skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree more. Some people say that iOS is not meant to be a programming device and that it is great for what it's meant to be, e.g. reading and watching content, but I disagree. Just a few examples.

- The lack of user facing filesystem means I have to jump through wierd hoops when doing simple stuff like managing my pdfs. An example, I get a pdf and open it in iBooks. A few months further on, I want to read it again and do some annotations, but I need another app for that. Well tough luck, i cannot open the pdf in the other app, since the pdf is tied to iBooks. If i'm lucky, maybe i'll remember i got it via a particular email, and resend it to the other reader. Most probably though, no annotations for me on that pdf.

- I have a network drive and would like to stream movies from it using VLC (due to native player not supporting the encoding). I also have a filebrowser app that can do smb. But there is no way to connect the two. I can either download the whole movie and send it to VLC (which takes a long time and space on my iPad) or try to look for a video player that does smb :S.

I could go on and on with such examples. IPad is obviously a beautifully designed and built device but I would definitely not purchase another one or recommend it to a friend, exactly because of the shortcomings of iOS.
I believe this is the actual video mentioned in the article. It's the American version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29kF1vZ62o
Disabled pupils can have 'reasonable adjustments' to the administration of the test, given supporting evidence. Eg, for learning disabilities - extra time or breaks.

For the gory detail:

http://www.buckscc.gov.uk/assets/content/bcc/docs/schools/ad...
And more often than not `xrange` is what one needs, not `range`. (Not relevant with Py3k though, but everyone is still in 2.x-verse.)
What is the difference between the government mailing out a check vs having people deduct it from their taxes? It's just a hidden expenditure. As a renter I don't get that subsidy, if we both earn the same income but you pay less taxes it's a subsidy, you're on welfare.
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Kuro5hin - brings back memories. Rusty released the source code as Scoop and I hacked on its Perl for a while.

Scoop was the original code base for The Daily Kos if I remember rightly. I took a swatch at the sources but no signs, its probably been boiled down to bones now.
I don't understand why they are working on OpenShift/Aeolus Project rather than joining Openstack
The same situation with Jerome Kerviel, he did this for a long time and nobody complained as long as he made Money.
Wow, this looks really awesome! It's like the Twitter iPad app but a step further. I wonder if it's also usable besides the "cool looking".
This is pretty neat. Reminds me a bit of Push Pop Press's app.
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that's the question I've been asking myself for the past 2 weeks. And after putting quite some work in there I'm sure it is.
Poverty existed 500 years ago. The Romans had poverty (http://books.google.com/books?id=Aw4cHjMbH94C&dq=Poverty... ) . The Greeks had poverty (http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Praise-Poverty-Origins-Cynicism/...) (that book talking about how the Cynics preferred poverty).

Therefore yes, it's possible to make meaningful comparisons of the numbers of people who are poor. It's possible to ask questions like: "Is poverty a temporary condition, or a permanent characteristic of a subpopulation?", and "Is it due to the inability of the culture to generate enough resources, or is it due maldistribution of those resources?"

It's not easy. But your view seems to be that the definition changes so quickly that a person in 1991 and the same person now can't judge if they were poorer now or then. Factors like "income security, economic stability and the predictability of one's continued means to meet basic needs all serve as absolute indicators of poverty", yet you insist that because more people have access to a full kitchen, running water, internet, penicillin, or whatever then it's simply not possible to make valid comparisons.

While I disagree, and am dumbfounded that you don't recognize those non-material, absolute factors as the essential characteristic of poverty.
Because we are working on OpenStack [1] and the three projects you mentioned in your posting are all completely different things.

OpenShift: a PaaS service which runs on EC2

Aeolus: a graphical tool for managing VMs across different clouds (eg. manage and migrate your VMs across EC2 + OpenStack + vCloud)

OpenStack: basically an open source version of EC2 (not precisely, but that's roughly the aim).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_started_with_OpenStac...
Or Lupus... It is always Lupus first and then everything else!
Well, they might ramp up advertising when it officially starts. Maybe it's different in other areas, but in Germany there was Chrome advertising everywhere for a while, and they might try doing the same for Plus.

