skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fastmail has one of the few interfaces that gets infinite scrolling /right/. The outer mailbox div has overflow-y: auto; and the inner div is the combined height of every message in that folder -- my inbox has 11381 messages, and the height is 364192px. When the scrollbar is moved, JS automatically determines which messages to load. Messages themselves are tiny AJAX requests that take less than 100ms each.

This is from the perspective of using Chrome on high end hardware, but I couldn't ask for a better web interface.

That said, they aren't joking about needing a new mobile interface: the current one is usable, but definitely lacks the same polish as the desktop version.
I'm more inclined to believe that the reason is socio-economic rather than religious. Many of those countries you listed are also a source of cheap goods for the West.

Edit: just to clarify, what I'm saying is that the majority of adherents to any religion aren't fundamentalists. They choose which parts of their holy scriptures to follow, and ignore the rest -- the vast majority aren't even aware of all of them.

Human nature being what it is, they are more likely to follow portions of scripture that benefit them in other ways, e.g. economically. They may likely have chosen to behave the same way regardless of their religion; the religion merely provides a convenient excuse.
And hey, bonus: more complete referrer information in Google Analytics for people visiting from sites already using HTTPS (like Hacker News)

If I enable SSL on my website do you think I will be able to get the referring keyword from Google? Now that Google is making all searches secure about 80% of the searches show up as 'Keyword Unavailable'. http://searchengineland.com/post-prism-google-secure-searche...
"Change tack" is like "would of" -- people haven't made the connection between the written and the spoken word. Then you add almost-homonyms and it gets worse. I am often amused to find people "flaunting the law".
BTW, you do have to upgrade to 8.1 within two years to continue to receive support:

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifecycle-Windows81-faq

What is fun is that I doubt this applies to Server 2012, even though it is based on the same codebase.
>*"Dustin's problem is similar in some respects to an addiction (which he alludes to), so perhaps the solution is treating it as such;"

The issue I see with this is that it takes the way we use technology for granted. It's just like saying "that stuff is here to stay, learn to deal with it".

Which it is true in practice, but doesn't have to be true necessarily.

We could have opted as a society to not tolerate those kind of addictive (and mind-crushing) applications of technology, instead of celebrating them.

(The same way we have done with smoking, not just the banning in public places, but the whole attitude towards it).
Verbal SAT Scores Plunge To Fresh Record Low
Which means more taxes...
I've only been to a few countries in the Middle East, so I can't generalise. But one thing common among these countries is the lack of warmth, sincerity and humility among the locals. It is one of the most unpleasant and hostile cultures that I have encountered in my years of travel.

They treat blue-collar foreigners as lesser humans.

EDIT: To clarify, I've only been to Qatar, UAE and Bahrain.
Don't forget to enable ssl stapling which is now available in both nginx and apache and supported in firefox 25 and newest Chrome.
It makes a lot more sense if you consider it less of a testing-to-make-sure-stuff-works beta and more of a let's-generate-publicity beta
At this point I think it's hard to say that it falls on one thing. There's definitely a combination of factors that have led to reduced crime rates.

Another one that I've seen floated around as responsible was the rapid growth of emergency medicine in the late 1960s. The idea being that injuries were much less likely to kill someone and people were that much more likely to retaliate.

Another good theory is how crime rates are pretty much proportional to birth rates. The idea being that it's resource competition.
Quitte the opposite. They themselves came forward about what happened, communicated clearly and took steps to mitigate the problem. From what I saw, they acted responsibly and it has only I erased my trust in them.
I assume that the top "Google RN" link refers to "RealNames", which was a cross between AOL keywords and an alternate domain name system. It surprising to see that there, because canonical registries (i.e. Yahoo, RealNames) are kinda the antithesis of what Google was pioneering at the time (i.e. PageRank).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067393/RealNames-To-Cl...
H264 (the decompression standard implemented by VLC/ffmpeg and CoreAVC/MPC) has well defined output in YUV space, and up to +/-1 pixel values in RGB space.

The differences you have captured here indicate that at least one of them is applying non-standard filters of some sort. Perhaps it's just a matter of the right settings (though I cannot offer help in determining what they are)
They usually stay on corners that are known for prostitution. If you're there stopping to chat with a lady, it's likely that you're out cruising. Also, it's probably more likely that they let the guy go the first time but take his info and then arrest him the second time so they can be sure it'll stick.

The same applies to the girls. They can't prove it so they tell the girl to take a walk and they don't want to see them there again. You see this on cop shows all the damned time actually. If they catch them there again, they have cause to arrest. I would actually love if any cops are reading to weigh in on this, but being this is HN it's not too likely.

You can make light of my description of entrapment but that's what the law actually is...and that's why in most cases it's a really shitty defense.
I disagree with the findings being a blanket truth.

