skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure they are weighting wakeups heavily. "but with a “tax” of 500 microseconds for each wakeup" could be a reasonable estimate of the time the OS needs after wakeup before it can hand over the CPU to the process that did the wake up. That time isn't spend in the process that wakes up the system, but can be attributed to it.
Installing Windows 10 on an old MacBook Pro
Macros look like the single most important productivity feature in Lisps only when we are comparing to languages that have borrowed almost everything else, so that we are discounting those other things, consciously or not.
I think there is a case to be made for honorary degrees, but not with how they are commonly used today. To me it makes sense that if someone becomes one of the utmost authorities in a field, but didn't do it by spending half a million dollars and many good years at an Ivy League school, you can still recognize their credibility through an honorary degree.
Wait, you have to install a JDK to use this chrome extension?
Relevance is measured by influence, popularity by reach at one moment in time. Lots of boy bands are popular, but very few are relevant.

I’m not saying that Angry Birds is or isn’t relevant, but there is a distinction between the two ideas that is fairly easy to observe in the wild.
Here you go: https://unop.uk/dev/installing-windows-10-on-an-old-macbook-...
Thanks, these are great points and I know I need to work on my networking/marketing skills a bit.
The biggest issue I find, although I lack the experience to really validate it, is that those environments still provide an overall developer tooling experience that is way better than the open source offerings.

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If game shops operate as movie studios, why don't they simply hire people temporarily. Movie studios cut their staff to marketing, sales, and licensing once their work is completed and released.
> I feel bad for anyone learning this language.

clearly you have never tried out German :-)

As a German native speaker who generally has a lot of difficulty learning languages, I can assure you that English was a lot more feasible for me compared to anything else I tried.

(Of course you'll find an error in this comment - that is bound to happen in any comment talking about language mistakes)
While not directly the point of his article I found the example of time tracking to perfectly line up with my experience.

The hidden problem exists because there is a disconnect between the people who fill out those timesheets and the people who consume them.

The people who fill them out can't use the data. As a result the data is almost never correct and is largely useless and the people who consume them are picking out the wrong patterns from bad data.

The only reliable unit of measurement for time tracking is days spent. Anything else is measuring a largely made up number.

Further more they feed this idea that cramming at the end of a project is a good way shorten the time. Since you are tracking hours not days it's a short step to just upping the hours without upping the days as a short cut. But none of these apps give any data on the quality of those hours spent.
At the end of the day, the most electable candidate tends to get nominated. Not always, but typically. And Hillary, even despite her challenges, is much more electable than Bernie, because she's much closer to the center. Of course, continuing email controversies could change that. But unless they do, Bernie's chances of winning are near 0.
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Hey, at least we don't have goddamn gendered nouns. What an awful, awful idea that is.
I'd be curious what the dosage was.
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Interestingly, growing up, I thought a second set of pipes for "non-potable" or reclaimed water was standard. Where I grew up in Florida, every lawn was watered with reclaimed water. According to their website[1], Florida is currently reusing 660 million gallons of water per day. Really makes me wonder why states that are in apparent perpetual drought condition haven't adopted similar techniques.

[1] http://www.dep.state.fl.us/water/reuse/
I'm sorry but you might want to get a 2nd opinion B2B services in the UK are VAT taxable.

Since you are delivering services from outside of the UK a reverse charge needs to be assigned.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatpossmanual/vatposs06300.ht...

In the UK there's also a difference in VAT and taxation if you are registered as self employed, contractor or if you are running you own business.

HMRC actually has quite a good selection of tools for paying VAT and taxes that simplifies things to some extent especially for self employed individuals or contractors.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/gds/online/new.htm

Please note that in most countries you are still responsible for overdue taxes even if your accountant has power of attorney, you are the one who will be liable for it, you can sue your accountant for damages for sure but you'll be the one left stranded to sort things out if the payments were mishandled.
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I am running a bunch of projects on a bunch of servers. How easy or hard is it to offer HTTPS to my users? Do I have to pay for a certificate for each domain? I don't own anything with most of my domains, so I would not like to pay much.

And some domains, I just use for myself. The only reason I want to enable HTTPS on them is that I want to securely acess them while workinng from Cafes and Coworking spaces.

