skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering how good is Surface as a Wacom replacement? Is it passable, how does its pen work with Windows/Photoshop?

I was looking to buy Cintiq 13HD for $1000, but a fully fledged tablet/laptop that is also a drawing board, for $900?! I mean compare this to Cintiq Companion which is $2000.
Law absolutely does not have the potential to pay better.
In fact, it's now a net negative earner (IE loans > increase in earning capacity), and has been for a few years.

If you want something with the potential to pay better, try "master plumber", or any other profession where the majority are getting quite old and not being replaced because everyone wants their kids to go to college and become a doctor.
You are confused between criminal and civil courts. You only need a lawyer for civil claims. For criminal claims, the state is your lawyer (of course, if you're the victim), and the whole state criminal system was intended exactly to secure personal rights, before it was hijacked to prosecute such heinous crimes as barbering without license and smoking wrong species of plant. Libertarianism never fails on that because libertarianism claims exactly that - that the purpose of the state is to protect personal rights and nothing else. In this example, the state is failing spectacularly and the only task for which it may exist - how it is a libertarians problem? Libertarianism didn't fail these people, the state in whose jurisdiction they are did.
Do you know about custom styling/scripting?
With a littie CSS you can have it visiable by default.
Look into Stylish: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmke...
It makes sense in the context of (my) blog post. I start by showing one configuration for those who wish to use RC4 to mitigate the BEAST attack (better suites are used for the clients that support TLS 1.2). In the subsequent section, for those who do not care about BEAST and don't like RC4, I show how they can simply add !RC4 to the end. The advantage is that the configuration string remains the same.
in order for a bill to become law,

1 - it has to be agreed by a couple of committees,
2 - exact copies have to be passed by the two chambers of the congress, each of which are controlled by opposed factions, which disagree about almost anything and rarely compromised
3 - it has to be not vetoed by the president.

So probably it won't pass. In fact, I wonder how can they get anything passed these days.
I dont get this article. Seems to be nothing but hearsay and opinion with no references to facts.

Also point of author just seems nonsensical to me. I have a big-ass powerful pc and I love it! Use it for gaming, game development, 3d modelling, music making. I built it myself from components, set up OS and software exactly the way I want with win7 and Crunchbang (linux). No other device would be able to do exactly what I want like this.
Maybe most people dont want that but most people have never been technically minded, if theyre happier with tablets then thats fine.
I haven't bought a Steam game either. In fact, I don't even have an account. For the past couple of years I've been locked into the MS ecosystem with the Xbox 360. I will not buy the Xbox One though. I don't need a surveillance machine in my living room. I was never a fan of the PlayStation. For a while it looked like I had to build a PC and have it run the system I dislike the most, just for the sake of gaming.

Seriously, I'd buy (or build) a SteamMachine in a heartbeat. It's the most sensible option for me at this time.
I love my RC helicopter which shoots missiles. Charged via USB, I got a right bargain.
Electric utility companies charge you for the energy they provide via electrical energy.

I remember reading an article saying that in an electrical circuit it is not the electrons that are moving, but the energy. The electrons are just the medium.
Not sure if 100% of their posts are mind blowing. It's hard to dispense much business wisdom via a Twitter feed. Still, you can learn a lot from them, especially if you follow the links they recommend. My favourite is at the top:

David S. Rose
@davidsrose
Venture capitalist, entrepreneur, angel investor

Jeff Bussgang
@bussgang
Former entrepreneur turned VC at Flybridge Capital

Fred Wilson
@fredwilson
I am a VC

I'd also suggest to read through David Rose's replies on Quora. Very thoughtful
The .be is actually here for a play on words on the french sentence "j'ai une grosse teube", "teube" meaning... what it means.
Bottomline: Developers don't use their own product in the same context that the end user will. Which means the end user won't get the right picture if the developer does the demo.
Somehow I learned of the real Rick Ross through the fake Rick Ross - I actually sought out the 'everyday I am hustlin' track on YouTube and, a few clicks later, there I was reading the legend on Wikipedia etc. Hence, sometimes to some people imitation really is the 'sincerest form of flattery'.

