skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on the intended audience for your site. Something that's mobile/tablet optimized will be running on pretty much Webkit/Blink only.
Covering a page in a 'please wait this page is loading' with an advert for 10 seconds is a sure fire way to make me leave instantly.
I agree, while Myst pulled in a lot of casual gamers, they didn't become gamers after playing the game.
Personally I never played r, as I found the mechanics to e entirely unengaging. The game is essentially a raytrace slideshow. I'd rather play Zork or say, Lunar 2.
I think the total energy available at ground level is something closer to 250W/m^2.
What are you talking about? This font is a disaster, everything looks the same.
You call that sophisticated?
Agreed. Unfortunately I can't say the same about Frutiger ripoff Segoe UI. I got tired so quickly of that font, and I barely even use Windows 8. You still see it all the time on other Microsoft branded stuff though, and all I can think is 'meh'.

A neutral font like Helvetica is a much better choice IMO.
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I take it you haven't tried to rate a song yet? I spent 5 minutes mashing the screen before I noticed the 'Rating' text. Then spent another 5 minutes tapping, swiping up down left right on that text before I gave up. I finally figured out that you have to tap the track (silly me, thought that would play it over again) to rate it. I still don't actually know if that 'Rating' text does anything
The Emperor has spoken.
> Is it available anywhere online for purchase? Cool. Buy it and watch it.

A week later. And I would have to get an archaic optical drive. It also creates useless waste and is usually way too expensive for an hour of entertainment.

For me, none of the options before that is available so I can either don't watch it or pirate it with "I'll pay for it later" attitude. It worked well enough for games and software in general (pirated everything since maybe three or four years back).
I shall bookmark this discussion and get back to it in a couple of years :)
What does doing it "full time" mean? Is he sitting there watching the machines?
"paste this in Chrome's address bar: chrome://flags/, use Ctrl+F to search for "Enable Instant Extended API" and click"
Disable

Although it only appears to be enabled on non-Linux platforms
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The thing that's less often remembered is that tables had their own, completely different set of quirks which had to be learned and worked around, such that people eventually internalized all of it and figured that since they were no longer conscious of the problems, there must not be any and so "tables are so much easier".
Just group by version. Time-based decay might work too but linking a rating to a specific version (maybe only a major version - there are pro & cons) has more meaning.
I'm surprised nobody, not even the author, has said that the program was useful anyway. But instead of publishing it in the web, it should have been used by the toll-free number operators.
Not casually.

I've a little ASIC device sitting in the corner, but it's more a mild curiosity than any actual income. I've made a lot more money reselling the devices than I have mining with then.
Thanks for explaining this. I tried creating a reminder today and eventually said 'fuck it' and created an iCal event on my laptop
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I really like how time setting interface is done in Meego.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoiIaB7FsPY
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No.

Anybody hiring? (Product Manager, CTO and Security expert). Looking for a place where I can actually improve the products. Will relocate/remote if needed. (professorTuring [at] gmail [dotcom] ) =)
it's not so much about the reproduction of the person as of the idea.
Heck, if you migrated to Postgres you'd never have to attend another OpenWorld again!
Requests is a HTTP verb oriented HTTP client, REST is a HTTP verb oriented architecture. They are very compatible.
Am I possibly missing a way to do it better?

I find ipython with its magic commands and ability to directly call shell commands more handy than the standard REPL for interactive shell type scripting.

Other than that, not really. Inline graphs are nice if you like that sort of thing, and some of the magic commands are occasionally useful. But beyond that I don't think you'll gain much if you have a approach that works for you.

I also gather that ipython's parallel processing tools are pretty powerful, but I've never really played with them.
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The world is not binary; there is a large space of interest between "recommendation from a friend I trust" and "no interest at all." The usual position in that space is "recommendation from an article on HN with uncertain providence." HN recommends the article; the article's author recommends the book; does this mean HN recommends the book? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. The best answer is "read a bit of it to find out." If I can't do that, I'll assume no.
I thought a bunch of half-assed choices was considered a virtue in the Linux world...
Maybe "Hollywood Accounting"?