Though I suppose that reeks of desperation, since a social network should kind of advertise itself, so they might not even do it.
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Yep the animations definitely need some work to feel more natural. It should be very short, just enough to let the user feels that it's not jumping from A to B, but not long enough to introduce delays during which what you want to touch is moving around.

Also, the deeper you go in the hierarchy, the smaller the new menus open. It made me feel like the app was running out of space to show stuff. Maybe it could be more aggressive with downsizing the parents so it leaves more room for what you're currently looking at?

Anyway, great concept.
Samsung Galaxy S2, unless you can wait another month or so for Ice Cream Sandwich.
The relevance is: "investment banking" may have done more harm than good. (As in, consider their whole existence. What might the world have been like without investment banking?)
Openbsd folks used lpq to queue mp3 playlist. Cups is also an option and you get full stack of goodies built in.

http://patrick.wagstrom.net/weblog/2003/05/23/lpdforfunandmp...
http://rendermania.com/building-a-renderfarm-with-cups/
They also need to show that they are doing work which is a public benefit. For example, several free software projects are set up as a non-profit foundation, and they need to convince the IRS that they are a public good, vs. a company trying to shelter under the non-profit umbrella.
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Twitter bug may result in a lot of new followers for 'false' user
Previous submission and discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540567
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This looks really cool, love it when people experiment with UI.

It's hard to judge from a video vs actually using it. The only issue I have is that I felt a bit lost a few levels in. It would be nice to have some reference of how deep you are. Instead of losing previous levels entirely is there a way to keep them (like the traditional breadcrumb used to do)
Last I checked, ad impressions and clicks mattered where they were on the page, and some ad services paid you differently according to where they were, too. (That may have changed, that was years ago.)
I dunno about that. I think it's probably easier to learn to ride a bike with someone experienced helping you.

If someone sets up the seat for you and explains how to shift and brake and rides with you a little bit, I'm sure learning would go much faster than if you were just left in a driveway with a bike and told to figure it out.
The Fight Over Merging Drivers Back Into X Server
One big DONOT is: Don't do this if you need more than one physical host to be processing the jobs at the same time. Resiliency is hard to get right with shared filesystems.
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Yes, persistent queues have issues, which is why 0MQ exists. But using a non persistent queue to deal with overflow just delays the problem, which was why I asked...
When the machine I built had a power supply failure, I had to go fucking replace it. I was free to use whatever power supply I wanted, but I wasn't free to use my damn computer for the four days I waited for my new component.

vs

When my iMac had a buzzing noise, they replaced it in the store in under an hour.

So "sitting on my arse doing nothing, I had to wait four days for a replacement" versus "I physically took my machine to the Apple store and they gave me a replacement at the same time".

These are purposefully selective anecdotes. With your first repair, you yourself could have gone to a store - just like you did with the iMac, only not having to carry the damn thing - and got a power supply in five minutes, taken it back to the office, and had it installed and back up in half an hour. Computer stores and power supplies are as common as muck - unless your desktop PC is really weird, you'll find something suitable by simply throwing a brick.

Total time spent in process for each 'go to shop' scenario? Less than an hour plus travel time. And with the non-imac one, you don't even have to ferry the computer around. All in all, a pretty similar experience.

Unless of course your anecdote is even less fair and the 'four day wait' was for a server part.

It's insulting to the people who work really fucking hard and take great pride in the (not so) small impact they leave on the world.

People who work hard and take pride in the (not so) small impact they leave can still be doing a bad thing, even though they're full of good intentions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
(This link is just a strong example, I'm not trying to draw a parallel)
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Actually, it was one of my intentions to completely eliminate breadcrumbs, as the one gesture that will sooner or later get you to where you want to be is .. moving up. On the other hand, Some tiny visual hint would certainly help some people using it.

At the moment, actually using it is still a bit painful ( there are some edge cases not properly handled all the time ), but generally this is a lot faster already then the ikea website or their own catalog app.
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That's a valid question, but kind of besides the point. My point is just that deciding what's a charity -and what is not- is a "value judgement"
The "anti-freedom" charges, the locking out of certain features, you get the same stuff on any platform. Just try to publish an app that abuses the Android logo in any Android market.

