skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you can change your storage yourself, not a big problem, IMHO. Is screen good though?
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They dropped frames too, right? Isn't it a combination of high speed frames at maybe 20fps?
I think the FCC could use your help [0].

"it appears that nearly 680,000 of the comments were not transferred successfully from ECFS to the XML files. This is due to a technical error involving Apache Solr, an open source tool the FCC used to produce the XML files"

[0] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-States-It-Misplaced-A...
It depends what you're building. Sometimes it is useful to target one specific browser engine because there are too many discrepancies among browsers. With an atom-shell you only need to target Chromium, and then only one version. When the Chromium version changes in atom-shell you can retest everything before any of your customers see it.
Why would they do that? Stripe will get plenty of publicity out of this too.
In general, 50% of American businesses fail during the first five years. (I was told that quite a long time ago; I don't know the current figure.)

Go have a look at the websites of some venture firms. At least them list all of the portfolio companies they've ever had, even if they've exited. Now look into whether those companies failed, were acquired, whether the IPO worked out well and so on.

That's going to be a lot of work but would be valuable information for everyone to know. If you wrote up on article about it on your site, you'd get lots of readers, inbound links, maybe press coverage.
Depends on the cost, and the hardware & software components that are used. I currently run debian jessie on both my desktop (home-build), and on my cheap hp laptop that I bought a few years ago. I won't buy a new apple computer simply because they are well outside of my budget. I did buy a macbook refurb some years ago, and enjoyed it a lot, but I still stuck with my hp laptop for most work.

I would get some peace of mind knowing that all hardware components are going to be supported by the linux kernel. However, I'm probably going to rip the OS out of the system and install my own.
I'm surprised Sony chose to release this on XBOX instead of PlayStation.
How does the player work? I'd buy it but I'd rather not watch it in Flash Player.
I have an XPS 13 Ivy Bridge generation running Ubuntu and power management is perfectly fine.

My WiFi does seem rather poor in terms of signal strength/stability compared to other devices I own, however.
System76 are just Clevo rebrands. Low quality too.
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It would also likely dispel (to a degree) the survivorship bias [1] that is pervasive in the Valley today.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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What classification algorithm is being used?
Redhat 7? Oh you must mean RHEL 7. Redhat 7.1 was the first distro I ever installed back in 2001. At the time NetworkManager didn't exist.
What that whitepaper is saying is that "if you only sample 2xMaxFreq and then connect the dots with straight lines it doesn't really look like a sine wave so buy 5x as much instrument from us". That's a total cheat as that sawtooth graph they show is only possible if you allow higher frequencies. If the signal is bandwidth limited at the frequency of the sinewave the points you sample at 2xFreq only have one possible solution for the graph (the sinewave again). There are some great videos about this recently by xiph's monty:

https://www.xiph.org/video/

So if you sample 2xMaxFreq you have samples that describe the full signal and can reconstruct it exactly. So if our eyes really are 100Hz we can't see anything above 50Hz. That seems to align well with the ~50/60Hz threshold for flicker free viewing. Apparently higher framerates are only useful for when we have fast movement across the field of view which would be the case for FPS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold#Visua...
So I'll say this as a mac user for the last 5 years: I'm mostly buying the hardware, not the software. I'm actually not really that fond of OS-X. I feel like in theory I should like it (a nice unix with great graphics?), but it finds a lot of subtle ways to annoy the hell out of me. Apple is great at beautiful UI's, but I think they kind of suck at UX.

The only reason I haven't switched to linux is I find most of their UI's are more annoying. (Gnome 2 was solid, but Gnome 3 and unity are a mess, and KDE feels like it's in a perpetual state of not-quite-done although if I were to use any of them, that would probably be my choice)

I guess I'd also say though, that linux as a selling point would mean nothing to me (good or bad). Like I wouldn't care that it's a linux computer at all, I'd either be excited or not because it's a well put together machine.
I live in Espoo, but spent my childhood/adolescence in Turku.
So after all the crying about "how dare they try and censor us!" we get - Only available in the US.

Irony much?
They know the whole company's security sucks and they didn't even have enough time to audit it. They probably feared that if they had announced the Interview for PSN, hackers would've taken it down or something. That's the only explanation I can come up with. Otherwise it would be a really odd decision.
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Summary: Wikipedia keeps deleting my anime cruft. Waah!

Of course Wikipedia editorship is declining. Most of the important articles were written years ago. Encyclopedias, over time, move to maintenance mode, which requires far less work than original creation.

