skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> desktop uses the Mountain Lion wallpaper.

It's not exactly the same as far as I know. You can use another picture of the same Galaxy without it being the same picture. Plus it appears for 5 seconds on the video and not all the time. They are other wallpapers shown in the video.
I'd love to specify wave types or even more advanced stuff such as FM synthesis. With a little work, modules such as this one may enable a whole new category of innovative/strange browser apps.
I'm missing Myth #6: elementaryOS is a clone of OS X
You should have included the next paragraph. They make a difference between user data and the users emails:

"Access to the log data of mail and web servers and to the e-mails contained in a mailbox, on the other hand, requires a search and seizure warrant signed by a judge, unless the investigative authorities can claim exigent circumstances. Telecommunications providers again have no legal recourse against search warrants; seizure of the log data cannot be denied."
Anti social spikes – The Anti Sit Archive (2007)
In a more abstract pov, govs are not bad, and companies are not bad. It's a false dilemma. BIG govs are bad, and BIG companies are bad. Notice the common attribute? It's about relative power. That's why companies "lose their ideals" (hello google), when they grow big. It's not about inner organization and communication. It's about BIG. The obvious solution for a society, is to limit the maximum power differential between entities. ("We the people", is one such entity.) The actual implementation of that, is left as an exercise to the reader :-) (..But history has shown, that I/we shouldn't be optimistic.)
A friend recently created something similar, and he ended up transcribing the full-length Super Mario theme song! http://eshiota.github.io/retro-audio-js/

Presentation here: http://www.slideshare.net/eshiota/web-audio-band-playing-wit...
Using WebSockets on Heroku with Python
Huh. I guess the ironic humour of that one was lost on a few people.
Added to our resources list https://twittstrap.com/maverix-bootstrap-theme-angularjs-boi...
Open a terminal and enter this:

cd ~ && mkdir -p ~/.temp-plank-themer && cd ~/.temp-plank-themer && wget https://github.com/rhoconlinux/plank-themer/archive/master.zip && unzip master.zip && cd plank-themer-master/ && rm -fR ~/.config/plank/dock1/theme_index; rm -fR ~/.config/plank/dock1/themes-repo; cp -a theme_index/ ~/.config/plank/dock1 && cp -a themes-repo/ ~/.config/plank/dock1 && cd ~ && rm -R ~/.temp-plank-themer && sh ~/.config/plank/dock1/theme_index/plank-on-dock-themer.sh

Now you can select other themes and IIRC there are a few ones with translucency effects
I use it, but have gone to using nautilus on it as the default file manager keeps crashing every few days. Generally I find it pretty good though.
Darfon unveils maglev keyboard
I concur; xournal with any old Thinkpad Tablet PC is definitely the sweet spot for me, too, and it has allowed me to go completely paperless for a couple of years now.
Just a caution because it's not clear from the article or app, Open Garden volunteers your mobile data connection. That seems to be the intended purpose for meshing your personal devices, but it volunteers your connection to the entire mesh, ie everyone nearby[0].

That'd be fine for eg my home wired connection (especially if bandwidth throttled so mostly for the use of firechat), but metered cell data could potentially be blown just by sitting near someone with a laptop that wants to do an update... it seems like something you'd want to warn people of and not hide in a forum post.

0: http://forum.opengarden.com/discussion/345/i-want-to-know-is...
Has already been.
Darfon's super-thin Maglev Keyboard will make notebooks even slimmer
http://jsfiddle.net/S66zA/
And I'm missing fact #1: WTF is elementaryOS and why should I care?
I remember making these kinds of songs in BASIC. Very fun!
My guess is the fact that food is so cheap relative to income in the US explains a significant part of the gap between US and Europe obesity rates
> A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Is Being Created

A Surveillance State Beyond Imagination Has Been Created

There is nothing new in this article! I find it strange that the legend of Manufacturing Consent fame that is Noam Chomsky has nothing significant to add to the discussion. Although people aren't exactly clamouring for leadership out of this mess, no leadership has really came forward to unite people in taking a stance against the government and renegotiating the social contract.

This spying thing is not going to be stopped, interest in the story is going to whither and die, spying is going to be accepted in the same way that people accept CCTV everywhere and, for the big telco businesses it is just how they will do business - big pipe to NSA/GCHQ, get on with it.
Flocking might interest you: http://flockingjs.org/
I could argue that if you work for the DOD, it's entirely possible that all your code will only execute once. Sadly, I do work for a government agency, but my code only runs once because of mismanagement... :(
In 2005 he did, but he's pretty duplicitous in retrospect:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ylVOdriEyA

So he's no longer the perfect person to do so.
I used that back on Windows XP, but it felt way too laggy and hackish. Virtuawin is the way to go.
Back in the 80's the group I worked with got a VAX with VMS. Files are versioned in VMS, and you can delete specific versions. So we used that to prank each other for a while, editing someone's login script and deleting the newest version so they couldn't send the same prank back to you.
If i can see all the people who are online and discuss with them( basically chatting ) about my ideas, my opinions about a particular post would be a great feature.
> And while we're at it we can eradicate all software and biological viruses, since that would be nice to have too, and about as difficult.

