skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me be the only one who thinks this is actually not a bad idea. I have a very typical name, very commonly used and if almost on every popular email service (gmail, hotmail, yahoo), I've tried registering a few varieties of my first.last@gmail.com or even first.last.birthyear@gmail.com and it's almost always taken.

If you think your identity could be stolen because of an unused email address, it might be your fault that's going to happen. Why would you register with an inactive email address and not check it? Email address seem like the main way for most people to login, if you have multiple, you must at least check them for something once every six months.

This announcement only says that they will remove those that haven't logged into their account in the last 12 months. Seems like a very long time in internet time.
Why is this racist juvenility the top rated comment in this thread?
Really this post helpful and inspiring. As a long time developer/tinkerer who has struggled at times to find good designer help, I'm inspired to spend some time seeing if I can get back into doing my own designs. At the very least, I bought the first book in your list!
They are also getting the branding and employees, which I would imagine are where most of the worth is.

Also, the MakerBot Replicator 2, which has sold more units than all previous models combined, is mostly not at all opensource.
In Seattle, it's interesting to see Downtown a sea of Blackberrys surrounded by iPhones. More Blackberrys and iPhones in Bellevue. Like you said, UW is another cluster of iPhones and so is Seatac airport. But the rest of the area is Android.

Tacoma looks just like the surrounding region, despite being WA state's 2nd largest city (tied with Spokane).
Staples is selling a 3d printer.

My guess is that Stratasys needs something on the low end, and quickly to insure that they still exist in a few years.
Only Firefox uses a separate special interpreter (Odin Monkey) for asm.js - Chrome's asm.js improvements come from optimizing the same V8 JS pipeline. Having a separate compilation pipeline can be viewed as a disadvantage since any optimizations for speeding up asm.js doesn't improve JS performance: http://mrale.ph/blog/2013/03/28/why-asmjs-bothers-me.html

> It will still not be comparable to asm.js, because asm.js runs in all browsers without the site author having to do anything

Dart web apps will continue to run in all browsers just as it runs today through Dart2JS, it even has great source maps support which lets you debug native Dart code even though it's running transpiled JS. There's nothing special the "author" would have to do, it already exists as part of the project template, e.g. if the browser has a Dart VM it will run the Dart code natively, otherwise it will run the Dart2JS version. Since some Dart benchmarks http://www.dartlang.org/performance/ show Dart2JS outperforming handwritten JS in V8 even with the overhead of different semantics, I'm assuming that Dart2JS compiles to efficient JS that developers wouldn't write.

> because asm.js runs in all browsers

runs is a technically interesting term, there are some asm.js demos that you would not attempt to run without asm.js specific optimizations (i.e. not Firefox) since it would be unusably slow. This is visible in the Epic Citadel http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/ flagship asm.js demo where it needs a Firefox Nightly release to run. The demo doesn't let you run it in IE10 and whilst it lets you try run it in the latest Chrome, but it crashes.

Even Firefox ended up reverting a correction fix (deviating from their JS SpiderMonkey VM) in OdinMonkey because it would invalidate its type checker and cause this demo to run with their normal (i.e. unoptimized asm.js) JS engine: https://plus.google.com/111090511249453178320/posts/cr4jTsfx...

So whilst it can in theory technically still run since its "just JavaScript", it can currently be either a broken, or unusable experience if you don't use Firefox.
There are advantages and disadvantages. (I live and work in the Sierra foothills, I've organized a local group of fellow hackers, I've been working on building a startup community here.)

For me, the foremost advantage has to be lack of traffic. Nearly all of the essentials here are a 5 minute drive or less. The traffic flows well. The locals complain about a "traffic jam" somewhere if they have to wait in line at an intersection for more than thirty seconds. It seems like a silly, minor thing, until you've lived here for a while and then go back to southern California or the Bay Area for a bit.

It's fairly peaceful here. You can get a beautiful home, with no neighbors in sight, surrounded by trees and tranquility, for a fraction of the cost of such a thing elsewhere. This has a huge effect on stress. I live "downtown" -- literally a stone's throw from main street -- and I can still sit in my backyard and code in the sunshine and have it be fairly quiet and distraction-free.

There are farmers' markets and lots of other great community events. There's a sense of community, overall, that isn't really present in metropolitan areas.

It's 45 minutes from one of the Pacific Crest trailheads, if you need to get away. Or, drive for 20 minutes to one of the local rivers and relax in the water for a bit.

There are downsides though. There's a perception that there just isn't any talent here, and that makes some things difficult. There is talent, but not in the quantity you'd find in Palo Alto or Chicago or New York. We recently had an incubator / funding group meeting, where a member related that an investor told them directly that he'd never fund anything from our area code.

