skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm tempted to get one but am worried about the bad camera reviews... Is it really that bad? How does the phone feel size-wise? Thanks.
So because there are some corrupt people in Silicon Valley, one is simply not allowed to distrust bankers who have proven to not be trustworthy? Life must go well with logic like that.
Good example of Betteridge's Law.

Also - inequality is a red herring. As long as the poorest people are doing better, it's irrelevant that Bill Gates is a Billionaire.
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They need young, real "down to Earth" technology people like Scott Hanselman or J Allard to run that old monolith. I would list other people from tech but those people would never tolerate working for the Microsoft board.

Anyone that wears a suit and tie to work is going to just steer Microsoft further and further into the ground. Elop needs a hoodie.
Do you really believe that it is wise to treat our government as a virus writer and put ourselves in the position of antivirus software writers? Do you want them in the exploit business while we, the citizenry, resolve to simply apply patches? Do you really want them to have legal carte blanche to use their unlimited resources (including your own tax dollars) to do as they please, then scurry off to try to erect some defense against whatever you think they are doing next?

When the NSA approaches Google, I want Google's General Counsel to deny the request with solid legal standing. Likewise with backbone providers and on down the line.

We are either a nation of laws or we're not. Our government is either beholden to those laws or they are not. Had we the proper laws and commitment to our Constitution, then Snowden's revelations would have resulted in trials and prosecutions. Instead, too many seem to be ceding to the government the right to surveil its citizens with impunity, and are instead focusing on technical defenses against their own government.

It's lunacy, and if the primary emphasis is not on legal redress, then we have already lost.
Take corporations away?

Did you even bother to read a single word I wrote?

I'll repeat myself: Maybe the current system is TOO excessive, and should be reigned in, in some ways

People like you, who paint reformists like myself as Communists who are anti-capitalism really, really piss me off.

I think capitalism is great, but the edges are rough and could use some attention.
Off-topic, but do you have great pointers on how to get started with Hypnotism/NLP?
4A Games just released Metro: Last Light for Linux. I would say it's a AAA title, but I'd rather not get into a "no true Scotsman" kind of thing.
It also hasn't made Microsoft any money. The majority of the money in the XBox business has been from Android Patents.

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-earns-2-billion-per...

From a business standpoint, the XBox is one of the worst performers in the entire Microsoft company.
Or use Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu or Ubuntu GNOME. None of these use Unity as their default desktop, whose default behavior is really what this complaint is about.
if you are worried because what you type at the dash is being sent to third parties for advertising then you should stop using google to search anything (yeah including maps), this is the last reason I wouldn't use Unity, I actually don't use it, but I don't use it because of the friggin vertical toolbar and the sluggish performance.
A better headline would be "Intriguing musings about unexpected ways people working with computers will impact and transform society".

It's a set of notions extracted from a book - if the book is better written and more clearly organized than the article, it will be a thought provoking read. But if it parallels the article, it will be a tiring slog through disjointed assertions.

A key idea is that people with the right blend of conscientiousness and cognitive capacity and style will be able to use technology to enhance their lives in ways that most people will not. And that we cannot predict what these will be, but there there are analogs, and they show the power of the idea.

Intriguing speculation, worthy of consideration, poorly presented in the article. Hopefully better presented in the book, but I ain't readin' it just yet.
Let me guess... you have 5h free today and you want to get into bitcoin. Am I right?
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Until Xbox One, at least.
And what, pray tell, is the limit on what is 'enough'? A billion? Two billion?
Wouldn't Google Chrome'a "native client" be a perfect fit for this?
Any moment I expect to hear that Google has hired Henry Winkler to jump this thing in a leather coat.
I also need my ISP, my power company, etc. I'll never be an island.
This IPv6 utopia where everything is peer2peer just isn't going to happen, there is too much value in central services.
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You're assuming that all that matters is the amount someone earns. If people care about more than just their on-paper income, then they can think:

1: it won't change my income now, but will save me from having to jump through ridiculous, demeaning and counter-productive requirements added to the current welfare program in an attempt to punish "undeserving" receipients.

2: it won't change my income now, but will provide a nice safety net in case I become unemployed for any reason.
The book supposedly had an editor, but there's more to editing than checking for typos. Random sampling: (about a co-worker who felt he was underpaid) "He did not need the money anyways. After taxes, he couldn't even fuel his car." Does that make sense to anyone else?

