skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem I have is that none of my friends or family use existing dominant sites like Yelp, so I'm doubtful I'd have anyone I know using this with me.
The "legacy" theory is attractive but unfair. Ultimately, image reproduction is about controlling perception and human brightness perception is non-linear.

You should do any calculations in linear space (and possibly with a temporarily higher bit depth) but a linear display would not be desirable.

Imagine having a room with 10 independently controlled LEDs of equivalent brightness to a 10-watt incandescent lightbulb. Try to visualize the difference from going from 0 (pitch black) to 1 light, to 2, and then imagine 9->10. If you try this IRL you will notice that human brightness perception is very non-linear. To get the most bang per light switch, we need to make the later lightbulbs brighter to get the same punch. This is what monitors do with their bit depth.

It makes good sense for human perception to be non-linear: Earth has a very wide range of brightnesses we need to live in, and the difference in information we can acquire from being out in the sun vs. in the shade is not commensurate with the difference in brightness.

If you are in a very, very dark place (not a city at night) you will experience a very distinct non-blackness. Your eyes (brain?) are turning up the gain to try and extract information. (I don't know if this happens in a perfectly dark place.)

Uh sorry this was rambling. I should read that article...
Serving one's country, and being willing to sacrifice oneself for the protection of others is noble.

Did chat roulette enhance humanity? Was all the software thats been developed to enable spying and subjugation enhancing humanity?
There used to be those people in Brazil up until about 10 years ago. I haven't seen them in any airports there since.
That's the logo of a defunct courier company, not the browser.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LYNX_Express
I think that's probably by design. From the point of view of "project as CV items", most forked items have very little in the way of useful contribution to them - that doesn't defeat your point that some forks are very cool indeed.
One small tip I'd like to add:

Writing code in Conditional Breakpoints - So lets say you want to modify the value of PRICE, but only if ASIN == 'XYZ', then you can write:

if(ASIN === 'XYZ') { PRICE = 20 }

as the condition for your breakpoint and instead of breaking at that point, the value of price will be changed only for that ASIN. Helped me a lot during involved debugging sessions.
Only one tool of each category will "win" out? That's a mighty dystopian future.
Why a Frozen Head Slows My Films Right Down
The real concern would be if they used parallel construction and actually used the NSA's warrantless surveillance. The core of parallel construction is to use fruit of the poisonous tree to identify the dots you need to connect, then do your sleuthing purely to figure out how to connect those dots.

However, given the story told so far, it's actually pretty straightforward to identify the founder of the Silk Road based on a few of his missteps.
That's Breakout not Arkanoid.
I think there is wear leveling that's pretty similar to SSDs. If you use a filesystem without journaling, it shouldn't be an issue. If the wear leveling is good enough, it could be that even with journaling, there's no problem. One could of course use jffs2 or another flash fs that has wear leveling in it if it proves to be a problem.
AKA Supreme Administrative Court of Poland. The irony :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Administrative_Court_o...
Love the "Your mother doesn't count" tagline :)
I would agree with your list with one critical addition... kids primarily only socialize with kids +/- about one year of age, which is critical because all their friends know, understand, and probably like the same idiotic clothing/music/media/tech fads they like, simply because they're the same age and grew up together in the same location. Kids are strictly uni-cultural. There is just The Culture (apologies to ian banks).

On the other hand adult social areas like HN cover from lower teens to retired and are international (even though HN is mostly SV)

So when I was a HS senior, 100% of my friends knew about, and most of them liked, the same idiotic music and clothing I liked. On the other hand, on HN only a tiny fraction of the audience would even recognize certain band names I thought were cool.

The lack of individuality of kids has enormous social media implications. Inherently there are going to be social media fads which work very well among identical interchangeable kids that are simply impossible for multicultural adults to understand.

Not just "short space of time small radius" but also nearly identical age/maturity level and very similar socioeconomic class and basically mono-cultural.

In other words high school and college are pretty much the opposite of the real world, which is not exactly news, but...
If we're going to be accurate, it's - "You can't beat politics with new technology all the time. Sometimes you have to actually make sure that politics are in line with what people want. A lot of people are giving up on politics and thinking they can solve issues with technology. These kind of arrogant behaviours towards the rest of the society are a bit disgusting," - which isn't so far from the "You can't beat politics with technology" sentiment, and retains the color of the statement.

