skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, sorry about that :).
I feel like there's too much contrast in the blurred background itself.
This is going to be a nightmare if you verify and process transactions online. How do you now know whether someone who purchased a product is really really on Comcast from SoCal and not someone who's exploited a hole in uProxy?
Yep. I just switched off GPU acceleration restarted FF and it now renders fine.
That's a great decision. IT departements already acknowledge the fact that java applets are totally insecure and dangerous , and Java or Flash shouldnt run in the browser.

You want to program stuffs in the browser ? use javascript and html5 apis.

You want to do socket stuffs in the browser? use a proxy server.

But dont expose your users to exploits by making them install Java.

You want to build future proof solutions ? stop using applets because you cant learn javascript.
Google translate gave me this gem: "Even the Republican Nixon was a form of basic income."
good point epo. Examples?
No, it's the same guy. I did tech support for him on my free time because, hey, that's what the Mozilla community does. I helped him track the rookie mistake he made when coding his professional website.

Somehow, as a thank you, he decided to insult us.

sigh
Pretty much those three things. I guess the "surprise" might be a new monitor to go with the Mac Pro. Maybe a new kind of iPad case. I guess we'll have to wait and see ;-)
I couldn't agree more. It creates value for the firms that are able to extract energy/money/information from the market environment.
You're assuming there is no competition in the market. If you have a single grocer you'd be right but if there are more than one they will compete for their share of the market.
There's trying something new, and there's complete idiocy. This is the latter.

It's dangerous and very worrying that people are trying to repeat mistakes.
Christian Engström Pirate MEP (Sweden) has been talking about this for a couple of years already

http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=htt...

http://translate.google.se/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=htt...
Apple does not see opportunity at the moment which is why it's holding the huge amount of cash. And I do recall Steve Jobs giving advice about really focusing on the few things that the company does that makes it so great which would help explain it's huge cash reserves. The company is not trying to enter many different markets all at once.
Attention economy, power law distribution of links.

A simple googling of "fructose daily consumption" (or equiv) yields zillions of links. It's not like Lustig is a lone wolf.
It seems like an enevitably? Almost a Law? I once heard a Restuant Entrepreneur state that every resturant should
fire their staff every 6 months--it got rid of any theft,
an dead attitudes--supposedly?

I think the only company I haven't seen go down this route is UPS? Their workers seem pretty happy?
How many pens do you have?
I've started using WebStorm for the last 6 months... it's sick for anything js/node/coffee/mv*.

Also started messing with RubyMine. It's nice to have all your keyboard shortcuts standardized across IDE's.
The Dish on Apple's Restaurant
Thanks for pointing that out.
I'll add it to my TODOs.
Truth! Something that creates value for a certain form of business or life most likely does not create value for society or the ecosystem. It simply is another niche.
More importantly, it's nice to assume your users will have pip available no matter what (assuming we all move to Python 3. One day...)
Anecdotally, we have witnessed prices of products soaring in southern europe after the introduction of the euro and real estate bubbles due to cheap loans. Prices are adjusting back due to cuts now, only the profit margins are reduced.

Similarly to how cartels work, free money just creates inflation.
What type of items have you had success doing this with?
Can't find a link, but I believe I've seen at least one demo passing data back and forth between Julia and Python in a notebook that looks similar to what you're referring to.

Edit: here's an example [0]

[0] http://nbviewer.ipython.org/urls/raw.github.com/JuliaLang/IJ...
It's not the text. It's the fact that when the page first appears, there's nothing but the blurred image. Our eyes immediately set to the task of focusing, which can't be accomplished.

The reason I don't believe it's not the text over a blurred image is because our eyes deal with this on a daily basis.

Any time you look at an object (like someone's face) where the background is distant, you're seeing a foreground object on a blurred background. Depending on lighting, visual acuity, and the use of glasses, the DOF of the human eye can be startlingly small (less than a foot), or it can be very large (practically infinity). It's the cognitive portion of our visual processing that makes the difference. Our brains do a great job of filtering out what we're not focused on.