Regarding biological viruses, your comment seems to assume that all viruses are detrimental to life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowpox
Here I was thinking: Wouldn't it be nice if seL4 were Open source.
Great article! Added to or Bootstrap resources list https://twittstrap.com/usability-tips-back-enders-using-boot...
I disagree quite strongly. The surveillance STATE doesn't exist - yet. That the end result might look and feel a lot like a surveillance state is irrelevant - the mechanisms and operations of an actual surveillance state are quite different, and far more troubling.

What we have right now (both in the US and the UK) is a set of overlapping (and sometimes conflicted) machineries of surveillance - in some/most instances, created without the oversight of 'democratic' mechanisms. There hasn't been a centralised move by those nation states to operate that.

The surveillance state that's being created seeks to remove the divisions between different components of those assemblages. The increasing normalisation of surveillance that's happened over the last 20 years will gather even more pace, and be justified on a number of spurious 'security' grounds, then 'efficiency' grounds.
my site Facebook.com/keepitessential is also blocked. What did you do to fix that? I get "The content you're trying to share includes a link that our security systems detected to be unsafe" when I try to share it.
So wait. Where's his book? The one with the numbers. Did he finish it? Did any copies ever get printed?
The recent sharing of antisocial anti-homeless spikes is, I think, possibly indicative of two things.

1) Bad design.

It's bad design because it has just one negative use. If it was a rose bush or a hedge with spiky plants it could have more than the one negative use. If the building was built without alcoves, the spikes would not be needed.

2) Psychological hurt.

There is no getting around seeing the anti homeless spikes for what they are. It hurts our brains to think that we as a society are anti homeless. People tend to ignore the problem. We prefer our brains not to hurt than - this is the primary mover for our outrage. If the solution was hidden through good design then no one would notice. A good solution is good because it is not anti social to all, just a few.
It's kind of sad too, because the Elementary developers originally planned to release Isis (the next release) around April to prove that they can stick to schedules [0], but that now seems to have changed to the usual "It'll be done when it's done." Relevant quote below:

"Also, I think in general most of us think it would be the best idea to
release Isis (see, I'm already going with it) as closely as possible to
Ubuntu 14.04. We have a lot to prove about our ability to provide updates
in a timely manner and we're getting some negative feedback from
developers/nerds about our 12.04 base. So let's address that and make sure
that elementary is the best open platform for both users and developers
(and I guess nerds too)."

[0] https://lists.launchpad.net/elementary-dev-community/msg0257...
So I clicked the page to check if I can a) use my own domain. b) upload my public key and decrypt the mailbox locally to serve IMAP from localhost.
Then I read this

> Our grasp on technology is flawless

And they completely lost me.
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great writing, I was in the same position as a government employee who HATED his boring pointless job. Didn't follow this same path, but for the past 2 months have finally gotten back to doing what I love.. it's a breath of fresh air.
The fact that it needs defending is kind of the point. It looks similar enough to evoke the reaction from most people that it is similar to OS X, which is more than like a goal and not an accident. It may not be the exact image, but it doesn't have to be.
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Smartphone Password Security Changed in Future?
Again, is this a deliberate troll, or is it intellectual sloppiness? The post talks about why Go is fast. There are memory footprint comparisons. AFAICT, There are no language speed comparisons.

There is only text that a genuinely touchy and defensive person or a troll might misconstrue. Did someone steal seanmcdirmid's HN password?
Parallel construction is just a fig leaf. The data the NSA collects already winds up on the screen in police cruisers, and has bypassed all that consent manufacturing bother.
It's very impressive that a relatively small team could rewrite huge swathes of userland applications from scratch, and end up with something more polished and lighter-weight than much of the competition.

It seems like the sort of thing which could happen as a matter of course if the money was there from the community to support developers working full-time over the long term on these sorts of projects.

One thing I'd like to see would be elementary experimenting with ways of encouraging people to support development. It really should be a matter of course to donate $20-30 in exchange for something which makes your computer function substantively better, especially when many of the users are IT professionals who earn good salaries. But it doesn't appear to happen, for one reason or another.

