skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the one piece of hardware that really matters to me: the keyboard. This is totally in the realm of champagne problems, I realize, but my muscle memory is so tuned to the apple layout, down to the key size, that using something at else this time is a constant reminder that my fingers aren't quite home.
But that isn't the point. The point is that in Google you don't need to do that — it just knows what you're searching on (possibly) due to the personalisation.
Notifyr – Receive iOS Notifications on your Mac
Google's Feedback Tool – Highlight / Blackout
Same with "ChromeOS" → "Chrome OS".
The NSA can tap all the cables they want, intercept all the router shipments they want, detour every plane they want; that won't make the discrete log problem any easier for them to solve.
At least Dallas is automobile-optimized. SF is shitty in terms of public transport but I'd argue even more shitty for driving because of high traffic, odd routings, stopping at every intersection for a stop sign or traffic light and worst of all complete lack of parking. I fondly remembering looking for well over an hour in a 10 by 10 block radius for a spot to join a party one Saturday night in a residential area around Japantown, only to excuse myself and give up and drove back to Mountain View.
It would be interesting to trace the true lineage of this (or any) legislative edit.

It has a smell if an outside source, as though our laws are not written by our lawmakers.
I like the arrowed version that DDG uses; I haven't seen that elsewhere (that I can recall) so far. I think the arrows encourage clicking on it to find out what is behind it, and most folks will probably not want or need to access the information behind it anyway. I prefer less text clutter personally. My personal favorite menu indicator is a small triangle in the corner of the screen (that you mouse over to get to the menu), but that is even easier to miss if you aren't expecting it (the triangle needs to be large for touch interfaces but if standardized could be set to be tiny or not graphically displaying for folks who know it is there and have a mouse).

Also, even if not perfect, I would love if sites that use infinite scroll would standardize on something to get to the stuff that is usually in small text at the bottom, and that icon seems as good as anything to me.

Firefox just changed to the three lines menu icon for the main menu so a bunch more people who haven't noticed it before will be forced to figure out what it means.
It most certainly does. Reread it.
Yes; my argument is also that Levison started with a bad hand, and then went all in with his users accounts as collateral in what was, essentially, a ludicrous bluff.
No, I've never dug in enough to understand. I'm much more in the "wait and see" camp about FRP... if it works, great, I'm glad someone's thinking about it, but the philosophical spirit in which it is being approached rubs me the wrong way (and after a few tries, I can't seem to write my characterization of that philosophy in way that doesn't sound insulting or sarcastic, so I'm going to have to leave it there, sorry). YMMV.
An article on The Hill (http://thehill.com/policy/technology/206686-privacy-advocate...) says that the change was made at the behest of the Obama administration:

"[A]fter moving through the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, where it saw some changes but retained the support of privacy advocates, last minute negotiations between House leadership and the Obama administration have left the bill with weakened language when it comes to banning mass surveillance, advocates say."

Disappointing on many levels.
Author of 'Breakpoint': "Facebook must shrink to survive"
Amazingly this can't be accessed from the UK, a bizarre consequence of the license fee:

We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com.
Exactly, TBH I don't understand why we don't have the conduit equivalent of the shipping container. i.e. a completely standardized, royalty free design for laying cables in urban environments that are completely interchangeable and manufacturable by any company.

From there, the city can just lease the space on a basis of (meters * diameter * demand coefficient for a particular route)

Does such a standardized conduit design exist?
So while this is fantastic - if you pay attention to the first part of it - there is still a heavy dose of propaganda tied to the perception of how this all came about - as if it was some surprise emergent behavior that is outside anyone's expectation that this would have occurred.

As opposed to the reality that the whole thing is decades in the making and we can track exactly who built this thing. (Hint: who build PNAC?)
I think [0] is an example of what Terry (TempleOS [dead]) is talking about. Graphics certainly give the terminal a fun feel! =)

(sound warning, there are some very raw tones)

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EV...

P.S. The REPL command line in TempleOS is very cool. You can even disassemble your shell functions.
I've never heard this argument being made. The more common charge is that those who roll back the security apparatus are "soft on crime"
Aero-X hoverbike goes on sale in 2017
I see why HN keeps the flamewar rules the way they do. This is a good example of where # comments > # points pushes the post down in ranking.
BBC re-posted the article from this source: http://mosaicscience.com/story/arrested-development
Supporters of heavy documentation seem to emphasize its value in communicating functionality to other programmers, whereas opponents seem to emphasize the hassle of writing it and keeping it up-to-date.

I think a key to documentation that is both easy to understand and easy to maintain is to have good usage examples of the code. They are a very straightforward and concise way of conveying both 1) what something does and 2) how to use it. I like to say, "the right usage example can be worth 1000 words of documentation."

