skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Our goal is not to match the crazy setup people do and spend hours to tweak.

Installing CCCP is as easy as installing VLC and gives you better quality out of the box. Installing and configuring madVR is an extra five-ten minutes of effort. Hardly a "crazy setup" that would require "hours of tweaking". There's also KCP which comes with madVR preconfigured, though CCCP offers better compatibility with a wider range of setups (which is why I personally recommend CCCP with madVR as a separate optional component on top of it).

Also, at least in the previous version, 10-bit dithering was still lacking even with OpenGL output, as demonstrated here: http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/32677

I haven't been able to test if the situation has improved in the new version yet, though.
Pretty much any religion is compatible with evolution. Some of them have needed (appropriately enough) to adapt a bit, but there are (e.g.) lots and lots and lots of people who accept both Christianity and evolution.

(The US is very unusual in having so much creationism despite a reasonable overall level of scientific literacy.)

But could we please not turn this thread into an argument about religion? There are plenty of those on the internet already. The science is interesting enough in its own right.
Israel is lacking in such rights as well. It's not exactly a shining example for the rest of the Middle East.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice the outstanding similarities between the project's site and a real, legitimate Indiegogo campaign. But after a brief search I can't find any mentions of Indiegogo, just the hotlinked favicon. Even the perks themselves aren't clickable (nitpick mode: they are clickable but don't lead anywhere).
Islam isn't a system of laws, it's a religion. Like all organised religions, what's written in its holy books is of far less practical importance than what is preached by its leaders. Adherents don't read and figure out for themselves, they follow what they are told the books say. Like most religious leaders, the Islamic holy men tend to preach what is convenient to them. The fact that the religion is Islam isn't of particular note. It wasn't so long ago that American Christian leaders preached that God condoned slavery. You might explain this by talking about different branches of Christianity, and likewise there are different interpretations of Islam too. But really, I think that unless a religion actively encourages a practical pursuit of self-enlightenment (e.g. Buddhism, Taoism, spiritual Yoga), then it is nothing more than a system of control. Ultimately the important thing is how corrupt the leaders are.

Think of it this way, if there were no courts and no defence lawyers and no-one ever bothered to read the legal statutes for themselves, then would the actual text of the law mean anything? Or wouldn't it rather be that, in application, the law would tend serve the interests of the police?
Your search for perfect, flawless permanent security will be long, lonely and ultimately fruitless.

Already you've cut yourself off from flying, riding on trains and driving. Nobody can guarantee that deadly accidents will never happen, and indeed they do happen.

Presumably you only eat food your grow yourself. There are regular instances of contamination in the industrial food sector. Not that any guarantees can really be made, but at least contamination will be mostly your own fault.

See where I'm going with this?
Software bugs are a threat to humanity.
I find it very strange a simple instant messaging client would not be available in your country. Are you thinking of Google Voice?
And I don't know anyone (from the few people I know that use Opera) who switched to the new Opera (since it sucks).
People speak other languages than German?? I'm amazed!
You probably should've stopped doing that after the PRISM revelations anyway.
No, releasing is easy, until your established process get fucked up by an Indian PM asking you to "integrate" features into G+
Raspberry Pi, Arduino and their board-level Maker-centric ilk. It's a viable flea-market ecosystem now that everybody already has at least a computer of some sort, so the learning machine doesn't have to be that do-all hub-of-activity machine, it just has to connect to it.

Having GPIO pins to play with also helps with the learning. The Boca Raton model of computing device was a bit stifling for homebrew hardware extension because of having to accommodate the de facto standards of the IBM PC/AT model (RS232 serial, Centronics parallel, CGA/EGA/VGA display, DIN5/PS2 kybd/mouse) to get a hackable connection going.
"Disreputable if Not Outright Illegal": The NSA vs. Vietnam Era Americans
Have you been around the tech world in the last at few years?

Current gen consoles came out in '05-'06, by 2008 a strong having pc could easily be built to surpass them in abilities (strong gaming PC - ~1000$). By 2010 that goal was achievable on a more sane budget (let's say 600$).

Now you want to say: "hey z999! You said 300$ in a few years!, this is 600$ in five years!".
Yes, but the next gen console are much less powerful compared to the market than what the current gen console were compared to the market in 2005. Remember how the PS3 cost 600$ and the Xbox was 500$ (I'm not certain on the Xbox price, it could have been 400$)? Well, next green consul mess know that there is no reason to lose money on hardware because that doesn't win the race, meaning they are probably equivalent to a 1000$ PC TODAY, so following the past trends we will easily see HSA arcade of equivalent power in the 300$-400$ bracket.
That's not cool. The last thing we need is more things for people to use as reasons for not using HTTPS at all.
I did the same, the thing took a while renaming inf files and such to get working on Windows.

