skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tell me. How much did you pay for Chrome and what sort of service do you feel entitled to for that money?

Oh. Nada? Nothing at all. Then I guess they are at liberty to do whatever they damn please. Like they've done numerous times in the past.

If you want a browser you can make (and keep) yours, I suggest you move to Firefox. It's free (as in beer), so it suffers the same problems as Chrome, but it's extensible way beyond what the Chromium allows.

The biggest difference is probably that the Firefox-developers main concern is the browser, not the 200 other systems the company is trying to promote and shove down your throat, so asshattery like this is much more rare.
I am wondering how you are tracking Berlin wanted technology stack?
OK, so with passing time, coins are worth more than before because the usage demand is increasing faster than the mining supply.
I'm not sure if that is your argument though?
The finale if anyone missed it
http://reckoner.com.au/2013/08/im-done-mining-litecoin/
If you already see the halo due to the LASIK, how were you able to make the picture to correspond to how you really see it? Wouldn't it mean that what you're seeing now as the result is not what others are seeing?
Yeah same here too. I use extreme h2o 54% and they never dry up like others did and I never notice that I wear them. Glasses seem cool sometime too. Part of my geek chic setup. :)

So blasting my eyes with lasers at this point seems kind of extreme, IMO.

my 2c.
Does NoScript come into play here though? HTML5 has the <video> tag and doesn't require js to play the video.

<video>
<source src="MyMovie.mp4" type='video/mp4; codecs="avc1.42E01E, mp4a.40.2"' />
</video>
Yes, this is a service they provide. I get regular emails telling me what I opt into, and how to opt out of it.
America's Cup: Oracle Team USA draw level at 8-8 after seven straight wins
Only if you use the latest logind.
Finding your Idea
pascal is making a comeback with free-pascal and lazarus
i wonder if it will catch their attention

all free-pascal need now is a decent web-framework, but for desktop apps, i think its one the best options at the moment
A brightly lit screen and hand-eye coordination are not 'compromises' unless your goal is to build a device that is all things to everyone. There are non-tablet devices with highly tactile physical input, and there are also these mysterious inventions called 'light bulbs'.
What type of contacts do you use?

Mine were Toric, I replaced them every 3 months more or less (it was per usage count, really)

I can say I was very satisfied with them, but the dry eyes are an issue

So, I'm considering Lasik now (day by day usage I have glasses but it also has some problems)

Edit: toric lenses have and added PITA: placing them in the correct orientation/axis. And no, the manual for mine didn't state it 100% fully how to do it
24 Recipients of MacArthur ‘Genius’ Awards Named
http://www.crunchyroll.com/ has a lot of anime, and offers the latest subbed episodes an hour after broadcast in Japan. The latest episodes are offered only if you are a monthly subscriber. They have Android and iOS apps, as well as an AppleTV client.
Thank you and everyone for the words of encouragement. I've posted it on Medium:
https://medium.com/p/23a07cb0d5ea
You realize Windows has had game controller support since literally the beginning, and this tablet runs Windows, right?
The green halo is what looks like to me today without glasses. Myopia/Astigmatism does that "naturally"

Astigmatism gives an anisotropy to the distortion, so on one eye it's stretched vertically, on the other, stretched at an angle
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Meet the 2013 MacArthur Fellows:
http://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/2013/
I have needed glasses since I was very young and started wearing contact lenses about two years ago. I've always seen the halo around lights at night with/without glasses/contacts. My thoughts have always been that it was happening because of my bad vision.
What gets me the most about LASIK naysayers is that you also get the same or even much worse artifacts when using glasses or contacts. I had Femto-LASIK 2 years ago, after using glasses for 6 years and contacts for 6 more. I have very slight haloing around bright lights at night (Not as bad as described in the post though). The freedom of not having glasses or using contacts is FANTASTIC!
How Engineering Tools & Practices Impact Software Quality & Delivery
I never had eye surgery but (perhaps) as someone with a slight aspherical deviation (astigmatism it is called I see now), I also see those halo's. I didn't even notice anything about the white O on the black background until I zoomed in a lot.
You can disable it, see https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/1/settings
Apple's never done them before. It's not necessarily a problem, just 'news'.
Anybody using IEP[1]? I found this gem a few weeks ago, and never looked back. IEP is my de-facto idle/ipython replacement.

