skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used that same excuse to switch to Mac, but found that OS X really didn't "just work" and that there were tons of things that needed extensive configuration to get to work properly.

Now, I'm on a Chromebook Pixel, and I can say safely that it's the only computer I've EVER used that really lives up to the "just works" mantra. To top it off, it actually is Linux inside, so for someone like me who uses a Linux VM on OS X most of the time, all I have to do is install crouton, do startx and go with Gnome 3 (which is quite polished now).
Great job Foundation - solid progress!

Still waiting for Bootstrap3 - don't understand why Bootstrap is so far behind wrt responsive layouts.
Google Off 5%: Q2 Misses as ‘Cost-Per-Click’ Falls 6%
There are a number of great vids of him doing his "act" now as well; including this one with the writer of the article you linked to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUSO_Mj1TQ
NES/SNES/GBA? Since you mentioned costs of original games, where will you get legal ROMs for those consoles?
If you try to continue to run Linux apps via various Mac-packaging systems, then yes you are going to have a bad time. It's the same packages and upgrade interdependencies as on Linux, plus extra breakage due to running on not-Linux.

The way forward on a Mac is to run Mac native applications. Not really a surprise -- a Windows user who switches to Linux but wants to run all the same old stuff via Wine would be better served by switching to native apps where possible.
The conjecture is reasonable. My point is that it's inappropriate to trump up an untested conjecture, as it creates a cost to the investigator for not being right. And you don't want to be incentivized in this way during your investigation: you're supposed to be fully skeptical.
It's kind of funny--you know that subcomponent of PRISM where the government sends a machine-readable subpoena, and a corporation, in response, automatically runs a query to pull together a user's records and drop them in a government-accessible dead-drop computer? If done correctly, this would basically be the same thing, but for citizens "subpoenaing" government.

I say "if done correctly" because it currently sounds like it only handles the "send" part of the FOIA request. It'd be a lot more convenient if it also used the Center for Investigative Reporting as the receive address, scanned in and OCRed all the FOIA'ed documents that get received... maybe even have some lawyers pick through each received document and provide analysis + highlight interesting bits, like Groklaw does. Is that part of the plan? (The non-receiving version could always be kept in place either way, for when people want to just get at their own personal records.)
Pitch is also a colloidal suspension, or colloid. The various polymers that make it up are not of equal weight, and there are little bits of graphite in there too. The chemistry of pitch is by no means simple, destructive distillation can go in many directions.
It is not illegal in most states (IANAL). I agree it is less safe than fully focusing on driving (as is talking to a passenger), but I'd much rather have people glance up briefly and speak out a text than look down at their lap like they do today. Each state will figure out where they draw the line on this, I personally think it is safe when used with care (like a navigation system).
There is Miller's Paradox:

As a network evolves, the number of Nazi comparisons not forestalled by citation to Godwin's Law converges to zero.
Microsoft reveals $900M write-down on Surface RT tablet
While I have never been a victim of pickpocketing, I have always been fascinated with the techniques & strategies involved. Attention, or lack thereof, is the key.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoUSO_Mj1TQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTa7rC1oUnk
I don't know about "The Tech Community", but better, cheaper places to live elsewhere do attract individuals that don't seen to be hung up on SF and SV. You can code anywhere and find fellow geeks that don't waste money on crazy rents.
Who said anything about legal?

Anyway, he could perhaps rip ROMs himself if he really wanted to bother.
I always check hnsearch before submitting an article. It only takes a few seconds to do, and I don't want to be that guy who submits a duplicate article.
There's a 43 year gap between those stats. You've got the beginnings of a hypothesis, but I think you need a lot more data if you want to support it at all.
Science has been confirming results for a long time without the aide of video proof. This sounds like fluff. It's cool fluff, but it's pretty ridiculous to assert that the theory couldn't be proven without video proof.
It does seem like they're interested actively enhancing their library: http://www.ouya.tv/freethegamesfund/
If you think you have Alzheimer's, you just might, studies suggest
I gave up on Ubuntu when I could no longer have faith that my environment would be recognisable from one release to the next. For me, and my mother, that's a very important part of "just works".
We are working cautiously on restoring full billing service to all accounts. We are trying to err on minimizing further billing impact to our customers as we restore service and, as such, taking each step carefully.

