skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a pretty good Planet Money podcast with him a couple of years ago.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/05/05/135991890/a-former...
Since when are TVs "a default"? I don't think I've watched TV in a big while, I don't even remember TVs being generally on around me.
This is spot-on.

I feel like I have emerged from a long dream, and now I'm walking around, waiting for everyone else to wake up.
I assume you live in the States from your response. IT pay is fairly poor here in Spain. I can live comfortably, but difficult to afford a house, or save much for a pension.

(Though if what you say is true about it being law a net negative earner, then I am pleased to hear that).
Seems clear enough to me.

The forces that would do evil [if they had the chance] = NSA etc.

Thus, "The NSA encourage and exploit situations like the one that occurred with Bitkeeper".
The Charitable-Industrial Complex- thoughts?
I read that as Harry Potter Day. sigh
They haven't stagnated, they've regressed. 1900×1200 dells were 15". 24" 1900×1200 desktop displays are now almost all "full HD", which cuts 120px at the bottom and doesn't add a thing. IBM had >4k displays in 2001 (the T220 was 3840×2400, 4k is 3840×2160. And the T220 was a 22" monitor too, not a 40" TV), try to find even as good today.
For me, I don't deal very well with digital to-do lists and such. Pen and paper is king for me.
We do this thing quite a lot actually. Most news articles that are positive will try to have some tie in with Australia to make it relevant to the readers. Maybe the bolts used to tie together the worlds highest balloon ride are made by an Australian company; they literally get as tenuous as that at times.
Man that is some serious cojones and brain damage when you have the audacity to sell a worse thing year on year, despite a better performing but immobile alternative existing.
You, for example, are one of them.
Signed up! Fingers crossed...
What about the pen pressure levels?
Biggie even went to pains to point this out: "Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, when I was dead broke man, I couldn't picture this."
During the Opera tenure, FastMail moved to new, larger premises in Melbourne and took on quite a few new staff. They did a lot of work on the My Opera Mail web client, which will hopefully be folded back into the main FM product.

They also built-out data centre capacity, including facilities in Iceland.

So all around I think FM benefited greatly from the three years under Opera, though I'm not convinced the reverse is true.
FWIW, 2 months ago Fastmail support told me they have no plans or intentions of moving away from their US data centers.
The Cost of Cleaning China’s Filthy Air is $817Billion
Yep. I didn't get the sense he put a lot of thought into this screed.
Pushing out many updates in a short period of time with an exponential decay would have little effect. It's like a refilling a cup that's only down a few drops. Refilling a half empty cup (for example, an app that wasn't been updated in a year) would have a much bigger effect. That's how the math of an exponential decay works. The farther you get away from the start time, the more it goes down.
> Foreign workers have 0 rights there. But hey these guys are US allies,the leader of democracy and the free world

As an European (and football fan to boot) I'm more saddened that the latest issue of The Economist had a full inside-page ad for Qatar Airways, featuring Lionel Messi and a couple of other Barcelona stars, all mingled with "genuine" customers with a sheik or two thrown in for good measure.
Let's hope so. As long as Valve keeps the desktop side of Steam and the Big Picture mode separate from each other we would be fine.

I really hope they won't make Microsofts mistake and start trashing the desktop UI of Steam and instead giving those users the Big Picture Mode UI to use. Because, you know "Everything must look and work identical. No matter how different the use cases may be"

Microsoft could have avoided all of this by just offering a small option during install "Where do you want to install win8? Tablet or Desktop". And according to that selection install MetroUI or otherwise leave it uninstalled. But their notion that from phone over tablets to desktop, all just have to have the uni colored tiles everywhere certainly isn't doing the trick.
I feel like we're talking about two different things here...

You stated:

> it's quite possible to recognize growing risk that a market isn't pricing in

How is this possible? What data, metrics, tools, do you have that shows an increase in risk other than a basic "intuition"? That's my point - if such a tool did exist to the common person (as you suggest, the techie in SV who isn't saving), financial institutions would be all over that. They aren't (but they claim to be)

The blog post you reference, is just one data point. Just because one person feels that way, doesn't mean the whole culture is that way.

