skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Austin, TX. Dominos, et all are like $10 for a large.

The premium pizzas are $17.99+ for a large cheese.
Ireland has too many universities
Google nailed the search engine user interface quite some time ago...

If there is one area of search technology where Google has contributed almost nothing, it is the search interface. The subjective user experience is virtually unchanged since the days of Alta Vista circa 1996.
If people can't get a mortgage on a property in this area, then house prices will fall. This effectively hurts all the people who have been paying their mortgages - which seems like an ineffective solution.
Do you have an example? ( The two I tried did not work.)
I still can't get Ubuntu 13.04 to connect reliably via wireless, and while there are posts on forums nearly everywhere I look, there appear to be no definitive answers, or concrete procedures. It's a wide-spread problem, with no clear solution.

I use Ubuntu by choice, but I'm getting tired of doing so much sys admin, and having to learn so much that is necessary just to make stuff work, instead of it letting me just work.

It's a hard problem - I know that - and it's getting better, but it still makes it hard to convince people that Linux is a viable choice when all they want to do is get stuff done.
How To Activate Windows 8 And 8.1 The Best Way
You can download from: http://nightly.mozilla.org
Quirks are Bugs
I was in the same situation. The person even lived in the same state as me. They are currently in jail, but who would really look that far? I reluctant ly put a few public pictures of myself online hoping that anyone searching for me would notice the difference.

Good job Google.
I just switched today. After installing the omnibar extension and removing the ugly bar in the bottom, if feels just as comfortable as Chrome.
RequireBin – Shareable JavaScript programs using NPM modules
How is the nightlife in the Bay Area?
I honestly don't mind being tracked. I don't know if it's just me but I prefer targeted advertising than just generic one. It's always more relevant and I do end up purchasing. Without tracking, there would be no targeted advertising.
I think that's standard on all Microsoft store laptops, and from what I've seen, they are constantly on sale, much cheaper than Frys, etc.
In the wake of all this NSA/GlennGreenwald/Snowden coverage, it's been painfully clear how little the press actually functions as investigative journalists anymore. Any large organization (BBC, all US cable news, NYTimes, anything close to this size) is hopelessly broken. They all seem afraid to speak out against the five eyes' governments.

Seymour Hersh calls out the NYTimes (supposedly the best news source in the US) for "carrying so much water" and publishing the Obama administration's press releases[1]. There is no "real" journalism happening on these issues. The NYTimes is too afraid of losing favor with the Federal government, or alienating their lucrative big-business sponsors, so they refuse to dig into even the weakest of tales the Obama administration gives them.

The same is true for the BBC, as seen in this interview. That woman "journalist" regurgitates the governments talking points.

1) http://www.theguardian.com/media/media-blog/2013/sep/27/seym...
I have mixed feelings about using it. I sometimes think it's like an unpaid magazine-- you write but Medium gets the brand equity.
Yes.
The bank gets the house if the borrower fails to pay.
The rent should go to the borrowers fellow citizens.
As compensation for devaluation of their money.
+1 for that... and you don't even need to go to extra trouble, there's a huge number of free Kindle editions of classic books on Amazon itself (just normal Amazon books with a price of zero), so you can take advantage of Amazon's very convenient infrastructure for finding them and getting them easily onto your Kindle. Often there's a choice too, with some versions of a work free (long out of copyright etc), other versions not (more recent translations, etc), and even the non-free versions of classics often fairly cheap, as they're not recent.

... and of course if you go to a bit more trouble, there's a huge choice from places like Project Gutenberg.
Why did you eat the grinding powder?
Great article. I have only just started my own opensource projects (this year) and find it so much more satisfying.
Releasing this information is bad for their consumer uptake, but good for their advertising business, and their advertising business is where they make all their money.

