skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As mentioned in the article, a browser has to be the default browser to be able to be a metro app due to the restrictions Microsoft puts on them. I haven't updated to Windows 8 yet, but at least according to the help article[1], the Chrome installer asks if you want it to be your default browser. That might be something they added more recently, though. HighDPI is coming[2]

[1] https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95346?hl=en&ref_top...

[2] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=160457
In this conversation, the CH is expensive argument came up because the basic income proposed seemed large when converted to USD and compared to average US expenses. So Swiss expenses in foreign currency terms are relevant.
Right up there with a partner library, ‘goddamnit’, for problem resolution...
I think the reason both versions lack conciseness is because they're faithful translations of one another. I wouldn't call either well structured, but maybe that's because I don't understand the problem domain well enough. T() in the C++ versions especially looks awful.
> backporting it to devices sold in the past (aren't there laws against this?)

This could also describe Sony's behavior with the Playstation 3. Early-model PS3's contained a feature called OtherOS which allowed you to run Linux on the console in a way officially supported by Sony.

Sony later decided to remove OtherOS support from the console in a firmware update. While technically optional, the firmware update was required to play online games on the console, or play subsequently produced game discs.

IMHO it's fine if a hardware manufacturer chooses to remove features from newer models. OTOH reaching out through the cloud to remove features and cripple models that people have already bought should constitute deliberate fraud against the consumer. You bought something which was advertised to do X, Y, and Z, the manufacturer deliberately removes the capability to do X after you've purchased it -- it seems like it should be totally illegal for them to do that.

If a car dealership owner decides to sell only cars without radios, that's their business decision, and it's not illegal for them to do business that way. If a car dealership owner decides to drive around town, breaking into cars people have already bought from him and removing their radios, he's going to jail and rightfully so.

Why should PS3's be any different?

Apparently, they are -- AFAIK Sony has suffered no legal consequences for its policy whatsoever.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otheros
That's not a response. All you really said was:

"Because robots ..."

You didn't really counter the argument against inflation. It's actually a very reasonable position, the appearance of Cylons really doesn't change anything.
I routinely now encounter non-tech literate friends who are experiencing trouble doing things like printing, or working with attachments, that they understood how to do using their native OS, and don't understand why things are different.

It always turns out to be that they are using Chrome.
Try a bit harder. Within a couple minutes it becomes obvious how it works. At least to me.
Few people are computer experts, period ;-)
What Kind of a Leader Are You?
more often than not, neither side is 100% correct.

You are very right. The problem is when one side stands up and says: "We are obviously right. We will never change our opinions or ideas. You must agree with us or die."

At that point, the reasonable side doesn't have any options left. You can't argue with crazy.

Take the current US Congress situation. One side is saying, "We want to hurt you." The other side isn't saying "Okay, how much do you want to hurt me? Let's find a compromise where you can just cut off my hand." No. The only way to stop American elected terrorists is to tell them "No."

If people have valid points, you can draw out truth. If they have points based on pride, ego, or falsely implanted childhood memories, you can't do anything productive except stop them. If that doesn't work, ignore them.

Topics of note which regularly draw out crazy people from one side: nobody needs college, X city is better for startups, religion Y is right, bitcoin is a "currency," (or anything else getting 400+ comments around here).
I also switched to a safety razor a few years back, and I didn't notice any change in the likelihood of cutting myself. It's possible that I have particularly resilient skin or steady hands, or something, but our dueling anecdotes seem to cancel out.
I've played the Japanese version of the original as a ROM for what it's worth and they didn't change the character design for export so far as I can remember. Probably "European fantasy" explains that...
A horrible reminder
Yes, I realize this. My point is that it's not a "technical niche", it's something nearly anyone can do, and has been able to do, for decades.
looks like DNS is kind janky. google didn't put my confirmation email into spam though.
I'm sure this can't be what you intended, but it sounds as though you just said that developing something like the iPhone is a matter of routine for companies like HTC, Samsung and Nokia, and that Apple only found it hard because of poor technique.
Honestly this is something i had in mind for my personal use. It still need lots of work on search engine to look for links smarter and return less not working links.

About audience, well i think anyone could find good use of this. But mainly its good for monitor news sites like cnn bbc aljazeera and so on, and those sites i primary used for testing so it should have best results on them.
My understanding is that automatic vectorization is still quite sensitive to how code is written. The compiler may fail to vectorize one implementation of an algorithm, while vectorize another, due to details in the implementation of both the code and the compiler.