Some of the residents are a little ... odd. That's the case everywhere, but they're a little more noticeable here. They write lots of letters to the local newspaper. Our regional Craigslist is embarrassing.

We have some fantastic people that work hard on bringing culture to our area. We've had some big names performing at the hall across the street from my house. Bill Cosby, this week. A couple of really good theater companies. A local top-notch juggling club. Ultimate frisbee. We're one of the top downhill mountain bike destinations in the world (supposedly). We've got a great concert group that brings in talent from around the world. (I got to see violinist Stefan Jackiw play, it was indescribably beautiful.) Still, we're a bit short on "culture" -- art museums, ballet, clubs, that sort of thing.

Overall, I much prefer it to urban living. But, it lacks the image and style associated with the hubs of activity in metropolitan areas, so I expect it's difficult to convince people to move.

If anyone's interested in re-locating to about an hour from Sacramento, please feel free to contact me. I'm close to a number of local business groups, and I've just started building a partnership with a nearby capital network. I've been here for long enough now to know where a lot of great stuff is. I'd be happy to give you a tour and some introductions.
That's going to be the next step for these as requests come in for images of low aspect ratio which generally just become resized smaller instead of cropped around a face.
That being said, transit doesn't operate in a vacuum. Problems like homelessness aren't going to be addressed by only one sector, because every sector can say "it's not my problem".
How much would it have cost them to save the old hard drives on 600 servers? Not much.

over $100,000 based on a very conservative and unrealistic estimate only factoring in the cost of removing and installing 600 hard drives.
Death March and Software Failure
What are the features the PS4 has that are missing on the Xbox One? Genuine question.
Does the Apple Developer NDA Still Make Sense?
Google does encrypt user data at rest. The problem is that they also have the decryption keys. They need to be able to see the data in plain text in order to target ads and improve their services. That's their entire business models. So, there is pretty much zero chance that Google will ever "implement some real encryption and decentralization in its services." If we want a Search Engine/Email Provider/Video Sharing Service/Thousand Other Things Google Does that is decentralized and encrypted client-side, it would have to be built by a different company or community with a different mission and profit model.
I dont think you understood what i said. The codes are transparent if someone is connected to the Internet. The reason I added them is to add functionality. Also, I would suggest a pure digital copy shuld probably have more permissive digital lending features as a selling point, but there is no reason not to add them for a "loaded" game.
Console won't boot without it plugged in.

It's also not clear if there will be a physical power button, meaning the only way to turn the damn thing on will be for Kinect to hear the phrase "Xbox On", meaning stuffing it in a cupboard won't be a particularly effective idea.
I agree - we (New Relic) have left the install process up to the plugin authors. Hence, plugin installation effort varies widely ; )

In the future you are likely to see some improved installation options, however because you can truly monitor _anything_ with New Relic plugins (at least, for now, anything that emits or can be made to emit time-series numerical data) it is unrealistic to expect that there will be only one, consistent install experience for everything.

In other words, installing the plugin agent to monitor your MongoDB will probably always be different from installing the plugin agent to monitor your John Deere tractor.
Probe launched into TWA Flight 800 crash
Hello Sandy,

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which does not show any payment detail except your Credit Card type and last 4 digits on
the card, is to know the exact order number and email address.

Closing this ticket, because new tickets for each order, requesting a vendor authorization
for refunds have been opened. These orders are 116 days old and ClickBank.com is not able
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I'm not saying it's not possible (business-wise) as a product offering, I'm just saying there's not really any point to webmail at that point. You can pay Google to be an SMTP gateway and encrypted mail backup now, true, but there's no difference between that and any other email provider at that point, except maybe uptime. No web interface, no search, no spam filtering, no label filtering, no Google Now interaction. Those are all the reasons I like gmail, so I'm not sure about the point of it if those are gone. Just go client-side at that point; at least you'd be able to search your email. And if you're using an email client, you don't need (and probably don't want) google to provide content encryption.

As for the browser side of things, it seems like it would be much much better not to rely on google, but to write a browser extension that identifies the gmail textbox and runs some version of PGP using a private key in your OS/lastpass/whatever keychain. The main thing you'd want to do is somehow isolate the input textbox from the page so that keystrokes only go to the extension, and only the encrypted data goes into the page, preferably when the Send button is pressed.

If Google were to be technically capable of decrypting your email so they can show it to you in a browser, and you're a target for an investigation (a narrow one or an overly broad NSA one), why on earth would the court order/warrant not demand that they decrypt your email to show them, too?
Last versions of Spark has ability to do stream processing. http://spark-project.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-g...
This assumes that people mostly phone-tweet from their home, and not, let's say, from work or restaurants or clubs.
Any stories you can share? I'd love to hear more.
I emailed Twitter four years ago with such a request, and got this response:

> Twitter is not currently releasing inactive user names. Unless your user name issue involves Terms of Service violations, you'll have to wait until all inactive user names are released. We're working on a better long term solution for this, and we should have more news soon.

