skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the one. Mine doesn't have a touchpad either. I don't like having to move my hands away from the keyboard to use one so it's ideal.
HTML5 multiplayer game making for Dummies
Current price at $600 means people are speculating like crazy - it's not a measure of trust by any means, people are in it to make a quick (and easy) buck.
Are talking about Google+ or the simulator?
The video looks promising.
This is very interesting and helpful. Thanks for posting.
I don't see Steve Jobs's "bad advice" having anything to do with maximizing profits but with maximizing excellence and surviving.

Apple in the late 80s and early 90s was an unfocused beacon of creativity that led to the company nearly going under (PowerPC, OpenDoc, Taligent, Kaleida, Dylan, Newton, QuickDraw GX, AV macs with video conferencing when QuickTime barely worked, Copland).

Was the advice bad? Quite possibly. But it was sincere and i don't think profit was the motive.
This is how we all feel about Google+
The problem with this is that most users don't want their YouTube account linked with everything else. They aren't a minority.
Gmail is IMHO still the best mail provider – and in combination with Google App for Business, the best groupware provider.

I have tested many alternatives but I still mostly use Gmail. The reasons are mostly the feature set, the pricing, the security and the storage capacity.

There are only two major annoyances in my daily use: More and more Google+ integration, lacking IMAP support. The latter lead me to use Google's own apps or Google-specific browsers like Mailplane.

For heavy mail (and groupware) users, they only other alternatives is Exchange. Outlook.com/Office 365 is OK but very 'Microsofty', Hosted Exchange is a complete disaster.
I love contributing to Mozilla. I contributed to a bunch of projects in the past years, including Chromium (a very friendly bunch BTW), but Mozilla makes me feel like I'm a real part of this, not just some guy sending a patch.

- Literally everything they do is in the open, volunteers can participate a lot if they want to, even start new projects. (~50% of their employees remote, I guess that helps a lot here.)

- They're mentoring people new to a project really well - I love this even though I prefer to just dive into the code myself.

- They call you a "Mozillian", send you foundation/company/product updates, invite you to Mozilla Summit (I was there this year, and it was amazing) etc.

- Mozilla is not profit oriented, they just care about their mission: Moving the web forward and keeping it open. Makes me feel like part of a good cause, as opposed to unpaid labour.

All in all, they really got this figured out. I can recommend them to anyone who wants to contribute to something big/important.
Wow. Didn't notice that until you pointed that out.

Yeah, it makes the shots look kinda crummy :(
Google Announces New Measures Against Child Pornography
Bro, do you even Bootstrap? Edit: Sorry, it's not Bootstrap, it's their own framework. Though visually it's very similar.

But seriously, I'm not sure who this is for. It looks like there's quite a technical hurdle to setting it up - node.js and vagrant aren't easy to install for a novice user, and they aren't suitable for any shared hosting environment that I've come across.

I imagine (possibly incorrectly) that the market for simple point and click interfaces wouldn't necessarily overlap with that of people who are comfortable setting up complex hosting environments.

Now, as an online subscription model, I think it could be quite competitive. That's an entirely different route which definitely has a market.
Thank you for this. I really like that it's a totally self-contained (not even dependent on system fonts) and has nifty tricks for efficiency.
Help us help you to keep learning, work smarter. 
Beta testers needed, private launch soon, will be free for testers only.
Thanks a lot, I've corrected the typos! (Damn French "faux-amis")
The problem is that a lot of people were actively choosing not to use G+, but is now being forced to abandon other services, or face having separate identities merged. So for lot of people it is not as simple as "simply not using it" - if you had invested lots of time on YouTube for example.
It was Warner Brothers.

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/cab/abn/y13/m02/i25/s01
Oh man, weinre is one project that needs love now Adobe has their grubby hands on it.

