skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems unlikely that by giving $X we reduce the government's giving by even 1/4 $X. There's a huge amount of room for funding, and I don't think the apparent need the government sees decreases much as private charity increases.
After that, he continued to be rude and condescending. A PR firm. That can't do PR.
I only use it as a local development server running Ubuntu, but I've never had any problems with Virtualbox running on OSX or Win7.
1. blogger gets a spam pitch from a PR company.

2. blogger sends standard snarky reply (minor celebrity collating paper)

3. VP at PR company accidentally reply-all some unkind words

4. blogger calls him out

5. VP pretends to apologize but really just questions her relevancy without PR firms feeding her stories to re-blog

6. blogger goes nuclear by tweeting the exchange to her 167K followers ('Please stand by for a demonstration of relevancy.')

7. hilarity ensues
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Internet white knights are far more prevalent than you realize.
As a random visitor/bystander, that part is great.

If I were her friend, however, I would have strongly advised against it. This is clearly her letting her ego take control in a tense situation, which is often not a good idea.

A stunt like that should have a purpose, and having some "faux VP" moron at a PR firm feel bad about himself shouldn't cross your threshold of usefulness, especially when you have no interest in maintaining a relationship with that PR firm.

Now perhaps the linkbait quality of the story, along with the entertainment value of her regular readership would make the "see how powerful I am" ->> twitterbomb tactic worthwhile, I don't know. I mean, I DID read the story and be entertained by it, but I doubt that my visit will offer the author any further value, since I am not her audience and now I have an under-informed picture who she is as a person.
Forgive me for being 'that guy', but seriously, what in the world does this have to do with Hacker News?

That this article is on the front page makes me seriously worry that the system has been gamed. That people are commenting on it like this is par for the course makes me worry, period.

Am I missing something?
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What I read was this:

Shitty PR company does shitty job. Nothing special to see here, “90% of everything is CRUD.” Blogger sends self-important and condescending reply. Nothing to see here, I do similar things to head hunters, but ‘m honest about the fact that such things are all about me feeling clever, not about changing their world view.

PR company doesn’t see the lighter side of being talked down to. VP falls into trap created by shitty software design that makes “reply all” easy when it’s usually wrong. Says something that just about everyone says at one time or another. Email exchange follows, wherein both parties ignore each other’s reasonable points and behave badly.

Blogger decides to turn the “I’m important” knob to eleven, tweets about it, and then blogs about it, twice.

How does this become HN #1 the day after Steve Jobs died? HAVE WE LEARNT NOTHING?????????
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I took a screenshot of the Slashdot firehose (ie. the incoming/recent stories page, not the front page) when the news broke: http://morsch.soup.io/post/174107125/Steve-Jobs-Dead-At-56
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That's the mailinglist entry:

http://pastebin.com/WiVPiMgp
From her Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/#!/TheBloggess), a different VP of that company posts a lesson learned: "Treat every blogger like they potentially have a dark army at their disposal."
>Then why did the iPod/iPhone/iPad come from Apple and not Produce?

Because an entrepreneur called Steve Jobs delivered the product first. Just because a concept is in the culture it doesn't mean that it has been realised.

>Really? All the dev tools I use work better on Mac than windows. I don't really care how well they work on Linux because the Linux desktop makes me spend too much time doing something I don't care about: administration (which is why I dropped Windows too, btw).

I have no experience with their dev tools so I can't comment on that. Hacker culture is one of freedom and exploration. If you're going to argue that Apple somehow represent those values then we should just move on to the next point.

>Nice, everyone loves judgmental people.

Just like everyone loves judging these words I'm typing?

>Even if you're right, who cares? As you say, he was a great entrepreneur. In some ways, that's the greatest of hacking: hacking the world into wanting something you've made.

The common word for that is marketing.

>Again, he put the computer in our hands in a way that no one had before (at least not to that level). If we ever get to the star trek or minority report (the good technology parts) world, what Jobs made will be the first steps of the stairs that take us there. That's not a "superficial" impact.

No, the first steps were made by Xerox, IBM, Stanley Kubrick, the writers of Star Trek, and various others. This is very far from the first step - the concept was already in place, material industries already had the capability to create things like gorilla glass, there were already hundreds of prototypes (i.e. the initial tablet PC's). Jobs did what any good business man does, he saw an opportunity and took it, to which I respond with an emphatic 'so what?'. It's like crack dealers say - 'if I don't sell it, someone else will'. That's the rule of business. Yet why do we forget that it wasn't Jobs who put in all of those thousands (millions?) of man-hours to develop these products? He provided some non/functional requirements then people who are competent with technology brought them to fruition. Why is one person saying 'this is good' or 'this is bad' get so much attention yet the people who did the work are not only forgotten about but have their labor attributed to someone else? One could argue that it wouldn't have happened without him. Well it wouldn't have happened without the 20,000 other people either.