Four years later, the username I want(ed) has had no more activity, and that "long term solution" is nowhere to be seen.
And the difference between using an unmanned drone and a manned helicopter is...?
There is basecamp's breeze. For some reasons, it's shutting down August though. basecamp.com/breeze
Meditation Isn't Just About Inner Peace – in the Valley It's About Getting Ahead
> Looks like they're still going to struggle with the Kinect privacy concerns

I can't help but wonder. Of all of the issues with the XB1, that one seems like my candidate for biggest disconnect between what people say online and what popular perception actually is. I know I don't care, nor do any of my gamer friends, nor my brother.
Sony has certainly done some heinous things in the past, but so has Microsoft. So, pick your poison.
If the surveillance is continual --- none of your examples appear to be but presumably continual surveillance is the desire of the government -- then it isn't practical, as we have seen historically, to have policy prevent bad uses.

Some tools enable such terrible things that whatever good they may also do is inconsequential.
Maybe they just took the servers that were used for/labeled as email or other corporate purposes and left the storage farm that had all the content on? Assuming a segmented network I would think all the corporate servers were on one network (possibly all in the same racks) that was probably obviously labeled and the storage servers were identical arrays on another network.
1) I don't buy that somehow gaming is a price fixing scheme. SNES games were $80 and that was 20 years ago. Market forces affect prices, and the used game market is a large market force.

2) "Re-authenticate every 24 hours" does not imply decent, always-on Internet. Most of the U.S. can re-authenticate every 24 hours. And those who are in the small minority that cannot should not prevent everyone else from the benefits of being able to digitally share their games with others. On military bases and space stations there can always be a special edition XBone that doesn't require connectivity and only plays discs with some software tweaks. Now, instead, we all lose.

3) The point about lugging it around was not the weight, it's the fact in 2013 there are use cases where a disc is the only way to do something, in this case, sharing a game. My lapto and iPad don't have disc drives and I haven't bought a game on a DVD in about 10 years.
You can add alerts on summary metrics - and you can have up to five summary metrics on a plugin.

If you are consuming a published plugin, you get alerts on whatever summary metrics the plugin author selected. If you are authoring a plugin, you can pick up to five metrics to be your summary metrics, then you can create alert thresholds on those metrics.
This assumes many things. Too many.
Ad-Blocking Extension Ghostery Actually Sells Data to Advertisers
Would it surprise you that a person might take a 30-minute bus ride to avoid a 15-minute walk? Wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah, $100 less Netflix netflix free on PS4 and Wii... sorry Microsoft!
"Pew: Everyone Buys Android, Rich, Educated People Buy iPhones"

http://www.wired.com/business/elsewhere/pew-everyone-buys-an...

"Nielsen: Android users slightly less wealthy and less educated than iPhone users."

http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/newswire/2010/iphone-vs-android...

"Report: Rich People Prefer iThings"

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/26/report-rich-people-prefer-i...

"Android Is Popular Because It's Cheap, Not Because It's Good"

http://gizmodo.com/5977625/android-is-popular-because-its-ch...

"RJI Mobile Media News Consumption Survey: iPhone users richer & better-educated than Android users"

http://www.androidauthority.com/are-iphone-users-richer-bett...

"Forrester: iPhone users are more educated and affluent"

http://appleinsider.com/articles/09/06/12/new_study_shows_ip...
I'm not all that thrilled about this. I wanted to see where Microsoft would go with this. It would have been great if we could transition to a pricing and distribution model similar to Steam. I saw this as a step towards weening console players off of physical media.
Know anyone who needs an iOS developer in Tahoe?
Perhaps there is the odd hippie selling homegrown ganja out of his greenhouse who has never been in a fight in his life, but drug gangs control a massive amount of the trade from production to distribution and are certainly happy to use violence if required.

Violence may not be required however in cases where everyone is already scared witless of them. Drug crime and other crime go hand in hand.

If you legalize drugs completely , then serious businesses run by people with MBAs , Venture capital, marketing teams, legal departments etc come into the game. Rather than street level violence, battles are not fought in patent courts and with government lobbying.

Those who are currently dealing drugs don't know how to play this game and will lose.

They can't go and get a straight job because they have no provable work history, probably a criminal record and few contacts outside of the "underworld".
They also have become accustomed to a lifestyle of nice cars and (possibly multiple) high maintenance girlfriends, so McDonalds isn't going to cut it.