Linux, plug and play. Lovely.
A quick glance at the Nginx config says that it doesn't reflect the level of consideration in the OP's linked PDF.

This is why I'd like the SSLLabs + Mozilla + other parties to work together to produce a single set of configs that reflect the combined best practise. To ensure that this is a complete thing.
I have kernel panic with this driver unfortunately. Wired XBox 360 with iMac 2011 and MacBook Pro 2012. Not sure what caused the issue... Because of it, I installed Windows via BootCamp and play all games over there, a bit inconvenient.
Sorry, you don't understand how VAT works.
Happy Petrov day to you Bill!.

It´s in my calendar, and I´ve already wished all my friends happy Petrov day (via Facebook).
What Is Marissa Mayer Actually Doing?
I'd say the usefulness of the term is to cover cases where, as here, scientists aren't sure how predecessor A evolved into successor B.
Here are some blogs.
http://hacksoflife.blogspot.com/
http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/
http://www.g-truc.net/
Oh wow. Can you imagine the reverse? If there was a major with primarily female enrollment, and someone said "maybe if the women were more attractive, there'd be more men enrolled there", there would be outrage.
> At this time Google Talk is not functioning correctly and we are continuing to work to restore full functionality.

This is where you turn it off until you fix it. This isn't a service disruption, this is a service malfunction with far more serious potential consequences than delayed emails, or inability to download an app, or duplicate credit card charges, and you can't fix those consequences after the fact, not even by applying vast amounts of money.
There must be a group of people somewhere in the world that actually uses Twitter. I've never met any of them in real life, but occasionally I see things like this online that suggests that however far fetched the idea might be, it's nonetheless true.

Amazing that this author is so upset about what this random website has done to his life. I have no idea how he could have found enough value in it to have integrated it into his life so deeply. Nor can I understand why he would continue using it if it made him unhappy.

In short, seven years later, I still don't get what Twitter is for or why anybody would use it.
If a distributed, private by design service happened to be 300% as expensive, will you be willing to pay for it? How about 200%? 120%?

How much are such things worth for paying customers?
A Gaming Life: My life and video games
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Even if not the most up-to-date, it's still nice to have an option to create some GUI stuff in Rust.
I don't think it's sad. I think it's exciting. For introverts the world is ten times better nowadays when you can always fall back to your phone.
Ya it's all but dead these days. Private companies (like Moz with their Fresh Web Explorer) are trying to fill the gap.

Google certainly look to be actively walling their data off.

See also Google Keyword Tool which has took quite step backwards recently, and removing organic keyword sources "(not provided)" from Google Analytics.

Bad times for marketers.
Developing an in-house browser engine is rather expensive. It's a moving target with constant pressure to better rivals. There's a need to patch an infinite number of websites, which don't care that you exist.

I can understand why they switched and focused on value added features.
> Islam has nothing to do with it

@waps has already posted a link to [1]

> start with capitalism

Do you think it is "capitalism" when employers are not honouring contracts that they created, and their employees signed? After you have learnt what capitalism means, you'll see that the article is rich with examples of violations of capitalism.

I don't know about Indonesia, but India is, not by any stretch of imagination, representative of the Muslim world. [2] I don't know why you bring up India as an example of things going right in the Muslim world.

[1] http://www.islam-qa.com/en/94840

[2] http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=811484
The last thing I want to do is start a flame war, but I don't see anyone on here criticizing you for putting your faith in science.
I would like to have thought that the Hacker News community would be above unwarranted comments such as this.
Sorry, but I disagree with your choice of adjectives.

You are reducing what happened today to a mere "bug", which is the way Google (or developers) would look at it. Instead, approach it from the user's POV. Having your financial, personal, professional, secret or illegal (yes, I'm sure there will be that too) communications sent to multiple random people is more than just a bug.

I agree GTalk is "really, really good" like you say, but then what happened today also should "never, ever happen".
You are right. I should not start talking about the topic. Thanks.
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Time for some Russian roulette: Send offensive messages to random people on your GTalk and see who receives them!
Until general literacy improves, we're just going to have to make due with whatever people want to post.
No. For example, the inexplicably microscopic scrub bar and playhead piss me off frequently.
Though this video is very well produced and gets its point across in a sensible way the problem call for a deeper analysis. This talk [1] by Joe Kraus is just that.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6449816
Talk is everywhere, OP probably means Voice, which isn't.
I have experienced this bug for years: everything I send over GTalk goes to the NSA.
Do I seriously have to click that little menu button to expand the left hand menu every time I want to look at a new element?

I just want to click through and browse the different elements but its seriously laborious. Maybe I missed something but based on that I dont think Ill give this the time of day.
This situation seems like an embodiment of several bad things that can be found everywhere, but all taken to the extreme. They add up to a slavery system.