I am surprised the real Rick Ross made it onto Hacker News, what next, how the 'CIA invented rap music just to keep the black man down?' - that too is a great 'what if?' urban myth...
There seems to be a regression in the hardware-accelerated decoding. Worked fine in 2.0, now it looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/IzSfo0v.jpg

(Win64 VLC build on Nvidia hardware)
I find Amazon the most disturbing of that list and Yahoo is stuck in another era.
You raise an interesting issue. But is there enough money in large displays?

Let's look at use cases, and focus on the average person(assuming that the gamer market is too small to justify opening a top manufacturing line for large displays).

Usecase 1: movies. Even assuming there's value in 4K resolution(which is not certain) you still need to align and improve so many industries to make it work. Really hard.

Usecase 2: games. Most games plain folk play are casual games, and maybe playing angry birds at high resolution don't justify spending that much money . And even if there are ideas for such games, it's still chicken and egg problem.

Maybe the right strategy is to sell 10" retina displays, used at a short distance, to let people experience quality cheaply, build the relevant industries, and than offer large retina displays .
Check this remarkable video on persistence hunting in the kalahari - a hunter literally chases a buck until it's completely exhausted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
> A team of scientists, including an Australian,

Crikey, an Australian scientist. Whatever next
How about browser support (e.g. IE8)? Couldn't find any info on semantic-ui.com.
how many times have we resolved the missing link ? Damn ! I should shut up, I will lose all my karma.
You can also define a web app by the capabilities of a modern web browser, e.g., storage, network, graphics.
Or the original Halo on the first Xbox. If I remember correctly that game alone promoted the console for a lot of customers. Valve could give HL3 a head start of a couple of months on SteamOS and release it on other platforms after that. It would be less annoying that being fully exclusive. Besides, all the PC gamers could just go and dual boot SteamOS on they PC. It's free after all.
I understand your point, but I am trying very hard to keep the guide as short as possible. The problem is that, if you start to be inclusive, the size balloons. I've written hundreds of pages on this topic so far (for my forthcoming book) and I don't yet feel I've covered everything sufficiently.

Further, people often want to deploy something that's just slightly different -- like your request to use only RSA keys, then DSA, and so on. I've come to realise that the only way to make everyone happy is to teach them to write configuration strings for themselves. That's how OpenSSL Cookbook (my free ebook) came about.

In addition, my blog (referenced above) has many specialist posts; I write them as I research stuff for my book.

To your last question: no, there's no reason to use ECDSA anywhere if you only have RSA keys... but I prefer to use the same configuration string everywhere. It makes maintenance much easier.
IIRC it has actual Wacom digitizer hardware in it, so that brings it a lot closer to a Cintiq than a typical touchscreen would be.
Not sure if you missed it based on your post, but camus was being sarcastic
An API doesn't have a license. It is just the code which has a license. Do you mean you want to copy the code to reuse it under OpenRC, or are you really talking about the API?

Regarding API license: Just ask systemd mailing list. They will tell you that API doesn't have a license, only the code.
>256 levels of brightness aren't nearly enough.

It's not just the number of brightness levels. On an LCD display, if you brighten the backlight by a factor of 50, a black pixel will be about as white as a white pixel with the backlight at a brightness factor of 1. One of the most frustrating things about LCD displays is their inability to completely transmit or completely occlude light. This can be seen most obviously by trying to watch a movie in a dark room.
The article is currently front page [0] on Doha News [1], which many expats read daily in their office.

So, yes, it is front page as far as I concerned. Few people who live around this area would read state-run newspapers.

[0] http://dohanews.co/post/62313447527/guardian-nepali-workers-...

