skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The biometric info isn't stored in the cloud (applies to both the Xbox and iPhone), so that helps reduce the risk."

I'd bet they store their version of "meta-data" in the cloud. That way they can target ads to specific users based on attributes derived from people's physical attributes and characteristics. I also expect to see Microsoft (and others) explore the concept of 'pay-per-view' where an increase in viewers for media content results in an increased viewing fee using facial-detection to establish the cost.
>I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later

Me too, but I'd rather have the console generation lifetime be shorted. Why not a new Xbox after 3 years? The 360 was released almost 9 years ago. How is this the norm?

I'd love to see us PC gamers given some level of competition here. I can't tolerate 360 graphics unless they're super cartoony. It just looks like a PC game from 2004 or so.

Incremental updates work for things like phones and tablets. I mean, people line up by the Apple store near me for a couple blocks (downtown Chicago) for a slight bump in hardware specs. Not sure why we can't have a faster update schedule with consoles.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Quake Live was cool because it was Quake III running in the browser. Take it out of the browser and it becomes... Quake III again. Which is cross platform. What the hell?
In my case, I had 30-100 clients taking turns trying to transfer a those files across the network. The difference in total time to complete was often measured in hours.
Yes any tool or productivity increase (wheel, horses, printing press) naturally increases inequality. Redistribution is the only answer if you think equality is important.
Do you remember that "developers developers developers .." bit. Can you recall any other executive of a multi-billion corp who was that passionate about developers? I appreciated a executive who was that passionate about third party developers. Also, he was part of a founding team that built a software giant ! I am a *NIX/Java guy but I appreciate Microsoft SDKs and Tool sets. Ballmer has not been as successful as hoped , but he is ok in my book.
Wow, this is great work. Long live pixel art!
Malcolm Gladwell Has Found God (and Glenn Beck)
Saving that last QR Code for later... :)
10.0.0.255, 10.255.255.1, etc.. are valid ipv4 addresses. The only restriction in IPv4 is around not setting all of your host bits to 0 or 1. There are no restrictions regarding the number "255".

If I have to quibble with infographics like these, is that they obscure the fact that IPv4 was able to have variable length subnet masks, I.E. You could have networks that were 24 bits in length (/24) or 27 bits in length (/27) - depending on your requirements. With IPv6 you don't have that freedom - every network is a /64, so, if you are only going to use two hosts on your network (for a network link) - you are still assigning 2^64 addresses to that link, of which you will only use 2, resulting in a "wasted" 2^64 - 2 hosts.

It's odd the first time you do it, but eventually you just learn to live with the fact you have, for all practical purposes, unlimited address space in IPv6 - so wasting 2^32 times as many IP addresses than you had in ALL of IPv4 on just a single routed link turns out to be no big deal.
Quake Live was always native. This is just what it says in the post; standalone from the browser.
> There's a logic problem with Basic Income.

No, there's not. At least, if there is, its not the one you claim.

> They want people to think either: 1- it will help me earn more (because I make less than the BI) 2- it won't change anything for me (because I already make more than the BI)

Who is "they"?

> But obviously, these two assertions can't be true at the same time.

They can both be true if the benefits plus (reduced) admin costs from BI come strictly from the benefits plus (higher) admin costs of the welfare programs it is replacing. (There are people who make less, in the short term, in that scheme, but its only some subset of the people who are making money from the admin costs of the replaced programs.)

They can't if you set BI at a level that requires more money than that, or if you do it without replacing any existing programs, but neither of those is inherent in the concept of BI (and the latter, at least, I've never seen proposed.)
... yeah, I guess the lesson for Google to learn is to just rip off the bandage and accept the pain, because all their "courtesy" has done is prolong things.

"We're migrating to google accounts. Your YouTube account is disabled until you connect it to a google accounts and then we're going to migrate over and destroy your YouTube account. You can have more than one google account if you really want to keep your YouTube stuff disconnected from your main Google Account. Here's how to make that second Google Account and how to manage it".

Boom, done. Bolt a way to have a "casual social-networking alias" for public stuff you don't want publicly linked to your Google account so you can pseudonymously comment on YouTube and Play Store and whatever.
I don't see programmers saying "I'm a superior human." I see them saying "I know I can make $X elsewhere, so I'm clearly not going to accept less than $X here." I believe bakers do the same thing, for smaller values of $X.
This is actually "[a] periodical about best practices and advanced techniques in Objective-C." It turned out to be more interesting than the HN title made it seem.
Picked the wrong horse for the billion dollar investment.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2001/nov01/11-11c...
>As he formulates some broad strategic outlines for Microsoft, Elop is drawing on his years as CEO of Nokia Oyj, where he showed he wasn’t wedded to homegrown software by canceling the company’s then-dominant Symbian phone software in 2010, said the people

What? He was purposefully planted there by Microsoft for that exact purpose- kill symbian so microsoft can buy nokia for a steal.
See the thing is, you can't really do that all that easily in an embedded environment. Pretty quickly you get into an "Uncertainty Principle" situation, where it's difficult/impossible to test something without tainting the results.