First of all, I think that slavery is a relative concept. The modern comparison archetype that most people know the most about is the American system of race based chattel slavery. But, there have been many many different systems all throughout history. All different. Slavery is something that exists on a difficult to define continuum.

Many (most?) countries have laws for emoting foreigners. They usually have more limited rights compared to citizens. Deportation looms. Residency is tied to employment. The country is not run for them. When it's a Belgian professor teaching in Russia, it obviously isn't slavery. When it's this poor Nepali man in Qatar isn't. There just isn't a clear line between the two. Contracts? Consent? What do those mean when you have the power differences between a Qatari Sheik and an illiterate.

Qatar is comparable in a lot of ways to ancient slave states. There are a small minority (2-5% depending on how you define it) of extremely privileged aristocracy, members of important families. Another 10% of Qatari citizens who make up most of the the professional class. The foreign professional class (10-15%) of mostly arabs and whites. They have fewer rights, but are materially well off. Then a vast underclass (50-60%) of poor foreigners with no rights and practical situations ranging from bad to awful. Work to death conditions. Sexual assault. Chattel-like system of employer-employee relations. Probably similar distributions to famous slave states like Sparta.
Ask HN Europe: anybody using Mangopay?
I'm in the market for a payment provider, and somebody just sent me a link to mangopay.com .

They look somewhat suspect to me, especially the fact that they have unusually low transaction fees of 1.8% / 0.18€ and no chargeback fees.

I've also never heard of them or any of their references. Is anybody here using them or have experience dealing with them?
Giving and Accepting Apologies
“Vehicle Driver Error - These are errors that involve a vehicle (repair truck for example) on the runway surface which are the fault of the vehicle driver.”
Google versus Searal
> I've since had over 100 (yup) emails telling me of my "OVERDUE PAYMENT" (the caps are theirs),

Oh god, yes. This was annoying as hell. I actually liked their service but at the end of the month I didn't think I was using email enough to justify paying 40 bucks a year, so I decided to keep using the one I got for free when I got a domain. But even if I was going to buy, I wouldn't have just because of this harrassment. Here's a screenshot from my inbox: http://i.imgur.com/meNhlAr.png (there are some more that couldn't fit into the screenshot)
Most of your other claims here have already been refuted, but here's one more. If "black gold" ever mostly meant slaves rather than oil, then the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary would like to hear from you. (They say: "colloq. (orig. N. Amer.) petroleum; mineral oil" and their earliest citation is from 1910.)

I just did a Google book search for "black gold" on 19th-century books, and checked the first 100 results. None of them had anything to do with slavery (or with mineral oil). So far as the Google n-gram tool's corpus knows, the term became popular around 1920-1940.

I have been able to find a few references to "black gold" meaning slaves, but so far as I can tell from the snippets available on the web they have nothing to do with Islam. In the few cases where I can tell who the slavers were, they were specifically Americans.
Agreed. I used to read a book everywhere, now I can keep in touch and play games as well. I love it.
"it was also a notable day for Java, a relic of the 1990s that is once again remaking the internet."

I wasn't aware that Java went anywhere and wasn't used heavily throughout the 2000s. I pretty much stopped reading the article after the lead sentence.
Why not just buy two-three gamepads with different layouts? Surely that would be cheaper and easier!
> This site of mine is secured with a StartCom cert, and Safari has always been perfectly happy with it: https://mappiness.me

My Safari can't verify the identity of that website. This is Safari 5.1.7.
I don't agree with the "people can't create" thing with tablets.

I do a podcast entirely on my iPad, I also record music on it - and in both cases significantly prefer it to doing the same on my computer.

I also sketch stuff (although a decent digitiser would help) and my daughter records and edits films on it as well (she says it's too fiddly editing video on the Mac). I write numerous blog posts and I've written one essay on it (using an external keyboard). I even used it for coding (well not really, just as an SSH client to a linux box, but the inbuilt 3G over MOSH made it extremely convenient for doing non-UI work).

I've not had to do any spreadsheet stuff on it, and I can see why that would be a weakness. Nor have I had to do any Photoshop-level image editing (I have done simple image editing).

But for most "creation" tasks I find the iPad to be competent, and in some cases (especially audio editing) to be superior to a "computer".

Of course, none of the stuff is "professional" level creation - but that still fits perfectly with Steve Jobs' cars vs trucks analogy - most people don't need that level of control.
I wonder if Larry Page will have to write an apology letter over this.
ClinkerHQ as an alternative to Atlassian SVN
Show HN: Create and share javascript bookmarklets
Today I'd like to show you a small tool I created to learn about Rails a while back. It is pretty basic, but works very well for my own things.

Just write or paste whatever javascript you want to run, you can even include external libs. When you save just drag the link to your browser bar.

A script I use often is one that makes video's on websites bigger when clicked.