[1]http://www.iep-project.org/
well that's "now" :)
EasyJet refuses to let columnist on board for sending critical tweet
Without a pollyfill to support older browsers this is merely a peak into the future.
Make-It-Yourself: The rise of the micro-manufacturers
When is a 128-bit key enough to be cryptographically secure?
They may have made a great investment with a large, quick return - but it's not a job because:

(a) the income from the Avalon machine likely is much less now than initially, and is likely to shrink rapidly - so it's not a sustainable future income;

(b) keeping the income at the same level can't be done by spending your time, but by investing lots more money again and again;

(c) you (and anybody else) can increase that income hundredfold by buying hundred times more machines - i.e., it is limited by capital, not by time/effort.

It sure is income, but with very different characteristics. It's even very different from classic 'passive income' investments like dividend stocks or rental real estate - such 'passive income' investments are with rather sure long-term returns; but bitcoin mining gear produces very volatile short-term returns, and is likely useless in the long run as the device you buy now will after a couple years likely earn less than the electricity cost.
That's not actually how artificial neural networks in pattern recognition tasks really work.

Once you learn and understand the learning algorithms, you will experience this Wizard of Oz moment, you see how the trick's done and it's not quite as impressive as you hoped. This is confirmed by the fact that it exactly matches the limitations of a typical neural net you've established experimentally.

The tasks that are within these limitations, they perform quite well at, but it's not that hard at all to understand how they are performed. In most cases you can basically run the algorithmic equivalent of a trace debugger on the system. In as far as you can compare it with a brain (but don't do that, it's the wrong analogy--compare it with statistical regression instead), it's one you can take apart entirely, reassemble, run partial components of, tweak, and understand exactly how it works to the instruction level. Plus you can do these things automatically for the most common cases.

In short, there is nothing "magic" about neural networks, or any pattern recognition algorithms.

And to get back on the subject, if you intend to work with machine learning algorithms in a professional/consulting/project setting, probably best to first check the scientific literature to see if anything like this has been done, and what the accuracy/false positives/negatives/ROC curve is that you can expect. Don't expect to beat them, either (you may, but planning to do so by any significant amount is asking for trouble--especially if it turns out it just can't be done). Then, I think it would be clever to first build a "fake" system/interface, without the ML component, limited to just the labeled training examples (if you can't acquire these, give up now[0]), see if the system is actually useful from a software engineering, application and usability perspective, before you actually begin (the fun part) tweaking an ML algorithm, only to later turn out, even if it did its job perfectly, it wouldn't be all that useful in the operating environment in the first place.

This is different if you work for a corporation with a huge research budget, of course. Like Microsoft or Google. But even then, I think that for their ML-enabled end products, similar reasoning like I sketched above is used. Of course the same goes for every type of project that depends on an unknown to-be-researched technology.

[0] yeah yeah unsupervised learning. but if you know what you're doing that well, why are you listening to my advice? :)
Flexbox is brilliant in theory but the support is so poor that it's still basically unusable in production. Pity, because it would make like much easier.
I haven't played it, but i have read the review and Proteus is a new open world game.
http://www.destructoid.com/review-proteus-244224.phtml
We run many more than 12 processes per server. That's how you can get around that. :) But that's frankly more of a Python architecture problem than Django. Django is compatible with coroutine libraries like gevent, just most of the ecosystem is not compatible, so that makes things difficult at the size we're at.

