skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a little confused... isn't there a whole market (many markets actually) for each of these areas you point out (IQ enhancement, mindfulness, etc.)

I don't get the role of a startup here.
A better way would be to make good on your promise and fix the mistake, not pretend it didn't happen.

Although, in real life, for the majority of people... maybe the opposite is true.
In my mind, if you think something is a legitimately good idea, then you're almost obligated to try to influence others to take it on.

In other words, you think that just your opinion that it's a good idea is sufficient to justify influencing others, even if you haven't actually tried it? You don't feel any obligation to test it yourself first, to see whether it's really a good idea or whether you were mistaken? How does that square with this:

I work really hard at evaluating ideas that are new to me based on their merits. But it's sometimes extremely difficult to do.

In other words, you admit it's very difficult to evaluate new ideas, but yet you think you're obligated to try to influence others to adopt them without having tried them yourself first? Wouldn't it be much more sensible to try the idea yourself first, since it's so difficult to evaluate it on its merits just by looking at it?

There's a resistance to ideas that live outside the box, they aren't automatically accepted by people just because they're good.

I do disagree with this as you state it, yes. I would say there is resistance to out of the box ideas that have not been demonstrated to work. And the way to overcome this resistance is to demonstrate that the idea works, instead of trumpeting how good it is before you've tested it yourself.

most people don't make the effort, even if they're otherwise intelligent.

Yes, that's true. And I would say it's because people's time and energy are limited, and they already have enough to do with it without adopting this new idea that you say is so great, but you have no evidence to back it up.

Edit: I should add that I put a key qualifier in my statement about good ideas spreading naturally: I said it happens that way in a sane society. I do not think we currently live in a sane society, and the reason why is that in our society, the second method of spreading ideas has crowded out the first one. People don't evaluate ideas based on whether they've been demonstrated to work; they evaluate them based on who is saying they're good ideas.

So there are actually two reasons why "there's a resistance to ideas that live outside the box"; in addition to the one I gave above (that there's a resistance to out of the box ideas that haven't been demonstrated to work), there is also a second reason: there's a resistance to ideas that are "out of the box" in the sense that they come from a source that isn't on the list of "approved" sources for ideas. The second reason could apply even to an idea that has been demonstrated to work. But even in that case, the reason for trying to get the idea adopted should still be "this idea has been demonstrated to work", not "I think this is a good idea, even though I'm not on your list of approved sources for ideas".
"Hugh Huddy is blind and works for visual impairment charities' umbrella group Vision 2020. He says he is always pleased to see a cone on a crossing"
Well if the video is hardware blended there could be anything in the framebuffer, so it could be black or checkered, I see no incompatibility.

The lack of borders is definitely harder to explain that way though. Definitely looks like some form of deliberate "limitation".
He's 27... As someone who's 47, I'd like to say: take that energy and try to build a company, join a few start-ups, try to change the world, travel a lot, drink in some far away land, etc. This place is a lot of fun :-): http://www.cafenose.com/
It's probably just PT_DENY_ATTACH that causes the debugger to quit.
Are the chargers going to remain free even for used, 2nd/3rd owner Tesla cars?

Because I could see that as a very positive reselling point.
Bug #1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1

The comment thread is a great read.
What does "unicode snowman" have to do with this?
Yeah, it's not a perfect relationship, I just wasn't sure if your constraint to [0,1] was intentional or incidental. Thanks for clarifying.
Your understanding is wrong: there is no generic hardware. Nowadays, companies design laptops and qualify parts specifically to build Windows laptops. They follow design demands and specifications laid down by Microsoft and Intel, which is why they are all doing UEFI and many did netbooks and Ultrabooks.

Also, these are integrated packages so the idea that the OEM should take Windows back is illogical and nonsensical. It is a delusion that bears no relation to reality.

