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Slackware was my first experience with Linux. So long ago now, I am 31 now but was 12 when I was first shown Linux and I was hooked from there. Like most I have been around the block with many different Linux distros over the years, even a scary few years doing stage 1 Gentoo. I will always be fond of Slack though. Patrick and his work will always have a very special place in my life, I do not doubt I would have gone into technology anyway (seems to be in my DNA) but Patrick and Slackware was such a huge part of what I first remember of truly learning.

Sorry this post is a little off-topic, it is Sunday afternoon and I guess I am feeling sentimental or something ;)
"Data" is a meme in much the same way "social" was a meme a few years ago. Every muffler shop was being told they needed to have twitter, facebook, myspace, linkedin, and G+ accounts else they'd be outpaced by more social-aware competitors.

That is patently false. There exists a short list of domains in which great value can be extracted from a strong social media presence, but outside those domains the value of social media remains dubious. Do I really give a shit if the Chevron gas station down the street is on facebook? Is PetroCanada going to steal my business by engaging with me on twitter? Of course not. When my fuel gauge reaches the point where I no longer have the warm-and-fuzzies, I fill up at the closest station with the lowest price that's the easiest to get in and out of.

The situation is analogous for data. Not every business or domain is going to be able to derive value from it.
Ihis is UNHCR report for end of 2011 http://www.unhcr.org/516286589.html , I don't see the name of Saudi Arabia in list of popular refugee hosting countries, But I see Iran as one of top to refugee hosting countries, Iran is actually one of top two since many years ago, due to hosting Iraqis and Afghanis, http://www.unhcr.org/516286589.html , you can see more of stats for other years too
Let me chew on it. Having an agitated human being across the table from you was always my acid test.
This is not a privilege of CS. Most fields will have conferences where you can learn about new research before it is published. The difference is that CS people rely on proceedings of the conference, while traditional fields postpone formal publication to established journals.

In my opinion this puts an unnecessary burden on conference organizers, because they have in short notice to make a decision about the correctness of the article as well as other more mundane matters such as the formatting and presentation for the proceedings publication.
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Science is supposed to stand in its own. Neither state nor religion are relevant here.
IEEE discussion of Kildall's legacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO6IPpL0y8g
This comment completely ignores and perhaps even intentionally muddies the central thesis of my parent post, which was: there is a distinct and codified divide between "grunt work you can do with minimal training" and "seriously difficult work" in other fields that does not exist in software.

For instance, the sentence right after the one you quote ends with: "...or really extraordinary dedication". The handful of people you mention in your post, I think, count as extraordinary.

To reiterate my point:

The IT guy who helps hack out some spreadsheets isn't an actuary. The nurse who changes sheets isn't a doctor. But in software, there's no distinction -- in terms of externally recognized job titles -- between the guy hacking on wordpress templates or apps that burn my phone's battery and steal my data for no reason, and someone working on a piece of critical infrastructure.

I can't really respond to your anecdata without starting a flame war, but suffice it to say that perhaps some people would consider PHP or Perl or JavaScript cogent counter-examples to the point you're trying to make.

Finally, lots of actuaries without degrees rise to the top of their organizations and get to work on really cutting-edge stuff. Those people are extreme outliers. The same exact thing is true in software. Literally the only difference is that actuaries don't have the same sort of blindness to statistics that software people do, and I think the reason is that there's a clearer distinction between "grunt work related to actuarial work" and "professional-grade actuarial work".

If we made that distinction in software, then I think the perception that you can do real software engineering without a degree would shift far closer to "Exceptional" than it is now.
The irony is, Qt _IS_ a cross-platform GUI, where you build your UI once and it looks like Windows on Windows, Mac OS on Mac OS, and the look of whatever window manager on Linux.
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And I wouldn't call the Hollywood situation of giving multi-million dollar budgets to BS like Transformers and spare change to far better movies a "fair allocation" either when it comes to artistic merit.

To be fair, the title asks about its appeal, not artistic merit. Transformers is a shitty film, but it certainly has appeal.
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Let's see... neither the Constitution nor the Declaration of Independence explicitly use the word "republic" for the United States as a whole, so you should perhaps reconsider that argument.

Constitution, Article 1, Section 2, and Section 3, in their first paragraphs clearly define the legislative branch as a representative democracy.
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Come visit Iran and then we can talk who has freedom and who don't. Is easy and not accurate if you judge things that you never saw in your life.
While this isn't common any more, I used to work in an environment where people smoked at their desks... A smoker's keyboard can become a truly horrifying thing.
At home I use HappyHacking 2 with a Magic Trackpad.

At work I use Microsoft ergonomic (the new model) with a Magic Mouse.