This will also affect the Usage API for some users. If you would like an immediate update when these are restored, use the OP link (http://status.twilio.com/services/account-portal) or send an email to help@twilio.com.

We're moving as expeditiously as safety allows.
> They were forced into doing this by the US government

This is a convenient position to take, which clears Google of any responsibility.

There were companies, smaller than Google, that stood up against government requests to spy on their customers. Quest is one of them. But Google agreed to the terms, "signed papers", and has been cooperating ever since.

More so, Google et al. deliberately lied about commitment to user privacy, which all of the PRISM participants reiterated in their press-releases after Snowden revealed the program.

> I think this letter is a good thing

This letter is a good thing, but little more than good PR.

Releasing statistics on government requests has no implications on the PRISM program, which gives intelligence agencies unhindered access to our data.

I think it's a little unfair to pride oneself as a privacy activist, while spying on your users.
> it's inappropriate to trump up an untested conjecture

Like rushing to publish your conjecture of the molecular structure of DNA before it's fully verified with crystallography data?
It is not, it contains pieces of various BSD libc derivatives:

http://codingrelic.geekhold.com/2008/11/six-million-dollar-l...
The Nation: A Letter to Edward Snowden
You're confusing the use case. If course you can already look up the data and get alerts, and every modern plant already does. But getting hands on data when you're at the plant isn't just helpful for repairs or inspections, it's helpful for lots of things including debugging problems, helping new employees learn about the plant and "map" the processes to the physical layout of the pipes. Nowadays people lug around papers or tablets, so this would just be an extension of that.
Einstein and Szilard actually patented a refrigerator design [1]; AFAIK it was never commercialized. If you're reading this and know about refrigeration tech, you might be able to contribute to the Wikipedia article; it's been tagged as "needs attention from an expert in Technology" since 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator
"Algorithms are for people who don't know how to buy RAM."
Mocking people for using Windows, Linux or whatever is a childish/youngish thing to do. Most people grow out of that phase, but you gotta love the young programmers coming up. Apple has been pretty clever about exploiting the tribal nature of these (mostly) young men.
"When it rains it pours."

Re: lithium

Yesterday I was just charging the lithium battery for a new RC Chopper I had purchased which was sitting in the outer office. I heard a large pop almost like a gun went off. Ran out and the battery had exploded! Only used it one time (was on the 2nd charge).

I then measured the temperature with an infrared sensor and it read 216degees F in the exposed part that I got a reading off of (varied between about 160 and 216 depending on where I probed).

Now I can't fly until they send me a new batter and charger which they have to do by ground because the batteries can't be shipped by air.
where will you get legal ROMs for those consoles?

You don't. You put on your eyepatch, grab your cutlass, and raise the Jolly Roger.
So that's what that Dead Kennedys song was about..!
No it's not. You even quoted me.
I always look at things like this and say that I wish I understood every step of the process, from electrical theory to fabrication.

I have the same approach to software, but I have to keep reminding myself that the things I'm trying to understand took hundreds of people to complete. It's an incredibly annoying internal struggle. I have no idea how to deal with it aside from grinding it all out until I die.
That's Hamtramck, a city that was mostly settled by Eastern Europeans but also now has many immigrants from the Middle East and South Asia. It is technically a separate city from Detroit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamtramck
>Bias up front: I am a Googler.

