skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is disappointingly pricey, but not all that surprising.

Maybe just one to start out with. :) I can rationalize such caution against my desire to splurge thus: with any luck, this will spark a little bit of necessary competition in desktop displays; an area stagnant since 2005's introduction of 30" 2560x1600 monitors. Better to have not invested heavily in the initial offering.

Plus, as you point out, there may be some odd corners cut. Edge-lit? Boo.

On the other hand, I've been dealing with four fluorescent backlit 30" monitors for years. LED backlit would be an upgrade even with an edge-lit design.

Is it too much to ask for OLED or similar 150+ dpi displays on my desktop before the close of the 2010s? 50+ inch. Possibly even flexible/concave. Please?
The Raspberry Pi is not a Broadcom project.
What I find most interesting is that they allege that a third of the people involved in this are between 11 and 14 years old. While I feel sympathy for the developers who have to deal with the script kiddies, I'm happy to think that the iPad generation hasn't been completely deprived of the formative experience of messing with software that wasn't designed to be messed with.
> "...until the movie industry learns what the music industry learned the hard way." implies a moral lesson and as such is an appeal to morals.

It implies no such thing. It merely implies that DRM is a net loss for the industry, and that the music industry has already learned this but the movie industry has not.
how about a flux capacitor? 1.21 gigawatts!
I control my co-worker's computer. What should I do?
I'm at war with my co-worker. In retaliation for a rubber chicken attack (an actually rubber chicken; it was brutal), I've written a simple trojan on his computer. He's now sitting at his desk, happily working away. I can execute arbitrary code as his user. Fun ideas?

EDIT

It's a mac running mountain lion
Every time I see "Elixir" used in reference to software I'm reminded of Xerox' Elixir circa 1993, when I was forced to learn how to use the proprietary interface - this was before Windows support had been integrated.

http://www.outputlinks.com/html/people/Entrepreneurial_Spiri...

http://www.xerox.com/digital-printing/workflow/printing-soft...

We used Xerox Elixir to typeset forms pre-press for a Xerox DocuTech.
For an example of a not so or at least less scary prison: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&...

TLDR version: "the punishment is being locked up; we do not add to the suffering."

Google translate is decent at times, funny at other times (the vulture entering the scene is a translation of the prison director's surname), and woefully incorrect at others ("e.g. The IBT'ers still put their helmets on and not ask first what's going on" should be "don't put their helmets on but ask first what's going on"), but I think the message comes across.

Two things to add:

1) the "for life system" (rightfully, IMO) is under scrutiny from the EU because, effectively, nobody ever is pardoned.

2) there are stronger regimes in some prisons.
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Those two points seem to be at odds with each other.

How were they incentivized to repay early? Having a below-market interest rate seems like it would do the opposite.
After I sign up to be a mentor, you said "spread the word".I think this is one of the few times where I have looked for social icons, so I can +1 it on google+. Other than that looks good. That form for applying to be a mentor could be a lot more specific and cleaned up!
Why There’s Nobody Under 30 in Your Church and What to Do About It
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Selling vulnerabilities to criminals is itself a crime.

'daeken seems to disagree with you[0]. Is he correct, or is the "to [proven] criminals" in your statement important?

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5799382
Introducing fishbike: Pure procedural programming
Imaging Breakthrough: See Atomic Bonds Before and After Molecular Reaction
60 fps, but the current drivers for both AMD and Nvidia (still in development) make you connect 2 cables and essentially treat it like 2 1920x2160 displays from what I read.
I think you can come to false conclusions quite a bit if all you are basing your research off of is your own intuition. I learned Russian, and as a native English speaker it was difficult, but I can think in Russian, and I don't translate Russian into English in my head. There are some things I say in Russian that I would have no idea how to properly translate into English. The first programming language I learned was basic, but I don't think 'oh this in python is like x in basic'.
It's because of stuff like this that IP cops are not a good solution.
Unreadable font.
I was going to argue with you about your comments about Javascript and callback hell, because a while back I figured out a nice, efficient pattern that pretty much removed it as an issue for me. But then I remembered reading somewhere that patterns are a code smell for a problem in a language.

So yes, you're absolutely right that callbacks would have benefited from in-language support, especially considering the mono-threaded nature of JS. Interestingly enough, my solution was very similar to the prototype chain of JS, which makes me think that a more generalised prototype chain concept, allowing multiple chains for an object, would have made a much stronger language.
It is more than just privacy.

When we don't pay for email, we are at the mercy of free email providers. They can terminate our account for any reason, without no appeal whatsoever. It has happened before.

