skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear TV manufacturers,

No one want's your shitty software, it's not a competitive edge. No one has ever been impressed by the software their TV comes with, and for every person that found your software easy to use, there is a thousand who are still trying to figure out what that one button does on their remote. You wanna know what people are care about? Picture quality. That's it. That's always been the key. I don't know why you constantly fail to understand that.

Why can't you just make a dumb screen? You know desktop monitors? Like that. No sound, minimal software, but if you really want to get fancy, maybe a nice small remote to turn it on and off. Everything else, from sound to color profiles can, and have already for years now, be handled by external devices smarter than you.

If you make this, and you focus on picture quality instead of figuring out ways to confuse and exploit the customer, I promise you, I absolutely promise you, every AV nerd I know will buy one. And they will love it. And they will recommend it, and share it, and buy them for their loved ones. And blog about it. Tweet about it. Podcast, vlog and sing about it.

And you'll disrupt the old model. You will be the company that brings about the next revolution in television. You've been looking to do that for so long haven't you? And while you always secretly knew it wasn't IPTV or 3D that was going to start the next revolution, what you didn't know is how easy it would be to disrupt the current incumbents.

The customer is waiting, cash in hand.
I hope they don't make it harder for add-ons to have the tabs on the left / right side. It's such a no-brainer to have the tabs there. Viewport is still big enough, and you can see the tab content mor easily.
"V" means "viable". The profit motive encourages businesses to race to the bottom of "viability" just as with quality. So it will always be.
The hidden history behind Zelda's handheld games
I'm glad you're so impressed with your knowledge of network and computer janitoring you can look down on others so easily.

You are the reason why people hate dealing with IT.
Do you think Tesla has hired the best tiger/red teams in the world to break their systems? I would certainly hope so, but your comment does make me wonder.
Is it just me or is there a higher cognitive load because the headlines are written in the negative? I know the headline is "13 things to avoid" but I would have preferred to read the list phrased in the positive.

Instead of "Shy Away from Change" it would say "Never Shy Away from Change" or "Embrace Change".

Instead of "Give Up After Failure," "Use Failure as a Chance to Improve"
TL;DR: The author thinks using the browser in private mode is enough to avoid being tracked, or at least he wants us to think that. He also wants everybody to use the web in the same way he does.
The Landscape Of Front-end Development Automation
A case for reading the small print
Maybe you're just not mentally strong enough ;)
You mean like the property of being people's health data?
Sorry, I had 1984 on my kindle, but Amazon deleted it.
Incorrect. Hindi and English are the two official languages. There is no "national language", officially.
Kind of makes sense too - you don't want people searching for Conservative policies at election time accidentally finding the ones with the pressing issues for the last election.
Part of this rise is likely due to the proposal of Mike Hearn, a core developer and Bitcoin Foundation officer, to start "redlisting" (marketing-friendly word for blacklisting) wayward Bitcoin addresses.

How someone who has been around the Bitcoin world for so long doesn't understand the importance of the currency's fungibility is beyond me. If you make one person's Bitcoins worth less than another person's Bitcoins, then we all lose.
Technically you're correct, but realistically there is a very very small chance of that happening. And the chance of bitcoin changing it's value in the next year significantly, compared to fiat currency, is much higher.
I read that book in my teens but I do not remember anything related to choco ration. </forwhatitsworth>
Very likely.