There's also a growing self-promotion problem. Self-promotion used to be mostly from garage bands. Now, it's businessmen. There are at least four rich ex-cons with paid Wikipedia editors. Businesses trying to make some big legal mess disappear are the worst. Magnetix and Banc De Binary were huge headaches. Volunteers have to push back against that, or Wikipedia becomes PR Newswire.
Google Play & YouTube later too. The first HN post was flagged for some reason.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8793575
http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2014/12/the-interview-now-avai...
My wife and I are in Barcelona at the moment, and yesterday we learned about Caga tió, or "Shitting log", Catalan's version of Santa Claus. It's literally a log with a smiley face.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti%C3%B3_de_Nadal

Each family buys or makes their log and covers the rear with a blanket. Children then hit the log with sticks until it poos presents, often while singing one of several songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB_N7-HXTlI

Certainly one of the highlights of our trip.
I'm disappointed the Pixel Qi screens haven't become more popular. Sol Computer (http://www.solcomputer.com/) makes a few devices with them, but they're overpriced and underpowered from what I can tell. Otherwise their sunlight performance would be great.
Asinine how much free publicity Sony is getting for their own IT blunders.
As a veteran system builder, I was rather surprised when I looked into laptops recently to find macbooks very competitive.

I dislike Apple as an organization due to their marketing practices, closed ecosystem, and apparent lack of respect for their customers demonstrated in their reaction to bend/antenna gate. Apple even works hard to hide what processors their systems are actually running!

After much digging, though the hardware costs slightly more, MBPs come out far ahead as a package with OS X - a full featured OS with a healthy ecosystem and excellent battery life. I couldn't find a better option for my intended user.
To be fair, NYC's subway system is not a hub-and-spoke system, it is a true network of rail lines. Practically a matrix. One of the finest in the world.
Alright, so now it's time for weird Christmas things and things about weird Christmas traditions from Scandinavia, here's a (joke? yeah probably) video about some from Norway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50fA_7TbSI

I won't spoil it by saying anything more... enjoy
It likely wasn't even thought about.

Sony pictures and Sony Computer Entertainment have a weird rivalous relationship. I have a friend who worked on the earlier star wars MMO which was months away from being released by EA or some other game publisher before someone very high up pointed out that SCE also publishes games, why give EA the money?

Sony is designed as a bunch of internally competing fiats and often several groups will work on the same thing competing with each other. The idea is that the best idea will win out. It works some times and other times it leads to them being very disorganized.
> Doesn't compiling things to javascript inherently limit what we can do?

Yes, any concrete compilation target has limitations, including JavaScript.

For example, in JavaScript, there are no 64-bit integers, which can slow down some code. As another example, strings on .NET and Python are different, causing Python on the CLR to either behave differently or run more slowly.

I think the important thing to realize is that there isn't a "perfect" compilation target. What we really want is a target that is (1) fast on all languages, (2) portable to run on all OSes and architectures, and (3) safe to run in a sandboxed manner. There is no target I am aware of that maximizes all 3. All we can do is try to get close.

I would say that JavaScript is doing pretty well in that respect already (that is, like all other options, it isn't perfect, but it's relatively decent), and remaining missing features are being worked on.

> it's a shame that we aren't exploring other options.

I don't think that's true at all - such experiments have been done! We had or have ActiveX, Java, Flash with its multiple VMs, Silverlight/.NET, NaCl, PNaCl, and others I forgot.

Given the performance of JavaScript engines today, those experiments of other VMs don't show a big enough reason to prefer them. asm.js code runs fast enough to run AAA game engines, which is a very good test.
Few days ago I've installed Ubuntu on at work. I cannot open folders under many directories because I don't have permissions. Then I gave permissions, with the terminal. And guess what? I has started to reset its static IP. I wanted to ad cron jobs, they didn't work, also you write them as text, I have no idea how they work. When you shut down Ubuntu from terminal the PC goes for sleep, it doesn't power off. You don't have administrative rights in your PC, you always need to open terminal and sudo su. There are some workarounds that they either don't work or breaks other things. You don't have wizards when installing a software, you need to study the manuals and then sudo su in to the terminal to configure the files, and then you have to learn how to write a file from terminal. If you are lucky it works. Do you know how to enter Google Public DNS IPs to the settings? You have to ask it to your friend. Tip: use comma. It is good for servers because it is free. However not so much user friendly for desktop users. Thanks for making it guys. It is second best OS, after FreeBSD.
I saw the first two Hobbit movies in HFR 3D, but the third in 24fps 3D. The third still looked like a play. I attribute it to the frequent use of infinite focus to reduce 3D-induced headaches, or if not that, a stereo separation that was too wide. The sets and locations felt very finite and contained, rather than expansive and overwhelming as in LoTR.
You can download this as a DRM-free file with a simple curl command. Most people probably wouldn't bother, however, because Stripe makes it so easy to just watch directly your browser, no need to go through the hassle of downloading anything or needing the hard drive space.

