skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The new Nvidia Tegra 4 tablet supports "directstylus" and i'm wondering if Microsoft could enable this with the new Surface 2.
Do you not feel that, due to the security failure in 2011, they are one of the worst? I typically disable their certificate on my machines. The CA system is totally flawed anyway, I don't know why I bother.
Well when it comes to business you can replace words like unfair and unethical with a term like 'competitive advantage'.
I'm afraid I just won't believe any reform at all after the blatant lying and the not prosecutions.

If this bill passes, through this Congress, and this President signs it, then my assumption is that the NSA will point to the bill and say "That. That's exactly what we're doing. See? It's the law." while really doing all they're doing now, possibly in different and more roundabout ways like having GCHQ spy on US citizens and then sharing the data. And they'll try extra hard to be more secretive.

How can they be trusted at all without unannounced visits by anyone who wants to roaming the halls?
He explains his story in one of the best drug documentaries I've seen: ``How to Make Money by Selling Drugs'' (don't let the title fool you).

I watched it on YouTube, if it's available in your country, please do too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1276962/
>...change tact

Ugh. Change tack[1], which is a sailing reference[2]. As for the actual content, I feel this analysis lacks nuance. Mobile is booming, of course, but the PC is not dead, nor will it be dead five years from now. There are a hundred use cases for which a desktop or laptop is the only practical solution. Fantasize all you want about businesses abandoning real machines for iPads; reality begs to differ.

[1] http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/change+tack
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tack_(sailing)
Past and present Japanese maps [1896 to 2005]
I've heard of Atlantis disappearing over that sort of time span
Agreed. FIFA is unlikely to suddenly change though: it, like the numerous ultra-conservative non-state totalitarian oil-fuelled sheikhdom-hells of the Middle East, is like the rest of the mass media entertainment industry merely a symptom of the real problem, which is global capitalism. The US and Europe benefit too much to make any concrete change. They're all hypocrites. We have to make change ourselves by supporting one another.
Infinite monkey theorem
Amazing how all of the subtle changes make it look like a kid's toy.
I signed my son up with Jux.com.
It looks great out of the box on desktop and mobile and is pretty straight forward,
Content Marketing
What changes are in store for Content Marketing in 2014? How will these changes affect traditional marketing?
Some expats have raised doubts over this article: http://www.thenational.ae/business/media/expat-takes-uk-jour...
Maybe I'm dense, but your comment above reads to me as if you're assuming: "nothing to see here, move along!"
Um, I guess, but conception is typically not like an earth quake where as fracking probably induces similar effects in the earth.
Wow. I would hang out with that guy.
So, I have no problem with "unfair" as a competitive advantage since that's kind of the point of having an advantage (i.e. to not be fair). I'm not sure about unethical; would you care to illustrate?
What's wrong with xmonad's handling of xinerama? I seem to recall both awsome[a] and scrotwm[s] have decent handling of mulitscreens setups for drivers that doesn't support xrandr, or used twinview -- maybe I mis-remember what used to be my problem -- but these days xmonad works nicely for me, whenever I need more than one screen.

[a] http://awesome.naquadah.org/
[s] http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html
Not saying Intel is ignorant of these facts, but the Microsoft/Intel hegemony is shrinking. Not dying, shrinking.

1. Apple and Google built an OS. Intel isn't willing to go after software. Are they smart to limit themselves? Microsoft is at least pretending to make hardware – alienating all the OEMs in the process – and Intel doesn't have what it takes to make software?

2. Cheap laptops have traditionally been Intel's enterprise play. Dell/HP/Lenovo are still selling 1366x768. Is Intel serious about their integrated graphics, while their customers are still being outfitted with 1366x768?

3. The server market is not a safe place to hide. Talk of how Intel is safe on servers ignores the consumer market and Intel is obviously not going to ignore the consumer.

So are we down to a single supplier for all our computers (Apple)? What will you do when Apple screws up? But more to the point, Intel had better watch out before Apple just ditches them entirely.
> Make a $300 machine with a good digitizer that runs nothing but OneNote and I'd buy two

Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 [1]

I have to physically restrain myself from buying one of these just about every time I walk into the local electronics stores. Samsung has actually done a really nice job, it has a Maths mode that recognises handwriting as formulas which insanely actually works ...