It's really handy for mobile debugging.
As an author, it's beneficial to at least ask you for it, so that you can be added to an email list and be appraised of new projects and sent other relevant information. Lots of people are happy to sign up for email lists like that as long as the content is mostly informative and not too much of a sales pitch.
Salesforce1 is going to allow anyone (that they vet in their LONG process) to connect to their millions of sales professionals. They are leaving this open to ANYTHING and EVERYTHING that interfaces with an API.

See TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/17/salesforce-com-launches-sal...

I look forward to Salesforce sending handwritten letters (http://maillift.com) and offering better mail options (http://lob.com). I’m pretty excited to see what comes of Salesforce1!!
Yeah, I was wrong to exclude everything, sorry. As part of NATO, the GPS is used for some stuff. It CAN be completely disabled would have been a more accurate description.
> When someone without knowledge in the markets tells you to buy something

You're probably right, but she wasn't saying "buy it" just mentioning its existence.

And the buy/sell mentality only really applies if you're planning on "cashing out" at some point.
Personally, I don't like the idea of a GitHub/OSS resume.
While for others this is great, it does not work for everyone.
Many of us are not able to contribute to open source projects...

How many professionals are asked by their future employer about the work they do for free in their spare time?
Would you ask a doctor how many patients he/she treated for free? Or a lawyer how many cases he/she did for free in their spare time?
I don't think so...

By all means, I think contributing back to the community is a noble, great thing to do (and we should all strive to do it), but this should not be considered the sole measure of one's technical skills.
Hey dude,

Thanks for purchasing and your nice words!

I reckon there's a memory leak or two causing the unresponsiveness. Working on fixing it for the next version.

Will be adding more content as time goes by - I hope to do an update every 2 weeks so keep your eyes peeled.

Thanks for feedback, duly noted!
There's some encoding issues here. Can't write æøå, which is important letters in the norwegian language.

And it is seriously slow now, might be where it's been deployed, might be that I'm waiting for googleadservices on each page load. Might be the hug of death from hn.
I agree that all of these measures help greatly, in particular with bigger problems. Nevertheless, I found that in the end, even when you've broken up a problem into chunks, keeping your focus on these connected chunks for an uninterrupted extended time period is invaluable. Often your realise that you should reorganise the chunk division etc. Of course you also benefit from breaks of looking at the problem, but these breaks tend to occur naturally for me, and are very different from a forced break of having to tend to another project.

Or let's put it another way: I don't multitask / switch contexts.
Try convincing a physicist that ms means millisecs and mS means milliSeconds. Casually remind them about the difference between bits and bytes and lament the unfortunate fact that textbook writers still don't give enough respect to the "forgotten units". Let the doubt sink in just a little bit.

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100726071250/xkcd/im...
Forget the "media". Drop your stuff at WikiLeaks.org
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The problem is that Google won't let us "not use it".
NeoMailbox.net is a real, offshore alternative to gmail: http://neomailbox.net
Why We No Longer Need HR Departments
Making money after a college education back when your father went through school is much different than today - total apple and orange comparison based on how the world has shifted to global economy and economies of scale and automation are at an all-time efficient high (and it's not all benefit).
Hey dude, thanks for buying the app and those nice things you said!

I'll be adding plus and minus buttons to either side of the sliders in a future update to make setting price/salary/etc much easier.

There is a bug right now which causes the back button not to appear sometimes - fixed it yesterday and it'll be in the next build.

Thanks again, broseph!
Cheerful, well executed, and very entertaining.

I am always amazed at how much energy people put into parodying things which have been ruined by the evil overlords.
Also, as far as I know, there is no reason to assume that Bitcoin will ever stop being extremely volatile.

Due to the in-built deflation of the currency, the main incentive is to hold the coins until some value is reached and then sell them. But because the distribution of coin ownership is quite asymmetrical, there are people out there that could cause massive drops in coin value by accidentally flodding the market when their 'Sell!' price is reached.

So the price will go up, sometimes faster, sometimes slower, with massive drops every now and then and a continuous value increase over the very long run.
The home appliances that talk to you
Yep, I'm kinda confused by this too dude.