We've just added a kill-list of known decrypted passwords and English language words and forced people to reset their passwords who are listed in the adobe breach.
I've learned this the hard way so the first thing I do after installing Ghostery is disabling everything but Disqus.
Also: (from the NFPA data) "Highway vehicles include any vehicle designed to operate normally on highways, such as automobiles, motorcycles, buses, trucks, and trailers"

So in fact this could include electric cars as well.
Ask HN: Anyone remember brigit.com
In case anyone knows. Circa 2002, there used to be a website called Brigit.com, which hired a bunch of journalists to abridge articles from various news sources. The value was, in about 10 lines I can read the essence of the article, and if I find it interesting, I can click and read the original article. Since it was done by humans, and from a set of curated sources (The Economist, New Yorker, etc), I found it helpful. Any one knows what happened to it? Thanks.
Plus it is disabled by default IIRC.
This is pretty cool, methinks.
There were a couple of mentions of Nightcode in the 'other' field, more than votes for environments I did include in the main listing. I'll do my best to remember to add it next year and drop those that fared poorly this time around.
LG Smart TVs logging USB filenames and viewing info to LG servers
... or for them to be complicit in laying bare their own hypocrisy ...
That actually looks pretty decent. Thanks for posting.
How to start a business in India.
Excuse me, but... did you say "parent"? So you think you're a child?
An interview of the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, "Father of Fractals"
Automated website accessibility monitoring. At last
Isn't this similar to Debian nginx default configuration?
I'd like to suggest adopting something akin to the Dewey decimal system for your bookmarks. You don't have to create folders and subfolders but just prepend the number to the bookmark title. That way they get ordered in an alphabetic list.
Seems like a sensible move to tell crawlers there isn't a page there so don't bother trying to index it. Probably keeps their logs cleaner and reduces the requests they have to serve.

I find it slightly odd that the internet archive then drop historical pages, but the jump some are making to this being Orwellian I find a leap too far.
>Tab/ws instead of braces makes the code prettier and accomplishes what curly braces do.

Except they don't. Curly braces allow unambiguous indentation, python syntax doesn't. This means refactoring code is always harder in Python than in any other language. This is why other languages do not adopt this syntax.
> someone who uses things they don't understand without looking at the documentation is stupid

I disagree, that's sometimes the best way to learn something. I learnt C, Java and Perl just by ploughing in without reading anything. Change something, see what happens, if it doesn't make sense ask Google.

Also programming languages aside, I never read computer game manuals before playing
It was 30 lines, but artistic license accepted I guess.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=%2230+...
Ask HN: What is with all these 'X in 30/35 lines of Javascript' posts?
Just curious, but why is there suddenly a lot of attention on the type of things people can create in 30 lines of Javascript?
Flawed argument!

Model S is only 1 year old and it's a premium vehicle. So the fire rate should be compared to those of premium vehicles about the same age.
Whoosh – Fast, full-text indexing and searching library in Python
"Selfie" is Oxford Dictionaries' word of the year
Oh hey, welcome back :)
Maybe they've just enabled reporting for failed logins?

If nothing else it would encourage people to care more about their security.
This is a major undertaking. IMO, you will most likely end up reaching the lower-hanging fruit of depression rather than suicide. Good luck.
Campaign funding with Bitcoins would be interesting.
Perhaps similarly, the EasyList tracking protection list for IE browsers stops you from signing up for a Windows Azure account.
Litecoin could be the spark that causes the Bitcoin crash. Hear me out.

Method: litecoin gets major news push as the "new Bitcoin", people sell out of bitcoins into litecoin causing Bitcoin prices to crash overnight.

Needed: a very fast way to move from bitcoin holdings to litecoin.

If someone makes that it's game over for bitcoin.
I didn't say what should appear on HN (that would make the the set narrow), I just expressed something that shouldn't be here (that leave it wide wide open to many things)
It would be easier just to write a script that makes repeated requests and running that since it's just HTTP anyway
I don't really have a response to this other than to say that I like what you wrote and what CS Lewis wrote. Thanks for telling us about it. It is truly or relevant to the obsession over self-esteem today.
Appear.in now supports Opera 18
This is sad. Perhaps maybe fly in next time?
Hearn only proposed there be a discussion on the matter, he definitely didn't seem like he was pushing either way.
Seems more like its just background noise and they've just enabled reporting of it. I don't really see the problem everyone should have secure passwords anyway or two factor. If some random botnet can guess your password after < 50 guesses your doing something wrong.
Sony PlayStation 4 Defects Linked to Tampering by Foxconn Interns
Yeah it breaks stuff.