I used apple wireless for a very long time as well, ended up with fingers hurting after a long day of typing.

I also tried truly ergonomic keyboard but could never get used to the keys layout
Although this is quite an old book, the topic is still very relevant even today. The ideas are timeless and worth reading. I'm impressed by the authors that made their books survive in a very long time.
How do you explain Benigni's Oscar for "Life is beautiful"? Although I would partially agree with you on your opinion about Benigni nonetheless.
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I recently put together a systemd system, here's a list of grievances compared to the previous setup:

On boot, systems waits for two minutes or so for dhcp on an Ethernet interface with no cable, and it's not cancelable if I happen to be at the console

On shutdown, it turns off swap before shutting down daemons; not an issue for my system because I don't expect swapping, but in what world does this make sense?

Closing the lid sleeps the computer without configuration; some people might find this to be a good thing, but in my experience in the last 15 years, Linux only slept on lid closure if i was running software to handle that (acpid and/or something from a desktop environment), if i have apache running on an old laptop with no GUI, i expect it to stay on. (yes, there's a config, but its still annoying)
Take a look at the new DaemonSet abstraction Kubernetes. Great for running things like HDFS and other distributed data workloads/frameworks: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/release-1.1/do...
Any support for private github repos through authentication with Github?
It's pretty much only for use inside Unity itself as a game development language.

I have a small hope, since Microsoft appears to be opening up DotNet, that Unity will itself one day be able to work with any of the DotNet languages.
It depends entirely on how you define "closer" (so you have to define distance). It's hamming distance should be about equivalent, if you assume Microsoft Bob contains about 50% bits set to one. Altough I have no idea if that assumption is valid for a typical Win32 binary.
I know the feeling. My name is Simone and I am from Italy. In most of the world, they think it's a female name (usual guess: French lady) until they see me :)
I've been looking for something like this. This cleanly solves the basic (majority) case and doesn't try to boil the ocean. It looks like it would be easy to build a higher-level API with more features on top of this, which is great. Nice work. Also kudos for documenting the shims in lieu of bundling them.
The bookmarklet strategy was intended for this very reason when I made it:

https://github.com/FarhadG/init
I could have sworn that Microsoft released the source code to this screen saver, long, long ago.

[Edit: Yup, it was in the SDK: SDKs\Win32 SDK\OpenGL\Code Samples\PIPES]
Original pipes didn't have knots did it? And there's some pipes that come out through other pipes which I don't think happened in the original. Very cool implementation though.
Cafes are a great place to socialise. I took up coffee drinking a few years ago to be a part of this ecosystem. It took me 2 years of 5 coffees a week (close to 1 a day) to get used to caffeine.
I experienced increased heart rate, sweating, delayed sleep (even 8 hours after a coffee).
These days, I still need to drink coffee at least 6h before sleep, but I don't find myself getting wound up after 1 cup anymore. Two cups is a different matter.
Date: 2013

Correct Link: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=1796...

Direct Link to PDF: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/179615/msrtr-2013-2.pdf
You should absolutely be taking ohfunkyeah's advice, as in today. This is a great piece with some good ideas and good learning being shared, but the poor quality of delivery severely hampers their usefulness.
As @fernly said, Qt is a cross-platform GUI library and htmlPy isn't bringing anything extra in that field.

htmlPy is meant for easy GUI development and integration with popular frameworks like Django for standalone app development. It adds to the memory usage of the application due to the use of QtWebkit.

If you are making a not-very-complex app and don't want to go to lot of trouble for making GUIs for standalone version, htmlPy is a great solution. But if your app is conservative about resources, doing lot of memory optimization or needs features which can't be done using HTML, probably best if you use native UI.
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10601154
You are totally right!

I forked his/her repo and added the ability to set the speed yourself.

http://reimertz.github.io/pipes/
Most journals require that any research submitted to them must not have been published elsewhere. On the surface, this makes sense, especially in the pre-internet world in which scientific publishing developed. You wouldn't want to allow someone to submit the same paper to multiple journals to inflate their publication count. However, things like preprint servers and blog posts have become a gray area with respect to these rules, and different journals have different policies. I haven't heard of any paper being rejected due to a blog post being considered "prior publication", but I also wouldn't be surprised if I heard of it happening. But rejections due to using preprint servers definitely do happen fairly commonly. The idea of preprint servers is unfortunately still fairly new in the biomedical field and is just starting to gain traction in the past year or two, so many journals still don't even have an explicit policy on preprints, leading to surprise rejections.
Engineering time isn't free, even for cash-strapped startups.

