skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_the_FIFA_World_Cup

It was one of the most profitable World Cups, take into account that it was in 1994.
> Is the source of a quote really relevant though?

It is a big requirement when using proof-by-authority.
Yes but they mostly make them out of tinfoil.

His being 'crazy' doesn't necessarily make him a genius and neither makes what he wants to accomplish possible.
What sort of extensions do you get the most mileage out of? Browsing through them, I see a few that look neat (like the 'Drop Down Terminal' one), but many seem to be extensions that correct problems that GNOME introduces anyway (Workspace Indicator, Remove Accessibility, etc).
Copyright is what the word implies: The (exclusive) right to make copies of something. No more, no less. Whether someone can turn that into something you can make money doing, is not and should not be concern for the law. People make works all the time that they can't sell. Does copyright give them the right to expect to be paid anyway? If artists insist on grossly overpricing their work, does copyright protect them from consumers choosing not to buy?
Don't forget the car dealers fighting to force Tesla to sell through them.
LAUSD halts home use of iPads for students after devices hacked
Twain? Or was it Comins? http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/31662.html :)
Innovating with Scrum - feat. Jeff Sutherland
Bah, I thought the link was about real steam machines, who cares about a game platform...
It means they are fully committed to the programme. Up to now there was speculation that they were going to abandon it.
I would love a trackball on a game controller in place of the right thumbstick.

I just searched for such a controller and this study from the University I went to came up: http://www.yorku.ca/mack/FuturePlay2.html

Apparently gaming performance increased between 5 and 10 percent going from a traditional controller to a prototype trackball controller.

In addition to that gaming performance increase, I wonder if a trackball could be put to better use in other more traditional UI situations that SteamOS has to implement (big-picture mode clover-leaf keyboard, scrolling, item selection...)
24 Reasons Your Open-Plan Office Sucks
As so often happens, the top rated comment on HN is more interesting than the article itself. Leafsnap and Dogsnap are so awesome!
The aid is to get their govt support against war on terror and access to resources no?

Which really shows that we have our priorities set straight too. They are not our people slaving away there, so we turn a blind eye.
Most of the commenters are wannabe school cops or something. I think it's fantastic that they figured out how to make it into something useful.
Why the new Gmail does not suck
> It makes the web capable of pushing information to its users, instead of waiting for users to ask for information.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.03/ff_push.html [1997]

It seems I'm not the only one to remember the promises of this prophecy:

http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/01/0...
You can always narrow a concept to exclude members of a set if you are allowed to declare your preferred definition, but the general use of the word slave obviously includes forced labourers who are being denied wages and held against their will while being worked to death and denied water, to argue otherwise would seem to make an utter mockery of the term.
From the mouth of Google / Chromium project:

http://www.chromium.org/developers/creating-and-using-profil...

http://www.chromium.org/user-experience/user-data-directory

A couple of other takes that look useful for some (e.g. screenshots and a bit more context about data bleed) -- apologies for any spamminess I missed/ignored while quickly skimming these (e.g. IIRC wikihow does not have the most sterling reputation).

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-Multiple-Google-Chrome-Profile...

http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-goo...
Sounds like I'm going to have to give it a try, then. I usually go minimalist with WMs because, as you said in your last sentence, it "gets out of your way." That's the best thing an interface can do.

Felt like distro hopping again anyway, might as well try out the new Gnome while I'm at it.
What does Varnish do that nginx doesn't?
Very cool. I'll have to give it a spin. I can think of quite a few things this could help with.

Kudos also for the TLS everywhere.
How Google could have made the Web secure and failed -- again.
Haha I remember you Klaus! You were demoing your startup that focuses on teaching others how to code and I learned so much from you. Rock on!
me 3 - ulisesrmzroche@gmail
I didn't see it in the release notes, but the last version of Bluez (bluetooth) is finally supported! http://worldofgnome.org/gnome-3-10-port-to-bluez-5/
"My typing is pretty quick, and it is almost never the limiting factor."

Oddly enough, that's usually the objection I get when I tell people they should learn vim :)
Why would you use a controller? Wireless keyboard and mouse is the way to go. Especially if you're going to play an FPS. You'll be slaughtered if you use awkward analog sticks instead of a mouse...
Thanks for the link to the source. I had no idea the clojure source code was so readable :-)
Is there any sort of smoothing going on? the rendered curve looks really slick and super nice.

I had some trouble with making signatures look nice on a library I used (mouse drawn signatures looked really choppy and jagged) so I had to do a little work to make it smooth itself out.

http://demo.rocketlease.com/site_media/signature-pad/example...
Adding PyCharm to the collection of products is awesome. I do wish JetBrains would offer some combined licensing. Since I have a tendency to use quite a few of their products.
If you had to pick, sublime vs vim?
DVD Dead Drop
AMD GPU14 Livestream
It is sort of worth noting that it's only free if you have a dedicated IP address. If you just have a cheap hosting plan somewhere, you'll need to pay them for said dedicated IP before you can set up SSL, generally.