Bear in mind that I'm a developer :D
I know a guy who refuses any sleep time at work. He's smart and pragmatic, yet he can't accept doing this on the workplace at paid times, even though he will fight sleep for hours (chat, feeds, games).

I wonder how many of us fell asleep at noon, woke up feeling they must have lost hours because you feel so pumped suddenly, when it was in fact just ~20 minutes.

Pity his high stress high creativity job wasn't greeted with a nap room, many times I've heard people mention they got new ideas just after going to bed.
Blogging mistakes that could kill your blog
Life imitating art imitating life? :D
I noticed you seem to be in The Netherlands (from the Atlas GeoIP lookup). Have you heard of the organization "Hart voor internetvrijheid"?

For what I've understood, they try to increase the number of Tor relays and exit-nodes.

Their site: https://www.hartvoorinternetvrijheid.nl/eng.html
A small lightening talk on OHM2013 about 'em: https://archive.org/details/D4T208201308031515HartVoorIntern...
The product looks amazing but the Kickstarter reward levels need to be rethought.
It's not that people thought Google weren't a company, they thought Google was a company with a long term vision that valued reputation and quality. Google had/has a reputation for paying clever people to produce innovative products. We all want such products to exist, and a lot of us would like to work on making more of them (without necessarily having to join a start up). The fact that they managed to keep that reputation (what you call a religion) for so long means they genuinely valued it.

Now it seems like Google is shifting to a more short term vision. They have begun leveraging their market power rather than relying on product quality to gain market share. In doing so they are starting to sacrifice their reputation. For big company this is an attractive approach over the short term. A reputation for high quality can be expensive to maintain, and products can become very long term risky investments. It's more profitable in the short term to create the illusion of quality while using tactics that hamper the competition or restrict consumer choices. However, that leads to stagnation and eventually the company becomes obsolete.

You might see start ups as being idealistic, and Google's previous behaviour as being benevolent. However, start ups aren't charities and Google made a boat load of money. It's not really about morality. It's more that big companies have incentives to follow particular short term strategies that ultimately stifle innovation and prevent technological progress. A big company with long term vision forces its competitors to innovate to keep up and helps change the technological landscape in a way that start ups are not able to.
Rejecting the soft skills fairy
Please don't link to Murdoch tabloids.

A better story from earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6752274

Every government engages in espionage, including Indonesia. Very few details are known about this particular case.

Snowden is the point of interest here.
Wow this one really knows how to spin a resume! "In particular, seems to be a pretty serious PHP expert."

I've made one commit to a PHP project about a year ago and it was a minor tweak!
NSA email addresses from Adobe leak
Looks nice, buddy. Well done!
The thing I really miss when debugging js (compared to other debuggers) is the ability to skip files when stepping. Seeing the innards of jquery/backbone/underscore is usually no use to me, I only want to look at our site's code.

I know I can get that effect by liberally sprinkling my code with 'debugger;', and could even automate that, but still...
In other words:

"Why I read less HN and you should, too!"
Correction: the only money that is being transferred by electronic means is Bitcoin. All the other payment channels do not transfer ownership, but promises. When your bank sends 100 bucks to another bank, there's no hard ownership being transferred, only an agreement between a bunch of people. That's why the current system is so fragile and so abused to no end.
That'll stop a lot of the problem but not all.

A friend's company have massive counterfeit problems with Beats by Dre headphones. In their case it's people buying genuine product from them, buying cheap (but cosmetically good) copies, and returning the copy (saying it's the original) for a refund. Testing every return isn't something most companies do so it had become a major issue by the time they'd worked out what was happening.

No reason why the same cosmetically convincing product couldn't screw up FBA co-mingling.
Or if one of those people that hold massive amounts of bitcoins decides to sell 10% of their holdings, thus accidentally flooding the market.

