skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed one of the icons he refers to was a tick/check mark. But those are present in Unicode:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_%28checkmark%29#Unicode

Does that make it an exception compared with say, the icon for facebook?
Buying a 27" with 1080p resolution is a bad choice imo, my 7 year old Dell 24" has a higher resolution than that (1920x1200). For 27" you need to go for 2560x1440 resolution or you will just waste space.
4K is even better obviously :)

In terms of differences to the Sharp Display i guess there arent many from a consumer point of view, but id wait for reviews and see if it has any weak points.
That problem is mere politics and provides no fundamental technological barriers.
You should finish both books rather than go by the superficial text in those comics. Huxley lays out a society founded upon consumerism and, implicitly, a rampantly free market. Orwell's notion of the future seems to assume that the state has such total control that those in power may have anything they desire while the rest of the proles are left to scavenge what they can from the gutter. Simply because currency is not a major topic in either of the books does not mean they do not discuss the mechanics of power and social influence.
They either warn or block all urls:

warning: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://afsdfsfsfsdfsddsddd...

blocked: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://facebook2.com
More or less this. Also, in some places, email is the only reliable way to ensure the receiving party is held responsible for responding (sad that it is needed, I know).
IVC: Israeli high-tech exits totaled $6.64b in 2013
Tone matters on HN. That is why you're being downvoted.
It could be depressing as well, since the described effects correspond to the erosion of many important public institutions (like democratic governance).

Seems like this decade is a good time for an update on this issue, now that entertainment technologies are ubiquitous and totally attention grabbing, and cognitive psychology gives it good scientific grounding.
https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://it-works-with-any-u...
You don't need those virtual machines if you use pbuilder. All builds will run under the same kernel but if it's affected by that you're doing weird things. Also, your package shouldn't depend on any meta package as it's bad style (what if that package drops a dependency you relied on?). A good package lists only the bare minimum dependencies needed to get it to work (but under Debian may recommend and suggest other packages to go along with it).
There's been a joke for a few years: the USA needs to invade America, bringing freedom, providing democracy, constructing infrastructure, and creating jobs.
Better quality direct from the comic author:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110411085435/http://www.recombi...

Removed from his website on request of Neil Postman estate:

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/blog/cartoon-blog/amusing-ours...
I wonder whats the better option for replacing my 2x 24inch Dells (total resolution 3840x1200)

1) Get one 40 inch 4k monitor to have one giant display with about the same DPI but more screen real estate and no bezels

2) Get two 28 inch 4K displays for super high DPI but less screen real restate and bezels.
> Ask HN: Where are the interesting jobs?

In your mind. What's interesting or boring get's decided there. ;-)
Right.

The nice thing about the Chinese press (xinhua, chinadaily) is that they are so biased and divorced from reality that no one takes them seriously. Just one step above the North Korean Press. This is quite more honest than the western press, which try to hide their agenda more carefully and present information that we could possibly believe.
It's just a standard notice, warning you that you're leaving Facebook and going to an external page. Most likely to prevent phishing.

Did you create that link manually or did somebody actually try to share Facebook through Facebook?
Or, they actually believe they can get reelected in a system not based on bribery.
My understanding is that this is a TN panel, not IPS.
This isn't actually true -- the latency of Thunderbolt is 1.5 microseconds, which means if you are building something (like a video card) with internal latency expectations, they will all fail.

If it had internal style latency, there would be GOBS of devices pushing to jump on it, but it simply doesn't. You can't even respond correctly to interupts... compared to internal PCI -- it is painfully slow.
Exactly. Comparing the excluding of openly hostile entities to McCarthyism is exactly Geek Social Fallacy #1: “Ostracizers Are Evil”.
I'm actually quite the opposite. I usually have my phone off or silenced when I'm in the middle of working. That being said, I'll take a break every half an hour or so to check up on my e-mail inbox and address the urgent messages.

I also absolutely despise when people text me with "call me asap", "hi", "yo", "hey", or any other meaningless variant. It's vague and I have no idea if what they need is actually important or something that I can address later, without needing to interrupt my workflow. Rather, if you must text me, I much prefer some context and information about issue in the message, i.e: "call me asap, i have a question about ______/i need _______." Really, I prefer an e-mail of a few or more sentences describing what you need.

Above all, I try to avoid the following interaction via text messages:

> Hey

< Sup?

> Nm, do you have a sec?

< Yeah, what do you need?

> I need blah blah blah blah.

Why can't people just do:

> Hey, when you have a sec, I need blah blah blah blah...

