skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed http://northcarolina.history.museum/ in the listing. I clicked it, and it resolves to an IP that is no longer routable. http://asheville.art.museum/ suffered a similar fate, and http://ncmls.durham.museum/ immediately redirected to http://lifeandscience.org/.

I imagine a lot of these were purchased as "Hey! There's a .museum top-level domain! Let's buy it! ...You know, we should probably write this down somewhere."
Sure we can kill the Icon. I am building voice interfaces. Eyes Off interfaces have no need for icons.
Thanks for converting that to "fires per mile".
I initially thought it would be better to go with Nvidia to provide some kind of "competitive advantage" over the AMD-based consoles, but that's going to be hard to do when PC's tend to be unsubsidized, and when the same level of hardware is actually weaker because of the DirectX/OpenGL overlays.

Then, after I saw AMD announcing the Mantle API, I realized, it would be a perfect match for the Steam Machines, to get some of that console-level performance for more or less the same price. John Carmack agrees that Valve+Mantle would be a deadly combination:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-mantle-api-xbox-one-pla...

Mantle is the future of gaming machines. It will not create lock-in, because both Nvidia and Intel will scramble to create something similar, or even compatible with AMD's API (which will be open soon), and what this will lead to eventually is a reset of standardized overlays for GPU hardware, that will support AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and probably even ARM GPU's, but with much lower overhead than DirectX and OpenGL.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7371/understanding-amds-mantle...

http://semiaccurate.com/2013/09/30/amds-mantle-biggest-chang...
"Apple neglected to improve it and declined to license additional uses of the data (like for turn-by-turn nav)."

Or, translated from Google spin speak, Apple wanted to improve it but the two parties were not able to agree on terms.

http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talks-crash...
If they had two parallel flywheels that could be accelerated separately, I think that gives you rotation around an axis perpendicular to whatever surface the cube is resting on. It appears from the video that they have just a single flywheel, so maybe they're just taking advantage of how "noisy" the system is. That is, if a cube probably lands a bit "off", the next instruction can either fix that "error" or exaggerate it. Of course, they might also be just arranging everything carefully by hand before they start the camera. They never claimed the system was finished.

Cubes are easier to think about, but they're not the only polyhedrons that fill space. I wonder what this would look like with truncated octahedrons?
Blog spam: already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6495835
What about thinking of icons as visual anchors -- something to quickly "catch" your eye as you're looking for an operation? What if it doesn't matter what picture the icon has, as long as the shape is clearly recognizable?

Important to distinguish two types of users here:

(a) Someone unfamiliar with a UI will need more visual cues, textual hints, and so on. "What does this button/icon do?" Without helpful text, they may be stuck.

(b) But, someone who has used a particular piece of UI hundreds of times will simply zero in on an app by its icon's shape/color/position. In this case, it's much better to have many varying icons rather than pretty but similar-looking circles. And in this case, it doesn't actually matter what the icons portray.

The iOS 7 Safari icon, while unsightly, catches my eye every darn time. Is that its purpose? And, again, in iOS 7, is this why the gradients follow opposite directions?

Would love if anyone could point to more "science" in this, as I'm simply speaking from my observations.
Great commercial for a poor product.
I would like to clarify that support for Forks was on our roadmap from day one. It was merely a matter of time and priorities to get it implemented as can be seen on the issue discussion: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-2495

The core of Stash is actually written in JAVA, with only few plugins being implemented in Scala. But that number will likely grow going forward.

You are probably right that some of us are slightly opinionated. But as was pointed out before, I believe product managers should be opinionated as long as the opinions are formed by knowing your customers and market extremely well.
APIs aren't new, but there are new APIs.
There is an answer about this in their FAQ that basically states that having NoScript on by default breaks too much of the web.
Can you pointed me to one of these "major analysts" who has come up with $200-300 fundamental value along with a detailed explanation of how they came to that number?
No SAP is an ERP company. HANA sales have been woeful from what I've heard.

Likewise for Salesforce. They are still very much a one product company.
Of course the source of the funds may be obvious. That doesn't mean we should short out the usual due process, the same reason we have the "fruit of the poisonous tree" doctrine.
They gained share on Android last quarter, which doesn't include their newly launched phones. Horace Dediu raised the idea that Android has peaked in the US a few months ago, and the latest numbers seem to back him up.

http://9to5mac.com/2013/10/04/comscore-apple-gains-on-androi...

https://twitter.com/asymco/status/386207186801917952/photo/1
No offence, but that list is pretty much "web design 101". No advanced concepts whatsoever.
Tanga sells stinky pile off manure for free
That's just due to the politicization of the shutdown. The Executive has actually taken great pains to make things as inconvenient as possible for the citizenry, to ensure that they get the message that government is necessary to their daily lives, whether it would otherwise impact them or not.