I encounter a great many persons that appear to maintain their own internal pride by practicing anonymous civility in the everyday world. So much so that it becomes almost competitive courtesy that eats a little extra time. I'm fine with some of that. Perhaps the strategy is selfish shrewdness: to prevent misunderstandings that could be very costly.
30 years of 2D video game evolution (Pac-Man and Robotron)
I agree that software is a principal constraint. As a programmer myself, I find implementing what I would like to see as well beyond my capability, even if I invested significant time. As you point out, it would require a holistic ecosystem-wide approach. This is why I'd like to see a software titan like Microsoft attempt something along these lines. They have the resources to unify all the devices in a person's life into a single computing experience.

I very much appreciate what you're attempting to do and I think it will measurably improve matters. However, where I personally differ is on the key point I made above: I don't want applications to run on multiple devices. I want applications to be singular instances available everywhere. If I begin typing an e-mail at my desktop, I want to view my e-mail application on my tablet or phone and see the exact in-progress e-mail—to the letter—available and interactive in real-time. As I type on any device viewing my e-mail application, the letters appear on all over views instantly. Presence information (for the purposes of notification sounds and the like) could follow whichever device I interacted with most recently.

A premise of MVC that we have in large part forgotten is that views can be plural and diverse.

As you point out, countless developer hours are used porting applications to myriad devices. I'd rather conserve that effort. Have the computational guts be on a high-performance, high-connectivity, well-known (e.g., x86) application host. Then only the views need to be made plural, in a manner similar to (but obviously more comprehensive than) responsive web design. More comprehensive because some devices will be touch-enabled, some will be large, some will be small, some with a keyboard, others without, etc.

All that said, I do like what you're talking about and building. I look forward to seeing that project come to light!
I just want csv output of my usage, when is that coming?

Also integration with ifttt would be nice.
What's with the watch spam tonight, this must be the tenth crappy post tonight.

Get your "genuine" ronex watch for 50 dollars.
Thanks for the tl;dr.

Isn't this the same for most industries, and for pretty much everything? Genuine innovation takes lots of effort building things that people don't know they want yet, even IF they are in fact monetizable. And a LOT of things are not monetizable, or face serious difficulties gaining marketshare in environments with deeply entrenched players and expectations.

The history of computing has much more to do with "innovation" in monetization schemes rather than computing itself. Great things get built only when someone discovers some hackish way to get people to purchase it. The monetization itself usually makes the product/technology worse than it would be without the monetization (e.g. DRM, copyright, ads, preinstalled spyware).
| Any free market advocates or Randians care to try and fit this terrible situation into their worldview?

Except anarchists, I think "Randians" and most "free market advocates" are in favor of court (government) enforcement of contracts.

> He was 16

There's a concept of "age of consent" or "capacity" to contract.

> arranging a fake passport stating he was 20

Fraud.

> wages retained

Who would sign a contract like this? It's most likely a violation.

> deprived of the ID cards they need to move around freely without fear of arrest

Seems like a failure of the State, to be arresting people who are allowed to be there.

> demand their wages, a drastic step given that the authorities can simply expel them to penury

If "the authorities" refers to the State, I'd say it's another failure of government, not the free market.

> refusing to issue the exit permits they needed to return home

Yet another failure of the State, if I'm reading that correctly as a restriction of the freedom of movement: a basic human right which brutal, anti-capitalist regimes are infamous for violating (e.g. Berlin Wall). Historically, people tend to flee from less free (market) countries to more free (market) countries.

> the kafala system binds the worker to a single employer

Is "kafala" a system of laws? This sounds like Directive 10-289 which Ayn Rand rails against in Atlas Shrugged: "All workers, wage earners, and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment"
America’s Cup 2013: Oracle Team USA’s billionaire-funded, cheat-tastic comeback
About Google (1998)
It might not be the case today, but tomorrow it will be. Just look at supercomputers.
It was not just the NSA that was targeting American citizens at that time. The FBI's COINTELPRO operations were aimed at "surveying, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
I still use Opera 12 because of the lack of features in the new version. My biggest pet peevs: Ctrl+Tab behavior (Opera default was 'previous tab' now it's 'next tab') and no thumbnails tabs on the left, and they removed the email client.
One thing desktop displays desperately need is a way for each pixel to become brighter than its surrounding pixels at will. A lot brighter. Like, 50x brighter.

Dynamic brightness range is a necessary step for writing a 3D renderer that makes you feel like you're looking out a window. 256 levels of brightness aren't nearly enough.