Ultimately, technology can empower us to do amazing things, but to achieve it's full potential we've also got to be involved in society as a whole and push to bring the various ideas we believe in into the public's sight. Technology can be a powerful embodiment of a set of ideas such as free-culture, privacy, a decentralized financial system, or what have you. Making people take interest in those ideas and bringing the debate outside the technology sphere can only lead to a better outcome for all.
30 not counting the (block * lines) of HTML ;) If you're comparin' code size - my favourite was from the first JS1K comp - a nice looking platformer in 1K!: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/js1k/
How blogger Peter Jukes crowdfunded his way to cover the hacking trial
Ask to speak to the child in charge.
If this has not been posted before, its good to see that all the worries about the tor protocol can be laid to rest.

They did not identify the server by some advanced technical hacks against tor. They used simple basic police methods and arrested an administrator with the use of an undercover agent posing as a drug seller. The administrator purchased a kilo of cocaine, and by doing so, gave his home address to the undercover agent. After interrogation, they gained user credentials that even included DPR's private messages.

This could have easily been a episode script for the wire.
great document
You can own Bitcoin, you can’t own your dollars
When I was working with the company that produces vBulletin, I wasn't exactly dazzled by their competence.
Looks to me like it works pretty much just like Squarespace (except self-hosted and open). The way Squarespace makes it easy for non-web-designer folk to put together nice-looking websites is excellent, so it's a good model to work from.
I've seen this exhibited as lately as Chrome 30.
I know it's kind of anachronistic, but I miss lickable UIs. Can we do super-shiny true 3D objects once we're done with flat? I want to see consistent lighting and envmapping across my entire UI, including icons, and icons actually being 3D objects that pop-out when you use a 3D display.

...I do not have good taste.
Thanks for clarifying this. I haven't touched mercurial for a while.
Reminds me of the recent Howto Basic vid (nsfw) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFOjzBEHxd0

and to those moaning about it, feel free to moan about others moaning. we can all have a big circle moan.

Google seem insistent on damaging their own brand with this behaviour. It's up to them, but if they do continue down this route, expect more satire to ooze up through the intertubes.
Perhaps - I think a lesson to be taken though is to be careful about trusting console.log. It threw me into a loop when I first encountered it.
Ireland, which obviously tends to follow along with whatever the US wants, but I like to think at least my taxes aren't _directly_ supporting so many of the things I find morally reprehensible.

And they gave me a visa, so there's that.
If he's engaging in naive statist technocracy, you're engaging in naive proprietarian minarchism: "Just get the state out of everything except property and contracts and it'll all work out fine somehow!"
Constellations for GitHub stars: Find cool repos starred by people you follow
Martini is looking for some more middleware in the martini-contrib repo:

http://martini.codegangsta.io
Mac app is not signed, makes the os nag about unidentified developer.

I'm fine with running it but a lot of people might not bother with security settings.
>There are a lot of people, especially in the US, that are really looking toward social democracy (socialism) as the light at the end of the tunnel. I think that its unfortunate that there isn't a better perspective for these people on the realities of social democracies in Europe or of the historical context of socialism. However, with such extreme inequality, its hard not to lean in that direction in one's thinking.

Just because social democracy has its own set of problems doesn't discredit the view that it's demonstrably better than American neoliberalism.
10 findings of UK's "Mass Observation"
Some interesting background reading:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/22/vbulletin_abandons_m...
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Countries are not humans.
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Seconded. You guys both make great points, but I agree that if you're going to err one way or the other, err in the direction of the smaller niche, not away from it.

"for professionals" is both not specific enough and also far too buzz-wordy. A good market for this might be help desks, or small startups that offer round-the-clock support. Round-the-clock support usually means at least one person per shift, and small startups don't generally have a lot of overlap there -- so they have an increased need for quickly findable knowledge, which means that they need knowledge management.

Target that, or something like it. If you can niche further, do it -- if that niche gets traction, expand it slightly. If it doesn't, change it altogether. Expansion can occur in the form of a new site with different branding or subsites.

There are plenty of startups that make accounting software, but of the ones I've worked with, the one killing it the most is the one that makes accounting software "for landscaping companies". If you're a landscaping company, looking at a hundred different accounting packages, your choices are now limited to the best known (e.g., Quickbooks), and/or the ones most specifically targeted to you. You won't win that comparison every time, but you'd rather be in the top 3 90% of the time than in the top 100 100% of the time.
>> Mr. Hamilton also said Amazon was not interested in participating in industry standards discussions, which could publicize its many technical advances.

What are the side effects of this in a few years, when all of the high-end stuff has been designed 4 different ways by 4 different companies?

What happens when Dell and HP's server businesses are shells of their former selves? When Cisco is but a memory as their biggest customers have began designing solutions in-house?