My point is not about vectorization though. Code that uses mostly vectors, math, and function calls has a very direct translation to machine code. I expect all compilers to generate approximately the same machine code for this type of code, assuming vectorization doesn't come into play. So I don't expect to see large differences in performance. Of course there will be some difference, but not the order of magnitude one sees between compiled (statically or JITed) languages and interpreted languages.
By "Ironman" can I assume that you mean the triathlon, not the marvel character? Personally, I'd really like to see the storage system that could power a practical untethered powered exoskeleton.
Relative to the air it's flying through, yes. Relative to the ground? Not so much. And that's what matters most when transitioning from or to being a ground vehicle (takeoff/landing).
sorry guys it works on my private mail and web server. DNS used is one from godaddy (its where my domain is).
I'll iron this things in next days!
The pundits make money by stirring up negativity, not by informing people.
Does anyone here file taxes? Just because a form is on the web doesn't mean it will be well designed, or easy to understand. Whether you agree with the politics or not, you shouldn't expect efficiency from the US government. I only expect the affordable care act to be as efficient or simple as medicare/medicaid and it sounds like I may have been right.
I agree with you, but I think there is at least three related usability issues that made Google Reader less attractive to users. Namely, Google Reader required multiple tools to use efficiently. It also required users to have a basic understanding of RSS feeds. Finally, users had to cope with multiple information formats -- possibly hundreds.

Here's just one example. Recently, a popular web comic changed its feed to contain thumbnails, links and ads -- requiring the user to click through in order to see the comic. Previously it just syndicated large, readable versions of the comic.

That makes a lot of sense to me, but I have to wonder if a less experienced user might feel that something broke. This leads me to consider how it must feel for a "regular user" might feel or react while browsing between feeds and coping with information provided in so many different formats. Some feeds have pictures, some don't, some have complete articles, others just send out links and ads. Maybe I'm giving myself a false memory, but I can remember a feeling of cognitive friction while switching between feeds. I'm an information junkie and I'm technologically literate, so I dealt with it.

I'm saying RSS would possibly fair better if the presentation format were standardized across sites. Maybe a simple style manual would unite enough content providers around a single format?

The problem is actually worse with the popular content providers. They each seem to redefine the layout of an RSS feed, whereas the long tail of bloggers seem to coalesce around a very basic format.
#Robot
I found a way that forces me to slow down when eating popcorn is to use chop sticks, it also keeps my hands free of grease. I usually have a pair of the disposable wooden ones on me.
If he didn't have one already, Legere is certainly going to need an assistant to triage his personal email now.
I'm sure for 100% of mortgages people would love to just make a down payment and get the deed and not have to make any other payments for 15+ years but there's nothing ironic about the need to fulfill contractual obligations that aren't awesome for you.
I don't get it. I noticed in a recent thread about Firefox that people like Chrome far more than I can understand. I still have an open tab with the recent 'Setting up a Chromebook Development Laptop' article - that really sounds interesting.

But why would any single person in this world run chromeos on a machine that runs Windows 8? The very same machine already either runs Windows (if that's your eco system) or is powerful enough to run Linux. Why would you _ever_ run Chrome OS here?

Put differently: What's the whole point of Chrome OS, unless bundled with cheap/slow hardware, as a kind of Damn Small Linux, the Web 2.0 version?
Though I think GP is being a bit of an idiot, I read your source and I was a little surprised. The app only consists of static files, yet you run every request through a rack app that does nothing but send the static files (except for the indexing of the face files, which could've been done ahead of time too).

Why?
> Gradle is Ant in Groovy clothing

Gradle's purpose is to muscle in on the consulting / conference market for Ant, just as Grails's purpose as wrapper around Spring and Hibernate was initially to muscle in on their consulting businesses. Now they've hooked in enough users, their bait and switch business strategy is now to screw them for as much money as they can.

So if you use Gradle now, you'll pay the cost later on after Gradleware is sold to some GE or VMWare or EDS or Oracle.
I think this is so disconnected from reality, though. It's posh and intellectual to think this way but its so not related to reality.
Basic income is a basic human right.
I added a star gadget and a submit button. No joy.
USA and Europe will have the same kind of "agreement",it's called something like the trans atlantic partnership => bad for EU workers and bad for USA workers , especially since nobody asked us ( Europeans ) if we agreed on this or not. It will only be good for big corps and banks. And nobody's talking about it.
"Enough to get a job" is the ridiculous part. If you start from scratch, then you can learn a lot in 6 weeks and code up some stuff that mostly works - but if companies really are hiring those people so early, then the desperation you mention is really showing. Is the USA developer job market really so starved for any warm bodies in those seats?

BTW, by legal/HR definition any job which can be taught in such time (within 4-6-8 weeks) is 'unskilled labour' - i.e., the same type of job as flipping burgers, driving deliveries and digging dithes; every job requires some skill and gets better with experience, but if you can do the job after 6 weeks, then that explains a lot about that job position...
I'm sorry to say this but I really hate your website. I go inside and see this: http://wz.io/fd/2EhcCATA. Where on earth do I have to click or how do I watch the tribute? After several minutes, after even changing to other motivational videos because I thought the arrows would change the image (really stupid thought huh) I realize it's just a slideshow where I can nav between images using the dots.