If you want a comforting thought, price is largely a function of volume, so you are getting massive benefits by riding on the back of the economies of scale created specifically by and for Windows. You are gaining far more in real cash savings than the trivial amount that you pay the OEM for its version of Windows.

In the long term, however, you should try to see this for what it is: a very pragmatic business. It's not religion.
Sad to see that the awesome features are not directly related to the awesomeness of the product, but totally focused on some terms of services about property and privacy...
I have a WP8 phone and love it, but even I can admit that with ~1% marketshare, WP8 is irrelevant. Most people don't own a console, so having a slice of that market doesn't really help either. Having talented people doesn't automatically make people care about your products.
I am from Brazil...

Most programmers here assume stuff US-like in addresses.

Well, and government forms even frequently require a specific style of address (Street - building number, city, state, zipcode)

But in Brasilia (Brazil capital) it already breaks.

A typical address there for example is: Building 3, Apartment 12, Block H2, Residental Section, North Wing, Brasilia

As you can see, Brasilia does not have street-based addresses, in fact most streets there are not named at all, the city was made on purpose to allow this new type of adressing that the city planners thought it was better.

Also, zipcode precision is almost random, I lived once in a building with 20 apartments that had its own zipcode, and I also lived in a city with 150.000 people that had only one zipcode, and I know a building that has has three zipcodes.

And there is zipcodes for streets, neighborhoods, and several other random things.

And the coolest feature of all: brazillian zipcodes can start with a zero, breaking every stupid database that store them as number instead of string.

Also, streets not only can have more than one name, it is possible to the post office have the WRONG name.

I lived once in a street named "Gracia Mauro Chieni", and for many years it was listed on post office as "Graça Maria Cheni"

After nagging them a lot, they fixed...

It was now: "Gracia Mauro Cherene"

And of course, sites that used the post office company API to find the zipcode worked great with the name of that street ;) (NOT)

Oh yeah, remember the street I mentioned, the one with two wrong names in the post office? Well, in the power service registry (That in Brazil is valid as address proof and some other address related things), the name of the street is "H", yes, just one letter... It was the original name of the street when it was first opened, and they never bothered to fix it in their database.
Not related to the article content directly but...

> THE PAGE YOU REQUESTED IS LOADING

When I see this type of disingenuous interstitial I close the tab. Is it just me?
Continuing the Windows 8 vision with Windows 8.1
I'd hoped for the same! :D
Ha! That's a very good question. I like Ash Maurya's Lean Canvas better because he actually improved the BMC and has also made a few subtle changes to it since his book's first edition.
Is it possible that, being stuck between a rock and a hard place, they're trying to toe a thin tightrope (did I use that phrase correctly?) and, while well-intentioned, they may come off as a bit corporate?
Google shortens disclosure timeline for vulnerabilities under active attack
SSH uses four TCP segments for each character you type
Two cases: Dense urban areas and sparse lightly-trafficked areas. In lightly-trafficked areas, you're absolutely right about the cost limitation.

In the dense urban case, where "elevated pedestrian walkway" means "getting people away from cars", it means decimating foot traffic to stores and restaurants, ceding the area to automobiles. Generally regarded as horrible for dense urban environments.You see this more in urban planning a few decades back, and it tended to not help the surrounding area. If you look at the places where people want to live and travel to, you don't see elevated walkways. So it's fallen out of favor, with more emphasis on getting speeding cars away from dense areas.

The exceptions are things like the NYC Skyline, which is basically a pedestrian freeway between and through areas already dominated by pedestrian foot traffic and relatively light and slow vehicular traffic.
How does this compare to http://owncloud.org/ ? I tried that out and was pretty impressed by what came out of the box and its integration with Gnome 3.
In part because people drop things from them onto the cars underneath. Recently a pedestrian overpass was removed from a street near where I live because of that. They replaced it, at great expense, with an underpass. Now that's been closed because people didn't like going through it at night, and it smelled really rank anyway.