> They assume that they have job security and will always be able to jump to another six-figure job with a phone call or two. As a result, many fail to save.

I'm not disagreeing with this sentiment, but we'd both be drawing fairly baseless conclusions. Counter-point - Are there not loads of people who survived the 90's .com boom and making a killing today in SV? (i.e. PG is one example) So why would savings matter then?
Developers, don't use Dropbox Sync, use remoteStorage
>>People like Winston Churchill can't think anything because they, like Winston Churchill, have been dead for decades.

They could think when they were alive. To talk about freedom and morals, when your own country has set up colonies all round the globe and committing atrocities is hypocrisy.
The Myopera forums are rife with users complaining about missing features in the Opera 15+. Any unique features which distinguished Opera have been axed and most solutions seem to point towards using browser addons to accomplish what was previously in-built. They might have gained a few users, but it appears the majority of the current userbase will be sticking with Opera 12 for the time being.
Margins.

A netbook that gets better every year for $250-350 will have a razor-thin profit margin. If it has to have Microsoft Windows Special Edition on it, 10-30% of the price tag goes to MS. Joe Average wouldn't buy a computer that doesn't run whatever brand name he recognizes, so Windows is a requirement.

A tablet isn't a "computer", so it doesn't need to run Windows in order to sell, it needs to run Facebook and Angry Birds. It can sell for $250-350 and have a decent margin, and then there are so many of them being made that the parts cost drops and the margin gets better.

A Google Nexus 7 now has everything except a keyboard in terms of netbook hardware, but it gives up no margin to MS and has a market big enough for economies of scale.

Meanwhile, whatever Intel is pushing as an Ultrabook can go for $1000-1400 because it starts as a high-end desktop replacement and then gets features shaved away. Except nobody with any sense buys them, and the usual bulk purchasers of laptops that don't make sense (Fortune 500 companies) aren't re-buying machines as often, and when they do, sometimes it's a fruit machine in offices which would never have bought those five years ago.

(Why? because of you, dear HN reader. The alpha suits know that the alpha techs demand the best hardware, and they can see the logos glowing on the back of your screen better than you can.)
Interesting that there's an exclamation mark after Google.
Were they copying Yahoo! or was that a thing in 1998?
I wondef it it is a public figure how much money do workers send home from middle east? If it's big you can expect at least some expats to fare OK.
Correction: Alton Brown says there is no room in the kitchen for UNItaskers (except fire extinguishers). He's actually a huge fan of multitaskers!
They will go away if the inertia drops to zero and the industry doesn't wake up that we need solid hardware, and not fingerprints on garbage.
There is space for antiquity and for nice new precision tools. Lo-tech was high-tech at some point of time too.
New Features in the Firefox Developer Tools: Episode 26
My point is, there's only so much benefit that one person can get from exponentially increasing processing power. Web browsers and word processors gain new bells and whistles, but the basic functionality is the same as it ever was. You can run a bajillion windows at once, watch Netflix at HD resolution, and not slow down. Games are near-photorealistic. What more do we want a computer to do, exactly?

You mention resolution--once the pixels are smaller than the naked eye can distinguish at typical viewing distance, everything else is polish and marketing. Yes, I know, retina displays are indefinably "crisper", or something. But you can't functionally cram any more useful information on to them, because the user won't be able to make it out.

We're seeing features like this because we've reached the point of diminishing returns on desktops. There aren't going to be any more massive game-changing jumps in raw processing power. In the 90s, we went from Wolfenstein 3D to Doom in a year and a half, and from there to Quake in another two and a half years--all of them gigantic, envelope-pushing leaps in gaming technology. In this century, we've gone from Half-Life 2 in 2004 to...what? Crysis 2? The latest Call of Duty? When was the last time a PC game got the same kind of uproar over graphics that Doom did? The degree of change that used to come once a year is now coming every ten. That's not because everything got boring, it's because we're getting asymptotically close to perfection, at least from a practical home-user standpoint. That's bad if you're in the business of convincing people they need new computers every year, but it's decidedly good if you're a user.
Interesting - perhaps it has the same market as Opera's browsers used to (e.g. carriers)?