Create some fake startups which take in the cheap capital. Funnel it to a safe haven by making the fake startups buy overpriced services from safe-haven-company. Once the bubble busts the should be a lot of cash in the safe haven to buy now undervalued assets and maybe even work hire the now unemployed engineers.
I've said time and time again: IMO Piracy is often not out of malice and being unwilling to pay for things (although no doubt it happens.) It's about convenience. If you give three options:

1) Walk into town and pay £15 for a disc totalling around an hour.

2) Download it from a pirate site totalling about 10 hours but with no effort required for free.

3) Pay £1.99 on iTunes so I rent it and have it instantly available to stream.

I am ALWAYS going to pick the last one.
Great http://thedailywtf.com/ material.
Still rejecting to buy nothing with nvidia for my personal use.
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This is an interesting and hard problem, and it appears that Google is solving it, in effect, by ensuring that nothing is truly anonymous, everything can be tied to the individual and traceable, and that you only see things that it decides you are probably interested in.

Is this a good solution? It's certainly a solution, and it might well get rid of (most of the) spam and trolls, and make sure I can talk to people I already know are worth listening to. But will I miss out on conversations I would be interested in, simply because I've never seen them?
I really don't get that argument (from them of course, not you haha.) If you make something super easy to get and a reasonable price (eg: Quite a few comedy specials are appearing for $5 DRM free) then more people will just download it than go through the hassle of a torrent or getting their friends to put it on a memory stick.
Google news sources as of 2011:

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Yes the stopwatch's buttons are different, but there is a reason for this. Imagine you are using a stopwatch. When the gun fires, you press the button with your finger. When the runner passes the finish line, you push the button with your finger. You will probably expect it to stop and start timing at these times, with no regard for how long your finger spends sitting on the screen, right? Now look at the buttons in other apps: they trigger when you release your finger, not when your finger touches the screen. This makes sense because you may be tentative about submitting a form, and it'd be scary if it just submitted the moment your finger grazed the screen, right?
Actually, it's a learnability problem: once you learn how to use its features, iOS 7 is a vast improvement over 6.

But that can be said about anything which involves "knowledge in the head" vs "knowledge in the world": Once you learn how to use it, it's superior to simpler systems restricted to only what can be operated by knowledge in the world alone.

And so far everyone has argued that iPhones are "better" by virtue of being "simpler" and "more intuitive" than Android because you don't need to figure out how things works, i.e. it only depends on knowledge in the world.

And now with iOS7 the tune is that you just need "knowledge in the head" and all is good. That's not a very consistent story.
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I can block Images.

I can block javascript.

I can block flash.

I can block Ads.

Why the hell can't I block stupid videos from wasting my bandwidth? I've been waiting since forever and hoping someone in the Chrome team would do something about it but it seems it might never come.

Do they assume that web designers would do the right thing?

Maybe Youtube is causing a conflict of interest in this case, who know?
You are assuming that most people will abandon XP when it is officially abandoned, I'm not sure that lack of official support will convince users to embark on a disruptive upgrade to Windows 8.

There are signs that the rate of decline is slowing: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-ww-quarterly-200803-201303
I think our best bet is that residual users switch to a better browser on XP.

XP is currently on 20%, but IE8 is at 8.5%:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine...
Let me be the classical Frenchy (i.e. never happy) here and point out that as long as the tax code, red tape and overall overwhelming paperwork entrepreneurs in France have to deal with won't be reduced or greatly simplified, having big incubators will be a nice touch but the road to growth will still be paved with unnecessary hurdles.

The task at hand is HUGE, one that not so many developed countries have to deal with, that is allowing SME/SMI and entrepreneurs to grow without hassle while still preserving the quality of public service we've grown accustomed to (which has a cost that everyone contributes to or is supposed to contribute to).

I hope we find a good middle ground there, cause the startup culture in France is still a decade behind compared to that of the US or Canada speaking for examples I've experienced first-hand.

EDIT: Still an awesome prospect though, kudos to all the people involved.
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Most shitty software is not because of the engineers, but management. Not putting value on good coded and tests.
Why not get a shorter URL as well? :) (hint: svd.io is available)
Trolling HN?
Fortifications don't have to be man-made.
It's pretty clear what Google is doing here, and it means that trying to keep the old Apps page will be fighting the tide.

