skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's no way the dual D700 GPUs cost around $700.

It seems that the D700 are the AMD W9000 but underclocked. So I would lean towards the price being around $3000-5000.
> Since you cannot use a Chromebook without signing into the OS, Google has the potential to track everything you do on a Chromebook.

Pixel owner here. You can sign in as guest without a google account and use chrome without a google account then. You can even run as incognito in guest mode if you really care.
In linux, if you want to make Capslock as both ESC and Ctrl,

$ setxkboption -option -option 'ctrl:nocaps'
$ xcape

https://github.com/alols/xcape

What is good for?

- Happy with vim
- Happy with emacs like - readline - keybinding. C-a, C-e, C-u, C-k, C-d, C-h, C-w, C-p, C-n, C-y ...
- Ctrl key is most used in any gui application.

You can abandon both bottomleft Ctrl and topleft Esc.
Have you tried out http://socrates.io/ ?
"for Ubuntu"? really?
Netmediablog Successful blogging guide roundup 2013
and then... Enron.
The first 3D printed organ - a liver - is expected in 2014
Facerig - digitally embody any character with webcam
Apple has unfairly gotten this rep that their machines are expensive when in fact equivalent windows systems are in fact more expensive. I realized this when I was searching for a display and naturally thought that I can find a display comparable to the Apple one from some other manufacturers at a much steeper discount. But found that most do not make equivalent displays or when they do (Dell) its priced higher than Apple's. I have found the same thing when it comes to Mac Mini's as well. For the form factor there is nothing on the market that is even comparable. Things might have changed now (I hope) have not checked.
You can flash Gapps to get the G-suite in CyanogenMod.

Download at http://goo.im/gapps

Copy to your SD, reboot into recovery, flash the .zip file, reboot.
Trapping A Transcendental - Finding numbers that aren't solutions to polynomials
Even more ironic are the "digital safe harbour" provisions that cloud providers have been operating under, telling their clients that the law requires the US government to treat servers put under those provisions as not located in the US.

The irony being that since the servers are "not located in the US", they are even more easily targeted by the NSA since the NSA considers the rest of the world to be sub-humans without any rights.
Just imagine ramifications of this on person level too. You use Facebook ? Google ? Dropbox ? SkyDrive ? you are already under NSA Scanner :)

I just hope corporates put pressure on US government to back out of NSA treachery.
I agree with most comments here. This was expected, these are not empty threats and no one is over-reacting. Everyone is just re-acting as they were expected too. Except maybe the Obama administration, which has to do some hard decisions. Snowden is growing stronger by the day now.

The part that caught my eye though was this:

> It's not all doom and gloom, however. Thompson's comments show that some U.S. firms stand to benefit from distrust of the U.S. government, and that a new model may be in the offing for protecting sensitive data from the NSA's prying eyes.

Apparently, Bloomberg sticks to the Liberal mantra that says more or less that when a market dies a new one emerges.

Maybe the 5% of affected population, in terms of companies, will build a new business model but how this is good news is beyond me. It's like when you listen people saying that YOU can now create a startup in TV because they saw a Steve Jobs 2-minute video documentary on Apple. People apparently don't know that for every successful startup there are 1.000.000 failed for no apparent reason.
FPS Project - Augmented Reality
Yeah, it seems like the GPU is a much bigger factor than I thought.
Although you could also argue that building a PC from scratch is a far less exceptional case than building a car.
Fair enough, I stand partially corrected. The link takes you only to the "for Mac" version.

However, I was thinking more of other desktop platforms...
I think Wikipedia is not "undesigned", it's just a very well designed site. And the net is plenty of bad designers.

Sometimes things have to be simplified and redefined. In some ways "undesigning" is a very important part of the design process, in order to maintain the functionality of the product. This is the real purpose of design, not making things look cute and over animated.
This trend pre-dates the NSA scandal, at least from my European perspective. The US government has legally given it's intelligence and security agencies the right to secretly claim access to data stored by American companies including data not physically stored in the US.

