skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a - Not sure what's creepy about this. Seeing legit reviews from people I actually know, or at least bothered to add to a social service, would likely be more useful to me than J Random Reviewer. Also, back-of-book reviews are trying to sell you the book - no kidding. Are we supposed to consider that a sinister intent?

b - I don't understand. If someone is an unwanted 'stalker' to me, they aren't likely going to be a facebook friend. Even if they were, I think I'll be OK seeing their faces 'everywhere'.. seeing as how I can distinguish fairly well between image and reality.

c - So governments will not only manage to make Mandatory World ID happen, they'll be somehow forcing people to "sign their TCP packets" with them? If that's not intended to be a wildly exaggerated parody, you really may need to loosen the tinfoil wrapped around your head up a bit.
You are trying to shell this for 149$ on HN?
Seriously?
I'm a bit taken aback the utter lack of preachiness in that infographic. It seems most infographics like to tell you what you must do, right now, what the hell are you waiting for, why aren't you taking action right now, etc.

Quite refreshing that, no matter how simplified or slightly erroneous the data is, it's just kinda hanging out there.

To summarize: we'll run out of IPv4 addresses, and they don't work interchangeably with IPv6. Oh well.

I like it : )
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I thought the point was to reduce the hate-filled screeds by linking their comments to a real profile of a real person. But with the "nyms" fiasco that's probably impossible now.
If equality is the goal, this proposal looks like a good way to make Europe poorer FTW.
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But you should still have the right to be pissed off on a personal level.
Sure, just check

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

Where you can find a good mix of 'blue' countries such as US, Japan, India, Russia, Norway, China and Sweden. So it doesn't tell me THAT much unfortunately.
Nothing to do with boomers growing up in times of growing equality, while gen y grew up in times of increasing inequality?

Yes, it does kind of piss me off that my previous landlord could afford multiple properties from the proceeds of selling pirated tapes in London in the 70's / 80's, yet as an educated knowledge worker on an above average wage, I could barely afford the crappiest flat there.

I guess I must be wildly ambitious like the article suggests.
Thanks Mat!
Only one or two months, yes, because there's an allocation problem. Unless that's fixed (and it won't be), just giving back extra addresses will only result in them being squandered ... again.
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When referring to Washington, it's pronounced "Yoo-dub".

When referring to Wyoming, it's pronounced "Uhhwh"
"In case you are either 1) a complete idiot; or 2) a lawyer; or 3) both, please be aware that this site is not affiliated with or approved by Canonical Limited."

"This site criticizes Canonical for certain privacy-invading features of Ubuntu and teaches users how to fix them. So, obviously, the site is not approved by Canonical."

"And our use of the trademarked term Ubuntu is plainly descriptive—it helps the public find this site and understand its message."
Well actually my whole second paragraph is about the purple :) The point of going from blue to white is to to visually convey that more pale colors mean 'closer to the baseline'. I.e., pale blue is 'slightly better than baseline', pale red 'slightly worse than baseline'. If you were to blend from blue to purple, that wouldn't work any more. But if you leave in the white in the middle, it looks as if there are 'no data' spots. Hence, use variation in intensities for non-baseline, different color for baseline.

Cartography is not about conceptual consistency, it's about conveying information. I challenge you to make a map that conveys the message better than the choices made in the map in the OP (apart from subjective wah wah like 'blue is democrats' as was laughably brought up elsewhere in this thread).
Glad you like it! Would not have been possible without all partners!
The easiest thing to do is probably playing around with it :)
No, not everybody is a genius, despite Einstein being said to have said so.

We do not need to be geniuses, we only need to be human beings, persons, people... Ordinary people.

If everybody is a genius, then nobody is.

What we need is less caring about 'outstanding' and more caring about virtue as the path to happiness.
I know how it works, but the point is it works. Let's not pretend that everyone getting Nest thermostats is a reason for IPv6. And Most applications need "man in the middle" services anyway even if everything was publicly addressable. Nest HQ needs it public servers, There is no need for my thermostat to have a public IP.
Is this the correct donation link?

http://www.givewell.org/about/donate?ASW

Or should donations be sent to the IA?

https://archive.org/donate/index.php
Yes, there has always been people complaining in forums. I've seen steps to recover some of the lost stuff, but I no longer bother. My original account predates the Google acquisition and I lost everything when they made the username -> Google Account transition years ago.

Probably my fault because I always decline these things until Google forces the integration upon us anyway.
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From the initial docs of jQuery.payment, it looks like a lower-level tool -- the OP provides the promise of "you just drop it in, and you get these things, designed for you." jQuery.payment looks like "Here's a toolset you can use to do whatever you want!"