Honestly, if I'm going to idolize someone then it damn well better be someone who's made humanity better off by helping to solve it's perpetual problems or exploring the boundaries of what we know. This is so boring in comparison. Someone packaged up existing stuff into a polished product and sold it to lots of people. I really don't get it.

And to everyone calling me a troll, that word is reserved for people who feign a type of personality in order to bait others into becoming angry. This is my opinion and I can assure you that I am not trolling.
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Now I have read this story of a blogger I have never heard of and a company I don't care about. So, someone has pushed the wrong button and sent an insulting email out to everyone. Instead of "I'm sorry", there is some kind of flame war on Twitter, which nobody will remember tomorrow. It's not exactly what I would file under "deeply interesting".

I would have loved to read a story about kindness. Kindness is leet.
I can't read the article at the moment as it seems the server has died but I can say that in my use of VirtualBox on OS X in the last 2 years I have yet to have a major crash. The majority of the time it has been used for very temporary staging environments in Debian and it's been perfect for this.
How to share any email on Facebook or Google+
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I'm glad you called it "Open Source"; RMS hates that :)
I don't think it's pointless. The fact is that if we're not careful it's easy for any of us to become assholes "just doing our job". Furthermore, the global connectivity has a homogenizing effect whereby if someone is successful by being an asshole, pretty much everyone else has to (or feels they have to) just to keep up. Therefore I'm always happy for someone with half-decent principles to come out in defiance of the status quo, even if it is pitchforks and torches. At least people still care.
So, now that it's sold, the people that put up that $1-$13 are SOL?

I guess you always take a chance when you buy something online that is hosted without any guarantees (which I assume was the case here).
I've used it for years on Ubuntu and Windows with almost no issues. This headline is garbage.
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I read it as being that the hosts themselves are the ones generating garbage bug reports, rather than the virtualized OS's?

Otherwise, yours would be a much better title for this.
I don't know Amit personally but have interacted with him a bunch because he's a customer, and he is a really awesome guy.

If you are in Chicago and South Asian, I'm hosting an event next Thursday where we'll be doing cheek swabs:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160586174028348

If in New York, there is an event next Friday:
http://brownbones.eventbrite.com/
They're getting torched on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/brandlinkcomm
Samsung and Google postpone Ice Cream Sandwich and Galaxy Nexus
Her skin seems suspiciously thin for a person who writes things on the internet for a living.
It's odd that the article didn't mention that he gave a pretty big part of the WWDC keynote in June, in the middle of the period mentioned in this article.

But I guess that doesn't fit with the tone of a retired champion receiving visitors for the final time.
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Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on
If you are interested in the internals of such a piece of software, check out the code. or even better fork it and fix the bugs :-)

Some info:
- Pretty decent amount of press: http://www.inbox2.com/press
- About 100K downloads
- Built by 1 dev, 1 part-time interaction dev and 1 designer, all pretty much during the evenings and weekends
- Beautifully looking, but nevertheless a commercial failure because nobody will pay for email (now paying for data is a whole other story)
- Learned more while building this thing then in all my previous ~10 years of consulting combined
PR firms, managing your company's images, PR nightmares, Reply-all accidents. All of these seem potentially Startup-applicable, if not directly Hacker-applicable.
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I tweeted the link and I directly got email invite to some crap service for women. coincidence?
This is great advice, but I just read the title as "Six ways to never have fun in a city"
This is just it. Implying the world is better off without Jobs or what Jobs did (however you want to slice that part of his comment) is insensitive beyond measure: someone is dead. Show a little respect if for nothing else than the fact he was a fellow human being, be him your greatest enemy or your dearest friend, where is the fucking humanity? Better to have said nothing at all than to make such a distasteful post.
Yup, worked for me. Have you ticked all the relevant options in the VM Settings?

First stop in the System menu. Start with the Motherboard
sub-menu and check Enable IO APIC to improve performance
for your virtual machine. In the Processor sub-menu check
Enable PAE/NX (again, to boost performance). Finally under
the Acceleration sub-menu make sure both of the hardware
virtualization boxes are checked—VT-x/AMD-V and Nested
Paging, respectively.

- Taken from http://www.howtogeek.com/74515/how-to-test-drive-windows-8-i... (which I know is a Windows guide, but check the same settings in OS X)
Summary: Linus asserts that Android, the fastest growing smartphone platform, comes from Linux and will return to Linux.

The key to understanding this is to change the "s" in Linus' name to an "x" and see what happens.
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He sums up one of the major problems well:

The greatest innovation in this release of the iPhone (Siri) is actually just a software thing. It is really cool, but they could have put it in iOS5 for iPhone 4 users to have as well.

