skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're confusing w530 and w540. w530 has a centered keyboard and no numpad, and physical trackpoint buttons. It's the new w540 that drops the buttons and shifts the keyboard.

That said, I suppose I'm the audience that Lenovo's changes are targeted to. As a current owner of an early 2011 macbook pro, I just ordered a T440p yesterday, but for a long time I was deciding between it and T540p. I prefered T540p to the very similarly priced and equipped w530 (for my price range) because of the new trackpad.

I eventually settled on the T440p because of its greater portability and centered keyboard.

There's just more people who care about a good trackpad than a good trackpoint. I've used lenovo trackpoints and just can't get used to them, so I suppose it must be similarly difficult for trackpoint users to learn to use trackpads effectively, but I don't think either is inherently better.
Pirate Bay supporters plan 'Twitterstorm' for jailed founder
I think they just want to modify Git and don't have any solid C developers that can make such things. So they turned to a python solution which is perfectly fine.

But webkit, and chromium, as well as other GIANT projects which as far as I know are larger then Facebook seem to work fine on Git.
You seem to be confusing fonts with letters or characters (graphemes). A font is simply a collection of specific visual representations of graphemes, each of which should be readily understandable by any reader as a representation of a certain grapheme. An icon, on the other hand, has no strict tie to a grapheme (some might happen to be graphemes, but most aren't). Of course, Unicode, in all its vastness and splendor, has chosen to include lots of code points that wouldn't traditionally be considered graphemes, and fonts are expected to contain specific visual representations for those as well. So at the end of the day things are complicated.
> Then there were regulatory problems as the FCC tried to control deployment centrally while states and cities tended to view video dial tone as just another cable company to be taxed and regulated.

That seems like the most egregious thing in the article: treating Internet-based video delivery as a cable company. The concept of local cable franchise monopolies is ridiculous enough to begin with, and the only possible justification hinges on not wanting to have multiple sets of cables wired everywhere. Content delivered over the Internet completely eliminates that justification, leaving no possible rationale for making such services subject to franchise regulations.
Sony VAIO Fit 11A Draws You In with Pen, Photoshop Elements
I believe Orwell's main influence for 1984 came from his wife's job in the censorship department at the Ministry of Information.
In 2001, Timo Noko accidentally wrote a Lisp-based OS for his phone
Okay, someone has to point out the great pun there.
Awesome! Enjoyed the second CtF and am looking forward to the next!
Yeah. Probably not. I haven't even watched Saw. I'm too emotional. As for Dexter I don't think it's violent. It would be family comedy-drama about slightly maladjusted individual if not for all the killings. On the other hand I have friends who coldn't suffer through first episode. At the same time they happily watch something as nasty as Das Experiment. I guess there is some variation in perception of violence.
If you hire directly you can find competent employees in the Philippines with good english for around $2/hour USD.
http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/11/the-worlds-cheapest-a...

Internet cost as part of income is more accurate
PaCanvas (BETA) - Pac-Man clone in HTML5
Hi all,

Just a project that I've been working on!

It's not finished yet: I'll change/add touch movement by sliding across the screen, and sometimes the green enemy can go on "forbidden" places.

I'll fix that when I have time. But anyway I'd like to know what you think so far!

Try it: http://mazeware.com/games/html5/pacanvas/pacanvas.html

Compatibility:

Desktop: Chrome and Firefox
Android: (Tested on Galaxy Tab 3 and Native Browser)

Thanks,

Matheus.
This seems like a cool thing, it just makes me keep realizing how absolutely awful 3D in CSS and WebGL is.

It seems like every time there's a demo like this that someone makes, it performs terribly, has weird clipping problems, aliasing issues, confusing controls, and is unresponsive. I usually end up accidentally selecting half the page instead of manipulating whatever control I'm trying to use, or some other thing. I can't recall ever being satisfied with any 3D anything on the web, which is very frustrating.

Again, that's not a comment on the quality of this cool solar system thing, but just a random rant.
History editing in git is not unsafe: because it's a part of the default set of tools, git offers functionality like the reflog to keep track of old history locally and avoid losing it. It's extremely difficult to permanently lose content in a git repository even using the history editing commands; it's always just a "git reflog" away.
Why? The cost of providing Internet service has very little to do with wage differences.
I upvoted you because your point is reasonable and rational, but let me explain what I meant by my comment.

I do not believe that the ice cream shop owner is doing anything wrong - he's optimizing his business to be maximally cost-effective to him. My complaint is about the current "reality", the system overall. We keep focusing on the average user, or on the most common denominator, cutting corners and making everything as cheaply as possible. This is not wrong. I understand the reasons why things are like that, but it doesn't change the fact that it makes me sad.

