skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I'm saying is that the US isn't all sunshine and daisies. There are a TON of poor areas (rural and urban alike) where it's just not safe to live, kids don't get enough mental and physical nourishment, and there's a good chance you'll die before high school. That sucks. And that's a problem that should be fixed. As a US citizen, I care infinitely more about fixing these problems before trying to contact and civilize the inhabitants of some remote island.
The obvious connection to HN is that people read and upvote the popular articles, so there's (probably) a lot more randomness in what makes it to the front page than people suspect. This matches my experience, where one of my blog posts will sink without a trace on HN, and then get reposted later and shoot to the top.

Perhaps a more apt comparison would be how certain blogs (37signals, marco.org, Svbtle, etc) rocket to the front page based off of their TLD alone. I don't think this is a particularly bad thing -- this is how branding works, after all -- but I would definitely be interested to see an experiment that throws everything on Readability and hides the URL to see if things change.

I suspect there's also a "cumulative advantage" effect on comments, with popular members getting way more upvotes. Some high-karma member could quantify this by posting half their comments from a new account and A/B testing.

I could be incorrect, but I recall reading that part of the ranking algorithm is based on the commenter's average karma.
Say 'Cheese', guys!
Partimag development has been dead for years; take a look at partclone instead. Another program with a similar goal but a different approach is FSArchiver.

http://www.partclone.org

http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page
I've been slowly migrating my JavaScript code to clojurescript and I haven't wanted to touch JS since. Apart from requiring a build step to generate JS, clijurescript is the browser language I always wanted. JS seems like such a hack.
The Problems with Everyone AB Testing Everything
Compared to the PS4, the XBox One hardware has 30% less shaders on the GPU, is using DDR3 RAM instead of faster GDDR5 RAM, and is using the same CPU as the PS4. All the while, it costs $100 more than the PS4.

So for the first time in XBox's history, the XBox is launching with strictly weaker hardware than its closest competitor. (XBox 360 at least had a GPU that was 2x stronger than the PS3 GPU, and the XBox 360 also had faster RAM. PS3 won on CPU power... but lost out on everything else.)

There is terrible, terrible press across the whole internet about the XBox One-Eighty. Video Gamers overall have a negative impression on it.

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/12
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/06/21
This is an incredibly naive way of backing up your system.

I use rsync to back up certain folders. I'm OK with re-installing Linux if my hard drive crashes.
Awesome product, I just bought it for my iPhone. Given that it's C# already, any plans for a windows version? I often do these types of calculations in excel at work, but this would be so handy.
The lack of innovation is because of lack of competition, the mobile space very competitive, innovative and healthy. For example the latest in high end smart phones sport a 1920x1080 display, which is the maximum resolution that my monitor currently uses. In my eyes the technical leaps of mobile are ridiculous.

I'm wondering when some of the mobile innovations will result in some cheaper high quality laptops, because as of this moment $600 gets me a brand new top of the line quality phones and tablets while the same $600 in the laptop market gets me an entry level laptop.

What annoys me the most is that Microsoft has been trying to push touchscreens for over a decade at this point. At first the problem was that they were pushing a keyboard & mouse interface onto touchscreens, and now they're pushing a touchscreen interface onto keyboard & mouse with their Metro UI. Nothing has really changed it's just flipped now.
"People seemed ok with this when it was Osama, but not this guy. Seems like the method was less of an issue and it mattered much more about who it was."

In the case of Osama bin Laden a team was deployed and as far as I know they have not annihilated the entire family. In this case a drone was used to wipe out a group of people. The method is therefore very different and if that boy "was not specifically targeted" (which leaves him as collateral damage) then the method is also a very poor choice.
As others have said, Adult and NSFW are treated as 2 different things here. See: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw
The word "intuitive" isn't (2008)
I love Crunchbang, but I've found that Openbox often leads to chronic customization syndrome, especially because you have to customize somewhat, so if you're prone to that sort of thing, be careful.
I would be concerned about how dd handles a bad sector that has not been reallocated by SMART. Many drives have 1 or 2 of these. Clonezilla is a good option because it also includes GNU ddrescue (so does PartedMagic) which can cope with most file system damage like bad sectors.
OP might not think there is something wrong with the XBox One... however I there is no denying that it was a PR catastrophe with the it's always online stuff. Flip flopping after a product introduction does not bode well IMO.

