skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you find that it feels like work to go through your RSS feeds, then you're doing it wrong. Plain and simple. Your whole argument for why RSS readers are bad seems to consist of "I have too many feeds", and "I have a lot of other programs open at the same time."

I have around 40 feeds right now, and I look forward to updates because I'm subscribed to a lot of interesting content without a whole bunch of filler. But here's the thing: even if I don't have time to read everything, I just click "mark all as read." That's why that button exists. The world doesn't end when I click it. It's not like e-mail where I have to read through everything to make sure I don't need to reply to someone. I continue on with my day and await future updates.

The whole argument about an "app-centric world" and having so many things open at once is completely irrelevant because it rests on the faulty assumption that RSS readers are demanding of users. They're not, if you're using them efficiently. And even if they were, I have a really hard time believing that having 30+ tabs and 10+ programs open at once is "not atypical". Maybe for the extremely heavy web users, but not for the average person.

If you insist on being subscribed to a ton of RSS feeds and only want the best posts, then perhaps you'd like Digg Reader. I haven't explored it too much, but they display a little dot beside the most popular items (as determined by social media). I'm pretty sure NewsBlur also tries to figure out which content you're the most interested in, but I haven't tried it out either.
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I have an easier time trusting large groups over individual people, because groups can display trend behavior whereas individuals are always going to have eccentricities that can't be mitigated by aggregation.
I think it's a great idea.
How would it look "out of" the mac pro?
Why Everyone Is Pissed Off About Google Chrome’s Sound Security
We've come across so many amazing people from the reddit community! Really love what they have going on there - we're just trying to give a bit more structure to the people who need it.
Evernote as my GTD reference
Agreed. Can you recommend a better alternative?
Do you know if InComm/Giftango take on any of the burdens of fraud?

There already seems to be a big moral hazard problem with credit card companies and merchants, where the merchants have to cover the entire loss if I understand correctly.

I'm hoping competition from startup payment processors might put pressure on credit card companies, as this ends up costing businesses and consumers a lot of money.
While we're at it, why (if I'm in the US) do I have to keep selecting my state, town etc., in addition to my zipcode?
I wish Instacart had delivery in my city. Oh well. You can always order groceries from Amazon, although its limited.
This implies a dramatic lack of competition in the SoC market if you can't shop around and find a vendor that will at least provide release images to flash devices with openly, if not actual open specification devices with FOSS drivers.
Given that 1 Ruble is worth about $0.03 at current exchange rates, your 2 cents are actually more like 6 cents.
Why should I have to "have a look". If I know that the time zone is always the one from my hometown I never have to look or worry about it being wrong. I'd rather calculate the time difference in my head (or take a look on my watch/phone) than "have a look".

So, I have never ever (after the OS installation) changed the time zone for any of my computers and knowing that the OS doesn't do this behind my back I've never had to look or worry about it.

But even if it were perfect, why would you want your laptop to reflect the time zone you are currently in? Shouldn't the time on your laptop be the time you are the most familiar with and that you most deal with? For your day-to-day needs you have your phone and/or watch anyway, if anything a reference to the home time would be preferable instead of having all devices say the same thing.
Why? HN users tend to have income, and probably spend money on work/productivity related products. Example ads: hosting, programming tools, job boards, vc/legal services, startup services, etc.
> Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix!

I do not own any Nexus 7 devices but I do recall reading about issues related to degraded flash performance over time for the first generation devices.

I am wondering though how do you know for certain that the newer model device have this resolved ?
Fix title. "lost" is not the equivalent of "stands to lose"
What's also interesting about all of this (when looking at qualitative factors) is that while we have plenty of data on certain people's success after the "nth" investor took a gamble (and it is a gamble since many had passed on the same person/opportunity [1]) on their idea and we have statistics on people that they gambled on and failed, what we don't have is any statistics on someone that everyone passed on and what would have happened if one person took a chance on them and gave them an opportunity.

[1] (as with Drew Houston and the east coast))
Plus the unreality of calculating this a month and a half after the leak.
> If you think time has no bearing on aesthetic then you don't know much about design.

"Design" is not synonymous with "ephemeral fashion"; good design principles appeal to human perception and cognition irrespective of what was popular yesterday or which page of the calendar is facing up today.

You've still yet to articulate any substantive criticism of Slashdot's design.
and these people are not able to copy/steal the needed driver binary from one of these phones?
It's because the memory needed to have fstrim run on it regularly. In Android 4.3, this now happens daily. If you're running a device with an earlier version of Android, you can use LagFix (requires root): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon...
As a guy that works for one of the major banks in the US as a developer...the restrictions placed on even our development boxes is rediculous...HOWEVER they don't seem to give two craps about javascript...so this would be a GREAT capability for me to have and extend my workstations capabilities in a myriad of ways...