When you look at movies (or video games), you don't see typos, or subpar, broken, dumb tech. Because the worlds are animated by designers, everything is perfect and beautiful. Real life is not made by graphic designers, but I still wish there was a little more beauty in it. A bit less typos, a bit more caring about quality, long-term consequences and general look&feel. They say that perfect is the enemy of good. We live in a world of good enough. I just wish, on an emotional level, things were a bit closer to the "perfect" side.

(disclaimer: I grew up on Star Trek: TNG and later)

(disclaimer2: this comment is written after a few beers, so please forgive the lousy style)
I don't think it's a good point. A font is a collection of specific visual representations of existing and known symbols. That is why you can (barring this use case) change the font of text and lose no meaning. To use the old HTML/CSS mantra: text is semantic; fonts are presentational.
oh btw this is still work in progress. but its functional atleast :).
Tabs -- Not even once.
As an Australian that lived in America for a long time, trust me when I say life in Australia with crappy internet is significantly better than life in America with fast internet.

You don't want to live there, trust me.
what happens when someone claims copyright ? Have you thought about it ? Have you got some sort of agreement for linking/picking videos ?
I have more of a django background, so I've never used any of the libraries that you compare this to. How does Sneakers compare to something like Celery (http://www.celeryproject.org/)? Does it let you kick off async jobs and get results back, or is it just about throwing messages over the wall and letting workers process them?
Much of http://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospective... applies equally well to Mercurial.
As you don't seem to know what a strawman argument is, let me explain:

A strawman argument is when you misrepresent the position of your opponent in order to have something that is easier to argue against so as to avoid addressing your opponent's arguments. Arguing against a strawman is fallacious because of the misrepresentation: Your arguments only invalidate the strawman position, not the position of your opponent, but you present it as if those were the same.

What you are seeing above is called an analogy: You present an argument that is similar in structure to what your opponent is using, but which explicitly uses different details, in order to make a problem with the argument's structure stand out more clearly.

The important difference is whether there is misrepresentation - just reframing an argument does not make a strawman, as long as you don't attribute the reframed version to your opponent.

edit: To whoever voted this down: Mind to explain why you think explaining to people how to avoid fallaciously accusing others of fallacious reasoning or dishonest arguments is not a good idea?
> bazaar expects you to have a separate working copy (directory) for each branch, but you can have multiple branches stored in the same repository without any problem

Those are functionally equivalent, in that they both mean branching is not instantaneous.
If they made a mistake, it was in trying to be friendly about it, which gave a misleading impression

No, their mistake was being lazy. They did not effectively explain their application of the terms of service and how, specifically, his post violated those terms until far too late in the process. [1]

At first all he got was "your post violates section 2.8: harassment, defamatory content, etc.". If just anyone can claim harassment and have a blog shut down for any reason with no review that would be a serious issue for customers that wanted to host content on Digital Ocean. He said "please explain how this violates your terms of service" and it wasn't until several mails later in the exchange that he finally got a barely adequate answer (by my standards).

Now, maybe in legal/asshole world, a service provider is not obligated to explain to a user in a reasonable fashion how the ToS has been violated (or even discouraged because that would make them liable for some bullshit or another). But in the human world, such neglect is a gross violation of customer service. If you are a potential customer of Digital Ocean, "friendliness" is not the takeaway from how they handled this.

The key issue is the risk of a service provider shutting you down because someone complained about your content. No one, no matter what sort of content they host, wants that risk if they can avoid it. From that perspective, the distinction between "Editorial Control" and "Threat of Account Termination for violation of section 2.8" is most definitely nitpicking.

[1] Note, of course, that we are seeing only one side of the story here. There may be unpublished emails that address my accusations that DO was lazy (although I don't personally believe there are)
This isn't really about 3D reconstruction (there exists better solutions for that already, see http://vimeo.com/61625715) rather it seems that it's more about stitching consecutive photos together. If you press C in the demo you'll see that it appears to create different 3D geometry for every photo. This approach allows movement in the scene.
I see stuff like:

promise.when(function(value){
//blah blah blah
})
.error(function(err){
//handle it
})

and I think to myself I'm seeing text replacements:

"promise.when(function(value)" = "try"
".error(function" = "catch"
"})" = "}"

So how is this actually different from the code we're supposedly too lazy to write or too stupid to figure out or something in the first place, thus requiring this slightly more verbose form?

And where is this all going? Like, what's the right granularity of lines-of-code to when chains? If programmers are too lazy to try/catch, then why aren't we too lazy to when/then/error a gigantic block, or you know, not at all? And if we were to instead [w|t]hen/error every line, then I think about DRY and and it occurs to me the most likely next step is a language that "implicitly whens your code", that every line is written like regular procedural code, but automagically has "when" inserted in the middle.