Edit: OP does not like the XBox One ... my bad. :)
http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/13/microsofts-xbox-one-chief-...

http://www.neoseeker.com/news/23234-microsofts-one-mistake-p...
was getting this since almost a month..
NSFW and Adult are separate categories and you cannot reenable Adult.
America would be so much more beautiful if we had fewer billboards and cables were underground instead hosted on poles. I think it's patriotic to oppose billboards and telephone polls.
If you want to do something less tricky and low level than dd just remount the drive in question read-only and use tar. (be root to keep permissions, --use-compress-program=pigz)

On the restore side, you can just use pv like cat, and don't have to provide a size param:

pv my.img.gz | pigz -d | dd (or hopefully tar xf - instead)...

In an ideal world a tool like pv could just look at /proc/fd/fdinfo/ instead of shuffling all the data through itself but I haven't found a tool that clever yet.
The vast majority of Tumblr users browse via the dashboard rather than the subdomains.
Nothing per se at this point, but their previous stance on DRM allowed their main competitor to gain a large PR advantage.

However saying that the Xbox One will fail like the WinRT did is very premature; the PS3 had a slow start and still made a respectable showing this generation, and the 3DS was considered a debacle until a price cut and the right games came along and it suddenly exploded in popularity.
This would be trivial to do with the right DNS provider and virtual machines spread across the world.
I think he is referring to the PR disaster the Xbox One had a couple weeks back with the only online requirement, Kinect always listening and other lockdown mechanisms implemented on the machines making sharing games or similar things more or less impossible.

I don't know it this will have much impact on the actual sale numbers, the release date is still quite some time in the future and the PS4 despite all the love it currently gets from the gaming scene also requires a Sony account you have to pay monthly to be usable.

I am pretty sure it will play out like it always does: lots of complaining and in the end it will get bought nevertheless. [1]

[1] http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/6062/1258035395841.jpg
And of course...

http://www.idigitaltimes.com/articles/18620/20130701/xbox-18...

Don Mattrick is now fired.
Very nice, but wouldn't fit my use case since my concept of a journal is long-form text.

For that, I'd recommend something like 750 Words [1]. Journalling with stat tracking, achievements, reminders, etc.

[1] http://750words.com/
Hi. I don't a README in vlc-ios repo, I'm assuming it requires the main vlc repo to be built. Have you got a guide for building it on OS X? I can't get it past the configure stage due to some missing deps.
Self driving vehicle still need a conductor. It's not safe enough to have a vehicle that have no one to stop it. Metros, trains and planes have drivers even if they are doing nearly nothing. They are there in case of a problem (which happen too often...).
I think we all did that in the 80s in Vice City...Stupid Zero missions
and not only this. The worst part is the total failure of the presentation of the console.
I know they now have deleted the big part of the main restrictions, but still they undermined the trust of the buyers.It is not a little problem
NSFW = 'Occasional' adult content

Adult = 'Substantial' adult content
Apple Dev Center outage
Tiny, rural Olds, Alberta builds its own 1000 Mbps community owned ISP
The "Get notified for Android" link just takes me to the iTunes download page. Would like to sign up for when it comes to Android. :)
Because when someone like David Karp speaks, he is talking about a strictly, technical truth and not the practical truth of the situation. We punish are children for being deceptive when the pull this stunt, we reward[1] or ignore politicians and business folks.

The practical truth is that these blogs have been censored, because if Google cannot see something, it doesn't exist for 99.9% of the people.