But I don't want to spend time figuring out what I want and putting it together. I also don't want to spend $150/year on it though. :)

If you built a higher-level abstraction on top of jQuery.payment, that made the good design choices for the developer, so the developer could just 'insert form here'....
Yes the record labels need to go. They have been preying on musicians for a long time and will continue to do so. I'm sure that Sootify could pay more without them, but that wouldn't allow their model to completely support musicians. If every music listener paid a total of $9.99 per month or agreed to listen to ads, when you take out administrative, equipment, and bandwidth costs, there's just not enough money to split up. It makes a good promotional tool but needs to link to other ways to support musicians. They need to make it easy to buy concert tickets, mercy, Flattr, or other forms of support without being intrusive.
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The Internet never ceases to amaze me. Why does everyone act like a child throwing a tantrum when something changes? Are people that incapable of adapting? It's really not that big of a deal.
I completely avoided myspace, facebook, and twitter, only to be bitten by google. I started out just using gmail, then Picasa came along. Google didn't really have social overtones at the time, so it seemed safe. Then google music seemed interesting for awhile... and along came G+ to invade everything. So far I've managed to backup and delete everything except for the gmail account. From now on, I'll host and/or build my own apps.
Fair point. Still not sure it's such a great idea though...
Blip.tv tried this for many years. They recently sold for a small sum.

If they couldn't do it, it's unlikely anyone else can.
Show me a case where, regarding the NSA, you can say "They could, but they wouldn't."
This is a single entry into NaNoGenMo, which is something I started this month as kind of a programmers version of NaNoWriMo. It does not necessarily have to do with fanfiction.net: the Github repository where I'm hosting the event is here:

https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo
Related:
http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/
I think I saw this on hackernews a while ago.
Oh, this one is perfect. It makes a lot of links posted to HN much more interesting than they originally are.
The files used are from Mike Bostock’s World Atlas TopoJSON project: https://github.com/mbostock/world-atlas

They are in turn derived from Natural Earth data: http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/110m-cultural-vect...
The only thing I would add, is rather than saying the issue is with team fit, take ownership and admit that the problem is that the two of you don't get along, and give your rationale that the conflict simply reduces your effectiveness running the company.

Honesty and doing things right is the best way to avoid guilt and to keep the bridge of a professional relationship intact. This is a person who might be a good fit at a later stage in the company's development or someone who might feed a better candidate your way.

Heck, one day, the employee might offer you a job.
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AltJS - Web coding without JavaScript.
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Yes, absolutely. Though I worry that a lot of the people I follow wouldn't. And if they left, then the value goes down for me.

That's why I said it's hard for Twitter to capture that value.
> You know G+ is an abysmal failure when the Page & Co has to force it on users of google's other services. C'mon bro, what gives?

They literally have been explaining this for nearly a year. There's no such thing as a G+ account and a 'Google Account'. They are the same things.

I think if anything what this has proven is that you cannot rely on your customers to read the slightest thing from you, but if you change how they expect things to work, they will get incredibly angry even if the service is totally free. Even if you are IMPROVING the service you will get anger.

Moral of the story: Don't have many customers.
I know that the standard way to state ipv4 is 2^32, as it does in the infographic, but isn't that inaccurate? since the 255 is not used, as well as many other reserved IP addresses, shouldn't an infographic actually get the exact IP addresses available, and not the theoretical number that anyone with a calculator can figure out?
The accountability argument only holds if Real Name is 100% enforced, which so far hasn't happened. (and if Blizzard's Real ID fiasco is any indication, it never will.)
Because there is probably a lot of overlap between those who think Youtube comments are terrible and those who post terrible Youtube comments.

People might slag it in public, but I think a lot of people secretly enjoy leaving abusive and trollish anonymous comments. It's not like all those comments were the work of a few bad apples. The sheer volume would suggest otherwise.
The point is more than a disabled person will require a higher subsidy to attain the same standard of living. The differences can be enormous.

A non-disabled person can walk or cycle around the city to pick-up groceries whereas a disabled person might need a specially modified vehicle or may require the services of another person. Subsidizing everyone to the same amount as required by the most disabled of people would be unsustainable.

I guess by the second point I mean the short term unemployed more than the "poor" per se. Consider a person who has just graduated from a university in SF and wants to remain there while they look for a job in SV. If they can't afford this , they might have to move to a poor area with less opportunity.

Optimistically it might produce more opportunities elsewhere if there is an influx of educated people, but pessimistically it might mean that those who are independently wealthy are the only ones who can take the risk of living in SF.
Definitely laggier on FF on Mac than Chrome.
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No, the point is that the original technology is incredibly special, but the simplicity of the service and the "big data" boom it helped create makes it all look insignificant in hindsight.