I use Apache on all my servers. I probably have set up the most minimal config possible, so the servers only reply on HTTP. What do I have to do to make them reply on HTTPS?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyqleIxXTpw
Oh wow, nice find. It looks like that calculation is pretty comprehensive, then.
Ask HN: Can't find a recent CSS story with the fun remark: “What are you doing?”
Can't google it or HN search and find it but it was funny and now I need the code actually. It was a main site such as w3.org that someone found odd that the programmer wrote an alert "What are you doing" if they typed in more than so many characters. I am about to use localStorage and have this need. Thanks.
It could hardly be worse, and there's the remote possibility of holding your government accountable.
Given how shitty public transit is here (and has been for decades) and how good Lyft is, this is an endgame I welcome.

Ever since I started using Lyft, I stopped taking the local public transit (except on certain special routes, like going straight downtown when I'm near a train station) because it's better.
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I would be happy with calling it "a German supreme court" (which is maybe misleading but technically correct). The phrasing "the German Supreme Court" implies that there is only one and it's somewhat comparable to the US Supreme Court which are both wrong assumptions.
> It is telling though that Constine notes that one of Uber’s Smart Routes runs “up Fillmore St. from Haight St. to Bay St. in the Marina, which the Bay Area’s BART service doesn’t cover,” when the route is directly covered by the SF MUNI 22 bus, which runs every eight minutes according to Google Maps

again: > every eight minutes and only costs $2.25

If only we could remove the stigma an bigotry associated with riding the bus, so many issues with public transit would be cured.
They even include a shell script to install on non-supported distros:

http://download.unity3d.com/download_unity/unity-editor-inst...
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As a rule of thumb, if you attach "'s" to something ending with an "s", only attach the apostrophe. But there's no problem if you do it wrong, it's just a stylistic convention to reflect the phonetics.

And for plural "s": if the word normally ends in a "s" or "sh" or "z" sound (or possibly even "zh", i.e. the "j" in French "je") add an "es" instead of "s". Some words are irregular but irregular words by definition don't follow the rules.

The real confusion comes with possessive pronouns. It is "the boy's pet" but it is "his pet" (not #"he's pet"). They're not nouns (they're pro-nouns, i.e. something that is used instead of a noun) so the apostrophe-s rule doesn't apply to them, they just take on special forms.

The confusion really just stems from English regularly allowing contractions like "-'s"/"-'" for "is" and "-n't"/"-'t" for "not" or "-'d" for "would". Pronouns can have contractions as suffixes (e.g. "he's" for "he is" or "he'd" for "he would") but nouns normally can't (#"the boy'd" isn't normally permissible, at least not in writing).

It gets even worse if you consider that whether words can only be contracted additionally depends on their pronunciation (and role) within the sentence. You can't answer the question "Is he dead?" with #"He's.", for example.

Oh, and I haven't even touched upon similar-sounding but entirely different things like "their" vs "they're" -- and I even caught myself accidentally mixing them up while writing this comment.
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In the Netherlands you can get an "anonymous chipcard" to check in to public transportation. There are cameras pointed at every check in point, wouldn't really call it anonymous then...
Mmh, not really. "Its" is consistent with other possessive pronouns like "his" and "hers". "It's" is consistent with other contractions, where letters are removed ("it is" or "it has").
I would say that most of these rules are true of creating any great software, not just Open Source. Many of the lessons I hear people touting today from Lean Startups seem to have already been distilled in the set of rules presented.
I was in Sears (where America used to shop) and saw "Mens clothes".
Indeed. And if they're able to support only a single distro, I wish it was Debian rather than a Canonical product.

On a related note, it's currently not working on Arch/Manjaro/Void Linux
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/service-not-available.35033...
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That was my initial response to The LEGO Movie, which wound up being one of the best movies of the year. It'll all depend on the team behind it.
Author here.

Exactly and and so if people aren't aware of this it will just be considered annoying but just the way things are.
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They also tried publishing different games, Amazing Alex for example. The truth is, for such simple things and for this definition of "success" (i.e. being the global hit of the moment) there is no formula.

For a comparison, look at King, what success do they have outside of candy crush? And it's not for the lack of games as they have quite a few.
I agree that "normalize" wasn't the right word. It's however closer to what this do than "reset".

I don't know how I would call Writ. "Baseline" perhaps? Something like that.
I'm an absolute layman, so I'm more curious here whether I am wrong: So far I've always understood that, however different a cancer may develop, all kinds of cancers have roughly the same cause: Some event corrupts a cell's DNA such that:

a) The corruption cannot be repaired;

b) The cell still survives;

c) The mechanisms that normally regulate cell division are impaired, causing the cell to continually divide.

d) The daughter cells also have DNA corruptions with the same properties.