[1] http://dohanews.co
Just want to validate this... I feel the same way. PCs are faster than they've ever been and cheaper than they've ever been. I just bought a custom smoking fast computer for my parents in an awesome tiny mini-ITX case with a fast SSD drive and an awesome i5 Ivy processor (I think 3570k?). Including monitor it was < $1000. I priced out even cheaper PCs with cheaper, larger cases for $300. I also have a big-ass powerful PC and I love it.
Happy Petrov day
Total size of Apple.com iphone5s retina webpage
Gentoo GNOME packagers decided they'd make GNOME in Gentoo depend on systemd. I don't see why you expect GNOME developers to help out with another init systemd. That should be up to init system developers. Just implement the same API and/or ensure the API is fixed so it can be implemented across init systems.
Can't Bluetooth LE "upgrade" the connection to full speed?

Also, since I'm asking: Does anyone know if my Bluetooth-LE-supporting HTC One will consume very little battery if Bluetooth is turned on? I have an inkling that it will need to keep advertising Bluetooth proper, so it will use as much battery as Bluetooth always has.
419-million-year-old fish resolves 'missing link' in evolution. Two new missing links now created. (creationist logic)
Others have discussed the slavery claims, I'll address the linguistic claims.

The three-letter root عبد, transliterated "3abd", or more inaccurately, "Abed", has meanings related to servant and slaves. It does not mean black. This can be seen in this entry of the Hans Wehr dictionary - http://tinyurl.com/pk2alcu . You might be familiar with this root from the Arabic male name Abdallah or 3abdallah - this literally means "Servant of God".

Side note - I'm using the letter 3 to indicate the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayin letter, which is a throaty consonant in Arabic that is hard for Westerners to pronounce and hear. Because of this, it is sometimes sliced off and ignored when Arabic words are transliterated to the Latin alphabet. However, making claims about the Arabic language while ignoring it is a bit like making claims about the etymology of English words while ignoring the difference between l and r - it can lead you seriously astray.

The color black is أسود / aswad (masculine) or سوداء / sauda2 (feminine) in Arabic, all derived from the three-letter root سود (s-u-d). Dictionary entry at http://tinyurl.com/q7cadg4 . You may recognize this root from the country سودان / Sudan. However, it should not be confused with Saudi Arabia, which is سعودية or sa3udia. Again, the Ayin is present in the word and gives it a very different meaning.

In general, Arabic has a number of consonants that are hard to distinguish for Westerners - this includes the Ayin, the gh (guttural r), the difference between aspirated and non-aspirated h, the difference between emphatic and non-emphatic t, s, d and dh. This means it is hard to represent Arabic accurately with the Latin alphabet without extending it in ways unfamiliar to regular readers. I tend to trust claims about Arabic if the Arabic alphabet is used to explain them, otherwise I would be fairly skeptical.
This is the ciphersuite that we recommend at Mozilla. We're working on publishing our work on SSL/TLS recommendations. It's very similar to Qualys's work.

ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:kEDH+AESGCM:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA256:DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA:AES128-GCM-SHA256:AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA:ECDHE-ECDSA-RC4-SHA:RC4-SHA:HIGH:!aNULL:!eNULL:!EXPORT:!DES:!3DES:!MD5:!PSK
Nope, designers want to maybe change something to do with text selection. However, no plans yet. Slashdot made a fuzz about nothing.
It sounded weird at first, but it is a website from Australia and I guess the news agency feels proud.
I assume they specifically mentioned it because it's an Australian website.

But upvote, because LOL :D
If these countries have oil money in abundance then why don't they give good working conditions and pay more money

Racism. There's a certain pecking order in the Gulf: 1.) Locals, 2.) Other Gulf nationals, 3.) Whites (Western), 4.) Non-white professionals (Western) 5.) Other Arabs (professionals), 5.) South Asian professionals, 6.) Working class (busboys/waiters/etc.), 7.) Day laborers (mostly South Asian).

