skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At what point does the law of diminishing returns kick in?

Well, diminishing returns have already begun by the time you get to the sunlit uplands of about 1024 × 768 (non-interlaced! in 16-bit colour!). Every further step up feels somewhat incremental in comparison. But are further steps worthwhile? Yes. There's a reason why people use maps and papers printed in 600dpi and above, then spread several of them out at the same time on a big table. Can you display this chart http://xkcd.com/657/large/ so that all of the text is clearly legible, and without having to scroll or zoom? Can you display this chart and two long excerpts from LOTR side-by-side so that all of the text is clearly legible and you can move between all three just by moving your eyes, without scrolling or zooming inside any window or moving, resizing or tabbing between windows? If not, then your monitor isn't as high-detail as it should be and/or doesn't cover as much of your visual field as it should. And that test doesn't come all that close to testing the upper limits of what you can usefully do with progressively-better displays.
Yes, but most of comments under that post are irrelevant since Riot.js no longer depends on jQuery.
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Interesting way to use Excel to keep a record of how many words he's written ...
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Everyone I've ever seen who has talked about how much they 'get' Social Media Advertising has been a snake oil salesman.
Redundancy is a key part of unreliable protocol jokes.
Washington DC pervasively uses speed cameras and it certainly slows me down. People now drive the speed limit on a freeway where the speed limit is an absurdly low 45 mph.

Complaints about some wide boulevards where the city routinely ran speed traps probably played a role in spurring the mayor to increase the speed limits on some roads. Certainly that's better than having absurdly low speed limits that people ignore.

The police chief credits the widespread speed cameras for a reduction in traffic fatalities.
Unless they use their judgment in a very non-random way that doesn't improve anything. There are many places with photo radars, which are basically money collection places. The road is straight, the traffic is low, no buildings around, the speed limit is lower than anyone will expect and the local police will always wait there.
GHash.io reaching 50% is something Bitcoin proponents have been loudly insisting couldn't ever happen.
I agree. A real FBI agent would have handed her a letter imposing a legal obligation to keep silent about the conversation, and she would be in jail now. In the alternative, it was a social engineering attack, and we're supposed to admire how they didn't fall for it.

More to the point, if it's possible for her company to compromise customers' communications unilaterally, then the service is insecure, regardless of what promises they make or what type of encryption they (claim to) use.
Abraham Lincoln — 'The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.'
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in that case you can just buy 10k chinese likes on ebay for a dime. They are worthless except increasing the counter.
I always thought it would be interesting if Venezuela started accepting bitcoin for oil.
Here in the UK OFCOM would come down on you like a ton of bricks, if they noticed.
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The story here is that the e-mail was sent without any action on his part - much different than driving by her house.

Google shouldn't be sending out invitations without an action from the user.
Relax. You don't have to stress yourself out about these things, since you soon won't have much of a choice anyway.

The day will come when you can't get car insurance without active tracking. It is just too tempting for insurance companies to reduce their claim investigation overhead/cost with that technology.

Of course, strong privacy protection laws could keep this from happening.

Yeah.
Converting to a cryptocurrency could be a viable alternative to "dollarization" or other end-games when nations have currency crises.
>On another note, it was very clear checking off do not track in the vehicle.

I cannot see it remaining this way. It is just a matter of time before the OEMs buckle and sell your data to an enterprising third party in exchange for the ability to lower costs. The auto supply chain is notorious for being a bloodbath of cost-cutting. It's a perfect cultural fit.

Not saying that you won't retain the option to turn off tracking as these systems become more widespread, but it's just an illegible TOS away from being opt-in by default with a buried opt-out.
What was that about the sky's the limit for great design, was there a prediction there? I expect predictions to at least some quantifiable component about them.
I'd recommend you go for quality over quantity. Make a decent game every month or some longer period of time, rather than a generic arcade game every week.

But, whatever keeps you motivated. Keep going.
Not really a vulnerability, so much as a fact of life: If you don't lock your house (ie, turn on disk encryption), the door is, well, unlocked.
Is the Internet of Things Secure?
I guess I can sort of understand this viewpoint, but I barely have to turn my head at all to go from looking at code to the browser. I can move my eyes between code and the browser (for instance) faster than I can switch between virtual desktops.
That option will turn off the ability to turn on 911 assist upon starting the car. I haven't been able to turn off the pop-up notification that comes up for a second that says "911 Assist Off".. as soon as I hit reverse the backup cam takes over the screen and I don't see it again, but clearly someone wants you using it.
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And, as public employees, they're often eligible for public pension programs, as well. Someone could coach for a couple of years and then spend the rest of their career as a janitor, but still retire with a 6 or 7 figure pension.
Someone will write a guide to disabling it within a day.
Nice, but 6 is a bit much for me given my situation.

