skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been developing for proprietary and web platforms for a long time too. I really don't see that the rise of mobile is in any way coming at the expense of the web.

Who are these development organizations who truly enjoy maintaining five different apps for all the major desktop and mobile platforms and who are aren't going to make the jump as soon as HTML5 delivers everything they need?

Obviously there will always be applications (antivirus, encryption, etc.) for which a browser is poorly suited. But this percentage will never be bigger than it is today.
Does anyone know if this is actually powered solely by HDMI:

www.roku.com/streamingstick
In the next couple of weeks you might want to look at secure authentication and authorized resource access, scaling, sessions, cross-platform issues, internationalization, adaptive design, etc.

Also might want to revisit some of your existing websites to get some exposure to refactoring, bug fixing, prioritizing feature requests, test based development, performance profiling, etc.
It says the Chromebook Pixel works. I wonder what it is about the Pixel specifically that allows it to work. I imagine a Linux port isn't that far off, but unfortunately I don't have any windows machines left in my house.
There's only one reality, that's rather the point of the word. Web app developers and mobile app developers are different fields, they aren't competing. The web is and will likely remain HTML/CSS/JS because it works: EVERYWHERE, and it doesn't look like that'll be changing anytime soon.
Snowden receives "Whistleblower Prize" in Germany
Free up to 5GB. And after 5GB...?
Intel biggest user of green power in U.S. for fifth year in a row, Microsoft #2
My laptop from several years ago has a 1920x1200 screen. WTF can I get a 7" tablet with one, but not a laptop, in this day and age?!
It depends on the manufacturer and the carrier.

In the particular case of the HTC One, there is a leaked 4.2.2 update (with Sense, not the Google edition) for the international version of the phone that can be safely installed on carrier-specific versions. It will likely be available OTA in a few months.
I should clarify that I mostly use the Remote app and largely find it works well, particularly for searching.

I find the wifi connection between my iPhone and my Apple TV (via an Airport Extreme) is a bit laggy and sometimes drops. I think it would be a much smoother experience if it paired via Bluetooth 4.0. I'm hoping the next Apple TV includes Bluetooth.

The Remote app is much more usable than the Apple TV remote, but the remote has a lot less lag and is easier to move around the interface with. This hasn't stopped me from using my Apple TV several days a week with just the Remote app, but I think that a Bluetooth connection would be much better.
Google donates $600,000 to bring free WiFi to San Francisco parks
I replied to state my disagreement and end my participation to the conversation politely, nothing more.

To which you replied (but edited later):

Okay thanks for pointing out exactly how I typed my
paragraph. Did you offer any sort of rebuttal? No. Stop
being a baby.

This is obviously going nowhere - so yes I'm leaving the discussion.

I'm now back to my regular schedule, arms uncrossed (I rarely cross them, mind you), actually. Have a nice end of day (sincerely).
The government is already misusing its secret surveillance programs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/us/double-secret-surveilla...

Since this is apparently new information to you, I hope you update your risk assessment.

The government misusing secret surveillance isn't conspiracy talk, it's first order incentives. It would be bizarre if the data were NOT being abused. I'm a law and order guy, but federal prosecutors have a well documented history of playing as close to the the line as they can and dancing right over the line when they can get away with it. Since they're now trying to hide the line, this should be fairly scary to rational people.
What is the perfect news product?
I am wary of methodology driven startups vs a great team tackling a general idea/market.

Those aren't mutually exclusive. How about a great team, employing a great methodology, pursuing a general idea?
>The answer is so simple that I'm finding it difficult to believe that you still can't see it.

That the FSF should compromise its entire purpose so Ribbonsoft can save money and avoid duplicating code? I don't think anybody donates to the FSF in order that Ribbonsoft can maintain their business model.
It would appear that both were assigned on Friday, so that is a good sign.
Might as well say "NSA Unveils new Nexus 7 Tablet". Yes, sorry, I am bitter, I know, but I don't want people to forget Google's role in the recent surveillance story.
I noticed my Nexus 7 getting very slow, found this same information, and ran ForeverGone. There was no noticeable improvement. I then did a factory reset. It may have been a bit snappier at first, but within a couple days it was slow again.