Finally, we have a pedestrian crossing with lights. It's less safe for the people, and more inconvenient for the cars, and all because not everyone behaves nicely.
There are US zip codes that start with 0 as well.
EXACTLY. Simply imagine Holiday Inn or Hilton demanding we verify ourselves before renting a room. Who among you would defend them?
Ex-YouTube Man Builds Graphics Card for Entire Internet
A Year With a Large Project
The problem reported by the issue is

"A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software."

This may have been "resolved" but I don't think this has been "fixed". Shuttleworth's comment makes it sound like this issue is either invalid or a won't fix.

Even Chrome and Android devices that are available in local PC stores almost always include proprietary software. Perhaps I am missing something but is Shuttleworth now saying that non-free software isn't a problem?
Could you ever imagine buying a house that doesn't allow you to perform certain activities inside its walls, because the architects and engineers who built it disapprove, and they're fully in control of it?

Neither would I. It wouldn't be true ownership. Yet that's exactly what's happening here. The OP bought a Mac, but he can't perform certain activities, because the company that built it disapproves, and they control his machine.

"Your" Mac does what you want, but only if Apple and its partners are OK with it. Is it really "yours?"
I worked for a US company for a while that had a satellite office in Costa Rica. The street address, translated from Spanish, was "the office above the chicken factory"
What in the world are you talking about ?
I thought this quote was interesting:

"Programming systems can, of course, be built without plan and without knowledge, let alone understanding, of the deep structural issues involved, just as houses, cities, systems of dams, and national economic policies can be similarly hacked together [...] But since there is no general theory of the whole system, the system itself can be only a more or less chaotic aggregate of subsystems whose influence on one another's behavior is discoverable only piecemeal and by experiment."

The thing I find interesting about it is that it seems medieval cathedrals were hacked together rather than designed in any modern sense. (Albeit over very long time spans: e.g. the interactions between a cathedral and the ground that has to bear its weight play out over the course of decades.)

Something to think about the next time you read "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
How many phones run Microsoft? What else matters?
Disabled toilets: What is a Radar key?
That's funny...I know this has been around for awhile, but I only first experienced it this weekend when I was trying to excerpt part of a movie scene (for educational purposes)...I didn't go the Handbrake route because I wanted to say that I had avoided breaking the DRM law...while the copyright law may be ambiguous on backups, cracking the DRM is pretty much always a breach of the DMCA
Microsoft U-turn sees Start button back on Windows 8
They'd have been better off taking it back and charging you a restocking fee, and if the court actually considered the issue, it got it wrong. I'd be interested to know whether you said you didn't want Windows in the first place, or whether you were, in effect, a deceptive customer.

Either way, dealing with unprofitable customers is a losing strategy for any business.
It's for applications not documents/photos, etc. It's not a competitor to Google Drive, it's a competitor to Google Appengine/Cloud
Just make sure you are at least 18 years old... http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039940/paypal-denies-teenage...
Why Yahoo’s Tumblr Purchase is Actually Pretty Awesome
It was evil exploitation by definition and by reality. There were some benefits I give you that, chief among them is bringing the masses to the democratic political mainstream (speaking only about India; this did not happen in most of Africa)
Mother country? Investment? Show me that place in history where capital flowed in to a colony.
A nice overview of physical and virtual memory
Thanks for the feedback - yep, I didn't make it clear but improvements to search and an activity feed are all high up the to-do list (the activity feed - which showcases blog posts from people you follow, and from the posts that they recommend - is actually mostly built, but needs to be implemented elegantly). Search could definitely do with some improvement, I'm not happy with how that works/looks at the moment.

Thanks again for the feedback - really appreciate it.
True, but that's basically the same situation that you have right now.
This may be a bit facetious but it seems like Windows 8 might have been the biggest beta testing project ever.

But on a serious note I'm glad they're focusing on improving usability.
Show HN: A quicker way to author Impressive presentations
One of the phrases that changed my world view was "waste in transit".