1) You might be saying to yourself, I don't reward or approve this conduct. Did you watch West Wing? Did you like the C. J. Cregg character?
Stuck in the Twitter Funhouse
Personally I like refrigeration, modern medicine, transportation, and high technology. Maybe those aren't your thing, but I know if I was born into a society like that, I would spend my life trying to see what was beyond the water.

Or die. Because, you know, a lot of them die.
No, just run the buildAspenProject scripts as documented here: https://wiki.videolan.org/iOSCompile
Financial wealth and intelligence are also uncorrelated, probably because of wealth's dependence on butterfly effect like initial conditions (race/sex/parents/country/economy), inertia, path dependence, network effects and random environmental variables (being the lucky one out of a group of 1000s).

It is a liberating experience when one finally realises that the world truly is a random place, and that a great many things that occur in one's life are not in fact a product of one's own actions, but rather those of extraneous conditions that are forced upon us.

It's also incredibly depressing.

To randomness.
They were 6 and 10, python seemed easier for them to pick up because they had more control AKA I think the turtle and what not confused them. It was much easier for them to name everything themselves and do what they wanted.
Speaking of the Italian Mafia, today is the 21st anniversary of their assasination of Paolo Borsellino:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Borsellino
Does Your Weird Startup Name Affect Your Public Relations Potential?
Cloud.typography vs. Typekit
When Xbox One was announced, if I facepalmed harder my head would detach from my neck.

Then Sony and made their announcements, of features that are actually normal and expected since consoles exist, as if it was something totally new and awesome, in a very obvious way to give more ammo to Microsoft keep shooting themselves.

It was very entertaining.

Specially looking at the stock market (when Xbone wss announced, SONY shares jumped 8%) too.
You may enjoy the short novel "A Canticle for Lebowitz", which chronicles the cycles of humanity re-birthing through dark ages post-nuclear war, surpassing prior technology and...

http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Leibowitz-Walter-Miller-Jr/dp...
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine of the Fallout Shelter.

In a terrifying age of darkness and decay, these artifacts could be the keys to mankind's salvation. But as the mystery at the core of this groundbreaking novel unfolds, it is the search itself—for meaning, for truth, for love—that offers hope for humanity's rebirth from the ashes.

It follows 3x periods: post nuclear, "rebuild" and discovery, and "surpass" technology.
I'm of the idea that microsoft auto-killed the surface rt in the exact moment in which they decided to release it at the same time of the surface pro.
Maybe, if they had let pass something like 1 year or 18 months between the two (without annuncing at all the surface pro in this time), more people would have tried the rt and it would have gained some momentum in the market.
After Waze: What next for mobile crowdsourcing?
brew just seems like a less mature macports. most of the differentiating features have disappeared as brew gradually discovered the same problems that macports/fink had already learned over the past decade.
Asides from my ever expanding girth, I've never been described as a whale!

It all ads up...from $1,500 for TV sub, plus biz travel with hotel tonight, taxi's here and there, netflix, spotify. You are dead right on games, and that the IAP economy is hidden. Same too, the credit card economy/transactions through apps is hidden. There's a lot of money behind free apps, and everything is ad related.
I don't see a problem here - given that NSFW/porn traffic is worth much less than other traffic and even less to a generalized blogging platform like Tumblr, what's going on is that they are presently subsidized. This is an attempt at reducing the subsidy and making the platform less attractive for pornographers or even casual NSFW bloggers. For instance, if a porn pay site wants to create a blog to promote their site, why should Tumblr make it easy for them to do this on their platform? It doesn't really help them in any realistic way.
Is it weird that, given the surface, Windows 8, and the new xbox that I still think Microsoft is overvalued after the drop?
"We welcome a discussion about the balance of security and liberty, we just don't care what you say and won't take any of your input. But discussion sure is great. Yay for democracy"
How the world's population has changed
Like the photocopier?
This is the ridiculous opposite of "just works".
Anchorage has a law that in order to do any work on above-ground cables (other than emergency repairs), you must put them underground at the same time.
Interesting point of view. I wonder if the people growing up on smart-phones and tablets today will be unable to use productivity devices in the future, or whether tablets will become the new productivity device. My guess is that at some point in school, most students will need word processing and various other productivity tools, and will become acquainted with them that way.
But here's the issue: Fastmail themselves may have been able to keep running indefinitely, but they're not Fastmail anymore. They're Fastmail from Opera. If Opera shuts down, what's the guarantee that they will let their purchases keep running?