On the road with 2 LG 23" monitors (6.5 lbs each) and a Dell M4700 laptop. i3 WM provides the tiling needs. Love the setup, not too much context switching (i.e. changing virtual desktops) and sufficient screen real estate to do my work.
Plays the theme music?
Sticker on car: "My other car is a cdr".
Agreed, the concerning theme is the required usage of tracking software, without the opportunity to opt-out in an effective way.
> Look at Penn State for a prime example of toxic "athletics are everything" college football culture.

> Look at the numerous recruitment scandals in which players or players' families were offered money or perks in exchange for matriculation.

I graduated from Penn State in 2011--the year before the Sandusky scandal broke. It was easily the darkest time for my school, and I don't know a single person who wasn't feeling a mix of horror, shame, and disgust at what went on. While the connection between the football program and Sandusky's actions (a retired coach since 1998) leaves room for disagreement amongst reasonable people, Penn State is one of the few schools that handles student athleticism properly. Recruiting scandals, perks from boosters, and lackluster academic achievement from student athletes are problems that Penn State solves as well as any school out there.

The New America Foundation ranks top-25-BCS-ranked football programs by academic achievement of their players. Anytime Penn State's football team was ranked in the top 25 in the BCS, they have also ranked highly (usually #1) in New America's "Academic Bowl".[1]

I'd also like to point out the fascinating example set by John Urschel. He finished his math undergrad degree in three years with a 4.0 GPA[2]. He then finished his math masters degree the following year, again with a 4.0 GPA[3]. He has written academic research articles[4]. He writes software[5]. He teaches an undergrad math course[6]. He's also a graduating offensive lineman with a real shot at the NFL. He's weighing that prospect against the option of pursuing a Ph.D[7].

[1] http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/blogposts/2012/the_2012_..., http://higheredwatch.newamerica.net/blogposts/2009/third_ann..., http://www.newamerica.net/blog/higher-ed-watch/2008/second-a...

[2] http://www.personal.psu.edu/jcu5018/cv.html

[3] Id.

[4] Id.

[5] http://www.personal.psu.edu/jcu5018/publications.html

[6] http://www.personal.psu.edu/jcu5018/cv.html

[7] http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/sportsman/news/20131204/joh...
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In the expense of time I'll keep this short: Facebook likes are more important than you may considered. After working with online marketing we found out that Facebook suggest your likes to people in your networks. That means if you like a certain page, your friends are most likely going to be shown that like, hence increasing the possibility of them liking your page.

I myself have discovered many pages, articles and even bought products online based on what Facebook suggests I should like. Like the shoes I'm wearing now. It really does work even though there isn't an easy way to track it. Don't underestimate what a Like can do.
"People drive a speed they feel comfortable driving. Full Stop."

Reminds me of this AutoBahn video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utOX6R4ImNg&noredirect=1
The politicians would simply carve out exemptions for themselves. I have seen no evidence that .gov has ever been this responsive to the impact of the laws they write.
If that is true, why would these companies spend so much on advertising?
> On another note, it was very clear checking off do not track in the vehicle.

That checkbox doesn't, and can't, mean anything. You don't get to opt out of law enforcement requesting a second-by-second stream of your location data, and neither does Ford.
There's some hacking that has to go on at the OS level with OSX to have any monitor > 27 inches. The trouble lies in that the operating system wants to natively believe that you're actually using a TV, not a monitor.

To get it working you need to fool the OS into thinking that it's a monitor again: http://embdev.net/topic/284710#3027030
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I use FB advertising to generate leads for my retail education business. We use Adwords too.

CPL via FB is about $1 (we're in India) and the CPL via Adwords is about 80 cents. Conversions: FB is basically garbage, less than .5%, while Adwords does way better and gives a positive ROI.

I have used Adwords retargeting but not FB retargeting, has it been beneficial to anyone?
Absolutely not secure.
Riot.js has a big advantage, being very tiny and fast, unlike any other bloated MV* solutions. In fact, everything you need is included in pure JavaScript + a little of glue code which this library provides. Moot proves that there is no need for overcomplicated large frameworks to make a fully featured web app. Speed is the king. That is why I think this microlibrary approach has a future.
A vast majority will not succeed in their venture

You are correct that the vast majority of collegiate athletes will not go on to play professionally. However most of them are well aware of this and actually can read and do take their academics more seriously. There are countless numbers of people who were athletes in college and who go on to success in professions other than sports.