Mostly, I noticed jerkiness and lag scrolling web pages. I'm not sure what I'll do now. Between that and a huge stuck pixel that won't go away, I regret buying this Nexus 7, which was my second one after the screen broke on my first.
I don't even get the we're working part. Just the not available part. Being in India sucks.
Has anyone seen thing regarding how setup works? That is, how would I choose a SSID and enter my wifi password since my 'remote' would normally talk to it using wifi?
NSA Spying Fallout: Germany Wants Tighter UN Privacy Rules
I am not sure what you mean by "standard practice of using C as an IR". I was a compiler engineer for a decade or so and I have only seen C used as an IR for quick and dirty hack projects which don't care about things like debugging or compile time. The commercial compilers I have worked on each used their own intermediate representation; none used C.
Introducing Chromecast
Microsoft will allegedly allow self publishing on XBox One
I just called the offices of Rep. Honda (who's supporting the amendment) and Rep. Eshoo. It was super easy!
I have been using this setup for a while (see my reply to the parent for more details), and I have found it is more comfortable to curl thumbs than to have a pinky outstretched to the Caps Lock position. The problem I had with the outstretched pinky is that Caps Lock is only on one side of the keyboard, so I would have to contort my hand a bit to pull of some combinations, rather than be able to hit the modifier key and the other key with two different hands (as you are supposed to do with Shift for example).

>That's quite a reach, under your hand, which is trying to hit another key at the same time.
Usually I use the modifier key with the opposite hand, so I don't run into this problem.
Brad Feld Shares His Secrets To A Successful Startup Life
http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Valicert-fail
It should be noted that on the official llvm irc channel (#llvm@oftc.net) people do not like llvm's IR being called a "progamming language". Rather it's intended to be a representation of llvm's internal data structures. It may look similar to a programming language for sure but it's not the intent behind it. It's a representation that should help compiler engineers debugging their llvm-using parsers.

Also, if you've ever looked at clang's "-emit-llvm" output you will notice that there are some parts of the IR which are hard to be generated by humans, e.g. dgb by sequential number references.

See e.g.: http://llvm.org/docs/SourceLevelDebugging.html#object-lifeti...
I waited to order mine from Google in hopes of getting Prime shipping from Amazon... hope I didn't miss out entirely.
Plenty of people found gold during the gold rush. That does not mean it is even remotely representative of the norm.
Such a waste of electronic computing power.

EDIT: what I meant by a waste of electronic computing power is that it does nothing for the world beyond pumping out more bitcoins. I guess it's more of my opinion on bitcoins in general than this particular artile. All the computational energy is not used to search for a cure for cancer, or aliens, or crack a code, or used to compute a deep neural net. I guess I would compare it to high-frequency trading---it makes people (a lot) of money, but doesn't deliver any net gain for society.
You can't even stay on topic without constantly moving the goalpost.

> You're asserting that there hasn't been a significant management and hiring shift in engineering departments over the past 5 years, moving away from what became a web monoculture in the post-90s environment, from roughly 2000-2005?

I asserted no such thing, learn to read.

> So you admit the web is ill-suited to serve as an application platform, and is failing to acquire traction in that space despite considerable but ill-focused efforts to the contrary?

I admit? What kind of stupid opening is that? Show me where I said anything about the web serving as a great application platform over native apps.

You know what, never mind; you're an argumentative ill tempered child who doesn't know how to have a discussion properly. Have a nice day.
Or the complainant should do like everyone else who wants to run a server and pony up for a business account. Nearly every major ISP in the area I live (and I afaik, most of the US) disallows and even blocks use of personal servers running from a basic consumer account. Some ISPs even filter all web traffic through a proxy.

If you want to run a server, you pay extra for a business account and BOOM! 100% open pipe.