But it also means that FB, Google et al don't get notified of every website I ever go to ever. So I'll live with it. I wouldn't complain to website owners about it, but I would probably stop going to their sites.
An Interview with Apple’s Founder
Is Google signing your chat messages?
Alternatively, just throw Android in there and let me hack away. That would at least be fun.
What is disconnect's business model?

Edit: https://disconnect.me/help#how-do-you-make-money-
If you'll allow me a bit of pedanty, that's learning and playing, not using. :)

I learned Perl the same way and play my games the same way, but when i write code that'll be used for anything that isn't frivolity, out comes the documentation to ensure the code doesn't destroy cash (or worse, lives) by the fistful.
Every time I use disqus I think that the site owner is being rather foolhardy, not only outsourcing a key component of his site to a 3rd party, but making Javascript a hard dependency as well.

Seems a bit naive to then blame the user for "breaking the web".
Tangent: I think there's room for an 'Android of TVs.'

This may or may not be Android, which is kind of the problem. The most likely contenders here (Apple, Google, MS, Sony) have a dog in the race & incumbent problems. They committed to an approach or a technology too early. They have a market (eg itunes), complementary products or ecosystems to protect.

What does TV software really need in order to be significantly better than the average smart TV? A handful of core apps (Youtube, Netflix), some local ???Players (these could be introduced market by market) and some experimental/novelty apps (eg Skype, spotify). That's it. That's a good start. Crappy games and access to 99 upstart content marketplaces is not necessary. An app marketplace could come second.

*Vanilla android is not the answer. If it's going to be android it needs to be android for TV.
Hope it's not superfluous to point out, but it's kind of funny: "By By Elon Musk" is seen under the title. That sounds hostile :) (the duplicate By isn't seen in other posts on the blog)
A bit off-topic here, but I would say the same thing applies to stackoverflow. Everytime I want to search something within stackoverflow I use google and specify the "site" operator[1]. Something like:

fast string search algorithm site:stackoverflow.com [2]

The results are much better than SO's custom search.

[1] https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/136861?hl=en

[2] https://www.google.com.br/search?q=string+search+algorithm+s...
It picked out a beautiful location for me. I really wish I were there, but I'm in an office park much further north, in Padova, which the one in the story actual nailed down to a few meters.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.83330000000001,12.83330000...

By the way, Italy is amazingly beautiful isn't it! You can pretty much randomly pick a street view and without too much effort, find some interesting or beautiful scenery.
Never said it was ridiculous.

Just joking about today. Of course it will become mainstream but by then we shall all be conscious of it.

I hope...

The 'save the children' attitude will kill us all, yes.
Is the top one "Worrying about things mentally strong people might avoid"? and are the rest blank?

Never mind then eh...
Maybe fix your country next time?
Do cockroaches have a form of consciousness?
History of Programming Languages: Volume 2
CSS3 Box Model behaviour
You don't need to be Indian or Pakistani to be moved to tears by this ad...
Techniques for Responsive Typography
A new underground elite
It's not hypocrisy to change your mind or change direction as the situation changes.
Raytracing works really good when you use the GPU for calculation, e.g. via OpenCL or CUDA.

I just checked, there is already WebCL and an implementation for WebKit (https://github.com/SRA-SiliconValley/webkit-webcl).

Here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ttux1A-Nuc
What ever Sony. Take responsibility.
I could reasonably predict that the USD will have roughly the same purchasing power next year as the current. Same with EUR.
Didn't James Strachan, the creator of Groovy, basically say that if he could do it over again, he'd create Scala?

(a little Googling later...)

"Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming in Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy." [1]

[1] http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-repl...

Edit: I should add that I'm considering using Groovy with a micro-framework called Ratpack (http://www.ratpack.io/), so I'm only bringing this up as a part of the conversation if someone's trying to figure out what they want to learn next.
Agreed. I'm praying this wont break my userchrome
Its the opposite, especially here.

