skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coming back? Where did they go? When did they arrive? I don't think there was ever a time where the PC enjoyed significant market saturation. If anything, the PC "bubble" is deflating back down to normal levels.

It may be popular and "obvious" to accept that Intel and Microsoft own the PC market and decide where it goes, but the reality is that the market makes the demands and Intel either meets them or they don't. I think this is clear when AMD pushed 64 bit first and Intel adopted it. This is also illustrated with the fact that PC sales have declined along with the stagnation of Moore's Law. That last point seems counter-intuitive but it shows that Intel can't force a market if it doesn't deliver.

Now both CPUs and GPUs are "as fast as they're going to be" for some time now. For some reason, next gen GPUs are joining the theoretical ranks of "Moore's Law is more threat to economics and security than fruit of civilization," giving us 10% yoy speed improvements but doubling up on security and management overhead, added coupling, APIs for compilers only, dedicating more silicon to hypervisors and management that should go to the programmer and his compiler.

IT has become a completely dysfunctional market at the macroscale. The demand doesn't know what they want or how to shop for it, and the supply is to scared to deliver anything new.

At the micro-level, those who know what they want are still taking it one step at a time with their own feet, to their own drummer, but the mess that is the macro-market is just destroying knowledge and value like a wildfire. However, those few programmers who know what the Internet should look like, instead of one that's built to be profitable for thing manufactures, aren't able to keep up with the complete mess big software is doing to the collective wisdom of the netizens and the internet infrastructure, both physical and social.
What they are missing is that it's not performance per watt, but performance per watt per dollar.

Intel may be able to build lower power/faster chips but their foundries aren't cheap, neither are the thousands of engineers Intel puts on each SoC, and technology scaling is only getting more and more expensive.

It's a classic case of the innovators dilemma. Intel are optimized to sell very fast chips that cost hundreds of dollars but the performance of fast-ish chips that cost a few dollars has almost caught up to them and Intel simply can't compete without a complete restructuring. A further complicating factor is the fact that ARM is a weird many-headed chimera [1] that Intel simply can't kill they way the did with x86 competitors like AMD.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/7112/the-arm-diaries-part-1-ho...
Fine, if you prefer, let's label ubiquitous surveillance as harassment. And the NSA are not the press.
The fact that EV certificates exist in the first place is an indication in my mind just how badly CAs messed up the certs originally. ("We need to sell more! Get rid of the checks")

It also drives me nuts that browsers still class self-signed certs below normal (non-ev) certs when they basically offer the same level of guarantees (in terms of "this person is who they claim to be")
What makes them suck so much? The Lenovo Yoga is a damn fine device if you ask me.
> Innovation will be driven by mobile

That's only true because mobile started from scratch a few years ago. You just see innovation because this market (for "smartphones and tablets") barely existed 6 years ago. Obviously this will tone down very fast as performances stop increasing significantly. You see that the latest ARM chips are only marginally more powerful than the previous ones in terms of operations/Watts.

So, they will, also, get only "a little faster every couple of years." Do not kid yourself.
Wow, it sounds like he got railed by the Reagan administration because he uncovered and reported that the govt. was shielding inner city drug dealers as a way to protect funding for Nicaraguan contras after Congress outlawed direct funding of the contras. That's pretty crazy.
They are spherical, so orientation doesn't matter. I do have a slight astigmatism, which orientation-sensitive contacts correct for, but it's minor enough that it's prescribed in my glasses and not my contacts. My brand is Air Optix Aqua, but this just happens to be what I was prescribed.

In the morning or on days that I don't have to conduct business (I'm a student), I just wear my glasses, which frankly have superior optics anyway. For sport, and for activities where I have to present myself to others, contacts are unbeatable.

I have somewhat dry eyes also, but my eyes seem to be generating more moisture because I am used to wearing contacts by now. I also use Blink eyedrops very occasionally, because they're not something I want to have to rely on, but are useful in an emergency.