On the hardware front there really is nothing truly new, just better and faster. That is fine, but with an extra 4 months tacked onto the product dev cycle for this release, I think people (myself included) expected more.
I have been reading HN zoomed for quite a while now. I also code with larger than the default fonts because it's less wear on my eyes and I'm not 40 yet. I agree with what's being said but it would be helpful to show some study or research or A/B testing.
I have to disagree. I used the Apple IIe and the TRS-80 extensively during this period. I coded games and other software in BASIC and assembly on both machines. I poured over the schematics of both machines for hours at a time. You could literally say that I knew those machines inside and out.

What you refer to as "user experience" was not at all uncommon. The TRS-80, the Sinclair, and many other computers shipped in plastic boxes. I don't recall the Apple natively supporting a hookup to a TV (the TRS-80 did not), but this was certainly not a positive at the time... TVs were far more difficult to read and work on than monitors.

Both the TRS-80 and the Apple shipped with BASIC and connected to a cassette recorder.

There were dozens of other computers, but there were just a few that were commonly used.
Bullet Tooth Tony once said, Never underestimate the predictability of stupidity, I have never heard it described more aptly.
Yes, I hadn't thought of that. The point is that proving part of a process correct without proving correct the entire stack, is no guarantee that it does anything like what it's supposed to.
I agree completely! When I started using my 27" Apple Cinema Display I was in heaven, except for having to squint to see stuff. The monitor is really great but it has a insane resolution that tends to make text much smaller.

BTW: Different fonts do work better at different sizes, and the article specifically mentions that fact.
I'm getting a defy+ for exactly that reason (that and the fact that it might actually not break on me). I've got several friends with with Galaxy S phones and I simply find them to damn big. Uncomfortable to hold when making calls and uncomfortable to shove into my front jeans pocket. While I'm obviously not begrudging people the right to buy huge phones, I just hope someone will stay off that bandwagon and keep making reasonable sized phones. If I need a big screen I've got my 7" tablet.
I don't have any problems with his beliefs, he can believe what he wants. But publishing that 1 day after Jobs death is disrespectful. Better to just not say anything.
I'm not sure why he's assuming that Siri can run on the iPhone 4. From what I've heard, it is in fact rather processor-intensive, and therefore it can only run on the newer, dual-core A5.

That being said, it makes you wonder why it's not coming out on the iPad 2 as well, since it also has the A5.
I have a 4.3 inch windows phone, have slightly below average hands and can reach all the way across just fine. Maybe the OP has really small hands.
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Absolutely! I hope this was just some "accident" and HN is not becoming a place for bloggers to bitch about their personal "issues".
This could be the best article in the world, but if I'm honest, I'm not gonna read it because the title sounds like blatant flame-/linkbait

I'm definitely no fanboy, but these "[Something controversial], and why I'm [something controversial]" titles really get my goat.
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Calling people you depend on "bitches" is not the status quo, it doesn't make anyone successful and I don't believe everyone feels they have to do it to keep up. It is not something that needs people with strong principles to speak out against.
Jobs, Obama, Zuckerberg, Schmidt, Ellison, Hastings Dinner Pic Feb. 17, 2011
What is the bone marrow donation process like?

http://www.marrow.org/Registry_Members/Donation/Donation_FAQ...
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However, there are plenty of people whose contribusions to humanity wastly exceed what Jobs did. Would they get this kind of coverage if deceased? I seriously doubt that.
I don't think that the relevant implications have to be spelt out:
The wrong PR shilling your company could earn you undeserved negativity. I.e. What if the pitch sent in this case was on your startup? As a result, your company gets dragged in, people (some of whom have never heard of you, could be potential clients, etc) develop negative associations with your brand. All because you had the misfortune to hire a PR firm with what you thought were skilled professionals.
It's cool if you expected more, just vote with your dollars and buy something else. There's no need to be upset about what the iPhone is, because no one is forcing you to buy an iPhone.

Personally I think it looks like a nice upgrade to my 3GS and I'm excited to get one. I know that liking the same product that tens of millions of people also like makes me a fanboy, but what can I say.
It's not, and I felt the same way. I now regret giving the pageview for such an obviously inflammatory title.
Here's a cached copy from Google:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
"[Real heroes] want a world where everybody has access to the best technology, to the best hospitals, and making money is a side effect of contributing in a non evil way to the development of our culture."

I think that was pretty much true for Steve Jobs. See the Stanford speech where he says he's not interested in being the richest dead guy in the cemetary.

You can't just give away your product for free because than you go bankrupt. Also, concentration of wealth --- by charging a healthy price --- was in the case of Apple a net win for all of us, because it gave them the resources and peace-of-mind to work on the Next Big Thing.
To me the most interesting aspect of the iPhone 4S is the camera. I really want the camera in my phone to be good, and I was planning to look at other phones and move away from iPhone (currently have a 3GS) until this phone was announced. The new camera makes that much harder.