This is texting, not TCP.
You forgot the most important point: Linode has Slackware.
Priceless. This shows that generic messages can convey bad messages.
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The preferred way is to choose either www.example.com or example.com and let only one of them resolve, while the other should issue a 301 ("Moved permanently") back to the one that resolves.

The easier one to set up is to prefer the www version since it can be done with a simple CNAME and many DNS providers will offer a free automatic 301 forward for the non-www version. (But tastes differ on whether the non-www version looks better.)

Letting both versions resolve would give issues with Google indexing multiple versions of the same page, and reduces the ability to cache properly.
Like many similar issues it's a collective action problem. If everyone used OpenStreetMap then it would be much better than the alternatives and so become the defacto choice, as linux is now in many areas.

But since you can't get everyone to shift at once, you'll see a similar pattern where it eats away at small niches until it gains critical mass (assuming it does, which I think is very likely, but not inevitable).
5 predictions – the evolution of screen design in 2014
So here's a question that has been on my mind for a while. I regularly read articles on some aspect of our society that is distressing. Articles such as this one, as well as articles on 'consuming devices killing creativity', 'bite-sized articles keeping us from reading bigger material like books', 'our school system turning us into automatons', and so on.

While I find myself agreeing with some of these articles based on my observation of myself and others, I can't help but wonder to what degree they actually apply to 'the larger population'.

All these people mindlessly consuming memes on their devices could be creating something new instead. That's wasted potential. But would they in any other time period, faced with the societal dangers of those times, be any more creative?

All these people reading bite-sized articles could be reading meatier material instead. Again, wasted potential. But there was a time were much of these people couldn't even read, or didn't have access to much information, so any reading and awareness of the world at large by chunks of the population is a win anyways.

And before we had schools, didn't most people follow some other kind of pre-determined path that shaped them to function appropriately in their respective societies, losing potential in the process?

Basically, when discussing these supposed problems, are they really problems, or do these things just fall short of what we can imagine, some potential that we project on the entire population (which is not a bad reason for discussing them, of course)? Isn't it the case that in any time period there are only smaller subsections of people who create, research, and/or people who are autodidacts that eschew a traditional education for something different?

Would those of us who are amusing ourselves to death not simply do something else 'mindless' in previous generations?
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Mercurial will attempt to push all branches. It will then immediately stop with an error message unless you specify -f or --new-branch if you're trying to push a branch that does not already exist in the remote repository (or even to create a new head in an existing branch). In order to get rid of the error message you need to either (1) explicitly tell Mercurial to push all branches, (2) specify which existing branch(es)/revision(s) you want to push (they must already exist remotely), or (3) hide the branch with hg phase secret -f. This means that your local branches will not leak into the remote repository unless you specifically instruct Mercurial to do so.

Of these, only the phase approach is new (2.1+). The rest hasn't changed.
I grew up in America and holy shit really!?
It would be pretty awesome if the UAE put the interception technology on the satellites themselves. It would be a great way to get a discount from the French and perhaps a kickback from some American agency.
> To keep things equally likely, let's suppose Monty flips a coin.

Aha! But he can't! Do you see? He can't open a door with a car, so he can't flip a coin in the event that the car is behind a door other than yours. He is bound by the rules not to do so.

1/3 your door is good; 2/3 your door is bad. If bad, he MUST leave you with the good door to switch to. So in 2/3 of scenarios, you have a 100% likelihood of winning if you switch.

The answer to all 3 is 1/2. GG + "at least one is a boy" is not a possible world, but you are calculating the probability of the others, initially, as if it were, and then asking another question on top of it. You can't do that. BB is only 1/2 as likely as BG/GB if GG is a possible world for the question to begin with.
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What I mean is that I currently get my internet via a LAN cable that goes into my router box. I have a tower PC hooked via a cable to it and a laptop that connects via WiFi. The tower can achieve the full 5 megabytes/sec I pay for, while WiFi maxes out at about 1½ mbytes/sec. It's slow.
Wiping data: when I saw the "securely destroy my data" checkbox I ticked it. Why would you not tick it?

And it's actually ticked by default in the GUI, just not in the API (which is dumb, yes).
Every story is a lesson.
Confused_deputy_problem
I agree with your point re: pseudo TCP.

I don't like that I feel the need to compulsively check my email. It always takes me longer to respond than it should.
Do you know of any third-party benchmarks? I haven't personally tried DO so I can't speak to the disk throughput, but I'd be interested to see how they compare with Linode.
Dmak.js - JS library to play with SVG and kanji
To a certain extent, I understand and accept Nations spying on each other is a big game that they all play with each other. I get it. It's very James Bond.