Musk and Tesla are given far more benefit of the doubt than any one else. Criticism is jumped on and scorned very quickly, and is a karma massacre. As such, I normally do not comment on Tesla threads at all. There seems to be little reason applied, its like saying some one's baby is ugly.

If it were a Microsoft car catching fire, or over stating benefits and what not, I suspect the reaction would be very, very different. Im beginning to see Tesla as the automotive Linux. Wont be long until we have people claiming Tesla cars cure cancer.

This fawning attitude, and unwillingness to allow debate and criticism seriously puts me off Tesla. I mean, even you have tried to suggest that any criticism is not reasoned debate, but oil and automotive negative PR. The criticism cant possibly be reasonable, it simply must be a conspiracy of the oil industry. You even say that the opinion should not be written at all. So much for open society.

All this, IMHO, is a big problem for Tesla. When people are being unrealistically positive and rejecting criticism like its some sort of heresy, Tesla becomes an easy target to shoot at. Especially for its enemies.

Too much "one of us" vibe here as far a Musk is concerned. He is a great bloke, and Im am very much in the positive camp, I've been advocating and keenly following electric cars for years before Musk ever got involved and I am 100% glad that a man like Musk has invested loads of his own money and time in to it, but fans need to be realistic and not so silly about criticism.

Tesla and Musk are not the problem, the fans however are.
Wouldn't redlisting be possible with litecoin too?
sadly, you're probably right about our prospects. Since we're the only party (big enough to have MPs) who opposed the Digital Economy Act (and whose party policy is still to repeal it) I'm not sure this is a good thing...
Thanks for sharing this. Especially on the page there is a presentation as well as several ports of this same program to other languages like OCaml, Haskell and JavaScript. Interesting to see that the OCaml version is on par with the C++ version performance wise, but is 47% shorter. However the Haskell version is not shorter and 4.5 times slower?
well, if you want us to keep our promises you have to vote us in to a parliamentary majority. My frustration with how crap our MPs have been is still high, but they do have a reasonable (ish) excuse.
Personally I like the Learn 10 Languages in 10 Days book.
yes, export your subscriptions as an OPML file (Feedly -> Organize), Sputnik can import it.
It took me two minutes to find a speech from Gordon Brown on the labour UK website:

http://www.labour.org.uk/gordon_brown_conference

Saying "The opposition Labour Party has eliminated all news items from before Ed Miliband was elected its leader in September 2010 from its website." seems a little strong.
Yes, he proposed the idea for the second time in a year "just for discussion". And the first time he proposed it, he definitely and very explicitly argued in favor of it. If he's more subtle this time, it's because he's learned this is an issue that is deeply important to most long-time Bitcoiners, since it's an assault on one of the most fundamental of Bitcoin's properties.
precisely. In fact because Urdu is still spoken in parts of India (north & central) AND tends to be the preferred language of scriptwriters & songwriters in Bollywood - a lot of spoken Hindi has picked up a significant Urdu tinge.
I can assure you if you have mental problems reading top 10 lists on the internet won't help you. Unfortunately. Most people with problems I know (including me) read several books and know pretty well where the problem is. Acting on it is the hard part.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose? Anyone who really wants to track you is just gonna have a failure mode under ghostery that requires you to turn it off.
Sure, but there are no influential core Litecoin developers repeatedly proposing that they do it to Litecoin.
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That's only useful if they plan to use location algorithms like banks to detect possible fraud login's. For example banks do basic location tracking to detect fraud, if you mostly shop in New York in a specific area and they suddenly detect a purchase in Canada your bank should block it, I know my bank does and they'll call me within 20 minutes to confirm it was me (enough time for me to call them and authorize it or if I switch to another card, quick enough for me to tell them I'm in Canada for the week.)
Leading to Secure Boot, pretty much.
So Ghostery has an option to remove chunks of the DOM that it thinks have been added by Disqus, in an attempt to stop Disqus from tracking you. It's not clear to me that this would actually stop Disqus from tracking you, because by this point you've already loaded Disqus's JavaScript; and it's certainly not clear to me how it would protect you better than just blocking the Disqus JavaScript from loading, which would also have the advantage of not breaking the non-Disqus related parts of pages.
I voted LibDem at the last election primarily for this reason, and will most likely again at the next, unless the UK Pirate Party starts to get momentum.