Of course, depending on the nature of the DNA corruption and on what cells were corrupted, the resulting illnesses may be vastly different, as well as the strategies to combat them. But couldn't you at least look for ways to prevent cancer universally if you somehow address this common cause?
Yep, courtesy of the US Navy.
Thanks! Really glad you like it=)
Very well could have
This kind of weaselly divisiveness is exactly why I don't get political. There is no answer to your question that can't be twisted into calling me a socialist/Marxist/communist/Nazi/pinhead just because I happen to like a certain candidate who does things differently than the usual Clinton/Trump types.
> He has no chance of winning the general election even if he were nominated.

Well, that depends who he is up against. Imagine Sanders vs. Cruz with Trump as a 3rd party candidate...
The way I always understood it is that originally the s's (Sanders's dog) style was considered correct, and that the s' (Sanders' dog) style was a shorthand version for informal writing (so in formal writing it would be "sanders's dog" and in letters to a friend it might be "sanders' dog").

But as with all things, informal writing was more popular than formal writing, and eventually the s' style grew in such popularity that it became valid and understood in its own right.

So now effectively we have two "correct" ways of representing the same thing, a "long form" version and a "short form" version. The way I was always taught it (in a stuffy English secondary school) was that consistency within a single text is the most important thing, if you write s's once, you have to use it everywhere else also (ex. quotes).
In theory, even if not in practice, governments have limits that private companies do not.
I think lack of onboarding is probably one of the biggest problems with open source projects as well. You can't expect to get new contributors, if you have no documentation on how to setup a development environment, which tools you use and how the project is structured.
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The same wikipedia article goes on to say

[these academies] are to be distinguished from the Western-style university which is an autonomous organization of scholars that originated in medieval Europe and was adopted in other world regions since the onset of modern times
Everything is okay, angular has an upgrade path
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> In English contractions like that are rare and sound weird when pronounced,

English does exactly the same: "3-year mandatory contract" is pronounced as a single word. It is just a matter of writing convention.

«English word chains such as _child labour law_ may count as well, because it is merely an orthographic convention to write them as isolated words. Grammatically and phonetically they behave like one word (stress on the first syllable, plural morpheme at the end).»

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language
I agree that the timeline is rather short. I think it's totally possible for the Firefox team to achieve their goals within that time period, but whether addon authors can keep up is not as clear to me. We'll just have to see how it goes; I don't see why they couldn't extend the timeline if it turns out to be too short.
Cancer is one disease like infectious disease is one disease. Some things we thought were different are now seen as similar (BRAF V600E, for example), but the genes and proteins involved are usually radically different, one to the next. If anything, it's striking that our morphological classifications have withstood genetic scrutiny at all.
grumbles something about Linux nerds not getting why Linux still only has 1% of the desktop 23 years after he first downloaded it

Go fork another distro and shut up. Perhaps a new window manager? Steve Jobs took a bankrupt company and turned it into the world's most profitable company in less time.
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I don't know if the comment to which you are answering is right, but you did not provide any data points to refute what he's saying.

You simply said that there is 'high usage' - but it could be just as well along with the systems being 'bloated, ineffective and not innovative'.
The key lesson here is that entertainment companies are closer to gambling than outsiders realize. That is, to turn an entertainment company into a viable long term business you need to diversify and reduce risk of new title launches. That's why we see the large game companies producing sequels as opposed to launching new IP or game concepts.

A mobile company that understands this model is tell tale games.
Have you ever taken public transit in Baton Rouge, Houston, Detroit, or any similar city with enormous income disparity? I have, and calling it "public transit" is doing it a very big favor.

Linking to the wikipedia page that lists the US cities with highest transit usage does not strengthen your argument, because by definition those cities are likely to have better transit than the others.

When a lot of people do not have any other choice than public transit to get around, using high usage and growth over time as metrics for success seems misguided.
> The package systems never had init system integration

Never said integration saying packages have scripts to init themselves and that was different based on your distro.

Don't know why you feel the need to correct a point that distros are becoming more and more alike and that systemd is one of the elements that has helped this? Anywaysssss SystemD is the standard now for most of Linux and I am hoping for MORE standardization.
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All dial-up users being on the same IP would be tremendously convenient on the SMTP defense front, on the other hand.
> You've written a ClojureScript webapp using the Angular framework

I know this is an example but Angular is terrible with Clojurescript. Clojure has an opinionated idea of how state should change over time and that opinion does not include two-way bound attributes. The reason the cljs community is virtually all React is because dom diffing makes the UI effectively a projection from state and that is epochal-time compatible.

> How do You make sure that after changing it everything works - even the most obscure option that only one user uses?