To be honest, I'm not hugely against laser eye surgery, and I'm considering having it down sometime before I'm 30. I'm also strabismic in one eye and although I have relatively strong eye muscles, it's something I was also considering fixing via surgery.
Porn. ;)
> WordPress powers 20% of the Internet (yes, you read that correctly!), meaning they’ve got a ton of experience scaling services

My point is that these two sentences are totally true, but put together like that are misleading. And that's a bit discouraging for the non-automatticians contributing to core.
I guess correct depends on if you want a "playlist shuffle" or a "random song" :D
Awesome, thanks for the correction.
Licensing is an issue. Systemd's APIs are LGPL and OpenRC must remain under a BSD license.
I'm talking about the typography. It's very thin and light.
http://intuoscreativestylus.wacom.com/en/
> It's been studied

Got any source? Would really like to show that to some folks here ...
And that's all they need to be. It's software that needs innovation, but that requires critical thinking people and people to have power over processes and business. So before we can even let people do that, we first have to tell them how to think and keep secrets and fight each other, work against each other, build walls and checks for themselves, and deliver their value to stock holders while not doing the same types of land-grabs via software and regulation that Microsoft & co. is empowered to do.
Does copyright law work?
I kind of glossed over that when I read it...but two gunshots to the head? What are the chances that from that range he missed so badly that he was able to pull the trigger again?
Not too sure what you are referring to by "Ultrabooks," (something ARM specific?) but I have an "Ultrabook" and I absolutely love it. Its my work machine, my gaming machine, and my web surfing machine. It may even become my Steam Machine.

Its light, powerful, and compact. I can throw it in my backpack and forget its even there. What's not to like about Ultrabooks?

(For anyone wondering, its a Dell XPS 13 running Ubuntu)
A better comparison might be Burning Man. About which pretty much "everyone" also says

[it's] something you have to dive into, and they are something you need to take the leap, and experience it for yourself. It doesn’t matter how much you try to tell someone who hasn’t experienced [Burning Man] before, they won’t get it.

"Everyone" meaning of course... people who are into that sort of thing. Those who aren't, maybe not so much. But it's kind of condescending and presumptuous to assert that those who'd rather pass just "won't get it" because they don't particularly feel like "diving into it."
Not to my knowledge; a full testing tool for IMAP, SMTP, TLS, DKIM, and DNSSEC would have been amazing a year or so ago when I was still maintaining mail servers!
SECOND LIFE'S STRANGE SECOND LIFE
http://www.orthocuban.com/2011/09/baby-boomers-and-the-crime...
Why use VLC as a music player when it is suited for a movie player? I use (and contribute to) clementine (qt based, foss, same class of cross platform-ness as vlc) because I like watching videos in one program and music in another, where both are tailored for the task rather than the kind of muddy middle ground like windows media player has.
Thanks for this comment. It made me see Apple in a new light.

Apple in my mind is now a consumer products business (has been for years I guess) not a computer business as I used to "feel".

Perhaps I'll be more open to other hardware for my next dev machine.
1980s crack epidemic? How about just epidemic. Coke is virtually free in some parts of Los Angeles.
Maybe this should be a template for the poor. The rich just play the system better than everyone else. Give a hustler a set of rules and that hustler will push those rules as much as possible, even to the point of going over the line at every opportunity. If you want something, you have to grab it, and you have to beat out the competition who are also looking to grab theirs.

ETA: The monopoly experiment was interesting. The game was rigged so that the person running the experiment would always win. When asked, the "rich" felt they should win. The video called this entitlement, but perhaps the rich see these rules of Monopoly as the same sort of bullshit rules the real world imposes on them. All games are rigged by someone, so you have to do a bit of cheating to turn the odds.
For those who didn't make it to IDF, it felt dead. There was very little attendance in most sessions and the expo floor was also pretty much empty. They actually moved food into demo areas so it looked like there was buzz. I'm pretty sure the "outside of Intel" attendee count was remarkably low.
As far as I understand it, the server will respond RC4 ciphered negotiations by saying "sorry , what?" instead of "fuck off" if you include it in both the accepted and refused lists. In doing so, it'll force a renegotiation over an accepted cipher combo
Wheelchair for handicapped pets
PCs are dead, but Intel will be fine. Bay Trail will be the beginning of the end for ARM as Intel brings its massive lead in fab technology to bear on the mobile market.