As a result, it's not just a matter of non-US companies and citizens not wanting to store data with US companies, in many if not most cases it's not even legal for them to do so.

As a European company, I have to give certain guarantees about the protection and usages of privacy sensitive data. Storing it under the jurisdiction of a country that does not respect that is out of the question.

This has nothing to do with any illegal activities by the NSA or their non-American counterparts. This is the existing legal regime of the US.

Of course the NSA scandal has highlighted the facts that any guarantees the US so far has given about not abusing this are null and void. From the US can get use data, it has now become the US will us your data. That will significantly and irreversibly speed up the process of taking data out of US companies.

But the process itself had already started, it is just a very slow process (no corporation or government can drastically alter their IT infrastructure within a short term). The real effects won't be felt until another five to ten years, if not more.
Looks very nice, it resembles mdCharm, which I really like. I will try it out now, thank you.
I've found at least one typo in this, there may be more. Before I fix it, what's the easiest way (other than BitCoin) to offer a reward to people who find errors?
> Why shouldn't kids have a choice?

With chrome you can develop for the web which is the most open platform that works everywhere. And if you want to develop in native, you can install crouton and do whatever you want. Chromebooks are not locked in or "jailed", they all come with a dev switch that is documented by google and encouraged for anyone who wants to use it: http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo...

This is the way it should be in my opinion, the possibility to mess up with your device should not be enabled by default to avoid confusing noobs. But, if you're a tinkerer, it should be as easy as pressing a few keys and the process should be duly documented by the manufacturer and it should not breach the warranty. This comes from a happy pixel owner who enjoys hacking on Golang, js and even ruby among other languages on my chromebook. Best environment I've had after 10+ years of ubuntu and some osx :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle
I think the author misses the point. Most users I interact with do not want to learn anything slightly challenging. They either want a magic button to do everything or they want you to do their job. God forbid they read any documentation, watch a quick video or even listen to a simple explanation. They don't need to learn how to program or use the command line, they need to give a shit and do their jobs, which might involve a little initiative and effort.
Pure Python PNG Canvas
Well, as a Greek, typing Greek isn't hard at all. Install the Greek keyboard layout (should be a few clicks in any OS) , switch to it and the letters should more or less make sense (a is α, e is ε, i is ι, etc).
Anyone: How true is that?
It's not safe/unsafe 0-1 game. Unless you have some information not available to the public you would be crazy to think it's good idea to store anything sensitive in US comparing to some European countries (if you have a choice) as of today at least. If anything there aren't many countries out there with comparable resources dedicated to spying and no countries have that extensive history of using military and intelligence information for economic gains.
Naked in public? Dreams Cloud wants to get inside your mind
This is true in LaTeX, but sometimes you need it on IMs, comments, etc.
Vim provides operators for changing case: gu for lower case, gU for upper case and g~ for swapping case.

For example, gUaw changes the current word to upper case. guu changes the whole current line to lower case.

In visual mode, you can use just u and U.

Bonus useless tip: g? encodes and decodes rot13.
How does that work? Pressing it alone is escape, pressing it in combination with another key is Ctrl?
Seems like a lot is happening in terms of start-ups going after the on-line "Dreams" space, is 2014 the year of online dreams?
You can easily find full episodes on YouTube.
I know, I said that as a snarky conclusion. It's just that you really don't need a full OS in these days of 'everything in the browser' to learn. I say to learn, because web-based everything is often a little bit too slow and resource consuming as of now, but to learn you don't need snap fast interfaces and interpreters.
Is it possible to install regular Ubuntu or something on a Chromebook? I'd absolutely hate to see kids use computers whose operation they do not control.
Show HN: iOS-Blog gets a new flat and responsive design
I hope for a return of text instead of icons. Text is less ambiguous, does not require guessing, is accessible and clean.
It's interesting that Google is hardy being scrutinized for using exactly the same tactics for which Microsoft was vilified a decade ago.
Chat app in sinatra powered by Jubilee(vert.x)
One difference is that many professional programmers use syntax highlighting when working, but I don't think many professional English literature scholars colour the words in Shakespeare.
Android is more and more like the mobile equivalent of desktop Windows. Now they have the huge pirate market in China too.