I challenge you to go set up a twitter clone using only software which existed in, say, 2008 or earlier, or software which you write 100% yourself. To test it, rent a small swarm of AWS servers and get 10,000 fuzzing clients to hammer on the thing. Should be a fun weekend project, right?

I agree with the sentiments about the brand and the community, but anyone who thinks that just magically appeared like it was some inevitable fatalistic force of history is dead wrong. It took a ridiculous amount of ridiculously hard work by ridiculously smart people. And if anything the fact that I have to point this out is a testament to how excellent and valuable their work really is.
I was hesitant to share this video[1] on HN, but I came upon this in my research when the same thing happened to me.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ccxiwu4MaJs

Edit: NSFW- language/curse words.
That's great, but with tax rates of 75-100% for the rich I have a hard time believing they'll attract a lot of serious entrepreneurs.
"Tip #2: Don't be too eager to ship."

Honestly, I'm surprised to hear that anyone's managed to ship their Kickstarter rewards within three months. I've backed a variety of projects (mostly books and software), and I think only once have I ever seen a physical product shipped within six months. Even t-shirts usually take a while.
It would be helpful if it also supported China Unionpay cards (19 digits).
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In case anyone else is interested in reading the alt text: http://xkcd.com/1288
I am not sure either. However I think that it is absolutely necessary to test it out in practice.
Parents should get no allowance for any children, and children should get the same benefit as everyone else.
What a strange turn of events for gaming on Linux. AAA developers are porting their games over, while iD is pulling support. I don't think anyone would have guessed this.
Basic income doesn't inherently require taxes to increase, especially if you measure it as taxes paid less government benefits received. You're thinking of things in class warfare terms -- someone else gets more money from the government therefore I get less or pay more. Any program that works on that principle is just redistribution of wealth, or naked corruption.

The benefit of a basic income is that it changes incentives. In the existing system you lose government benefits if you take a job, so if the only job you can get pays low wages you have a significantly reduced incentive to seek employment. Higher unemployment means lower tax revenues, lower economic growth, etc. Fighting that is why a basic income is superior to means tested government assistance.
I fixed it by switching to Mint. I'm liking it so far.
So:

- Every browser now supports WebGL

- This would allow their customers to play Quake without plugins OR downloads (eg, this demo http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/)

and instead they ditch platforms and require an installer?
But why did you you use this particular one? And how is it related to https://github.com/proofpoint/platform ?
Thanks in advance.
Backbone.js is the C++ of Javascript MVC frameworks
Already serving me headlines that make more sense than the originals:

"If you believe Elf-Lord Lindsey Graham is actually a lizard, you're among friends—12 million of them."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/11/03/fringe-fact...
"If I go to a viral video, and I see comments on it from people I actually KNOW, I personally think that would be really cool. That was completely impossible, the old way."

I keep seeing companies pushing this idea on us, but I just don't get it. The math doesn't work. There are umpty millions of pieces of "content" that might be reviewed. I have at most a few hundred actual friends. (I imagine those who push beyond that have also pushed well beyond the intimacy frontier where they really care what you think about YouTube Video #283572738.) The median number of reviews that a given friend is likely to generate in a sufficiently formal manner that Google can figure it out is zero.

If you live in some sort of bizarre homogenous bubble where all your friends are just like you and have effectively the same tastes, and a lot of your friends insist on reviewing every last Youtube video they see, and yet, have some sort of diversity of opinion that you might actually care about, this might work.

But even stereotypical college students don't live like this. Maybe frat houses, but even then, you've got family circles, other non-frat friends, etc, and I doubt your frat brothers are going to be sitting there churning out enough reviews on things that you all care about that seeing a review from someone you "know" is going to be anything other than an exceptional occurrence, and a review you care about even less so. ("Yes, my frat brothers love the latest Call of Duty. I could tell that by the way we all played it for 14 hours straight last night. I did not need Google+ to tell me that.")

(If they did sit there and review everything, it would just turn into a backchannel for chat anyhow... "This beer is awesome, just ask John about last night... here's a link to some photos that the beer company would pay good money not to have associated with their beer...")

I'm not saying that there's absolutely nobody this will be useful for, but it seems to be a very, very specialized group of people hardly worth the immense effort being put into this idea by companies. The amount of possible "things to review" just swamps the number of friends a person can have, and standard lurker/poster ratios tend to imply that "nobody" writes reviews. (And I gotta think these sites have even worse lurker/poster ratios than something like Usenet or HN, probably by an order of magnitude or two or three.)
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It's worth a shot if they fit your use case. Once you get past the ninja-speak of choosing size and database, it's really simple.