Email is fundamental, it is the one foundation on top of which we do things on the internet. Forgot password, bookings, registration on a new site - every single one of them is via email. And most of us happily trust Google (or Microsoft etc) with our email, without paying a penny. I'm not saying these companies aren't great, or willfully do something bad with our data (they won't - if anything, gmail is really nice, except for UI) - It is just that they have no incentive to help us when we get in trouble (account getting hacked, for example). After all, they are a business, not charity.

Email is just one example. It surprises me that people wouldn't pay for important things (even when they are cheap) but would happily pay for overpriced coffees, popcorns in theaters (huge rip off) etc. Same with those who buy only "branded" items, even though many times the non-branded items are nearly as good and are cheaper.
Looked at the screenshot, is this using some sort of integration with Screenhero? After playing/using Screenhero, I've been excited about the possibility of incorporating it into web apps.
I would say that they're still smaller than C++, which has syntactical and semantic corners that very few people even know about.
I used to TA undergraduate science courses. I successfully convinced at least one generation of young minds that the SI prefix G is pronounced hard, except for power, where it is pronounced soft like J. I blamed the French for this historical oddity. They bought it.
God says...

4:13 And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been
careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee?
wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the
host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.

4:14 And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi
answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

4:15 And he said, Call her. And when he had called her, she stood in
the door.

4:16 And he said, About this season, according to the time of life,
thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God,
do not lie unto thine handmaid.

4:17 And the woman conceived, and bare a son at that season that
Elisha had said unto her, according to the time of life.

4:18 And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out
to his father to the reapers.
As a big fan of B5 (it's one of two shows I own on DVD; the other is Firefly) who is currently 5 seasons into DS9 on Netflix, I find the "stolen concept" concerns overblown. I've heard people try to compare tiny elements from the two shows, saying "look at what a rip-off this is" (as if the Trek writers took JMS's five-season script and cribbed from it liberally), but it strikes me as more like the Trek writers took a little inspiration from JMS's pitch and then went an entirely different direction with it.

I mean, they are both space stations with numbers in their names. The remaining similarities are equally superficial. They're not really trying to tell the same type of story -- B5 is about massive-scale diplomacy (with war as an extension of diplomacy, like Clausewitz said) and empire-building. DS9 is mostly standard Star Trek style one-off episodes: aliens who feed on creativity, time travel to Roswell, Bajoran politicians abusing power in trying to recover stolen farm equipment. Even the "big" storyline of the Dominion War is a much smaller scale than B5's Shadow War. Sure, they both had huge battles, but I'm inclined to blame that on advances in CG -- ST:TNG certainly referenced huge battles, like during the Klingon Civil War, but never put them on screen.

Thus, I contend that DS9 has way more in common with the rest of the Treks than it does with B5, and liking one won't translate into liking the other.
What prejudice are you talking about? Countries can be measured and compared through many different ways. One factor that can be measured is prison population rate. Compared to other countries Iran, China and South Africa are really bad at this, US is even worse. Measurable fact, not prejudice.
It's hard to agree or disagree with that. Javascript, by iyself, yes, you're right, but everyone codes with either coffeescript and/or underscore, so it's possible to do most of your work in a functional manner. jquery's selectors can be used in a fairly declarative manner when you do have to manipulate existing DOM elements, so in practice, it's not that bad.
Technology has come a long way, though - the VP2290b was a thick and heavy behemoth that was extremely difficult to drive using the signaling technology of the time.

Plus, even the final revision of the T221 required being driven as either two monitors using one dual-link DVI and one single-link DVI or as four monitors by using four single DVI links. Even then, the internal refresh rate was a slightly annoying 48Hz.

The T220/T221 really were ahead of their time but convenience and standard size of the new generation of "retina" displays shows how far we've come.
say "there once was a man from nantucket"
LinkedIn rolls out Two-Factor-Verfication
The fact that there is no judicial oversight, and thus almost no paper trail, is the real problem. They may not be completely different; they are different enough to be a cause for concern.
There is a process for that: You prototype the feature under an off-by-default feature flag, then standardize it, then turn it on by default. Apparently Chrome follows this process for HTML/CSS features but not for PNaCl or DRM.
Justice Department tries to force Google to hand over user data
your reply gives me faith in humanity.
"View" for apps and "modify" for web apps
> Guidance: you’re not just dealing with a code mercenary.
> Companies (like us) will help guide and mould your product nto being the best it can be.

Oh nice, another ad.
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It cost approx $8,500 [1] when released.

Also keep in mind that it wasn't until extremely recently (last few years) that LCD priced have dropped liked crazy. People back in 2003 were use to paying these kind of prices.