For all of the code reviews and testing you want to do, how are you planning on having everyone test interrupt flows, re-entrancy, transients in interrupt signals, defective/leaky grounds, watchdog timers, memory bus clock errors, mutex/semaphores, pullups that are too weak or too strong, etc?

Code reviews are all well & good, to be sure, but it's not just software anymore, there are physical things to think about. "Software engineering" is usually too specifically "high level" to apply as well to embedded firmware. How do you plan on writing unit tests to run? How do you test a signal edge that seems to fall outside of a valid window once every few days?

Open source the code if you want (and if it's legal: a lot of times there are NDAs signed for processors), but it does no one any good if they can't have the same hardware, made with the same components, often times compiled with proprietary compilers.

It's about so much more than just code, so be careful of mis-applying great software engineering principles to a completely different situation.
They have the right to tax it or inflate it away.
One comment from sdrawkcab on that page seems to resonate with my opinion very well:

Microsoft is the only major technology/software company that thrives well in both the consumer and enterprise space, giving up Bing and Xbox is giving up a huge part of the consumer space, which Microsoft have said they intend to hold on to. Selling Bing and Xbox is incredibly short-sighted as well. Doing so will almost instantly guarantee that Google will dominate search and maybe even media, and I’d hate for that to happen. Google is already making some very monopolistic moves these days, and if they get more opportunity to do so, I doubt they’ll stop. The market needs options, and Microsoft’s offerings are a very good option.
Indiegogo came before Kickstarter by about two years and has fallen behind in project count:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/7/4594824/less-than-10-percen...
Use Hackpad to take Collaborative Realtime Notes in Meetings
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You're using an unstable Dev release (aka alpha quality) of Chrome and pre-alpha build of Firefox whereas I'm using stable. That's why you got the same performance as I did on Octane with Firefox on your much-faster PC.

Additionally, I'm running Windows 7 and you're running Windows 8.1 so we're comparing different browsers. IE11 on Windows 7 is not the same browser as IE11 on Windows 8/8.1 (hooray for OS-tying).
If you are using 12.04, you can easily switch to a completely free Trisquel 6, which is based on 12.04 and compatible with PPAs and other software designed for Ubuntu.

http://trisquel.info/en/wiki/migrate-ubuntu-trisquel-without...
A few suggestions and issues:

I can't figure out how to add my own keywords. All I can do is choose from the predefined lists like "popular" etc.

The scroll bar is very faint, almost to the point where I didn't realize I could scroll and thought the UI had broken when the "replace content" box was pushed off screen by kill list selections.

On Facebook, when you replace content I see the rather logo and an "undo" button. I'd like to see a "why?" link or text description explaining what kill list was matched for that particular content to be replaced. I had a friends post, seemingly about nothing, replaced and I couldn't figure out why.
So, I own investment real estate that I wouldn't mind selling for bitcoins. Is there a good place to find buyers who want to pay with Bitcoin?
He was laughing at the $500 on-contract iPhone that quickly had its price lowered.
The Android Market, erm, Google Play Store, has made the switch to Google + reviews only as well. As far as I have noticed, this switch has not improved the quality of comments (although the quality was never as bad as with Youtube).
I'm fairly confident most of Gates' networth is not sitting around in dollar-denominated accounts that would be affected by inflation.
Or back to the future at Microsoft?

http://emuneee.com/blog/2012/11/12/microsofts-org-chart/
I find Nanex's market analysis of HFT terrifyingly beautiful at times:

http://www.nanex.net/flashcrash/CCircleDay.html
It's common during rapid shifts in technology to have a kind of gilded age when "robber barons" who are early adopters amass absurdly huge fortunes very quickly. Same thing happened with the railroads, telephone, television, automobiles, etc.

Eventually things tend to even out. Money wants to flow, and you can't have an economy with all money concentrated in so few hands and nobody to spend it.
This just a something short term. In couple of month this going to down..Without any solid revenue plan how they will move.. Now investors will ask them question for increasing the revenue same like facebook facing the issue.
I loved this line:

"the rate at which technology increases our productive capacity is probably polynomial, rather than linear. So we should expect to see ever-increasing variation in individual productivity as time goes on."
I take it the Debian derivative from Canonical that cannot be named is sort of like a Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor[0] for the average user?

I'm curious if there's some sort of backstory to this.

[0] http://www.pnaelv.net/
Facebook is investigating Timelines on profiles and Pages failing to load
I always assume that if something wants me to sign-in via something like facebook then it is going to at least try to use me to push the word to my contacts.