I haven't read the whole thing yet, and frankly don't know if I'll make it through. The book rambles along, and its cohesion seems to be lacking. I hesitate to ding anyone's hard work, but in retrospect I'd rather to have paid about half of the $20USD I spent on it.
If it's just "some of it", they're doing something wrong.
I think they've got an edition based on Debian.
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Thanks,
I emailed the address on the G tech Press release, but that might be a journalism major.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Thinking that those are your only choices is a prime example of why the broadband market needs far more competition. ISPs do not operate like electric utilities where they generate gigabytes to send down the line to your house. ISPs spend money on building capacity to transfer data, which they then sell to their customers in chunks. If they cannot provide they capacity they sold to their customer, it should not be the burden of the customer to avoid exceeding that capacity.
One of the interesting things about their pricing is that going from 16 to 32 GBs is only $50, vs $100 for the iPhone.

I imagine this could do more damage to Apple's margins than anything else Google or Nexus does, if Apple starts to lose the premium they charge for storage upgrades.
Downloaded HSBC's app, then something funny happened...
How well do VOIP apps work? Is the functionality of the device hampered by lack of a Google+ account? What are your impressions of its battery life?
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Try making a valid point rather than saying I'm not considering your point of view.

Or I could just say, "Says a man who's insecure" or some other vague and assumed statement.
So much truth here, thank you for sharing it. As a marketer inside technical companies, daily scrums are hard for me, as are hackathons, because what marketers do is execute, a little every day. Day after day it looks like you do tiny things, and that's exactly what it is. Testing, measuring, iterating. lather, rinse, repeat. For a lifetime. And that, as you referred to in your design analogy, doesn't count the endless hours of getting inside your customers' heads, qualitatively and quantitatively. Like leadership, it's part science, and part art. Very hard for purely quantitative people to grok.
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> 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.

Someone releases a product. They say "This product is secure against well funded government agencies. It's secure against correctly-formed legal documented requests". Someone else comes along and points out that, in fact, it isn't secure against those threats.

That's not wanting a Unicorn-fart powered crypto system. That's just pointing out that a product doesn't, can't, work as advertised.

Some people get tortured or killed by their governments for saying the wrong thing, so it seems reasonable to point out that their communications might not be secure.
Indeed - the one video on his channel was the first YouTube video uploaded.
Did you read the linked article? It doesn't matter what it looks like you're copying/pasting, or how it's explained in the site you're copying/pasting it from.
Congrats on taking the leap.

One quick thought though: A fun side-project does not a company make.

Good luck, and let us know how we can help. But I'd start thinking real hard about how to make money (companies that want to block porn, but not all of tumblr (or reddit))
I am not even familiar with piezo printers,I guess I have even more fun stuff to look up.
I get:

No such schema 'com.canonical.Unity.Lenses'

when running the script, and a few lines below:

E: Unable to locate package unity-lens-shopping
Not to downplay the OP's product (the launch page is very well done, btw), but this reminded me of the well-publicized winning TV-themed hackathon entry earlier this year by a teenager:

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/meet-17-year-old-sa...

Again, it's not a downplay of the OP's achievement, but a remark on how such a seemingly simple service is in high demand, such that a total underdog could win a hackathon with it. With some more work and thought to its features, this could be a real product for highly-social-networked people, and obviously not the kind of thing that the social networks will themselves create.
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> No? How does him being unsure that reality exists outside his own mind mean he believes he's the sole exception?

A solipsist isn't "unsure", he definitely believes reality doesn't exist outside of his own mind. That alone sets him apart from everyone and everything else in the universe, because a solipsist believes he is the only one who actually exists.
I have no use for this, but it's awesome.
haha priceless!
Wait... We're still talking about QR codes?
I could _maybe_ get behind you if they were charging a reasonable price when you go over the cap, but $10/50GB? That's insane! Given the rates I pay for extra transfer on my dedicated boxes from my provider, Comcast will make well over $9.50 for each extra block they sell.
I haven't put it all together yet, but I have given a number of workshops so will draw a lot of material from things I done in the past. I will probably cover the basics of mapping online, creating your first points map, styling points, creating multiple layer maps, and maybe a bit of temporal mapping. Nothing final yet!
The brake pedal actuates the master cylinder, which is connected hydraulically to the calipers. Even if stomping on the brakes triggered more throttle problems, they are still plenty strong enough to stop the wheels from turning.
Does Indiegogo have a shot at unseating Kickstarter (or do they engage in the same tactics)?
Sorry, didn't mean to be ambiguous.

It's what it was designed for. If there is a bug that is preventing it from working properly, I would like to know about it so I can make sure it gets fixed.
Not to mention the venerable RHEL.