As a geek, I often forget that a shared market can indicate why a company is doing something new, as well as a shared product.
I had a different experience: I killed my mainboard on my T61 via overclocking the GPU and they replaced it without any questions asked.
The Data Scientist Shortage – Video
This is way, way out of my knowledge, but...

Is the term "Missing link" actually useful? Seems to me that what we keep doing is create more "missing links" with each discovery in the chain. We are sort of filling in gaps created each time we, er, find more missing links. In a 1000 years, we'll still be finding missing links until the whole thing is perfectly mapped out, if that is possible.
> Which begs the question, what exactly do Qataris do all day?!

Raping or torturing their house maids/slaves.
Especially in a new country or a city this kind of a care-free navigation is a nice feature. You really have to concentrate on what happens around you in a new city. People have distinct driving styles in between cities and countries and one just can not foresee what will happen next second. Also the street marks are different - you really need to grok the new style.
I don't know. I haven't checked. Have you checked yet since posting?
Google Hangouts/GTalk glitch sends chats to wrong recipients
Race to the bottom, guys. Race to the bottom. Jobs was right again.
This just happened to me. I recieved messages (in gmail) from a contact that ware meant for his wife.

Be careful! I guess the best course of action is not to use gmail chat until google announces they have fixed the issue.
Get a phone with a higher resolution screen, and maybe your opinion will change. My phone is 4.7" with a 1280x720 display. I now prefer to use my phone for a lot of reading over my 1920x1080 17" laptop display because the text is so much crisper that the laptop screen is annoying. Even more so the 23" screen I'm writing this on, which seems extremely fuzzy and pixelated.

My next phone will likely be a 5" phone with 1920x1080 given current prices/specs for full HD display phones - at that point I expect my laptop and desktops will annoy me even more. Current relatively low end tablets are now starting to get substantially higher resolutions than that.
Sherlock Season 3: "The Reichenbach Fall" final problem
The problem in Qatar is vastly the exploitation of poor, by the rich. Which is hardly any different than situations in certain parts of China, India, North Korea and where not?

I'm pretty darn sure you don't talk about religion of people who commit suicides in those Foxconn factories.

I don't know what agenda you hold in continually dragging Islam into all this.
Google Launches Hashtag Search, Shows Google+ Posts On Search Result
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I assume this discussion is already more about the transition from desktop to laptop, than about the PC to Mac etc.

Have you looked at Windows on 27" Thunderbolt display?
The first time I saw that display with Mac OS X rendering on it, I thought: "Wow, that looks awesome. The glare from the glass is bothering, so there's that, but placed right in the room, it's totally fine and well worth for that size and clarity.".

Then I went to the specs and saw that the PPI of this monitor was exactly 6 points above my own (1920x1080, 21.5", 102 ppi vs. 108 ppi)? Is it possible 6 points to be such a differentiator?

Of course, it turned out it wasn't - I immediately tried windows on the same Mac machine and there it was - everything looked almost as badly as on my own PC.

So, I asked the guy that owns the machine (he is a graphic designer), why there is such a difference and he said: "Microsoft simply doesn't care enough about detail. Check the default icon sizes in the OS - OS X's icons on regular-density display (non-retina) are 4x bigger (512x512 vs. 256x256 on windows) and on retina this grows to 16x more pixels (1024x1024)."

So factor #1, IMHO, is people ditch Desktop PCs because of Microsoft's lack of flexibility and innovation - they decided "If we have a monopoly over desktop computing, why should we care what our users say? They still buy 'it'.".

Factor #2 - Microsoft still has the numbers!!! They have locked the enterprise tight, and still don't care about "personal" user experience.

So we have this giant corporation that gets enough money and has no incentive to innovate and we hope it will bring us the great singularity of software and hardware we have all been waiting for...

And the last factor I will point out is relevant mostly to developers - Mac hardware runs it all. Then having a Windows and a Mac machine, doesn't really make sense, both as expenses and simplicity of work.