The choices at that point are:

1. Back away and live without what-ever they are offering.

2. Create a temporary account and sign in via that.

If a product impresses me I'll let my friends know myself - the product is not in charge of what I do/don't say about it.
You are certainly lucky that your natural interests lead you to something lucrative, but you are good with technology because you presumably spent considerable amount of time practising with the technology. If you spent more time drawing, you would eventually become good at that too.

If we imagine technology jobs dropped off the face of the earth tomorrow and drawing suddenly became a high paying career, would you invest the time and effort required to become good at drawing, or would you rest on your innate interests and watch your job opportunities fade away? That is the distinction the parent appears to be making. The tools are available to become good at just about anything you can imagine, but it requires a certain type of person to push towards that goal when the natural curiosity is not present.
I'm definitely not trying to defend the stickers, nor do I feel that taking this argument to its ultimate point retains any logic. My argument is that colors and tags are both potentially misleading, while the actual information and structure comes out of their connectivity diagram.

Any time you put trust in anything else you're trading off safety for convenience. That isn't a bad thing, but it's a tradeoff that should be done conscientiously.

Finally, I think it's illustrative to think about what would happen without HN (or, in analogy, without colored wires or little tags) because that drives you to solve the harder problem of how to represent the connectivity diagram of a breadboard directly, expressively, and in a way that solves the problems people face when building them.

Analysis trumps documentation, except when it doesn't or is too expensive.
Perpetuating Terrible Javascript Practices
I agree. Reaganomics started massively concentrating wealth long before the Internet came along.
What a joke. What you've written could be said of any well-paid job right up until it's eliminated: "Telegraph operators were paid well and felt themselves part of an honored profession. It was a good way to make a living for a lot of people."[1]

Companies would be THRILLED to eliminate developers and no longer have to pay them. And plenty of people are working on that problem:

"Imagine sitting at a Salesforce event in 2008 in Chicago while Salesforce.com’s CEO, Marc Benioff, swiftly works an entire room of business users into an anti-software frenzy. I was there to learn about Force.com, and I’ll summarize the message I understood four years ago as 'Not only can companies benefit from Salesforce.com, they also don’t have to hire developers.'"[2]

[1] http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2010/06/3918.html
[2] http://programming.oreilly.com/2012/10/salesforce-developers...
>someone who gets the business side and the tech side

I don't know why Scott Guthrie isn't on the list.
hipster-ass VC slave "startup founder" type, from the sounds of it
Here's the backstory: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canoni...
Why is the sale of labor considered so different than the sale of anything else?

You don't feel immoral selling your car to the highest bidder. Why should selling your labor be different?

You don't feel immoral buying bananas as cheaply as possible. Why should purchasing labor be different?

I'm not trolling; I'm genuinely trying to think through these questions.
> A healthy and minimally secure citizenry can be a public good just as much as roads and armies, which are also paid by taxes.

As a very narrow and specific (and not necessarily the most important) example of this, in any nation which may rely on conscription and/or mobilization of volunteer citizen militias in time of need, a healthy and minimally secure citizenry is, among other public goods, directly related to military capacity.
but IBM _does_ exist and (IIRC) has doubled it's capitalization in the last decade while paying out dividends every year.

It's not necessarily a bad fate for the stockholders, even if it's way more cool to be Apple than to be Oracle.
Funnily enough, the real estate market is exempt from most money laundering regulations.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-10/money-laundering-ex...
No context. Seems petty?

The issue was about the logo
Speaking it's name only makes it more powerful.
I'm not excited about the prospects of Elop as CEO either, but Nokia was already in trouble when he took the helm.
How's the audio in terms of music through ear buds or car speakers? I know it won't compare to my HTC One but wondering how much of a dropoff.
costs are not just monetary.
This is pretty much identical to what eBay and PayPal have been doing to sellers for years. They do offer "seller protection", though, which guarantees that that will come up with a valid reason for taking your money away when a chargeback occurs.
It occurs to me that these fires do not pose a direct risk to the occupants, but do carry indirect costs:

- Firefighters will take longer to rescue injured from the passenger compartment

- The fire can possibly ignite spilled gas from other cars in a multi-car accident

- Insurance rates will be higher, as a collision is much more likely to total the car
Well, they could be secure, unless the FBI also has a previously recorded session which they can now decrypt with the SSL key to recover the password.
Needs to be a criminal punishment for this sort of behavior. Kickstarter is not somewhere this kinda thing can be allowed :/
It wouldn't help their bottom-line. If office on android is good enough that you can give people a tablet instead of a windows laptop then microsoft loses out on a windows license. Also, pricing on android would have to be much lower than on the desktop to get any traction, again cutting into revenue. iOS is no better, given they are competing against the free iwork alternative in the consumer space, and would end up replacing more profitable laptops in the business space.

