skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, let's go back farther. In 1937 (back in history a third of the lifetime of the republic), expenditures as a percentage of GDP were 8.6% (almost all discretionary; SS was nothing back then and there was no Medicare). In 2011, discretionary expenditures as a percentage of GDP were 9%.

Going back further than that paints a misleading picture. The scope of government increases, super-linearly, with the complexity of the society being governed.[1] Growth that is the result of accommodating a more complex society with exponentially more interaction between people as a result of ever finer-grained division of labor is still growth, but not the kind of growth alluded to in your comment. The growth implied by your comment is steady-state growth: government consumes more until it becomes unsustainable. The fact that government, at least the federal government, has been remarkably consistent in size during the modern industrial era cuts against that narrative.

[1] This is essentially a law of nature, applying to everything from business corporations to operating systems.
Go for the new. The new N7 may be getting the new software update, but it's not like it has the hardware to match. Better chips, a back-camera, a notification light. Likely faster/fixed NAND issues as well. There are a lot of new things in the 2013 N7 to like.
Can you briefly explain how the development of the custom ASIC's for BitCoin mining are of utility outside of their purpose built role? I don't understand that line of reasoning.
Gauging interest is definitely the main goal for now, and it's seeming like the only way to do that without getting the full legal outfit first is selling for events like you mentioned.

Your last point is resourceful, but it also kind of goes against our market advantage of 'the only home-made doughnut location near campus'.
That's what I do. While other people are spending time over-thinking some sport on tv I am over-thinking things that put money in my pocket.

This is practice for that over-thinking.
Really funny. Everybody else does it. Even though two devices are not comparable in form factor. Why it is in minuscule fine print though? Please ...
IE8 doesn't support it for non-DOM objects.
Has anyone used this? I like that I can use Lua. Big plus. But the clumsiness of the "IDE" is pain-point.

I wanted to load a demo project and the open-file box starts at the root of my machine. '/'. Not even my home folder, and not the folder from where I launched the IDE.

You can't paste a directory path anyplace, and you cannot navigate by typing the first letters of folders. So I had to click though about eight directories to get what I wanted.

I appreciate it when people put in the effort to produce tools, for free, on their own time, but if it ends up being a real pain to use I'd want some good reasons not to go learn Unity.
There is a famous whistleblower now running in the elections for Moscow mayor office. And there are a lot of such people, although they haven't dug as deeply as Snowden.

Unfortunately, the story here in the media has boiled down to international spying scandal, the original statement - that it violates some US constitution amendment - has been forgotten.
In Soviet Russia, my friend is my enemy's enemy.
Other optimization passes will widen the vecorization width to 4 if possible by unrolling the loop!
Ok. I think you're unlikely to get hellbanned for saying anything I've said, too.

This has more to do with the weirdness of the hellbanning system, which is a whole other can of worms.
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Moreover, like an expensive suit (note: I don't own one of those), there is little intrinsic utility in a premium font

I actually agree with your point about "okay, so buy two good fonts instead of dozens of crappy ones' -- but I disagree there is little intrinsic utility in a high-quality 'premium' font.

A better font will make the work that uses it more readable and intelligible. It adds _utility_, not just beauty, to the text that uses it.
The "Buy Now" page has two options now: Google Play and Amazon. If I buy it through Amazon, do I get the 3 months netflix? Or is it only through Google Play?
The “No Series A” Startup
Which is exactly what they've accounted for here, and why they've given both options.
Ok so the following comment is good.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6098357

Yes he could veto the bill, but this bill contains multiple parts and I believe is the entire DoD budget. So if he did so the US would have no DoD budget. That would be very bad for him.

None of the other comments here are wrong, but they don't address the issue of a Presidential Veto affecting the entire bill not just the amendment.
"Free up to 5GB". So will there be plans with limits or just 1 unlimited space plan? Any idea what the price point will be?