My recommendation would be to ditch the animation on the HTML5 logo, tagline, and buttons. I think if you do that, this becomes a non-issue for the vast majority of people.
I don't really understand the downvotes. The person that talked about the meal they cooked listed items that were "less than 50 cents" as being important enough to list the cost of. However it seems that 19 cents is not important enough to list the cost of. Am I missing something that makes my statement factually incorrect and worthy of a downvote? or do people just not like the facts?
Hopefully such a bullish and short sighted stance as this is just the thing to get some publicity and traction to boot these idiots out, or at least kick the money grubbing Luddites out and replace them with someone with some common sense. Grah

Where can I donate to Arachnid Labs?
I did. I also went to the uProxy site which mentions it was seeded by Google Ideas. Also,

>> One of the ways uProxy connects you through your friends, is by connecting to existing chat networks, such as Facebook or Google Hangouts. uProxy can use a chat network to discover new friends and setup peer-to-peer proxying from your friends. If a user does so, then the chat network can see that the user has uProxy installed. A user's chat contacts may also see this.

So Google funded uProxy; it will be able to see who your VPN "host" is via Google Hangouts; and lastly it controls one of the two browsers on which this plugin runs, Chrome.

That's too much Google for me, personally.
It's like the feeling I get when I see one of those faces with two sets of eyes (http://www.illusionspoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/fun...).
If anything it's this fantasy of vertical scaling that's perpetuated by "people trying to sell you something". If you're going to go with "Hacker News does it, therefore it's okay", I guess that means it's sensible for any web app to use a Lisp dialect of their own invention implemented on top of Scheme, for URL's to be generated pseudorandomly and time out, and so forth.
I'd be very happy to replace unemployment benefit/welfare with this - and then to remove the income tax allowance, so that people pay income tax on everything they have over it.

This instantly removes the "benefit trap" whereby earning can make you worse off.
If everyone around you tripled their prices, you would make a killing, but then you'd quickly run out of product, have massive lines and frustrated customers. At some point you might even realize that if you raise your prices 2.5x, you'd probably make more money while still undercutting the competition.

But you'd still have raised your prices.
I'm not sure I follow. It has the USB logo on one side, and the Apple logo on the other side in the same colour and size. Which means if you aren't paying attention you'll over try to put it in upside down (because the logos look so similar).
> to be more constructive: would you accept contributions to build packages? Apart from this annoyance the project looks interesting!

Of course any contribution of this kind is greatly appreciated !
Really? Is that how things like healthcare costs in the USA work out? Competition solves all?

Because we have unlimited hospitals and doctors and yet a Tylenol in the hospital is hundreds of dollars (Obamacare won't fix that either because now more people can pay hundreds).

Internet, Cable, Cellphone service, all seem to rise to the most people can afford. Rent on apartment complexes near each other owned by different management companies magically stay within a several percent of each other.

If you gave everyone $1000 a month, rent will magically rise to at least half that for even the smallest efficiency.
It sounds like you're assuming inflation. But this money won't be printed out of thin air, it will come from taxes and thus aggregate demand won't change. (Not sure if you were clear on that.)
If you're working at an Amazon fulfillment centre, you might not want more Amazons.
It's a malicious software that hijacks the browser, displays unwanted ads and changes the search engine/start page.

Most common search suggestions for Cydoor (well known adware):
http://i.imgur.com/iXqJdzU.png

Most common search suggestions for Ask Toolbar:
http://i.imgur.com/HziYjkZ.png

Looks pretty similar to me.
Sort of. If you are buying or selling a lot of shares it's quite a bit more expensive. That probably doesn't matter to you or I if we are buying AAPL because it's a small number of shares, but it does hurt any index/mutual funds you're invested in.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund (one of the largest in the world, they own 1% of all US stocks) just came out on this exact topic:

http://www.efinancialnews.com/story/2013-09-17/norways-sover...

