skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, prices are not stupid. You didn't think through the whole problem.

The issue of cost and incentive with this kind of revolutionary innovation is real. The problem is simple. When you innovate, you bear alone the fixed cost of development while your competitors can copy and bear only the marginal cost. That's the reason the patent system exists and normally that's fine.

But, for a revolutionary invention, patents might not be feasible. Imagine you find a cure to cancer. Do you really think every governments and public opinion are going to let you be the sole producer for 30 years while people are dying ? Impossible. This creates a disincentive to push money towards a cure for private investor. Now, the idea behind a price is that if you find the cure, the price is going to cover your fixed cost (ideally more) thus investing is competitive again. Technically, as it fosters competition and you will only reimburse the finder, it supposed to generate more research than just spending the price money. Putting money aside for this kind of price was one of the main goal of the Bill and Monica Gates Foundation when it was founded (I think, they went back a bit because people wrongly assume its wasted money).
Link bait title but I upvoted anyways because the tent concept was unique and pretty cool.
Considering that the One has an AMD GPU, one might wonder why a dev kit would use Nvidia.
This poll is all over the place, which reflects the fact that this issue is currently stuck in a weird place. The fact is that these programs are in direct opposition with what most people believed were American ideals, and are probably unconstitutional. However, Obama's liberal base is pretty rabid and will basically stick with him regardless of what he does, and Republicans have a natural inclination toward strong defense. Since NSA has associated these programs with terrorism (although they go far beyond that), Republicans can't come out strongly against them either. I will hand it to Obama's political strategists: they have spun this in a way that their opposition cannot meaningfully oppose them without betraying their own ideals.

Case in point, Question 17:

"Do you think the Obama administration has gone too far, has been about right, or has not gone far
enough in restricting people's civil liberties in order to fight terrorism?"

Too far 43% |
About right 38% |
Not far enough 17% |
No opinion 1%

55% say it's either "not far enough" or "about right" - while the same report shows that 61% disapprove of "Government surveillance of American citizens". The same question asked two different ways yielded vastly different responses. The media (the majority of whom are Obama supporters) have managed to confuse the public and make this less about the fact that a modern KGB has been built, and more about whether or not people believe that Obama has good intentions with these programs.
I wonder if prices will be transparent enough and 'equalized' enough that you might even be able to shop around for the cheapest country to get a number in.
They'll perform even poorer against the zombie lawyers when one of these fails midsleep but the kid in me still loves the idea of a mobile tree fort.
VP9 Codec Now Enabled By Default In Chrome
If those prices are correct then the auctions are priced at less then the price of land, material, and labor. In this day and age it's very difficult to construct a single family home for less than $60K. Unless you are using cheap material, microscopic plots, and a lot of unskilled labor.

The banks are willing to take a bath on their own profit to please private equity investors? That doesn't add up.
I guess it does not otherwise they would not ask it :)

I guess it's just cultural. I'm not German so I can't answer more than that.

As for France (I'm French but I was not working in France for the past 6 years), I have the impression it's just a trend that comes and goes.
When I tried to build the project I got a linker error, but running the prebuilt iso (linked in the readme) with qemu worked just fine. A very impressive project!

Edit: The link error is probably just a stupid mistake on my part; I was trying to build on a 64-bit machine. It doesn't seem to have any problems on 32 bit.
At this time, we do not seek to be partners with a startup. This may change in the future but at this point, we will develop the app with no strings attached. We will certainly use our in-house libraries but we place no restrictions on the re-usage of that code. Anyone can use it as they please but your team cannot claim proprietary rights to our in-house standard libraries.

So if your app reaches #1 in the iTunes app store, your company/team would retain all the profits and never have to mention that we developed your M.V.P. That should be covered in http://www.fullstack360.com/site/faq but it can be edited if people don't think it is clear enough.
How can this happen? the Daily Mail tells me nothing good comes from membership of the EU!!
What's obvious by this article is that large cities are in a constant state of flux. Picking a particular moment and bemoaning or applauding the current state is obviously a relatively futile exercise. Perhaps we should modify that famous weather statement "If you don't like the state of your major city just wait 10 years"
GitHub shows the projects you contribute to, not only the repositories you own.

