skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof please?

Whenever I visit a WebGL demo inside Linux w/ NVidia drivers, if there are any complicated shaders, my system hard-freezes, forcing me to reboot.

Until the X developers fix Xorg's security model (like that will happen), and until NVidia fixes their Linux drivers (like that will happen), WebGL will always be one massive gaping security and stability problem for me as a Linux user.
Only tech savvy people are allowed to use Google Plus. You can't just sign up. Calling a service in closed beta "failed" because it has a small number of users is totally irrational to the point of being an obvious troll.
Also tested for aircraft propulsion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_Nuclear_Propulsion

tl;dr
They discovered it was a bad idea.
That's what came to my mind as well: We will be hearing these "X is linked to genetics" news a lot more often for everything ranging from boredom to our favorite color. Yes, almost everything is genetic to an extent, but not everything is a disorder, especially the brain-related ones (other than profound conditions like alzheimer's or parkinson). Can psychology define what is the "Ideal mental state"? I don't think so (and it's a little creepy).
What he misses is that you can generally have the desktop experience by hooking up a nice big second monitor, comfortable keyboard & mouse and an external hard drive. That usually means having a dedicated space in your office/home but with a laptop you're not tied to that space.

I'm actually surprised he didn't mention gaming as a big driver for desktops as an area which need the big fans or graphics cards that you don't get in laptops (though gaming laptops have come a long way in the last 5 years)
Incubator for 1999: http://www.forbes.com/1999/12/15/feat.html
"What do these incubators really do? For starters, they provide office space, technology infrastructure, seed-capital (mostly about $250,000 or so), and access to some vital talent such as marketing and financial people, according to Cohen. "Mentoring and the hands-on approach is what is going to help the companies which are being incubated get to market faster," says Levy."
They have literally replaced the resume:

http://resume.github.com/?alex

http://resume.github.com/?jacobian

http://resume.github.com/?ask

http://resume.github.com/?kennethreitz

http://resume.github.com/?rpetrich

http://resume.github.com/?jtauber

Neat idea, though. This is something I've also hacked on lately.
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"This is the SCO carcass, and the buzzards are picking the bones" - pj
Is there any way to speed Unison up on large datasets? It runs unusably slow even to scan changes of something like my mp3 directory.
I agree. I was a quirky, energetic, and mischievous child. I caused trouble. I was a brat (and still am sometimes).

I'm glad to have my ADD, hyper-awareness comes in handy often. Sometimes it drives me crazy too. But I'm learning to be aware of where my mind takes me.

The journey has been tough, but I've learned a lot about myself.
Google copied a bunch of technical features from other networks (Facebook mainly) that do get social. But as the parent points out, they don't truly get social because there is a complexity that confuses me let alone my mom in using Google Plus.
I had read awhile back that Unison does not preserve HFS+'s extended attributes. Has that changed in a recent version?
After 30 years, IBM says PC going way of vacuum tube and typewriter
With all due respect, ruby is a language, and rvm is a collection of really fragile and dangerous shell script hacks.
Because it runs userspace code on x86, instead of running kernel-level code on the GPU?
You aint' gonna shag Olivia, unless you will hack into that god damn Tron
LinkedIn pulls Facebook-style stunt
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I will enthusiastically second tpope's plug-ins. I've been doing some html work and found that the ragtag and surround plugins were helping me a lot.
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I've been using NERDTree for a bit now but didn't know about the 'm' key. Thanks!
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>it certainly doesn't strike me as unlikely. //

FWIW it strikes me as absurdly unlikely.

Can you describe the methodology of the examiner turned attorney, how do they make money from this?
Well, probably not, but having said that, there is a certain point at which I would use any means necessary.
That's a ridiculous and paranoid claim, bordering on tinfoil hat territory. There are plenty of practical reasons for why you'd want an online service to be tied to real identities. Reasons that a business would actually care about.

Which isn't to say that real names are necessarily the best choice. There are of course other reasons to be somewhere else on the continuum, like real identities with some freedom of presentation like nicknames, full pseudonymous identities, or full anonymity.
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Nope - the book sold far more: They are not taking into account Eastern Economy Editions. The book is quite popular in Indian colleges.
This is basically a semantic argument for how to classify software. It does a fair job of showing that the difference between software and hardware isn't necessarily distinct, quantitative instead of qualitative.

But that's ultimately an academic argument. However you classify software, however you elide the distinction, however you define the terms, in practice the patent system is supposed to encourage innovation, and this argument does nothing, in fact doesn't even attempt to address the growing charge that it does precisely the opposite.