I mean, we're not talking a huge amount of money. Webfaction is $5/month [1]. Still!

[1]: https://www.webfaction.com/features
... and as long as it's more than 40 hours a week?
Can you clarify what's bad about them?
Do what you want and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

--Not Dr. Suess?
Webhooks are awesome but please don't make your users set them up: https://resthooks.org
Games and film vfx are two different industries with two similar but different goals:

- how high quality an image can I produce in ~1/30s

- how high quality an image can I produce in several hours.

The interesting thing is how different the solutions often end up being based on these constraints. Also, the continual migration of techniques from film to games.
What do a t1.micro and a m1.xlarge have in common? You might be surprised.
Breaking out of secured Python environments
Amazon is leveraging its call centers for fixing the Kindle's usability problems
My little cousin’s dirty little secret
Pakistan’s earthquake was so violent it created a new island in the Indian Ocean
Can I use it with my hiDPI monitor?
I lived and worked in Qatar and none of this is new to me. These people are treated in horrible conditions and I don't think Qataris have a second thought about it. They genuinely believe they are superior people and are permitted to do this to those lower than them (I am generalizing, yes, there are some good people there, but this is the most pervasive mindset. Just look up horror stories of how Filipina maids are treated in Qatari households. Rape victimes are at the Philippines embassy there every day trying to get help).

It was a really terrible place, don't be seduced by the media coverage gushing about their wealth. It's very easy to be

This is a government that charges fines from their red light cameras in excess of a year of a laborer's salary. They then require an "exit visa" to depart the country, and you can't get the exit visa until all your debts are paid, and your employer gives you one. I knew of Sri Lankan cab drivers who were trapped for years in Qatar trying to pay off their fines so they could leave.

Even as a professional American your employer can abuse you if they feel like it thanks to the "exit visa" requirement. Oh, you're quitting? Fine, I'll keep your last paycheck, here's your exit visa. Nobody should take a country that has an "exit visa" requirement seriously! I could not deal with the pressure of my freedom literally being in my employers hands. I did not last there very long in this environment, I am never going back to that hellhole.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about. When mixing guitar/bass/drums, I'll often high-pass guitars around 200hz - basically, throwing out any signal below that with an equalizer. And if you listen to the guitar by itself, it sounds like it's been gutted. But in the context of a mix, the change to the guitar is inaudible - but the drums and bass sound better! The heart of the guitar's sound is in the midrange, not the bass range. You can lose the bass range and as long as other instruments are there, your ears fill in the missing information for you. Meanwhile, the heart of the kick drum and bass guitar are in that lower range, so getting other instruments out of their way makes them easier to hear.
Absolutely. Music is purely a subjective experience, and it is absolutely ok to prefer a special sound over "fidelity".

This also justifies the "vinyl record" craze, as long as the "fidelity" argument is not used.

If it sounds good it is good :-)
Sorry, my robotic exoskeleton needs a clean.
I really like it, I never got the rage about it... I think it's beautiful and good for productivity.
Interested to see what TJ and Guillermo would do for Wordpress... considering now there is already a Node.js based competitor (Ghost)
Well the security concerns are VERY valid, in theory after getting your permission to access the clipboard I could poll it every X milliseconds and fire off whatever I get to a third-party service. If you look at Flash's implementation for getting data from the clipboard[0] you can see they mention all sorts of limitations like "Because of security restrictions on accessing clipboard data, this example does not work in Flash Player. In Flash Player, you can only call the getData() method of the Clipboard object in a paste event handler.". I can see there being support possibly for setting the clipboard via JS but I'm struggling to find a good reason to want to get the clipboard data? Why not have the user just paste it in a textbox and listen for on change or something like that?

[0] http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionsc...
In England that would read like hack journalism. It would cheapen the paper and make people doubt the story.
hold up. in no way is/was Saipan a paradise of libertarian economic governance. From your article:
"If we complain, then our bosses would send us back to China and take away all of our money. Our families need the money."

No libertarian I know, me included, would object to (rather, we would support) massive penalties for any entity that engaged in such behavior.

Additionally, Jack Abramoff and Tom Delay are the exact opposite of anything/anyone a libertarian would endorse.

I really encourage you to learn about Libertarianism because if you really believe Saipan 20 years ago was a "paradise of libertarian economic governance" you are farrrr off the mark.
Are there any downsides to these free certs? Do they work in all browsers; is there anything that could be better security-wise?

If not, than this is exactly what we need to establish HTTPS as the new standard.
Installing xmonad on Ubuntu actually gives you a display manager option for a combined session automatically, which is what I use these days.