Websites are shut down, but not like, in a way that would save any actual money. Instead of turning the servers off, they're serving up error pages carping about the shutdown, which takes power, bandwidth, etc. Also, of course, those pages had to be modified, which given how dispersed federal webservers are, was far more than a single search-and-replace effort.

Moreover, freestanding monuments are closed. These monuments don't require daily staff, y'know, cause they're just buildings, or walls in many cases, but instead of not manning them (which would be free), we're sending dozens of guards to keep people out of a place that ordinarily requires no staff. On top of that, at least in DC, they're renting barricades and pasting them with signs carping about the shutdown. In some cases, we've even tried to close parks that weren't affected, like when the Feds tried to shut down Mount Vernon, which is operated through private funds.

On top of that, there are essential persons in place and on duty that the executive branch has instructed not to do their jobs... Border Patrol, for example, has been instructed to "just let anybody through", despite their roles being considered essential.

Edit, for clarity, I was in debate mode, and did not intend to imply that the shutdown does not have negative effects. I've worked in the federal government, and have federal customers currently, live in the DC area, and am well aware of the pain that some are feeling. That said, the Executive Branch has specifically gone out of their way to make that pain even more acute.
> from a binary blob perspective, EME plugins are strictly better than NPAPI plugins

DRM can't be implemented in a simple binary plugin since the user will still be able to copy the protected content by e.g. modifying the video driver. All system layers from EME module in a browser to hardware will need to be restricted from modification. Do you believe that Secure Boot was created just for malware protection?
Actually the "meat" of the course starts on unit 1, unit 0 is more of a recap of where Lua comes from and where it is used. :)
This isn't prototype hardware, but rather is standard PC hardware. At best it is a prototype form factor?

Another post mentions this as a way of getting SteamOS out there, but really -- as this is just standard PC hardware -- there are already hundreds of millions of candidate devices.

The only real way I can see SteamOS having a chance is if it offers a console-like value proposition (because the next generation of very powerful consoles are just coming out, and even "hard core" gamers are looking at them longingly), which valve needed to make happen through tight integration, optimization, and mass production. Another go at HTPCs == almost certain commercial failure.
Well that's just a very particular, narrow, Tea Party, simplistic mindset. In reality, it is a shutdown. You can spin it but that's all you're really doing. There nothing interesting in this attempt at pedantry, not to be mean, just being honest.
Something like this has always worried me with ICANN's idea of opening up TLDs. It feels like a decade ago, most advertisements contained the "www." prefix to signify a web address. Nowadays, you rarely see them, since most people know what to do with a .com, .org, etc.

Once the TLDs open up, will we need to go back to using a "www." to signify this is a domain?
MongoDB is a great database if you have a domain model that is more document driven.

And who on earth uses MongoDB for caching ? I've never heard of a single company doing that.
Cgo and Callbacks vs. Closures
You have bad and good encryption algorythms. A good algorythm should be safe (think in i.e. pgp or asymmetrical cryptography). And that is implemented in open source means that you can verify that it is really using a good algorythm or not, and is well implemented, and don't have hidden backdoors or things like that, and if is not you because you lack the mathematical/programming knowledge to evaluate that, plenty of people that does could.

In closed source you just can't verify that. And the ones with the source or that have power over them (i.e. the government) will know how safe it really is, and how get in if they want.
Tax returns - or the lack thereof. There's almost no way in the US to make more than about 10k without it being traceable.

Also I can totally be wrong about this its one of those "I' think I heard this a few times" but I think this is one of those things where the burden of proof ends up more on the side of the accused then on the gov't.
I think this is Elon's one blind spot. For a engineer he's awfully "salesy" at times. The whole lease thing was really distasteful. This less so; but still a bit awkward. Why not just end with "Fires are unfortunately a risk for electric and gasoline cars. Each year in the US there are more than 150,000 fires. As more and more Tesla's enter the world we're going to experience all manner of events" That would be the right way to put this in context. However, I suspect that to overcome the naysayers and truly change a market (electric cars) requires an almost insane love for what you do - which makes you sound a little too defensive when something goes wrong.
I'm waiting for a Dick Tracy themed ad. Halloween is coming up after all...

"Dick Tracy calling Joe Jitsu... calling Joe Jitsu"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vUx...
More likely simply hasn't assembled a legal team yet. I'm going to guess he wasn't keeping one on retainer.
I forgot to tell in the message that there's also a mirror at http://fabiomascarenhas.github.io/lua/
Plug and play TV integration on Windows 8 is extremely seamless. I would be surprised if a Valve OS based on Linux with it's patchy nvidia drivers would be any easier.
I think you are looking at it from the wrong angle. The WM is just a component of a complete desktop environment. Instead of making a Tiling WM that comes with the kitchen sink, we should make a Tiling WM that simply replaces the WM on the pre-existing, and fully featured, desktop environment you already have.
Technically speaking, this is not challenging. For example, to make Awesome the defualt window manager in gnome, one need only run:

"gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager awesome"

Obviously, this is a large barrier for a casual user wanting to try a tiling window manager. However, if WM installer changed that setting instead of just creating its own desktop environment, then we would not be having this problem.
Abandoning a perfectly valid, simple graphical language and replacing everything with gestures and three-dimensional interfaces is not a step forward in my opinion. Don't think of it as a "floppy disk" icon, think of it as what it is - a word in another language, one which happens to translate to "save" in English.