When it comes down to it for consumers, they'll just make it optional to help with complaints, and the masses will never dig down into their preferences to turn it off, so it won't matter that it is optional as far as advertisers are concerned.
ACAB as always
What is this UX nightly thing exactly? Is it a fork or the actual future layout?
For those who don't like Ubuntu for whatever reason, Linux never locks you in and being non-commercial, it does not kill competition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
My story as a designer who learned to code and built an indie game.
The portability argument is laughable:

http://www.netbsd.org/about/portability.html

http://www.netbsd.org/ports/
In Apple's system, at least, each app gets a different ID for the same user. So supposedly you can't track a user across sites/apps since the user will have a different ID for each.
Careful what you tweet: Police, schools tap social media to track behavior
It is sticky, very hard to wash and gets everywhere.
OpenBSD is much simpler than NetBSD these days, but NetBSD now has rump kernels which are very interesting: http://www.netbsd.org/docs/rump/
Linear Algebra - Foundations to Frontiers
Extreme Motion SDK – Add motion experiences to existing applications
This is a pretty silly argument from Sen. Warren. Put aside the fact that she can't even be bothered to ascribe the argument to any named individual, nobody's arguing that the agreements themselves shouldn't be public and "transparent".

A modern trade agreement represents a balancing of a huge number of private interests. Some will benefit and some will be harmed, but the overall outcome is expected to be positive for all sides. Achieving that balance will require concessions from both sides. It is an extraordinary restraint on the capabilities of the USTR if they must worry about every concession they offer (which may never even make it into the deal) being trumpeted to the rooftops by domestic political opposition.

This is really common sense. It's the same reason the military base closure commission deliberates in private, or, for that matter, why the U.S. Supreme Court does, even with no direct electoral politics at issue.
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And not all books have DRM. I bought several off amazon recently that state in their description they do not
Ctrl/Cmd+Enter in a form should send the form in a browser
Vae Victis.

Surveillance is power, and the powerful get to make the laws; and get to decide what is considered moral and what is not. If absolute loyalty to the state apparatus is to trump individual judgement and professionalism, then that is the way that it will be.

As they sow, so they shall reap, however, and we will get exactly the sort of society that was asked for: Craven and irresponsible.

Of course there will be tears in the end. There always are.
Interesting that the responses on to @KirstyWark's tweet are largely pro-Greenwald, while the responses to @BBCNewsnight's are pro-Wark.

[1] https://twitter.com/KirstyWark/status/385786002456842240

[2] https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/385885262565216256
Do you know who controls The Guardian? They have their own interests. This is some big politics here with major forces involved. Zoom out to see the whole picture in mass media: follow who controls the particular mass media, what they report about, what they don't report about, and maybe you can outline some parts of the Big Game.
Good article. If you looking for an idea for your next article I would love to know how you publish your open source code, how you introduce your projects to the first developers? any interesting hack there? or simple post in HN is enough?
That doesn't work in IE8 (for non-DOM objects).

IE8 is the last version of IE for WinXP.
Even I am in exactly the same situation. After my BE degree in computers I got pulled into sales and marketing immediately. Now after 10 years of sales and marketing and great pay I have left everything to become a programmer. Thanks to my supportive wife and an adorable daughter I have started studying java from scratch at home and hope to apply for a job in around Jan next year.
This reminds me very much of grinding limestone slabs in the printmaking studio: http://instagram.com/p/fGcGwdwAT1/

(Printmaking studios make good hackerspaces, and lithography has fun Chemistry involved. Etching has a little too.)
Lets not forget that in the UK, if you don't pay a TV licence (if you have a TV) you get fined. Dont pay that fine you get put in prison. Does that sound like a trustworthy and unbias source for news?
Yeah she was constantly like "emm...err....uhh..." so annoying.
Bruce Schneier: The Battle for Power on the Internet - TEDxCambridge 2013
About threats: look up the history of the Hutton Inquiry into the "suicide" of David Kelly over the case for the Iraq war, and the subsequent bullying of the BBC into not questioning the Government line any further.
Single page:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/business/mugged-by-a-mug-s...
I've been using Firefox as my main browser for a couple of years now. It's really getting better in every build. And Vimperator is not available for Chrome. Nowadays my biggest reason to stay with Firefox is that I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.
This is not news. The article is about 2 weeks old and seems vague about details.