EDIT: Still requires editing your xmonad.hs to have it play nicely with GNOME, though.
> It would make it easier for devs to test and consumers to make a choice.

A choice of one is no choice at all

>Apple's wildly successful with their iPhone business model.

Have you seen the mobile market share? Android is king.
The most comprehensive source (and most recent, and only source about the economics I can still find) to this page suggests that it was an economic catastrophe that "showed a cumulative loss of $5.6 billion to $9 billion."[1] It's the same argument politicians use to swindle taxpayers into publicly financing stadiums for billionaire sports owners.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/07/opinion/la-oe-coates...
I think I'll be switching from unity to this now. Unity just never did grow on me, even though I use Mac all day at work.
In-depth analysis of Facebook for Android's view heirarchy
Well this is fun : ). I'm "dudeInBlue" in the chat.
"Maybe they are hidden in the protons or something." Priceless.
One gotcha that these kinds of tutorials don't mention is that if your site might be blacklisted if google doesn't say it's been 100% clear of trojans for the past 90 days. I hit this on my domain when I accidentally had an .exe file in my static files. I've had to wait 3 months until I can get the certificate.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...
Okay, good point on getting the clipboard data. But what about setting it? I don't see a big security concern there.

Also, what if the user has to give permission to read the clipboard per default, but he can also check 'Always allow for this tab'?
It looks like the solar updraft systems are only cost effective when you have vast amounts of cheap/free land - they are very inefficient in Watts per square meter, getting around 1% efficiency compared to 20-35% for other systems.
LiveNinja.com is using this for webcasts.
I'm a huge fan of vim-fireplace[1] (and almost every other tpope vim plugin). vim-fireplace provides essentially all of the functionality listed above through a lein nREPL connection.

[1] https://github.com/tpope/vim-fireplace
In the switch to https everywhere, we have barely started. For every HN and wikipedia with https there are 20 websites without (and whether the ones that do https do really secure https is yet another question).

Somebody should go through the top 10k websites and make a list, then repeat every few months.
They're preying on our desire for instant gratification, no doubt.
Thousands of Wordpress blogs compromised to perform DDOS attack
This got infinitely more readable when I loaded it into Pocket and let Pocket do its formatting on it. Adjustable font size and a more reasonable line width...
I'd estimate WP.com is about half of all WP installations, maybe more.
DIY Open Source LED GPS Watch Project
Awesome post! One thing I find is really important is to charge 'properly', which at first seems like exurberant fees. My friends think I'm rolling in cash because of my 'rate' but when you outline all of this stuff up here, you can see where it all goes. I don't do much better than when I worked full time, but I have the potential to work harder and make more money. But the extra super hard work doesn't' seem worth losing the life balance (and well, the nice parts of contracting, i.e. TWO WEEK HOLIDAY, even though it really isn't).
If you're on a mac, try this:

man -t <whatever> | open -f -a Preview
How Google Unified Its Products With A Humble Index Card
Well, if you go by % of internet traffic Google is 40-50% of all internet traffic. You could probably get above 99% of all internet traffic with a shockingly small number of sites. While Google, for example, uses SSL it's not like your data is really secure from monitoring there.
Why the hell does Gnome have a hard dependency on systemd?
I shouldn't have to change my init system just because I want an updated DE.
You can use StartSSL certificates with SNI (Server Name Indication) which allows you to have multiple sites/domains on the same IP. And really, just get a VPS from Digital Ocean -- be the master of your IP, configuration and fate.
I agree, licensing seems the most plausible reason for releasing it under a different name.

Also, I like Andika. To me, it looks like a proportional-width interpretation of Monaco, a monospaced font that has shipped with Macs for the last few decades.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)
The way I see it, if you want arithmetic modulo N, you should be explicit. For example, in CL:

[Edit: Just noticed this got posted, but someone replied. The correct version of this is above.]
Launch on HN: Ferro, a graphical predictive command line for Chrome commands
I think this metric might weight Tennessee higher than one would intuitively desire. Perhaps:

1. Draw a line segment between two connected points in the state, such that only the endpoints of the line are contained in the state.

2a. Draw a line segment perpendicular to this one, such that one end touches the first line, the other end touches the border of the state, and only one endpoint is contained within the state. The length of the largest such line is the "concavity" of the state.

2b. Alternatively, measure the area contained between line #1 and the state border. The largest such area is the "concavity" of the state.

2c. Alternatively, measure the ratio of the area in #2b to the length of the corresponding line in #1.
This sort of stuff is exactly why I fight tooth and nail any and all efforts to digitize my medical records.
Stop Using Digital Ocean Now: The Aftermath
Only issue with SNI is that it has to be supported by the browser. Generally not an issue these days, but something to be aware of.