Really? "Android isn't free because you can't 'abuse' the brand's logo"? That's the best counter-example you could come up with?
What is this tabloid crap? Why are we sharing this? This doesn't add anything to anyone's knowledge, and it's just outright ridiculous.

Shamed? Really? Because everyone had only a single goal, HTML5, and Google was a couple steps behind?

It's like saying taking 2nd place in the Olympics is shameful.
It is though. What is it if it's not a computer?
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Isn't Knuth 150 years old though?
well, the resizing is quite tricky. the problem is that you need to anticipate as much as possible, while not destroying the sizing scheme the user layed out. You are right that it seems a bit like running out of space, but I just haven't found a good way to solve this dilemma yet – it wasn't aggressive resizing, that felt totally wrong ( that was my first take on the problem, too ). But you don't want your interface to just "do something" on your behalf, at least that's what I think.
I downloaded the first couple dozen megabytes. It's all nulls.

$ od 500megabytefile.tar.gz
0000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000 000000
*
27200000

(besides not being a .tar.gz, it's not 500 MB either, it's 512 000 000 bytes = 512 MB, or 488 MiB)
Small request: a favicon!

I really like this idea, would use it a lot on the upcoming days.
Call me cynical but this reads more like a promotional piece for Mathematica than it does praise for the kid.

It's bad enough that I think it calls into question the legitimacy of this whole situation.
http://www.greatdata.com/zip-code-questions.htm

Q: How often do the ZIP / postal codes really change?

A: U.S. ZIP Codes change sporadically. Most of the time there's just a few changes, but every now and then (especially around July 1st) there will be major changes.

----

... In other words, they change all the bloody time.
WWHD?
I think it's a bit easie for the user if it was signed as "sign here" vs. "John/Jane Doe". ESP if you have an intl audience.
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Neat concept. The following behavior bugged me through the whole demo:

You switch to Lightning from IKEA FAMILY products and second level shows spotlights, ceiling lamps etc. But the third level stays at travel products (since nothing on second level is reselected). If I put the device away and come back later, visual representation won' help and I'll have to memorize where I am.
Of course not. 501(c)(3) accreditation is the standard in the USA for legal purposes. Wikipedia has a good writeup if you want to know more about how "nonprofit" is usually defined:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nonprofit_org...

If what you want is more financial or tax-based information, though, I'd go directly to the IRS website:

http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=96099,...

Just because a place is called a "nonprofit" doesn't mean that they have no money, no savings and no employees. It would be nearly impossible to run any kind of organization that way and would ridiculously handicap what they could accomplish. No money, savings, employees or profit is pretty much the recipe for a failed startup, after all. Anyhow, the IRS link explains exactly what is and is not allowed.
So it can basically compress to something extreme, too.
Metro app design tips (start at 3:00)
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Right, the super-fancy "panels move out if another top-level element is selected" isn't implemented yet. So you're actually observing a bug, but I should have at least avoided it in the video.. thanks!
That's not exactly the point he is making, though:

They’re not "rogue" for the simple reason that making insanely irresponsible decisions with other peoples’ money is exactly the job description of a lot of people on Wall Street. Hell, they don’t call these guys "rogue traders" when they make a billion dollars gambling. [...]

In the financial press you're called a "rogue trader" if you're some overperspired 28 year-old newbie who bypasses internal audits and quality control to make a disastrous trade that could sink the company. But if you're a well-groomed 60 year-old CEO who uses his authority to ignore quality control and internal audits in order to make disastrous trades that could sink the company, you get a bailout, a bonus, and heroic treatment in an Andrew Ross Sorkin book.
I'm not sure if I like the promo code being located at the end of the form.. Generally any time I have used one I want to know exactly what the price will be after the code before starting the rest of the process
Top 8 worst suggestions on Linux
I don't get the article, at all.

Do you have a command line in your car to change the radio station? Do you expect to have the controls when being on a plane?

You want a device that let's you program? Buy a notebook. I hear the MacBook Airs are excellent.