Realistically though, this isn't a problem for us and if things are done right, shouldn't be a problem for you either. Just use more processes and you'll be fine unless you're running out of RAM or something.
Yes, the title is slightly misleading and different from the project title "github like contributions calendar on terminal". Adding github support (just to view the same graph on terminal rather than firing the web page for it) is one of the suggestions and is in TODO list.
How I bought a better Klout score---and why
Ditto to the first part, commenting to save or myself.
Count yourself lucky there was any error handling at all! My current job involves a lot of old (and new) visual basic 6 and there are parts of our software which don't work once you remove the magic line:

On Error Resume Next
Amazon Kindle Fire HDX: Introducing the Mayday Button
The Jaguar sure did have overlays[1]. But they weren't as ubiquitous nor as essential as those for Intellivision a decade prior.

[1] http://atariage.com/system_items.html?SystemID=JAGUAR&ItemTy...
Yes, this change was reverted. + Now there is --ascii option to view the graph with some ascii characters instead of ANSI colors
Money has been privatised by stealth (2011)
I've always found this one of the most fantastic services on the internet. It's a pity more people don't know about it.

The only problem I've found is that the labelling gets confused by the fact I work from home, but do a school-drop-off commute in the morning.
Your haloing looks like keratoconus, which I have. It makes driving at night quite challenging, since oncoming headlights are 'smeared' over quite a wide area instead of appearing as point sources.
Tell me, how much did Google pay me for the right not to be criticized? Oh. Nada? Nothing at all. Then I guess I am at liberty to say whatever I damn please.
GNOME also requires kerberos :S

[Edit: I originally wrote openldap, my bad...]
I was wondering the exact same thing. It's not obvious to me that it has been manipulated at all.
I tried to add another O into the picture with Photoshop: http://bbh-001.boitho.com/div/halo.png

I can't see any different. Maybe I am affected or my ~3 year old lcd monitors are failing to display the colors correctly.
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display: table-cell, table-row, table sounds like it would be quite viable for an entire sites layout. I've never tried it but I'm tempted to blanket style all section tags as tables, article tags as rows, divs as cells - or some variant of that. Still, the use of existing tags is perhaps a silly limitation when we can choose to use a non-strict html spec.

Anyone know of examples of this, like a boilerplate called fuck-me-just-use-tables?
> "Microsoft was the first (I think) to use an extremely very flat keyboard that doubles as a screen cover on a tablet."

Microsoft introduced tablets way before than Apple too. Sometimes been the first is not a guaranteed of success.

Although I with Microsoft on this, we desperately need a productive tablet and not just a consuming device. Let's see if that comes, and if it is MS who brings it, let's see if they can take advantage of the innovation this time.
Samsung to launch smartphones with curved displays
I live a pretty active lifestyle, I swim, skydive, go running, box, play squash (not all at the same time). I had LASIK about 7 years ago and having wore glasses and contact lenses for 8 years prior to that I still tell anybody who will listen it was the best £2,000 I ever spent.

There was one downside to the operation and that was if I stared at a screen for a long amount of time, or worked too many late nights, I suffered from really dry eyes. It was almost painful. Fortunately some drops that I kept with me for about six months took the edge off of it and now I don't suffer with this anymore.

The Halo thing is definitely a side effect. As other people have pointed out, it's no worse than contact lenses/glasses.

I now no longer have to worry about looking for my glasses first thing in the morning. I can play any sport without fear of losing or breaking my glasses.

Wearing non-prescription sun glasses is something I now take for granted and a complete joy.

I genuinely do believe that my overall quality of life has improved as a result of the operation.
> When you ask the bank for the money to buy a one-bedroom box in London, the money that appears in your account isn't borrowed from some prudent grandmother's life savings. In fact, the bank simply types those numbers into your account, creating brand new money that you can now spend.

Erm what?
Nice font face, just a shame that Mozilla spends time making web fonts while their actual browser is crap at rendering them. Sa-a-aaad....
I have (as far as I know) perfect eyes. Around bright objects there is a slight halo, best compared to the one you see in video games around streetlights at night. It's much smoother than the one in the illustration in the article and slightly less bright. Bright stars show as dots with tiny lines coming from it with different lengths. Really tiny but still visible. Less bright stars show as infinitely small dots.
That reminds me of when we tried to get some kind of help from a UK University in the mid 1990s - all they could do was offer a lease on a rather large building.

