skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't the Android of TVs the Google TV?

What you're describing though is currently what the Apple TV is like. It comes with Netflix, Youtube and a bunch of other apps (sports stuff, a few music services, etc). It's missing an app store - but there's a pretty decent chance that will arrive at some point over the next few years (there are so many apps on there at this point that it's becoming a little cluttered, so I think it's coming sooner rather than later).

Even though Apple has iTunes, their primary business is hardware and they don't seem to have an issue with putting iTunes competitors on there.

Of course, the Apple TV has a long way to go. It's still pretty much a hobby project (although recently it's getting more and more updates).
Only have one failed login attempt, from Ecuador.
Should i be offended ?
So no combinatorics? Graphs? Topology? Logic? Groups?

Just calculus.
I only do this with sites I really want to visit. My usual response to a site that doesn't work with Ghostery or needs to set a cookie for anonymous browsing is to go to another site for the same information.
I wonder what other countries have this "non-friendly countries" policy, it could be good to know.
http://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/
I was responding to the assertion that this is "broken," not to the author of the original article. The author has every right to not visit countries which have wronged him and I see nothing wrong with that. What I do think is wrong is to immediately reply to someone else with a retort of "maybe fix your country."
If everybody is doing it it's justifiable!
Well, there's this: http://code.google.com/p/gofy/
Love them. Much more interesting than the average hn posts.
Well, I'm a Firefox user, and I understand the difference, and I use the input fields differently depending on whether I mind particular information leaking to a search company. So, I personally strongly prefer leaving things the way they are.

I'd actually vote for one change, though: I'd prefer the URL field didn't default to falling back to querying a search engine. One of my pet peeves is mistyping a URL and having my input sent by my system to Google. (That's easy enough for me to change, though, and the Firefox developers seem to be concerned enough about privacy and security to leave the ability to change it intact.)
Usually this just means I go off to another page.
Seriously? that's your take-away from the blog post? And not how a faulty plugin was destroying the website, and how he solved the problem?

Kudos man. You deserve a Medal
Putting the tab bar on the very top was introduced in Chrome. It was the first browser that did that, the others followed soon.
JS is effectively a hard dependency for the web these days.
Why do you want to limit by location when the the data is already separated by cause? All of the Tesla fires were caused by collision.

If you compare (Fires caused by collision)/Vehicles on the road, then I agree Tesla does not compare favorably. In principle, you should compare Fires/collision in case Tesla drivers have an abnormally high collision rate. And statistically speaking, it's pretty hard to draw a conclusion when your sample size is 3 fires.

But the fact is there are still no fires attributed to electrical or mechanical problems.

And the points on both sides about injuries/deaths from fires are pretty much red herrings since the numbers are already extremely low. There are only 2 deaths per 100 fires caused by collisions.
If you accept the assertion that countries are allowed to police their borders as they see fit, sans abuse and neglect, then it justifies it on the basis of "reasonable practice." This was a discretionary entry and discretion was withheld. Then again, as I pointed out elsewhere, my angst is not with the author of the article, just the comment to which I replied.

(I happen to subscribe to the theory that, since the world is highly unlikely to do the reverse, borders should be relaxed to the point where people can move as freely as capital, but we're not anywhere close to that, either.)
Flawed argument!

The fire rate should be compared to those of premium electric vehicles about the same age... which don't exist. Not even Fisker or i3 would qualify if you restrict the criteria far enough. I think they should limit it to the same colour only as well.
Yes, I browse with NoScript and also an extensive /etc/hosts file to block known ad/mal sites.

Sorry site owners, I browse on my terms, not yours. If I can't view your site, that's your problem. I'll just move on.
> There are 8 foreign domains, that this site sends requests to. One or two seem to be a CDN, one is creativecommons.

I'm constantly amazed by the number of other domains that I see websites referencing. If there are really 8, then I don't think this site falls under 'simple websites' anymore.
This is how the government found MrSlippery in the opening pages of Vernor Vinge's
True Names, that is they went through a list of likely suspects until they hit paydirt.

Amazingly prescient for something written in 1979.
Yes and I also view them as PoC to get rid of Adobe Flash eventually down the line.
I really like those, but hanging to X lines of code bothers me sometimes. It can make the code unreadable - no comments, multiple statements in one line, obfuscated variable names, etc. I wish there were a better metric that would still impress people on HN but wouldn't result in unreadable code. How about the number of statements? Or let's just say "tiny"? Like, "Tiny javascript raytracer"?
> When I'm supposed to watch my words, I tend to say the wrong ones.

No kidding. Volunteering that he was in Al Qaeda territory... to take pictures of plants. Saying he's a nihilist. Suggesting that the levees in New Orleans might break again while he's visiting. Having Jewish ancestry, but denying being Jewish because not religious.