You'll have to go with the cloud. You just won't be able to get the best of the best equipment without doing so.
At the same time, write a small post about it and tweet on it so that you can let everyone know about it.
This articl was great by the way.
As someone who had to look after a relatively large vBulletin install (13000 users) for a number of years, I wasn't exactly dazzled by their competence either!

I'd go as far to say that vBulletin is a pile of crap.
I think state owned banks would be a drastic improvement to handful of old rich guys owned banks. And that's my ultimate qualm with this. I love that Sunde (and Dotcom) are entering politics more as a means to legitimacy, but in all honesty- politics is a game for the masses to shield the actual decision-making. Democracy has never worked, because the greed of the few will always win out when the authority to instigate necessary change is left up entirely to those who would lose power in the doing. Playing the game within the system wins no battles.
What can they do? Amazon charges a fortune to return FBA items or dispose of them...
The Future of Video in Web Design
That's not just a pithy saying, it's a demonstrated truth. If you show the same article, or the same piece of TV news, to people with opposite partisan orientations, each of them will think the article is unjustly biased towards the other guy. Republicans will always see a bias towards Democrats, Democrats a bias towards Republicans, in the same material.
"Here is my very first project" seems like a horrible thing to show off to potential employers. My first projects in any language are full of hacks and "just-get-it-working" type stuff until I figure out the Right Way to do things.

Putting up half-finished junk like that doesn't serve anybody's interest. At best it is ignored. At worst it is just pollution being dumped into the world in that any newbie seeing it would become actively dumber.
Word, given the fact that privately owned banks had no problems at all... oh wait! O jeez... they had a few...
To me, watching Reddit grow has been an interesting perspective on how population size affects democracy.

4-5 years ago, you would more often see long articles or self posts where someone would make a case for something on a topic. People would read the whole thing, try and understand the issue, and talk about it.

As reddit has grown, thoughtful posts have been replaced by one liners and memes. The front page is mostly just a dumping ground for whatever is viral at the moment.

I think this, interestingly, mirrors what happened to democracy in the United States. The democracy that the founding fathers imagined was one run mostly by the educated few, with everyone else also having the ability to voice their concerns.

What its turned into now is a chaotic mess of talking points and rhetoric, with two factions on opposite sides just screaming the same things at each other.

I think its because the more people you get involved in decision making, the simpler you have to make the case for each potential choice in order for the most people to be able to understand it. People will choose an inferior choice that they can understand over a superior one that they can't.

And the problem then is that oftentimes the most important things are the things that are hardest to understand.
His other mistake? Perhaps all the womanizing and general doucheyness. I am shocked - SHOCKED! - by the implication that his kids turned out to be spoiled brats.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/43255322.html
Send them the bill for your content? Ask for a cut of the revenue from the advertising on the page?
The stock market thinks differently. GOOG is above 1,000 for a while now.

Of course you may dismiss my point rapidly since the Market is more interested in Financial profit than any other thing. But the same thing can be said about Hacker News.

What bothers HN readers/writers will not, necessarily, bother the average consumer, the same way what really boost the Stocks may don't matter to average HN reader.

Despite the fact that HN hates the new Gmail Compose, and the new Youtube comment system these are still the most compelling offers in their fields for the average consumer.

HN seems to have the urge to not only discuss their opinion but try to flush down everyone's throat and then generalize broadly.

Google's Decline here could be better written as "Google Decline, among hacker news readers."
I also asked myself what is the product? What is the point? An app? Where? What?? huhh?
http://logos.wikia.com/wiki/Internet_Explorer
Telepresence robots in hospitals
After google reader was killed out sadly my RSS feed reading has come to a halt.
Oh yes, human vision is non-linear, also adapted to a wide variety of situations (just try using a digital camera and see how several adjustments are needed and the eye does this "automatically")

But it's hard enough considering human non-linearity without adding any other non-linearities along the way (like the CRT ones)
No, there is no danger of trademark infringement [by this page].

Yes, you could still be sued and a settlement might cost less than a defence.

Trademarks indicate the origin of goods and services. Trademark infringement comes when you do commercial activity [not necessarily for money] and the public get confused as to whether that activity is by the company owning a particular mark.

The logo reproductions could be copyright infringement however; this is highly dependent on jurisdiction.

[This is not legal advice and should not be relied on.]
Oh well it would be Steve Jobs fault wouldn't it… typical Google fanboy nonsense
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Reminds me of some of the arguments from "Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions" by John Gray

"The core of the belief in progress is that human values and goals converge in parallel with our increasing knowledge. The twentieth century shows the contrary. Human beings use the power of scientific knowledge to assert and defend the values and goals they already have. New technologies can be used to alleviate suffering and enhance freedom. They can, and will, also be used to wage war and strengthen tyranny. Science made possible the technologies that powered the industrial revolution. In the twentieth century, these technologies were used to implement state terror and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Ethics and politics do not advance in line with the growth of knowledge — not even in the long run."
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You did yourself a favour
Please quote the bit where I said that? No? Ok, then.