And then, suddenly, this window appears: http://wz.io/fd/HAKDPHEd and I can't continue doing anything, or I introduce my mail or I introduce my mail, seriously?
The movie is pretty awesome.

A fun fact is that when the film got released, it was poorly received in the box office.
Some time later, people started torrenting it and spread the word.
The cast are said to be actually surprised when they get recognised from The Man from Earth since, as far as they thought, was fairly obscure.
Indeed. After paying your rent and (mandatory) health insurance there wouldn't be very much left.

Somebody in this thread also mentioned that it's a luxury to own any car in Switzerland - but that's just not true at all. In fact many apartment blocks have underground garages for cars.

It's just that with such an excellent public transport system (really it's unbelievably fantastic) you can pretty easily get by without a car. Especially in the bigger cities like Zürich.
The image of the Tor Browser is somewhat misleading, given that it would not allow this tracking via third party advertising cookies, at least with its default configuration.
The Building Has 1,000 Eyes
It's not everybody. 70% of American workers don't like their jobs. 52% have "checked out." The other 18% are actively trying to dick over the company.

http://www.geekwire.com/2013/study-70-americans-jobs/
There's a video from the RSA conference in 2011 with Dickie George, who was the director for Information Assurance at NSA when DES was being reviewed. He claims that the agreement between NIST and NSA was that: 1, NSA would only change things if they could find a specific problem with the cipher, and 2, NSA promised that DES would have security equal to its key size. The implication is then that they decided that 56 bits was how secure it was, and then picked that as the key size.

You can believe him or not, but I don't see any particular reason not to.

link to the video, the relevant bit is ~8min in: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NlZpyk3PKI
The idea was that the image URL could just be a number between 0 and 100 and the app would handle translating that to 1 of 5 possible images.

If I just served a file for every possible number, the browser would have to potentially download 20x the data.
They have a brilliant train system and a smaller country. A car is far less necessary. A bigger car is at a premium because it's harder to park freely.
It's like that Simon Says game. You have to complete all the previous steps plus the current one in order to progress to the randomcatfireworksratingsplosionbutton final stage, at which point you are deemed worthy of conquering the app store. If only I could get some kind of Mozilla Appmaker certification badge...
How do you then value the land? Property taxes in many areas of the US are notorious for being arbitrarily determined based on the amount the tax jurisdiction needs rather than the true value of the property. In my area it's not uncommon for two houses in the same area of similar builds to be valued differently for tax purposes. Our property valuation went up $53,000 last year while comparable houses in the area were around $15,000 down.
We could also trim down the single biggest welfare program we have:the military-industrial complex. That's close to $5000 per adult by itself.

Edit: Back of envelope --

$3800 per adult from cutting MIC spending from $1 trillion to $200B which is still more than any other nation.

$4000 per adult from eliminating Social security including disability.

$4800 per adult in total health care savings from switching from our crappy system to the UK's.

----

$12,600 per adult

Not quite what the Swiss are proposing but $100 more than the federal poverty line. And we get better health outcomes and fewer wars to boot.
Did you read the article? He admits that he was mistaken, obligated to pay the amount, and was willing to do so.
Hey HN, if you're curious about this, I suggest you watch this video (http://youtu.be/RaRIdLgZTPI) which shows a quick demo, and/or:

- opt out of the levels thing on first load, it's not ready.
- instead, jump straight in the designer and run through these few steps:

- drag & drop a button, click on it, notice it sends out messages on the blue channel
- D&D a counter, notice that it listens to a blue channel, and that the button clicks cause it to increment (that's how we "program" these components
- D&D another button, make it emit on a different color, and configure the counter to "count down" on that color. That way one button increments, the other decrements

- D&D the fireworks component, configure its "shoot this many rockets" to a third color (and clear "shoot rocket); make the counter emit on that color. Enjoy the fireworks show.

- Other components that work well for understanding things are:

- ratings widget
- input widget connected to a map widget will center the map on a place name (although HN will likely exceed the limits on our usage of the OSM server; need to setup another one =()
- flickr widget can do both topic and location searches

Let us know if you have ideas for components we should build (or submit a PR!).

The publish button will create "hosted apps" which can be installed on FirefoxOS, Firefox for Android, and incidentally recent builds of Firefox desktop, although the focus for Appmaker is very much mobile apps).
He's the CEO of TMobile. I guarantee he has an EA working that already.
To concur with what kkowalczyk, there is little expressiveness advantages to be gained for this specific example -- math is math, and outside of compressing it down to a couple of library calls, what could possibly be done better?

"they ended up with a language with the expressiveness of C and the speed of python."