For all the betas of the App Launcher until its recent release, the ability to select apps from within Chrome itself disappeared altogether when the App Launcher feature was enabled.

Google seems to think that 'Chrome apps' should not live in your 'web browser' (Chrome), but rather should just be a kind of regular app, for which Chrome is the backing platform -- like Java apps, or Air apps, or Silverlight apps, etc.

Apparently this was a bridge too far for users on release, so instead of moving to this new mode of thought all at once, they're giving us this intermediate form -- apps accessible from within Chrome, but much less conveniently.

In short: they're incentivizing you to use the App Launcher. Get used to it; they'll probably make it the only way soon!
Would be fun to combine this with this foggy window simulation I once made. https://github.com/Grepsy/fingers
I wouldn't hold your breath on that. The Alfred team are sticking to what they are good at - Mac development. Porting something to Windows (and doing it natively) is a huge chunk of work & all the time you wouldn't be working on improving the existing product.
I once had the opportunity to talk with Joan Daemen, one of the designers of Keccak, and also of AES.
He said that he liked to do what he did, because it's fun, but he didn't really believe that it was very usefull. Because everything has backdoors.
At that time I didn't think much of it, I just thought it was kinda funny that an important cryptographer had such views about his work. But in the light of the NSA developments it's a bit different.
I have no idea what to think of it. Did he know about what the NSA did? Or was he just a bit pessimistic, but he turned out to be right?

This does of course not mean that he made backdoors in AES and Keccak for the NSA. If that were the case he probably would not be allowed to speak about it, and he did talk about it very non-chalantly.
Interesting comment made on thread in reddit.

"California's "eraser button" law will require this policy for all websites with users in the state."

All websites hosted in California, maybe. Would they decide to restrict access to sites that don't comply? The easiest way to comply would be to disallow Californian minors. The kids would just change their age or state.

http://redd.it/1n1zyv
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Even Guido van Rossum said "A package in the standard library has one foot in the grave".

Modules that get updated with things people need are cool. Stdlib modules can only be updated once per Python version, with great effort and extreme care not to break anything anywhere. So stdlib modules aren't cool.
Can you give examples of red tape/paperwork you'd like to see removed to help entrepreneurs in France?
Which is funny, even after all the math and concluding that, no, you can't turn a big profit, people still do it.

I mean, ok, you benefit the bitcoin community with it, still...

Not to mention the maintenance costs (assembling the rigs, wiring, parts that stop working, etc)
Awesome list - deserves a nice little blog post of its own that I can bookmark.
You can see a graph of the ratings over time here:

http://www.appbrain.com/app/touristeye-travel-guide/com.tour...

(in the "Changelog" tab)
If you can roughly measure someone's effectiveness, then none of this matters; if you can't, then you've got bigger problems.
You're the most welcome, :)

I'm curious about any differences in conulsting approach to data science compared to software products: estimation strategies, what works etc.
How can Google get away with intrusive changes like this especially if you can't even seem to disable major elements like the horrible most-recent boxes?
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So if anything, there's a metabubble? A widespread, intense belief that there may or may not be a bubble?
Mining was profitable to average users (i.e. not sitting on huge piles of cash) in 2011 and early 2012 probably (source: I owned two 5970s and some 5870s at mined quite a few coins with them). Right now you have to invest much money in ASICs (GPU mining isn't worth anything at this moment) which may also be never delivered or delivered so late that you're out of game by then.

Most people agree that if you believe in Bitcoin, the best way to invest is just to buy some coins and leave them in a safe place for a year or more. The economy is deflationary so if whole Bitcoin doesn't fail in near future, the price will eventually rise above the price at the moment you invested.
Not easily.

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Foo</title>
<style>
html {height: 100%;}
body {height: 100%;}
.mid {display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;}
/*body:before {content: ''; height: 100%; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle;}*/
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="mid">vertically aligned</div>
</body>
</html>

would be easily, but you need to uncomment that last rule before it "works", and that is just ugly. And when that last rule is uncommented, viewport now has scrollbar for some reason that I did not have motivation to investigate.

Like chii said, that's because CSS is a language for styling, not for layouts.
> linking a rating to a specific version (maybe only a major version - there are pro & cons) has more meaning.