Also appears he was also traveling alone to many of these places, without any business reason. Entering the US through Canada without having business in Canada sounds like somebody trying to come in a back door, and being nervous to boot.

Even from this one side of the story I'd say the border patrol did their job just fine. I wouldn't have let him into the country in that story.
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But for a country that proclaims it's "freedoms" it feels like a bit of hypocrisy.
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Looking at a sample set of "Errors" ( http://demo.pa11y.org/52457e2b135a4b51b4000001 ), it would be interesting to be able to get "Why do this matter to users?" information.

It may be obvious to a seasoned accessibility expert why things like "This text input element does not have a name available to an accessibility API", "Anchor element found with no link content and no name and/or ID attribute", or "Label found without a "for" attribute, and therefore not explicitly associated with a form control." are problems.

But I would feel a particularly strong imperative to fix these problems if, somewhere, I could see user-impact text. For example, "Some users will be unable to enter text here." "Some users will be unable to click on this." "Some users will not see this text when filling in a form."
Israel is the first that comes to mind.
You can turn this off. There's a setting somewhere, I forget which
I've been shopping for a TV, and while the network-enabled features may be the point of calling certain models "smart", it is not necessarily something the buyer wants. It may appeal to many people - if they don't realize that the software may be buggy, security-compromising, or soon outdated and hard to update.

For me it's only unwanted bloat, like 3D. IOW, I may buy a "smart" TV, but if so it's only for the other features like screen size and quality. Nontechnical people have to be educated that the network features may compromise privacy and LAN security - but AFAIK you can always opt out, as the grandparent points out.

At least I assume it needs a cable or a wifi key - if it actually seeks out wireless and connects without permission, it's lawsuit time.
Still some non-developers thought about PHP in 2013.
It's not just any "couple of pixels" that can make a crucial difference in the UX. It's not about the number of pixels, it's about moving the tab bar to the edge of the screen that matters. See http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/08/fitts-law-and-infin...

Yes obviously Google was not the first one to put that principle to some use, but their browser was the first one among web browsers.

Personally I hated how Opera left a few pixels gap between the tabs and the screen edge (I have no idea if they still do).

A few pixels was just enough to make sure that I had to move the mouse cursor a little bit back every time I wanted to click on a tab.
Well, I doubt they would be using certificate pinning.

So you could bypass it easily
Whoosh is great in that it fits the django philosophy of building sites fast, but I wouldn't use if for anything harder than a small site search. Once my site grew larger than 50 mb of text queries started slowing things down. Indexing (python, single threaded) took a while and the larger the index the slower the queries were returned.

It's probably the best first iteration search app that I've come across, and you can always slip in solr or something with more umph when you need it.
Python 3.3 has venv modules builtin
I love Firefox and I tried the Australis build for a few weeks, I found myself not very keen ultimately, it is OK but not mind blowing. The rounded corner thing is inefficient, I think they have only done this so it doesn't look too much like Chrome. The most annoying thing though is that Linux has the full menu bar stuck on top, wish they could integrate it better like on Windows/Mac.
Not if you want to be crawled properly by Google and bing it isn't
This looks really useful and time-savey
What's the alternative? I like having Disqus since it's a decent UI and I get to host completely static sites for my blog.
And here's a comparison between that (smallpt) and the equivalent (smallptGPU) using a GPU:

http://davibu.interfree.it/opencl/smallptgpu/smallptGPU.html

All VERY interesting stuff.
The original spreadsheet post focussed on keeping it readable and not cheating for the sake of no. of lines. That spirit seems to have not been carried over by the followers.
I think you're wrong, and I'm sorry that people like you are the ones working on the border. He was obviously travelling all around the world sight-seeing. He had tons of proof of that. The border patrol were paranoid and idiotic. Keeping random people out who "seem" like they might be dangerous is not going to prevent any problems. It's just going to make the rest of the world hate us more.
Can you clarify why you would not use it on anything harder than a small site search? Without context, the comment is not especially helpful.
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Whoosh is fantastic. I'm using it on an ecommerce web project just now for indexing CMS pages, products, datasheets and product hierarchy (categories, product families, etc).

FWIW I'm using Flask, Flask-SQLAlchemy, Whoosh and Flask-WhooshAlchemy [0]. Quick to get going with but the mix-and-match approach lets me easily rip pieces out as the project grows.

[0] http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-WhooshAlchemy/
Along similar lines and (arguably) even cooler: full-on path tracing in WebGL using a GLSL shader:

http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/
nope, I disagree. Parliamentary elections don't always give majorities, nor should they. Indeed, I'm in favour of Proportional Representation which makes it nearly[1] impossible to win a majority.