However when your agencies are having a direct financial impact on your industries you really need to clean up your own backyard.
>The Middle East is well...it is what it is. A couple nice cities in a very difficult socio-economic environment with one industry. Depending on how you count it (European or Central Asia), lots of Turkey is actually pretty nice.

Oy, what about Israel ;-)?
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Using the vertical line count is a legacy of CRT displays and analogue connectivity/broadcasting where there was no horizontal pixel count only a maximum frequency due to the nature of the technology. There were 1080i CRTs so it is only for the next generation it is possible to change to the terminology used in cinema and professionally for some time.

Every pixel on a 1920x1080 display is replaced by four pixels on a 4K display so I'm not sure a "4 times the detail" type statement is particularly wrong or misleading. It just doesn't derive from 4000 = 4 x 1080 type logic.
This happens to my father in law here in Alaska with the plate, "NO TAG".
This is really cool. I think autonomous driving is a solved problem, however its not yet practical and too expensive. These innovations help to bridge that gap.

However another unsolved problem here is not the driving itself, but the behaviour of a human in a self-driving car. How will humans behave? How do you indicate that a human should take over control? Will they be in constant fear?

There is research being done on this, both by google: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/520746/data-shows-googl...

and by Universities in Europe: https://sites.google.com/site/itnhfauto/
Nope. If you're not in the same datacenter you're too slow; all the HFT systems are in racks next to the exchange rack communicating over 10G Ethernet.

Source: actually working on an HFT project.
I had some issues with my DO droplet, where the filesystem would randomly become read only.
This happened three times.
The response from their support was just to reboot it.
Or maybe also a third alternative could be 1) + keep one of your old screens.
How far away will they be? How good is your eyesight? How big is your desk?

I would probably go for the option (2) provided your eyesight is good and the screens close enough to get some benefit from the higher density.
That's a very brave statement, given that there's currently no clear data for Tin/Tungsten/Tantalum/Gold smelters' ore origins. I've seen the data. Two of the eleven tantalum smelters on the planet have been audited. The others aren't sure where all their ore comes from. Big problem. Working on solving it.
Codesign lies
I noticed the source of the article was voice of russia so I looked for other sources:

http://www.france24.com/en/20140107-competitor-sabotage-behi... (french news)

http://www.euronews.com/2014/01/06/france-uae-spy-satellite-...

Suggestions are made that the US or another bidding competitor planted the spying tech to ruin the french-UAE deal.

Still can't say if we are talking hardware parts or software backdoor.
I often go on rides around mountainous areas on my motorbike with a video camera attached to my helmet (some videos here http://www.youtube.com/user/slashtomeu/videos ). Since I carry a GPS as well, I've always wondered if I could reconstruct a 3D model of the landscape I ride around in.
Other post with way more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7021614
>> To keep things equally likely, let's suppose
>> Monty flips a coin.

> Aha! But he can't! Do you see? He can't open a
> door with a car, so he can't flip a coin in the
> event that the car is behind a door other than
> yours. He is bound by the rules not to do so.

Read again ... I said:

> To keep things equally likely, let's suppose
> Monty flips a coin. Heads he opens the left-most
> unchosen door that doesn't reveal a car, Tails he
> opens the right-most.

So I allow for that. I have him always flip a coin to ensure that every branch of the game tree is equally likely, even though in 2 out of 3 cases it doesn't actually affect his choice of door. It's a standard trick that is proven to work in the real world. More, it's supported by the appropriate measure theory versions of probability.

Please, stop assuming everyone except you is an idiot.
It's buttery-smooth for me on IE 10 (not yet on Win 8.1, so I can't check th fps in the dev tools), jerky (< 30 fps) for both PNG and SVG in Chrome (with PNG being actually slower) and very jerky for SVG on Firefox.

Chrome is puzzling and suggests that there are other factors at play that result in poor performance here.
As you are talking about reasonably sized input, your constant examples should also be reasonable. 10000 times difference in the constant is not reasonable. You wouldn't even get that from going from all data in the level 1 cache to random memory access with 10 times more instructions.

And "these papers" often do care about running time and will say whether it is possible to implement the algorithm efficiently, if you're lucky they'll even have done an implementation and you can see at what dataset sizes they are faster in practice.

And even if it were slower in practice, research like this is very useful, because it helps gives other researchers inspiration, ever since someone thought of looking at these problems like electrical flow in 2010, there have been ever faster approximations for it, while others will find ways to implement the algorithm efficiently, just in case a naive implementation of the offered algorithm isn't efficient enough.

Dismissing such research without having found any actual extreme inefficiencies in the proposed algorithm is not an attitude suited to anyone who wants to see progress.