I would also like to take exception to polluting the open source world. Having more code out there is a good thing. In any case there are already multiple libraries and widgets available for whatever purpose. Maybe some of these will come up with something new?
How do we know you're aroch?
Yep, for some reason they decided it would be ok to delay release and deny pull requests for so much time that many people (myself included) simply wrote their own implementations.
I don't think I'd go that far! It's an added convenience, but my data already moves with me through the EU, since non-phone internet access (coffee shops, libraries, McDonald's, 7-11, hotels, etc.) is pretty widespread.
That's because Tim Bray posted the blog post, after which he read the patch (the comment was submitted today).
Not exactly, either the above or you can live in central London if you are on government benefits - the civic planning here is pretty messed up, I appreciate the idealism of forcibly mixing socio-economic classes by mandating council housing be placed amidst regular housing in every borough, but it seems insane that it's the workers who are getting pushed further and further out. Not suggesting the unemployed should.
Agreed, if you're smart then living in the south can be financially better. However I would say that my hobbies and interests (road and mountain biking) would be a lot harder in London - I grew up in Essex so appreciate the difference in the north and south - I'm not really interested in the social side of a city so that's another plus point to the north for me but for, many, a big negative compared to London.

A friend of mine recently moved him and his start up from London to Keswick and is loving it - it's all about aligning where you live with whats important to you.

ps. Given the love of football up here (sadly) you'll be needing that foot of yours!
Any good developer kit needs woodscrews...?

EDIT: For anyone not getting the reference, consult the debacle as reported by SemiAccurate (http://semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidia-fakes-fermi-boards...) years ago.
Perhaps it is time for people with incomes lower (and very low assets/net worth) to be able to deduct their rent from their income, the same way mortgage interest is...
Yeah... my grandfather told me these kind of lawsuits were the reason all producers of swings and hammocks went out of business long ago.
Gotta miss the old days.
The main argument is that the qualitative difference was in communication at the speed of human transportation (by horse, rail and sea, not yet by air) versus at the speed of light. For the first time in human history, events around the world could be known effectively instantaneously. Everything after that was an increase in the quantity of information.
Because the point whether or not you believe they care about the content, or are cynical and assume it is just about their traffic, is to get maximum mileage out of it. And the way to do that is to drag it out.

If they dumped everything at once, a lot of it would get drowned out by a small number of the most interesting revelations.
Bollocks to that. You would prefer we remain hamstrung with expensive finite dire polluting energy sources so we can keep the vast majority of humanity stuck in poverty? A pox on your thought processes.
The Security-Industrial Complex
If you are being angry at Apple, Google, Microsoft and others for being dishonest about managing your data, you are being dishonest yourself.

I'll admit to being disappointed, but I will say this: I'm not angry. What it all boils down to is trust. Do I trust you to keep my sensitive data secure?

Given the recent events and disclosures we've had regarding the exteme over-reach of the US intelligence agencies, it's very easy for me to say: No, I don't. Not anymore.

I cannot trust any US-based, US-operated or operated-elsewhere-US-owned subsidiary to keep my data secure.

That's not your fault, but it is your problem, because I will be taking my data and business elsewhere. And you cannot regain my trust until your country improves its privacy outlook, so for your own sake, I would start lobbying if you already haven't.
Zombie accountants, lawyers, medical personnel, soap opera actors, and I smell a market. There should be a zombie channel that mimics current shows with zombie based shows. Any duplicated zombie-based shows would instead show zombies being chased by people. The zombies just want to (un)live?
Cool idea--probably will end up using at a hackathon sooner or later.

Performance on Iceweasel 20.0 is pretty janky, though. :(

EDIT: Chrome 27.0.1453.110 runs it fine.
> It doesn't say "information was requested" or "information was provided" for only 9,000-10,000 devices but that only that number were specified.

Actually, it does say that: "were specified in those requests".
Will have to read up on this X-gene stuff.

I said microarchitecture because ARMv8 is incremental over ARMv7 and not a from the ground up design, but you're right its an architecture. I think the terms are used interchangeably. Implementing 64 bit is a big leap but since its also backwards compatible, it carries improved/specialized ARMv7 components and instruction set (and X-gene and other custom cores per manufacture/microarchiture).
Zombies, Run on smartwatches and Google Glass? Don't rule it out
He visited HK with his girlfriend, so perhaps the simple truths is (beyond all the reasons listed in the article) that he had a personal relationship with the place. Logic and planning is great, but humans are quite affective, a notion that shouldn't be discarded.

By choosing HK, he "kinda" knew what he was getting into. Comfort.
Whether the NSA is capable of rewinding this undersea data stream is an interesting question indeed. I had always thought managing that much information would be impossible, but now days one cannot be sure of anything.
Ford to bring back physical radio controls for frustrated touchscreen users
Worldwide IBM layoffs continue to progress
That's such an uninformed answer it's funny.

Yes, let's rip all the center of Paris and build 100 floor buildings because there's something magical about that specific longitude-latitude.

Paris is attractive because of several factors, one of them their architecture.

If you're just there for a fancy apartment you can look elsewhere. You rarely need to be there.

(but yes, swapping old buildings is something there may be a case for)
Google's Director of Engineering Says Immortality Within Near Future
Dropbox has an official Linux-client. I think the poster was complaining about the fact that there are no jottacloud-client for Linux. Which for me too is a show-stopper.