I think here that Google is simply guilty of a poorly written agreement in this case and the guy complaining is a cheap bastard.
It is, but only works on a TV that supports MHL HDMI. The chromecast stick works on any HDMI port because it doesn't rely on the port for power.

it's too bad it can't use MHL power where available and fall back to external. Seems like an obvious feature.
I already donated to this project in the past and will be donating right now. They really deserve it for the hard work and amazing quality. :)
Opening it on my phone said "We are out of inventory. Check back soon.". Opening on PC said "Coming soon" and a refresh of the page let me buy it. Hope that helps.
The "watershed" is an informal arrangement among broadcasters.

Before the watershed programmes should be appropriate for the audience. After the watershed programmes can have more adult content.

Currently the watershed is 9pm. Cable TV and tv on demand have systems to ask people if they've over certain ages or to provide warnings about content.

> Highlands and Islands MSP Rhoda Grant said: "If there's a watershed on the TV then why isn't there one for the internet?"

Computer illiteracy is worrisome when it's among the general population. It's scary when it's among people making laws.
I don't care if you don't use normative statements. I wasn't saying that your view of how the world should be is crazy, I was saying that your view of how the world is, is crazy.
It is but it's MHL
Now it's saying "coming soon".
329 seems like a lot for this
The hug that keeps on hugging: [[hug
I second this book recommendation. I read it a few years ago and find myself referring back to it quite often for inspiration when I'm feeling unproductive and very procrastnaty.
> You know what, never mind; you're an argumentative ill tempered child who doesn't know how to have a discussion properly. Have a nice day.

One of us has stuck to discussing the topic, the other, discussing the person. Good day.
Finally someone posting a challenge they're undertaking when they have at least accomplished already some of it. I hate seeing people announce that they are about to do something. This is much much better.
I don't think the "remote" device is doing any of the work. Once the Chromecast stick gets the feed, it will be doing all the streaming, or a combination of serverside work.

I think the older Chromebooks might not have the Chrome extensions yet. I can't imagine them not being supported sometime soon.
OOps, sorry then, I guess I mis-remembered or mis-understood your positition.
Goodwill Industries is paying disabled workers as little as $0.22 / hr
Google Chromecast For HDTV's
So many hurt egos in this thread.

If you think what she's done is impossible, have you ever devoted 70/hrs a week to a personal endeavor for 6 straight months? Would you have the willpower and perseverance to stay committed and focused?

Also, these are cool sites, infused with a lot of creativity and a refined aesthetic sense, but it's not as if she's claimed to have written an OS or compiler in 115 days. Much of the javascript code is covered extensively in brief online tutorials. Maybe, given 10 hours, you couldn't ingest a tutorial and put your own spin on the concept, but thinking that nobody else could do that is a bit arrogant.
There wasn't as much "lean startup" in this article as I would have assumed via the title. I don't know that I necessarily agree with the final assertion that the "lean startup" is dead. I honestly see, rightly or wrongly, a lot of VC's, YC included, moving towards a more lean and mean, revenue-centric model as capital markets get more conservative. Which is strikingly similar to a lean startup. Then the question becomes, if you're profitable, can the acceleration provided by VC capital push you over the top? Lean B2B plays aren't necessarily the kind of internet land-grabs we've recently seen out of the valley.
FreeBSD co-founder Jordan Hubbard leaves Apple to join iXsystems
> ... who are aren't going to make the jump as soon as HTML5 delivers everything they need?

When will that be, exactly? The promise has been a long time coming, and in the meantime, the constitution of the industry is shifting away from a web myopia.
It all depends where your audience is coming from. Do you have sudden spikes of downloads? Or is it closer to an increasing linear line? It's difficult to tell what's going on without more data, as chudi noted.

By the way, I'd love it if you could shoot me an email at zchlatta (at) gmail.com. I'm also a teenage developer. It's always great to meet others my age who are doing great things.
An SNL director opens up
Are you talking about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby the one who got off the hook by President Bush's personal intervention? How is that surprising that he got so little?