[1] http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxynote/note8.0/
http://addons.videolan.org/content/show.php/Remember+positio...
Ha, thanks Jim! Probably need a: "from hashlib import sha256" in there too!
FastMail staff purchase the business from Opera
And yet again you jump to conclusions involving race. Somebody says Oakland is dangerous, `oh you're putting African Americans down'. Another person states you shouldn't glorify a `criminal', you think it's because he's racist. Would you have posted that if Rick Ross had been White. Of course you wouldn't have. People like you, the hyper pc that will find racist connotations in every negative comment, like Al Sharpton, make everybody seem like a bad person for not being anti-white.
Haha, that's awesome! I was unable to talk since I was in a public CS lab, but I would've if I could've. You guys seemed cool :)
1. Its not sucking if its only meeting 95 out of 100 of your requirements. My desktop can do everything my iPod can do, with difference. There is a very select group of tasks, ie eBook or drawing surface, that the table excels at but these are not shared by desktops. They are two different products with one offering a miniaturized and inferior version of the former.

2. Users see laptops that run faster on desktop relevant applications: games, spreadsheets and programs like Adobe CS and MATLAB. The rest don't count as they arent' motivation to buy a desktop.
Amazing content: drama, comedies, anime, movies, documentaries, cartoons, horror, broken rars, disc images. VLC handles like a beast.
Because they had a bad experience. It's as simple as that.
Something could be perceived as unethical by a poor person but as ethical by a rich one.
PCs are not coming back in the sense that they won't see growth like they used to, but at the same time they're not going away. To be fair, most people don't actually need a PC. My wife uses a Nexus 7 as her main computing device, and loves it (she prefers it to a PC).

As an aside, Chrome OS devices are gaining alot of traction... Probably because they're more than adequate for most people's needs as is, and developers can always switch on development mode for a full set of Linux-y features...
Show HN: iOS app for reading through the Bible built with RubyMotion
For a mere 20 year old, you sure speak with advanced lashings of ponce and confidence on subjects of which you know not.
In the 80s people paid good money for that nose he's got now.
A reusable app go-no-go guage for Django
libgcm is pretty much just OpenGL with a few Sony specific extensions - plus you have to use their headers which use macros to build the command lists, probably pulled right out of NVidia's driver code.

It's quite fascinating how many of the PS3's APIs are wrappers around established standards/libraries, almost as if they were deliberately crafted to require more porting effort from developers.
Why is this update not showing up in my Mac? I'm on 2.0.8 and when I checked for update it says that 2.0.8 is the latest version.

Edit: Nevermind, looks like this has been answered. VLC waits a week before releasing the update to the public.
How does he square his findings (which are unearthing pretty mild transgressions) with, say, data about wealth in relation to violent crime?
Why is this not front-page news of mainstream media? (I know why, it's because it's not profitable). But where is the outrage? Why is fighting back restricted to a few NGOs and some back office of the Nepalese government?
" The PS3 does ~400GFLOPS; the XBox 360 somewhere around 300."

I'm showing the PS3 at 230 (various Google) and the X360 at 240 (wikipedia Xenos). Regardless the Ouya at 12 is not in the same ballpark. To say the hypothetical Apple system is Ouya quality and not PS3/360 console quality is simply wrong.

"console killer" is going to have to compete with...well, current consoles (and now, Steamboxen) ... actually going head-to-head with the console market just isn't going to happen without putting some more raw power"

