skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the fact that many Google sites offer a subpar experience if you're not visiting them with Google's own browser, yes. So it's not a misconception, those people are right that they're better of using Google Chrome for the Google Internet.
It's forgiveness and turning the other cheek. It's surprisingly Christian for such an anti-religious magazine.

Also check out the beautiful cover they had after the 2011 firebombing: http://beta.images.theglobeandmail.com/static/world/charlie_...
But to be fair... babies and their oil are naturally occurring organic substances.
So a voxel game engine would take the 3D scene made of voxels and turn it in to a series of pixel images?
When we “ship software”, we literally put it on a ship
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That's exactly the point. Most (all?) reasonable people would not kill you for that. The minority who would need help.
Maybe I'm thinking in too simple terms, but I can't imagine that being a major problem because it will affect people from all classes in the same way and the change will probably be fairly quick (once the technology is available, everyone will want it immediately to remain competitive). Intelligence is distributed like a Gauss bell, so it will equally hit lower, upper and middle class, making the necessity for a basic income very quickly obvious. I don't think the lower class will be excluded from such a social system.

I personally think the bigger risks are AIs themselves, used as weapons or when they go out of control.
"Free software" is only mentioned once in the article so I think the author means "freeware" vendors.
I should have figured you'd give me grief, darren. It has Linux and OSX support if you're willing to run windows in a VM ;)
Domain-specific knowledge. My co-worker designs complex machinery in solidworks like the best of us, but he keeps capslock on and navigates to google.com before doing a search. There are many people like him, who learn the things they need to learn and don't make any headway on the rest.
I don't think your argument is valid. If you market your software as free, then it should be. You can't just fill the computer of the person with trash without asking just because "but I have to be paid!!!!". Now, some of these softwares did ask for permissions, I am just responding to your comment.

If it's going to spy on you, it should tell you right up, not in small prints in the EULA.

Also, the assumption that developpers have to be paid is wrong, some people might do it for charity or for other non-profit reasons.
The source didn't get published until long afterwards. Firefox got broken because of this - and also because the previews had several other bugs that prevented it from starting up in the first place and detecting more problems.
Russia officially banned Bitcoin.org (russian link)
I was trying to find a small Blackberry-like keyboard for a side project I was working on about a year ago. Doesn't exist, at least not in a form-factor that is easy to integrate (USB, Bluetooth, etc). The best I could find is a USB wireless keyboard that they sell on Adafruit that really, really, really sucked and was still way too big.
If money is three things (unit of measure, holder of value, and method of exchange), perhaps there is a way of dividing these in two or more subsets. Measure and exchange seem difficult to separate; perhaps not being able to "hold" money could be interesting.
With or without Unicode's own meddling, characters may still look the same. Think of non-Latin alphabets that have letters defined in an identical fashion to those in Latin alphabet. Heck, even without other alphabets, the Latin letter O and the digit 0 are valid characters for filenames in any system I know of, and although looking the same they are yet different. (Having a bar, a point, or some other distinctive mark inside 0 is just a hack, the common description for the aspect of this digit makes no distinction from letter O.) This problem is not new, definitely not brought up by this Unicode thing.
Why would you do that?

Don't misinterpret me - regardless of whether you post 10000 Mohammed cartoons or 10, Islamists are not going to change their attitudes overnight.
I think I agree with DHH:

http://david.heinemeierhansson.com/2014/tdd-is-dead-long-liv...

Testing is a Pareto thing: you want to be on the right place on that curve or else you're probably sinking too much effort into it, and not enough on other things.
I'm as much for risking your life for a principle as the next guy. But I don't know which principle we're risking our life for. The message the others hate our freedom? (Seriously?)

Are we trying to "teach" these "uneducated and backwards" Muslims what freedom and freedom of speech are? Are we teaching comedy?

Sadly, in many cases those standing for "principles" are being defiant against the authorities in their own countries (as in who the hell is my Editor/Producer/Government to tell me what I can't say) whom the extremists have beef with and are getting caught in the crossfire. Yes, the extremists are wrong. I agree with the government not being able to tell me what I can and can't say. But to ignore reality is a whole different thing.

Let's extrapolate... Publish more content meant to offend so either they get used to it... or some fringe elements in the Muslim world commit terrorist attacks pretending to be the "defenders"... Then our government steps in and bombs said country back to the stone age (which incidentally is where these guys are most comfortable & can grab power the easiest). Think terror victims are pissed off/disturbed? I'm sure some kids in post war Afghanistan are a lot more ruthless than some of the meanest gangsters on our streets.