You really assume that Obama would commute Snowden's sentence? Really?
Just ordered mine. With the three months of Netflix included, my cost is only $11. Ridiculous.
Thank you for the article. It was a great read.

About other comments, don't worry too much about them. Everybody that doesn't run their own company is an expert in startups these days.
You Shouldn't Worry About Landing Gear Malfunctions
I can see where both of you come from, but I'm tending towards ferdo's view. So far there is, to my knowledge, no historical precedent of a large data collection effort for the purpose of law enforcement* that has not ultimately led to a bad outcome for those whose data was collected. (I'm talking about non-ongoing, so full-picture historical retrospection.)

I mean, even my own state (which has about as good a rule of law as they come) has in the past implemented a dragnet that kind of went awry. At least, according to the people that lived through "Rasterfahndung", it seems inevitable that the presumption of innocence goes out the window pretty much as soon as eager law enforcement personnel has access to large databases[1].

* The inevitable asterisk: It seems that it might be possible to keep things from going awry if there is a specific warrant signed by a judge for every _individual_ act of "listening in". Not a warrant for tapping a service provider, but a warrant to look at the data of a single user at that provider. But this is moot, since we are already way past any point where it would have been possible to stop at that.

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Heroku: Depriving Your Free Dyno of Sleep
it essentially acts as a remote, your controlling device instructs the chromecast where to stream from, it doesn't actually pull a stream from the controlling device. They said that the device you start streaming from can go to sleep (or, i'm assuming, turn off entirely) and the stream will keep playing.
This is Patrick Smith of Salon "Ask The Pilot" fame (Ask The Pilot being the single best thing about old Salon).
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.

Homer: Oh, how does it work?

Lisa: It doesn't work.

Homer: Uh-huh.

Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.

Homer: Uh-huh.

Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?

[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]

Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.
There's definitely a disconnect somewhere, because half (or more) of the people writing about Lean Startups, Customer Development, etc., clearly don't get it at all. I'm almost at a point where I'm not going to bother reading any post that mentions "lean startup" or "customer development" in the title unless the domain is steveblank.com.

I think part of the problem is that the "lean startup" approach inherits a lot of (or all of) Steve Blank's "Customer Development Methodology", and CD is not a quick and easy thing to learn. I mean, the basic gist of it can be taught in 5 minutes, but the actual methodology is very elaborate and detailed. But if all you read is the "Lean Startup" book, or a few blogs on the topic, and don't actually sit down and read The Four Steps To The Epiphany (or The Startup Owner's Manual) directly - and probably a few times - you probably don't know enough about the topic to really use it, or comment on it.

For perspective, I'll offer this: I first read TFSTTE about 2 years ago, and have been incorporating the approach into what we do at Fogbeam Labs ever since. I've also read the Eric Ries book, and several other titles on the topic, and a ton of blog posts on the topic. I've also attended Lean Startup Circle meetings and follow the LSC mailing list. And I'll still quickly admit that I have a lot to learn. I think I could teach the basics to somebody else right now, based on what I know, but I'm not even close to being a real expert on this. And I've been at ground-level, actually implementing this (albeit not full-time) for two years or so..

It's a bit like Agile Development in a way... "Lean Startup" and "Agile Development" have both become trending buzzwords that are often flaunted by people who don't really understand all the depth and nuance of the topic, which results in an inevitable backlash (also by people who don't really understand the topic in any depth).
I read a few articles and they say it does work with Hulu out of the box. From what I understand it will broadcast anything in your chrome tab.
"the president has said that he welcomes a debate about how best to simultaneously safeguard both our national security and the privacy of our citizens."