Apple made the, arguably, "evil-corporate" decision to be totally in control of the hardware running its OS. So you, developers, have the option to buy:

- iMac, that sits tight on your desk + Macbook (probably Air) for your work on the go;

- Mini + Thunderbolt + Macbook (probably Air);

- Pro + Thunderbolt + Macbook (definitely Air after what you paid for the previous 2);

- Macbook Pro.

Well, as I see it, most developers are headed for the Macbook Pro with eventually adding a Thunderbolt.

For developers in need to support the Mac ecosystem, this is not even #3 reason - it's #1. I had to make this transition and I am glad I did, because Mac OS X turned out to be no less then great, and although smaller in size, my 15.4" retina display got me into the 21st century. :)
I don't understand why people don't like Ultrabooks. They like MacBook Airs, so what's wrong about creating slim and lightweight notebooks in general?

That some vendors produce crap is irrelevant. But there are nice offerings out there.

I've seen a Samsung in the shop recently that looked and felt great. They only screwed it up in offering max 4GB RAM and their lineup is so confusing that I don't even know which one I would have to look at online. But that is not a general issue of "Ultrabooks".
There's the Creationist "missing link", and then there's the one used by sane people. A biological missing link would for example be if we didn't have Archaeopteryx. It's true that this of course creates two new gaps in the evolutionary chain, but those aren't as annoying as the big gap before :-)
Good points. I guess the only thing new to a helmet industry is the projector. Everything else can be found in high-tech helmets already. Check the Schuberth C2 with bluetooth inlay.
I wonder if the projector can even be placed outside the protective hull and shine in through a hole? That will mitigate the point 1.
Also out of my knowledge, but the hypothesized tree of evolution contains only distinct species AFAIK. A true missing link would be an intermediate stage, like catching the first fish with legs as it adapts to land. Fish with wings aren't interesting because they are an (extant) species in their own right.

It's like catching someone on a layover -- you're very clearly in the middle of two stable (but distinct) spots. But you don't spend much time there -- which is why it's been so tough to find.
This also just happened to me. Some messages that I send (using the browser) to a friend were received by someone else. A messages intended for my girlfriend was received by a coworker. My Hangouts app (Android) actually showed these messages in the "wrong" conversation.
Podcaster.js
User interface design is exactly like coding
Andromeda–Milky Way collision
99 bugs in our code, 99 bugs in our code.
Look one up, mark it as fixed.
103 bugs in our code, 103 bugs in our code...
Really? I first played it on the console but have no trouble using a keyboard.
Also inb4 Futurama fans start complaining about the endless "chain" of evolution. It's not that simple -- similarity does not imply inheritance.
For example TomTom Rider does a good job of doing exactly that - it shows you the lines mapping for exits etc. I have it hooked up over bluetooth too. Works most of the time.
Worked well for me in US and Europe.
I don't understand the marketing message of Semantic UI.

"Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a language for sharing UI."

Very confusing and doesn't tell me what it is at all. "A better Bootstrap" or just "front-end/CSS framework" would have been better.
Ok, so the topic might be worth keeping. But your examples show no need for keeping the identification of the requester.
YouTube rolls out a new royalty-free music library
Steno meets Vim: Plover: Thought to Text at 240 WPM - [34:22]
But fast forward is usually almost instantaneous, to the point it's often faster to seek backwards, then play back at normal speed, than to wait for a previous frame to be calculated.

There's no reason why the software can't cache frames (it's only 25fps normally) or fast forward from the last I-frame. 25 frames of 1080p HD video is 200MB, as uncompressed 32bpp bitmaps. I have 24GB of memory in my PC; that's the worst case, and it's not bad. A bunch of prior frames can be cached, and the next bunch recalculated if it looks like the user is going to continue stepping backwards.
What tacticus said: disable SSL 2. But there's nothing wrong with the web server. (Also, given that you're using IIS, it's unusual that TLS 1.1 and 1.2 are not enabled.)
An armoured fish? Like... a fish tank?