There are more articles on the topic on the net. This identifier has been dubbed "AdID". Read more here: http://m.spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/telecom/internet/google...
I believe it's each set of apps from the same developer. Apple's developer docs say the device identifier changes if a user deletes all of your apps, not just the current one.
Ironically, some of the best journalism in the US is found on tax-payer funded PBS (I'm thinking of Frontline and Bill Moyer).
If there is I couldn't find the option
Wow, Erin Burnett in 30 years!

Amazing restraint on Glennzilla's part, the harder they try to discredit him, the more foolish they look.
The headline has now been changed. For the understanding of future readers, the previous headline was "Embarrassing Interview of Glenn Greenwald"
That isn't the same build. Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora? I could be mistaken. UX Nightly includes those features but it is focused on user experience.
>Given that they speak of "evil numbers", I think it is reasonable to assume that the Shamans did not understand how the algorithm works.

Or maybe that the language translation is imprecise.
Most new application development is done in Java and C# (and perhaps JavaScript).

C++ is used for a long list of specialized tasks like embedded systems, games, in-memory computing, database systems, high performance scientific stuff, some low latency trading algos and a few core UI things like browsers. I don't consider any of those mainstream application development.
The biggest obstacle to Google's progress in search is Google. They make virtually all of their money from advertising, including the same spam that pollutes their search results. Targeted advertising can only help so much, because in the end, advertisers don't just want to reach people already interested in their product, they want to attract people who aren't. Google's dominant position in the online advertising market is an unreconcilable conflict of interest with their search users. They continue to dominate search not because they are technologically unbeatable, but because no one has figured out an alternative business model that makes search pay without corrupting it with advertising.
Do you have a bug number?

Can you detail the other issues you are having? I am interested in where Ubuntu causes you more sys admin problems and not less. Our goal is to make the easiest to use, best looking system possible.
Google nailed the search engine interface given current tech. However, the interface is precisely why I changed my default search engine to DDG. ( Since I can always fall back to Google with !g and DDG gives me better control over the search.) So I can think of a lot of situations where a Watson like search would be more appropriate than a Google based one. For example many Wikipedia searches, most of the time I don't look for a in depth article, but only for an answer to a specific question. But I know that skimming Wikipedia is probably faster than looking for the specific answer in the open web.
Amazing rule but as a developer I'll probably try for more than 15min :-) however I'm sure it make sense at the company level.
The doesn't solve my problem. If I had Windows on the machine then I'm pretty sure the wireless would "just work." If I bought a Mac then I'm pretty sure the wireless would "just work."

Having installed Ubuntu, or any other Linux distro, I'm pretty sure the chances of the wireless working are south of 70%, probably closer to 20% or less.

Don't get me wrong, I install and use Linux my choice. I'm getting to the point now where I wonder if I'd be better getting Windows or a Mac, and then bringing it up to the level I need, rather than getting Linux, and flailing about trying to get stuff working.
does the scrolling feel a bit weird on Firefox? to me it felt a bit too smooth or animated
I went to look for "Project Oberon" to buy, but 170USD for a used copy is a bit much for me.
Why Care About 30,000 Notes?
Google is under no freedom of information restrictions; it is a business. They can choose to rank mug shot sites high. They can choose to accept or not accept AdWords money for mug shot related businesses.
It is building towards an actual future layout. IIRC, once the changes are stable enough they're pushed to the main nightly builds.

Edit: Sorry, I was unclear, it is an official branch and not just a personal fork.