If you see a certain race/class as subhuman, why would you provide them with good working conditions?
you'll get over the addiction to twitter,
and retweets, and likes, and favorites...

you'll realize it's a game, a _stupid_ one,
and you'll taper off, and then quit totally,
or close enough that you'll feel human again.

before that, you'll ramp up, and ramp up again,
chasing dragons, hoping to get the feeling back,
-- "smoking more, but enjoying it less?" is how
it was put in a classic advertising campaign --
but it won't work, and you'll get sick and tired
of the whole thing, and walk away, with a mix of
tremendous relief plus an overwhelming sadness.

but walk away you will, and recover you will, and
you'll end up older, smarter, and wiser next time.

your first revelation -- i am telling you this so
you'll recognize it -- is that addiction made you
far too preoccupied with yourself, what you "would"
have done, or "could" have, or "should" have, and
you'll recognize first that you should just _do_,
and second (and more importantly) that you need to
pay some attention to the other people around you,
who you love, and not dwell so much on yourself...

-bowerbird
Use it to accomplish a task. Repeat.
Thats a pity. How will the next generation learn about computers?
I learned just from getting games to work on a DOS pc at home.
How up to date is wxc these days? Last time I checked it was very raw.

Regardless, this is an exciting development. Once it's reasonably stable I will migrate my hobby project (http://spek.cc) to use it!
If you want that level of security, your only solution is to own all your servers and have very strong physical security. The problem is that most web sites cannot justify the expense.

If you follow all the recommendations from the guide -- which is not that hard, in my opinion -- your (TLS) security will be among, say, 0.1% of the sites out there, or better.

Going back to the key protection: for the rest of us, the best you can do is always use a password with your key. That won't protect it on the web server, but it will protect it when you back it up independently.

Then, find a CA that allows unlimited key/certificate regeneration and rotate your private key (and revoke the previous certificate) every month, and every time your staff changes.
What gave me creeps wasn't service or collected data. It was the fact that I am using iPhone for several weeks now. I dont use phone (apps) while commuting since I'm at the wheel. Only app I am using, is Waze, but I believe that their data is not being shared with Google yet. But somehow Google still knows where I've been with gread detail and accuracy.
Does it make the earliest known organism that had a jaw, or are there instances of jaws evolving independently in other lineages (other than insects)?
I am using Google Alerts for a few months now. I set up a few alerts for physiotherapy jobs with some keywords like 'job' 'physiotherapy', 'vacancy' et cetera (in Dutch). But I only get once a month an alert and even then it only found some sort of news article about the profession, not anything about jobs. I cannot imagine that so little jobs are put online for this profession. Twitter search or plain Google search gives me more relevant information.

Not sure about the Google Alert if it is useful at all this way. I can manually search every day of course, but these are things I thought could be perfectly automated and done by Google Alert.
This is an Australian news website (run by the publicly funded national broadcaster), hence the need to tie in with an Australian angle.
Why would people have to run into traffic at all?

I'd say the easiest way to have streets with self driving cars and without traffic lights would be to build pedestrian overpasses. Just a nice small bridge to cross the roads.
I disagree with #9. Maybe Bill was on vacation, broke his arm and stayed in hospital for a full month. Of course he's underperforming.

The data is there for you to query. There should be pointers to begin with, but the software should never make business decisions for you.

If the business analyst needs an hour to find the data, then the interface is too complicated, or the analyst did not learn how to use the software in the first place.

Please don't make me write software that can replace your business analyst.
Are you using the HTTPS Everywhere extension, perhaps?
Mini website crawler to make sitemap from a website. (Python3)
The new SitemapBundle for the Kunstmaan Bundles for Symfony2 CMS
Stop me if you think you've heard this one before
It's probably like software development.

"We fixed that bug, yay!"

"But now theres 5 bugs instead of one, what the hell?!"

"Well those are different bugs. Do you want them fixed, too?"

"AAAAAaah."
Facebook study: four times more lurkers than we estimate
Google currency arithmetic with conversion
Yes, try CheckTLS: http://www.checktls.com/

Although, ironically, their web site does not seem to use TLS properly, not enforcing encryption on login and using mixed content.
Also for me this is all very familiar. As a pc gamer for years, maybe a decade! I have been hearing about how pc gaming is dying or dead. All the while playing the best games which are usually not released on consoles with the best graphics and performance + controls and setup that I want.
Ask them what they're praying for, not how to pronounce the Latin.
I wouldn't say adding pen input would make the iPad a multitasking device.
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Ehh, going to come out and say Matasano is wrong here. You can do crypto in JS, just don't download it every time (distribute signed packages via browser add-ons). The part of the article that attacks extensions just makes a bunch of assumptions (like, you're going to download scripts and eval them from your extension). It's a leap.