Of course, we said "no thanks" and went off and squatted in a couple of dingy rooms at a friendly company until we (after a couple of years) got VC money and got our own office space.
In any gold rush, sell shovels.
As a (poor :) 3d/raytrace excercise, I've translated the code to python: http://vanderwijk.info/blog/business-card-raytracer-in-pytho...
Yes. Banks bring money into existence in the form of debt by loaning it to people. It seems massively immoral to me that they charge interest on something that literally costs them nothing to bring into existence.
the thing this guy fails to mention is whether he had that halo effect BEFORE getting eye surgery...
Useless machine
If yoiu cant see it, it's likely down to your display being miscalibrated/shitty.
Linux is the best shot at a granny proof OS in 2013
I also heard about increased sun sensitivity after LASIK. does anyone else experience this?

I am thinking about this surgery, but I'm afraid of the possible sideffects, unless they're as described in the post.
Just answering one point here:

> today, they have announced they want to raise a new tax on video games

You are confusing government announcing a decision with two senators from opposition making a proposition (which will not even be subject to vote anytime soon). EDIT: just to clear things up, contrary to some countries, in France opposition parties have very little power to push anything.

Which leads to me suspect you might also be confusing other things, especially regarding:

- online banking - most banks expose most of their services online

- declaring websites you own - maybe you are talking about having to declare informations systems that collect and process identifying information (access logs excluded)

- access logs - six months is not "an insane amount of time"

Among the remaining, some is true, some I don't know.
How to Make Hardware Startups More Than Just a Fad
From the front page, I have little or no idea what it is. Make sure to present the value proposition there.
What stops you from bookmarking it on hn?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6443135
They did in a way: Amazon Instant Video apps on iPhone and iPad finally play to Apple TV.
And fiendishly hiding it via a public URL, email reminders and blog posts!
It seems interesting precisely because this is common on consoles and hasn't previously been a thing for mobile, no?

Perhaps this indicates yet another point of maturation for these platforms.
I see beauty in many things. I'm not yet at the level of programming where I see beauty in syntax -- maybe one day though!
I can imagine a company not dealing with particular individuals - say, due to an ongoing litigation or some personal conflict, like a restaurant owner telling a rude/disruptive customer "we won't serve you ever again". And that probably would be both legal and morally okay.

However, for airlines that should (must?) be limited to not selling tickets - if they have sold a ticket, then they must fulfill their end of the bargain.
I did not comment on the implementation. I said, in effect, that an animation would affect the perception of the start/stop times and using one would therefore be a bad idea in this case.
Is there a limit on how much money they can create? Can I start my own bank?
PyCharm is amazing, and it can only get better with this announcement. The only issue I have with it is the huge amount of memory it uses. It uses >1GB of ram on my macbook air, and using pycharm for extended amount of time makes it sluggish.
Then it has little to do with evolution.
Had mine done in the late 90's and it's the best money I've ever spent. Period. I find in conversations with folks on the fence that it's mostly psychological (fear). To that I say, spend the extra money on the doctor that has such and such credentials using such and such latest laser and get over the hump if that's what it takes. Totally worth it in my book.
Amazon announces 7” 1980×1200 and 8.9” 2560×1600 Kindle Fire HDX tablets
Found a bug!

I travelled a few miles away from home yesterday and it's recorded as superfast visits between home and various parts of the journey in a star shape.

The Android tablet that I left at home is confusing Google into recording some weird split journey where I am both at home and travelling...
Somehow I doubt the story. Boarding personal has better things to do than to check twitter against the list of people baording.
I wonder what the Ubuntu GNOME guys will do with regards to wayland / mir? Anyone know?