This is a great example of content providers finally beating piracy by providing a simpler method of content distribution. I hope more movies come out like this.
Here's a link for $89, found this on google, actually went all the way through because I was intrigued enough:

https://stacksocial.com/sales/the-complete-ios-8-developers-...
The new Deletionpedia[1] (kindly linked in another comment in this thread) doesn't operate the same way as the old (now non-functional) Deletionpedia,[2] which showed just how much cruft has been inserted into Wikipedia over the years. A better glimpse of current practice in inserting advertising spam cruft into user-edited wikis is offered by browsing random pages on the speedy deletion wiki of Wikia,[3] which will show how much sheer unpaid advertising goes on when people think they can get away with it.

The weekly list of the 5,000 most viewed pages on Wikipedia[4] (which includes one page that I improved from a frequently edit-warred stub to a stable good article by adding dozens of references to reliable sources to it) shows what users are often looking for on Wikipedia. Some topics are seasonal, and others are perennial. Many Wikipedians could best help the world by fixing one of the perennial highly viewed articles until it is a good article or a featured article.

Basis of knowledge: I have been a Wikipedian since 2010. I have seen a lot of readers get burned by articles edited on the principle of "Wikipedia is the encyclopedia where anyone can make stuff up.™" Articles become better and edit wars are reduced when people come to the project with reliable sources[5] to build an encyclopedia.[6]

[1] http://deletionpedia.org/en/Main_Page

[2] http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php

[3] http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Speedy_deletion_Wiki

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pag...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Here_to_build_an_enc...
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I didn't even know about Powertop! I was a GNU/Linux user before switching to the Mac but a lot has changed since then... I'll investigate, thanks!
They want a credit card, they want a CVC for a $6 purchase, and they only have a domain-only SSL cert. Sloppy security, people.
> Many people find that with a little care, they can live nicely on little

I believe this is the crux of your argument, and I would say that it is a postulate that cannot be assumed. If the "basic income" were $1k, few people would find they could live on it and thus the motivation to work would remain. On the other hand, who would work if they received $1 million per year? What if it's somewhere in the middle? I would argue that the incentive for work would remain if the benefit only brought people up to the poverty line.

Who wants to at live at the poverty line? $20k for a family of 4 affords very little luxury.

> Basic income also risks devaluing money

Do foodstamps make food significantly more expensive for everybody? What is the percentage of all food revenue bought with food stamps?

If 14% of US citizens live below the poverty line, the vast amount of GDP, productivity, taxes and whatever else you want to measure are generated above that line.

I've heard some arguments that a flat livable wage, without eligibility requirements beyond income would obviate the need and overhead for a whole slew of expensive social programs, including social security, welfare, food stamps, and the minimum wage.

Then there are small scale experiments like the one in the original article, though limited in actionable data did not produce behaviors like you described.

So, to answer your question, it can be sustainable because it can replace some expensive and hard-to-administer social programs with a relatively easier to distribute system. There are tangible incentives to earn more than "basic" income, and training to do so becomes easier. Lastly, the bulk of GDP and the tax base are generated by those far above the poverty line.
I just upgraded to a 144hz monitor and a 290 this Christmas, to celebrate them working on Mesa. And yeah, they work pretty flawlessly, even in my now 3 monitor setup.

And Quake. Holy shit. Playing that game at 144hz makes it feel incredibly real, even if its blocky and pixilated, the movements are incredibly organic and the camera turning feels like a head turning rather than spinning around on Google Maps.
I don't think so. That effect is the extreme sudden movements of the camera. It makes it look stuttery.
Yay, free speech is saved. And then I remember: I wasn't interested in this movie before the scandal. Six dollars to watch.
Of course but DO NOT BELIEVE that you can make something of better quality than a hundred billion dollar company can do.

Apple has lots of legacy code, you know, when you see instant vector graphics in apple maps, Apple is using decades of software done by dozens of genius programmers over time when efficiency mattered(for example for drawing fonts on the screen). This code, then, became accelerated.

Apple bought a hardware semiconductor company that designs specific hardware for them that makes for example instant photos or slow motion video, or hardware acceleration of playback(which makes battery last way longer than anyone else).