For rake/rails apps at least, you just run `heroku run 'command'` and you're done.
If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product.
I hate Google+, I'm sending back my Nexus 5, it's useless without Google+.
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Uh. No.

Spiped just 'pipes' an SSH connection from one point to another. It's essentially a very thin VPN.

But this bug is exploited via authenticated users. If you're using ssh keys (...you are, aren't you?) you would basically already need a valid SSH login to use this vuln; if nobody but you has an ssh key login, you're safe. This vulnerability may still affect you - even with spiped - depending on who has an ssh key login to your box.

(And this thinking that you can just 'wrap another layer of encryption/abstraction' around a problem, is why we can't have nice things)
It's fun to throw out numbers for pumped storage. The Ludington pumped storage plant [1] is pretty big at 1.8 gigawatts. At full power, that's 33 million gallons per minute. The reservoir is 27 billion gallons of water (about 100 billion liters).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power_...
A feature that "would be really cool" is one that should be opt-in. I think this is the real issue that shows it self over and over again: forcing users into services they do not want.

IMO Google could have avoided most of the backlash by making every youtube account a G+ account too, then if you want to link the two, have a simple merge account functionality between G+ and YouTube. The Charlie Foxtrot of forcing real names and linked accounts has obvious motivations for Google, but the backlash was predictable and isn't going away.
My favorite combo: Unbounce + Optimizely + Kontest + mention
can already do a lot of things only with these 4 :-)
He was given stock in Google, which has more than doubled in price since then.
It is not possible to "FIX" security with email as it currently stands. That would require a completely different protocol and it wouldn't be compatible with any existing email platforms, so it would effectively be worthless.

There is a reason why a "perfectly secure" email platform does not exist, it is simply not possible to design such a system and maintain compatibility existing email software.

I'm not sure if you guys are just incredibly naive or if you lack common business sense or what the deal is. This is akin to bitching that Tesla isn't really "environmentally friendly" because they make electric cars and you really need cars that run on unicorn farts to be truly carbon neutral.
No. Moral of the story is "Don't fuck around".

I like my YouTube account. I don't like Google+. Stop forcing it on me. I'd be happy with a YouTube that doesn't let me comment but let's me upload videos and everything else I'm doing now. Instead, I'm packing up and leaving.

The irony is your moral might just work. Google will end up with less and less customers if they keep behaving in this way. Only people willing to tolerate Google+ will be left. Maybe that's what they want.
Yeah, they keep insisting on logging me into google+. I keep declining but I somehow ended up with an account. I detest forced integration and such. I enjoy the free email but I'm thinking of switching to Opera's email spin-off.

Rather pay and know what I'm getting than not pay and not know.
Although it may not be a popular opinion, here is the reason: there is only one Google (at least for social stuff) and one login system now.

Google plus is the "Google account" you need to use any of their social services.

I am frankly surprised that they allowed the login of their acquisitions to stay fragmented for such a long time.
I can't remember the exact article but if you look at this link, towards the end of the IANA pool, you can see they were burning through about two /8's per month:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/ipv4-addr...
I was hoping that the internals would be powerful, I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later. I do not think present internals will be able to push that many pixels.

pretty sure they wont, but i think that's sort of the point, and it speaks to the fundamental difference in how they see the market evolving vs. sony with their ps4.

i get a sense that microsoft views this as the last 'console' (in the traditional sense) they'll release.. everything from the architecture, to the internals, to even the naming, makes me think that this is meant to be just a 'box' - the one and only box you'll need - which will grow (in features and power), with more-and-more of the resources offloaded to the cloud over time...

i think their original policies around 'always on' speak to that vision, but that's just my guess, and is why i'm more excited about the xbox one long-term.
Is the answer not "Because you sold out"? What did he expect to happen when Google snapped them up?
cueball, megan, and black-hat guy: an entertaining visual programming language

Legions of xkcd fans: collectively a "sufficiently smart compiler"? an "eager-to-please interpreter"?
This is really bizarre. I couldn't find any reasons for the move mentioned. Does anyone know why they did this?

For me that means just dropping QL unfortunately.
> hold more people accountable for their comments (w/ their reputation)

This belief has been thoroughly debunked by Facebook comments. There's absolutely no reason to believe that Google+ will be any better, particularly since the ghost-town nature of G+ means people will rightly assume they can flame away and nobody they know will ever see it.
Helping a couple hours a year is a small price to pay for giving them a rock solid experience AND not support a company like Apple (at least in my book ;) )

P.S. The nearest Apple stores are also 150-200+ miles away for them...
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Why do you expect inflation? Inflation only occurs if the source of the money comes from creating currency. If it comes from taxation then you're not increasing aggregate demand at all, you're just eliminating the large disincentive to seeking employment created by the discontinuation of government benefits if you succeed.