Some links:
http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/mozillas-ux-nightly-...
https://wiki.mozilla.org/UX_Branch
Doesn't mean we can't start looking for alternatives...
But see: http://snap.cs.berkeley.edu. BWT-based aligners hark back to a time when it was not cheap to own enough RAM to store an entire (human) genome seed lookup table in memory. That is no longer the case (you need about 64gb). Also, hash aligners perform better as the read length increases.
No, I don't have a bug number. Yes, I would be very happy to have this fixed. The question is - how much time and effort will it cost me?

Shall we go through the process of getting this sorted, and I will document carefully the resources I expend on it? Can we take this to email and get it fixed? It's a brand new machine, and I'd love to have it working properly, so any help is gratefully accepted, and I'm happy to play my part in getting it sorted.
Such a stupid article. It lets you type them in (so the 'censorship' or 'customer choice' thing is pure BS). It just doesn't autocorrect words that could be particularly bad if you accidentally sent them in a text.
Lots of viable startups in Boston/Cambridge (and also further out--though those probably tend to be more established tech companies). As a very general rule the Boston/Cambridge tech/startup scene tends to be a lot more varied than the web/mobile ecosystem that the Valley is probably best known for these days, e.g. lots of biotech-related in addition to all the big firms, Boston Robotics, etc. Though there's still quite a bit of software as well. BTW, Boston/Cambridge are pretty expensive too if one wants to live in the city though not at the SF level.
This article demonstrates the difficulty of animal science and neurological science. How much can we infer from brain scans from creatures whose ability to communicate with humans is quite limited?

Through my experience as a dog owner (er, dog guardian), I am convinced that dogs experience emotion and are capable of some deductive reasoning. Yet they are generally incapable of comprehending the entire human world around them. It's as if you perpetually have a two-year-old's brain in a furry, four-legged adult's body.

While the author argues that dogs should be treated more like people, e.g., with the freedom to choose what they will or will not do, he fails to note the opposite tack-- that the choices of two-year-olds must be constrained at times for their own safety and well-being and that the behavior of dogs and two-year-olds is modified-- often for their benefit-- through the use of positive and negative reinforcement.

Only if we could gain more thorough understanding of the emotions that dogs experience can we make good decisions of how they best should be treated.
I was recently trying to compile a list of laptops guaranteed to be free from UEFI Secure Boot (mainly because I've have a friend who bought a second-hand laptop with Win8(I think), with plans to install Debian, but then after about a week struggling, he decided it was next to impossible to install).

Anyway, instead of compiling that list I just decided that in future I'd only buy (or recommend to friends) Chromebooks, machines from System76, or MacAirs/MacPros. Maybe now I should add few HPs/Dells to my whitelist.
I also made the switch after many years with Chrome. Chrome becomes very sluggish when you have too many tabs open, I guess this is why so many people like OneTab.

Today it's normal to have 10+ tabs open, to read the articles and then leave the best ones open for a later usage. That said I can easily have about 400 tabs open in various Tab-Groups, which is a killer feature.

But honestly, one Firefox addon is so important that I believe that it should be a core feature, it's called UnloadTab [1]. This addon frees up the memory unused tabs allocate, after a defined period of time. It helped a friend with a slow 800MHz Laptop with just a little RAM to finally start clicking links without being afraid that the machine locks up.

People who enjoy the TabGroups feature like I do, should definitely checkout the TabGroups Menu addon.

---

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/unloadtab/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabgroups-men...
excellent article. Why doesn't this exist for every city in the world?
I am absolutely comparing dextroamphetamine to methamphetamine. It doesn't matter by whom it was synthesized.

They are very similar in pharmacology, so you'd be deluded to not compare the two. Same addictive properties, same deleterious effects on health, similar abuse potential.
With the falling crime rate, and the shaky economy, the weird situation (non payment of tv licence is criminal offence, while non payment of other bills is purely civil) a lot of people go through court for non payment of tv licence.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/10256679/T...)