Plus that article attacks JS doing crypto that the server will decrypt (which, yes is useless, use TLS). It doesn't address using browser add-ons to do AES encryption, have your data stored on the server in encrypted form, and only decrypted when you download it again.

Is this method flawed? Only if you do a web-app instead of a browser add-on. Once you package the client code, it can be just as hard to break as something like KeePass (assuming the add-on itself has a decent security policy, ie don't eval()code from random places).

Plus, modern browsers now have "window.crypto" which provides a PRNG. So there goes that argument.

The article is just completely wrong in many ways. The only valid point I see it make is about garbage collection and potential for reading decrypted memory directly (MANY languages have this problem, not just JS).

One of the points you brought up is extremely valid though: LastPass is closed-source, so it's nearly impossible to truly validate the crypto. Keepass (I also use it) is a much better option, and great when paired with some sort of sync utility.
You can append 'in AUD' or 'in JPY' for example to see the result in another currency.
Good point. Ever since I touched my first computng device I've been longing for something that would fullfill the "1 machine for everything" principle properly. Lately this turns up more often on the net, mainly while referring to phone-like devices which seems awful to me as the screen is just to tiny to feel comfortable. A surface-size device however would be the real deal, for me at least.
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Congrats to the VLC team!

While VLC is excellent and we would like and want to use VLC as a plugin in our corporate environment, we sadly cannot, because there's currently no way to configure VLC plugin to use a proxy. In order to get to the internet, everything must go through the proxy.
It would be very welcome if You could implement this little functionality. VLC plugin should just get the proxy settings from the browser and it would be done. Ofcourse, bonus points for SPNEGO.

I have just made my HN accounts only to post this request.

Keep up the excellent work!

Edit: minor typos.
Sure, this is what I use now:

http://dl.nux.ro/utils/movewin.sh
The bigger problem with CentOS (Red Hat) is that they do not support Elliptic Curves, which are necessary for Forward Secrecy.

If you're using Apache, you can compile your own from source, using static linking against OpenSSL. That way, you can have the latest versions of both.

I have a blog post that describes the process:

http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/08/compiling-apache-with-sta...

While you're there, you might also want to patch Apache to support configurable DH parameters:

http://blog.ivanristic.com/2013/08/increasing-dhe-strength-o...
SASS is nice, but requiring ruby means it bloats your toolchain much more than LESS which is sensibly implemented in Javascript.
Since the .fm tld is for the Federated States of Micronesia, I was sort of hoping for hosting on some tropical island in the South Pacific, but even then the Fastmail operators would more than likely acquiesce to any US spying "requests."

Unfortunately, there are increasingly few nations which will refuse US et al spying "requests."
> And yet I see no solution to this problem.

How hard can it be not to tweet?? I came here just to say this, and saw that many others had just said the same thing, and yet I felt the urge to say it again, myself! O, irony!

Seriously though, Twitter isn't like TV or smoking. Nicotine is one of the most addictive substance there is; TV isn't really addictive, in a medical/chemical sense, but it's so easy -- you sit on the couch and you get distracted by funny/mildly interesting things with sound and images.

But Twitter? You have to make a conscious decision to tweet, it's not a default like TV... Reading tweets is boring, writing tweets is work... How can it be difficult to not do it?

I guess I just don't get it.
Ask HN: What could go wrong using Somalia domain (.so)?
Hey,
I'm thinking starting a new service and looking to put it on .so domain (Somalia).

Is it bad idea in terms of SEO?
The main traffic will be from USA/Canada/Europe.

Is it possible if the service turn out to be successful to have issues from the Somalia government? (rise the renewal pricing to huge amount, take away the domain, etc.)

What could go wrong?