skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Un)fortunately they quite often make some fantastic hardware. I'm just disappointed that the whole horror of the various computer misuse/hacking laws weren't thrown at them for those CDs.
Those maps are paid for in many ways, just not one where you have to swipe your card.
Inelasticity of demand from complementary goods comes into play when the complementary good is relatively very expensive or difficult to replace.

Consumer printers cost about the same as an ink cartridge or two. Consumers aren't "stuck" paying for more expensive ink if manufacturers decide to start screwing them on the price.

[edit: wanted to add this]
Even with the ridiculously complementary goods of automobiles and gasoline, more expensive gas shifts consumer demand away from gas guzzlers.
I recently switched from Windows to Mac for my main work computer. Paint.NET is the program I miss the most on a day-to-day basis. Does anyone have a recommendation for a similar program for common uses like e.g. screengrab a web page then put a 50% transparency yellow highlight on a portion I want to call out? I'm happy to pay, but know next to nothing about the Mac ecosystem.
I want it now!!
But I bought a Sony E-Reader before a Kindle 5 years ago. Their customer service was very bad :(
funny enough, they have not even written their own FAQ or manuals with this font
Let me send you an over the air update to your geek control unit. You're supposed to be cackling with joy along with Elon.
Actually, nope!

While it requires more initial force, that extra energy due to added mass is stored in kinetic energy, and contrary to popular belief, it does not affect efficiency. There was actually a myth busters episode about this.

Electric cars would store this added energy in their regenerative breaking, so it shouldn't affect energy consumption.

Also, the added weight of steel over titanium would be negligible, maybe 100 lbs tops.
Paint.NET is, by the way, the only donationware which I'm aware of which makes the founder(s) a full-time income. Well-earned, too -- I've found it indispensable over the years.
Which shows me a page with a big green DOWNLOAD button, which is actually an ad...

The download links are below the fold somewhere.
You can try Pinta - http://pinta-project.com/download.ashx
Ask HN: Starting indie game dev.  need advice
So I've decided to start in the game development field. I am a programmer, and I have 2 friends with skills I need, graphics and audio. I love both of them dearly, but they have their flaws. I am concerned about several of these flaws and how they will apply to our project. I am not really sure how to bring them up to them, or if I even should. does anyone have any advice on how to constructively bring it up in a conversation and address my issues? the issues include, laziness, smoking too much pot, and general lack of ambition, among other things. After watching the indie game dev documentary on netflix, I know what it is going to take to make this dream of mine a reality. however, i cannot do it by myself. I am personally willing to put in the time and effort necessary, but how do I inspire them to want the same?
The link is fixed in the next release. I will ask about the password rules - that does sound annoying.
I haven't seen any fake Elon Musk articles on there. Can you show me some of them?
exactly my point - this is purely a marketing stunt.
What matters is making the appropriate comparison. Which in this case would be with a population of high-end gasoline driven cars of equivalent age.

The population of extant cars contains vehicles that are decades old. It's ought to be unsurprising that they have a higher rate of vehicle fires than the Teslas do. How to the Teslas compare with (say) BMW 5-series cars less than three years old?
Yes? Unless you are making something for your own satisfaction of having made it, the responses of the people consuming your product are the most important thing.
That actually makes a ton of sense. I think this should be trumped up more than the parallel abilities.
I beta tested it and it was so slow and cumbersome that I gave up on using it because it just got in the way of trying to do anything.

It was super light and cool but it's so damn big and fragile feeling that it didn't feel safe putting it into a bag. It was just one more thing to carry around.