Check out https://sourcegraph.com (disclaimer: I am one of the creators). It parses/analyzes the code to identify function calls, type references, etc., and uses that to show you how a piece of code is used. Currently supports Python, node.js, Go, and Ruby. Would love to hear anyone's feedback!
This is an interesting perspective. I'm from Marin County (the "classic" cloister of the rich in the bay area). While I was growing up (1985 - 2004), there was already a cultural gulf in the community between the older population (families that had purchased houses before the prices spiked) and yuppies who were buying housing at hugely increased prices. On paper, many people in Marin are very wealthy, but in practice this isn't as common as the stats suggest (An ex-girlfriend's parents weren't well off enough to help her attend college, but her parents were considered too rich due to their house for financial aid).

I've been lucky enough to have parents who could afford to help me with school, and have an interest in a lucrative field (computer science). However, many of my highschool classmates did not have one (or both) of those advantages. They are also squeezed between a high cost of living and the lack of jobs that provide a realistic living wage. However, unlike migrants from other areas, the less fortunate locals do not have another home to go back to. I know families that moved their entire family out of the state while their kids were still in school because it became financially untenable to live in the area.

This situation reminds me of the ongoing situation in SF. There are plenty of stories (anecdotal though they may be) of long-time residents being forced out of communities by the economic climate. It is easy for outsides to look at the Bay Area and see a city made up of tech workers making $100k+ a year, but the reality is very different. The same is true of people who bought their houses in a different economic climate. At least the parents have the "escape value" of their houses, as long as they're willing to sell off 18+ years of their lives.
Welp, some lawyers are gonna get rich, the people who lost money will get a check for $2.

Justice.
Tldr; eating salads

In the past I did crossfit. I enjoyed the short time commitment: 30 minutes, 3 times a weak & it allowed me to become very fit. However, I hurt my hip & have never wanted to go back to that level of extreme exercise for fear of further severe injury. I'm not a paid athlete & don't really need to be that fit.

In the past I've tried 2 types of dieting that made sense to me and each worked very well: Zone & Atkins. The catch is that Atkins is hard to sustain with little variety and a lot of temptation; while the Zone is enjoyable & not hard to stick with but you must be active much more so than when on Atkins.

For the last 2 years I've been very fit, with no more exercise than random walks and general stretching every few days. I got married and my wife, and now I, eat a salad before almost every meal. It's had an astounding affect on me. I still eat the yummy, high calorie high carb goodies, but much less than before. Btw, my wife makes amazing salads, nothing too exotic but nothing too boring.

From a Texan who eats his fair share of BBQ, salads can be very enjoyable.
AMC premieres its computer drama Halt And Catch Fire on computers
Possibly related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
Context: http://pastebin.com/qh6Tta3h https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
I wish this was actually true. But is even a 5000 dollar ticket going to matter to someone sitting on 50 million in cash? I strongly doubt it.
Because we all know how the Tea Party-heavy House has done whatever Obama wanted
My point is that if the first Vanity Fair article is correct, that "Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft...", then Mini-Microsoft could not help but to discuss it a lot. As he and his commentators did, in chilling detail.
Is this lawsuit related to the anonymous disclosures made last month by a supposedly ex-Google employee?
For anyone curious about how this works: it's a new feature called Apple Notification Center Service (ANCS)

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreBl...
What is with the terrible stock images?
Del Yocam Arrested in Oregon
Outside of vitriolic tech sites, I know of no one in the real world who associates Apple products with herd mentality or even anything particularly negative. They're just computers. People really don't care that much.
This effect is also used to generate these images http://cvcl.mit.edu/hybrid_gallery/stein_series.html

From the page "In the eight hybrids arranged above, at a close proximity, you will perceive Albert Einstein. Each image carries a shadow of an ulterior individual as well. Stepping away from the images will reveal eight respective identities of notable figures that exist in the low spatial frequency of the images, and Einstein will slowly disappear. Each hybrid carries a dichotomy of fame arisen from diverse disciplines, and a legendary cognitive intellect. The conversion of which gives rise to unique personalities."
Unified Particle Physics for Real-Time Applications
"Survived" is not a good description for gutting its potential capacity by 90% by switching from FTTP to FTTN.