I ask the more relevant questions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2875289
I dont think i will ever convert to Laptops for fulltime work. They are fine for on the go and inbetween, but for serious work i want my desktop.
Why?

1) Much more ergonomical. I get neck pain when working on my Macbook for hours, looking down at the screen

2) I need two external screens. A Laptop Screen + an external Screen is again not ergonomical, pains my eyes to look from a decent 24" into the Macbook Display with its insane pixel density. I like same pixel density on both screens, and same size

3) Noise. For what i am doing the Macbook constantly screams at me through its fans (i7 quad version). My Desktop is silent when doing the same tasks

4) Glossy Screens, i totally hate them and today its almost impossible to get around them.

5) Laptop only is a compromise. A 15" is pretty huge and heavy. A decent Desktop for serious work + Macbook Air for on the go would be perfect.

6) Sync tools are so good nowadays (yay dropbox) that its pretty easy to have everything in sync across multiple machines.
My most productive hours are after 4pm, when everyone else is gone or busy scrambling to finish things and get home.

The assertion I disagree with is that this is worse with an open office than a cubicle farm. In my experience cubicle farms are terrible because people don't see those around them that are being annoyed by an overly loud conversation.
Well, for some people Scala means just too much incidental complexity for too little power gains, and are trying to find different balance on complexity/power scale by inventing different languages. I can't see what's wrong with that.

Exactly! It's easy to make sweeping predictions of obsolescence when you don't even address the criticisms these alternatives levy against Scala. For many, Scala is too functional/academic, and alternative implementations have a real chance of snatching up developers who want just want a cleaner/simpler Java.
I can understand that you're aiming at "content auditing" as a task - taking an inventory of a website and gathering a bunch of statistics, as well as insights. If the minimal alpha product only produces an inventory and nothing else, well, ok, it's a minimum viable product and will get you closer to people who actually do what you describe.

The problem I see is that most of the information you mention comes from sources that are unavailable to you - besides the URLs and the page content, visitor statistics have to come from elsewhere (i.e., google analytics or piwek or whatever), and with navigation info (as well as "who owns it" or last-modified info) it's probably better to retrieve directly from the CMS than to take guesses.

Then again, if you can do without (or can provide a "simple" php page that people can drop somewhere and that allows you to siphon off the information that you need from WordPress/Magento/other standard software) in a secure-enough manner, this will probably be popular with those people who don't want to talk to the grumpy IT folks right away.
Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings. Inquire within.)
Hi again! I'm back for another "No Strings" session. I like this community a lot and want to see if there's anything I can do to make you a little more successful. There are no strings attached. (Hense, the name.) To give you an idea of what I might be able to help you with, let me tell you a few things I've done to help others...

- I've helped consult with non-developers about their idea to help them understand what it'll take to implement,

- I'm currently building the control panel (front and back-end) of an embedded (ARM-based) wifi access point,

- I'm planning educational workshops for our community to learn (cram) on different technologies and how they can be quickly used for different benefits,

- I read approximately 600+ different articles, blog entries, and stories each month about what the tech world is doing. (I'm pretty informed!)

- I understand good design from bad design. Aesthetics are not lost on me.

- I have a family (two kids) and juggle a hectic work-life balance (volunteering, full-time gig, forming a startup, social life?) that's gradually improving.

If you're interested, there's some more information about me at http://nobulb.com/personas/.

So if there's something I can help you with, just ask here or @mikegreenberg on Twitter. Be specific about what you're trying to fix/solve/accomplish. The more details you provide, the better I can help you out. Also, I should be able to do your request within 10-15 minutes (a soft time limit so I can spread the love a little quicker).

Last time, the response was overwhelming and I was still answering questions days later (because I wanted to). If you want to get your question answered sooner (rather than later) your request should be thoughtful, sincere, researched and considerate of other people who might want help, too.

Cheers!

PS: This is how it went last few times I did this:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767448

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649226

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544886

PPS: I'm not asking for anything in return, however, there IS one way you could show your appreciation if you felt the need. I'm working on a project and currently doing some validation. If you would consider taking a short 2-minute survey, I would be quite appreciative.

Survey: http://idjump.wufoo.com/forms/online-identity-and-you/
Indeed. Dropbox has validated the market and there probably is room for competitors because there are a lot of use-cases and power-user specific features that Dropbox doesn't cover and might not even want to.
Clickable links:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2767448

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649226

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2544886

http://nobulb.com/personas/

http://idjump.wufoo.com/forms/online-identity-and-you/
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It doesn't matter what Wayne has always said. He's designed a collection of fragile shell script hacks that want to be run as root that fundamentally change the behavior of key system commands.
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Paypal is primarily about small users, they're a long tail business. Any large business would just get a merchant account.