Basically, since they sold themselves to Opera, they're at Opera's mercy to keep running. If Opera shuttered their doors or if Opera felt like pulling a Google Reader, there goes my mail provider. I'm iffy on the future of Opera as a company, which means I'm iffy on the future of everything they own regardless of that product's history.
Then find something else - I fail to see how you have a particular right in this case for Tumblr to provide your adult content to you.
A method I've found that helps when dealing with all sorts of people -- don't parse people's output according to your standards, parse it according to their standards. (It helps when they've published their standards, as Linus has)

This approach has made it quite easy for me to get along with people from all sorts of cultures, as well as all types of people within a culture (aspergers springs to mind) -- where others think "he said something that is offensive in my culture, he must hate me", I think "he said something which is acceptable in his own culture, he must think I'm doing ok"; or around my aspergers friends "she's being rude and insensitive, what a bitch" vs "she's being far more empathetic than she normally is, she must be trying really hard because she cares"
We don't have mathematics for children. Or English for children. Sure, the stuff taught to children is simple, but it isn't simple coz it's being taught to kids, it's simple because the basic building blocks of any body of knowledge are typically simple. If you wanted to teach English to an adult Chinese man who only knows the Chinese alphabet,you'd have to start of with the same things you'd teach a child. When someone sets out to create a programming language "for children", my fear is that you might try to "dumb down" the art and/or science of programming. I could be wrong, off course. And I haven't looked at this particular language, so I wouldn't know if this is the case here. I'm just not very comfortable with the premise of a programming language aimed at children. What is it about it that makes it for kids? That which makes it for kids vis a vis other languages is what worries me in the context of what the kids will learn vis a vis what they should eventually learn, which is the "adult" stuff. Try and imagine a painting course for kids or adults. Same concepts, technique's, brushes, etc. In the same way you don't have canvases or brushes for kids, I don't think you should have a programming language for kids. But like I said, I could be wrong.
Food Genius COO Eli Rosenberg Shares Insight on Excelerate
Chrome and Firefox WebRTC Twelephone Calls to/from Apple Safari Hack
disclaimer: i worked at Google

Actually, Google display network, that is the other side of Adsense brings immense value to advertisers. I don't know exact statistics, however I estimate that the number of advertisers using display network for the immdediate or nearly-immediate conversion is in double digits.

For most of them it is mathematically proven through conversion attribution and simple calculations that advertising on display network is profitable for their business.
The Mac doesn't need package management, I don't know why you're insistent on it. The App Store isn't package management, it's just one way to download sandboxed apps.
Apparently they consider tags like gay and lesbian to be Adult.
Lots of stupid web developers who can't do math
It's the same reason I don't switch apartments even though one might be better for the money: it's a hassle.
WHen Link Audits Go Wrong
Have you driven I95 near Philadelphia lately?

I think the contingent of electronic animated, image-changing, and even occasionally flashing billboards carries a slightly higher distraction factor.
Completely agree. I've been using Gmail since 2005, and it is fantastic being able to simply search and get emails from that long ago when needed.
Jay-Z's 'Magna Carta' mobile app is too snoopy, privacy advocates complain
The desktop/PC market has lost all innovation. I'm not sure why. Things that we take for granted in other form factors: touchscreens, built-in battery backups, seamless bluetooth integration, voice commands -- should be standard by now in desktops. Once they assimilate what's great from other form factors, they can leverage the space on the desk to do things the other ones can't. Things like 3-D, very-large screen formats, wall displays, and gesture recognition.