And finally, the actual speed increase in the past decades hasn't been from O(N^2) to O(N^1.9) but from O(VE^2) to O(VE), which obviously does have a real impact, and even with a non-realistic 10000 times bigger constant it would still be far faster in any graph with more 10000 edges. And graphs with billions of edges aren't unusual anymore.
Yes, IIRC parts where a little dull but it gave me a fresh point of view..

Remember thinking that TV did not end up causing all the problems he thought...

and then thinking that maybe it did, we just can't tell anymore
Isn't the probability of c and d half that of a and b? If BG is the case, there's 100% chance he's talking about the first child. If BB is the case, there's a 50% chance he's talking about the first one, and a 50% chance he's talking about the second one.

BG, giving the first - 1/3
GB, giving the second - 1/3
BB, giving the first - 1/6
BB, giving the second - 1/6

[Edit] You're right. Tables can be a bad way of thinking about it, because you have to make sure each option has an equal probability for them to work. This is okay when you have a single variable (like in the original post), but gets tricky when you introduce a new variable (as you did: is the father thinking about the first or second). Once you get past one variable, trees are probably a better but still simple representation.
I don't think we read the same article, obviously you are forcing what you have decided his identity is and are trying to fit it into the article. Just like how people see giraffes in clouds when they are just clouds.
Indeed. There's an extreme inequality of quality of life and public services, and it shows up in statistics.

For instance, taken individually, Massachusetts has a higher Human Development Index than the fabled social-democratic paradise of Norway.
I prefer to use email for most communications as it makes it a whole lot easier to pull up past conversations. If I'd had communication in the form of calls, texts, IM's (probably on multiple clients) as well as email, it'd probably be more difficult to pull up any information that I may need later on.

Using email alone allows me to search for specific conversations, and not have the trouble of losing or having great difficulty finding conversations.

I do occasionally use Skype and IRC, but I know which people I communicate with on these platforms, and keep on top of documenting anything I may later need to refer to.

I agree that if you need something urgently, then a call can be great. However, for general communication, I see no issue with using email.

I think it'd be a more interesting topic to discuss how to efficiently use subject headings, as I've often had important emails slip under the radar, and less important emails demand some form of urgency that isn't existent.
The default Lazy IO issue has been addressed in pipes-bytestring:

http://www.haskellforall.com/2013/09/perfect-streaming-using...

The pipes ecosystem ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Pipes ) is working well to offer {effects, streaming, composability} without the resource leak issues introduced by lazy IO.
I am not sure if I would call Jack Nicholson's Joker a goofy prankster. Well he was, but... he was just a different flavor "all out sociopath" than Ledger's Joker. I say this as a huge fan of both Batman (1989) and The Dark Knight (2008).

I am assuming you must have been talking about the Adam West TV series Joker.

I do observe the same trend as you however in general. I think the rise of of video games has a big role. People can play action movies now. If they are going to be reduced to spectators, the movies need to one up the games on other metrics like storyline and acting (rare), or effects and violence (more common).
My understanding is that the physics of imaging satellites is pretty precise, even a few ounces bias on one side can make the whole thing useless. Getting equipment of any sort installed on a very expensive satellite without anybody knowing would be pretty much impossible. I can't even imagine the complexity of designing such a device...it's not like it's a device that can be fired from a gun 300 meters away that sticks to the satellite and some 007 type happens to make the shot while the satellite is in transit to the payload fairing.

It would have to fit perfectly within the power and payload envelope of the satellite and literally not be noticed by any of the engineers or designers working or designing what's essentially a 1-off piece of space hardware. And having it in relative isolation during assembly for months or even years.

It'd be like somebody sticking an extra hard drive or NIC in the computer you built at home and you not noticing it.

Anybody care to speculate what this device was within the bounds of physics or is this just paranoid politics over some specialized American built hardware that France needed to source for the comm system?

The stated story smells.

http://www.france24.com/en/20140107-competitor-sabotage-behi...

has a more reasonable analysis

Finding backdoor technology two months after signing a contract that neither the UAE experts nor the French engineers had been aware of also seems unlikely, according to both experts.

"The most likely explanation is that a competitor has planted a seed of doubt in an attempt to sabotage the deal," said Charret.
I agree that general communication is a different animal all together. I'm talking about when you need someone to do something.
Orwell's book was entirely about state power; it was a parody of Stalinism. He was in the awkward position of being a socialist who'd been shot at by hardline communists during the Spanish civil war, and wanted to warn the left that Stalinism was really dangerous and should not be associated with.
I think this was the original source, and it says 2 hardware components from US:

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140105/DEFREG04/3010500...