Perhaps, open up the books, and give people real-time, kickstarter-like information about the donations as they are ongoing, where the money will be spent, and how much more is needed. I'm sure there must be a way of nudging people to get out their chequebooks.
In fairness, the Mail has massive and well studied form in what we can generously call 'making shit up'.
This is an example of a thing you can't encode in (most) static type systems, not something that can't be done in Python! On the contrary, it is very much possible to do in Python thanks to its dynamicity...

I really don't understand what's going on in this thread; I'm stating an obvious fact that you can't encode things like "is even" in a static type systems without dependent types and that this is a drawback of such systems and I get downvoted. I never complained about my downvotes before, but this time I seriously don't understand what's happening. Did I fail that miserably in an effort to explain my position, or is this position controversial?

For the record, I replied to this:

> [dynamic in nature] Tests are not the only way to ensure correctness (and they aren't even the only thing you should use, even when they’re mandated by policy) – did you consider using strong [static?] types encoding exactly the assumptions you spot-check with tests?

With an example of dynamic test (a contract) which you'd have a problem expressing in any but the most advanced type systems.

Did claudius mean strong, but dynamic typing and I misunderstood? But then there is no difference at all between ensuring something in unit tests and in a type system as they are both executed at runtime.

I honestly have no idea and I really would like to know which part of what I wrote deserved downvotes to avoid writing such things in the future if for no other reason.
Ask HN: Which Large Technology Company Has The Best Work Environment?
I've heard about the great areas that developers have at places like Facebook/Google, but I was wondering if there's people who know of even better ones, or if purportedly "good" work conditions at places aren't so great after all.
“This can be a billion dollar company if we can get to the tipping point,” says Benoliel, referring to the 7% uptake in urban areas.

It might hard to monetize an app up to a $B where you have no real insight into/control over the audience… which is kind of the point. The company sounds super-cool but it should probably be operating more as a non-profit or lifestyle business, not as a hyper-growth startup company.
“Email is...for people whose role in life is to be on top of things"
Gravity causes turbulence by behaving as a fluid
Why do I have to give my email address in order to read this?
Is there something specific you do to help you LD? Can you share more about your experience?

I also practice LD

This comment struck me as odd, since I thought LD wasn't something you can induce on your own, but when I Googled how to lucid dream I came across instructions for how to lucid dream: http://www.wikihow.com/Lucid-Dream

Another question: has anyone had the feeling when they are in a dream that they can't move? I want to force myself to roll over to the other side and something invisible holds me there. I noticed this happens mostly when it's cold.
You're severely fooling yourself if you truly think Elementary isn't copying OSX everywhere.
There's no evidence of that, quite the opposite. In fact, there's been significant pushes in both countries for intelligence-collected information to be made available to routine law enforcement. This is sort of my point about overlapping but not necessarily connected assemblages of surveillance. Although it seems believable, the mechanisms just aren't there (again, yet.) - police CAN request information from the NSA/GCHQ, but it's a torturous and slow process at the moment, and is largely paper based. The forthcoming surveillance state WILL make that available, but it's not happened yet.
x86 has always been almost but not quite completely backwards-compatible in the "edge cases", ever since the 286 changed what PUSH SP put on the stack. With regards to memory ordering, x86 is already considerably much more restrictive than other architectures, although that might start to change in the future...

Trying to read this paper, what's a little annoying is that the authors don't seem to define the important acronyms and/or leave them to forward references: "SB" I assume meant "Sandy Bridge" (i.e. that was observed beginning with that microarchitecture) until a little later when I realised they were talking about store buffers, "IRIW" (is it somehow related to "IWP"?) is never defined. Also odd are the examples named "n6", "n5", and "n4b" in that order; a subtle pun about ordering?
You don't need <generic-equivalent-boxing> in Go to get the power of slices, and use library search/sort. Are you saying there's an equivalently powerful set of facilities in Java that doesn't use generics?
Most jobs still request Microsoft Word resumes. How difficult would it be to support that format?
I find my 'natural' retention is better with hand-written notes. I get a better 'general idea' and I organically remember certain parts of the lecture. However, I also end up

However, my long-term retention is far better and deeper with digital notes, as they are not only indexed by spotlight (osx), but I drop them into DEVONthink which can relate text to other text through word frequency (and perhaps some other techniques).

For example, I remember attending a lecture in my fourth year where the teacher's statements sparked a memory of some earlier lecture. I entered some search terms in these tools and immediately found both the notes I had made three years earlier as well as the original articles that they were based on. As a bonus, I ended up remembering more about both these lectures and the topic at hand.

My ideal approach would be to take notes by hand and then transcribe them into my 'information systems'. Unfortunately, I often forget this crucial second step and end up forgetting where I left those original notes, or losing them entirely.