Or in other words, you know, continuations.

But it occurs to me that the only reason any of this stuff is of any interest is because JavaScript, and therefore Node, still lacks real MT support, so you have to jump through these infinitely fractal spilling callback tangos to fake it.

Web Workers was 2009, people. 5 YEARS MAN. Five years that we've been waiting to hear anything about having sane primitives for MT.
But the types of icons were talking about here (clock, fork and knife, location marker, star, etc.) do not have such a long history in web design as being monochromatic. It's a fairly recent design trend. A fork and knife icon (used to represent restaurants) could just as easily be a detailed, shaded, multi-colored icon.
Am I the only one who is pretty content with my internet service? Oklahoma City metro area. 25 Mbps down / 3 up for 45 a month. I feel like I get my money's worth.
Both: it's conceptually lightweight, and because of that "pointer to a commit" structure it's also effectively free to create and move around branches.
GitHub pages is great, but you'll probably want some time to play around with Jekyll. You can always use a hosted platform like Wordpress.com and switch off when you have more free time. Consider using Disqus for comments and Google Analytics for tracking if you want to be slightly more platform agnostic.
What do you think my answer is going to be here, lysa? Yes?

If you have actual questions for me I'm happy to answer them. But what you've asked is not a question. You're just saying that to be mean. :(
what I am doing is just embedding videos. isn't that ok?
No, you only thing you can infer, is that _not_ driving Fords and Chryslers means you are _not_ a bad guy.
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You've got to be more specific when you say "there" or at least mention what you found wrong. The US is a large country with vast differences between the cities. Your experience in one area could be dramatically different from another area in the US.
Not exactly, but close. Switching away from Git would require a tool that is both compellingly better in some key way as well as not worse for any existing workflow. I have yet to see any other version control system that meets both of those criteria, even leaving aside the network effects of using the most popular system.
True, and in the case of the HN page that was up during the outage it was actually the intended content page at the time due to some backend problems, it was a customized static page not an error page.
Google Launches Private SF Bay Ferry Service To Shuttle Workers
If you don't want ads then don't use the app. It's not your God-given right to use an app that a developer worked hard to create.
How to cure students of the "law of universal linearity"?
Very interesting perspective. Why do you think there's so much unemployment?
Oh yeah?! Well your architecture sucks!
Absolutely. Corporations do nothing but good. They bear no responsibility for their purposeful misuse of the funds.

And government does nothing but bad.

Swear on your stack of Ayn Rand books that the world would be better if we had more corporations, because they are perfectly ethical and never screw anybody over.

Yes, that's right. Never blame the con artists^W^Wcorporations who didn't do what they promised. Instead blame the government for trusting them.
It strikes me that "Life Expectancy at Birth" is the wrong measure. I suspect (and would like to see the stats) that the USA has a higher mortality rate below age 40 than other western countries but that it levels out after that.

But is life expectancy the end all and be all. At age 98 my aunt, who was of sound mind and body, was informed she'd probably live to be a 100. Her response? "Oh, God, I hope not." She lived to 102, aware and cognizant to the end.
More accurate than what?

Cringely's claim is that various subsidies and tax breaks, totaling 200 billion dollars, were given to telco operators with the understanding that a 45 mbps symmetrical connection would be developed and offered to end users. The companies received those subsidies and tax breaks, but didn't develop the system they claimed they would develop and instead built a system that is nearly 27 times slower (I use the term built loosely there since the ADSL network sits on top of the same old copper wire infrastructure that has existed for decades and decades).
There's really no city like Cambridge. The other day I saw a subway ad for genetic research that was geared toward everyday commuters: "Everyone deserves a chance to break through...Take your research to the next level..."
MacOS X: Uninstall Java 7 and restore Java 6 (from Apple)
This one is RUNNER 2, the psuedo-sequel to BIT.TRIP RUNNER.
> I'm sorry, if you want a verifiable proof with papers and references I don't have one for you. A lot of things in life don't have such proofs. But my empirical experience has been that tons of people with no idea what they are doing are ranting on blogs and tutorials and such, where hardcore programmers I know are silently getting far more impressive shit done.

I hope the irony here is not being lost on you.
It's not the affording bit. There's three classes of people in this bundle:

1) Paid for Starbound and got it

2) Paid for Starbound a minute late and did not get it, may get a refund

3) Paid for Starbound, or the price defined by Starbound, after Starbound was removed from the bundle

People are understandably annoyed by this -

http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals/comments/1un5s3/introducin...
Man there is a lot of negative snark at the top of this thread.