What do you think of this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6054532
I feel that the problem is the price, none of the major console manufacturers have tried (or at least succeeded) in building a console for that sort of money. There's probably a reason for that.
Rob from Twilio again. Our CEO Jeffiel just posted an update on the situation on our blog which can be found here: http://www.twilio.com/blog/2013/07/billing-incident-update.h...

Full text also here:

At 3:28am PDT/11:28am GMT, our monitoring systems reported an anomaly in our billing systems, which resulted in erroneous credit card charges and in some cases account suspensions. This incident affected 1.1% of customer accounts. The on call team immediately began an incident response, using the Twilio status dashboard at status.twilio.com to update customers at regular intervals. By 6:24am PDT/2:24pm GMT all suspended accounts had had service restored. The same problem briefly re-occurred at approximately 12:30pm PDT/8:30pm GMT, affecting 0.3% of customer accounts, which were immediately remedied.

At this time, the Twilio billing system is offline and account-balances are not being updated in real-time until we fully resolve the issue. We are actively processing credit card refunds, and you will see a transaction void or refund on your credit card statement shortly (most banks process these within 24-48 hours). While the billing issue is being resolved, all voice and messaging services continue to operate normally.

In addition to refunding erroneous credit card transactions, Twilio will also be crediting affected accounts an additional 10% of their last 30 days’ spend. We recognize that it’s not about the money, but our responsiveness to the situation that matters to you. If your account was affected, please consider this credit an acknowledgement of the inconvenience we’ve caused you. If affected customers incurred overdraft or over-limit fees due to this incident, we will also make them whole. We are in the process of contacting all affected customers via email.
Additionally, we will be releasing a full postmortem on the incident once all events and root causes are known, as well as detailing the corrective steps we’ll be taking.

Our focus is on providing you the best quality service and experience, and we recognize that today’s disruption came up short of what you expect from Twilio. Please accept our apologies and know it is our mission to always be earning your trust and business.

As many have you have pointed out on Twitter, this is not a fun day for our team, and especially our engineers. We appreciate your support and your patience.

Sincerely,
Jeff Lawson
CEO & Co-founder
Yup - all the cool kids are wearing stethoscopes!
> Even as a credit analyst, I agree that you can't really feel sorry for the bondholders here. If you want to lend in any market, you need to assume the risk that the debtor goes bankrupt. Pensioners are a different story though.

Very much agree.

> However it's absolutely not true that "a lot of money in the US is being lent with the assumption that creditors will always be bailed out by the state or federal government", at least not a large amount relative to the total bond market size.

This is more subtle. While bankruptcies even on the scale of Detroit don't work with an implicit backstop assumption, large-scale muni bankruptcies on the scale predicted by Meredith Whitney are a different story. Let's face it: When push came to shove, Fannie and Freddie were not allowed to enter runoff mode.

There doesn't seem to be an opinion that this will kick over the can and start the bankruptcy run, but throw in a couple of more and the political&banking dynamics would turn interesting in a hurry.
You can easily find a bedroom in Palo Alto for $1500 (maybe not right downtown, maybe as part of a bigger house/apartment, but a bedroom to yourself). It seems like ~1k is still achievable if you're patient and any part of PA will do. And it only gets cheaper if you're willing to go to Mountain View (only a bit cheaper), Redwood City, or really any other part of the peninsula.
This is demonstrably not true:

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/transparency-report-s...

Google has ALWAYS pushed for more transparency in government data requests. The government only allowed reporting on NSL's earlier this year (and even then only in aggregate). FISA actions were and are still a harder fight.
On the Medium blog page? Or on Minimalytics/HookFeed/Small HQ sites? Thanks!
Yahoo acquires Beijing-based startup Ztelic
TextMate? Guess I'm going extinct. :-)
DevOps in general is about speed and repeatability of provisioning. It tends to kick in when you need, say, 5 Apaches, 7 Redises, and perhaps 3 *SQL slaves to handle your traffic.
Watsi (YC's first non-profit) is hiring a front-end developer
Dorky was just the icing on top, the reason why it failed was practicality.