The biggest issue I have with photos is the cost of the storage. As much as I'd like sharing and convenient access and everything, right now I just dump them all in iPhoto on my mac and backblaze takes care of it.
"Federal civilian employment is at roughly where it was in the late 1960's"

That OPM report is demonstrably misleading. It doesn't include contract employees which have been increasing since the 80's and have ballooned in the past decade. OPM doesn't keep numbers on the number of contractors. It's also been shown that a contract employee gets paid almost double what a civil servant does for doing the same exact job.[0] Some studies estimate that federal government contractors out number civil servant employees 4 to 1.[1]

Politicians love this because it allows them to say they are holding the line on the size of the federal government in terms of federal employees while it is actually increasing in common sense terms.

[0] http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/2011/co-gp-20110913.htm...

[1]http://wagner.nyu.edu/performance/files/True_Size.pdf
On my work computer (I'm a webdev):

1	101 20.2% vim
2	64 12.8% gs
3	56 11.2% cd
4	49 9.8% git
5	40 8% ls
6	30 6% ga
7	20 4% grep
8	20 4% gcm
9	20 4% brake
10	14 2.8% gpso

`git` actually is a much higher percentage, since `gs`, `ga`, `gcm`, and `gpso` are aliases for various git commands.
The C API is deemed stable. The C++ API changes every release. The textual IR has so far been forwards compatible. Bit code is also supposed to be forwards compatible but some bugs have prevented this in the past. Backwards compatibility is right out which can be frustrating.
I totally get you. I'm actually very organized with everything stored across all media except photos taken with my iPhone. Currently, I've been using Dropbox sync to auto upload my photos which I then manually organize into albums...cumbersome process, but for me this manual process relieves an OCD aspect lol.

I think Loom's fluid and extremely simple approach beats every previous app or service I've considered in the past. Pretty excited to try it out.
Could you elaborate on the 'taking nay sayers' seriously?
Yeah, until you run into a performance problem and have no clue how to even approach solving it.
Many indie developers spend years developing their game,

yet charge ~10$.

Games can be incredibly complex, you're underestimating

the amount of effort it takes to write one. You're also

assuming that he's selling his game on a mobile app store,

which may not be case (there's Steam, Desura, and other

online portals).
Cool! I really enjoy seeing how people make this stuff. The reason I find it impressive to see these things made in CSS (as opposed to Flash, or whatever) is because while you can essentially make any shape in CSS, it's not always straight-forward. So the impressive part for me is the inventive ways that people build these things.

BTW this didn't work in Chrome for me, but it did work in Firefox Nightly.
If that partnership does end up panning out, I wouldn't be surprised if the final design ended up looking something like this.
Related to #3, while your users aren't reading TC, your potential competitors most likely are... So pick your forum based on the audience.

On the flip side, TC gets syndicated widely, and is very helpful for technical hiring.
What makes it AirPlay 2.0?
That's an awesome story. Kinda makes me want to get crack'n on things.
I'm going to ignore all the malicious comments about how fraudulent this is. This is an amazing achievement, and it reminds me of a much better way of improving your skills.

Last time I wanted to build a ray-tracer, I starting using the PBR book, and then started learning about Fourier series and transforms, about signals etc. This of depth-first aquisition of knowledge is not very adequate for the average human mind, whose curiosity and motivation are much better served by achieving many short and tangible results, a so-called feedback loop.

Seeing Jennifer and her progress, I'm determined to start a similar project: 1 demo (not necessarily 4k/64k) coded in asm/GLSL per week.
That's after I actually finish writing my hobby OS, which is being done in the same DFS fashion (started reading Tanenbaum's book on Minix, it has plenty of references).
It doesn't, but it doesn't say it's compatible:

> Chromecast is compatible with WiFi-enabled Android 2.3+ smartphones and tablets; iOS 6.0+ iPhones, iPads, and iPods; Chrome for Mac® and Chrome for Windows®; and Chromebook Pixel. Power cord required (not shown).

edit - although this article claims it does: http://gigaom.com/2013/07/24/chromecast-shows-how-google-is-...