When this happened to Microsoft, certain strategy-oriented parts of the company were happy to see Windows spread everywhere as quickly as possible and deal with piracy later, whereas others were more concerned with the bottom line and how to extract revenue immediately. Google will have to deal with the same political questions.

It's funny how Android even has its own versions of OS/2 in the form of BlackBerry 10 and Jolla's Sailfish -- that is, competing operating systems that proclaim to be technically more advanced while offering reasonable app-level compatibility with the dominant system. (I suspect that BB10 and Sailfish will share OS/2's fate in a few years. Too little user benefit against the high cost of lacking access to the dominant vendor's services.)
Lets be realistic about how the "rape sufferers" incident happened. They started with some list of standard medical conditions joined against users:

condition user
dermatititis 1
rape 2
athletes foot 3

Then they did this:

SELECT UNIQUE(condition) FROM user_sufferers

<h1> Lists for sale </h1>
{% for condition in conditions %}
<li> {{condition}} sufferers </li>
{% endfor %}

Fundamentally no different from

["Keep Calm and {{verb}} a Lot" t-shirts for verb in list_of_verbs]:

http://singularityhub.com/2013/03/20/keep-calm-and-rape-a-lo...

The fact that things like rape, pregnancy [1], etc are detectible by computers makes great headlines. But we shouldn't act as if MedBase was deliberately targeting [{{condition}} sufferers for condition in hot_button_list] - that's fundamentally dishonest.

[1] See the case when Target knew some teenager was interested in products X, Y, Z, where the correlation was driven by the underlying causation of pregnancy.
Thanks for Haroopad!

Can someone translate this page to English? http://pad.haroopress.com/page.html?f=markdown
It is possible. For example Ubuntu is installable on some phones.

It is like Linux 15 years ago, there are a few good drivers and one has to check compatibility charts.

Other problem is hardware detection. OS on PC can detect what hardware is installed. On mobile you need hardware map. There is no way to have universal installer for all mobile phones.
NSA doesn't intend to use the data about you just now because you are not a person of interest for them. But they need it in case if you find yourself on their way in some point in the future (i.e. you find a proof that the event x/xx was a false-flag attack or there is a little gray alien in president's attic) then they will use it against you.
The only problem with these comparisons is that the majority of people do not need ECC memory nor "workstation" GPUs which are in fact, inferior to their gaming counterparts on many workloads and mostly exist as expensive dongles for CAD applications.

Really, the Mac Pro sports a set of $3000+ "workstation" class FirePro W9000's, which are egregiously marked up versions of last generation GPUs. For the price of a single D700 in the Mac Pro you could buy 3+ Radeon 290X's.

A PC user building a high end system would not opt for Xeon CPUs, ECC RAM, and workstation GPUs. They'd put in top of the line consumer CPUs with liquid cooling, top-end current generation NVidia or AMD cards, all for a fraction of the cost.

And in an Apples-to-Oranges comparison on major benchmarks, there's be practically zero different in performance, the PC would whup the ass of the "workstation" class system in games, and some DCC apps might perform slightly worse.

To show what a rip off these workstation cards are, there used to be a jumper hack for NVidia cards that would turn a consumer GPU into a "Quadro" workstation GPU, which would allow the workstation class OpenGL drivers to work, and the result was no different in benchmarks.

That is, the "workstation GPU" turns out to be a HW dongle to allow OpenGL drivers tuned for triangle throughput to run.

The exception is if you are perhaps running long running simulations. ECC could be useful there. But for Final Cut Pro? The ECC and workstation GPUs are overkill.

There isn't an Apple tax, there is an "Intel tax" and "workstation tax" on unneeded/overkill HW that delivers marginal returns to performance for enormous extra cost.

I love the Mac Pro's design, I just wish it came in non-Xeon/non-FirePro GPU versions.
While I think the Mac Pro is a nice bit of kit, it feel heavily specialised for video editing, post production and 3D work with a quiet profile.