List of Enterprise Linuxes:

* http://www.redhat.com/products/enterprise-linux/

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

* https://www.suse.com/solutions/platform.html

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Server

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux_Enterprise_Desktop

* http://www.centos.org/

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS

* https://www.scientificlinux.org/

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Linux

And so forth...
I'm just trying to point out that the people who say Canonical is trying to silence the guy are just talking out their ass. They are freely providing this information in the number one place people go to ask questions about Ubuntu. All they did was say (incredibly nicely and politely) "Hey, umm... so, that's our copyrighted name and logo, and you know, you're really supposed to ask permission before using them".
I'm not sure how this really relates to merit or shortcomings or being your fault. I'm good at technology, and I make money at it, but I don't see this as a particularly great merit or the result of my hard work and prescience. I've liked and been adept with computers since I was 4 or 5; I'm "the kind of person who enjoys reading programming manuals" you mention. I'm no good at drawing, though, and I'm not particularly skilled at face-to-face interaction with people. It just so happens, through nothing of my own doing or foresight, that programming computers is, at least today, a more lucrative skill than realistic sketching or good retail service are. If the opposite had been true, I would be paid less and a number of other people would be paid more, through no change in our own skills.

I see it more as a matter of alignment: my strengths currently align with market demands. This is not something I predicted when I developed those strengths. As a kid I, perhaps naively, didn't think playing around with computers was even a real thing you could do as a job. Partly that might've been because the people I looked up to and read stuff by didn't seem to be doing it as a job (e.g. the author of a typical 1990s Phrack article). I assumed when I grew up I would have to get a real job, doing proper engineering, or carpentry, or accounting, or something.
I made a ask HN similar to this yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6692952

It really is difficult especially because everyone wants to found their idea, so its especially hard to find a good marketer to pair with you if youre a good programmer. Otherwise no matter how good you are at it to some extent your using your time inefficiently since a marketer will be better. For the relationship to be truly successful you have to both be driven and care about the product and in most cases that wont happen unless the idea is joint.
The phone feels nice, size wise. I'm a fellow with big palms and stubby fingers, and it feels just fine. In an effort to answer both questions at once.. http://i.imgur.com/tU642P1.jpg
I ordered mine just before midnight on 1st November (so 2 days after launch almost). Delivery time was stated as 3-4 weeks, expected delivery was 28th November. It got delivered yesterday! Still haven't opened the box yet cos I am away for work :(

I'm in Canada too. I actually may end up returning mine, since LTE will not work in Europe and I return in 4 months....
Not when looked at from a return on investment perspective. The profits, when they've existed, are dangerously close to being totally eclipsed by the truly massive occasional losses/write-offs.

MS have a problem in that they don't really have a successful consumer products division. One way around that is to stop worrying about it, which seems to be an increasingly popular point of view.
So in order to preserve a small minority who have somehow carved out a working system (which I'll assume exist despite never seeing them) in the overwhelming onslaught of vitriol and crap, we just have to deal with said vitriol and crap continue as is?

No, but beware of falling into the politician's syllogism.
If the searches leak out despite the settings, I would like to know about it so I can promptly issue a security update.
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As a networking professional you should understand that 4 octets = 32 bits. Five octets would = 40 bits, which is a pretty weird thing to be shuffling around all the time. It would require the same kinds of changes to hardware that IPv6 requires, so why not not go all the way to 128 bit so we don't ever have to worry about it again.
Actually what datasets will you guys be working with? Anything fun?
.. Waiting for John McAfee-style video. "I sold it to them, and I don't know what they did to it..."
Hi Weddpros -- thanks for the feedback. As it turns out, we agree with you. That's why we've been working on a complete overhaul of http://data.gouv.fr to be soft-launched soon, and we think you'll like it!

If you've followed http://etalab.gouv.fr (mostly in French, sorry), you may have heard we launched an open and collaborative re-design process in the spring and summer, which lead to more than 60 substantial contributions and 9 events organized by our community of users throughout France.

We then brought in a team of hackers to work inside of government -- believe it or not, this is most likely the first instance of this in the French government; unsurprisingly it worked very well -- and redevelop the whole stack based off of CKAN.

Our code is live on http://www.github.com/etalab if you'd like to check it out. Stay tuned!
Really neat demo, I like it. However, after switching to Bourbon Neat (http://neat.bourbon.io) and also checking out Susy (http://susy.oddbird.net) I don't think I'd ever switch back to a class based grid. Even the "semantic" grid options of Bootstrap 3 and Foundation 4 are naive by comparison.