Tell me what you think.
Spot a Poor Startup Mentor
Well, now I'm glad I convinced most of my friends to install OTR. I do wish there were an XMPP-supporting instant messaging service with a good mobile app, though. Google Talk has gone to hell after it got turned into Hangouts...
Not sure how this is calculated, but you're estimating Instragram at 4B+ and Google (maps, mail, chrome, voice, ...) at 800m? Seems like something's wrong.
If you don't use it, it's probably hard to understand.
to be fair, neither has happened to me often enough to make it something I worry about.
Google would never get away with a logo like this today: http://i.imgur.com/xba1orN.png
Check out turnkeyliniux.org. They offer prebuilt linux images of popular apps - including Gitlab:

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/gitlab
The See Also section at the bottom of that wiki article is enough to induce serious pucker in even someone with tungsten-level constitution.
FYI, if you call it Petrov day, your eastern european orthodox friends (such as Bulgarians and Russians) will tell you you are 3 months late. "Petrovden" (den == day) is the shorthand name of the St Peter's and Paul's day on the 29th June, it is a nameday of everyone called Peter, Paul and their variations, and it is very well recognized and celebrated.
wxc is now part of the wxHaskell project [http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell], which has this to say about up-to-dateness:

The core interface of wxHaskell was originally derived from the wxEiffel binding. Work on this has been dormant for several years, but the wxHaskell maintainers now support updates to the wxWidgets API themselves - we generally respond to new releases of wxWidgets within a few weeks at most.
Correct, i agree to all these. I just meant that there are hardly many ways to decrease costs for large-scale solar available now except cell efficiency (not for U.S. where majority of costs are red tape and scarcity of installers, i mean countries where markets are established like Germany or Italy). Also, there is not much NEED to decrease costs below those achievable with efficiency increases (especially if efficiencies ca. 30% are achieved, which is possible like, 10 years down the road). A solar power plant with fully installed system cost of $1.5 per watt will be cheaper that high-voltage grid in majority of places, at $1 per watt in nearly every place.

>We've got cost reductions built in to PV production for the foreseable future.

In which way? Production capacity-related economy of scale? Current production capacity is already close (well, at least half of) what can be sustainably loaded worldwide. Maybe, another 2x growth is possible because factory builders don't care much if their business is sustainble long-term, they will work until worldwide demand is filled. But i will be very surprised to see over 300 GW/y production capacity worldwide anywhere in the coming 10 years. Apart from economy of scale, there is little way to reduce price.
+1 for lots of interesting points. Regarding the benefits of Python, I definitely agree. For writing my own scripts, small utilities, one-off data processing jobs (turn this CSV file into a big JSON object, etc.) and all the little, daily automation tasks I run into, it's hard to beat Python, and I'm usually surprised at how fast it is. I don't plan to give it up as my "everyday carry" Swiss Army Knife language.

For writing apps for the server, where it will keep running 24/7 serving thousands of people, I think I'm okay with giving up what you estimate to be about a factor of two in productivity for the performance gain, but I wouldn't give up the order of magnitude productivity difference needed for C++ to gain another factor of two in performance (vs Go) unless my code had to serve millions. I don't see that happening anytime soon, so Go as the new, improved Java (I see it that way, too) still seems like the sweet spot for server coding for me.
I wonder what "strategic changes" they did at Opera? So far they have shut down all their interesting projects (like Opera Unite), their browser has been highly customizable (the UI, not even needing addons) which was abandoned completely in Opera 15. Now they have some half-assed Chrome clone for Desktop, Coast browser which is also nowhere near final, Opera Mobile (not mini) is getting more and more generic like all other mobile browsers...
This is the reason why I'm still using my 6 year old nokia 'dumbphone'. I know as soon as I'll have a smartphone, I'll want to use it all the time.
NSA Appeals for Threat Information Sharing
"Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of sharing some of the vast amounts of threat and vulnerability data the NSA and other agencies possess with organizations in the private sector."

Looks like NSA is trying to prove that they are somewhat useful after all.
Can you elaborate on this?
Do you feel it would be a problem if the the access is blocked from Somalia?
What I don't fully understand is why does limited early traction make it easier for business folks to attract technical founders?
Bioprinting is a Multi-Billion Dollar Pharma Opportunity for 3D Printing
"Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of sharing some of the vast amounts of threat and vulnerability data the NSA and other agencies possess with organizations in the private sector."

Looks like NSA is trying to prove that they are somewhat useful after all.
I find it fascinating and terrifying that on the one hand, these events were "close calls", on the other hand, considering that we can celebrate this event today, they were inevitable.

Logically speaking, we always must live in a world where past existential threats to humanity were avoided (including super-volcanoes, asteroids), but that says nothing about the possibility of future existential threats wiping out humanity.
What about the microSD slot makes it impossible to use? (I'm thinking about getting a Surface Pro 2.)
The peculiar cadence of executive mail messages