When I was on the streets, I recall being punched. The first thing that came to my mind was to kill the asshole that punched me, but I was able to catch myself before doing that. I realized that me punching back would eventually not just lead to one of us dying, but possibly his and my friends dying. He was astonished when I didn't punch pack, given I had a size advantage on him. I thought it through and made sure he, or anyone else there wouldn't punch me again, without anyone getting killed. We eventually became friends and started volunteering to feed the homeless.

If we're supposedly intellectually superior, and we're obviously in a superior position when it comes to the exchange of ideas in our society. If we can't stop and think a little more critically, then that's a shame. Principles are great. I know a gang member who is paralyzed from the waist down who really wished he's rethought that decision to fight. Sure the other guy ended up dead. The fight was about the principle of "respect". In the end they both lost.

It's stupid to jump on the bandwagon and stupid to complete forget. This is a good opportunity for us to think... There may be a better solution and machismo isn't necessary noble.
> For example, there are only 30 chapters in Quran. so no.33 is just not possible.

You're confused:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran#Text_and_arrangement

The Quran has 114 chapters called sura's, but the book can also be divided into 30 parts called juz'. The 33th chapter is in the 22th juz' of your book.
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There is certainly a lot of great content created by people doing it for the love, but love only gets a person so far. To do real in-depth reporting takes quite a bit of time, way more than anyone but the independently wealthy have at their disposal unless they are working (and being paid) as professional reporters.

Consider the work on the Snowden files. Snowden handed his huge collection to professional reporters, who then spent weeks and months carefully reading it, confirming what they could independently, working with experts to understand what was most important, working with lawyers to understand what they could and not publish, and finally, writing and editing the articles.

Or consider investigative journalism pieces like the work that revealed the problems at the U.S. Veteran's Administration, or the Washington Post's series on civil asset forfeiture:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/investigative/2014/09/06/st...

The Post and other news operations need to make money somehow, so that their reporters can afford to spend the time to keep doing this work. So far, ads are the only revenue source that seems reliable, although a lot of news ops are experimenting with online subscriptions as well.
This. For all that people handwring about "Won't somebody please think of our ad revenue!", I consider installing some kind of adblocker more or less a standard safety measure for the web. A huge volume of browser-vectored malware comes from bad ad clicks, and even I've made a mistake or two in the past clicking on bogus download buttons and the like.

µBlock is especially good for this as some of the lists have additional rules specifically targeting malware sources, and it can block things like actual script tags and such instead of just hosts.
Whar bothers me in Go (and Python and Ruby, for that matteR) is that there's a strange mix of human-friendly identifiers like ResponseWriter, ParseInt, etc. and old-style Unix'y ones, like stdout, strconv, Println. Wildly inconsistent.

I wonder if "creat" is a valid function call somewhere.
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Why David Cameron Might Ban Apps Like Snapchat and Whatsapp
I take your point and agree with it but another factor you can't ignore is that there are 1.7 billion Muslims, compared to 15 million (wikipedia'd that) Mormons. Plus, I can't source it right but I have read editorials where broadsheet editors say they've been asked by the government not to print something in the interests of "national security" (IOW they don't want to cause problems with the Saudis or whoever.
I cannot say enough about ninite. They are brilliant. I moved to the Mac a year ago, and I miss it dearly. I wish they had a Mac version. It's so convenient. And safe. And easy. I paid them for something just because I wanted them to be successful. Single best product I used on Windows!
That certainly does. I've been toying with the idea of creating a node-webkit app, but have been having serious problems on deciding what should be in node, and what should be in browser-js, from an architectural point of view.

From the sounds of things, you've worked around this by making it a web app that just so happens to be in a node-webkit container.

Cheers for the insight!
Estimated 8.6h with idle CPU, based on my calculations.
Raspberry Pi A+
0.52W usage at 100ma 5.2V on CPU idle (http://raspi.tv/2014/raspberry-pi-a-how-much-power-does-it-n...)

Adafruit PiTFT - 2.8" Raspberry Pi Touchscreen
with full-on backlight the current draw is ~100mA. (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1601)
0.15=0.5W

Powerconsumption of Rpi and TFT should be 1.02W at idle.