It cost many times more than even high end bicycles, without being faster, without being able to be used on streets, without having as much cargo capacity, and while depriving you of exercise.

It cost many times more than a scooter, while being slower, having far less range, less cargo capacity, and not being usable on streets.

And so on.

If it had cost $200 it might have had a chance to find a niche, but at $3k or so it's just a toy.
Is there any easy way to do native iOS application development with Objective-C if you don't run OSX?
This review states the Ouya is "hacker friendly" and I think thats far from the truth. It comes with a locked bootloader and, as far as I've been able to research, no one has been able to put any other version of Linux on it.

I think piracy concerns ended up causing Ouya to close their system some, making it less hacker friendly.
> In a 2001 story, the New York Times reported that there were 23,068 reported pickpocketing incidents in the city in 1990, amounting to nearly $10 million in losses. Five years later, the number of reported incidents had fallen by half, and by the turn of the millennium, there were less than 5,000. Today, the NYPD doesn't even maintain individual numbers on pickpocketing.

NYPD crime statistics become more and more bogus every year. Just Google "NYPD statistics" and read the articles which pop up on the front page. Every mayor and police chief wants to point to statistics showing that crime is falling, and promotions and such are all related to statistics looking good, so naturally enough, the statistics are being fudged all over the place.

There may be more or less pickpockets now than in decades past, but NYPD statistics are nothing to go by.
Oh is that how that works? That makes more sense.
They use different object file formats, different system calls, different library loading procedures, and on and on. Even if Mac OS X had the actual Linux kernel, the windowing interfaces are completely different.
How Gmail should look like
if you're bypassing the ChromeOS by installing a full Linux stack then aren't you undoing the "just works" part and you're back to the same issue of "maintaining" an OS. And its a very expensive machine for what you're getting. The Air is less expensive for more hardware, and you get a real operating system.
Are you claiming that evil people are stupid? I'm not sure what the analogous risk is meant to be for governments there - they already seem plenty organised.
Gender and Emotion in Criminal Law
Can a local explain what is "wrong" with Sunset/Parkside as they are half the price? Surely there is some attraction to being able to observe the ocean, sunsets and being alongside a park?
Thanks, I have been in touch with my account manager... just making a note that developers should consider this type of failure to try and build resilient systems using Twilio.
Ah, yes, a university press release, with its well known role in the Science News Cycle.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174

I wish these researchers well. Cancer has been tough to treat,

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-havent-we-cured-canc...

in large part because "cancer" is not really just one disease, but a general term for a variety of related diseases with many different kinds of outcomes and treatment trade-offs.

If someone can find a very general commonality to most cancers, with a treatment for that commonality that is safe and effective (and not too expensive) for human beings around the world, that person will of course win a Nobel Prize in medicine. Here on Hacker News, over the 1704 days that I have been here, I have seen many kind submissions of breathless claims of breakthroughs in cancer research. We all desire that cancer breakthroughs happen. Follow-up, so far, has not suggested that any such cancer breakthrough actually has happened. I wish the researchers well, and I hope to hear later about placebo-controlled multicenter clinical trials that show that this approach is safe and effective for human medicine.
There's little to no adversarial aspect in a negotiation between government employees over the size of government employee pensions.
Navigation: Left Push is the best CSS "drawer" I've seen on iOS so far. It's choppy coming in but perfect going back out on this page.