Looks like it will also cost more in the end once you factor in the lease costs for Testra's existing network. Guess that doesn't appear in this governments' books and they can kick the can (pun intended) down the road.
I have never seen a refund personally or on any of my client's accounts, but they do reportedly refund any money associated with the closed accounts
The House leadership loathes the "Tea Party" types with a burning passion, e.g. along with the rest of the Republican establishment has made it very clear they prefer a Democrat winning to a "Tea Party" type. And is ever ready to cut a deal with Obama; there's no surprise here, especially with how much power a House majority leadership team has.
This pretty much happened to me too, a regular user went after me particularly viciously. It was a bad enough experience that I never posted again. That was in 2002/2004-ish. Ten years on and that enormous asshole is still a regular contributor. I have nothing against the moderators, they are some of the best on the 'net. I don't even have a problem with most of the participators there. But there are about three regular users that for me cause so much hatred to well up when I see just their usernames, that I rarely ever go back.
Joe knows!
Allow me to just... drop this here....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_of...
Terry Gross's interview last week with two of the subjects of the FrontLine series, Bill Binney and Kirk Wiebe was also excellent:

http://www.wnyc.org/story/frontline-doc-explores-how-sept-11...
if you like this you'll also like spark, for sparklines in the terminal ▁▂▃▅▇

https://github.com/holman/spark
Is Atom extensible enough to compete with emacs?
Twitter's Streaming API with Ruby on Rails
So if that trackpoint issue happens sometimes (every couple of minutes or so, not on every movement), then that's AFAIK inherent to the technology. It recalibrates itself if you let go of it for a second or two.

BTW, having only ever used thinkpads with disabled trackpads (I agree they suck on thinkpads), how do people not touch these with their palms all the time by accident?
Wouldnt be great if bills were edited in github or something analogous so you could see who committed the gutting? Oh well, back to my ipython notebook.
To be clear, I'm pretty sure that Peng! wasn't actually selling drones, insurance or hugs. There are no goods or services. They were not making a product.

So to adjust your example, if a group had a political complaint against Foster Farms and made a website claiming to sell obviously foul products, that would be a rich example of parody. "Damaging the brand" is pretty much the goal in an action like this.
I'd be FURIOUS if my CDN cut off service to part of my customer base, so they could attack one of my customers' mutual other vendors. And you better believe our ticket system would overload with angry tickets about how our web platform is broken again.
Or it will promote open source as a solution. If Windows 8 is banned, maybe Linux will be considered?

If I were a government official in China (or any major world power for that matter), I would definitely pursue a policy that reduced dependence on closed source American software in critical places (operating systems and networking hardware).
I'm glad you've mentioned this. They keep coming up in my area for Ruby On Rails job listings on LinkedIn. I'm glad to find out they're a scam before I "apply" to them.
I thought much the same thing. While it is high it is relative to global demand areas for houses (units and apartments are in a different category for a reason). Demand is high in SF and it isn't just because of the tech industry.

Some stats for Australia just to put another perspective into the mix.

Median house prices for Melbourne:
http://www.reiv.com.au/Property-Research/Median-Prices

Median house price for Sydney:
http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/sydney-melbourne-...
Nobody is saying the city will cease to function because no ordinary workers can be found.

But there are problems. Perhaps the simplest of which: I personally feel like you ought to be able to live in the city you serve.

The more complex problems get into the inter-city dynamics, the sleepy commuter towns, the slums that wind up surrounding the wealthy areas...
So you have 60% of X. If you need X, you have to subsidize the difference. Where does that money come from?

Anyway 60% is probably too high, because it's misleading to compare SF alone with NYC. You might better compare SF with Manhattan, or better still compare the greater Bay Area with greater NYC.

Having used transit pretty extensively in both areas, I also think NYC is less balkanized. If we could reduce the number of different agencies running transit through the greater Bay Area, I think there would be less waste and less misplacement of resources. Today there are multiple agencies even within SF proper.
Two notes:

First: This was bound to happen eventually - Google can't keep hiding behind the "we don't want to explain it to you because then others would exploit it" excuse for not reasoning out why they have cancelled an account. They just need better immediate fraud detection baked in (unfortunately a lot of unmitigated and spammy adsense accounts can be very lucrative in the short term).

Second: Good god it will be interesting to see who comes forth in this lawsuit. I have a few Adsense sites so I keep my ear to the ground in the forums. The people that whine about being shut down are most commonly 1) running some blatantly spammy sites or 2) won't show their site (so my assumption immediately jumps to them being spammy or doing something to game clicks (menu manipulation, adsense links that look like navigation, popups over ads, etc). Sure, there are exceptions, and I expect that will be the main plaintiff here, but it'll be interesting to see if any of the spam folks try to sneak in there.
The problem is that wireless is a shared medium. If you have a certain amount of spectrum, you can transfer a finite number of bits per second using it, and that capacity is shared between all devices in range. The bandwidth available in a certain chunk of spectrum is a physical limit. There is no way to expand capacity other than by allocating more spectrum, and radio spectrum is extremely scarce. So the more users you have using cellular for internet, the less bandwidth they each get.

The solution when you want to have "wireless" devices but there isn't enough wireless spectrum is to use wireless for the "last 50 meters" rather than the last mile. In other words, you have fiber to the premises and then WiFi within the building. By keeping the wireless power levels as low as possible you reduce the number of other users you're sharing the spectrum with and allow each user to have a satisfactory amount of bandwidth. Then reserve cellular wireless for users not in a building, e.g. accessing a map from your car, and have all manner of stupid bandwidth caps to discourage usage of cellular wireless whenever it isn't strictly necessary.