You had to connect it every time to transfer files on or off of it, could not even email it out. Supposedly the only service it was going to work with via wifi was Evernote. We asked for dropbox but that didn't seem like an option. Felt like the future in concept but more like using a palm pilot.
Also, 38*2 = 76 > 75. So... he's wrong, as far as this particular comparison goes. I know that's not the point---that the point is the order-of-magnitude comparison. But _someone_ at CNN needs to be checking this kind of thing, right?
After nine years, the Million Dollar homepage is 22% dead
No, I believe that you are still mis-interpretting the push broom scanners. A greyscale push broom scanner would have a single row of pixels that are lined up perpendicularly to the direction of travel and whose rays are in the plane perpendicular to the direction of travel. So yes, these rays would span many kilometers, but only in one direction. In order to image a 2D area of the planet the entire satellite would need to traverse down it linearly - which is something that satellites happen to be quite good at given how fast they are moving. This is almost like how a document scanner works - it translates a line of sensors across a document to construct a full 2D image.

For a full color image, three linear sensors are used, each displaced some distance along the direction of motion. So the fact that the rays are spreading out in the perpendicular doesn't change the distance the satellite must travel to image the next part.

For example, your second paragraph doesn't hold. The large separation of rays only occurs in the direction perpendicular to that of travelling. Note how your method would be imaging the same place multiple times on each pass whereas a push broom scanner would capture each one just one.

For your third paragraph, I agree that this could be done but that's simply not how the sensors are aligned and that difference is important. In particular, it's the very difference that I'm trying to point out.
"This website abuses rawgithub.com. You should complain to its owner."

is what I get?
There's also a chance that they'll adopt the Webkit embedding API, which would make Servo a drop-in replacement for any software that currently uses Webkit. Though it hasn't been decided for certain whether to pursue this route.
None of which has anything to do with vehicle fires, which is the topic at hand.
Ask HN: How do you deal with that feeling that you aren't doing enough?
Often times when I'm not doing contracted work or working on my own startup, I feel like I'm not doing enough to be productive. How do you deal with that feeling?

Personally, I found that reading books or learning a new development stack makes me feel like I'm using my time wisely.
A LAMY is around 35 bucks, and for me at least it writes better than a 300$ pen that I inherited.
You can try running VMWare Fusion, Parallels, or VirtualBox to run Windows and therefore Paint.NET :) I personally use Fusion and it's been great for purposes such as this.
Then they have to track WHO to give papers too and who not to. And also sending a kid home with info doesn't require parents to be tech adept or to check their email often which a good number of people don't.
I love that feature. One bar for the various menus and the other for the list of open windows. I often have several versions of the same application open while working and it is easier for me to find the right window on the open window bar than the alt+tab interface. When I upgrade Ubuntu again, the first thing I will do is install Gnome 2.
> Consider the possibility that he wasn't using shallow strawmen

Let's have a look at the article again, then:

If you are like everyone else on the Internet, your immediate response is "Whoever is saying that is obviously a racisty racist who loves racism! I can't believe he literally used the 'I'm not racist, but...' line in those exact words! The old INRB! I've got to get home as fast as I can to write about this on my blog and tell everyone I really met one of those people!"

If a man thinks parts of the reason why some men are jerks toward women is because women actually are more likely to date jerks than people who are respectful, she can gleefully declare "You're a Nice Guy (TM) and therefore Worse Than Hitler (TM)!" and point and laugh.

If those are indeed both truly representative and real anecdotes, feel free to correct me, but otherwise I don't see how they are more than just shallow strawmen.

> also consider that your comment might be an example of exactly what he's complaining about!

I did consider that, but I personally think that that it isn't, so maybe you could give me a hint as to how my comment embodies any of the tendencies described in the article.

Consider that asking me to consider these things could be a way for you to suggest that they are true without having to resort to actual reasoning.
is it /r/circlejerk or what ?
I would really love to drive a Model S. I'm not sure if all of the Californians on HN realize how special CA is for seeing awesome cars. I saw cars that I never thought I would see in person (in my lifetime) when I was in CA. Not only that but you would see them a handful at a time. I know of 4-5 Model S' in the Pittsburgh area but rarely see exotics.
Try Skitch [1], it's awesome. Example of yellow highlight:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s16/sh/0d23774d-cbb7-433d-8af...

1. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/skitch-snap.-mark-up.-share....
MAC knives are also good. But I think the main thing is to keep them sharpened.
Who? A PR drone who would say much while communicating nothing, and do so in the most boring, robotic manner possible?

Normal people don't spend their time thinking about how much more they would like it if an executive's statements conformed to the PR industry's self-serving standards.
Vladimir Putin: The Rebuilding of ‘Soviet’ Russia
There has been a bug open since early 2011 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/732653) This is one of the most annoying thing of the Unity interface, but they just don't want to fix it because it's a "feature".
A fork in the career road
I'm a tech lead and I may be promoted in the future. My options are to 'level up' as a pure engineer or manager. Can you help me weigh my options?

I'm a jack of all trades. I don't have a PhD and I don't have depth of expertise in a single area: I won't make Principal Engineer. I still love to build systems and I enjoy coding, but I want to code in a team and not in the isolation of my office.

The value I bring relative to other good engineers is the energy and drive I bring to projects. I'm stubborn (in a good way), I'll out hustle people, and I sweat the details. That makes me a good tech lead.

I'm not sure how well that translates into a full manager role. I'm also slightly concerned about losing my technical skills. In my last job I was a tech lead and recruiters constantly asked me "do you still code?".

If I do choose the management route how would I ensure that I can still get a job in the future? For those SDEs who've transitioned to a management role, how did you find getting your next job thereafter? How many stayed in management? What were the pitfalls you experienced?
I would not trivialize it. Isn't there another way to look at this? If this kind of information becomes common knowledge and everyone picks the correct font wouldn't the overall ink savings for the whole world be even more significant? I know I am stretching it a little but I hope you see what I am trying to say.
Thats a terrible metric if you consider that some cars cost more to insure not because of the vehicle or make but simply because of the kind of people that tend to drive it.
How times in the police have changed since 1839
Facebook Will Build Drones and Satellites to Beam Internet Around the World
Websites like this are why people hate Windows.
Actually, my wife fixed it for our kids' school.

She runs the mailing lists on a volunteer basis. Each classroom has a list. Each class list is subscribed to the grade list. Each grade list is subscribed to the all-school list. If this went across the whole district, the school lists would be subscribed to the district list.

All lists are moderated; they're used only for announcements.

Each year, the first flyer to come home is the "how to subscribe for your kids" sheet. The benefits are clear: less paper, faster delivery, no depending on the kids to pull it out of their backpacks to show you. The lunch menu goes out as a PDF. The PTO announces events that way.

Setting it up in the first place takes a couple hours and the cooperation of the school secretary; getting the school IT involved turned out to be a big lose. At the beginning of each year, there's an hour or two of reconfiguration -- new teachers, retiring teachers, that sort of thing.

If you don't sign up for it, you get paper. More than 80% of parents sign up.

Are you thinking, sure, you live in a fancy school system? No. More than half the kids who go to the elementary school qualify for free lunches. 78% of the US has internet access at home. Parents of school-age children disproportionately have cellphones and are willing to take email.

And no, you don't put "Johnny has been inappropriate in class" on mailing lists.
LUPO – Find, Secure and Control all your Bluetooth devices
Tesla provides a Google Maps interface at no additional charge, even to owners who didn't purchase the Tech and/or Nav options.

If you purchase Nav though, you get GPS turn-by-turn guidance in an additional heads up display on the dashboard. That option is supposed to eventually cost money to update, I think after 5 or 7 years? And it probably won't be cheap. That said, it is really nice that it doesn't get 5 to 7 years stale before you have to pay for an update. I like the model.
There are lots of online image editors, Adobe have a photoshop inspired one (http://www.photoshop.com/tools?wf=editor), there's Aviary, Sumopaint, Pixlr, ... I looked at a few a while back http://alicious.com/online-image-editing-update/ and settled on Pixlr.
The argument here is that while it may be simpler to do it one way or the other, there might actually be savings to be had if enough people opt for the digital method.