Yeah, as long as that debate takes place on news casts and meetings and not, you know, the legislature or the courts or anywhere that can possibly do anything about it.
The first Instagram videos from North Korea provide window into isolated country
I'd be interested to see any lists that discuss reducing waste and increasing efficiencies with electricity use.
Lol, Funny how we have very different standards for stuck. I would not consider 4.1.1 "stuck" any time soon. I have gingerbread on 800mhz, 420x840. I would LOVE to be "stuck" on 4.1.1. Google chrome and Google Now seem like such neat things.
Yeah, it looks interesting. Only thing for me is that most of the providers do not look very trustworthy.
I'm fairly new to the Bitcoin world, but it seems to me that ultimately (in 10 years or so) one of two things will happen:

1) Bitcoin will gain large-scale adoption. As a result, the value of Bitcoins will greatly increase from what it is today.

2) Bitcoin will fail due to government regulations, better alternatives, or other unforeseen reasons. As a result, Bitcoins will become effectively worthless.

Am I oversimplifying so far? If I'm not, then it seems like investing substantially in Bitcoins (purchasing coins) now will either make me very rich in 10 years, or I'll lose my initial investment.

By the same logic, if I earn coins by mining now and hold them, I will either be rich in 10 years, or I'll lose my mining investments.

I'm not interested in diving into mining to earn a quick 10-20k while the market fluctuates, so as a long term strategy it sounds like investing is the more sensible and less time consuming option. Thoughts?
Recently there was a leak from Rogers about the Moto X and how you can activate it by simply saying "OK Google Now". Well Verge made a post about this leak on Google+ and I commented how the hot-phrase is too cumbersome so they should've just gone with "OK NSA,". I was quite proud of myself.
Whereas Obama seems to "just" imprison them:

http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/obamas_personal_role_in_a_jo...

I'm not supporting such actions of any president.
> Facebook enabled encryption by default in 2012.

Kinda off-topic but this statement is false. Facebook HTTPS is not enabled by default, it's opt-in.
3 Key Lessons for Tech Founders
Google doesn't make or design the Nexus 7, but rather Asus does (or at least Asus is the brand behind it, though they likely offload actual manufacturing to Foxconn or similes). Nor does Google manufacture, warehouse, or ship these products (which one experiences when they try to do any sort of service requests on Nexus devices, to instead be direct to HTC or Samsung or Asus).

Google constantly and egregiously fails to see a world beyond the US as being important to their initiatives. It took a ridiculously long time for customers outside of the US to buy apps on the Android Market (it remains seriously limited), and was significantly worse for those who want to sell on the market. With each of these hardware releases, it's the US and then, maybe some day, the rest of the world. That's Google's prerogative, and they're based on the US, but every time they do that they incrementally offend the rest of the world.
sucks. Just bought 3 units. Didn't see it requires a power cord
OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon
Am I missing jargon or are they saying terahertz per second?
It looks like the style is inspired by Takahashi Method: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi_method

Though, he departs from it; with pictures and such.
I don't demand that you agree with me, or even remotely expect it. How could I? You know hardly anything about what I believe. I fully respect people who have militantly anti-government perspectives on NSA surveillance; those perspectives make sense to me, even if I share them only partially.

What I don't respect are people who have no earthly clue what they're talking about telling me how repellent my views are.
Nexus 7: Everything you need to know.
What's with this bizarro idea?

Ads that show fictional stuff are one kind. The kind that doesn't mention the names of people they show, as if they are real people. E.g: the cool guy goes in the bar, grabs a cold beer of brand X and wins the girl. A guy is driving a car in a rough terrain with epic music, etc.

On the other side, ads that show _testimonials_ or _endorsments_ on SOCIAL MEDIA, are expected to show REAL posts/tweets/etc -- or, at the very least, to have PAID the people mentioned in them to lie about their love of the product.

Try making an ad with @MagicJohnson or @Oprah shown twitting about endorsing your product without their knowledge, and see how fast the lawyers will knock on your door...
As a former chess engine author, and current compiler writer, with ideas in search-based compiler algorithms/unbounded compilation times, I hope to accelerate the arrival of that day :)
Still disagree - when I see a mockup like that I assume it's all fake, including the user names. The surprising part isn't that the tweets are fake, but that the usernames are real.