It doesn't have to compete directly though, it just has to be good enough at gaming at the price it's selling for in addition to whatever else they're selling to undermine the console business model. Mobiles won the point and shoot and handheld gaming markets without competing directly on specs in those markets.
FC8: On Trust
From what I remember, it is rumoured that Terry Jones asked Douglas Adams for permission to be naked when writing the book.
And what those not-so-wealthy people need is money for drugs.
Yes, XP does not support SNI. Users will be presented with a certificate error however the correct site will be served. It will just have the wrong cert. If this is not a deal breaker for the small percentage of XP traffic expected you should use SNI anyway. Maybe a javascript check to point out to the user why the wrong cert was displayed would nudge them to upgrade.
Sorting Trash Can Wins Largest Hackathon to Date #mhacks
Alternate theory: the rise of ecstasy?
New Republican Debt Plan Includes Blocking Net Neutrality
Ask HN: How do I know when someone replies to a comment?
On Reddit there is an envelop which turns orange but on Hacker News I don't see any of that. Do I have to just keep checking manually?
> ... I wouldn't be surprised if either story turned out to be true (he was set up / it was him). I do know that his assets were seized and quickly auctioned off, ...

I recall hearing that and thinking "how convenient" at the time. It did not see unreasonable to me that it would be very easy for the local government to claim that he did it, convict him, and lock him up for life, while also take over his property and assets in the process. As you said:

> ... you have to wonder where that money went and what kind of incentives it created.

Like most people (apparently) I do think that McAfee is "a few fries short of a Happy Meal" but "his side" did seem quite plausible.
Scroll down and go to the point "Energy and regulatory reforms to promote economic growth"
Hoping someone gets additional assistance is not the same thing as calling them incomptent. I used to have friends in Pakistan and I read a bit about the country in relation to the world economy etc. I drew some alarming conclusions about Pakistan and other countries with a similarly young demographic in terms of potential disproportionate impact on global stability and the like. Your implied objections to my well wishes aside, I still hope this oddity calls attention to Pakistan and brings them additional support.

Have a great evening/day/whatever.
I think you make a fair point on the level-of-cert point. I got the first level of their business cert offerings because I needed a wildcard cert - we still don't have the EV green padlock.

I guess I was more trying to convey that it's reassuring to know that Startcom (at least) go to some effort to investigate their verification, and it's not just a bits-in-bits-out process.

This being said, I'm in a business and if I leave and another ops person comes along, the semantics of 'business' versus 'personal' account makes their job a little easier. I'm certainly not an expert in the area of SSL, but from long experience in other fields, it's a pain in the arse managing 'business accounts' that are really repurposed individual/private accounts.
"Behind every great fortune is a great crime."
>For Anime Fans

>New 6.1 downmixer to 5.1 and Stereo from MKV/Flac 6.1.

>Correct YUV->RGB color matrix in the OpenGL shaders.

I like how they put a separate entry for pirates.
Everything is iBeacons these days.

Doesn't matter that Bluetooth LE has been out since 2010, and was first developed by Nokia in 2006.

I actually don't mind. I've been waiting for years for Bluetooth LE to take off. If this is what it takes, that's fine with me.
Anything within 12 nautical miles would be Pakistan's
Lol I wish I am that talented. I copy and pasted from one of the support page.
Authentic markup full of <font> and <b> tags, too!
Or you could create legitimate value. Is it a law of the universe that zero-sum hustling is the game that should win?
Super easy way to dump HStore to CSV
i would pay to be able to do that for 5 minutes
Someone elsewhere in the thread mentions that the whiteboards are just background scenery. The sitcom itself is pretty formulaic, written by the same writers as every other such sitcom. Changing the scenery is much easier, as opposed to changing how these writers understand their material, I guess.
can haz DNA?
Does that mean myopera mail is being shuttered? I hope not. It was like a free version of fastmail.
I'll have to try one that the next time I disagree with anyone about anything. And to think, I've been relying on logic and reason this whole time!
Tim Cook: the complete interview
This is something I really looked forward, Ripple is full of opportunities and I believe that it will enable a revolution.
> It should take a lot more than an compromised web server to gain long-term access to data feeds from LexisNexus and D&B.

Especially as Dun & Bradstreet operate as a credit bureau (in my country at least).
The streaming and transcoding capabilities of VLC appear awesome but are hard to get to the bottom of. I tried to use VLC to convert a h264 stream coming out of an IP camera (Foscam) into either a live FLV stream or an iPhone compatible HTTP stream; it seems like it is POSSIBLE but actually knowing which sequence of magic whispers to utter is the challenge :-)
This is more interesting for what it means for Opera than for what it means to Fastmail. First they abandon their browser engine, now a top-notch webmail offering. What do Opera even offer these days that you can't get elsewhere? What 'long term vision' is Rob speaking of?
See my post in the other thread about living in Qatar.