So they will look for other lucrative opportunities where the MBAs don't want to compete with them (because it is illegal).
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I highly recommend people who find 1984 and Brave New World interesting also read Jules Verne's lost novel "Paris in the 20th Century". It's dystopian in an entirely different way. It talks not about the extremes of state-based censorship from 1984 or of the indifference of the blissed-out citizens of Brave New World but the far more realistic likelihood of rampant self-censorship. Of culture which willingly bends itself to what amounts to the same thing as oppression.
Free games with PS+, working online in my country, and more.
Here in Miami we have a free trolley (school bus size) system that extends along the greater downtown areas and some of the northern and southern suburbs. They are extremely clean and I VERY rarely see homeless on it (we have a rather large population too), I've been picked up at stops where homeless, also waiting (or trying to sleep), people didn't even attempt to get on board. In contrast, our free light rail system is full of homeless. they just ride all day 'cause its air conditioned and unmanned with few security patrols (they mainly utilize cameras on board and at stations).
Perhaps this case maybe the solution is for a harsh rule system and driver enforcement, if they're too dirty/smelly don't let them on, and/or kick them off after X number of stops. I'm not sure what the policies are here, I base my assumptions on the way I've seen driver yell at patrons to pick up their trash etc. it seems like they actually care about the trolley.
>We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds.

I know this has almost no chance of being the reason for the usage of the phrase "best of both worlds".

I posted this in a HN thread about xbox one.

>So the PS4 is Steam for consoles with offline support. Best of both worlds.

Thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876761

Comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5878200

:-)
Not everyone has a Galaxy S{2,3,4}. "Android" phones are pretty routinely available free-with-contract and with limited plans these days. This isn't mapping high end smartphone users with iPhone-equivalent handsets. It's showing you that Apple has nothing to sell into poorer demographics, but that those demographics still want smartphones.
Weren't games supposed to run partly on the cloud ?
they COULD have, but why WOULD they?

> During the year we stored the servers and the data, we received no request for access nor any request to retain the data
> If you use the national ID for it, the encumbrance is still there.

But its not there if you use driver-operated counters combined with random audits against the already-present in-vehicle surveillance cameras.

Or, probably any of large number of other alternatives that don't rely on the rider carrying a payment/identity/etc. card to get the free ride.
How shedding DRM in the Xbox One will benefit Microsoft
Google's chief legal officer denies company is 'in cahoots with NSA'
You'd like to see NetScaler monitored by a New Relic plugin? Great - build it! If NetScaler makes it easy to get out metrics (SNMP?) then writing a plugin might take only a day or less.
> Only Firefox uses a separate special interpreter (Odin Monkey) for asm.js

Not true, Firefox uses OdinMonkey, which type checks the code, but then optimizes it using IonMonkey, the exact same pipeline all JS code uses.

> runs is a technically interesting term, there are some asm.js demos that you would not attempt to run without asm.js specific optimizations (i.e. not Firefox) since it would be unusably slow. This is visible in the Epic Citadel http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/ flagship asm.js demo where it needs a Firefox Nightly release to run.

This is simply false. You can run the Epic Citadel demo in Chrome (dev runs ok on my machine for example) and non-nightly versions of Firefox.

It is true that the Epic website recommends Firefox Nightly, that is outdated and it should definitely be removed.
Reposting my earlier comment on the other thread that went off front page:

They should rename the Xbox One to the Xbox 180, it would be a perfect name!

On a more serious note, I don't like this rollback. It only goes to show how the witchhunt and echo chamber on Reddit worked. Even before the reveal, Microsoft was falsely accused of trying to game Reddit and everyone flew off the handle over someone pretty much lying to be a troll. Say the word "DRM" and you get bucketloads of Reddit karma and posts pointing out the facts(forget about posts taking the opposing view or opinion) were downvoted into oblivion by the angry mob.

And then there was the bad timing on the NSA leaks, which didn't help at all. Everyone has smartphones, laptops and tablets with cameras and mics which could be watching and listening and Apple/Google were part of the leak, but it was Microsoft that was singled out for proposing a device that could turn on itself, and had numerous safeguards to configure privacy if you wanted to.

All this doesn't excuse the fact that Microsoft utterly and totally failed in communicating their message in a proper manner in E3 and handed Sony an easy victory on a silver platter. For example, they failed to highlight how it fixes the problem of scratched and lost discs and how inconvenient it is to change discs to switch between games. I know a lot of people with huge DVD collections who watch the same movie on Netflix because they can't be bothered to put in a disc into the player.

They were touting the ability to play another game while waiting for people to join another multiplayer game, now that will be inconvenient with having to switch disks.

I guess it was easy to roll this back because it was not Microsoft but publishers and game developers that were going to reap the benefits of diskless gaming because Gamestop etc. skim off the value of older games and leave publishers with not much value. Once the public failed to see the advantages and blamed Microsoft for a power grab that was not going to really benefit them all that much, it was game over.