You heard it here first.
If you drive off road and on to a runway, or drive up someone's driveway and through the property because a navigation app said so, then you shouldn't be driving at all. A driver is responsible for their driving actions regardless of what a map app tells them.
For hire: Elite “cyber mercenaries” adept at infecting Windows and Macs
Google in 1998
Google's upcoming birthday easter egg.
Thanks for summing up, concisely, why webhooks really aren't magic at all, in the fourth paragraph:

"All [webhooks] are is a promise by an application or API: “when this thing happens, I’ll send this HTTP request with this data.”"

It's nice to see that all the hype really just boils down to generalized pingbacks[1]. Now, having a standard is great -- I'm not entirely sure we have a standard yet, though. It's more like a fancy name for pingbacks that aren't just for blog posts.

I'm also not entirely sure if I'd prefer webhooks for eg. processing emails. Emails are naturally "push" -- they get pushed via SMTP. I know that people are scared of email/SMTP -- but it seems quite a lot easier to make sure you don't loose any "events" with SMTP than with HTTP(S).

What if your site is down for a few minutes, just as some service out there tries to "ping" you with a webhook? Email handles that.

I think what most people seem to mix up is that handling "real" email may be hard -- but looking for a well formed subject that exactly matches some regex, then parsing that, isn't that hard. Everything else you can either bounce (a little dangerous) or just drop (not quite as dangerous).

Mailing-lists work. What you need isn't much more complicated. Maybe allow for a mime-part with a json or xml, or some other well-formed body. Use gpg or smime to encrypt data, if you need something more than a short hash/token.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback
It doesn't particularly matter if people trust StartSSL, it matters if browsers trust them (which they do).

There are about 100 root CAs, and something like 1000 CAs if you include intermediates (controlled by ~650 different organizations - https://www.eff.org/observatory), and browsers trust ALL of them. All it takes is one to issue a malicious cert, or to get hacked, to do a MITM attack on ANY domain without showing a browser warning.

The trustworthyness of a single CA doesn't make a difference, because if any CA isn't trustworthy then an attacker can use them instead the other ones. This is the problem with CAs, and the problem with centralized trust systems in general. There are hundreds of weak points.

But also, StartSSL does fairly thorough identity verification. I've had to send them photos of my passport and talk to them on the phone to do identity verification. It's also worth noting that it's the CA that both https://www.eff.org/ and https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/ use.

As long as there's a broken CA system, the choice of CA does not matter in the slightest as long as it's trusted by browsers. Users only care if it breaks a website with a scary warning, but if it doesn't, it doesn't matter. There's no need to spend money.

StartSSL does charge if you have more than very basic needs, like if you want multiple alt names, or if you want a wildcard. But it's still cheaper than the competition.
>The basic PC experience sucks

As opposed to what... tablets? Or are you suggesting we leap forward to Computer Terminals right out of the Hitchhiker's Guide.

I couldn't read much further than that. Really bad article.
Unfortunately I think Windows is still positioned best to make this happen.

Have you looked at the Ubuntu phone OS? It's designed to be the same software, hardware, and UX from phone to desktop. I don't necessarily like it, but it shows promise of doing exactly what you say Windows is best positioned to do.
Every day I'm...
A goal of "minimize average latency per person", which comports very well with their goal of serving all citizens equally, precludes FIFO per request when there's a skewed distribution of requests / person.
Nope, they issue it for you. I believe that's pro and up.
LexisNexis Breach Highlights Identity Theft Risks
I actually agree. My roommate bought one and I'm lusting after it. But I would count Lenovo as the exception rather than the rule, here.
http://gizmodo.com/5027706/rumor-macbook-touch-coming-in-oct...
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I once tried to search for Avatar the movie, but SERP returns many Avatar the video game. I added -game, but realized that if a blog titles "Why I like Avatar (the movie, not the game)", it might be filtered out with the -game keyword.
We are getting 4K displays this year. Granted, phones, then tablets, then laptops got high res displays first; but dammit, I really want my 31" 4K monitor. If the PC space starts to innovate again, or at least catch up to mobile, people might start loving PCs again and gasp...buy new ones.
Someone should probably also point out: most of the CAs are more or less equally 'crappy'. We've been through many CAs now and none of them has a process anywhere near 'perfect'.