It's simply amazing how today, you can buy an highly performance computer ... even laptop, for less than $800.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/017019/viewsonic-vp2290b-mega-monitor-lus...
Side Projects Are Your Playground
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I would suggest skipping the first season, aside from the handful of episodes people named above, at least the first time you watch. Once you fall in love with the story, going back to some of the first season episodes is fun.

The pilot is particularly long and tedious, though. I often skip it even when I'm watching the entire rest of the show.
Minority report?

Nice, I was moved enough to reply, so as a satire it's a good piece.
I'm from Europe, eating peanut butter with sugar in it was a shock to the system, and not a good one either. It tasted funny to me.
Finally!!! I've read the article multiple times and no price? Did I miss it?
Most people are locked into facebook.

And you could just send them an email, carefully tailored to target them, with a link to your exploit site.
IMHO, the reason why the ViewSonic/T220 wasn't adopted in wider use isn't because of the reasons you listed above. It was because very few graphic cards could push that many pixels back in 2003.
It still reads with a very condescending tone to me. You're essentially telling me that you've made the decision for me with the implication that I'm not capable of doing it myself. It's even more condescending when we're quibbling over something so insignificant as to cost less than a cup of coffee.

The honest and direct way to sell something is to sell the thing on its own merits, not to try to get me to short-circuit my own decision-making.
I didn't intend my post to mean that. The design of the pi was inspired by the bcm2835 (which is the same thing as the roku 1). What I meant was that the way broadcom designed BCM 2835 with showcasing the VideoCore in mind.

Thanks for all your work on the pi btw :) I have been using your debian images last year.
sadly, like Twitter, they only use SMS based pins, which might deter users (since it costs money). I would have preferred it, if they used something compatible to the Google Authenticator.
Why can't companies not use something that is out there and compatible to other services?
Actually, I don't know of a good solution to running your own email addresses on a custom domain that doesn't involve paying a little money.

So yes, if you don't mind having someone elses company name in your main identity on the web, that's fine (along with all the portability tie in problems and privacy). On the other hand if you want me@myname.com then you'll probably be shelling a little money out.

And fastmail provides other services too, that people might be more used to paying for, e.g. static webhosting with webdav support for upload, custom dns control. Contacts accessible through ldap, distribution lists, sms, detailed control over login including OTPs etc.

I've switched recently and do not regret it. It gives me a lot of the flexibility I had years back when I ran my own mail server, and none of the massive pain.
Not all searches under the 4th amendment require a warrant.

The structure of the 4th amendment is a little bit non-obvious (see: http://lawlibrary.unm.edu/nmlr/10/1/03_stelzner_fourth.pdf‎).

The text reads: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

The ", and" between "violated" and "no Warrants" complicates the interpretation.[1] At common law, there was a well-understood universe of things that required warrants. Thus, the comma can be read as creating two separate requirements:

1) All searches must be reasonable; and
2) All warrants (to the extent that a search requires a warrant) must be supported by probable cause.

This reading admits the possibility of searches that are reasonable but don't require warrants. And this is a common sense category (e.g. very few people would say that police should have to go get a warrant to search a robber caught at the crime scene for weapons).

Contemporary battles tend to be over what kinds of searches require warrants.

This isn't just a battle over grammar, however. It's a question of: "what did we agree on the scope of the government's powers being?" As a general rule, the law doesn't constraint the government's ability to subpoena information from a third party without a warrant. E.g. if you're being prosecuted for fraud, the government doesn't need a warrant to subpoena your business partners requesting all documents they have from their dealings with you. The purpose of the 4th amendment is to protect you from the indignity of the search, not to protect the information itself. Under that logic, you can make a reasonable case that nothing should stop the government from subpoenaing any information Google or AT&T have about you.

The real problem here is the secret nature of the NSL's, not the 4th amendment issues, IMHO. One of the things that justifies the far-reaching subpoena powers of common law courts is the fact that they are distributed, transparent entities--nearly everything is a matter of public record.

[1] In plain speech, I might say: "I eat pizza, and I eat cake." The ", and" combines two independent thoughts without any necessary relationship between them, other than the fact that I like both. It could be the case that I never eat pizza and cake in the same meal.
40 minutes watching TV may be less relaxing than 40 minutes of doing nothing at all. So you've spent $2 to decrease the amount of relaxation you could have accomplished in those 40 minutes. "Learn to relax" is a valid suggestion. "Learn to relax by watching TV" is not.
Thank you for your generosity. Good luck with this project.
Remove the offending clause and have a two clause BSD license with clauses 1 and 3.

It's a license not an array, you can cut from the middle.
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Actually Rand probably paid very little into Medicare which was started in 1965 when Rand was already 60 years old. She probably took out many, many times what little she put in.
Does anyone know of a JS slideshow that leverages this? I would love to have the ability to load smaller images for a mobile device.
"There are actual violent-minded individuals that the state has an obligation to track and protect us from."