What Paypal is however is a mass-market product aimed at low-risk transactions. They don't care about dealing with special case high-risk transactions, that's a fundamentally different business model which they don't want to go after.

It's perfectly reasonable for Paypal to decide their own business model.
Actually, no it wouldn't.

The second thread makes a copy of the list and adds a new item.

The next time the first thread goes through to mark everything 'paid', it either gets an empty list, or a list that still contains everything it supposedly moved elsewhere earlier, depending on how you handle it.
They didn't actually change the policy, just the enforcement: you'll now get a 4-day grace period to produce ID or change your name before your account is suspended.

There's lots of discussion about this on G+:

Mike Elgan of Computerworld is at https://plus.google.com/113117251731252114390/posts/e3nC5XyA...

Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web is at https://plus.google.com/117421021456205115327/posts/BPKvVJm7... and https://plus.google.com/117421021456205115327/posts/EAMD7Pc9...

In all of these threads the comments are overwhelmingly pro-nym.
Stop using the word bubble.

Seriously, why is this getting upvotes?
I would like to try it out, but it looks like somebody has to invite me. Could you maybe do that? Thanks in advance! (daniel.kempkens[ät]gmail.com)
Even if KDE did get more attention, on openSuSE (which seems to have a fairly large proportion of KDE users compared to other distros) Kate does not come preinstalled even with KDE. Anyone know why?
I'd tend to agree, with one exception: it's sometimes even more desirable to construct own /usr/local version of some critical packages (database, languages, crucial libs) instead of distro versions; then recreate this on your all production nodes and never upgrade it without a carefully thought reason and pre-prod test.

Two main reasons for this:

- sometimes the version provided by the distro doesn't have set of features which you need and careful admin can provide it for you,

- sometimes distro packagers or upstream folks violate semantic versioning (incidentally or not) and upon upgrade from distro, some of your sub-features ("sub-" doesn't have to mean "not critical") break.

Of course you lose the google-fu you've mentioned, but to be honest, many production environments are so distinct that there's no sane way to compare one to "typical Debian X.Y server".

I personally find FreeBSD approach very convenient wrt to the issues above, because ports evolve independently from the base system; but YMMV.
This sounds very similar to Microsoft's LiveMesh. Besides that fact that it's not Microsoft, what are the big differences in functionality or usability (or is it totally different)?
I think the main take away is that the best will survive. Those who figure out the model, figure out what types of people and companies to accept, and figure out how to best get them off the ground.

The idea of trying the incubator model in other areas such as health care and clean tech is an interesting idea and I'm interested to see if it will have the same effect on start ups that are much more expensive to start.

After being in 3 different incubators (2 government run, and 1 private in the US) I've learned a great deal about what works and what doesn't. The government doesn't work. If the folks who run the incubator have no stake in the companies and no interest as to whether they'll eventually be successful other than bragging rights, they will work as little as possible to not get fired.

Now when the incubator is run as a start up itself, the whole incentive system changes for the better. They want to work just as hard as you to make sure everyone is successful. Go YC!
I'm 26, and I was diagnosed with ADD last year, at the suggestion of my dad, who was not diagnosed until his 40's. It took me almost a year to start actively researching ADD, because I grew up in an upper-middle-class community where it was primarily over-diagnosed in unmotivated kids whose parents were convinced that brain dysfunction was the only thing that could possibly keep their children from being A students. To say the very least, I was skeptical.

When I finally began learning about ADD, I was startled by how standard my story was. Reading Driven To Distraction was a watershed experience for me; at times I was convinced that they had simply copy-and-pasted my academic transcript: "Dreamer," "Has a creative mind that would produce incredible results if he applied himself once in a while," "Inconsistent. What happened to the A student sitting in my classroom last year?"

In perspective, so much suddenly made sense; not just my experiences in high school, but beyond that as well. I failed only one class in my entire academic career, a programming course in my second year of college. How ironic and confusing that my only failure would be in the subject for which I had the most passion. Now it made sense. Only two or three years ago from today, I almost lost my job because my output was so inconsistent. I barely scraped by and recovered, but the experience shook me. Now, I understood.

There are many forms of treatment, all of which I have experimented with. When it comes to medication, it took me a long time to settle on Adderall, which lets me focus like a normal person without any appreciable side-effects. The drug was a game-changer for me, like the first time I put on glasses.