I can't wait for this! I might have to try and contribute if I can actually...
I think that really only applies to Twitter and Facebook, as I signed up with Google and they've never shared anything on my behalf. There is a share button on each article though, which is presumably the use case.

Well worth checking out (even if you do accidentally end up posting about the death of a computer science pioneer a year late :().
Sounds like free advertising with a very likely possibility that they never have to pay a dime at the end of the day.
You can fix it yourself by running fstrim regularly in the form of LagFix: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grilledmon...

Android 4.3 now runs fstrim daily to alleviate this issue.
not exactly xmonad for osx: a script for Zephyros
I think what GP means is that the crowd on this website are savvy and will just ignore the ads.
Choose 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Nobody ever chooses that set.
It may look pretty to some people, but it's horrendous to use in a desktop browser, especially when you just want the important information.

The video is a time-waster, without offering any useful information.

It then takes a bunch of scrolling just to get to the first panel with the basic details. Of course, they're quite limited, and interspersed within a bunch of irrelevant marketing nonsense.

Then even more scrolling is required to get further details.

The "Everything you care about ...", "Endless entertainment ...", etc. panels are huge space-wasters, without any useful information. I personally find them very distracting, too, due to how the page and background move relative to one another. They require more scrolling to get past.

It takes yet more scrolling to get to the "Tech Specs" link. Of course, it's broken for middle-clicks, so you're forced to open the specs inline. The font is unnecessarily huge, and there's excessive whitespace, resulting in even more scrolling just to view the specs. I don't even see any way to close the tech specs unless you scroll all the way to the bottom of them, and click the "close Tech Specs" link.

Finally, the useful pricing information is way at the bottom of the page, assuming the potential customer has even bothered to scroll this far down.

The useful information could have easily fit within one page that didn't require any scrolling whatsoever, without all of the marketing nonsense, and without the useless space-wasting imagery. I would be very pleased if I never had to encounter a page like that one ever again.
PayPal to "accept" Bitcoin. Official announcement to come before September.
The OP link is mostly blog spam that references

http://www.itif.org/publications/how-much-will-prism-cost-us...

which says $22 to $35 BN qualified with an "if" statement.

> The United States has been the leader in providing cloud computing services not just domestically, but also abroad where it dominates every segment of the market. Recent revelations about the extent to which the NSA obtains electronic data from third-parties will likely have an immediate and lasting impact on the competitiveness of the U.S. cloud computing industry if foreign customers decide the risks of storing data with a U.S. company outweigh the benefits. Unless the White House or Congress acts soon, the U.S. cloud computing industry stands to lose $22 to $35 billion over the next three years.
App.net is/was DOA. Dalton managed to con(vince) a bunch of developers to fork over money, but really, nobody cares what happens to App.net because the platform is proprietary and not open-source.
Lots of investments are very risky, almost like gambling but the odds aren't supposed to be stacked (return related to risk). Many people are addicted to playing the market would be (and often are) the same ones who would be addicted to games of chance.

I don't see why we have casinos at all. Just replace them with exquisite trading houses with over blown transaction fees.
It's pretty much up to you to check what you're signing. Inconvenience isn't a get out of jail free card! Apply some technology to it or at the very least, get some of those acetate sheets for use with the old school overhead projectors, print your official contract onto that and use it as a poor man's diff!
Many years ago I read an article in a Toronto newspaper that did a study of the least popular numbers. They are essentially prime numbers like 31, 37, 41 etc.
> this is about punishing fraud in selling investments

Were that true, the principals of Goldman Sachs would be in jail.
So what would you consider to be the "good representatives for an statically typed language"?
I've reported this bug on Sep 21, 2011 !!

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=97510&q=...
I'm really excited for this because I'll be able to use DigitalOcean with Bitcoin since they accept PayPal.
Then vote in Representatives who agree with you, instead of claiming that the government has no authority. They now have the authority, they were given it by the legislature, which is in the legislature's power to do. If you want the executive to not have the authority then you must have the legislature take it back. But simply claiming that the government doesn't have the authority just because you wish they would not have the authority, doesn't actually make it so.
Because choosing that sequence destroys the illusion by highlighting the infinitesimally small chances any given ticket has of winning.

Rational people who play the lottery know their chances are laughably low, and that a $1 or $2 ticket is just a license to daydream about riches and wealth.
That's the beauty of using objective (rather than subjective) intent as the test. You don't need to prove belief. Subjective belief is irrelevant. What you need is objective facts, and a court that pretends it's a reasonable person in the position of e.g. the offeree, knowing everything they knew, and decides what it would have understood by the offer.

The point is: you interpret words as they'd be understood by a reasonable person in the position of whoever the words were spoken to, not as they were understood by the person who spoke them.