In that regard Owncloud[1] looks like a better option, but that again lacks mobile clients.

[1] http://owncloud.org/sync-clients/
Visual Website Optimizer
Why do you care unless he's making statements which depend on his authoritative experience, as Snowden is doing?

The real question is why Snowden needs a secure internet connection, seeing as how everyone knows (1) who he is (2) where he is and (3) it's a public Q&A so the idea is for everyone to hear what he says.

Were he really concerned about tampering, the more important issue would be distributing an authenticated public key to prove his responses weren't being quickly edited in flight. Which popping on and offline...doesn't really assure anyone about.
Is cable holding back superfast broadband adoption on purpose?
It actually would be better for the apologists to come out and say that you want the government to have carte blanche access to all of our information. At least it's honest and doesn't waste people's time in these trivial non-debates about peripheral non-issues.

OTOH, of course, that posture is all the more stupefying. Which "truth", exactly, is so important that we should all be willing to give up our privacy?

And, how is it that you find it so easy to trust our government with such power? After all, if it is untoward human beings who make truth-finding so difficult that these drastic, privacy-defiling measures are necessary, then why do you have so much trust for other fallible human beings to wield this power?
It seems that you haven't traveled to Germany yet. Public Wifi is barely available because of legal risks and hotels still try to charge you something like 10 euro for a day of internet access. When I went to Dublin in Ireland the situation was almost as bad.
A TDD zealot is the most annoying kind of developer. More at eleven.
Furthermore, Java is quite happy to let you do COLS[1] = "Green". All that is constant about that array is the reference.
Edward, do you believe winning the Nobel Peace Prize would help get the hunter-killers off your back?
Grunt task for Browserify v2.
The Steve Jackson game "Toon" is the best game to start kids around the age of 9 or 10. The first few chapters put the GM and the player through a very quick "boot camp" that gets a game circle up and running.
I think it's a bit of a strech to think that PRISM is anywhere close to becoming a political issue in Australia. The general consensus seems to be that 'it's an American thing' and doesn't in anyway affect us, despite some suggestion that it may
I don't know, maybe because an anonymous user is casting dispersions on the authenticity of someone who has very much put themselves forward as a real identity?
He wasn't a musician who became a physicist. He was already a physicist, who took some time off to play with a band.
Can Bitcoin make peace with Washington?
Show HN: Sketch interactive Wireframes with pentotype
There's also an demographic dynamic at play unmentioned in the article. Unfortunately, in Atlanta the racial makeup of the neighborhood has a lot to do with the value of the house.
Getting Started With Google’s Dart Language
While there's some merit to what you're saying -- you're advocating an arbitrage, since you make more money developing for clients and can hire people for much less you still have money left over. But keep in mind the passion and dedication it takes to make a great product and know that you might not get that when simply hiring someone for less money than you make.
The old-money lifestyle is _designed_ to sit back, enjoy, and let the investment bankers handle the rest- exactly what she's doing so they're not parasites, they're living an elite's way of life. If you would get closer to her she would produce a lot of good times and memories. Just because you will travel, stay in the house and read more doesn't mean someone is going to sit down and become an inventor / iterator like you. Her view is that the whole world is working for her, and drugs are her way of coping with what she's missing. What's wrong with that? A decent amount of the elites believe that, what are you going to do- sit there and be proud of your humble life- right? Chill. There's no point of being envious and no point for me being an apologist but if it bothers you so much become one of her investment bankers.
The telcos make a small fortune every time a business traveller runs up thousands of Euros/Pounds/etc (often at the expense of their employer's shareholders). It's not surprising if the telcos increase everyone's fees a bit if this money is no longer coming in.

And I'm fine with that. Overall, it means previously underutilised capacity will finally be used. 99% of people were unable to use all mobile broadband when abroad, despite it being cheap and abundant. Now they can.
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

Now, as a European citizen based on a little island called Great Britain, I just hope our short sighted little-Englander politicians don't pull us out of the European Union.
For others who might be interested, compilation works fine in Ubuntu 12.04 after `apt-get install build-essential nasm qemu`. If you install libsdl and libsdl-dev you can run the reference version written in C which runs significantly faster.

It's indeed an impressive project, doubly so as it was initally only for a university project. Instead of just making a game in assembly he made the project his own by extending it -- bootable, raytaced, raytraced shadow, textures and so on! =]
> Right, let's raze all historical cities, and build stell and glass cubes.

If redevelopment were generally allowed in cities like Paris and New York some of ugliest, least unique buildings would tend to get replaced with something newer and possibly better. And fifty or a hundred years later some of those new buildings would themselves also be prized by preservationists.

People HATED the Eiffel Tower when it was first proposed. Some even hated it after it was built. (de Maupassant: “this tall skinny pyramid of iron ladders, this giant and disgraceful skeleton.”)