It is hard to say, given the secrecy that surrounds all this. Who are our enemies right now? Who is the government trying to protect us from? We are meant to take it as a given that there are terrorists out there and that the government is actively protecting us from them -- yet so far, we have only heard about plots that either succeeded, or that never had a realistic chance of succeeding.

We need to know the danger and how it is being addressed. If the government will not even tell us who is a suspected terrorist and why they are under suspicion, we have no choice but to assume that they are abusing their power.
I should have said "principally motivated" instead of just "motivated" in my original statement about white hats. I'll add that as a correction to the bottom of my original post. The main motivation of a white hat can't be money, but sure money can come into play secondarily. To further demonstrate:

As a hypothetical example, let's say there are two parties in which it would be equally responsible to disclose a vulnerability to (perhaps they jointly developed the product or service) and as a condition of payment both separately require that the vulnerability not be disclosed elsewhere, theoretically including the other party (hopefully that wouldn't be the case in reality, but again, this is hypothetical). Now let's say party one offers $4,500 and party two offers $20,000. The choice of either party is ethical on the grounds that both have been defined as equally responsible recipients of the disclosure. Therefore a determining factor is still needed, in which case, the amount of money offered is a perfectly reasonable criterion.

So in short, I agree with you on that. I may not have been completely clear in my original post.
Not for me, running the latest Chrome
Can't be. The 30'' WQXGA monitors are ~$1200, the ultra cheap Koreans at ~$500. My guess would be $3000+
| "hidden secret offsite offline backups" is a
| big regression in terms of usability.

How so? Because you have to manually do the backup and put the data there? Is it that much of an issue if you only do it once per month (for example)?

| Although I'm confident in technologies ability
| to provide self-defence.

That self-defence only goes so far.
The geography of Tweets - geotagged tweets visualized
Flickr wins at uptime mangement #badpanda
There was some ThinkPads (and some Dells, too, I think) with a very high density displays. Don't see too many of those anymore, except MacBooks.
Lamentably, yes. I'd suspect the prefixes will drop off this year but we're sort of stuck with the browser adoption in this case.
There most certainly are capacitors available that meet his specs without being unreasonably large. For example this one has a capacitance of 1200F and is only 8 cm long:
http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Ioxus/RSC2R7128LR/?qs=cf...

Modeling it as a parallel plate capacitor with a mica dielectric is basically totally ignoring the part about it being a supercapacitor. He may as well have been seeing if it would be feasible to get to the moon using a wood fired rocket.
following the post, down to every misspelled word, I've discovered that Warren Buffet had a manta ;)
Is there any reason to limit the amount of languages you can get mentored in? I would be interested in using this if it was available for Clojure.
> What I worry about is a few years down the road when all of this security state nonsense is used for political reasons.

Why do you think this isn't happening presently? Are you aware of the IRS's targeted scrutiny of certain groups applying for 501c3 status? This does not directly relate to the NSLs being discussed here, but it is an indication of how politics enters government agencies.

Frankly, I would be surprised if these NSLs aren't currently being used for political ends, by whomever has access to their use.
With the right voltages, you can get 1.21 gigawatts out of a capacitor no problem! Just not for very long ;-)
JavaScript is a prototype-based scripting language that is dynamic, weakly typed, and has first-class functions.
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If he has speakers, find a low volume, high-pitched noise and play it.
Braintree here. Gave the same response below in the thread,but wanted to make sure to address here as well. You all are right. Getting a merchant account and setting up a foreign currency account has been notoriously difficult to get in the past with extremely high fees and approval requirements. This is no longer the case. Braintree sponsors merchants to get setup with a merchant account in Australia and has built an accelerated process to creating foreign currency accounts.

If a provider states that no merchant account is required, you are most likely being placed on an aggregated merchant account. This has many disadvantages for the merchant as you are grouped under one umbrella account. As the provider grows, this becomes unsustainable and often leads to poor customer experiences (a la Paypal account freezes).

We're working to create a sustainable solution where customer service and great software are the central focus. We'll be constantly improving the on-boarding timeline and look forward to helping the fast growing tech scene in Australia. Always happy to answer any questions about anything payments or e-commerce related, just let us know!
Just to follow up on this: I did check with the team, and the message that Jitbit received ("Search results clicks for http://www.jitbit.com/xxxxxxxx/ have decreased significantly") pertains to the amount of clicks per day, not clickthrough.

In other words, the message that Jitbit received--and that sparked this article--meant that Jitbit was getting less overall traffic from Google, not that clickthroughs had gone down. That's consistent with the site being affected by Penguin as well.