Some of my friends are musicians and LOVE the iPad. Garageband on it blew their mind.

Does every computing device need to behave like a PC?
Anyone I know who's ever fired someone absolutely hated the experience. One guy told me after the first time he fired someone, he went into his office and wept. Wept. Even though he felt he needed to fire that person.

Read this:
http://bhorowitz.com/2011/08/24/preparing-to-fire-an-executi...
They have already helped you by releasing the code! They didn't have to. They could have kept it to themselves.

I think it's very important not to berate people for sharing code that isn't up to your personal standards. Write a bug report, fix it yourself, grit your teeth and keep going... But don't publicly shame them or curse their name.

But aside from that, YAGNI.

I don't spend a whole lot of my time worrying about mythical programmers having mythical problems in the future.

If I see a problem ahead of time and can prevent it easily, I'll do so. But I don't go searching for problems.

In the example, I'd like to think I'd have thought of that problem without running into it myself, but I may very well not have. It depends on how robust the API is. If it's a little 1-shot command line thing, the developers probably didn't put much time into it.
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Exactly. I watched the total traffic tick up in Activity Monitor while downloading it, and it was only 2.2 MB in total.
I don't know why you were downvoted, but it's usually best not to mention it in the post. Most of the time it gets fixed by later moderators. (At least if the story is popular.)
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But it does. Or at least, it does in every way that we've yet to imagine.

What the author of the article suggests would be not "anti-programmer" are necessarily "anti-user". Breaking everything down into composable components and forcing the user to compose even simple, everyday procedures before being able to use them? How terribly difficult and exclusive to techies only!

Similarly, he suggests that the only way for meaningful interaction to occur between programs is through the unfettered access to a filesystem - as users have demonstrated time and time again the past decade or so, they don't want that. They will pile heir music and photos and movies happily into one big dump so long as a much more proficient application handles the intricacies for them. They don't want a filesystem - it's a toy for people like us.

The ability of an OS to expose data for manipulation does not necessarily preclude it from being user friendly, but that's only true in a very ephemeral, theoretical way. The only ways we know how to expose said data, up till now, is entirely anti-user, and part of why the popularity of computers with the general population has not exploded until so late. For too long we've kept the keys to the kingdom, and you know what, fuck all of that noise.

And the claim that iOS (and other similarly restrictive OSes) have been developed primarily to protect the company's interest is patently absurd. The iPhone has been by far the best thing to happen to mainstream computer users in the past two decades. They have power at their fingertips that they can actually comprehend now, and use without navigating a tome of quickly outdated knowledge. This is the age of the device you don't have to take a class to use! The empowerment here is incredible, and people have been throwing gobs of money at Apple, Google, and everyone else who has realized this. The main reason these OSes are restrictive is because it guarantees usability and consistency in a way that completely open platforms do not (Gimp, anyone?).

This whole article, and resulting thread, really disappoints me. I'd have thought that what we've seen in the last 4-5 years would finally wake up the tech community and make them realize that computational resources are pointless unless it benefits the rest of humanity somehow, and chief among these is mainstream usability. But no, it looks like a large contingent of HN is happy to view users as stupid plebes - if only they knew the value of free OSes and would take the time to learn the command line!

Screw that train of thought, and damn the people who continue to reinforce the false assumption that technology need be complicated and obtuse. I'm sick and tired of looking at all the cool things we can do - things that are of real benefit to people - and having it locked away behind a glass wall of techno-wizardry when it does so much more good out in the hands of the masses.
The tin foil hat crowd might have some grand fears, but it's groundless
...
Worry about the government and let the market take care of everything else.

Um... it's not really irony if you do it intentionally...
Speaking of ML, is there anything from that family besides OCaml actively developed? Just a few years ago you had several projects (SML/NJ, MLTon, AliceML), nowadays it all seems pretty stagnant.
Ask HN: What happens to a CA when their certificates are revoked (re. DigiNotar)
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I always thought it funny that the spirit of copyright is to cultivate and encourage innovation, but instead it is being used to create fire-hoops to jump through to create innovation.

When something that is designed to help actually causes harm, it is then that you discontinue the thing causing harm.