There is no need for the crypto to be broken to have a crash.
I thought of this, yeah. Which made me wonder: "why do we need to pipe a shell script to install RVM instead of yum install RVM?".

I don't have an answer and would gladly accept one though I suspect it's related to difficulties with deploying to multiple release systems (rpm, yum, deb, apt-get, brew, ports,..).
Samsung's Next Galaxy Phone Might Have A Three-Sided Wraparound Display
Adventures in Google Self-Driving Cars
Can't wait until some russian releases a crack to disable the DRM on this battery.
Flipping the coin predictably 256 times in a row will require more time and space than available in the universe.
This is Microsoft Frontpage all over again.

I'm sure they will have market: people who don't have the money to contract serious developers, and some novel developers who may like this idea, but in the end, I think it's a product with few possibilities.
The concept is good and funny.

Google is the new evil.
Wouldn't it be possible to change the hashing algorithm if SHA-2 wer compromised?
This is pretty far away. Making some quick and dirty calculations:

The lowest bitcoin denomination is one Satoshi, which is 0.00000001 BTC. If one Satoshi would equal one cent, this means that one US dollar would equal 0.000001 BTC.

Given that the maximum number of Bitcoins is ~21 million, this amounts to a max capitalization of ~21 trillion USD.
This is very welcoming sort of page. Good job!

Compare this to most open source projects of this scale, where you will have people just tell you "to look it up in the wiki".

This wiki, if you're lucky enough to find it and find the right article, then often only has a 50% chance of being up to date and therefore missing some crucial information, causing you to spend days getting your build-setup still not working.

Before you even get to contributing, you're already meeting roadblocks on roadblocks and a dismissive attitude to your offer for help.

This on the contrary, looks very inviting. Kudos to Mozilla :)
Wasn't it similar with Japan in the eighties?
"All" is never true. Also keep this stuff in reddit were it belongs
Bitcoin will never become useless because of such stupid reason. If people need smaller divisions than 1 satoshi (10^-8 of BTC), the protocol will accommodate that easily with small extension. But most probably, smaller transactions will be carried outside the blockchain on a decentralised clearing networks (where debts are cleared with real BTC transactions every day to limit the risks).
Would like to see a guide on setting up things in Linux also
> I write for and "while read" loops on the command line a dozen times a day

You earned my respect.

I like REPLs for small operations. When talking about a "full" script, I'm more at ease in a text editor with a script I'm gonna adjust as I run it. Best example is a syntax error: the script just won't run. Meanwhile, in a REPL, I may get myself stuck without knowing it.
The Seller (Amazon client) operated his business from paycheck to paycheck (i.e. invoice to invoice) with no reserve fund, no insurance and no set-aside for legal. He lost the lawsuit because he never filed an appearance. There are lots of lawyers who would handle such a case for much less than a $25,000 retainer. At the end of the day, though, if your business depends on Ebay, Google, Amazon or their ilk, you have no security.
This doesn't work for me :( shows me just repositories I create for blog posts, but not the organizations I own to show my main repositories.
the remote debugging is already implemented in both Chrome and Firefox. Opera too as far as I know but it's not as simple as the others.
Extinguishing the tantrum cycle
Kick the data secrecy habit and everyone wins
Amazon also would've had a pretty good idea about the financials of his business, since most/all of the sales were happening through Amazon.
I guess not all the users were verified:

162156813-|--|-jfnsdibsdibfsdibfusdbfusdu@nsa.gov-|-diQ+ie23vAA=-|-|--
I wouldn't say disturbing but it's definitely a negative smudge on an otherwise useful service.

It just looks like search engine spam really - those sort of ones that appear when you search for an IP address in Google
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No, but I do care about what cases my attorney takes on pro bono or what community service my doctor participates in. It goes to showing what one does to give back to the community, whether it's geographically (putting your volunteer/civic organizations on your resume) or professionally (putting your GitHub account on your resume).