It's not like these documents don't already exist in a digital format. The "challenge" would be maintaining the mailing list.
I think the author is going too far in his last part and most of the people who describe themselves as feminist who I've met aren't anything like the stereotype he gives. But it's also true that I have met people who call themselves feminists who do behave in the way he describes. So it might be stereotyping, but it's not a straw man.
I'm not sure what you're saying. I think you are either saying the same thing as InclinedPlane (see my response) or are suggesting that either intentionally or due to tolerances in machining or some such, the red and green sensor units are at some small angle from each other. Assuming you're saying the latter, since the distance is large, this small angle contributes a large displacement on the ground. Afterwards the image would be stitched together to compensate for that via some calibration routine which would work for only stationary objects.

That is entirely plausible, I hadn't considered that before and had just been assuming that the satellite construction was 'ideal'. This sounds like the most likely reason for such an artifact to occur, though I still wonder whether this particular imperfection would be done given the high level of precision necessary for the entire project.
Why not with factor 5? Or 42 ?
Exactly that feature on p19! And what a nice manual. Those B/W pixel patterns are so pretty.

I wish there was a way to run those old programs. I once managed to get KidPix in B/W to run on an emulator but somehow it stopped working. I always felt that MSPaint was to pixels what Vi is to text. (Photoshop/Paint.NET/Gimp are more like Word)

Why has noone made clones of those old paint programs? (Maybe I ought to stop whining, and just do it myself. That manual is a great reference, though.)
Obviously, this could just be corporate PR disguised as a blog, but it seems plausible when I consider how rarely I even go to www.facebook.com. For users not on mobile (I'm imagining grandparents), an immersive photo experience creates a nice experience but one distinctly unlike what most mobile users (which is to say, most users) experience. I can see big laptop-screen filling images deemphasizing text and overshadowing some of the utility that FB wants to assume for users. It might seem daunting to share an update that you're making tea for your granddaughter when you seem to be competing with your relatives' screen filling, HD photos and videos. "Immersive" pictures might make you less likely to check your events.
I would say a 14-year-old could achieve this is pretty impressive. While we give credit to his creativity and relative scientific investigation of this matter, things shouldn't be stretched too far as to recommend everybody to adopt this font everywhere. In this case, this seems the case. A printed document is meant to be read, and it is unclear if using the said font will have any impact on readability, and other usability issues.

Think about it: for the sake of optimizing ink use, the trivial solution is 1) Use the smallest font sizes possible 2) Use the 'thinnest' font that arguably uses the least ink. However optimizing a single varible in this way is clearly not desirable, because it defeats the goal of printing documents. A document is meant for someone to read, no? :)
You can do this in Preview.app. :)

Edited to add: BTW, Shift+Cmd+4 is a super useful shortcut from taking screen grabs on the Mac.
This is terrible. What a waste of effort! We have a machine that translates a simple fact into few paragraphs of text, so that thousands of people can spend time trying to do exact reverse when they read it.

Why don't they just publish raw facts in the computer readable form?
I kindof wonder if it's going to cause more deaths on the road when people who think they're important and drive like this are going to do so more confidently.
Selfiecity – Investigating the style of selfies in five cities across the world.
Also don't forget the usual thing: News, by definition is stuff that happens rarely (and thus is note- or newsworthy). So in turn it's rarely something that we need to worry about.

Edit: I see, someone else has quoted Schneier exactly on that already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7487144
France: focus on incoming entrepreneurs and stop obsessing about those leaving
Allianz Real Life – insurance pitches made on top of Street View scenes
I think the true originality is pretty hard to come by. There's nothing new under the sun.
Like Yetanfou I use a motorbike to get to and from work (no sidecar though, maybe in the future for winter riding!). I absolutely love to air out (literally) my head on the ride home every day. I get home totally relaxed.