Edit: Actually, I just looked... WinXP still doesn't support it with IE, so, actually it could be a big issue still.
I switched to Gnome 3 (and Gnome Shell) the moment it was released. The biggest problems IMO were the broken/dropped features and the graphics driver glitches. The shell, which is what I suppose defines the experience, was great from day 1. I consider it a major leap forward and, for the most part, it just feels natural and does what you want it to.

A lot has improved since the first release, removed features came back, bugs were fixed, UI was tweaked. There are still some (stupidly) rough edges here and there that piss me off but you get used to them, wait for a fix, or use a shell extension.

Verdict: Buy (unless you want a tiling window manager)
Oracle pulls off stunning comeback to win America's Cup
Hear, hear!
Not necessarily these, but let's drag the airlines kicking and screaming into the 21st century...
They work in all modern browsers, they do not work in certain (very) old versions of curl, wget, android etc.[1]

They should be alright for most stuff, especially for personal use.

And they're free because it costs them nothing to issue them.

[1] - https://forum.startcom.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=1802
I think part of the concern is that GSE seems to drop products and run, whereas Safeway drivers always have me sign for my package and get the bins unloaded before they go. I'd think there would be issues with leaving unattended alcohol, given this country's laws on controlling it.
Sure, I don't disagree. I'm just saying that's a legitimate use case that should be supported somehow.
Yes, support has been added as of 3.10. It is similar to what Mac OS does. People who do not want that can tweak it in tweak tool.
I'd liken this to the "washing machine effect" that Hans Rosling explaned in his TED talk [1]. He essentially made the case that the washing machine made a huge difference in the history of the world so parents could spend more time with their kids (among other things) instead of many hours a week just washing clothes. I would say Google Shopping Express has a similar effect for shopping trips where the time spent greatly affects the amount of things an individual can accomplish in a day.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoKfap4g4w
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.10/
Security Issue in Ruby on Rails Could Expose Cookies
I understand that some time ago there were reasons behind not using https (price, setup, performance), but now you can get a certificate for few bucks[1].

[1] http://getssl/en/ssl-certificates
Yeah, but that line of reasoning opens up the "You think it's good because it's just warm distortion" line from the head over heart crowd, and it's often not at all true. You can spot these people because they'll use THD (total harmonic distortion) like a meaningful number. THD specs are generated by 1khz sine waves. It deliberately ignores both dynamics and harmonic content - the fundamental building blocks of music. It's like measuring how well a car drives 50mph.
Yes, our libel laws are much stronger. And scarier in scope.
http://webhookinbox.com/ gives you throwaway URLs for receiving webhooks. Good for testing.
Heh, there's still time, you never know! Perhaps Friday's announcement is a cold HL3 product launch.
Well, WebOS was created in 2008, so that may have something to do with it. IMO, the font itself could easily work in a more modern, flatter UI.
Yeah, there is smoothing of a sort.

Most of these kind of drawing boards will take the current mouse position as it moves (x,y), and drop down a pixel or circle onto the canvas at that point.

The smoothness you see here is that instead of just dropping down a point at each mouse coordinate, it creates a canvas path and simply adds a new point into the path and uses a quadratic curve between each point to do the smoothing. Effect does look pretty nice.

The code for doing this is a simple 4 lines, and is seen here: https://github.com/Leimi/drawingboard.js/blob/master/js/boar...

EDIT: For a bit more detail on how this differs from your link: your link is attempting to do the same, but is using javascript calculations to do the work rather than relying on the underlying browser implementation. This is why you see it only apply the smoothing when you stop drawing - the javascript would probably be too slow to run this in real time. Basically it comes down to your link using ctx.lineTo and this drawingboard using ctx.quadraticCurveTo
I like to point out that hash tables are O(N) when people bring this up. Constant factors, average cases, and practical considerations matter a lot - it's not just nitpicking or semantics.
Can you clarify what you mean? When I hit tab in visual studio it creates a tab in between a set of quotes

(e.g. Console.Write("blah blah "); )

It could be because I'm using resharper, but just curious what the feature is you mention.

Hitting the literal key that closes the completion (e.g. " or ) ) jumps out of the quote without adding another ) or " though.
In case anyone is interested, a user has an open request out for an updated copy of this list:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/vex...

Or register yourself and see what you can dig up ;)

https://www.muckrock.com/accounts/register/
Ive used liveNinja and its awesome!
I worked in Qatar for several months. It is modern day slavery precisely.
How in hell did the school district think it was going to keep the kids from doing this? And how do they expect to keep the kids from (for example) tethering to their cell phones in school now?

The other question is: why in hell do you want to do this?
Two slightly OT questions, if you don't mind:

a) How did you manage 9 monitors?
b) Any good solution to moving windows to the next/previous/up/down monitor?
dudeinblue, you should have talked more! we were haroldandkumar here at the tokbox office