and do nothing? To "save face"? And if he is not being useful why do they want him around or play along?