You know those dollar stores full of crap toys, plastic bibs and bobs, screwdrivers that will strip after two uses, etc?

All those things are on their way to the landfill, they just happen to briefly pass through someone's house first...
Re: "The industrial design is solid, and though it is being manufactured in small batches, it has the build quality you might expect from something being mass-produced."

I expect high quality from hand produced jewelry, art, etc. Knowing nothing else, I wouldn't expect high build quality and beauty from handmade consumer electronics. I assumed the OP was just saying that it doesn't look like a prototype or hack.
Eager Loading with Database Views in Rails
> For example, you'll see as if the frame takes up a portion of the sides, but in reality, there is circuitry hidden behind it--by looking at it you'd never know.

What?
Yeah I've been playing around with those tools, but they give little insight into how to improve performance on browsers other than chrome.
I agree that the bug should be closed, but it should be closed as INVALID, or perhaps WONTFIX (since Ubuntu certainly won't be the one to fix this 'bug').

Closing it as "Fix Released" doesn't make sense.
The 30 Second Standup
Latitude and longitude based addressing is well-past due. Two around-10-digits decimal coordinates and a building number is all we really need these days.
Thanks - hadn't seen Apptopia before (which, at least on the surface, looks really good).
"Please turn your device sideways to begin recording (press record again to override)"
You don't need the whole sidewalk elevated, just the crossings. Las Vegas is known for this. http://ywwg.com/images/photos/060426-0/P4261565%20crosswalk....
Google’s Macchia
A PC has an infinite number of uses and no company can guarantee that it will meet all those needs. Especially if people make them up after they've made the purchase, and don't specify them beforehand.

Otherwise, you should just be an honest buyer. If you don't want a Windows laptop, don't buy one. It's that simple.
One of my favorite address stories: the Russian Post Office successfully delivered a package with an address hand-written with the wrong character encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Letter_to_Russia_with_kro...
I have two actually, one is a fully functioning designer t-shirt site with inventory, that still is up and produces revenue (1-200$/mo), and the other is a defunct android/iphone/web app, that is b2b (I didn't have to time to sell to business owners w/ a 9-5). Apptopia is one site fwiw, but I have never used it.
Code golfer.
Patient scammer, or a bot which can read captchas and simulate human-like activity and create networks with graphs that overlap realistically. Facebook might catch that a suspicious new community with no previous presence has emerged, though.

On the whole I agree with you. Until the bot I described actually exists, social profiles are a pretty good identity check. No reason not to use them whilst they're still worth something.
The U.S. system is nice in that most people only even need 5 digits. The USPS reduces fees for their large customers that use all 9 digits, so they still end up with the majority of their mail being very specific, while those just sending a letter to a relative can just use the 5-digit code and let the destination post office take care of re-sorting it before delivery.
In fact, almost all the World was forgotten, they have only Europe and USA cities. :(
Exactly !
We are less mature, but we have a very different approach.

1/ cozy is a PaaS : plateform as a service : you develop in your language (node.js, ruby, pthon... only node for now) and your app is automatically deployed on the user's instance (if he ask to, of cours :-)

2/ data are shared among the apps : several apps can require access to your photo, contacts or mails or whatever : your apps are collaborating like on your smartphone.
I agree about the Mozilla connection.

It's also interesting that SEOMoz filed for the Moz trademark back in August 2011, so this has been under consideration for a while and it's already been published for review and is live. So if it this bothers the Mozilla folks, at this point it may be difficult for them to contest (IANAL).
Again would love to do it. Will keep it in mind for next year. I mainly was wondering re Perth as I have family there :)
Cozy a personal cloud you can host, hack, and delete

Cozy brings you a personal cloud platform. Store your data in a place you control and leverage it with personal web applications.

Photos, mails, notes, contacts, todos... there's already many applications. Extend the possibility by developing your own app, you can leverage existing features!