The major issue there is that new versions suddenly reset ratings entirely. Using e.g. an exponential decay of history model means the weight of older ratings falls, but it remains as a trail in the overall rating.
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I'm not sure how other browsers handle this, but this will work in Chrome, create a bookmark with the URL:
javascript:document.location.replace("http://saved.io/"+document.location.href);
Pretty nice! It would be good if we could hide the UI to simply have a nice uncluttered view of the background with the music. (with some toggle button).
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Flywheel storage with magnetic bearings in vacuum is very efficient and can be scaled to almost any size.

Beacon Power has been building them on a commercial scale in NY:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay_NiGu7mis
I'm not from France but this doesn't look good: http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/france/ vs http://www.doingbusiness.org/data/exploreeconomies/unitedsta....
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Sorry for the late reply.

I'm not quite sure I get your point, but I think it stems from a misunderstanding about the delegation. In my mind, this is very fluctuating. Let's say all questions are divided among departments, similar to today. Now, perhaps I I have delegated my vote on all questions of agriculture (which obviously unaglisivation falls under) to you.

This means that you carry my vote, until I either remove my support from you henceforth, or I vote differently in a particular matter. So, I have simply delegated all matters of agriculture to you on auto-pilot, but I can change that whenever I want -- including during a vote (which in this system must take some time, perhaps on the order of weeks, or indeed indefinitely, until a matter is resolved).

The system is inspired a little bit by the great John Byrne story "The Trial of Reed Richards".
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While I applaud any efforts toward entrepreneurship, I can't help but think that these "megaproject" efforts kind of miss the point.

By their very nature, startups tend to originate from grungy, grassroots hackerspaces, undergrad dorms, shared apartments, graduate common rooms, and so forth. Places where weird and innovative ideas get cross pollinated.

I mean, yeah, "let a thousand flowers bloom", and all. But if France continues to be a place where 75% taxes are seen as a sane idea and bureaucracy holds sway over innovation ... well, good luck.
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Ha! I bet Free employees (Free is Xavier Niel's main business) are a bit ticked off - Free is renowned for being cheap with regards to it's employees...
Or you could have moved to the petrochemical industry, where you would have been paid more than any software engineer anywhere...
Unfortunately, the Holy Grail layout works like crap in mobile. In the most recent Chrome and Firefox for Android, the pinch-to-zoom gesture either doesn't work at all, or the whole div is resized as an image without text reflow (i.e. cropping text lines to the left and right). Also there seems to be a forced minimum width, under which the web pace can't be made smaller; this is awful for navigating long pages, or when the default font size is too big.

Changing the phone orientation does reflow the text, so I assume that the problem is with how these browsers resize the web page under pinch-and-zoom in a way that the CSS doesn't detect. The funny thing is that the same browsers on desktop work like a breeze when resizing text with the wheelmouse, or resizing the window. Why does it not work the same on the phone?

The worst thing is that the layout seems to be spreading like fire. I'm forced to read most major modern websites at fixed font size.
Why isn't the movie industry posting this happy news about piracy? Because this is actually defeat to them. They no longer control the most important distribution channel. This is what the war on piracy has been all about for the last 10 years. And the industry is finally losing the battle.
Honest people wouldn't.
The casual "musicians", if they're at the point where they're buying hardware, will probably still consider real hardware vs this.
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It is, sorry about that. We plan to change the UI back to a simpler version in one of the coming updates.
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It depends on your company and your audience.

I know my company would never support a browser that wasn't even supported by its maker, and I'm sure a lot of companies wouldn't either.

If you have "customers" you'll probably drop IE8 support quickly in 2014. If you just have "visitors", and if those visitors are international, it might take longer.
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Are they still legally obliged to call computers ordinateurs and use Megaoctet over there?
Ask HN: Is there a cycle to hardware and software innovation?
Is there a natural cycle between periods of hardware innovation and periods of software innovation? It seems like the tech sector makes a lot of hardware developments at once followed by a lot of software developments at once. The strength of innovation seems to shift between the two over time.
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Image support is a can of worms really. You quickly need to be able to browse a catalogue of images, with the ability to upload etc.