> Next, the paper takes on HFT's usual defence – that they provide the market with much-increased liquidity. Norges Bank worries that this liquidity is "transient" - i.e. HFTs often place large orders only to then cancel them, creating "phantom" liquidity and leaving "buyside traders fac[ing] new challenges in assessing posted liquidity."
thanks maaaats.
Isn't the problem with wiring buildings with low voltage DC that we'd need really thick cables to avoid a large voltage drop in (and heating of) the cable itself?
thanks chickenrun!
Societies will always succeed for a while and then fail. It is the cycle of life and energy in the economy. There is "value" created by HFTs that is used by HFTs and their families. It helps them survive and reproduce. This does not mean value is created for society overall, but it certainly makes society more complex. The more complex an ecosystem/economy is, the more likely it will be able to adapt to future environmental changes.
Until one day it can profit by providing a service for which other autonomous corporations are willing to pay.
A proper ID makes it much easier for the consumers. By having a proper ID, the OS can search its database of drivers, and if that fails, try to download from a source such as Windows Update.

Also, a lot of this could very well be trying to avoid the pain of the Bad Old Days of pre-plug and play DOS, where you had to manually set things like interrupts and I/O ports, and hope and pray that your new device didn't conflict with something important. For example, many an oldschool game had dire warnings about not running the sound card autodetect if you had things like scsi cards, because the conflicts were near inevitable and pretty catastrophic.
You should probably not use django-registration for user auth as referred to in the guide, since it's been abandoned at this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6278464.
he/she didn't rip them off. they just used the same libraries. font-awesome/glyphicons for icons, flot for graphs, etc.
For large datacenters, DC can be a big improvement. http://gigaom.com/2012/01/13/the-next-big-thing-for-data-cen... But this is mainly where UPSes are involved, or solar power. That might not be relevant to a house, but it could have other advantages besides efficiency. Imagine all your computers had tiny DC-DC converters instead of heavy, hot bricks of inverters. Laptops would only need a cable to charge instead of a power brick.
Government is supposed to collect taxes and spend them to benefit the community as a whole. Free subsidies seem to reinforce individual consumerism, which in the end does not benefit the people.
Really? You're gonna compare this to those pathetic excuses for communism?
Coinkite Advancing Bitcoin Adoption on Liberty Express Radio
You say that like it probably won't. They state in the FAQ that it will work on FF and Chrome; there's no reason to think it won't work on Chromium as well.
Sorry I didn't understand your comment "NOT OPENSOURCE! Not worth it for academia". Could you clarify?
Because you are setting a floor. First, if you make a minimum income of 1,000, anyone making less or around that will demand a raise, after all why would I work if I could get the same amount loafing around the house. So the mid-lower tiers get a raise, and now the tier above that doesn't want to make the same as the lower tier and they get a raise, so there is inflation as everyone suddenly as a lot more money to spend.

Which feels great for maybe a month or maybe a day, but with everyone making more money, goods in that area will rise in price, as landlords find they can make more money etc... and then we're back in the same situation. In theory goods outside of this economy with a floor would remain the same, but since the people that need to import it, store it, etc... would also be affected by the inflation in the end it doesn't net anything.

TLDR; a basic income is an illusion, and inflation would quickly catch up.
I think the article puts forward one point - if the number of devices using DC is large enough, the load will become much less variable. Less variable loads mean one power supply can operate at peak efficiency rather than having many sitting idle most of the time.

I'm not completely convinced that this makes sense though. Any low voltage DC distribution network will need fairly thick wires to distribute anything but trivial power levels. The power lost in the cables over tens or hundreds of feet would probably make any efficiency gains fairly moot. The efficiency of modern switched mode power supplies is fairly high, and my understanding is that the no-load power use is almost trivial (milliamps).