PowerBoost 500 Charger - Rechargeable 5V Lipo USB Boost @ 500mA+ (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1944)
2.500Ah 3.7V LiPo
3.7V2.5Ah=9.25Wh
Boosted to 5V at 95% efficiency 8.79Wh

8.79Wh/1.02W = 8.6h

*Edit: I did a mistake when I calculated the Watt-hour. The Watt-hours of the battery can't increase just because the voltage increases, changed it.
A more interesting journalistic question would be: why does an 10-year-old software company with existing products, paying customers and an international presence need yet another $400m?
What does REACH say about BPA and BPS?
It will be difficult for a malnourished and disarmed majority, with little information about the structure of power, to raise against an AI army.

And until the AI army is ready, the AI capitalists can finance an elite of soldiers to keep the hungry masses at bay.
It isn't only the incarceration rates that are problematic. For example the police can legally steal stuff/money - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks "civil forfeiture". Being on the poorer end of society leads to more adverse outcomes in the "justice" system. For people who have been incarcerated, getting back into society is hard since the system is not about rehabilitation. Recidivism rates are higher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism

Or on a more personal note, how about a 79 year old man with the early stages of alzheimers and dementia put in prison, isolated, and denied a phone call, access to lawyers or even being able to let anyone know this has happened for 3 months? Innocent until proven guilty doesn't even apply, let alone basic justice.
No, no--it's really not.
I used to work in corp dev at a big tech company (not a typical silicon valley). This is pretty much spot on by Paul Graham per usual. I was typically the one doing the initial contact with companies (as a junior analyst on the team). I always found it interesting how many HUGE replies I got back from startups. I rarely ever saw a company take PG's advice and say not interested. Companies that were over-zealous were definitely thought less of while companies that played a more aloof game were chased.

Also I can say first hand all of the shady deal playing is absolutely true. The members of the due-diligence team and even the corp dev director you are dealing with are NOT the final decision makers. We are building an internal package that makes it appealing to the corp dev VPs/CFO to bless (and take to the CEO to bless sometimes). It's several layers of vetting and it's just as tedious and bureaucratic as it sounds.

I will say that the due diligence team typically will want the deal to be successful. No one wants to put in all that work to not buy a company. Corp Dev's job is to buy companies so having deals reach the 11th hour and fall through is NOT good. They pride themselves on stats like companies evaluated/year (wide funnel) and having a small fraction actually go to due diligence and the buying process. At the end of the day though, they want to buy businesses.
I understand that it doesn't cost much to warn people, I was just stating my disliking of it, not asking for them to be removed. I believe humans should be able to judge things on their own and to handle their emotions at the very least.
They certainly claim to handle it; I can't really speak as to whether their fees are too high, but it's higher than paypal.
Je Suis Charlie app approved following email to Tim Cook
Here's a clickable link for #5:
http://www.p01.org/releases/DEFENDER_of_the_favicon/
If someone went to the trouble of installing Safari they know

And by the way, I never managed to make it work in Windows...
Of course there will be some variance based on the person reporting in terms of the lifestyle they are used to and whether they have dependents to support.
This Ruben Bolling article, and the links therein (such as http://junkee.com/the-problem-with-jesuischarlie/48456 ) are by far the best explanation of the cartoons I've read in English.
Thanks, great articles!
>> Every day, AWS adds enough new server capacity to support all of Amazon’s global infrastructure when it was a $7B annual revenue enterprise (in 2004)

Curious to what that means or how it is measured.

What did Amazon run on in 2004? A warehouse full of E1xk's or had they started moving to x86 by then?

Are they adding a single cabinet of dense x86 servers each day (which I'm sure is as powerful as a datacenter full of Sun gear from 10 years ago)?
Congratulations Matjaz!

You're living the dream :) I've got my own product launch coming soon, and I hope things go even half as well for me as they have gone for you.

I'm interested to hear about your marketing efforts. You mentioned that you have 16000 mailing list subscribers and that this has been effective in terms of growing sales. How did you find these subscribers?

Are there any other marketing hints you might be able to give to a soon to be launching app?

Cheers,
Eli
Atheism Is Not a Silver Bullet
I think it definitely applies to the tech industry and in fact these tactics are pretty universal. For example, I've seen them applied by basically the entire paints & coatings industry's corp dev teams when we were exploring the sale of a paint company. Nobody's going to turn down the chance to look at a competitor's financials, even if they have to promise in writing not to use the information materially for their own benefit.

I'm not a lawyer nor do I have a ton of experience in patent-related matters. If the startup is patent rich and is sitting on a mountain of cash, and feels like it's weird that it hasn't paid an astronomical sum of money to lawyers in a while, then maybe it could justifiably feel somewhat protected by its patents. Then again, look at Apple/Samsung over the years...I don't think patents are the be-all and end-all.
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SumatraPDF is an open-source, minimal PDF and epub reader.
Radical murderous bastards with long toes will use any excuse to ply their trade whether they're anti-abortionists or Islamists doesn't really matter.