We'll have to wait for some more information, I think.
I am puzzled by all of this apparent concern people have over privacy all of a sudden. Over a year ago, an essay [1] written by Judge Kozinski was submitted [2]. This was one of the most insightful and important essays on privacy and how we are at risk of losing much of it written in the last quarter century or more. It got NO votes and drew NO comments. (It has 2 points because 2 separate people submitted it).

It's currently an open question whether or not what the NSA is doing violates the 4th Amendment. Even if it is a violation of the 4th Amendment right now, it will not be in a few years due to the factors Kozinski discusses.

[1] http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/privacy-paradox/dead...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834977
Trail of Bits releases iVerify - iOS anti-malware tool
You misunderstand. You can already create access point on Android. The bug is about Android not being able to connect to ad-hoc WiFi networks (say, one created on your laptop whose chipset doesn't support infra-mode). (edit: Also want to mention that iOS devices have supported this ad-hoc networking from Day 1).

There are a number of use-cases reported on that bug: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82
From the funding graph slopes it is obvious that the market prices that device at 650$. So expect 626 and 666 (Devil badass edition) tiers soon.
I'm not sure why pitching to TechCrunch and pitching to other blogs/Twitter are mutually exclusive.
The Truth About Internships: Free Labor, Great Supply
Facebook and Google Want a Piece of Japan's Digital Sticker Business
This is awesome, humbling, and inspiring at the same time.

(There were 180 comments on this story, now there are 181)
tl;dr - main reason - grapes are sour.
> In a wondrous hypothetical future where processors support a NaCL restricted operating mode

If we speculate wildly, why not an "asm.js restricted operating mode"? Not saying that's a good idea, but I'm not sure why a NaCl one would be either. Both PNaCl and asm.js should reach pretty much native speed anyhow.

Btw, the L is not capitalized in NaCl.
Their goal of $32M seems impossible, unless I'm not understanding how indiegogo works.

If all the pledge levels 'fill up' (Only $830 and $20 do not have caps) They hit about 11 or 12 million. That leaves about 20 million to be supplied by the $830, $20 levels - or just random goodwill givings. Is that correct?

*edit, an illustration of what I was seeing:
http://pastebin.com/8GfXRzbY
The Collaborative Image of The City: Mapping the Inequality of Urban Perception
In addition to the Irony Rich statements coming from the Whitehouse, they are attacking this from another front http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130723/01361323896/duelin...

The Nugent amendment while sounding very similar is probably meant to gut the "real changes" Amash amendment by splitting the votes.

Sneaky ..very sneaky
Loeb Wins and Shareholders Lose Out at Yahoo
See also http://www.site44.com/
I like playing with various dropbox experiments.

What is the deal with dropbox these days? Is it okay to host websites out of my dropbox via a dropbox associated app?
I'd love to be able to add the same photo to more than one album. This seems like the sort of thing that's a natural advantage of digital photos over regular ones.

Let's say I was taking pictures of friends at a baseball game, along with a couple of other shots of the surroundings. I want to put the pictures of friends in "friends" album, but I also want to put those same pictures in the overarching "baseball" album, or the album for that particular game. It seems as though you have nested albums, which is nice, but this would be a good usecase to look into.

Also, while I was playing around, I created an album that I wanted to get rid of. I deleted the album and it took all of the pictures in it out of my timeline. I probably should have figured that the albums act more as folders than tags when I discovered that pictures were assigned to a single album, but I can't figure out how to reupload those pictures. Any help?

Congratulations on the launch!
It seems to me that startups fail for one or more of these two basic reasons:

(1) The product can't make money. (Corollary: at first, the product only needs to convince investors it can make money, and then it can be sold to large web firms for great profit.)

(2) The firm can't complete the product.

I have seen all combinations of the two above.

I think the tendency on a lot of self-help websites is to try to give advice for accomplishing a product according to what has worked for other people.