But if your speccing competing kit, why wouldn't you build a 'better' product, rather then trying to find the exact parts. Your never going to build an off the shelf system with the same parts, make it quieter and keep it under budget when apple is pumping them off the production line.

Why would you spec a wintel system with a single 12 core proc instead of 2x hex (or oct) core procs?!?!? The 12 core part is rare and expensive, compared to the commodity 6 core part.

Why would a workstation grade machine at this point in time not have a mirrored disk array?

Why would you not have either 10gbit or quad 1gbit ethernet. Bond these up and connect to fast NAS / SAN storage for storage. Alternatively use a SAS connector and directly connect to a JBOD. A dual proc server board might even have 14 SAS/SATA ports to allow you to have a nice local storage array running RAID10/5/6.

An Intel Xeon E5-2630v2 (hex core, 2.6ghz) can be had for $792 AUD a pop.

Not to mention that you can put hundreds of GB of ECC memory in a Dual proc Xeon board.

Some people will value size over performance/price and think that such a machine will never be a replacement. I think on the other hand having a RAIDed system disk and much more ram is more valuable for my workloads.

While they will sell thousands of them, I really don't see the value outside a small number of applications optimised for OSX. For these workloads the cost is insignificant compared to the productivity.

Its disappointing for those hoping Apple might finally build a decent general purpose workstation, but with such limited upgradability I can't see these being used for a lot of the applications that people considered the previous mac pro for.
Memoize all the things?
Apart from Matt Cutts responding personally on HN, people trying desperately to sell you Adwords, and press releases; they may as well be a black hole.
Checkout how Tinrit is planning to killing record labels
After reading your comment I made the switch as well.

For others reference, you can use Jekyll with LightPaper if you switch your highlighter from pygments to redcarpet which supports triple-back ticks (variable 'markdown' should be 'redcarpet' in _config.yml file).

Spent an hour at least changing all my blog posts just so that I can now use this editor without ANY issues at all.
Scala is much more than a functional language, its more like Java done much better, not all of its useful features are functional. Maybe you meant clojure?
Have to agree here. The last thing we need is more motion. There are very few instances where it benefits the design.
Nice lists!

Maybe you can enable the GitHub wiki so that others can edit them using "Markdown" too?

The lists are provided in yet another plain text format (YAML). Reading them using the GitHub website is not so nice, and it feels weird especially as it's about Markdown a direct format-competitor..
The README says:

we recommend using version (Python) 3.2 or higher

It requires Python >= 3.2. It didn't run on my Ubuntu machine which has default 2.7

And it doesn't support tables or code syntax highlighting. [Of course, I know they aren't part of the original Markdown].
If that's good enough for you then great. But there are people who lose their savings, lose their family, and still don't make it, and end up miserable. While the guy who took a soft corporate job and spent his time outside work on hobbies and family might be better off, even if he could've made it big.

The path of the artist or entrepreneur has its rewards, but it's not for everyone.
Do you need a CS degree to become a programmer? Of course not, I don't have one but I can program.

Does a CS degree make you a better programmer? Most certainly it will! It will give you an optimal background on which you can build solid knowledge. But you can't be 100% sure about that either.

Can you learn everything and more than a CS laureate by yourself? Of course you can, especially today that information (mostly about technology) flows free online. You can order books from amazon (Knuth anyone?), etc.

As my genius Math professor once said: "When you come to the oral exam session, I will ask you a question. In 99% of cases, the answer is: it depends..."
I'm no Vim wizard, but don't most of the commands work like that? You could type e.g. 6~ to change the case of 6 letters at once.
Amazing bandwidth though.
I don't mean telephone necessarily, but 'live' recording

Not sure what's the laws on that, but yes, it's better to check
Food labelling laws are a good thing and can solve that.
Yep. A lot of this was true of the old Mac Pro as well. I didn't know a lot of people who had even those, but those who did had absolutely no need for ECC RAM or server Xeons. Or for that matter a case made of steel. The Apple tax on these things isn't so much in the price as in selling you things you don't actually need with no way to customize them to your needs.