This is probably helped by the fact that the activity of riding a motorcycle is much more demanding than some other forms of transport this mainly because of all the cars that are actively trying to assassinate you daily!

Because of this focus it is much easier and actually important to let go of work-related things!
As long as you don't busy wait and only update the parts of the screen that change it's not too hard to write software which doesn't impact battery life too much.

EDIT: To add, obviously minimise network connections. And if you do need them, batch them.
Look at relative numbers, not absolute. This saves next to nothing. Sorry.
Sites like this need to be called-out and shitlisted.

They have no regard for whether computers get infected. It's even worse when it's a site for supposedly "legitimate" software (or any download) allowing huge green [DOWNLOAD] buttons and deceptive ads. These links almost always lead to spyware/malware traps. We all know it. Many of us wonder about how many people it hurts. It's obvious to most of us to decipher what is/isn't a correct file. However, it isn't obvious to a general audience. And that's a very serious problem for anyone who actually cares about other people.

It's also a reason I leave adblocking off for general browsing. I like to see which sites are careless. Regarding Paint.NET itself, it's one of the closed-source programs I use sometimes while on Windows. Sure, it's a good step above MS Paint. (Maybe one of these days it'll have basic effects brushes too.) Yet any credit I would've given to their effort goes right out the window with a shameful site. But that's a calculation for revenue they're making: one they'll have to live with.
The funny part about "her" was when the protagonist was trying to figure out whether Samantha's emotions were real or fake. Of course they're fake. She's a human actor in a movie being paid to read lines to fake being a computer that's faking being a human.
Elon is always very defensive. Instead of being diplomatic, he reacts with long-winded arguments and makes public spectacles, like the Top Gear controversy, the New York Times controversy, his response to the car fires, and the public and political feuds over car dealerships. Besides that he'll lob casual insults at hybrids and insinuate he should take over all of Detroit's plants, etc. He should just not ever be allowed to talk.
Elon is revealing too much hubris in his messaging. You can treat people around you like that, but lining up too many people against you is foolish.

His intent is to PR+burnish the added safety feature. Instead of selling it as an objective demonstration of the leadership tact that Tesla takes in ensuring driver security, he gets passive-aggressive.

Instead of laying out a tremendous history of safety as a foundation for a vision of the future of driving, he lords it as an accomplished achievement... which means the first time someone gets stuck inside the car and is burned alive, all these statements will bite him in the ass. It doesn't matter if that happened 100 times in gas cars the same year. Those manufacturers weren't overselling it.

In aggressively projecting strength, it expresses weakness.
The built in picture viewer (Preview.app) can do this:

* Click the pen in a box button next to the search bar. A new toolbar will appear.

* Click the rectangle button between the wand and the oval. Three new buttons will appear. If you mouse over them you can see what they do.

* Draw a rectangle around the area you want to highlight.

* Click the fill color button (it's right next to the border line thickness button)

* Choose "Show Colors..." from the color menu that pops down.

* Select any color and any opacity of that color to fill the rectangle

Here's a of keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph11229 These shortcuts will put the images on the desktop.

I prefer to use a little tool call SnapNDrag to do screenshots. It's $10 on the app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapndrag-pro/id430397512?mt... It's a simple app on top of the operating system's existing functionality. It's just a fancier version of the built in Grab.app.

(Also, if you haven't looked into Alfred or Quicksilver for app launching, I recommend it.)
Not yet, both myself and Tom Loosemoore (deputy director of Government Digital Services) have queried about this here - http://blog.tfl.gov.uk/2014/03/12/why-a-new-website-but-no-a...
Yup, I really wish there was video footage of it.
Just taking a guess here but that pen is probably passive and the screen is capacitive. Unless there's some multitouch capability in the reader that's just not ready yet, placing the wrist or palm on the screen would definitely screw up the pen pointer.
Why does it have to be a slow process? That sounds like a cheat workaround for the difficulties of defining "self" and "consciousness".