Depends how your app is designed. In the general case where, say, you're doing the equivalent replacing Angular with Ember you just have to do it and lean on tests/QA. I have just recently finished such a refactor and it's about as fun as you're implying.

With the refactor, I have a better plan going forward! We're now on the re-frame model. All state is now in the global atom (instead of mostly being in the atom but some being component-local), dataflow is unidirectional, and we're capturing all non-determinant actions as event params. Together, it means serializing the state atom and a sequence of events allows playback on the changed code. At least in theory. I wound up having to ship rewrite delayed features and haven't taken the time to build recording/playback support.
> His ideals dont align with the prevailing american values.

That's not exactly true. I recall an article in the Washington Post explaining that his propositions are actually supported by majority of Americans. Sanders is not a real socialist, he's just a New Deal Democrat.
A government is (in principle) accountable to its citizens. A private company is only accountable to its owners and shareholders.
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"Fishes" is the word used to describe different species of fish.

Edit: late for the party. "Deeres" and "sheepes" follow the same pattern, I presume.
No, because that's not his name. His name is Bernard Sanders and he goes by "Bernie." So Bernie Sanders, or expanded out to Sanders's or Sanders' are correct.
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You're not. And it makes sense, since Sanders and Larry David (who voiced Steinbrenner on the show) are both from Brooklyn.
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I think what's meant by that is, that the purpose is the same as that of the "slide to unlock" mechanism on the iPhone, rather than the implementation; i.e., both exist to make sure that the device isn't activated accidentally or unintentionally.
Well, from a game perspective, Angry Birds 2 is pretty good. It gets rid of a lot of the annoyances in the first series of games. It's much easier to knock down small parts of buildings now.
With attitudes like that, it's no wonder he's a socialist.
Downvote?

Let me rephrase: There are temperature and battery charge sensors in the machines. We can use these to better calibrate the "virtual" energy usage metrics.
Him being rich is irrelevant, go check how rich the Bush family is! As for credibility, I don't think being part of a dysfunctional congress offers the other candidates much more credibility. I'm on the fence as to whether I like Trump yet or not, but these arguments are shallow and ineffective.

Not trying to be confrontational, but if you want to criticize someone you should come up with something more concrete and relevant!
>Doing so solves a significant subset of the problems with public trans

'Bad' passengers and 'bad' drivers are a significant problem with public transit? Huh?
From the author of the page: "I removed the link from my home page and moved the file itself -- not edited since 2007, oops.

I left ine the list of specific packages, and the link "more" which goes to http://www.numbertheory.org/ntw/N1.html which would be a much better link.

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Jamaica has had this system for years. You stand next to the street and point if you want to go up or down, and you get a ride for $1. It's pretty cool. 7 people in one car at times.
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>Suggesting that we imprison (because that's what you're calling for) people who have no committed any crime; who pose no risk of harm to others; and who lack capacity over one small aspect of their life is fascistic.

This is largely how we treat children. For the extreme cases, look at those re-education camps parents can send their teens to, often with a 'transporter' that would by any other name be called a kidnapper. And if the child runs away and claims abuse... the police will be right there to send them back.

Is it wrong that the child is treated in so many ways as belonging to the parent?
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Parent quotes the W3 Spec to prove that it's legal, and your response is "it's illegal because $BROWSER say's so"?

I trust the spec more than an implementation.
For sure. And NYC is a bit of an outlier, given that it probably has the best public transit infrastructure in all of the United States. That being said, I don't see why a potential future "Uberized" public transportation system couldn't offer flat rates, or even lower rates to people with lower incomes.
> Why the hell would you recreate BeOS on a Unix-like kernel?

Because you wouldn't have to code all these drivers to make the result an useful OS?

> Are you even listening to yourself? That's not NIH, that's common sense.

1) You're being rude. 2) 'common sense' is not an argument.

> It's far more effort to try and learn the ins-and-outs of a large kernel like FreeBSD or Linux, then try to shoehorn completely different OS semantics onto Unix, than to just roll your own.

Well its depends whether your goal is to have an OS running in very few configurations or if your goal is to have an OS which is able to be run by many.

> Besides, how is their choice signifying a hatred for Linux?

It doesn't, I was replying to the sentence "But Linux isn't exactly of much help towards advancing the status quo of OSes, either." an OS isn't a kernel and there WERE discussions about whether using Linux or FreeBSD kernel or NewOS in Haiku..
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I use these a bit and think they're great! If your logic is more complicated than one line it doesn't belong in there.
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