Instead, somehow the desktop crowd started chasing gamers, creating faster and faster video cards and overclocked processors on the high-end. That was a nice crutch for a few years, but it's not a growth strategy. For the desktop/household PC to grow, it needs to develop into something that it's currently not: an immersive computing experience that's part of your household. That might even include starting to team off with builders to make the PC part of the normal decorative process of designing houses. There's no reason some kind of swappable PC with a wall display couldn't be part of household room designs.

The form factor is dead because the industry has lost the ability to execute on a vision. Instead they're just trying to see how long they can milk the cash cow. Looks like we're now beginning to see an answer to that question.
Excellent to hear, thanks.
now that JK Rowling has been publicly identified as author, Amazon updated its listing: http://amzn.to/1bzcC72
they have still enough gains in the professional market and also the cloud service (azure, office365, ...) but... yeah. They have failed totally in the tablet market atm having like 0% of the marketshare, they have a really tiny marketshare in the phone market (3-4%) also if, in their defense, i must say that windows phone is a nice os, and windows8 is not helping at all in the consumer-pc market.
In the long term, at the moment, they are risking a lot.
At a certain point I think an oddball startup name becomes an asset. I've never heard of a company with a great product and a weird name that couldn't get traction.
Seems like a job for reddit.
Ask HN:Which not very popular applications or web services do you use regularly?
Nerf Vulcan Sentry Gun
That's actually how I feel about Linux; it's a social monoculture and nobody seems to care a whit about anyone that isn't an ubernerd that wants to fiddle endlessly with a poorly designed/integrated OS.
Isn't that the same justification used for collecting meta-data?
Common grammatical mistake. This is similar to the phrase "let alone," and is supposed to be used to underscore the first point by raising a second, even broader point. Ex: "I don't like burgers, let alone red meat." But a lot of people get the phrasing mixed up.
In the spirit of Postel's Robustness principle, please also handle Shakespeare, Shakespear, Shakspeare and Shakspere
1. I believe a substantial part of the problem is that the desktop manufacturers have lost all will to even attempt to market innovative desktop technology. If immersion is out of fashion, that's a matter of fashion having been steered by better marketing.

I have three 30" displays on my desktop. When I want to create and consume at home, I strongly prefer my desktop computer to my tablets and my cell phone. I can relax in my chair with a full-screen video on one monitor, my social media on another, and something I am composing (words, code, whatever) in the center.

I would pay substantial money to replace all three of these monitors with one that spanned the same width (~6 feet), was 50% taller (~3 feet), with slightly higher pixel density, and was of course seamless. As someone else said, ideally it would be slightly concave so that from my vantage point, it doesn't appear convex.

The manufacturers are as much to blame for our culture's embrace of "good enough" on the desktop as consumers' passivity. I personally am anything but passive about my desktop demands; but you're correct, many are. Still, I feel those passive consumers could be stirred to an active, interested, or perhaps even high-demand state if desktop technology moved forward.

If Microsoft, HP, Dell, Lenovo, the whole gamut, are concerned about desktop sales, they should wake up and give us a reason to buy a new desktop PC.

2. That's a matter of preference or tolerance of today's mediocrity. As I've ranted elsewhere, many/most people are also comfortable with MPEG artifacts and lossy compression. I long for the day where bandwidth and capacity allow us to discard lossy compression to a dustbin.

My eyesight isn't what it used to be now that I'm much older. But I still can clearly see the shocking difference in clarity when I hold an OLED high-definition phone flat to my 30" LCD monitor. It's night and day. The phone's display makes my 30" LCDs look like ancient history. Sad thing is: they're quite new.

Try it. Sit 3 feet from your desktop monitor, as I am, and hold your phone up flush with your monitor. Which looks better?

Imagine if your desktop monitor looked that good. But also filled your field of view. Maybe that's not for you, but it's for me, and I would pay dearly for it.
Firing Ballmer would be the first step.