Btw, Comodo customer support is rather nice. We recently bought a code signing certificate from them and they walked us through the whole process via chat, worked quite well and we were done in about 30 min.
The initial sudden drop in rising crime rates coincides neatly with personal computing and games consoles, and the final smackdown is delivered with the popularisation of the internet.
I'm strongly considering getting the new high res Yoga.

But even Lenovo has a bad reputation compared to the fruit company, I mean, they do ok for value, but the hardware can be flaky.
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381220
No, it's also other people that are not appreciating a certain deliberate design aesthetic.

You could show them the work of great Swiss designers for example, and they would think the same.
Preempting anyone else:
Remember what I said the other day... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6441795

Every single time...
meanwhile google hangouts still requires a plugin. Even in Chrome.
It is not semantic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6381220
Scientists Create New Form Of Matter
SmallR:
http://github.com/religa/smallR
seems to provide quite a bit of flexibility with only few keystrokes needed.
Everyone at Google and CS academia seems to have Macbook Retina Pros these days. They do very well in selling their consumer laptops to...developers, at least in these niches (I would guess that many HN crowd are in the same boat).

And really, what more could you want as a dev (at least in a laptop)?

My wife is a visual designer who has an external waccom tablet. She said the primary problem with integrated solutions to her is occlusion: she would still prefer a separate tablet. Gabe obviously has a different feeling about this, though I think he is using Illustrator also.
>I've often wondered why Apple doesn't have an "iPad Pro" that includes a Wacom or Wacom-like stylus system.

As much I'd like one (I have a Wacom too), the reason is because that's a market around 1/10000 the size of the overall iPad market.

MS offers that because it tries whatever it can as a differentiator, but it's not working very well for them.
I don't see how Intel can fix the windows/software problem.

Just try out http://html5dev-software.intel.com and judge yourself what Intel can do in software.
Safari (wel, the OSX Keychain) doesn't include StartCOM in it's Truststore -- which I'm pretty OK with. I revoke it from all my trsutstores
Is there a bug filed somewhere? Surely this can't be hard to fix... (famous last words)
As someone who currently uses a different player (mplayer2) which shares an upstream (ffmpeg) with VLC, how much of the codec/format improvements are due to/push to the upstream projects?

I really hope all these great improvements are shared between the media player projects as much as possible.
I would really reconsider your upgrading decision. It's easy to get past the start screen-ness or spend 5 minutes setting up a 3rd party taskbar and making sure opening files (e.g. jpg, pdf) default to the "non-Metro" applications. After that, you'll have an OS that is functionally identical to Windows 7 with better boot times (non-fresh upgrade install from 7 to 8 HALVED my boot time), an even more stable kernel (I've literally NEVER had a BSOD since upgrading from 7), and better performance.

The FUD surrounding Win8 is kind of crazy. You want to know the easiest, fastest way to launch an application? Hit Windows key, type application name. Same on Win7, same on Win8...hell, it's the same on Ubuntu.
Rare 3D Camera Found Containing Photos from WWI
Actually, Pakistan has reasonable resources to handle this kind of situation. The devastating earth quake of 2005 precipitated the formation of National Disaster Management Authority. With army supporting operations, I am sure things will be handled well.
Justifying Higher Prices
Yeah, I've been telling myself I'd get a new laptop when power consumption for modern chips reaches that of the ultra-low voltage pentium 4 in my current laptop (Asus UL30A with about 10 hours of actual battery life).