However, any startup is a business, and the principles of the two rules above still apply: find something that you can sell, and then find a way to accomplish at least a 1.0 version of it.
> When will that be, exactly?

Next Thursday, 7:39 PM PDT time. Go outside and look at the sky.

> The promise has been a long time coming,

Indeed.

> and in the meantime, the constitution of the industry is shifting away from a web myopia.

I'm sure there are individual companies that fit that description, but I don't see it from where I sit. Here's an example of one of the classic big native platform apps doing stuff on the web. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/
Wow, really cool concept and implementation. I have a lot of respect for people who can put together things like this quickly.
This should be conferenced into all twilio calls.
Yes, there has been progress on this (separately on input latency and output latency). I don't think all the improvements have been pushed out yet (even on supported devices).
I'd recommend posting a transcript. My guess is more people click this link here on HN and ignore the audio than will click on the audio all day long from anywhere.
Google Unveils Next-Generation Nexus 7 Tablet
They've now hit 5.2 million which is pretty good for 3 days, here's a graph which indicates they might be on track:

http://doridian.de/edgegraph/

I think with their new tiered offers they might just get there...
This is exactly what I've been wanting the Apple TV to be for ages. The only thing Apple TV is actually good for is Airplay. There doesn't need to be an OS or a UI for the Apple TV: your phone or tablet will be a better experience for typing and searching for content every time. Its a fool's errand to try to design a UI for a TV that isn't dreadfully painful to use: no one ever wants to interact with something 10 feet away.

This is what the future of TV should be: people should just think of TV's the way they think of their jamboxes: a higher fidelity dumb pipe for their existing content. If Apple turned the Apple TV into an HDMI dongle that solely included AirPlay and included it for free with every iPad and iPhone they sold, it would truly disrupt TV. If I knew for a fact that every new iDevice owner was necessarily and AppleTV owner, I would immediately start making AppleTV-enabled experiences. Overnight the iPad would become a real competitor to game consoles as well.

It just seems so obvious that this is the right way to go. The apps should live on the brain (your device), and the TV should just be an auxiliary screen, nothing more (We certainly don't need YET ANOTHER SDK for writing TV apps). Here's a fun exercise: go to your local Apple Store and ask them what an Apple TV is for today. Then watch them fumble around mentioning "oh if you have Netflix" and "isn't cable hard to use" and just the sheer lack of vision for the product. If it was just AirPlay it would be as easy to explain as an iPod speaker. If they did this, then you could also imagine indie people shipping TV Shows as apps as a viable model for the first time, completely skirting Cable networks.
Does the Senate ordinarily fillibuster appropriations bills?

The Senate still has their secret, hands-free fillibuster. This one could die in the senate, or be the bill that forces the Dems to change the Senate's fillibuster rules.
This is awesome. When I read the title I was expecting a bunch of exercises in layout with different slick UIs and such. I was very surprised by how creative each of these were. They're very fun to go through. And in the end, when it comes to getting a job, this kind of stuff looks way better than "went to school, got this degree".
Fast Hierarchical, Agglomerative Clustering Routines for R and Python
...then why make the assertion that congress never defunds anything?
It would be a permanent embarrassment to his legacy to perpetuate this state of affairs via a signing statement. At the very least, I doubt his ego would allow it.
There's actually an aside in the article that specifically thanks Knockdown.js and Backbone.js for their contributions :)
The same's true of mining equipment used to pull worthless diamonds out of the earth and the pollution it creates. The "problem" is the pointless mining generates valuable stuff in addition to waste heat.
He used swearwords, but that's a superficial test. The provocation was worse-- the casual assumption of lack of integrity, after this whole useless subthread started with someone deliberately misinterpreting his use of "ambivalent" and then trying to pull the if-you're-not-with-us-you're-against-us trick. No real discussion can follow such a reply.

You should all go work on something productive.
Other than personal observation, no, I'm afraid. I doubt there is any (greater than zero) interest in researching this topic, especially since most of us get nostalgic for any type of system if we've succeeded in it.