Despite that, not so many people actually end up in prison for non payment. ("In recent years at least 70 people have been jailed for non-payment of fines associated with TV licensing offences.") I strongly agree that prison is not the right place for people who don't pay fines unless there's no other option, and I don't think that prison was the last resort for all those 70 people.

Here's the BBC report (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23792388)

Note that they make a small sneaky claim here:

> Most people who own a television set, or who stream live broadcasts through their computer, must pay the annual charge.

Compare that to the Telegraph wording:

> Anyone who watches television as it is being broadcast must have a valid television licence for their home regardless of whether they watch it on the internet or on a traditional TV set.

You can own a tv with no need to pay a licence - use the set for games consoles or DVD players or some such.
Daniel Gross is 21 years old. DAMN
I managed to corrupt the SQLite database that Lightroom uses last December. Around that time my old Windows system was having some hardware issues (random crashes) which led me to upgrade to a Mac Mini. However, after the upgrade, the problems started reoccurring and eventually Lightroom wouldn't read in the database at all and wouldn't repair it. I suspect that something bad happened during one of the system's random overhear or whatever shutdowns.

As it turned out, I was able to fix the problem by dumping the database and creating a new one. Oddly enough, Adobe's repair function apparently didn't try this fairly straightforward (once you knew to do it) repair process.
The impurities in methamphetamine are not what causes the problem: it's the toxicity and danger of the drug itself.
The thing is, you buy a mac with preinstalled OS X, and you buy a PC with preinstalled Windows so it just works, because someone else already tested it so it works. If you would buy a PC with preinstalled Linux it would most probably also just work.
Free and/or open source equivalents?
> The BIIIIIIG problem 5: From HST to ISS - Since it is an alternate and/or future world there is no reason orbits have to as they are today.

Wait, are you suggesting they could/would _change_ the orbit of the HST or ISS? That seems... awfully unlikely. (It would be crazy expensive to change the orbit once the thing is up there)

On the other hand, of course, there are no more shuttle flights in reality, so, yeah, it's some kind of 'alternate future' (more like 'alternate present'! which I guess is what fiction is, after all). In this version of the present/future, they still fly shuttles, and originally put the HST and/or ISS in completely different orbits than in our actual present.

Um, okay, I guess.

But really, let's just say there are several major physics inaccuracies neccesary to make the story, but it's still a movie that gets many many of the details of actual astronauts and space equipment right.

I think it's funny that after dismissing major physics failures, you get stuck on suit abuse. Hey, in the alternate present of the movie, they obviously invented much stronger suits, right? :) If they've invented a jetpack that somehow has enough propellant for much more delta-v than seems possible, then they can clearly invent a spacesuit that is stronger than seems possible too!

(Me what I'm still wondering about but havne't seen comments on, is if there's any plausible scenario where the space debris could be in an orbit where it would collide with them every 90 minutes... this seems unlikely to me even if they stayed in one place, let alone the every 90 minute period that somehow covers both the shuttle and the ISS and the chinese space station!)
If you have narcolepsy, great. You need strong drugs. If you are a kid who fidgets, I don't think you need amphetamines.
> I trust Mozilla more than I trust Google.

No company working with the NSA can ever be trusted. That only leaves Mozilla.

Plus, are there any other companies that are not-for-profit, like Mozilla? Because this point gives them a huge credit.
And when this interview had finished, when the cameras had been turned off, when the working day had come to an end, this woman likely forgot about the entire discussion, had dinner at The Ivy, and returned to her home in the West End, with unaffected fame and fortune, only to do it all again the following day.
Los Angeles CA, USA

$5 USD out the door
Anyone who took a dosage 30-50 higher times the prescribed dosage of methamphetamine would quickly die. The impurities are irrelevant: the drug is toxic even at normal doses.

I disagree with your comparison of acetaminophen and amphetamines. It seems to be based on your deluded idea about dosage, but other than that, the drugs differ in some rather significant ways such as abuse potential, habituation, psychoactivity, and so forth.
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Should include cost to the economy!