For a startup, your hyperfocus has to be on creating a product that is attractive to users. Everything else is entirely secondary.
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Also http://www.truepianos.com, which I was just playing with yesterday. It's incredibly playable.
Except that isn't Sorrentino's last film. And both Youth and La grande bellezza are beautiful movies.
I'm going to put this in the "did not click - do not want to know" category.
In the biomedical sciences most publications DO NOT end up on preprint servers before being peer-reviewed and accepted. Therefore most stories are "done" a year or more before they are published anywhere. Sometimes they are presented at conferences, but often only once the paper is in submission.
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You probably couldn't pay them enough to get the job done faster. Any amount you could pay them would probably be insulting compared to the # of hours it takes to properly review a paper. Also, we don't really want to increase the cost of submission/publication/journal subscriptions any more than necessary.
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Title was supposed to be "Ask HN: What Linux distro do you <3, and why do you prefer it over alternatives?" but HN is paranoid about HTML I guess? Anyway, can't even edit it to replace "<3" with "love", sorry about that.

There's a huge amount of variety, but I imagine there's only a handful of really popular distros. And I'm having a hard time finding a listing of the pros/cons of each, relative to each other, from the horse's mouth. So, without trying to call you a horse, I'm hoping you can tell me from your personal experience why you prefer the distro you use vs. others you've rejected. Thanks!
My advice is to explore all your options.

"Corporate" and "startup" are mostly meaningless in this context. When it comes to evaluating career opportunities, what matters are the specific details of particular job opportunities.

Bell Labs was corporate [1]. "Two idea guys who just need someone to write the code" is a startup.

Good luck.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs
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Wired's headline is wrong. It is not Coinbase, but Shift who offers the card. Coinbase, Inc and Shift Financial, Inc are two different companies.
http://engineeringblog.yelp.com/2015/11/introducing-paasta-a...
Do you really think this reviewer for FASEB, an HHMI Investigator and a tenured professor at Rockefeller University, doesn't "understand the academic process?"

For better or for worse, biology isn't like computer science. Wet lab experiments take orders of magnitude more time, interpretation of results is often pretty complex, and there are a lot more articles published, which together combine to make this situation a little different.

There have been several moves to establish ArXiv-like compendia for biology, but they haven't really caught on yet. I'm not sure exactly why.
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I bought a Cooler master mechanical keyboard for 10000 Rs (nearly $150), For comparison I could have got a wireless keyboard/mouse combo for below 2000 Rs.

One of the reasons I bought it was that it was backlit. But now the LED's of a dozen keys have gone out. (This is after one replacement from the company due to the same issue, and I had to pay the shipping charges from my own pocket).

Also, it has a very delicate usb port on the keyboard (Yes the cord is not permanently attached), so after a while you end up frequently reattaching the cord. I have now tied it to the keyboard body.

If you ever find this keyboard online. Don't buy the backlit version. And don't buy then one with a usb port instead of cord being permanently attached.
I think you're correct about its intended use case being different. I used Twitter's Mustache compiler, Hogan.js, in a similar fashion for a tiny app once.

Though I suppose I should highlight the latter being client-side templating, as opposed to one-way data binding.
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> The irony is, Qt _IS_ a cross-platform GUI,

Haha, I didn't realize that(not familiar w/ Qt). Was just responding to the "why are people averse to Native UIs" question
I think this is an unfair characterization of her editorial. She did not get to her position by getting mediocre papers published in good places! She is just asking authors to be honest about whether their findings are of sufficient importance/impact to be published in one of the top journals. I have seen many many colleagues run the journal mill, aiming as high as possible for as long as possible, just like she describes. It indeed wastes time and clogs up the system!
I have high hopes for Julia, but it's not really competing with Mathematica AFAIK, so I'm not really sure what's behind these claims.
Then why did you not write 'Some places on earth are no longer fit for human habitation'?

Because that's clearly true. All of those old strip mines, and Superfund sites, and nuclear test sites, and the region around Chernobyl, and the former fishing towns of the Aral Sea are trivial examples of how sites have been rendered less fit for human habitation.

However, that logic of the argument is a bit silly, since it sets aside considering how human agency may be responsible for the removal of that part of the human ecosystem.

There really are places which "are simply not fit for human habitation" include the top of Mt. Everest, effectively all of Antarctica (the few highly subsidized settlements not withstanding), and a number of small islands (like Bishop Rock). The Marshall Islands do not fit into that category.
I felt the same. For example, gravity/electromagnetism force depends on distance, hence naturally lead to circular/spherical contours, which would involve Pi.
What for? I'm genuinely curious.

The only thing that kept me wondering thru the film is - where do those people get that kind of money to make their life style possible?
Now, if he made a film explaining THAT, I would be first to watch. Otherwise, characters are ageing impostors, but first of all boring.
> The CloudFoundry installation instructions alone makes me run away screaming.