We don't need the ability to specify that a pixel should be brightness level 64823 vs 64824. It doesn't need to be that fine-grained. What we need is the ability to overdrive the brightness of specific pixels. That way sunlight filtering through tree leaves will actually give the impression of sunlight filtering through tree leaves.
My thoughts exactly. I'd definitely send him a 100 for 10 of those. He seems like an awesome person everyone could learn from no matter his part in the crack epidemic. I mean the guy learned to read while behind bars and found the hole in the law he needed to become a free man again on his own. That takes drive. That's impressive.
I use it at work because it ignores the system policy against downloading exe files. I hate trying to download an installer and having Chrome tell me (after the fact) that the system blocked the file. Opera doesn't care and saves the file just fine.
Your comment is much better than the article.

Also it becomes even better by imagining it in Bane's voice.

Netbooks didn't get screwed up, it's just that what most people want from a cheap device is primarily content consumption which is done better by tablets.

The upgrade cycle with phones and tablets might be starting to slow as well.
> The greatest part is where they admit that, for one experiment, rather than study actual rich and poor people, they just had undergraduates pretend to be rich or poor:

Because if you did that, then people would instantly start attributing it to the past history of the rich vs the poor folks or something! The whole point of the lab manipulation is to start with a homogenous group of people, randomize, and then observe the effect of giving them some small amount of power.
This is not part of Islam, since you don't find it going on in Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Islamic Africa, or the West where muslims live as well. This is instead confined to the Gulf states.

I'm really very curious about where you're pulling all this stuff from.
Depending upon how you define violent crime: war is rarely started by the poor.
You should check out Mystcraft (http://ftbwiki.org/Mystcraft). Basically you need to find pages to write your own age, using them you can describe a Minecraft world that would then be generated, complete with linking book that you can give to other player. It's pretty fun and the closest I have ever found to recreate the experience of being Atrus.
From another article on the topic by The Guardian [1]

The British engineering company Halcrow, part of the CH2M Hill group, is a lead consultant on the Lusail project responsible for "infrastructure design and construction supervision". CH2M Hill was recently appointed the official programme management consultant to the supreme committee. It says it has a "zero tolerance policy for the use of forced labour and other human trafficking practices".

Halcrow said: "Our supervision role of specific construction packages ensures adherence to site contract regulation for health, safety and environment. The terms of employment of a contractor's labour force is not under our direct purview."

So they've got a zero tolerance policy, unless you're talking about the actions of their contractors which is just, like, totally out of their control, man.

1. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars...
There's actually a quite simple answer to this: iPad's are too profitable. That may not seem like a problem, and it certainly isn't to Apple, but it's a problem for the market. When it's easy to make huge profit margins and massive sales volumes with relatively simple designs there's not much impetus to innovate, take risks, or pursue smaller markets. The potential opportunity cost that Apple faces in spending a lot of development effort as well as production volume on an "iPad Pro" would be enormous, and almost certainly more than what could be recouped in profits even if such a thing were successful.
I read, "Webb investigated Nicaraguans linked to the CIA-backed Contras who had smuggled cocaine into the U.S. Their smuggled cocaine was distributed as crack cocaine in Los Angeles, with the profits funneled back to the Contras.".

So I guess there wasn't enough cocaine being flooded into this country from Columbia; we needed a complex plot involving the CIA, the Contras, the Nicaraguans, Los Angeles and a supremely risky money laundering scheme operating in reverse.
I used to love gmail's webclient. When I moved to fastmail, I thought I'd miss that a lot. As it turns out, I started using thunderbird and K9 mail on my phone for reading e-mail and I never check my email from any browser at all. I feel now more comfortable with a dedicated email/calendar client - plus the enigmail extension - and it pushes me towards a good habit of never logging in into untrusted computers. I mean, I can't possibly be sure my own computer/cellphone are safe, let alone the other people's.
Let's go even one step further: anything that's being amplified on a microphone for live performance is already "artificial". I do sound engineering for a band and I tweak
the hell out of the EQ for live performance, also adding compressors and reverbs, and the difference night and day compared to bands that don't care about that, or don't have a sound guy who knows what they should like.
The original commenter stated that these two people would be fun to watch fight to the death.

Said about two white people or two blacks or two people in general you know it's a superfluous comment that does not add anything to the discussion.

Your parent poster is entirely right. Comments such as these drag the quality of the comments section here at hacker news down.

If you don't believe you should glorify a criminal or a rapper than you should say that and leave it at that. If you think that it is wrong to try to understand the mind set of a man who learned to read behind bars and read so many law books he found a hole in the law which allowed him to become a free man again you should tell us why there is nothing inspirational, interesting, or glorifying about this mans life.