E.g. consider the Hartog case. Key sentence: "...the plaintiff could not reasonably have supposed that that offer contained the offerers' real intention." ("Could not reasonably have supposed" is legal shorthand for "A reasonable person in their position would not have supposed"). If they had genuinely thought that the offeror meant it, it wouldn't have mattered.

No test by fire needed.

(NB this is English common law. I've been told in the past (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402595) that the UCC in the US is a whole lot more subjective than English law, so this is likely wrong in the US).
I thought that was infinity? Ah, but that would cause problems.
Go for it. Let me know when it's set up and I'll add a link to the site.
This is highly unlikely. Obviously a rumor to fuel one speculator's pump and dump scheme.
I LoL'd so much at this... I love it!
That his bank failed to read the fine print, as so many of us do, yet signed the agreement anyway, is a hilarious case of poetic justice.

This reminds me of the story here awhile back regarding someone signing credit card receipts with increasingly absurd signatures, including a drawn picture in lieu of his legal signature.

http://consumerist.com/2009/02/03/dont-draw-genitalia-as-you...
Link to the actual estimate: http://www2.itif.org/2013-cloud-computing-costs.pdf. The estimate is based on surveys conducted in June and July where 10% of respondents stated that they had canceled a U.S. cloud computing project as a result of the NSA programs. The paper than extrapolates from that and then projects the costs to U.S. business over the next three years if the U.S. loses 10%-20% of non-U.S. cloud spending over that period.

The weakness of the conclusion is that:

1) The survey is based on percentage of respondents, but that information is used to make a conclusion about dollar value of spending;

2) It assumes that the survey taken in the direct aftermath of the revaluations is representative of attitudes over the next three years.
> it should never be required

What a ridiculous statement. Lots of things are "required" if you want certain products to be useful. An XBox is required if I want to play XBox games.

Hell you require a web browser just to be able to enjoy the pleasure of checking that "disable javascript" box (though be careful you don't use Mozilla) in the first place (I mean you could use CURL but then you don't actually get to disable javascript).

The point is lets stop kidding around about Javascript here, no-javascript guy.

> If I can't use your site with scripts disabled, neither can a lot of other people.

People who need to disable Javascript are a vanishingly small portion of any potential market, there are many more use cases as far as web apps go where javascript is essential to any decent user experience. Not everything built on web technology is only about content these days. If you don't want to use that technology be my guest, but don't pretend your an important market to people developing on that technology.

> Screen readers and bots (including search engine spiders) have an easier time with well written HTML.

True but two things.

1) Web applications rarely rely on SEO outside of landing pages and a content strategy neither of which should rely on javascript for obvious reasons.

2) Designing applications for disabilities is extremely hard. Much harder than simply using "well written" HTML. Do you know how hard it is for blind people to play most video games? Again we're talking about interactive applications, not simply content. With content there is no problems but as we already went over the web is not only content now.

Edit: One more thought, technically translating the time to the local timezone setting of the browser is "progressively" enhanced. You could always just display UTC time if JS is disabled assuming that was important enough to your users to disable JS (or for bots).
Wait, so there's a backdoor, but police doesn't own it? Then I'm pretty sure NSA either has it or has a way to make Apple tell them how to use it, and it is done is some "security letter" manner that doesn't need a warrant and permissions from any non-kangaroo court. This is how these things are done these days. In any case, this confirms the backdoor exists and Apple has official queue for police to use it. One can only guess who else can access it and with which procedure...
Until you realize just how little of that money makes it to the schools :-/
It's darn near impossible to justify buying a ticket as a rational, wise investment (as the article points out) due to the odds, split jackpots at that size, and then taxes. But, if you include the intangible of a night or three of "dreams" of what you would do... then maybe one ticket (and only one ticket) might be okay... $2 for 60 hours of dreaming or a soda?... But then again you might be better without that money as most go broke and their relationships and lives are ruined over money. I'd recommend purchasing a $1 pick 5 game, often times with odds around 1:170,000 if you want to but a dream and not win enough to completely ruin your life. Or don't buy a ticket at all.
Wasn't that Blaize Pascal?
Kelly criterion has nothing to do with the marginal utility you gain from more money, it's about the risk of ruin in an iterated game.

And indeed, you can say that purchasing one ticket is a one-off event... but if you buy that one, why not every one that happens when the expectation is in your favor? Thus the risk of ruin becomes interesting to consider.
What's the 'fin' at the bottom of the app all about?
functionspace.org looks nice
Office max had a non-working model. Best buy only had the fire ones.