Thank you. I'm here all week. Try the placoderm.
This is where I see the traditional PC headed. Many people think that MS and traditional PC makers are taking a risk by making convertible/dual-use devices, but Apple is also taking a risk by not doing it. If the market decides that having a tablet that can multi-task as a fully fledged PC is a good idea, then Apple has a problem, because they can't make OSX touch friendly in a hurry. Their other option is make iOS more capable and make it run on Macbook level devices, but this won't be a quick task.

Many people will say that dedicated devices like tablets and laptops are what people want, but there are plenty of cases where a multi-use device succeeds. The obvious case is the smartphone - it's basically combined a phone, MP3 player and camera together, and people love it.
> Also out of my knowledge, but the hypothesized tree of evolution contains only distinct species AFAIK. A true missing link would be an intermediate stage ...

They're all species. There's no such thing as an intermediate non-species. Species are conventionally defined as a group that breeds with its own group, and are distinguished by the fact that they cannot breed with other species. So all those intermediate stages were also species.

Some species didn't last very long, and the farther back in time we go, the less chance we have of locating clear evidence for particular species. But that doesn't mean they weren't species, as that term is defined.
Test automation – finding your starting point
Good thing I've gotten most of the friends I chat with regularly to switch to OTR-enabled chat clients.
What benefit does a fund investing in bitcoin have over simply exchanging some money into bitcoin?
Students challenged to create new Kanye West visual identity
Git squash without repetitive conflicts
Was about to create a thread on /r/netsec and ask what was going on, or if i had gone crazy, after a former colleague of me got everything i wrote to my fiancee.

Pretty horrible bug.

A Norwegian example/proof: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83758451/Screenshot_2013...
Netbooks was seen as a threat to both hardware manufacturers, due to their wafer thin margins, and software manufacturers, since they initially came out preloaded with Linux. The Wintel cartel quite deliberately killed it off.
/etc/hosts...

# Screw Google...
127.0.0.1	www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1	ssl.google-analytics.com
FreeBSD Performance Checklist - the USE method
There's something very Chinese about banning social media with the ostensible goal of encouraging people to focus on their work.

(Also, where do you stop with your "addictive and mind crushing" barrier? Other forums, like HN? Video games? Fiction books? Theatre? "Thought-negating" music?)
Stop feeding zombies with outdated browsers. :)
Yes the PC seems to be stuck I bought a desktop PC in 2005 and replaced it this year love the built in graphics and more powerful processor but anything extra is useless crap i don't want.

It's amazing how hard it is to find a screen with a decent pixel density and how expensive these average screens are.

I'm actually considering buying I-Pad screens off e-bay and creating a wall of them to get what i need. How deplorable is that?

The PC needs to become the main machine of the house and to do that it needs to step up its game.
Apple Maps Takes Drivers on a Shortcut Across an Airport Runway
Deploying SSL partially is very dangerous, because then you have to be _very_ careful that the session ID is not compromised. I'd go as far as to say that it's virtually impossible to do that securely (for the average web site, built by more than one person who are not security experts, maintained under pressure over a period of years, and so on).

Someone else here mentioned SSL stripping, which is another problem, which you can't avoid [with partial SSL] no matter how much you try.

If you're deploying SSL today and you're not using HTTP Strict Transport Security, you're doing it incorrectly.
We don't talk about their religion because their religion doesn't encourage slavery, obviously.
Mac OS X bootable backup drive with rsync (2011)
The sad reality of why we are not living in the moment
I was thinking along the same lines. What he is asking for is quite close to general AI!
The Daiz summons works on HN too I see.

I agree that 10-bit playback needs to be addressed. However it seems either CCCP or mplayer2 work great with no noticeable difference in quality. Only VLC seems to have an issue with decoding 10-bit video streams.

Works fantastically well for everything else though.
Not a lot. Im a close friend of the minister for telecommunications in Somalia and they're not particularly focused on the Somali domain at the moment.

As you can imagine with the current circumstances they have more urgen and pressing needs and to be honest they don't realise the value of the somali domain as of yet.

The only issue I could imagine is if you were hosting pornographic or anti-Islamic material, then they might object.