BOSH is getting some much-needed love right now for this reason. Incidentally, for long-running stateful services, BOSH is the right tool for the job. We use it for Cloud Foundry, MySQL and a bunch of others I don't recall right now.

Anyhow. If you just want to see quickly if CF fits your needs, the place to go is Lattice[1], explicitly designed to be installable on a laptop.

In the meantime, you can let Pivotal host you on Pivotal Web Services[2].

That plucky startup from Armonk, IBM, are the second-largest donor of engineering effort to Cloud Foundry. Their public installation is BlueMix[3].

Other hosted installations of Cloud Foundry are CenturyLink AppFog[4], anynines[5] and Swisscom Application Cloud[6].

When you decide you want something in-house, you can buy Pivotal Cloud Foundry with all the support bells and whistles. Or you can just use the standard cf-release repo and deploy it to you own OpenStack or vSphere environment. Or on AWS. Or on Azure. Or some mixture of the above.

[1] http://lattice.cf

[2] https://run.pivotal.io

[3] https://console.ng.bluemix.net/

[4] https://www.ctl.io/appfog/

[5] http://www.anynines.com/

[6] https://www.swisscom.ch/en/business/enterprise/offer/cloud-d...

Edit: I'd be interested in hearing why people object to this comment.
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Really? How so? How is dependency resolution managed to the point that it's relatively painless without resorting to automatic dependency management? I'm not saying I don't believe you, I'm just curious. Slackware was the first distribution I ever used oh so many moons ago that I've forgotten how it all worked. Ah sweet nostalgia as someone else mentioned.
That's simply not true.
Am I missing something?

Why is this tool interesting? Or, why is this tool useful?

Wasn't this already pretty easy to find if one was so inclined?
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This is fundamentally broken if there is no master branch, or if the master branch is not the branch that points to the last commit you made. i.e. https://github.com/antirez/redis
Thank you. I sure learned something read your article. Please keep posting :)
An anecdotal perspective to bring these conclusions a little closer to home- spend some time in outer borough NYC bodegas, there is a constant stream of people using food stamps to buy cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana. 100% of people that I've spoken with (dozens?) who live or have lived in these areas have corroborated these observations.

As far as I'm concerned, even if these programs were free from abuse, they are payments for votes and programs like SNAP should be abolished -- that's what charities are for. The /only/ difference is that charities permit the liberty of donors whom may manage the fruits of their own labor.
>"Is this you? Your Ph.D. student has just finished 5 years of spectacular work, the manuscript and figures go through 12 revisions, then your colleagues and friends provide input for the next 10 revisions, you submit the perfect “version 22” manuscript to a carefully targeted scientific journal appropriate for the manuscript, and then you wait. And wait. And wait. Months elapse"

Funny stuff. In the end most of these papers are not reproducible anyway, so what is taking so long?

http://www.nature.com/articles/483531a
Each technical field decides the best way to handle new research. If what you said is true, this is a matter particular to this and similar fields. However, many articles such as the one linked above make it believe that Science as a whole has a big problem because of peer reviewing standards, which is NOT true. In fact, most fields already have procedures to disseminate and archive results in a way that does not conflict with traditional peer reviewing.
That is exactly what we do at work with stateful services. For now.
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This is especially true when you consider what that same $1500/mo will buy you using something like DynamoDB or Aurora. Both those solutions will give you more storage, are managed for you and will mostly scale up with you, meaning you don't have to start anywhere near $1500/mo.

I know the article said tying yourself to Amazon feels wrong. But focusing your time and energy on managing infrastructure that could be managed by Amazon instead of focusing your time and energy on your product feels more wrong to me. There are exactly zero startups that have succeeded because they had a more reliable and performant MongoDB installation.
>The skills necessary to be an average developer are pretty minimal. Basic math, literacy, organization, basic problem solving, patience and persistence. Communication helps but it's obviously not a requirement as you've displayed.

I'm skeptical of this.

All of the things you say are things an average IQ person could have.

Are there any established developers with an IQ of 100? Possibly, but very few. IQ correlates very well with the ability to solve complex problems, which means there are few average IQ people who can solve such problems.
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Isn't Dockercraft the same idea under MS Bob?
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Always thought people eating sandwiches, burgers, etc. with their hands while also typing is gross.

Keeping things clean, though: buy a box of 70% isopropyl pads (about 1"x1" squares) at your CVS/Walgreens and use them to clean your keyboard, mouse, door handle, kitchen counter, etc. Works great and leaves no residue. Don't use on wall paint and other alcohol-soluble surfaces.