The same principle applies to reading. I much prefer reading and annotating on paper, with all the 'drawing' freedom that gives me. But reading an ebook, exporting all my highlights and annotations, and then importing them into my 'systems' has been much more valuable in the long run.

(for an idea of how someone actually uses spotlight, devonthink, or some other digital storage system effectively, this could be informative:
http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002...)
You don't. I was able to click "No Thanks," and read the whole article.
now all we need is a javascript powered mod player.
It's interesting to me how my perspective is changing on these issues as years go by and I have time to think about it. One troublesome point is the role democracy is playing in all this. This harks back to some earlier Chomsky ideas about "Manufacturing Consent."

From my (removed, I am not American) perspective, it seems ridiculously obvious that terrorism is not anywhere near a big enough threat to justify the counter measures, loss of privacy , freedom and the threat of a scary totalitarian future. It's like burning down every piece of wilderness on the continent to prevent deer-car collisions.

The war against an irrelevant tribal society on the Afghan-Pakistan border and the rise of a surveillance state in the US (and elsewhere) is connected by democracy.

A somewhat tangental notion is that this is just another inevitable consequence of digitisation. In the US I think a lot of the attention has been on the actual 'surveillance' part. Some act which is similar to phone tapping, intercepting letters or rummaging through your drawers. Things like PRISM. This is the part that has a history of legislation related to it. The part that's actually worrying in my opinion, is the aggregation and analysis.

Aggregating and storing data is the default behaviour of a digitised world, especially communications. I think I see a parallel between digital surveillance and file sharing. It's a "natural" side effect of digitisation.

We need to worry about corporate surveillance as much as government and foreign government surveillance and I don't think we can stop it.

The last time I went to Heathrow Airport I was thinking about those face recognition cameras logging you in and about of the country. The way they look screams techno dystopia. I was thinking about super HD panoramic cameras placed strategically around a city. I can easily imagine the tech being widely available. We could have several competing networks of Google Analytics for the physical world logging "clicks" every time a person walks enters a mall, walks down a street, drives under a bridge or gets picked up by a $99 GigaPan drone.

The line between our physical and digital lives is melting away. That means everything will be recorded and stored like emails. That inevitably leads to storage and aggregation, which means the end of privacy.

As something of a counterweight, Snowden's whistle blowing is itself a consequence of these same forces. The reason this information could be aggregated, "stolen" and leaked is because it was digital.

Perhaps the end of privacy applies equally to those in power. Maybe we'll get "power exposed to sunlight" that Chomsky wants.

In any case, Chomsky always seems like a caricature to me. He seems to think of these issues in political-legal terms. I think the NSA/Snowden story has a lot more to do with Google Analytics than Guantanamo Bay.

That's a lot more worrying to me. Trying to shut down this kind of surveillance is like Disney trying to shut down BitTorrent, if Disney didn't have any money.
Nice essay.
The "small stuff" that you mention has a function - to enable a society. If you don't shave and shower, you will look terrible, and for biological reasons people will think that you're nuts, that's you're an outliar, and expect strange things from you. It is not necessarily too bad, per se.

However, I argue that balance (some small stuff, but not too much, so you have time for important stuff) is better than being a great, smelly procrastinator.
I did not have to give my email address, nor was I asked to supply my address. . Maybe turn off JS? I have NoScript+RequestPolicy running with nothing allowed for that domain.
Why is Japan so… different?
The Guardian's new Android and iOS apps are natively wrapped webviews: https://twitter.com/patrickhamann/status/472017297771884544
I agree completely. It's difficult to watch this without feeling deeply cynical about our particular implementation of democracy. The wants of the wealthy few are being given precedence over the needs of the many.
I am constantly struggling with procrastination even though I love my job and what I do. It seems like sometimes I'd rather do anything other than what I'm actually suppose to do and what pays the bills, almost like a mental disorder.

I've tried setting goals, blocking websites, uninstalling games, creating logs and even creating rewards for doing X amount of work, none of those seem to really help so far.

The procrastination article is from 9 years ago and has been posted numerous times before on HN, yet it's at the top of HN. I suspect that procrastination is a horrible problem for programmers due to the vast amount of distraction available via the internet.

Also, http://paulgraham.com/distraction.html

I'm installing Watch Dogs for the 4th time right now rather than doing my real work (which is very fun, time critical, and offers REAL rewards), wtf is wrong with me.
I just want to let you know that I admire you deeply. I hope to become like you at the age of 67, eager to learn the new kid on the block (e.g. Go today, who knows what we'll see in 35 years?!) :-)
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Hiring a prostitute I assume.