Apple sells millions of devices and this means they have access to a supply chain and prices you can't get. period.

If you want to compete with Apple, do what Apple will never do:

- Add the option to replace the battery and RAM.
- The option to use it on sunlight, like Pixel Qi.
- Make the hardware open source.
- Make the case also open so people can 3d print it or mechanize or whatever, like a Harley Davidson.
- Make it rugged so people can use it in the beach.

You have to find your niche in what the big boys will never care to compete or just scares them.

Forget about lesser cost, your prices need to be way higher than Apple because at first you will be selling thousands st most, not millions.

I have a company. I don't care if I have to spend double or triple what an air cost if it solves a problem no body else solves(and it makes me money). I spend 50.000 or 60.000 dollars in some machines(because they give me lots of money back).
I keep seeing nice Chromebooks with IPS displays and usually unibody plastic build construction.

Sub the plastic for aluminum and it shouldn't add more than $100 to the ticket price. Make the keyboard good for another $50. That is only like $500 now, so we want some actual storage in this device, so throw in a 512GB SSD and call it a day at $700 with a Haswell dual core.
I understand your argument, I just disagree. (also: you don't have to be a dick about it. Sometimes reasonable people can disagree, you know?) 150 years ago was a vastly different time. I don't care if they were wrong THEN. Back then they didn't even have computers and motors were inefficient. Time and technology have changed. It's like if someone had invented facebook in 1995. It's not like social networking is a bad idea, it just wouldn't have worked in 1995.
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This north korea hacking looks more and more like a marketing PR scam... Or at least something very opportunisticly white washing for the company involved in privacy leaking and censorship.

Beurk
Here's some more science then.

http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/episode/2013/10/16/are-the-rich...

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces...

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/rich-people-...
Beware: Formatting of the article is badly broken for me.
Is anyone else redirected to a 403 error on a completely different site (broadbandtvnews) when following the link?
> linux updates too frequently for my tastes...an artifact of its dispersed development.

Do you even notice how often Mach is updating in OSX? Does it show up anywhere? If you use Linux and you use it as a tool and not as a playground, you should not care what kernel you are running, besides checking device compatibility. Most users should be running an Ubuntu LTS and only upgrading every two years, and that should be fine for most people.

> t's not what you pay, it's what it costs.

And my counterargument is using Apple products means you are putting blind faith in Apples proprietary software to work in your interests. We already know Windows is backdoored and wire tapped systemically, and Apple is usually a bit better by open sourcing their plumbing, but iOS and the Lion app store should be a tangible warning on how Apple is trying to take you out of the your computer equation. Software freedom is about owning your hardware, and it seems Apple is trying pretty hard to go against that.
In the middle ages, peasant rebellions were dealt with by massacring the insurgents. The problem was that assembling a force to deal with a group could take a while, during which the poor had the run of the town. Smaller armed groups could also roam the countryside, and getting a force to hunt them down took long enough that they would be gone by the time it was assembled.

With an organized, professional force, you almost always have enough men on hand to deal with disturbances small and large. Part of the promise of a modern police force is that however well-armed you are, you can't win in the end: they'll always be able to call more reinforcement.

One funny thing is that you now have a bunch of idle police officers, who don't really have anything useful to do from day to day. So you use them to harass poor people, because, hey, why not?
On an iOS device, enable Settings>Messages>"Send as SMS" to have it automatically fall over to SMS when iMessage isn't sending properly.
Tried to rate the iOS app to get more keyboards but it keeps crashing :( cool though!
And for Iceland, via NPR...

Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country in the world, with five titles published for every 1,000 Icelanders. But what's really unusual is the timing: Historically, a majority of books in Iceland are sold from late September to early November. It's a national tradition, and it has a name: Jolabokaflod, or the "Christmas Book Flood."

"The culture of giving books as presents is very deeply rooted in how families perceive Christmas as a holiday," says Kristjan B. Jonasson, president of the Iceland Publishers Association. "Normally, we give the presents on the night of the 24th and people spend the night reading. In many ways, it's the backbone of the publishing sector here in Iceland."

http://www.npr.org/2012/12/25/167537939/literary-iceland-rev...
Ugh, I really hope Lenovo steps up their game. I do remember Thinkpads being nice, but the new ones are terrible. We have two models at work, and one has the awful new trackpad with like 1/4" of squishy-click travel, and both have wavy plastic bits above the keyboard, with rattle-y gimmick media buttons, and I've noticed that the bezel around the screen on both laptops is very flexible, especially at the bottom. They remind of cheap Dell laptops from early/mid 2000s.
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