I don't see an office on android / ios strategy as anything but a money loser in the short term. In the long term there is a risk of a competing product stepping in where they are not, but office has no cross-platform competition right now worth worrying about, and definitely nothing on mobile. I still think the windows on tablets strategy is the most likely path to long-term profit.
This reminds me of "whoopsie" when I first came across it after upgrading my servers to 12.04. Its a program that resides in the ram, automatically homes in the crash reports and would have to be explicitly disabled. At first I din't mind, but after watching it eat through my ram I had it disabled. As far as privacy goes, who knows what those sent in memory dumps might have.
Wealth has always been closely linked with the amount of value a person can provide to other people. Of course I am leaving out wealth created through corruption or sheer power.

Intelligent machines, software and connectivity have only made it easier for a single person to provide value to millions of other people.

Lebron James makes $60 million a year because the NBA, the Miami Heat, and the companies that he endorses feel he provides at least that much value to their organizations and brands. NBA players fifty years ago didn't make that much because the fans weren't able to have the kind of access that is available now through 24/7 sports TV channels, the Internet, social media. That increased access through technology means Lebron can provide more value.
I'm a co-founder of the company. Lots of stability improvements over the past year or so: I'd urge you to try it again. Particularly v4 beta. Send email to beta@undo-software.com to get a beta license.

I'd never claim it's perfect: it's software after all, and the fact most software has bugs is why we have a business in the first place ;) But we're used by some pretty hardcore folk these days, including Cadence, NASA, and some of the biggest banks in the world. And the PyPy guys seem pretty happy :) Oh, and of course, if you do find issues, please do report them to support@undo-software.com -- then we can fix them.
For those looking for more information, a ton of information can be found here on Clara.io:

http://exocortex.com/blog/claraio_open_beta
You have to admin that it doesn't happen too often :D
> Google plus is the "Google account" you need to use any of their social services.

Unfortunately the mistake they are making is in defining every service as a 'social' service.
'60 Minutes' retracts, apologizes for Benghazi report
That may be true in some respects, but things like refrigerated shipping, ambulances, sanitation (cars do not defecate in the street), and modern logistics have both saved lives and decreased the cost of essentials, even for the car-less urban poor.

I'm also skeptical that the balkanization of modern postal codes could be a result of the car. I currently hypothesize that that it is a result of postmodern influence on social structures, but it's surely a complex phenomenon in any case. To throw the blame for this across the hood of a car is an oversimplification at best.

Finally, while urban areas are more segregated by class, the quality of life across regions has largely improved across the board. It used to be that only people in cities had access to professional medical care, law enforcement, electricity, and running water. Now, every log cabin in the woods (even if it is inhabited by people of color) has a toilet that flushes and a phone to call an ambulance with. I don't think the development of the automobile is unrelated to this development.
Only if you believe he left Microsoft and worked for Nokia. If you consider he has always been working for Microsoft all the time, he successfully completed the mission of running Nokia into the ground so Microsoft could buy the salvage.
There's also the fact that if a 1x programmer gets forced out the market, the 10x programmers become 1x programmers (by the definition of a 1x programmer) and the 100x programmers become 10x programmers...
Wow this is awesome. Could potentially save hours & hours of time. Count me in.
I don't know about where they are based, but it is certainly against relevant legislation in the UK (that is why you always see "no purchase necessary" text and an alternate participation method ("send a stamped, addressed envelope...") listed on "competitions" like this.
Somehow, every other publicly available Linux distro doesn't need to include spyware in order to do their job.
IBM not only still exists, they are massively successful. Today they're worth more than Microsoft, in fact, because of a strategic decision to refocus on selling to businesses that has worked out extremely well. They've stopped being a household name since they stopped selling to households, but I doubt they're losing much sleep over that.

Microsoft's ratio of popular to unpopular consumer products has been dismal for years; it's hardly unreasonable to think they might likewise do better by refocusing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibm#1980.E2.80.932013
People believe what they want to believe. If you're in the market for totally secure email, you're going to find something you believe is totally secure email.
Ironically, plenty of companies assign IPv6 addresses from the RFC4193 Unique Local IPv6 Unicast Address space - so no real advantage over IPv4 for them with regards to that. For security fixated companies, non-routability is considered a desirable feature, not a problem.
>> Twice now they've had a door-to-door salesman come around trying to sell it.

Only twice? I've got Frontier FIOS (what used to be Verizon), and I'll bet Comcast is at my door at least once a month. Add to that the flyers that constantly come in the mail.

On a side note related to the mailings, I've opened a few to see if they have a better deal than Frontier. Sure, it's almost free for six months, but good luck finding out what the rate goes to after the first six months. Check the fine print of the flyer, check the web site, damned if I can find it. Yeah, I think I'll pass.
"Unknown cipher type" for me, but close enough that it seems to mean the same thing.