But each time I look at the offerings, I conclude that my $700 PC from 2010 is perhaps not superior, but is certainly adequate enough that I'm not interested in forking out $1k+ to get something with a comparable battery lifetime.

Instead I start to look at the Chromebook with Ubuntu on it as a much less expensive option with the primary thing I want (battery life) combined with an almost-real computer that does basically everything my older laptop can do.

But even then, sunk cost and all. It's not enough to meet the performance of my three year old laptop, they have to exceed it. And it's amazingly still not there yet.

I don't know what exactly Intel has been optimizing, but it sure isn't anything that matters to me.
Just do a search for nearby airfields. In most places, they are actually surprisingly common
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_airports_in_the_Los_Ang...
In the documentary Cocaine Cowboys, he has a large part where he describes his role with us officials to smuggle coke into the usa.
wewll... at least the website domain name is pretty accurate.
"There is really no platform that compares to Java in that respect. It lets you write concurrent code — and extremely fast concurrent code."

What about Go?
Phone jammer laws of different countries
Lot of Indians also work in these countries due to poverty reasons. I feel privileged to be born in a relatively wealthy and educated family in India. If it was not the case may be I would have one of the migrant workers like them.

If these countries have oil money in abundance then why don't they give good working conditions and pay more money. Few million dollars will hardly going to move needle for them. I smell corruption.
I just want to know where to get the t-shirts.
Sure, that works... but what happens when the service sending the webhook has an issue on their end and they can't send webhooks they should have? Then you are still out a webhook, and your life still sucks...
Apple products perhaps?

The computers people currently own?
INTERCAL Programming Language
Bitcoin Investment Trust
I'm scanning udp/53 right now
what do you mean "best part"?
Your statement (1) depends on the existence of multiple electrons

No, it doesn't. The single electron could still be acted on by various operators in the course of its twisty path through spacetime, which could make it appear in various different ways. Which operators might be acting is then deduced from the different ways electrons appear.

Your hypothesis amounts to the claim that the only operator that is required to act on the single electron, to explain all its different appearances, is the spin reversal operator. My point is that that hypothesis only accounts for the appearance of "electrons" (more precisely, different views of the single electron) with opposite spins and the same charge; it does not account for the appearance of "electrons" (different views of the single electron) with opposite charges, because no unitary operator can change the charge, and the spin reversal operator is unitary.

If this operator actually existed in reality such that a single electron's spin can be flipped by applying it to an actual physical electron?

Sure it does; there are many different kinds of experimental setups that can realize this operator. One of the simplest is an inhomogeneous magnetic field. The "operator" language is just a way of linking the math describing electrons with the physical setup that does things to them.

If this operator does exist, then one could not say that there was a single electron on a path, unless all electrons in the universe changed spin direction instantly after the application such an operator.

No, this is not correct. The operator can be localized, so it only operates on one "electron" (i.e., one particular segment on the single electron's entire worldline) at a time.

In fact, regardless of which operator acts on the electron, it has to be localized for the hypothesis that there is only one electron to make sense. The whole point of the hypothesis is that the single electron follows a highly twisted path through spacetime, so that it crosses any single spacelike slice of spacetime multiple times, with each crossing potentially having a different appearance (different spin, etc.). That means whatever operator acts on the electron to make its path through spacetime twist has to be localized--otherwise all the appearances of electrons everywhere in the universe at a given instant of time would be exactly the same, which they obviously aren't.
nice, just signed up.
last time I attended was in Rome.
I wonder if they kept the data so we can search as if it was 1998.
Doctors Grow Nose on Man's Forehead
Given that the crime wave in question is usually associated with more impoverished elements of society, I'm guessing they couldn't afford Apple ][s, Macs, IBM PCs or even Nintendos in most cases.
Last time I looked MacBooks are x86.
Macbook Airs just reached 12 hours (so Apple claims) but I think that's about it.
Is most science false?
India: Three IITians get $145,000 offer from Google