You might as well get rid of the letters on keyboards because umpteen thousand years ago they were pictographs for objects or concepts which are no longer relevant to modern young people.
Ask HN: What is the Meaning of Life?
If you make >100k, I can assure you, you are not middle class. You are part of the "not rich enough" class. This class has a lot of money and can reasonably do anything they want, but compare themselves to the ultra rich and think "I'm not rich". The problem is they are always looking up and forget to look down.

I grew up in a ~30k household in the 90's. Something I would call lower middle class. Upper middle class is probably ~70k-100k.
I'm glad I became fit before becoming self-employed
Alternatively, he might not have much money for his defense, because he's not actually a drug kingpin!
PostgreSQL has terrible sharding and clustering support.

So no I would not be using it for any big data projects.
They would if they found tech that gave them a clear edge and it made sense to acquire from an ROI perspective.
I was about to say the same thing with the same background (none)

If I need to open Gmail, I'm not just looking for the word "Gmail" in a list, I'm using a much more complex search algorithm.

I'm looking for:

- the distinctive red/gray lines

- a rectangle

- the word "gmail"

- words that start with f, or start with h

- a specific region of my screen, that I remember last housing this icon
This is a misleading dataviz, I’m afraid. There are around 4 million federal personnel, of which 800k are furloughed, which means the government is running at 80%.

So, at the very least, ‘Is the federal government operational?’ should be 0.8 instead of zero (aka, ‘no’). I would also expect the ‘service level’ calculator to reflect this.

Update, citation from US Office of Personnel Mgmt: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-docum...
This is great advice, particularly to the sort of people who are always waiting for the "freedom" to pursue whatever it is they're trying to pursue. You have to make your own time, and you have to be persistent as hell. The right time will never present itself. The universe will never press a cosmic pause button on all of your life's distractions and needs.

Consider:

- Bukowski spent many years trying to get published, failed, developed a severe drinking problem, and took up a progression of itinerant jobs. But he gave writing another shot while lying in a hospital bed, having nearly drunk himself to death. At the time, he was working in a post office.

- Albert Einstein failed to land a prestigious academic position and took up a day job as an assistant patent examiner. He and his friends pursued scientific projects on nights and weekends.

- Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling created her famous series as a single, working mother on welfare. She worked out of train stations and coffee shops, often on the verge of homelessness.

- Actor Jack Nicholson went on over 300 auditions before landing his first significant role.

- Johnny Depp spent his days as a telemarketer, selling office supplies. He carved out nights and weekends to practice his craft and look for opportunities.

- Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, worked at an advertising agency by day. Three hours a night, for eight years straight, he worked on his book before submitting it to a publisher.

Only the very fortunate have the ability to drop everything and pursue their creative dreams. Everyone else has to pay the bills somehow, and carve out the "right time" when and where they can.
But the question is, what happens if such loans are unavailable? Late charges on bills or missed opportunities (like can't get a new suit for a job interview).

If you did short term high risk loans with standard loan rate APR like you would get from a bank it would be impossible to get any margin at all.
> Umm, how is me not even being able to see Half-Life 3 when I visit the Steam store on my Steambox supposed to make me feel better when friends with more powerful PC's and newer Steamboxen can enjoy it just fine?

OK, you don't have to hide it, but there still needs to be some kind of guide about how games will play on your Steam Machine.

This is not a big deal right now, but what about in, say, 6 years? You have an original Steam Machine and a new game JUST came out. It doesn't run on your Steam Machine because yours doesn't have a Whatsit Quantum Coprocessor. Shouldn't the Steam UI, you know, let you know that before you go about buying and downloading that 30GB game??

And I don't want tiers, either, but Valve did say they'd have something to say about this; I'm simply speculating about what it could be.
I would greatly prefer not to have a SSN as long as I wasn't the only one.

That essay's factual assertions were disproven by later events in Colorado where a chaotic and mostly unplanned transition (which neglected to come up with solid answers to any of stevey's questions) towards mostly-legalization went down without any serious consequences.

As it turns out, it really is as easy as saying "whatever, just do it now" and answering every hypothetical issue with "if that actually happens, we'll deal with it when it happens". The demons the government is protecting us from don't actually exist.
Without looking, I'd like you to guess what the median personal income in the United States is, and then guess what the median household income is.