The Digital Economy Act was the only thing that has ever made me actually write to my (then) MP (Justine Greening) - the response displayed nothing but a complete lack of both care and understanding. Ridiculous.
It is in US that you will realize your name is your biggest enemy.
By no means comprehensive but there are several speeches archived on this site, set up by academics at Swansea University: http://www.britishpoliticalspeech.org/speech-archive.htm
> In UK politics any position you take today is used as a weapon against you tomorrow.

As it damn well should be. If I'm voting for a person or party on the basis of some promise they are making about a given policy or a claim that they have an understanding/capability of something, I want to be able to see their history of keeping (or not) said promised and proving (or now) their actual understanding/capability.

Someone who has a history of being badly wrong and/or not keeping their word is someone I'm less likely to trust. That'll be the majority of current politicians (ours and those in other countries). I don't consider this position to be at all unreasonable. Someone who actively hides that they were wrong in the past, and/or made promises that have since not been kept, is someone I trust even less.

Removing the content from their site to replace it with up-to-date positions I'm OK with, we understand it is a fluffy promotion site rather than a library of meaningful and historically accurate information anyway, but actively working to have the old content removed from other archives is simply not on IMO.
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AdBlock blocks the ads, Ghostery blocks the scripts. It's an interesting combination that is less radical than NoScript, and still prevents loading most of the annoying stuff.

Of course, if you want to limit the features of a website (whether it's a feature for you, the user, or the website owner), you'll end up breaking some stuff. It's a compromise between privacy and ease of browsing. Still, it's very rare for me to reach a page that becomes totally unusable due to a script blocked by Ghostery. The only example I have in mind is Adobe's Kuler [1]. It's a web app, and it's the kind of websites that tend to break with Ghostery. But the UI is simple enough to circumvent those ponctual failures, by temporarily (or permanently) whitelist the script and/or the domain.

http://jgthms.com/adobe-kuler-analytics-make-it-unusable.htm...
these are live examples that javascript is not alien technology and that pretty clever stuff can be done with small effort.
I doubt that would happen if they did. Not only that, the whole ward system is clearly biased towards morons who are easy to sway towards the party rather than a fair representation country-wide.

There is no excuse. Stick to the manifesto or we should be able to fire them instantly and force another election.
I'll probably get downvotes, but here goes: I liked the ad, it moved me, it didn't bother that it was from a big corporation (re the discussion below). What bothers me in ads, and in movies etc, is how the men can always be some regular looking man, sometimes even ugly, while the women always have to be very attractive. I know I'll get called on for being too P.C. for this but c'mon, does it always have to be a very attractive indian girl? Does Virginia Woolf need to be played by Nicole Kidman? Salma Hayek as Frida Kahlo? The biopics about men aren't always played by Tom Cruises.
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i am from india and i can tell you that no one i talked to found this ad 'moving'. its the same cheesy bullshit that we see all day.
Exactly this.

I don't understand why people can be so hypocritical and do the electric car cause a huge disservice by this blind fanaticism. Gasoline cars have had decades of experience with countless recalls to perfect certain processes and implementations. Why are people expecting electric cars to not go through the same ? Are people really expecting Tesla to be the pinnacle of perfection on their first few tries ?

People are far more accommodating when you say "hey we aren't perfect but it IS safer than gasoline cars" rather than this "we are perfect and if you disagree with us you are wrong" attitude.
The problem with your theory is that it permits anyone to start their own Bitcoin fork and magically people will use it.