My position is that we do need the state, but we need to inject a lot more realism (ie cynicism) about what what government can realistically do (not to mention, do well) into the debate in order to get to a better place.

EDIT: I suspect that you might be referring to my comments on different posts. I find that arguing the libertarian point of view is a useful method of injecting the mentioned realism. Do I find the stateless society appealing? Yes, in theory, as a construct to debate the extreme consequences of ideas. It's a rewarding intellectual exercise to consider how justice might work without the state. But I'm no utopian and I have no illusions about the extreme dangers of revolution. So my "real world" political contributions is in the space of injecting more cynicism into the democratic process in the hope of inspiring more people to avoid reflectively turning to the state to mend their ills and consider, for an example, technological solutions instead.
I'd love to have the logos in SVG format.
It's the 'China National School of Administration'.
Here's my attempt at a one-pass solution:

http://productivedetour.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/my-version-o...
Boeing 777, Tesla Model S, Microsoft Windows, Intel Core i7, Caterpillar construction equipment.

That's just 5 I could think of off the top of my head. Tried to mix it up with regards to industries too.
This is both eery and encouraging.
This explains the email received a few days ago:

> We take your security and privacy very seriously. Very recently, our security team discovered sophisticated attacks on our network, involving the illegal access of forum user information, possibly including your password. Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems. We have taken the precaution of resetting your account password. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused but felt that it was necessary to help protect you and your account.

> To regain access to your account:

> Visit the vBulletin forums at http://www.vbulletin.com/settings/account

> Enter in your existing password followed by your new password, twice for confirmation.

> Save this page at the bottom.

> Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used with us previously. We also highly recommend that you chose a password that you are not using on any other sites.

> If you have any additional questions or concerns, please feel free to contact our support team at http://www.vbulletin.com/go/techsupport or support@vbulletin.com.

> Sincerely,

Of course I reset the password to another generated LastPass one, but I did wonder what the scope of the attack was.
Thanks for that - a very tempting option, not in stock right now with RS Components in the UK, but seems the price of a months hire for a VPS, give or take, and roughly the same spec - therefore perfect for dev work where performance needs to be targeted.
HN and proggit are two great sources of consuming technology related information. I usually spent 20 mins in morning and add the interesting looking articles on instapaper for reading in free time. I don't think it's making me less productive at all and HN comments are great at deciding what to read.
http://coding2learn.org/blog/2013/11/17/tech-journalists-can...
First line true. Second line completely false.

One side of the argument is virtually all of the users are a multicultural swath of humanity, mostly adults.

The other side of the argument is the largest unicultural subgroup of users was in 2006 HS/Uni kids, maybe as much as 5% of total users. The key being they were the largest single unicultural group.

Both arguments are simultaneously true. There is no point repeating the two true statements to the "opposite" side.

If you prefer a numerical argument, you've got 1K subgroups with 1K members each with little overlap, and one 10K member subgroup. The vast majority of the 1010K members are not in the 10K subgroup but are members of one of many 1K sized subgroups, and it is also simultaneously true that one subgroup is 10x the size of every other subgroup.
> That's actually my point.

So then you are still missing the point. And so was the original comment you replied to. When people are talking about github as your CV, they don't care that you happened to host your website on ghpages. It's using the code repos themselves. Where you host your website is beside the point.

> It makes perfect sense to have github projects as your portfolio parts and turn it into the 'narrative' so beloved of the original author with a github pages site.

Yes. But again, that's not what's being discussed. You are in fact agreeing with the foundation of the idea.

Basically: GH Pages are merely a way to host your own personal website. The fact that it's also on GH isn't special in anyway, and you could achieve the same thing self-hosting. Remove that from the equation, and merely having GH repos is the issue.

People are saying you need that 'narrative.' How you achieve that is up to you, but relying just on the default GH repos doesn't help.
What is so f'ing special about bootstrap?
Firstly grab a copy of the offending pages and save it out as a PDF or whatnot.

secondly, this chap's editors will be greatly displeased. Contact them. Don't start shouting about lawyers, but point out the infringement and ask for remedy.

The simplest thing to do is to simply ask them to take it down.
I'm not a massive fan of Google, but in their defense they dropped the moto in 2009[0].

[0]http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2009/04/goog...