What does matter is that:

- this will rub off negatively on all those in Islam that don't distance themselves unconditionally from actions like these

- that it will be used to erode the rights and freedoms of people that had nothing to do with these attacks by railroading laws against the public interest while the anger and the fear are at high tide

- that actions like these make people of all religions look bad, especially those who are more fanatical about their religion.

On the whole, everybody loses.

If your imaginary friend can't be made fun of or you'll flip then you should see a shrink, and if you think there was anything 'ok' about these murders then I'd invite you to join in.

Other than that this is a police matter and politicians trying to use this to push their agenda should be voted out of office by all those who today think they too are 'Charlie'.
>However, conditions of extreme unemployment... Islam isn't the cause of terrorism

I think underestimates the influence of the founders. Jesus mostly preached to turn the other cheek and didn't kill anyone.

Here is a list of people killed by Muhammed
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Suppor...

It goes on a bit and the sources vary in their authority but overall impression is pretty pro violence.

Most of the 911 guys were well off Saudis who felt they were following the teachings. Obviously you can interpret the founders of a religion in different way and most Muslims are peaceful but it's hard to understand what's going on if you ignore that stuff.
Why the NDA? Isn't their goal electric vehicle adoption?
Super Best Friends is particularly interesting. It's only about 14 years ago that it was broadcast and at the time nobody made a big deal out of it.
Long Live Cocoa
>I ridicule others based on their self-assuredness that their belief is correct (without proof)

The point you're missing is that your basis for proof is flawed. Given that you substantively know so little (if anything) more in the relative sense, you are in no more of a position to require proof than are those with whom you disagree.

The other, and perhaps bigger, point is why the need for ridicule in the first place? Even if you possessed the complete set of Universal, Provable Knowledge, is ridicule the right approach to those who do not?

Perhaps you would be inclined to understand, teach, etc. In any case, I suspect that if you did possess such knowledge, then you would be less likely to suffer from the glaring insecurities that obviously motivate your current scorn.

>My approach might be philosophically no different, but it is very materially different (I didn't even attack anybody physical (in the material world), let alone kill anyone).

Actually, a frequently and perhaps most often used definition of "materially" is "substantially" or "considerably". Has nothing to do with the physical world.

I suppose it's good that I can "prove" that to you with a dictionary, else be subjected to your ridicule.

Still, possessing an attitude of intolerance towards others, then feigning superiority when the intolerance of others plays out in the physical world seems myopic.

In either case, I suppose that it is a starting place that you agree that your approach to these issues is not unlike the intolerant approach of those whom attacked Hebdo. Seems that, from here, you would want to explore whether that is wise.
I would not call it a news site. It is a cover-up job, I am not even sure if Narendra Chatwal even exists other than paper.
Who's smug and dismissive?

“Tallis indulges in refutation by caricature,” says Dennett, a professor of philosophy and co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University. “He’s not taking his opponents seriously. He’s sneering instead of arguing. He’s ignoring the complexities of the arguments. So he’s not really doing philosophy. He’s doing propaganda.”
Anyone can do that, even people that know where they should type the URL! Do you always carefully check that the right box has the keyboard focus before you start typing?
We have a server room that is almost empty these days. I unabashedly advocate for a cot or a hammock in there.

I like to think of sleep as clearing my working memory: the important stuff gets saved and the cruft is cleared and, one hopes, that a bit of subconscious processing takes place.

It is so much more effective to sleep for 10 or 20 minutes and come back to a problem fresh than struggle with your brain's garbage collection for several hours.
The forgotten comma operator
Fair point, but I'd suggest if you dislike the system it would be better to change how downvoted comments are formatted rather than prevent downvoting. The minimum karma requirement already slightly limits downvoting, perhaps it should more?

To users worried about losing karma I say... grow up. I might be worried about people thinking me stupid, or something else about me, but not the number at the top right.

And overall I think allowing downvotes is better than not. But this is subjective, neither of us has to be right or wrong. If you feel really strongly you could drop a mail to hn@ycombinator.com and give them reasoned argument and maybe some day they'll change more towards you're liking. I feel strongly enough to use time discussing with you, but not enough to contact HN if downvotes were disabled, personally.
What does "optimized specifically for EC2" means?
Ask HN: Which websites do you visit at least once a day?
video games /sarcasm
What was the result of that investigation? Can't find any info in the original thread.