Siri seems like a total irrelevance unless it works really, really, really well. Every AI application I've ever had to deal with has been a major disappointment.
Am I the only one who wishes we could give these folks a few billion dollars so they could stop issuing press releases and just make something already?
If you verify the correctness of Windows, don't you have to verify the correctness of all the parts in the hardware stack?
It's likely that the companies decided to postpone as a mark
of respect to rival Steve Jobs, who passed away earlier this
week.

ORLY? Am I being insensitive? Does anyone really think that's why they'd delay this announcement?
It's a statistical issue to some extent. How do you find your marble amongst a billion other marbles? Well if you know the colour and how hot it is then it's going to be relatively easy (use IR camera, select for temperature then pick out by visible colour spectrum).

Same here, AFAICT. They're using pion and kaon decay that produces muon neutrinos of known energies (in a range) travelling in a known direction. Solar neutrinos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_neutrino) are created as electron neutrinos, though they flavour shift, they are mainly coming the direction of the sun and have differing energies to those created in the OPERA experiment via the CERN SPS.

I'd guess that you can cut out a lot of the background neutrino flux by running the proton capture (to generate the neutrinos) at around noon; I don't know if they time things to put the detector orthogonal to the local galactic plane but that would (to this layman) seem sensible too.

One thing that did strike me (lol?) was that the kaon/pion decay happens along a 1095m decay tube. As a sibling comment says they're not tracking individual neutrinos (you can't detect them twice) they're tracking a range of energy events (via the muon's created) at a range of positions along a 1km tube (via the muon trajectories presumably) and pairing them with a range of events at the other end such that they need to know the length of the transit over 730km to an accuracy of 20cm.

It's amazing stuff.

Edit: I should probably have said that of course they allow for the variances and the statistical nature and other systematic uncertainties, the graph showing the calculated uncertainties can be seen on the Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNGS.
It's been a common phrase to describe generated textual content on an HTML page for a while now.
Ask HN: How many folks use Jersey for agile development?
Just wondering if any folks out there use the Java-based Jersey for agile development. If so, I'd love to see some examples of your work and hear why you chose to use Jersey instead of, well, anything else.
Did anyone expect him to say something different?

It's the first time I've seen his political blog. I'm always disheartened when I find out guys who used to do cool stuff now just spend their days tweeting or blogging about politics. It's like visiting your grandpa who used to do woodworking and finding out he now just watches Fox News all day.
Jobs had not taken over Apple and acquired NeXT, both NeXT and Apple would in the same boat as BeOS and Palm: failed companies, fondly remembered.
How about people based in the sub-continent. Do you necessarily have to be based out of US or Canada to donate.
>You'd probably violate your lease for installing one

And your landlord would be violating FCC Over-the-Air Reception Devices Rule: http://www.fcc.gov/guides/over-air-reception-devices-rule
I think I need to put together a form email, or possibly a webpage to link to, to send to web designers who pontificate about web design and reaching your audience---on a webpage that doesn't fit in my window AND has disabled my scrollbar. Meaning I literally cannot read it without sending it off to Readability or otherwise adjusting my browsing setup.

This fault is honestly an order of magnitude more common among webpages that are specifically discussing user-oriented design. Argh.
Impressive looking product. Your efforts shine through. Great work man.

Now I will ask the inevitable question: why did you open source it?
I think if you need to shrink things to fit it above the fold, it's time to reconsider what you're putting there. I've never had trouble fitting everything important comfortably above the fold, but I'm only working with my own projects.
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I tried to sign up but it disallows me from doing so as I'm not in the USA. which does make sense from an admin/legal perspective.

However, if he needs South Asian bone marrow, isn't the best place to look South Asia?

Is there an ethnic minority international bone marrow donor system anywhere?

Maybe we should build one?
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http://www.wired.com/medtech/genetics/news/2007/03/MATCHPIA
looks like someone came to a similar conclusion
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Seconded. It's never crashed for me, I love it.
Kudos to you for taking such a brave decision. Can we know the story behind it?
He doesn't have to be a hero to be missed. I'd like to think there are many people out that are missed terribly when the pass regardless of wether or not they were heros. Sometimes just being yourself is enough.
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This is a valid questions, because iirc, as long as these companies don't distribute their linux fork outside of their company, they do not need to release the source. GPL takes effect when you distribute binaries, not when you create them.
This effect was seen before, but had been dismissed as a photoelectric effect. http://www.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/graphene-thermoelectric-1... And here's the actual paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.3826
Tangental, but still related - if you're in the UK, please do think about registering to be a donor. I'm signed up with the Anthony Nolan Trust: http://www.anthonynolan.org/