Indeed, even if someone can win a majority, it's very bad liberalism to say they should be allowed to implement anything - politics is as much about fighting the tyranny of the majority as implementing what you want to.

Of course, when we're talking about the NHS changes, which were in no manifesto, but seemed to have been a tory plan for many years, we have a right to be angry. Indeed, the Lib Dem constitution has almost certainly been blatantly violated in respect of this and other policies - Our MPs aren't whippable on anything that isn't party policy, with the exception of the Coalition Agreement (which was passed by a vote at a special conference session, which I attended.)

Of course, they seem to accept the government whip on such matters, which makes activists like me very depressed for the state of our MPs (who are mostly the richest activists from their local area - since we're a very poor party who ask our candidates to fund their own campaigns - this is the reason I'm in favour of some sensible way of state funding parties, although I don't know I've ever heard a good implementation.)

[1] SNP. populist party without any real philosophy, thus able to seem to appeal to everyone simultaneously.
Interestingly, in the developed world it seems to be the Anglophone countries that have the shittiest attitude towards border control these days. The US is notoriously user-hostile at the borders. The UK is doing its best to catch up in a Mini-Me way with the USA's Dr Evil, and is actually on course to become even more hostile than the USA -- the only mitigating factor is that the third degree is reserved for non-citizens, so far. Australia under Tony Abbot runs concentration camps for victims of famine, civil war on Nauru:

http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/07/25/manu-j25.html

And denying asylum to Hazara victims of taliban terrorism:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/22/asylum-australi...

And in the UK, Home Secretary Theresa May considers immigration control to be more important than the lives of mentally ill people who have been tortured by Boko Haram:

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/nov/16/end-of-life-p...
So the logic goes something like this: something bad happened to me once in country X. Therefore, I will not go back to country X. So, if something bad happens to you in Sweden, say a policeman is rude to you, or something like that, will you leave Sweden because of it ?
It's not really a counter example. The Eurocrats would love the peoples of Europe to be citizens of a united states of Europe (polls suggest people are not so inclined). The Schengen agreement is a logical step towards that goal and is undeniably helpful for travellers. Countries in the continent of America don't appear to have any such ambition.
That's my problem with these kinds of scenarios. An honest person with a truthful passport will be punished, while someone with a blank passport might not be looked at twice.
I think nfm was referring to the media, the established car industry and the financial news industry, rather than a few contributors on Hacker News. I have been asking the same question. Hopefully it won't matter.
American economy will continue to slide till https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma is resolved.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/13/bill-would-o...
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> LG sens anonymous data, and returns best ads for you

Thanks! I always love it when I get the best ads!
I can't tell if you're joking or not?
I dont get the Jewish part, would it make a difference if he claims that he's jewish ?
So I want to code. What do I do first?
Having a policeman being rude to you is not even in the same order of magnitude as being denied entry to a country.
Wow, he's a little pissed, isn't he?

This is a good case of a third-party extension going wrong. Yeah, ideally it shouldn't happen, but I actually haven't seen this effect on any other site - indeed, sites usually fail because of slooppy JS by the developer - depending on Google Analytics being there or something similar. Ideally, sites should not be totally dependent on external JS to work (what's going to happen when Analytics goes down!?)

Honestly, I wish I didn't have to use this plugin. But whenever I'm not using it, I get immediately irritated by a lot of sites - it's not so much the tracking, which I'm pretty ambivalent about, but how slow and janky many sites become when they load so many scripts. Example: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BVK2FLZCMAAkxKh.png - totally nuts.
One should not quickly to dismiss the possibility. Especially, one should keep a eye out since the proof of parallel construction as a tool is indeed verifiable true.

But in the mean time, one should not jump to it directly when more simpler explanations are available. Using undercover cops to entrap drug sellers is even older, and even more common method than parallel construction. It also extremely simple and effective.

I would also suspect, that entrapping a first time offender, an 47 year old administrator who sells drugs anonymously on-line from his home, to not be very hard. Especially if the undercover cop could impersonate flawlessly established "trusted" drug sellers by taking over their accounts, as it seems to be in this case.

All points toward parallel construction as an something that might had been, but in this case, is less likely to actually have happened.
Isreal / Arab country's and Cyprus are some that come to mind in the middle east you just get a second passport if you need to go to both
It can demonstrate a lack of judgement.
Ask: The HN dev(s): Upvotes are not counted - why?
I have recently noticed that when I want to upvote a story, my vote is not accepted/counted:

The upvote arrow disappears (as usual), but the vote counter stays exactly the same when the page is refreshed.