Don't be like those people.

> And while we're at it, let's burn a few books and paintings too...

The traditionalist position here makes us burn all the potential new books and paintings, because we already have enough copies of the old ones to fill the library. Better to keep a hundred copies of an old book than 99 copies of the old book and one copy of a new one, right?
Of course my examples cannot fit the ethics of everybody, there is no absolute ethics. That does not make the examples invalid. They went meant to help the reader understand my point of view, not necessarily share it.

I won't advocate the destruction of ant colonies in forests because for ecological reasons, not because of individual ant suffering.

To me there are ecological and moral reasons why you should not destroy ant colonies. I am aware that not everybody agrees.

Regarding the drone strikes: whether videos of the strikes are also used for entertainment is irrelevant here, as long as it is not part of the motivation behind performing the strikes.

I don't think motivations factor into it at all. A death is a death.

I don't know what you are getting at here. Are you seriously suggesting that shooting people for fun is morally equivalent to shooting them for a good reason?
[Optical] Fiber Tapping: Used by US since 9/11
A simple S3 hosted site.
It's open source, allright. Free Software is the term you are looking for.
I recently tried to get back into Selenium for a work-related project and, despite its frustrations, it is one my favorite open source gems I found in the last several years. When showing it uninitiated web devs their heads almost exploded from joy and amazement. Your setup with Selenium intrigued me since the pain point for me has become how difficult it is to maneuver some browsers with Selenium IDE to throw together ideas, if that is even encouraged anymore.
The X Prize was only for $10m dollars:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Prize_Foundation
You're not going to learn enough of any HDL in a 100 page tutorial to be particularly proficient in it anyway. Trying to explain the quirks of VHDL in a short tutorial would be a nightmare. The result would inevitably be skipping over stuff rather than explaining it. Coming from a software-development background, once you get into the higher-level aspects of writing VHDL (and I'd assume Verilog, although I have no experience with it) there's a lot of fundamental mistakes you can make in your understanding of how the language is interpreted into hardware. Using their own HDL which doesn't have much more than basic primitives stops people falling into those holes.

In my opinion, the hard part of hardware description is understanding the concepts, not the language used. If you've got a basic understanding of hardware description, the barriers to moving to VHDL or verilog will be much lower. Coming from the other direction, I can see large similarities between the concepts in their HDL and VHDL - the syntax may be slightly different, but the concepts are the same.
What about the fact that apple only supports their hardware for 3-4 years then you're done...
They're probably using some sort of rip-stop material, so you're not likely to cause a catastrophic failure all at once. That said, it looks horribly uncomfortable. The reason hammocks are comfortable is that they cradle you and hold you secure. There also isn't another person rolling around to disturb you. These tents seem like all of the worst features of a hammock without any of the benefits.
Lobbying doesn't solve something like that. For any company, potential problems with a government are more dangerous than losing some of its customers - because government, if it wishes so, can cause this company to lose a lot more money or shut down completely. It's not companies' problem that they are forced to give up your privacy, it is precisely your problem, because you supposedly gave this system of governance legitimacy.
text entry is broken on iOS safari.
PhantomJS is brilliant, but Selenium is a questionable choice for this task. For some reason, the creators of Selenium have decided that passing HTTP status codes back through the API is and always will be outside the scope of their project. So if you request a page and it returns 404 you have no way to find out (other than using crude heuristics). This makes Selenium completely unusable for anything I would have used it for.

Fortunately you can do it by using phantomjs directly instead of going through the Selenium WebDriver API. Maybe one day the phantomjs WebDriver API implementation (ghostdriver) will extend the API to pass HTTP status information back to the caller. Until then, this API is unusable (at least for me).
If you use this, me and my Firefox mobile will hate you.

Also: Funny how something which was utterly normal on a C64 (and even more so, the Amiga) back in the 80s is suddenly magically hip after Apple used the word in a keynote about iOS7.
Interesting; I indeed haven't traveled to Germany. The internet situation has been pretty good in the eight European countries I've been to recently, though: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, France. In a number of them the government even provides easy-to-find free internet (any library in Paris or Copenhagen, the main public spaces of Helsinki or Heraklion, and so on).
You can dump everything and then spend the next 6 months going through it with a fine-toothed comb and writing articles daily. Is the public really better served by waiting months to hear everything?
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We don't, but we also don't care. I'm not making substantive claims which impact millions if not billions around the world.
A third of American adults now own tablet computers
It's not companies' problem that they are forced to give up your privacy, it is precisely your problem, because you supposedly gave this system of governance legitimacy.

Just for clarity: I suspect you mistake me for a US citizen. I'm not.
I find it somewhat amusing that he's at least somewhat likely to use Tor, which was developed by the US Naval Research Laboratory.