The pre-processor mixins in Neat and Susy actually have the flexibility to create complex layouts. Nothing else really seems to be a good substitute.
I don't really know who Elop is, but I do agree that having Office available on all platforms would help Microsoft.
I think a reeating contest sounds . . . challenging.
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More hackathons around the world at http://aaronswartzhackathon.org
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If you have access to a lab you can make your own. This video[0] has basic ingredients and instructions. This paper[1] explains some variations on the ink formulation.

[0]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfNByi-rrO4
[1]: http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~yjxiong/paper/Science-2.pdf
I am really starting to dislike this approach to building tech companies. I have been speaking out about it too. There are too many startups that have no real value besides the fact that someone has invested in them. The cycle is: fund a company, make it appear successful so others invest in it, cash out and let it fail. 99% of startups will never be as big as facebook and it's ridiculous to treat them the same. Silicon Valley is really strewing shit up for the rest of us. I want a long term, viable career and all venture capitalists seem to be interested in is mining wealth from the industry until it's dead. Essentially every company that is propped up by investment is a small bubble ready to burst. There should be a law against investing so much money in otherwise worthless ventures. It's not a level playing field and it's barely a free market. I have to go with crappy companies because the good ones were put out of business by bloated subpar startups. I don't always want something new. I want things with long term value and use ability. Don't get me wrong. I apply for funding in ycombinator an others but it's not because I believe in what you do, it's because I want your money. Money equals power and I want to change some stuff.
The HIV rebound nobody is discussing
I don't know what OS you're running, but on Linux the biggest contenders seem to be KMail (for KDE) and Claws-mail (formerly Sylpheed). I've used the latter before, and it seems to primarily be a lighter-weight Thunderbird clone. I haven't used KMail.

mutt and pine (or alpine) running in a terminal are fairly cromulent alternatives to those who don't mind navigating with the keyboard and working modally, but that's not really how many of us prefer to work with our email.

(I have over ten years of email archives, and in order for me to switch, the new system will need to be able to import and search these archives.)
Just use Debian.
My startup is seeing 300% month over month growth using the disruptive marketing power of QR codes and Second Life.
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Of course not. But those things went away, and the USA is still there.

Those things have absolutely not gone away. There are between 57,000 and 63,000 slaves in the USA right now according to the Walk Free foundation:
http://www.globalslaveryindex.org/findings/#studies

This is a 91% decrease from the first census of 1790, in which there were 694,280 slaves. However, we are no longer a young isolated nation with limited imports. We now have access to the work of almost all the world's 29.8 million slaves. We have outsourced slavery. That's nearly a 4300% increase in available slave labor since the first census.

Native American genocide is ongoing. Communities are cut off from access to resources like water that is pumped directly through their land. They are forced into extreme poverty and unhealthy conditions that cause rampant diabetes and substance abuse. The Native American suicide rate is nearly 400% the national average, and we are cutting mental health services.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is so corrupt they had their entire Internet access revoked. They were destroying generations of records of ownership in an ongoing campaign to rob native people of their wealth. See Cobell v. Norton.

Under existing treaties, Native Americans should own an enormous amount of the country. Instead, their land is leased or sold on their behalf to government and corporations for little to nothing at the expense of native people. Government funding for native services is continually cut, particularly health care.

According to Eloise Norton, the government owes Native Americans $176 billion. They did reach the largest settlement in US history for $3.4 billion, but that doesn't nearly make up for the ongoing native extermination campaign carried out by the US government.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2005/09/accounting-coup-...
If the editor of the Lisp Machine, which was used by people like Steele, Stallman, Pitman had no problems using tabs, it can't be that Lisp has a technical requirement not to use tabs. Steele wrote a book about C. Stallman wrote a Lisp in C and a C compiler...

Basically your arguments are from a strange parallel world.
Ubuntu is basically debian unstable + ubuntu crap.
Ironically, the quality of a comment from the co-founder of YouTube isn't any better than a typical YouTube comment.

Lost cause?
I have a Nexus 4. The only complain is the quick draining battery. How is the battery on your Nexus 5?
> It's a search box that many people will use exclusively to search for _local_ content.

You're using the wrong search box if you want to search exclusively for local content. Try hitting Super-A, Super-F or clicking on the applications or files tabs to search locally.
Found it, thanks. Nice.
Ballmer from half a decade ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
I was going to mention this, the site engaged me really quickly. There are 4 tabs open currently... which is rare for me.

Except I took a different take away, if they were intelligent enough to use their advice for their own practical matters, their advice must have some relevancy to it.