One issue that seems to have surfaced recently is that there's loads of very, very cheap AC-DC power supplies which are awfully made. It would definitely make sense for a single high quality supply over a bunch of cheap, noisy and dangerous ones, but I think the best solution is investing slightly in wall-socket based power supplies of a known quality.

As an aside, power transmission with DC is actually quite a lot more efficient than AC. The reason AC won the power race was the ease of voltage change with transformers. As solid state power electronics improves, we're going to see more and more DC based transmission lines. We're probably centuries away from a DC grid (if ever).
Just because you guys took a dump on the submit doesn't mean it deserved to be flagged. Seriously, I've never thought of HN as an immature reddit/slashdot-like place before today, and I've been on for much longer than you.
This is rad and I had no idea IPython was flexible enough that you could do this. Installing immediately!
I think here the main point, not that good developed in the article, is that the devices powered by USB power have access to the data bus, that is they can be intelligent as such. For example, as a fellow commenter, the USB-powered fan, in a intelligent house, with a USB-outlet (let's call it that way) can actually recognize that is a fan, and can start it if in the house the temperature/humidity is going over a limit, or lower the RPM if the temp has changed. And so on....imagination is the limit, thing of light bulbs, etc, you name it.

The house-computer would automatically recognize such home devices and have rules, like on our computers ( like, oh, this is a HDD, let's offer the option to mount it, etc), would recognize fans, etc.

So this could be the start of an intelligent house. I feel some start-up would deal with this at some point.
Boxcar Developer Push Introduces Phonegap Support
Yes, you're right. I made the schoolboy mistake of confusing 0.000001 and 0.000001%
Hyperlinks don't love your brain (why we use footnotes)
Here we go, already declining Europe turning even more socialist. The problem is that most countries in Europe are not like Switzerland where the common culture is economically educated and work oriented. If this passes in Switzerland or Netherlands it may actually work, but if it spreads to and passes in e.g France, Spain or some post communist countries in EU it may lead to completely different outcome and EU economies are increasingly co-dependent.

Even worse thing is that there is a lot of populism in Europe spreading lately, I fear this will be quickly adopted as a tool to get more voters in countries that respond to populism well, eventually gaining support for economically illiterate parties.
You can make java programs like all JetBrains IDEs use the OS native font rendering, just add the following snippet to /etc/profile.d/jre.sh and source or relogin to take effect.

export _JAVA_OPTIONS='-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true'
Any word on when the new python and php plugins hit intellij idea?
First time I see this tool. Looks really sweet! Only things that are missing for my usage is ppa:ondrej/php5 for latest php and Percona instead of MySQL with an option to push in custom my.cnf from within configuring a vm, if that's possible.
Giving out "free" money is the equivalent of the government printing money. You don't have to be an economics major to realize that printing money (or dropping it out of an airplane) cheapens the value of that money. Hence, you end up with higher prices (inflation).
So this gets up voted to the front page quickly while the Nokia 2520 tablet submit with 50 or so up votes is flagged into oblivion? Keep it classy hackernews.
neat tool: chrome developer tools > network > rightclick a resource > copy as Curl > paste on command line

allows you to replay a request, complete with all cookies and the exact same headers.

yeah, aware this isn't what's wanted here, single request image etc etc ... but relevant.
Communist countries dictated by political fiat where labor resources were allocated, what industries would be engaged in, and how the capitalized wealth of the country would be reinvested.

They didn't just go around giving everyone an income that kept them from living in a gutter.
By "their own", you mean "as required by US export restrictions that all US companies have to abide by", right?

See also https://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-deni...
I've been using CurrencyFair for about a year now, after stumbling upon it. Beforehand, I just sent a wire straight from Chase in the US to my bank in the UK (Oh, dear).

It's been absolutely fantastic. I was a little hesitant at first, sending smaller amounts through at a time. But now I'm regularly transferring 5 figure sums without a worry in the world.

The rate you end up with is way better than what you get straight from the bank. And if there's no rush, I just set an order up at a rate I fancy, and wait for the market rates to wobble a bit, and someone fulfills it.