The truly elite athletes who are very likely going to go on to play professionally also know this and may very well not have any intention of completing a degree.
> Several colleagues found the display shockingly bright and were frustrated that the brightness adjustment did not actually reduce the backlight intensity.

In 2007 I had the idea to use my 28" flatscreen TV as a monitor, took me three days before I had terrible eye strain/migraines/light sensitivity.
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The other way to look at it is they also know when you aren't breaking the law so maybe you could subpeona Ford's records to prove that cop was lying when he said you were speeding at 25 over.
Really impressive demo!

Been using Pinegrow a few days and it is much better executed than Macaw, Divshot, Muse, Dreamweaver and similar, mainly
because it's based on node-webkit and as such uses a proper
DOM, less error prone and perfect testing since it actually use a browser.

I also like the UI better, this seems to be made by someone intending to actually USE their own app.

Do hope to see extensions/plugin support soon!
I understand that, and it is perfectly fine to have that opinion, you just may find that many disagree with that opinion.
There's definitely still some weird IE bugs, although they're more (but not exclusively) on the JavaScript side now rather than CSS.

For example, if you have a form without a submit button in IE 10, and a `<button>` element anywhere else on the page, IE will treat the <button> as the submit and "click" it for you rather than submit the form. If you don't have a `<button>` element though it will submit the form as expected.
> E.g. when importing a library like JQuery, you're paying for a lot of crap in it that you don't need.

Although a plus of something like jQuery, if you get it off google's cdn, is that probably most users will already have it sitting on their disk so you they won't actually need to download it. It gets cached by default for up to a year.
Privacy issues aside, a more interesting analysis would be to determine what percentage of car drivers do not break the law. Assuming analysis is purely on breaking speed limits, then further analysis could be done based on type of road (residential, motorway, etc), % above speed limit, number of miles spent breaking the law etc.

Correlate this data with accident black spots (insurance claims, type of accident, time of day etc).

You could even do route analysis and focus resources (e.g. a particular area has a large number of cars driving to schools and back, could a cycle/foot path help alleviate this).

This would be a fantastic set of data to get your hands on.
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Just because overstock is using coinbase doesn't make it any less decentralized. Either party on both ends of the transaction can be using coinbase, or they can use another service, or they can just send things manually via the commandline (bitcoind, et al). If they were using something like dwolla, then as a consumer, I too would have to use dwolla ... but bitcoin is open.
I have friends working in traffic departments for various cities. They tell stories of sending out speed recommendations based on the design of the road, houses, intersections, etc. The speed limits come back from the politicians much reduced.

Roads are designed to be driven at a particular speed. This is the speed most drivers use.

Having a lower speed limit gives a false sense of safety. It's basically the "think of the children!" argument.
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Awesome, keep at it. :D
Or if El Salvador and Panama dropped the USD as their currency and used BTC.
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But you are doing a merge possibly every time you push to the trunk, are you not? So if I got it right, the difference between branch based and trunk based style is how long you let your branches to develop, both in time and commits. The one extreme is a branch for the whole release and the other is a "branch" for just a one commit. Feature branches would be something in between.

Now the problem with long branches and painful merges sounds like a communication problem between the master and the branch, just at the level of the code. We know that at the level of people timely and terse communication is key to a successful project. So the same would kinda make sense at the code level too.
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I was just in Holland where there's a lot of traffic cameras. They also have this thing called "Trajectory Control" where they track your license plate at the beginning and at the end they calculate your average speed. If it's higher than the speed limit, BOOM, you can expect a fine in your mailbox.

All of this was originally intended to increase safety on the road but the funny thing is that instead of watching the road more, I'm busy watching my accelerometer.
I think the difference lies in finding the security hole and testing the security hole. In most of the cases that the hacker is persecuted, the hacker has tested the hole, i.e. downloaded data illegally.

If the hacker simply notified the people responsible before retrieving any data, I don't think that the hacker would be persecuted.
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Buying likes (beyond a certain point) anymore is largely an outdated methodology. Once you've got a significant number of likes for your Page on Facebook (which is kind of a case-by-case number, depending on your brand, business, demographic, etc) you don't need to focus as much as building an audience.

Facebook has released a wealth of tools via their advertising platform in the last 12 months that make serving ads to the users you want to reach a much easier prospect. You don't need a super-large 2 million user base Page in order to get the word about your product out. Granted, you do have to pay for distribution now, instead of a few years ago when it was free, but the tools that are available (ad units, targeting, etc) are vastly better than what was available 2-3 years ago.