Note that I don't disagree that Apple makes probably the best overall laptops on the market. But on the desktop, both low and high end, their products are almost pure gouge.
When people say "I have nothing to hide" I hear "history schmistory" and "I won't speak truth to power, ever".
HP and Lenovo make nice SFF workstation. I wanted one of the HP ones for ages, I like SFF and want a workstation styled desktop for work
Thanks, I guess that explains why gg is needed to go to top. In my editor it's just g. Maybe I'll come up with something clever.
Is there a way to fetch this as a file instead? I took a quick look at the source but couldn't see a readily available source to DL.
this
"Google offers the Android codebase for free download, but this is only part of the software needed to make a phone viable"

is simply false. You have everything needed for a "phone" and even for a "smartphone", you simply miss google services that might (West in particular) or might not (East in particular) be perceived as a must have by consumer.

See for example all the android-based phone that ship with alternative markets, maps and similar services.
But doesn't translate. Quite literally.
Obama's NSA Phone Spying Reforms Might Make Things Worse
it's true that "Living and breathing the space gives you the background to draw on using intuition" but, at the same time, that's one of the reasons people tend to miss disrupting changes: they are simply so far out what they are used to they don't even consider them possible.
Well...if Americans cant get things changed with votes in their own democratic society, at least non-Americans can get things changed with their own wallets. (Debated using quotes around democratic...left 'em off after all...but it was close). Americans obviously can change things with their wallets, but it's more difficult, and involves a lot more steps like encrypting before sending, etc.
Less than 25% of the mobile market is hardly a "major hold out."
So many saints are considered as much for far less than he's helping accomplish.
Also, many in government are entirely aware that the visa system is broken and do all they can to change it without legislation. Changing the criteria for the O1 is a simple way of freeing up more visas.
sad how linux fell behind on keyboard customizations.

used to be the only place where i could replace caps-esc and use altGr for accents.

now windows with autokey(?) allows me to use caps as esc if pressed once, or ctrl modifier if pressed with another key.

i cant find a way to do that in linux now.
+1 for reslate :)

I use it combined with a hyper key mapping (similar to OP) and enjoy it very much.

my config file:
https://github.com/n0nick/dotfiles/blob/master/slate/slate.j...
On of your graphs is labeled with the "JavaScript" snip from the current page version, the other one from the older revision of the page:
https://web.archive.org/web/20020210063149/http://paulgraham...

And how is "Nemerle" relevant? Never heard about this one, it's sad as languages like PHP are not listed, even as there a discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2817369
Sounds like what lots of telcos do with dap/ldap already. And there are some insanely fast in-memory implementations of it.

Maybe not to eliminate the local state itself, but definitely for the organisation / state sharing / layered security / persistence and many other things he listed.
Predictions for e-commerce shipping in 2014
Consider obfuscating that just a little, so that googling for for your actual username wont bring up this post.
Its worst than that. A least with Windows on PC clones, you have control over the hardware and can update to your hearts content. Android makers often change the interface and can interfere with you from getting updates.
Markdown itself does not support tables, you need to fall back to pure html tables as per the spec

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
> One of your graphs is labelled with the "JavaScript"
> snip from the current page version, the other one
> from the older revision of the page ...

Noted - thanks. The second is substantially revised, taking into account many comments made by others, and including many more languages. Not sure I'm going to change it/them now, as it would take a while to find the DOT source, edit it, etc., and it was only ever intended as a bit of fun. People ended up taking it so seriously, it caught me by surprise.
Modelação e Análise de Risco no Projeto de Estruturas
Turn Your Online Canvas Into Natural Beauty 
I wish I could’ve used that royal blue from the fluffy cushion covers I saw at my aunt’s place the other day in this new poster on water animals that I am currently working on. Or, maybe, that deep bold touch of crimson from the graffiti on my neighbor’s backyard into this new logo that I am designing.