Because of the way it works, your money isn't actually the money coming out of the other end (it never is, I guess, it's all electronic) -- it means that I can deposit $X from my bank in the US, and have that appear as £Y in my bank in the UK, on the same/next day!

I haven't personally had any need to contact them, but I've read their customer support is good, too.
Completely uneducated guess here - I figured it would have something to do with Apple TV or some type of integration between devices that somehow facilitates iOS 7.
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Wait till you try intellij idea: java, php, ruby, python, go, js, node, coffee, etc all in one.
When code refactoring doesn't make sense? [based on hack from 11 years ago]
At this point, I doubt that certification matters for many applications, particularly in the consumer sector.

"Connects to your computer at speeds up to five gigabits per second using industry standard USB cable," probably covers everything short of a the edge cases such as government procurement contracts.
Non-citizen national here. I have a special passport, and am considered a non-specific, non-naturalized person. I have to create (foreign-owned) LLC's in order to work within the system/collect or pay taxes/earn a wage in Dollars. I've met at least a hundred people that have the same status as I do. I'm told there are thousands of us.
I think they already started going there, at least in the UK. All my latest orders were delivered by 'Amazon Logistics'.
The existing bitcointip on reddit is offensive on many levels, the main problem being all of the bitcoin enthusiasts that upvote someone's tip, and the verification even though neither contribute anything to the comment thread, and pushes actual conversation about whatever the topic is down in the thread which kills the reading experience for the user at the sake of promoting bitcoin.
This is a bit of a naive analysis. Amazon's margins aren't "razor thin". They're thin in some places but huge in others. AWS, for example, has a 50% gross profit margin, and their gross margins on digital goods (mp3s, ebooks) are also high. These aren't small potatoes, these are multi-billion dollar businesses in their own right.

As for shipping, amazon already has a delivery service (amazon fresh) but I don't think they have a strong desire to completely own delivery, they have very cozy relationships with all of the major shipping companies. If you knew how much money amazon actually pays for shipping you'd be astounded, they're very good at using their volume as negotiating leverage.

Logistics is at the core of amazon's business though, and it's a big reason why they are succeeding where others are not. If you order through amazon you can expect most items to be en route in less than 24 hours. That takes a lot of work especially considering the sheer quantity of stuff they offer.

Aside from that, they aren't just trying to do one thing, they are trying to diversify the company, so that it will rest on multiple multi-billion dollar divisions over the next decade (retail, AWS et al, ebooks, mp3/VOD, etc.)
Is there a chance that you have more than one instance of Java installed? I've seen this on a few machines. An up to date copy of Java in "c:\Program Files" and an outdated version still sitting in "c:\Windows". Try about:plugins in the address bar, I think that should list all installed versions.
We are continuously working on improving it and fonts are indeed better now, however, there are a lot of things we can't do something about because of JDK for Linux.

There are some links and information on additional configuration for Linux to be checked at http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233
What to code (in Ruby) when you know what you want
Python 3.4 seems it will be true to it's promise.
See the other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6581053
I presume there is a segment of VID that is marked as 'local' or 'for test purpose only'? Just like IP has local addresses for intranet/testing.

Also, if an open source is popular enough to the point a unique VID is needed for proper driver support, I will say this project will easily get fundings to go commercial (just like RedHat).
Listen to this: http://podcasts.tvo.org//bi/audio/2076107_48k.mp3
If you choose Ubuntu and 5.4/5.5 you're going to use Ondrej's repo.

The problem with that is that Ondrej's 5.5 repo comes with Apache 2.4+ and the Apache Puppet module I'm using only supports up to Apache 2.2 - so Ubuntu + Apache + PHP 5.5 will not work right now, but Nginx will.

Or use Debian.
I assume this is akin to Milton Friedman's negative tax: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtpgkX588nM I think it's brilliant. The major issue would be how to do a transition to it and what the "magic number" is.