However, having gone through a number of competitive schools at different levels of education... the smartest kids were not always at the head of the class. There were also people of moderate to high intelligence who suffered huge test-taking anxiety, which got worse when you had a situation where one test or one project determined the semester's grade.

It's kind of like your first driver's test to get your license at sixteen. Sometimes the stress was so much that people fainted while waiting in line.
Microsoft To Announce Indie Self-Publishing For Xbox One
> fantasy land in which the smarter you are, the better game you'll make

This is very true. I can testify that I work very hard at making my own 3D/2D game engines/gui frameworks. Yet, how many games I have finished: 0

> I've probably abandoned about 95+% of game projects I started

We should start a club ( http://jeffrey.io/wall-of-shame )

> perpetuates the idea that good games == good technology

I think, we are very fortunate, to be in this realm of easy and cheap CPU. good technology, back in the old days, were critical to putting out amazing games. This was simply due to the fact that without the crazy tech, you wouldn't have anything worth playing.

Now, woah, I can have my browser in an emulated android instance running on my emulated linux machine run games just as good as SNES.

For some new side projects, when I just "let go" of all the tricks and crazy algorithms I know and just "code to get things done"; it's like flying. Maybe in the next couple of years, I'll actually finish a game... Maybe
No worries! I completely understand.
That's very helpful, Ed. I recently started a new job, and I've been frustrated that my work output isn't 'perfect' yet. I rationally know that I just need to keep my head down and churn through assignments over time, but it helps to hear that from someone else, too.
how is it not possible to run emacs with azerty keyboard? is there something preventing you from starting emacs? or some key efficiency issue??
I would love to have a cloud solution for personal pictures, etc but I do not see any mention about the security/ rights/ privacy. That would be my main concern for using a service like this.
Possible integration with Google Now would be tres cool, too. Talk to search... yum... "Netflix, play star trek on my TV"
You should see the baby-boomers I know show off to their neighbors when they watch xfinity, streamed from their laptops to their TVs, via hdmi.

Being 60 doesn't mean you don't get excited about technology anymore. But it does mean that you have more time to play with it ;)
Google authorizes distribution of their apps through a separate channel. This issue was resolved when CM was present a C&D in early 2011 (iirc) for distributing Google apps with the ROM image. My understanding is that as long as Google apps are in a separate file, Google consents to the distribution, at least in the case of CM. IANAL.
Reminds me of a quote I really liked from a Macklemore song:

"The greats weren't great because at birth they could paint. The greats were great cause they paint a lot."
>and don't try to dress up the mutual exchange of value (user's money for our code) in some sort of ridiculous redefinition of "freedom"

Bullshit, this is what you've been trying to do during this entire discussion. You claim over and over again that the the user has the 'freedom' not to use proprietary software.

But when that same 'freedom' is directed at developers who has the same 'freedom' not to use GPL licenced code, then suddenly you say their 'rights' are being taken away.

According to you proprietary developers are somehow robbed of a 'right' when they can't use GPL licenced code, which is nonsense as the only right they have to use ANY code is by the conditions set by the code owner, be it conditions of a licence or conditions of monetary compensation.

Your hypocrisy shines through your entire line of poorly constructed arguments.

You dislike GPL because you as a proprietary developer can't use that code, which for some reason you think you have a 'right' to.
Those factors are not inexorable. Even the future has a future.
Maybe they will let Dick Cheney shoot him in the face with a shotgun.
Screen "niceness" constitutes far more factors than just DPI.

It could be contrast ratio, colour gamut, brightness, subpixel quality, viewing angles, reflectivity of coating, susceptibility to oils/fingerprints...

(I haven't used either, I'm just saying)
which works better in the 4:3 format

The entire computer and laptop market has overwhelmingly endorsed 16:10 and 16:9, and most content correspondingly adapted. This notion that the web was built for 4:3, or is somehow superior on it, seemed to rise out of nowhere the moment Apple happened to announce the iPad as 4:3.