This is just pure troll. Apparently you have a Python variant of this renderer that matches the already impressive Go performance? Please reveal it.
Did you? That was at the very end, after he'd insisted T-Mobile was wrong about when his contract was ending, and had emailed the CEO about it, only to be told again that he was wrong.

Why would a reporter call customer service to ask whether he could switch plans? Wouldn't he look at his contract?
Any chance you will also link back to Soundcloud? If it's part of your monetization strategy to only link to amazon purchases I get it but what's to stop Soundcloud from turning off the spigot and taking your idea?
I don't understand this sentence at the end of keys section

> And I'll let you in on a dirty little secret: you can even match on interface in your sshd config for things like these

I don't get the secret. Only allow logins from certain IP ranges for each user/key?
Your are still liable for copyright infrigement, wherever your music comes from.

- so its not really any different than a blog posting a song their site.

And that's totally illegal since the owner usually doesnt give you the permission to do so. Did Grant Lee Buffalo label or Placebo label gave you the permission to broadcast their music ? Your host can shut down your website directly without warning following a DMCA takedown notice,if it is a US business.
C++ code is 5x faster after some standard optimizations so it's not really the same league. Faster than Python for sure but still unusable for anything CPU bound is the message I get from all of this.

This doesn't show anything new though, programming math/graphics is perfect use for C/C++ and you won't really benefit from anything Go has to offer and some of its features actually become annoyance for this kind of application. The biggest strength of of Go doesn't really really shine either as simple parallelism needed for ray tracer is matter of few lines of code in both C and C++.
4 Steps to The Epiphany on Kindle
The book that was basically rewritten as 'the lean startup' is now available on Kindle. Worth the cost 100x over to anyone in a startup environment.
1. I did not expect my comment to get that much attention.
2. My LOL is sarcastic - I am sad that tolerance approached such a level that it hurts the country.
3. That phrase is what the current country leader said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-12371994

When issues are not addressed on time they produce nazi states.
Where are the facts in this video? it's all chorus.
US Intelligence Chief Defends Attempts to Break TOR
"That said, we're getting positive reactions from people close to our target audience, such as high school teachers, people teaching others how to make their first app, etc."

I bet. But this is part of the problem with many of Mozilla's products targeting the education space (Open Badges, I'm looking at you). Teachers, administrators, bureaucrats think they're the cat's meow. But (of course) they want nothing to do with the implementation details. But they do expect them to be usable.

"At the highest level, we're exploring whether it's possible to make a tool that lets non-devs (_not_ you folks!) who currently see their phones as a pure engine of consumption, as a place where they can create something fun or useful."

That's a fantastic idea. So are open badges. But "us folks" are the ones that (whether we work in edu IT, at an edtech company, or are fellow travellers) are expected to make these half-baked great ideas work, reliably, in the real world, for educators and students.

I'm not trying to rant. Mozilla has great ideas for education.
But the poor (maybe I should be more generous and say incomplete) implementation of so many of these great ideas (Persona, Open Badges, and now Appmaker) is maddening when they're presented in a way that "not us folks" expect them to be available for production implementation.
This is really cool. It is the first Show HN I've immediately added to my favorites and sent over to non-technical friends. Also I'm glad you found a good way to monetize without adspamming the crap out of the sidebars. To echo above, really cool execution.
I think we need a version of Bitcoin that is designed for my mom if widespread adoption is the goal.
Malicious attacks are not the same as consensus failure.

Consensus requires agreement, malicious attacks are orthogonal, unless you're hypothesizing a malicious party introducing an intentionally incompatible node and a significant fraction of users switching to it.
I've had a mobile phone since the Motorola Brick days. Over the years I've grumbled and complained about various cell phone companies policies, dealt with contract obligations, bad service, horrible experiences with switching plans, etc., etc. The worst of the worst was moving to the bay in late 2007 and having to use AT&T on an iPhone.

Last year I bought a Nexus 4 from Google and signed up for a prepaid T-Mobile plan. A few months later they switched over to offering no-contract plans and I followed suit by putting both my kids and myself on a single plan. My entire experience with the company since signing up has been nothing short of stellar. Great customer service, low wait times while calling in, friendly faces in the stores, and always a willingness to do whatever it took to make me happy with my service.

My contract, with my two kids tacked on, is about what I paid Verizon a month for an iPhone. About the only complaint I have with T-Mobile is that I can't really surf the net while I'm in the BART tube under the Bay on the way into the city. Other than that, it's been a great experience!

It just goes to show that one person at a company, with the power to make real changes, is what it takes to change an entire industry. It feels great to give my money to a company that actually cares about customer service.
It would be helpful if some could version bump rubinius in the Gemfile of this rubinius for heroku example rails app: https://github.com/rubinius/heroku-rbx-puma-rails-app