I think I'm glad that I wasn't medicated as a kid, if only because of a deep uncertainty about medicating something as malleable as a child's brain. Conversely, going 25 years without diagnosis has also drastically affected every part of my life. (I have no idea how my dad dealt with it for almost 50 years.) This was also something that I grew to understand as I learned more about ADD; undiagnosed, it can lead to perennial struggles with depression, self-esteem, poor impulse control and a host of others. I think the most important thing about ADD isn't necessarily medication or even "treatment" but simply awareness.

"Laziness" is a symptom, not a root cause. If we can be mindful about the signs of ADD in childhood, we have already taken a huge step towards improving the quality of life for people with the disorder, and everyone they interact with. I'm sure there will be debates about how to treat it for many years to come, but simple awareness can only help.
On your second question, they've tried that with things like JavaFX Script. Not sure why there isn't uptake.
The human brain is arguably the most complex system on the planet. We have a very poor understanding of how it functions so we fall back to the old, "is this useful metric" and DISORDER only refers to things that are less than optimal.

There are plenty of environments where a mild level of ADHD is not an issue; unfortunately children are expected to be able to sit and concentrate for several hours a day. In that context the term DISORDER is appropriate which is not to say it can be compensated for just that there is an issue. There are plenty of ways to compensate for poor vision and people are starting to think of mental issues in those terms. Unfortunately it's harder to change the environment or give extra attention than a cheap external prosthetic. Thus, drugs are often the first choice, even if they have minimal value or just trade harming the user to help those around them.
I think this article understates one point. ADHD is already known to be highly heritable, which already tells you genes are involved.

http://i.imgur.com/G7jDX.png

Also, the first association between ADHD and polymorphisms affecting the dopamine transporter was found in 1995.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1801209/
Not pain meds for legit pain.

But as a ex-addict of benzos I would restrict those to epileptic patients...

The data on benzos for mania, depression, and suicide is scary. Long term use has terrible effects.

Most docs don't prescribe the heavy ones for psychiatry anymore. Seizures are a different story.
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It looks just like an iPhone.

That not exactly a bad thing. Most new cars are similar variations of other cars in their class (sedan/suv).

But if I saw someone carrying it, I would just think its another iPhone 4.
So is doubleclick a company people look up to? I associate them with skeezy business practices, tracking people, privacy issues, and crappy advertising. I'm seriously trying to come up with one reason to like them.

Maybe it's that they're successful? But so is monsanto, and i don't look up to them.
"Just be good parents and give your child an environment where his or her differences can thrive. Find some open space and let them loose for several hours a day. Homeschool them with creative and intriguing lessons tailored just to them. Do whatever you can to allow their abilities become advantages rather than brand it a disorder and ruin their self-esteem by sending them to the nurse twice a day to be force-fed a pill they don’t need."

Let me guess: you aren't a parent, are you? I grew up on Ritalin and my son is wayyyyyy more ADHD than I am. He was prescribed adult doses of ADHD meds at five. We homeschooled after he was sent to the principal's office in kindergarten something like 10 times in a three week span (and that was while he was medicated).

I know both sides of this story and, to be frank, I'll avoid taking advice on parenting from someone who has no experience in that situation. I'm not trying to be rude but it's just like a deep developer who has only worked on solo iPhone app projects giving a talk to 1000s of people on how to effectively manage a team of 100 developers on 3-year long projects.
The legal problem is that most software patents are plans for instructions for how to construct something tangible (albeit that is an abstract view). Which basically means that they lie in some grey area in between written works and designs for something.

I would argue that maybe a good rule is to force patents to applicable only on systems of certain size or complexity. That way algorithms and data structures would not be patentable but a method for mining large datasets would be. Similar to how a new dimension of a nut and bolt is not patent-able but putting a bunch of them together in a innovative way is.
The same argument for Google not funding FF could be made for Microsoft.

Firefox has demolished Internet Explorer's market share over the years, and it's always been an important product for MS. Arguably more important than Bing (which continues to hemorrhage money).

I don't see how funding Firefox would be any more in Microsoft's interest than in Google's.
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You really want every web page to be shipping their own JIT (or forcing users to grab it from a CDN)? JavaScript JITs are huge.

Also, the idea that you can just ship a JIT in Native Client and have the performance not hugely regress is unproven. Modern JavaScript JITs are fundamentally based around self-modifying code (look up how PICs work). NaCl penalizes self-modifying code by requiring that it run through a verifier. It would require a lot of engineering effort just to avoid huge JS regressions (like this 2.5x slowdown from a year ago [1]); why not spend that manpower to improve JS engines?

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/issues/detail?id=731