I'm not sure if this system is a good idea or not but I wish some commenters would spend more time comparing their proposed solutions (shared mem, local db, memmap...) to Hammerspace rather than contentless dismissal.
Mechanics of FLUXBABBITT.
My broadband service is terrible. Far to expensive, it is slow and drops packets. And the competitive environment sucks. Comcast and Regulators: go to hell.

I'll vote for any politician who is interested in improving the situation.
GitHub made better repo analytics available yesterday, and is basically exactly what you described: https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-anal...
He might have experienced our healthcare. Even if he had insurance, our system is a clusterfuck that makes everyone worse upon contact.

Or, he might be older than 30 and therefore not willing to deal with the puny two-week vacation allotment that is still socially acceptable from US employers.

Or, he might have children who will have to be educated someday, and see that a system that combines astronomical tuition plus fickle nonacademic factors in admissions ("extracurricular" criteria designed to give the privileged a huge advantage) is not good for their future.

Or, he might have lived in the Red States and be gay. Or, pardon the "he", she might be a woman. Or transgender.
Ok... so now I'm affected by ads that are actually relevant to my life... not sure how this is a bad thing.
I'd be interested to see if embedded systems development or engineering in general took this route. Imagine not having to study the textbook but learning the ropes from a master who will teach you, I think one can learn the fastest by being taught without memorizing lecture notes or reading. Simply someone teaching their tips and tricks and following through. it's an interesting concept.
Skrewdriver had nothing to do with punk. Apart from being long dead by the time the BNP formed, punk was nihilist and situationist, not fascist.
Ask HN: Why was HN down?
He was going for compliance to orders, not for information though.
Im saying its just a social network. Its not going to give you csncer or arrest you in the night or cause massive floods.

And the negative predictions related to privacy about Facdbook are largely conspiracy theories. We should take action when something seems plausible and in line with the most accurate, unbiased information out there.

I know you're making a general statement about uncertainty but I hadnt mentionsd it. The only uncertainty in my mind about Facebook is how it will shape our culture's perspective on privacy in the future. Some are paranoid, others seem to be sharing more and more of their personal lives with Facebook. I dont know how that will change.
I'm working on a similar project (which I can't link to right now because pagodabox appears to have melted or something) but one of the things I look for is copyright and author meta tags and if I find them I always display them. Youtube and vimeo, etc. might not have that but if you're working through the APIs of these sites or scraping their pages, you might consider getting the author (or username) and description and adding a link to the original site in the view page, just to make it clear that this isn't your content.

But to answer your question - sure, why not? If you have time, and it's not bankrupting you, maybe it can turn into something. And if not, you can always open source it.
That's a really good point. I hope their PR teamis thinking of stiff like that. The media does seem to catch onto ideas like that all too easily.
Yup, I enjoy Github Pages a lot - go ahead and download the Jekyll rubygem and muck about with it locally if you want to get grips on it fast.

I have a question - what do you find is the best way of hosting images for a Github Pages blog?
There are some neat cities with character. For quality-of-life (relatively speaking) you have Austin and Portland. If you think you can make it rich, there's San Francisco and New York. For historic charm, you have Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The upper midwest has a relatively high quality of life, too.

Life in the politically sane parts ("blue states") of the US, if you have a job in tech, isn't so bad. You get paid enough to get by, and you'll have 3+ weeks of vacation at a proper tech company. Just make sure never to get sick; even if you have insurance, they make it hell. Our medical system is the one thing that makes the US a legitimately bad country to live in; if we had universal healthcare, it'd be average-plus (all taken together) in the developed world.
Out of curiosity, can you elaborate on this a bit?
I have absolutely no problem with paying money to the government so damn near everybody can get decent internet service if they want it. Corporations have shown over and over that they are unwilling and actively hostile towards that idea.

The only corporation that I have seen upend that view is Google. Whether competition from private enterprise, or government these companies scream that it is unfair. No, it isn't.
I understand that a significant majority of the United States' healthcare system is lacklustre.

I understand that a significant majority of the United States' only offer limited annual leave (compared to Australia's 4 weeks).

I understand that a significant majority of the United States' suffers from an extremely high murder rate for a 1st world country.

This is a sample of why I don't want to live in the US, even though they have fast internet.
There's very little difference between corporations and government these days. So it doesn't really matter what we call the people stealing from the citizenry. Corporations shower politicians with gifts, jobs and campaign contributions, which in most other countries would just be called bribery. The purpose of this from the corporation's viewpoint is to align the interest of the politician to that of the corporation. And once their interests are aligned they operate in concert. So as this process accelerates the border between government and corporation becomes less and less clear.