Saying that two people would be fun to watch fight to the death, no matter how sarcastic, adds nothing and is superfluous.
It was probably the CIA
I haven't noticed any differences in the interface, but the application is 50% smaller now. I like that.
Senators to introduce comprehensive NSA and secret court reform bill
While I agree that naive technological utopianism is worrisome and we need to be discussing the social/psychological impact of our inventions, I can't say I would draw an equivalence between Twitter and something like cigarettes... if used in moderation, I think services like Twitter can be very useful to some people. We do need to weigh the costs vs. the benefits, but just as blind acceptance is bad, so is blind rejection... having this discussion is a good start though.
I think the author had some valid points, but a better title would be "Mobile Innovation in Hardware is Over, for a while". There's still oodles and oodles of innovation to happen in software, both on the phone itself, and using the phone on a network.

It's OK for hardware to become more commoditized and 'meh'--frees up more time and energy for the software side of the house.
Stopped reading at 'boasts support for modals'
Well, true all that. Except, my non-technical parents won't be buying any more PCs. They can do everything they want on their ipad. And I'm pretty sure they don't want media editors, compilers or complex spreadsheet editors either.
Simple experiment to prove this theory wrong: drive to a poor neighborhood at night and walk around...
Placing the emphasis on society, I believe, dilutes the great importance of the decisions of the individual. In life you should take responsibility for your own actions first. The question is more "Is twitter a social problem?" or "Is my twitter use a problem?".
I liked what comedian Louis CK had to say on this subject recently:

http://teamcoco.com/video/louis-ck-springsteen-cell-phone

My experience is that writing long, insightful pieces of prose is just hard, miserable work. People do it because they feel compelled to, not because it's a fun way to relax. So it's easy to procrastinate or avoid it, especially if there aren't any external demands or deadlines to meet.
Both Apple And EA Deny Money Exchanged To Keep Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Off Android
Media Player Classic does have it's own video renderers, however, which are responsible for scaling and colour conversion. It also has FFmpeg built in to decode some more popular formats without relying on system codecs.

The washed out colour in that screenshot can probably be fixed by changing the video output method (to OpenGL/Direct2D/Direct3D) or changing the default luma range in the graphics card settings from 16-235 to 0-255.
Brain may use "pointer" logic to make sense of novelty
Generate Beautiful Documentation using Clojure Tests Files
http://youtu.be/8FjvhDPIUWE

A demonstration of a simple latex-inspired documentation workflow in clojure using midje, midje-doc and live-reload. For those that wish to cut to the chase, skip to around the mark 7:00
76.68% of statistics are made up on the spot.
I have a rather odd question for you. I've been trying to use VLC for forensic work, specifically for viewing videos frame-by-frame. There's a way to step forward one frame at a time, but there's no way to step backwards. So it's really difficult to switch between two frames back and forth to look for differences. I've resigned myself to capturing screenshots and pasting them into an image editor then using undo/redo to switch between frames. Do you have any suggestions for how to do it better?

I know this feature probably wouldn't be useful to anyone but me, so I'm not really putting in a feature request. Just hoping to discover that someone else has already figured out a way of stepping backwards frame-by-frame, to complement the existing "step forwards" functionality.
Partly. But you've been able to do the equivalent of:

echo "|magic-program" > .forward

For a long, long time. Granted, it's a little unclear what happens if you manage to overload your server doing that, but in general MTAs are pretty good at taking care of your mail, either queueing and delivering, or giving up somewhat gracefully.

The trick is to make sure that the "magic-program" is simple and robust -- and that isn't quite as hard as most people think, if you don't require it to parse arbitrary emails -- just accept and parse clearly valid ones, and reject everything else.

Now, if you require to handle enough incoming requests that forking a process per mail is a problem ... you probably need to fix your architecture.
> I propose we dub it Atlantis.

Indiantis?
> I am thinking Opera want to be acquired?

Possibly. They were uncannily quick in adopting Blink. The series of events seemed to be Opera->WebKit, Google->Blink, Opera->Blink... so perhaps they want to get cosy with Google? Although, I can't see what G would want with them.

I think it's also known that, sometime around IE7, Microsoft tried to acquire them. Microsoft have long since made their bed though... unless they want a better mobile browser.

Either way, it'd make total sense for Opera to ditch their email operation if they were looking to be acquired by a business with an established email product already. Especially when many Fastmail customers are there because of their particular niche in service.

Perhaps it's the new Blackberry group? Dark horse! :P
What do you think the chances are that the guy who broke into my car a few months ago (only to steal a few dollars in toll quarters I had in the center console) came from wealth and means? If you were a bookie, what odds would you put on that?
That would be https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6447108
That is a great point. I would really love that.

Tangentially related, it reminds me that OLED has utterly failed to become a thing on the desktop, and it breaks my heart. It was a decade ago when I read that OLED was the next hot thing and it would bring unprecedented contrast and brightness to displays.

Today, I like OLED mobile phone displays.

But my Dell U3014s are disappointing crystal-over-backlight garbage. Not only that but expensive crystal-over-backlight garbage.