Then go look up the real numbers.

I suspect you're in for a surprise.
Yes and No. They are still collecting their "fair share" but their support lines will go unanswered.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2013/10/04/cant-stop...
If Toyota owners got one of these emails every time one of them caught on fire it would be sort of a downer, so I guess you only have a few chances to make it a PR event.
Nomic - the game where you can change the rules, now on a computer
Is that significant? I'm honestly curious, I'm not sure what being released on a Friday means as opposed to some other day, do people pay less attention to Friday news?
I'm not talking about right now, I'm talking about what happens several years from now when suddenly there are games that are all but unplayable (or completely unplayable) on first generation Steam Machines.

There has to be a plan for that.
Experts question architecture of Obamacare website
I don't mean to be flippant about the amount of effort required to create the web site, but who decided You needed to verify in real time my AGI and maritial status when I am "browsing" for health plans. That's something that can be done during a verification stage after the fact.`

I know a lot of good work went into it by well meaning individuals, but as it stands it was all for naught as it doesn't work
Learning from Favelas - The self-planning of urban slums
> So, not to get into a partisan argument (because I'm not a Republican), but the Supreme Court battle for the individual mandate imposed by the ACA circumvented the House's budgetary authority here, and that's why we're log-jammed at the moment.

This is simply false.

> The Constitution prescribes that all spending bills must originate in the House.

Presumably, you mean tax bills, as saying this of spending bills would both be wrong and irrelevant to the issue at hand.

> The ACA originally imposed fees, but as the Supreme Court challenge (NFIB v Sebelius) declared imposing fees would be unconstitutional, but that could be easily circumvented by imposing the fees as a tax, for which Congress has authority.

No, NFIB v. Sebelius [1] upheld the individual mandate as a valid exercise of Congress' taxing power.

It did not strike down a "fee" in the law and say that that "could be easily circumvented" by imposing a tax to replace the fee, as you suggest.

> In that process though, taxes are at the discretion of the House, and the Senate ignored that

No, as noted, tax bills must originate in the House, they are not at the discretion of the House. And, in any case, that's all irrelevant, since, contrary to your mischaracterization, the Supreme Court didn't strike down the PPACA individual mandate and invite Congress to replace it with a tax, it found that it was valid as a tax.

[1] http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Natl_Fe...
It's not low-hanging fruit.

On the technology side Apple has actually built everything necessary (AppleTV + iTunes streaming) but the problem is dealing with the content silos.

If Apple could it would simply license all the content and stream it to customers either for a standard price (e.g. $1.99 per episode of 480p programming, $2.99 per episode of 1080p) or via subscription (e.g. MLB/Netflix) or ad-supported (e.g. Hulu Plus).

The only reason AppleTV isn't TV nirvana (at least in the US) is licensing issues. (BTW you can program an AppleTV to recognize any remote, so you can seamlessly make you TV remote also control your AppleTV, without even switching modes).

In case you're wondering, the basic problem right now is that TV networks get paid about $2 (I did a bunch of back of envelope calculations, so I may be significantly off, but it's in this ballpark) in advertising per viewer-hour, so if a family of four watches an hour of TV, then the network gets about $8 in ad revenue. Apple is offering $1.40/h, and it's also messing with DVD sales and syndication so there's a big gap there.

Now, I seriously doubt that the production company that makes the content gets much of that $8, so if Apple could deal with content producers directly...
Betteridge's law of headlines continues here, the answer is no. You can't kill the icon. Or at least this article makes no mention of any alternative or possibility of how that might be done.
Could I kill that icon in cornflower blue?

This misses the point in favor of some misguided idealism, I think. It's hard enough to cram a functional, usable interface into the space provided often enough without worrying about throwing a hard-won language of visual metaphors straight into the trash before you start.
It's frustrating that with OLED screens, we still deal with an ugly rectangular block attached to a wrist.

Why can't I have a sleek, circular screen?

This is more like a phone trying to be a watch than a watch that is actually amazing in it's own right
but the ability to swap out circuit boards on a SteamMachine is appealing

The plug-and-play thing has never really worked. However not having to wait the normal generational time between consoles would be an advantage -- it was always baffling that each iteration of the 360 and PS3 (there were many of each) couldn't improve it in some way beyond making it smaller or lower power. GTA IV on the 360 had draw distance issues and would stutter mid-town -- it would have been nice if some GPU improvements in the 2nd and then 3rd edition eliminated that, etc, but the nature of that platform makes it so they can't.
I'm still using a pencil and paper.
These are the kinds of thoughts I could only expect from someone who only encounters bad semiotic practice. Rather than "killing the icon," he should be focused on educating people about the main categorizations of signs and enforcing icon designers to make good use of indexical and iconic signs, rather than coming up with unrelated symbols that users have to learn through trial and error or type-based assistance.