Cozy is open-source and you can self-host it. Cozy is privacy-friendly. Alternatively, if you don't want to self-host, check out our hosting solutions.

This should have been expanded by default. Didn't even notice the little (+) expanders at first.
That is indeed a very good analogy.
I think there real questions here are:

1) How long have you been insane?

2) Static or Dynamic typing?
A Look at Reducing Noise in Photographs Using Median Blending
I don't think it's the 1% market share that's their biggest problem. The problem is that Microsoft isn't competitive as an ecosystem. Bing search, Hotmail, whatever Microsoft has for music or maps etc. are not what people are using. Yahoo is doing more to attract and retain ecosystem users.

Or look at it this way: It's not about selling a phone OS. It's about the ecosystem behind the devices.
I think this is the crux of the issue - should the web be a general purpose platform? Or do we draw a line somewhere and say some tasks, like watching protected video isn't something it should be doing. Personally I think all video consumption is a good fit for the web, it's seem awkward to split protected and unprotected video.
I think people ought to look past current mobile/platform way of doing things. I think there should be a second wave coming of net/webapp integrated OS in the near future.

For one I am very displeased that I have three choices of web, html5(ie phone gap apps) and native platforms. I think web should seamlessly integrate into the mobile OS. At this point most of mobile OS software has been debugged and worked out. But web is still not the desktop on the mobile device. I think there is still an enormous place for innovation that can make appstore like infrastructure irrelevant.

Ubuntu can fix that, that would be a huge plus.
You also need to know that there’s the potential for a fairly major .gitignore bug on OS X: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/2256...

Homebrew backed out 1.8.3 because of this.
You can link your bank account with Venmo, and then use Venmo Payouts: https://venmo.com/payouts
A good friend of mine had an amazing experience showing what blind people are capable of. He overheard a middle aged man who had obviously been blind for a long time schooling a young girl who had recently gone blind on how to get around. They were standing on one side of the road in a quiet neighborhood, and the man was teaching the girl how to assess the distance across the road. The way he did this was absolutely incredible: tap the cane on the curb, and you can hear the echo from the curb and buildings across the road. With experience you can hear how far it is.
I only find this sad, while everyone goes mobile Ubuntu could have stayed with a focus on desktop and maybe become dominant in that market, at least for developers. Desktop computers won't die since it's the platform of choice when producing software, digital media etc.
Apple Shifts Supply Chain Away From Foxconn to Pegatron
My rights as a paying user should be one (and it is a very nice one I admit) among other features that make the user experience of pixter awesome. Instead, I land on pixter.in and I see 6 bullet points all focused on this one feature, as if Pixter had nothing else to offer.
If JS sent by server has access to your key, then by that proxy the server has access to the key too. The security is equivalent to having key stored in encrypted form and decrypted only for the duration of the session/use and the password not being stored on the server.
5 years from now most of the currently installed PCs will be gone, and many of them will be replaced by tablets. Will those tablets be running iOS, Android, or Windows?
This also happens in iTunes. Is it really that big of a problem? Why would you need to screenshot something you're watching? The OP doesn't say why he wanted to take the screenshot.

Also, does anyone know the reason Mac OS does this?
Blind people I know use the verb themselves — and joke about it.
Same in Knechtsteden, near Dormagen. It's a former cloister, currently a school, and has no street name in its address.
Imagine a world where a little eye stares balefully at you from above your TV. If it sees what it thinks is a recording device, say a phone or a video camera pointed at the TV, it turns the screen off until you lower your device.

Kinect the dots. Say goodbye to your living rooms sovereignty.
Bug #1
#open -> #won't fix
If by Skyline you mean Highline, then IMO it's quite different. It's not a purpose-build walkway, it's a disused railway converted into what I'd rather describe as an extreme elongated park than anything particularly optimised for pedestrian traffic.
also happens when you try to view iTunes movies or shows while controlling your Mac with a remote desktop connection.

super annoying.