The exit visa is a system that legally enables indentured servitude. Any country that has this system (pretty much just Islamic mideast countries) should be shunned by the US and the UN (won't happen of course given the US has a couple of bases in Qatar and BP has a huge investment there).
looks like google.stanford.edu is still live, but not what it used to be either :/

http://web.archive.org/web/19981111183552/http://google.stan...
Please please make this an excuse for a move away from hosting in the USA. A claim to respect privacy necessitates that.
>it matters if browsers trust them (which they do).

We had endless problems with StartSSL on mobile browsers. They have only recently been added to the latest Windows Mobile 8 repo and you can forget about any phone OS (except iOS) that was released before 2012.

The thing with SSL providers is most people think if it works on Chrome and IE they're set, but for certain businesses they need something that will work on the Wii Browser, an IBM Power System, or an older dumbphone. SmartTV's in particular are pretty annoying to get any CA list because whoever implemented the browser portion on the devices probably just imported some random Java lib from circa 2002.

If you are doing something small and personal, StartCom is just fine. If you're running a business, at some point it may become inevitable that you switch to oldest provider you can reasonably sign up for, in particular one of the Original Three (Thawte, GlobalSign, or Verisign). If you're running a non-profit advocating for privacy and cryptography where a large number of your users may be based in the middle east running on legacy hardware, you may want to take a cursory look to see if your users are getting any cert problems and get a cert from Thawte (the cheapest of the three - though you will need to chain to an intermediary cert if you got with their 123 option).
That's sort of the fault of the hardware vendors though for not proposing any viable extensions that expose texture swizzling. Why would it get any better with a new API?
This is an easter egg for their 15th birthday tomorrow.
I love Fastmail and have been a paid user for many years now, but I hate the new AJAXy interface, in particular the infinite scroll as currently implemented. Slow, annoying, and makes it difficult to reach old emails.
The island is made of politicians?
The ground doesn't have to explode for a gaseous fireball to envelop you.
It would seem obvious why there might be a negative correlation between wealth and violent crime. Violent crime essentially has the lowest barrier to entry. I'd have to imagine that if poor people had the option to choose white collar crime over violent crime, they would.
Next Hacker News Kansai Meetup tomorrow in Kyoto
The article said these students only interned at Google. Is it typical for interns at Google to get $145K after internship? What type of work experience is required?
Craziest fiends I ever met came from wealth and means
The 1920x1280 Nook HD+ is now available for $149. I checked NewEgg and only 7 laptops met that resolution, and 5 of them are from Apple - the cheapest is $1399.

The problem here is Microsoft, not Intel. They never figured out a way to make sure that things looked consistently good on a high resolution display. When the OEMs all decided to piggyback on the TV industry and declared 1920x1080 was "high end", that nailed the coffin.
I have a problem with the image of 'a single electron on a twisty path through spacetime' that you are describing.

The image in my mind is the vibrating, twisty path /out there/, not necessarily in spacetime. Through this path passes a continuous surface that could be be thought of as the 'current moment' of our observable reality. Each crossing/intersection of the electron path through this surface would result in an observable electron. This would then result in the 'single electron' being be the intersection of a uniform diameter path along the reality surface.

But now that I've thought about it more it's starting to make less sense :) I was thinking these intesections would be pure, geometric points, but a google shows that electrons have a physical radius and I'm having a hard time coming up with any way that these intersection points would have a spin.