Do you think it has to do with the number of elements on the content page? I'll make another demo to test it out later, just on my phone now.
That's been my experience. I use OSX, but am regretting it after a few years of it seeming interesting. I think it really was superior years ago when Linux had bad wifi support, but nowadays it seems like it's not going to be my next machine. The experience is so bad that I spend much of my time inside a Debian VM inside Virtualbox inside OSX! The package management sucks: the OSX app store has a fairly narrow range of things, and then brew/Macports/fink have a different range of things, which don't install or work nearly as reliably as the stuff I apt-get inside a virtual machine. Setting environment variables requires a weirdly extensive intervention (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/135688/setting-environmen...). And the difference between the base-install python/perl/ruby and recent versions installed via non-Apple means is an unnecessary hassle. Etc.
I'm no fan on Anonymous, but it's worth remembering that any security hole that they can exploit can also be exploited by other, more malicious groups, and probably already has been.
I agreed with you until I has this thought:

If one man can stand up to the US Gov. risking liberty and life, big businesses certainly can. Google stood by and let it happen. Too often does the world hinges on the actions of one man, in spite of the cowardice of the organised, resourceful and powerful.

As a result, I am disgusted by google, and the others. Yahoo tried, and still try. Why not the all mighty do no evil google?

Remember people, it only takes one man. One single, principled, brave, man. (I am reminded of the central message of Babylon 5)
From the comments (yeah, I know, WTF and I doing reading comments on the internet???):

Also, considering the fact that the NSA appears to broadcast such critical data to just about anyone with a clearance, it can be assured that they don't care at all about foreign governments learning about them. They are primarily concerned about their real enemy, US citizens, and tangentially concerned about the non-US public (Manning's revelation that the US would no longer be able to support its oppressive allies lead to the Arab spring).
Android is the most important OS & platform in the world
well, I think if we are talking strictly about efficiency, the intuitive answer would be: either a single government, or at least a government whose boundaries are set based on more practical and real rather than artificial foundations.

National identities, as complex as they are and as huge an improvement over religions as they are to serve for the above purpose, are still artificial constructs that in many ways create arbitrary boundaries, introduce and perpetuate differences that are not necessary to exist between people and in some cases have even been manipulated and used by governments for political reasons.
Within the still-walkable neighborhoods (Clarksville, Adams-Hemphill, Rosedale, etc.), yes. $500K will be around a 1500-1700 sf SFR, and you will need to put in some elbow grease after closing day. Bay Area and San Jose are used to houses of that size, but many families in Texas look for 2500+ sf. Around that range, price tags start around $800K for a turnkey SFR move-in, and go up rapidly from there. Condos in the walkable downtown area are around $600K for a family-livable 1400-1600 sf.

Police coverage in these areas is strictly just who is on duty for those neighborhoods; you are not going to find lots of families of police living in these pricey neighborhoods, so the demand from residents to hire a lot more beat officers for the higher densities (and the increasing crime that the influx of population is bringing) will be pretty intense in the near future. Fire departments have not been really upgraded to suitably manage high-rise fires. Austin did significantly improve its central area sewage "backbone" capacity with a massive upgrade to a very large downtown pipe, but no new treatment plants are coming online soon. New fresh water plants and sources are especially scarce looking out over the 20-30 year time horizon.

All of this is to say if you think the about-2.75% property tax (and no Proposition 13) at these kinds of prices gives you sticker shock even after accounting for no state income tax, be sure to plan for even more property taxes in the 20-30 year time horizon. There is plenty of infrastructure spending to come that was deferred and will be demanded by residents in the higher-density future. You do not have to report your sales/purchase price in Texas (but naturally you still report sales price to the IRS), so property tax assessment and challenge becomes a blood sport here for some people; as property prices for SFRs start commonly hitting $1M+ in a few years, expect that to intensify. A lot of the NIMBY'ism pointed out in this thread that afflicts SF is even stronger in these Austin neighborhoods, who have very active neighborhood associations regularly lobbying city council members. In short, there are a lot of very good reasons Austin residential real estate in the central neighborhoods will explode in prices in the current boom.

If you are childless and in a $90K and up bracket, and especially if you are a professional couple with each earning that, then these numbers can possibly be finessed in your personal finance (if you ignore saving for various goals). It's a very comfortable lifestyle, but kind of "fake it 'til you make it"; it gets pretty challenging with children in the picture.