So, the article is correct in it's denouncing the value of a "like" on FB, but that value was always due to drop. Having more fans early on in the days of Pages was the main indicator of the success that a brand was having on FB. Those days are long gone, and [FB] marketers have to be more intelligent and deliberate about their strategies, and they have to be willing to put their money where their mouth is.
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If you have physical access to a machine, you can reboot into single user mode and have root terminal access anyway. I don't see how this is any different?
A tradition of friendly competition turned into a huge business.

The leagues have some rules about when players can be drafted, but those rules are more about simplifying and reducing competition in recruiting than they are about the players.
I don't think the person you replied to is 100% on the money, but assuming he is, the companies would still need to advertise so that the venue or the restaurant purchased that product.

And the venue / restaurant is going to choose what they think people like, so smart brands would still advertise to the end consumer.
In the USA, only mens basketball and football typically generate revenue. Maybe in some areas baseball or hockey might. Those programs support the vast majority of athletes (track and field, swimming, soccer, lacrosse, tennis, volleyball, wrestling, etc. as well as all the women's teams) who are in programs that do not generate any revenue.
If it wasn't slanted, it'd be |.
"Reasonable laws" are not sufficient for total/exact enforcement - this would require "perfect" laws, which is an unrealistic expectation for imperfect legislative bodies.

Your turn signal lamp was not illuminated for one nanometer less than the legally required distance...

Please realize also that the laws need to protect that "some guy you don't relate to" as well as the "everyone" that you care about.
But you see, it's not a problem at all ... at least, in the grand scheme of things. Every person that sees bitcoin in that checkout screen is going to say, "what the heck is bitcoin?"

Then the next time they hear about bitcoin (like say, on the hit TV show Almost Human http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8LqlMzEe-I), they'll say, "oh, I've heard of that before, I wonder what it's about". And so on and so on. You're doing a service :)
You must be a terrific game artist to combine tech and games like that.
I enjoyed them! I've been thinking about getting into HTML5 game development recently but couldn't think of a good place to start. Creating lots of little games like this (simple arcade games) seems like as good a place as any - perhaps I'll attempt something similar. Thanks for the idea!
I think they're just covering their asses with that warning.
"This quote was taken out of context and generalized"

It doesn't matter on HN. This gives us an excuse to continue the ongoing privacy debate for hours. #NSA #CRIME #POLITICS #CONSPIRACYTHEORY
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I get incredible value out of Stack Overflow. Do you not?

Does the fact that this question is locked diminish its value or the value of Stack Overflow in any way?

Of course, Stack Overflow is not made for interesting questions. Notice that I am not defending this descision, I am merely stating it. You know this, which is why you were accurately able to predict that this question would be closed. Why is this interesting enough to warrant commenting that this is the case also today?
Maybe you should have read OP's comment until the end before posting your angry reply. He said, that if laws were perfectly enforced, it would basically mean that the set of laws would very quickly be trimmed down to the set of useful laws. In the examples you cite, pot would become legal, and we would get better traffic laws (i.e. "contextual" speeding laws, only when children are present on the pavement/only when the visibility is low).
This might take more time than my previous Teensy project "Attacking the EFI PIN Lock" but I do understand that there are people that don't want to lose the content of their hard drive so this mechanism might work for them.
I spend 12+ hours a day coding, across a variety of technologies that I'm only semi-familiar with. Stack Overflow saves my sanity on an hourly basis.

It seems like 9/10 of the useful questions are closed by mods, though the answer is usually there anyway. I'm not sure what to make of that, but the quality there is still high.
I'm running IE 11 here and couldn't get it to crash, despite clearing the forms, focusing one of the text boxes, and beginning to enter data.
Well, I tried this in IE11 on Windows 7 x64, all three buttons works. IE11 still works.

screenshot: http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/large/798f7769gw1eceuea9cwhj211i0ox10b...
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Statutes play less of a role than you would think. I'm not saying that they are unnecessary.
And .00001% of car buyers will learn of this guide. An even smaller number of them will actually use it.
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90% of the time I see one of these build systems in place, all they are doing is running browserify, then minifying the results. Maybe they have a stylus compilation or a couple things thrown in on top. Either way, most of these tasks would be much less complex in simple bash or node. Does a build script like this really need to be abstracted away?:

https://github.com/morganherlocker/turf/blob/master/build

And yet there are still requests on this project to switch over to grunt or gulp. I just do not get it in most cases. Big tools when not required create a sort of open source equivalent to "vendor lock in".
You may have a point, growing up in the Philadelphia area, if I want a crappy beer I instinctively go for Yuengling.
It's never been tried on anything like this scale, though. Imagine literally 50% of the population getting a citation on the same day.