What would be the appearance of the electron in your model? I couldn't see it being what we would call an electron travelling along this spacetime path because it would have a need to be in multiple places at the same time; althought I'm sure the 'holographic universe' could somehow take this into account. Does your single electron have a form similar to what I described above?
I've recently switched to Media Player Classic for watchign movies. I tried not to, because VLC works on Linux, but MPC's video quality is simply superior, when you put the two side-by-side you can see a difference...

http://i.imgur.com/oLHiQgR.jpg

so when I'm watching a movie, I will switch to Windows and play it on MPC. For everything else VLC is fine. Annoying, I've tried filters and other fixes, but nothing worked.
I've been wondering recently if iBeacon is the first showing of a 2 year long plan to crush NFC and take over POS payments, or whether Apple released iBeacon just for better Passbook functionality, and then the world anointed it as the NFC killer and all-hail-the-new-king - and now Apple is scrambling to come up with a comprehensive plan to do what people think iBeacon was meant to do.

(They've delayed any detailed specifications for weeks now.)

Doesn't matter to me. Anything that finally gets Bluetooth LE on a roll is fine with me. It has awesome potential.
why LESS over SASS... again?!
Abstractions: the venus fly trap of noob hackers
Try your query on: AltaVista Excite HotBot Infoseek Lycos Deja Yahoo! Amazon Open Directory eGroups
Pretty fascinating that this guy's life story was essentially stolen by the rapper Rick Ross, who has made a very healthy career out of the persona.

Just an example of lyrics seemingly directly drawn from the life of Freeway Rick Ross:

http://rapgenius.com/Rick-ross-hustlin-lyrics
What I would have written
You'd need at most two IP addresses to resolve this problem: one for HTTP/HTTPS sites, and one for HTTP-only sites.
That's a cool idea and I made only 1/3 of that.

Made about $200-$350 every 3months investing no time at all. Last year I started feeling bad, because I didn't do anything and made the menu free. I wanted to sell other stuff, but never had the same motivation to be honest.

I made a menu for a customer, then decided to sell it for $1, but the system didn't allow that (no micropayments). So I just made a dozen additional colors of the menu using Photoshop and sold it for $15 for 2y.
I don't feel like the title matches the content of this piece. I thought it was going to primarily be about how users are shifting away from PCs (which it did touch on).

But really it was just an angry rant about chips not getting better, even though Intel makes the best chip on the market.

U mad bro?
I was just looking at that. It does look pretty nice. I'll have to research it a bit more. Hate to have a hundred parents calling/emailing me because I overlooked something obvious.

How is it working for your son?
Serving citizens' information needs responsibly includes hiring enough staff to handle the load.
Buy more capacity.
I agree with most of your argument, but almost every Android phone for the last 3 years has had NFC installed - so I'll bet the installed userbase is actually more than for Apple's Bluetooth LE.
Why Aren’t Women Interested in Computer Science?
I wish there were a more informative page about this rather than just the Eventbrite signup.
1998: "Showing results 1-10 of approximately 234,000 for google; Search took 0.06 seconds"

2013: "About 709,000,000 results (0.38 seconds) "

My how we've grown!
* > I don't think you understand how well entrenched Wordpress is. *

As someone who makes a living from Wordpress, yes I do realise. However, I also realise there is a market for a better alternative to Wordpress for blogging. Medium I think has shown there is a demand for a nicely designed blog application with focus on content.

Have you ever tried scaling Wordpress to thousands of visitors per day before? It takes a whole lot more than installing a caching plugin... Using Wordpress as a blog from a cost perspective is expensive, especially once you install a few plugins to make the overall experience better. A Node.JS powered version of Wordpress would be something I would jump on if it were to ever come to fruition.

Wordpress for use just as a blog nowadays is crazy. You don't install Wordpress if you want a simple blog, you install it if you want a website. It's a CMS, not a blogging platform any more. People are yearning for alternatives, Ghost might not reach the scale of Wordpress and usage stats over night, but I think it will make a splash. It's launch partners (Microsoft, Woothemes, Envato) have a lot of pulling power to get people on board.

* > In case you were wondering, ShitHNSays was shut down by Twitter. So there's no point trying to get syndicated, sorry. *

What the hell is that supposed to mean? I just Googled ShitHNSays and didn't even realise it existed until now. No need for the sarcasm and condescending attitude. Just because you are obviously against people voicing their opinions on subjects you deem yourself to be all knowing about, doesn't give you the right to be a jerk about it.