This happens both when I try to upvote something on the comments page and on the front page (list).

So, is this a bug or a feature?

If this is a feature, I it would be helpful to understand the reasoning behind it.

Thanks.
As someone said, 'bin Laden has won'.
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How does signing a message make it any less (or more) ephemeral? You either store the copy or you don't (and Google does). I don't see how a signature could influence that.
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I don't think it's ever been easy to get into the US. A tour through Ellis Island will tell you as much. The difference is that, in the past, the US needed its immigrants. They built its cities and its railroads and much of the US's early industry. Later the US's immigrants were its main source of scientific advancements...but the US's relationship with its immigrants has, I think, always been strained.

The difference is that, today, there seems to have been a shift in attitude. The US no longer thinks that it needs its immigrants. On top of that, the world is a different place today. No longer is "the American dream" unique to America. I know many people who've started businesses and found great success elsewhere in the world.

It may be cliche to say, but only time will tell if the US's new attitude toward immigrants is justified or will prove its undoing. In the mean time, the world is a great big place with many wonderful things to see and people to meet. I don't think you'll miss much if you never go back...
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Can I invoke Poe's Law here - I have no idea whether your are being serious or not:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Really? A satire or what? If it is not a satire then I believe people are afraid of their shadows over there in the US. Terrorism is winning a landslide. Hey guys please, don't br islamaphobic. Nobody is trying to bomb inside out US or Israel. People have their own problems and concerns over the world and most of the time it is not orbiting you.
I'd rather use a broken website with Ghostery than allow my private browsing data and history be available to someone free of charge.

You want your site working nicely for Ghostery users? Great, then just remove privacy invader scripts from it, and you won't be affected.
Paul Irish also discusses this in his blog post from Feb. 2012:

http://www.paulirish.com/2012/box-sizing-border-box-ftw/
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>But indeed, no personal data was collected so I don't really understand the fuss.

Filenames on USB sticks attached to the TV could quite easily include personal data. That and the lack of (working) option to disable the feature entirely.
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The country is made almost entirely out of immigrants. It's bizarre that they're so closed off and scared of immigrants; they themselves are the children of immigrants.
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So he should have manufactured a story instead of just telling the truth? What?
Where did I say this is the only reason? I had a great time in the US, and there are plenty of great things about it, but I've had enough bad experiences with various parts of society and government that the upsides of living in the US as opposed to my country is nil. Since I have no family in the US, the decision to move back, while not easy, was the right thing to do.

Edit: as for not returning to visit, I'm not exactly looking forward to being interrogated every time I try to enter, and possibly denied entry again, which I have read in many places will likely happen.
You still narrowed the set of things that should be on HN. By expressing the set of things that should not appear on HN, you actually do dictate what should appear on HN. i.e. anything can appear on HN except xyz.
Congrats on launching the game.

I had a company with a balance of 2bn, and accidentally managed to bankrupt it by transferring everything to my wallet. I should read numbers more carefully. However, the acquisition/investment offers I had gotten were still available when I started a new company, so I managed to sell it for something like 1.5bn before work had even begun on the product.

A few suggestions:

* Finding employees to give raises/bonuses to is tedious when you've got lots of employees. It would be nice to have a link to the employee from the email, or maybe even embed the "interact" button inside the email. (from level up, wage complaint emails)

* The conversion rate seems to be bugged. It always stays at 0% for me.

* It would be nice to see the effectiveness of the ad campaigns/social media campaigns you're running.

* The spending power/market size of a niche seems to only be visible after niche research is done.

* After cashing out the first company, there's not much challenge in getting the 2nd off the ground:
1) Do each of the tech categories yourself/hire the best employees and get over 90% rating.
2) Fire any tech workers, hire marketers to do a $99999 TV campaign, wait for it to accumulate site visitors.
3) Set yourself to do the sales
4) Launch the product and watch the sales skyrocket

I found the early game the most fun, but I imagine that's what you've spent the most time tuning so far.

Fun game, looking forward to future updates :)

Edit: Oh, and the leaderboard seems to be broken at the moment. Or is that just on my end?
(I'm not arguing that Bitcoin is somehow less volatile than fiat currencies, here, but...)

The values of "Real world" currencies is quite (not totally) decoupled from the intrinsic value of the issuing state's economy. See Zimbabwe for a recent object lesson - still plenty of economic activity and trade going on in the country, but hyperinflation happened anyway. "Real world" currencies are much more tied to emotional attachments (or lack thereof) to the currency and faith in its issuer.

If you've ever tried your hand at forex speculation, you'll be very (perhaps painfully) just how much the relative values between fiat currencies is driven by emotion (and the stop-loss orders of other speculators.)
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