Having a doctor or lawyer who gives back is important to a lot of people, and I'm sure that translates into wanting to hire employees who give back to their communities as well.
What does P=NP have to do with anything? Bitcoin can be attacked in polynomial time i.e. the "51% attack." I am also curious to know what security promises you would be referring to.
The problem with file name is the main reason I use zsh.

for fic in **/*(.); do
doSomethingWith $fic
done

will take way more time than using find, but will work even with files with stranges chars.
Yes, that's sage advice. Let me call all my non-internet-obsessed friends and family and tell them to only get their news from a single website.
Because it's used by larger nations on smaller nations to take advantage of them.
>its a private bank

Yeah, a "private" bank whose executive officers are appointed by the President and whose authority was enacted by Congress.
Both Firefox and Chrome allow you to "blackbox" js files of your choice.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger#Blac...

http://www.divshot.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/ignoring-library...
One thing to note is that if as the paper says:

"Many well-known web-sites deploy distributed in-
memory caches, which are implemented with standard
DRAM on a large array of x86 servers, to reduce access
load on databases"

then a single server with an FPGA card on it is going to be a lot cheaper than an array of x86 servers. Plus I would imagine that real-estate in a data centre is another significant cost and having one server with an attached FPGA would also be an advantage in this situation
Excuse me: "16 days ago karma:	11" Getting ahead of ourselves i see!
Because a large power gains strategic advantages over a developing country.
The parent comment didn't refer to the 120V / 240V distinction because of the voltage itself, but rather refers to two distinct kinds of electrical sockets.

120V = NMEA-5, 240V = NMEA-6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEMA_connector

When you install a washing machine (or, for example a circular saw in your workshop) you'll have to make sure that the proper socket is available at the place where you want to put it (or you'll have to install one at that location).

In Europe, the corresponding comparison would be between 1-phase (230V) power and 3-phase (400V) power, e.g. normal household socket and the red, round 5-prong CEE connectors.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEE-System
You're on the wrong site. This site uses the Stallman[1] definition for hacking, not the The Mentor[2] definition :)

[1]http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html
[2]http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
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Very sensible comment :) Having gained the most mind-share is Git's best feature, along with it's flexible branches and speed. Those features are super important and as a Mercurial developer, I'm very impressed with them.
51% attack is a myth. Do you seriously think that all BTC holders would just blindly jump to a suddenly revealed chain to allow some dud to revert 1000 BTC transaction? There would be some turbulence, no doubt, but people will quickly ban the source of disturbance or hire an army to go and shut it down.

Most probably, 51% will never happen because it's never economically justified. Even craziest anti-heroes must have earned a lot of money to risk pulling this off for very dubious reward. Some scientists don't like possibility of it, but it's their own bet on how reality works.

When I mentioned P=NP, I meant that Bitcoin rests on inability to quickly break hashes and ECDSA signatures. If we find such a method, it would probably be a proof of P=NP.
"people who actually could prove they had done work went to the head of the line."

You mean "people who proved they would work for free," right? FWIW, I'm not interested in working for your company, but of the code I wrote which has made it to Github, most has been uploaded by people other than me.
Yes it does, my SPAM folder is a living proof of it.

99% of those emails stay on my other email accounts when I disable pulling services.
I absolutely LOVE the new Outlook, but too lazy to switch.
By following startswithaj's excellent lesswrong link, I found an interesting doc about the subject : http://www.academia.edu/4589611/Dennett_and_The_Typical_Mind...

I noticed it in action recently when watching a David Lynch documentary about Transcendental Meditation where he describes his experience of meditation as "the cables of and elevator being cut and falling into oneness." My first thought was that Lynch has a very unique mind and probably doesn't realize that is not a very typical experience during meditation, but bless his heart, he wants everyone to have it.

Edit: David Wants to Fly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0payvR--nM
Indonesia needs to fake shock and pull the ambassador to save face, but it's really not "news" that governments spy on other governments.

it's all part of the big puppet show they put up for our benefit ;)