Hell will freeze before a DX is on display it seems.
Yeah, it's not really popular, these days. And don't count on it becoming more popular any time soon.
NI switches from VxWorks to RT Linux on new controller
Right. To be more precise, security is a set of costs on web developers, web viewers, and attackers. There is no obviously correct way to balance all three, once you start seeing feasible removed/missing features that would be genuinely useful tallied as costs.
Anecdotally, I recently moved the primary web server for my DNS hosting service (https://www.slickdns.com) from AWS to Digital Ocean and am getting much better performance at 1/3 of the cost.
That's a really clever way to randomize the data!
Anecdotally, I'm not sure I've ever clicked an online ad intentionally. If I have, it was during the 90s.
Wow. I can't believe the banks aren't bending their pet Congresscritters' ears, demanding new laws to regulate these practices.
Show HN: UnitsKit, Units of Measure lib for Objc
Depressing that such hugely speculative extrapolation is getting upvoted the way that it is. This "article" is typical traffic fodder taking a flawed report at face value and reporting it as fact.
As far as Giftango goes, they simply provide the platform, Whole Foods (or whomever is the actual gift card merchant) is responsible for any fraud which occurs due to abuse of the platform. Assuming the fraud was successful, Whole Foods will lose both their product and their money.
Well, hopefully not for health or ammo. The whole point of a heads up display is so that you can literally keep your head up. A "look down for info" mechanic might be neat for stats you'd normally put on a pause screen or things like your inventory, though.
Even if the Ubuntu Edge campaign doesn't reach its goal, I'm super excited about Ubuntu Touch. I've been running Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 4 for a while and it is just awesome. Super smooth, great experience and it really shows its potential.

I do hope Ubuntu Edge does reach $32M, but even if not, the future for Ubuntu on phones is very bright.
>thinking that inequality was a product of capitalism //

I don't think that [nor am I inclined to think did Marx]. I think capitalism exacerbates it drastically to a markedly negative effect (though not so negative as say malevolent dictatorship). Moreover I don't perceive inequality as detrimental, it's a truism that none are equal after all.

However I do certainly have communist beliefs about the best forms for society to adopt.
Oh, believe me, we're pursuing it. I'm slightly distracted right now by the RiftJam (Oculus Rift gamejam), which doesn't allow external input devices like this, but in the long term, I Have A Plan...
Avoiding the US because of government surveillance is odd, because we know that if you're outside the US you lose all supposed protections you have inside the US, and we know that other agencies collect everything.

GCHQ collect everything; caching it for 4 days and metadata for 30 days. These times are probably going to increase.

There are good reasons to avoid hosting anything in the US. (eg Weird lack of sensible privacy laws).
Can someone clarify this for me. It seems like they are openly publishing to a number of formats, which presumably(?) don't require an app.net account to access. Does this mean that they are defacto turning it in to a pay to publish (rather than pay to subscribe) platform?
> https://medium.com/p/28c5a31cd41d

What kind of URL is that?
He's so adjective he verbs nouns.
So call tmobile or verizon they are thankful for your call after all.
"How do I cite a tweet?"
And how would you ensure that there are enough public service jobs? Machines will be better at most of them than men anyway, so why society should deal with subpar human results?
It may be noted that one of my medium-term projects is a Rift word processor.

RenderToTexture and a webcam pointing at the keyboard is a lofi but possible way of solving the "can't see the keyboard" problem.
Yay! Another resource for early traffic.

StartupLi.st, which I created from my tent while on deployment in Afghanistan (crazy!), was an early mover in this space, and has some new features in the pipeline.

Kickoffboost looks pretty cool, and is in the same category as Erlibird, BetaList, KillerStartups, Wikindu, MoMB, StartupLift, etc. It's great to see so many sites looking to help boost the early traffic of very early startups.

Also, Mevvy and Ocitrus are newer resources to showcase your early startup.

All of these resources are recommended to use when looking for exposure and feedback on your early product/ prototype.

Eventually... TechCrunch will be an afterthought when looking for early traffic/ users. Cheers!:)
The prosecutor isn't going to be withholding exculpatory evidence, because the NSA won't be passing along exculpatory evidence in the first place.
Microsoft has lost its cool
not sure I agree with you.

Kelly says, if there is a positive expected value, there is an optimal amount to bet, which maximizes the growth rate of your stack per bet, if you were to bet repeatedly. If you overbet, your expected growth rate is negative... because over the long run, by the time you hit the jackpot you've lost too much of your stack to get back to even.

Basically, I think Kelly says you can't just go by expected value, ie your edge, you have to look at your stack. Overbetting turns a +EV bet into a -EV bet and eventual loss of your whole stack.

So 1) I don't think Kelly is a product of log utility, it just requires that you are trying to maximize your growth rate (As an aside, in many settings people are much more risk averse than log utility implies; and in many settings people don't have consistent cardinal utility, a time-inconsistent utility like prospect theory is more predictive) and 2) since you are presented with interesting bets every day, if not this particular one, Kelly generally applies, since if you don't heed it you fall victim to gambler's curse.