As an aside I really love GNOME 3.
Agreed. My quality of life got a lot better once I switched to (monthly) contact lenses. Half a year ago I switched to dailies which was again a drastic improvement to my everyday life. I've been toying with LASIK but to be perfectly honest the surgery just scares me. The idea of cutting open my eyes and shooting lasers at them isn't to appealing to me.
Thanks for the suggestion :) .

Went right there to download it, but it's also not compatible with my device (Galaxy Ace)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.net.machin...

looks awesome :)
The Perfect Developer Laptop
why is that a problem?

EDIT: Ah, I see. Is that a big overhead? How does it affect me as a non-enterprise user? unnecessarily large installation footprint? (if so, by how much?)
or yet another point of possible lock in, which can lead to (other) monopolistic practices as time goes on.
Seeing as he mentioned @easyjet in the tweet, I'm guessing someone manning the social media saw it and a power-mad manager decided to call thru to the boarding staff.
I'd note that, based on the comments in that commit, by default OpenRC still doesn't kill off all processes launched by a service when it's restarted because generally that's not desirable. For example, if you restart SSH you don't want the child processes to be killed immediately because that'd disconnect you.
Reasons Web Developers Should Learn AngularJS
Large patent holders hate this reform proposal. That’s a good sign
Don't forget that NIST has mentioned they'll standardize variable-output-length SHA3: SHAKE512 with 20 byte output would be perfectly fine. They've also mentioned they might include MAC and AEAD standards, so I'm not convinced the situation is as bad as you make it.
Recent programming languages for AI
Is there any way you find to guard against competitors cloning your app? Do you have any recourse?
Probably he got a call from HQ where some "big data" geek is inordinately proud of his 10-line script for mashing up Twitter with the passenger manifest.
My life as a consultant confuses the heck out of Google Location History/ Now/ Maps.

Hotels are identified as my home address, client sites as work... come to think of it, maybe Google's right in the end and my perception of having a flat that's my home is off. ;)
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I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not.

1. Apple makes the iWork suite

2. Have you ever used a touch cover? You hardly can call the touch areas on these devices buttons. They give nearly as much feedback as touch screens: none.

3. Why would a DJ or a gamer prefer this when the surface has a usb port anyway. They could use peripherals from traktor or the 360 game pad.
I think those were just copied from the page.
You don't have to port all of it, though. Since you can run Python code from inside C++, you could just use the built-in Python interpreter to run Django, the existing codebase. The only part that really needs to be ported is URL dispatching and Request/Response objects, because that's the interface to the views.

The rest could all be done incrementally, replacing components as necessary to gain performance wins. Templates seem like a good candidate because they're used everywhere and would be on the fast path even for C++ code. You'd have to convert all the tags over to get any useful speedup. But you could leave filters in Python and call into them via Python runtime, then convert them over incrementally.

I'd do middleware next as that runs on almost all requests. Again, you can do it incrementally: all you need to do on the first pass is a C++ dispatch layer that reads the classes from settings.py and invokes them through the Python interpreter. Change that to let you register & define C++ classes implementing the interface, and you can transition the most common middleware classes one by one to C++.

A bunch of stuff I'd expect would never move over to C++. There's no real reason to port django-admin/manage.py, or the admin site. I personally wouldn't care about moving the ORM over; if I want performance I don't use an ORM, and there's nothing wrong with using raw MySQL or libpq calls. A lot of the niche stuff like File Uploads or PDF generation occurs infrequently enough that there's really not much benefit to porting it over. It's debatable whether even Forms is worth including, since most high-traffic pages would not be ones where you're submitting a rich form.
I had LASIK done about 6 months ago. My right eye ended up 20/15 but my left eye ended up being +1 and has some astigmatism that it never had. I suspect they screwed up and gave me the wrong correction in my left eye.

Good news is it can be corrected, the bad news is I had to live with an eye that is useless for small text on a monitor. It has been very aggravating but not aggravating enough to go buy a prescription pair of glasses just for the correction in one eye.

Also keep in mind all of the follow-up visits you need to do to keep your "lifetime correction" warranty so get your Lasik done at a place near your house.