> Is a mesh network an answer?

No. Mesh networks would allow you to have more bandwidth per user by reducing wireless power levels and shrinking the geographic size of the collision domain, but that would require peers to act as repeaters between other peers and the tower. That's an epic fail. It adds latency, reduces battery life, impacts reliability if any peer's device is flaky, has security implications, etc. Wireless mesh networks ironically work much better for fixed-position devices than mobile devices, because they can use directional antennas, don't have the extreme power constraints mobile devices do, etc.
I found seven in my University's books, but they'd all been corrected by the time I handed them in.

I hope you framed that check!
There's an old saying in the car world – people buy horsepower and drive torque. Car companies always talk up the HP (even when they're kind of sad for the weight of the car, but I digress)…

ISPs sell peak speeds and customers live the reality of the fine print that talks all about it being a shared line and that real speeds will often be lower than the advertised peak…

Yes, it's their fault, but no, it's not – expecting average consumers to fully investigate every spec and to understand things like SLA guarantees for every product and service they buy in a world that is growing ever more complex has to end somewhere right? At some point, that total burden becomes unreasonable from a user-centered perspective, right?
You can have your dogma. I'll be a concern troll who doesn't make major life decisions based on trendy opinions. I will do the research. Thank you for the intelligent debate.

Ideology is the enemy of free thinking.
Another tip is to add dots in your username on gmail. You can send emails to:

e.x.a.m.p.l.e@gmail.com, example@gmail.com, ex.am.ple@gmail.com

Every one will be sent to the username "example"
How can it be 3:2 aspect and HD at the same time? It's one or the other or it has rectangle pixels.

Edit: nevermind... comes in 3:2 AND HD display. This is what happens when you read while doing something else.
United States of Secrets (Part Two)
I wonder if you could implement Mystery House in the terminal now.

Also maybe you could do color lines with ANSI.. although overlapping lines wouldn't work.
I'm not familiar with housing costs in SF, so I'm not sure how considering surrounding areas would change the data, but I know in DC that the surrounding areas are by-and-large as expensive (and in many cases more expensive) than DC-proper.

The point being that whether you consider DC-proper, or DC/Arlington/Bethesda/Silver Spring/McLean doesn't really change things too drastically. Expensive cities tend to be expensive everywhere. I know that in Atlanta, for example, you can live in the city center in a nice place roughly for what it costs to rent an apartment of comparable quality pretty much anywhere in Northern VA. There is a floor (a very high floor) beneath which you will not find quality housing and really not much of a ceiling.
exactly. Plus even if I'm on my phone I prefer the speed and reliability of my own Wi-Fi.
Earthquakes in SF are definitely not rare:

"There is a 63% probability of at least one magnitude 6.7 or greater quake, capable of causing widespread damage, striking somewhere in the San Francisco Bay region in the next 30 years." Source: http://www.earthquakesafety.com/earthquake-faults.html

And I would say it is not true that most of the value is in the land. Even if it is 50/50 between land/house, losing 50% of your investment when the house is destroyed is still a terrible prospect...
I've had money put back into my account for fraudulent clicks semi-regularity. It's fairly insignificant but they do have some repay system.
How do you depeer my customers' provider without depeering my customers? How do you cut off a router's network access without cutting off access to the networks behind it? How do you blacklist a /8 but not one of its /24s without an exemption list? How do I prevent Bob from forking my code, but allow people who fork from Bob to fork the modifications he would do to my code? How do you join tables on 2 databases when you can't authenticate to the first?
More search results than layout, but as a friend pointed out, "open source office suite" produces notably and significantly different top results in DDG and Google.

Specifically: the DDG results don't rank the arguably top-rated open source offic suite (LibreOffice) at the top of the results page, instead showing an order suspiciously similar to that of Bing. Google (both logged in and out) puts LibreOffice at the top of results, as does StartPage.

Some argue a bias against free software by DDG. I apply Hanlon's razor, but this is one example where improving results would be a bonus.

Screencaps of results:

http://imgur.com/a/XAb1F
> 1) I can install an unpopular Linux distro onto it (NO VM!).

Is it possible to still install Ubuntu through the Windows Installer?
It's interesting you are being flippant about starting companies elsewhere, and leaving SF at the same time. Aren't you basically taking a great dev (yourself) out of SF to NYC, proving that the best "talent" isn't necessarily in the bay area?
Diet is the most important. Highly recommended a paleo type diet. No processed foods or sugar. Forget counting calories. Just healthy whole foods. Meat, fruits, veggies, nuts, etc. No breads or sugar. Down 25 pounds. Works great for me!