skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GitLab (open source self-hosted github alternative)
Thanks, I think! ;-)
This would be going way, way too far.
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You and I likely don't have access to the information necessary to understand the move.

Gabriel's been a patient bootstrapper for years and I doubt he'd raise capital on a whim. I'm sure he's got a solid plan for the money, which he doesn't have to make public.
Ah, the reason I couldn't reproduce was that I was logged in. Pushing a fix momentarily. Thanks for finding that!
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I just bought a 570GTX explicitly because Nvidia has always been better on Linux. I'm not familiar with this "feature". What does it entail, and how does it affect linux?
C strings have certainly proved more useful than contemporary attempts like Pascal strings. Those used an integer prefix to store the length of the string, but because any language at the time was expected to provide reasonable performance on prevalent 8-bit machines, the Pascal string length field was only 8 bits. Hence strings were limited to 255 characters.

The null terminator is actually an elegant machine-independent solution to this problem.
But the rats got the benefits even though the forced exercise was lower than the intensity they would choose themselves.
Yes. Download any of the ClearChannel apps besides Iheartradio (Coast to Coast AM, AT40, etc). These use an embedded safari view to display some content, and Rss to feed other pages in a native environment. See if you can tell the difference.

EDIT: just to clarify, the pages in the app served using the Safari view are served from our web servers.
Probably because if you just do what you're comfortable with, you won't learn anything new. If you're forced to do something uncomfortable, your brain learns more about your body.
> It has been years since I had to go in the xorg.conf file

You must have a pretty high general satisfaction for how your life is going.

http://xkcd.com/963/
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Everything seems to point to HN being much much worse about doing that than Reddit.
Question about the "dash" (menu that appears after clicking the top-left ubuntu logo) - for those who've tried it out - does it let you customize it now? More specifically, does it let you change the main shortcuts like "Browse the web", "View Photos", "Check E-mail", "Listen to music" to other functions? Thanks in advance if anyone's able to help with this.
Do you know if it works with two monitors? That is my standard setup, and haven't tried unity because so far it seems to only support one.
It literally looks nothing like Windows 7. Nothing.
Blogspam, please link to the original (and longer) http://thisismynext.com/2011/10/12/siri-weird-things-iphone-...
The same way an airplane looks like a duck...
That field wasn't even in the form I was given ... I'm not sure the input values would matter.
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> Considering they blew through a couple hundred thousand and have little show for it

They haven't slain Facebook, but they have a working product, a decent sized fanbase, a good amount of community involvement via github, and, yes, a lot of hype. For some people, that would count as quite a lot.
they should remove the login requirement to browse. I think that would make it easier to tell how this thing works.
I'm still on the LTS but would like to give it a spin to a separate partition. Any idea if it can be installed with Lubi or other no-cd/usb method?
About vanilla systems, I think no one can make a worse job than Microsoft. When I discovered that Windows XP was auto-executing some files in any USB stick you plugged in it, I decided to not take Microsoft seriously EVER about security. Yes, it was after their grand announcement they would focus on security. They probably improved many things since then, but I can't trust a company that did not understand the problem about arbitrary code execution during all these years to do a half-decent job at security.

The world-wide epidemics in computer virus would not exist without Windows. It is not about it being the most prevalent OS : Linux is prevalent amongst webservers, highly valuable targets. iOs is the most prevalent OS on cellphone, always-on targets. Neither see virus spreading. Think about it.
Check out PhoneGap and their new service PhoneGap Build, it might be what you're looking for:

http://build.phonegap.com
I think it matters more if you are cognitively present for the exercise, rather than the intensity of the exercise. It doesn't matter if you go fast or slow, it only matters that you are doing something you're not used to and as a result actively think about it when you are doing it.

For example, writing with your left hand if you are right handed may be an equally effective method of achieving similar cognitive results.

One well worn piece of advice from health fitness trainers has always been to vary up your routine. I think this is the key to making sure you work out different muscle groups, but also a way to keep your mind engaged.

My hunch is that this is partially what's going on in the study.
Hotline-PC
I was going suggest something similar to fugitive for Mercurial, but it looks like you've already considered that in 'Coming home to Vim.'

I think you're correct in how many different facets you can show through a language plugin, so I vote for that.
At the risk of being slightly offensive, college hires are high on energy and enthusiasm but low on ability to produce reliable code (on average). They can produce a lot of code, but they tend to have blind spots when spotting failure scenarios, resulting in "gotcha!" outages or bugs. Its not a big deal if they have a more experienced developer reviewing their commits, but if you're iterating fast on something that's going to be a flagship product, it becomes less tolerable.
Yeah, it's an option given to project owners if signed in. The fix has been pushed.
Indeed, everything is relative :)
Congrats Gabriel! You're a real inspiration.
Short name: "Instructions waste space"
Description: "Replace the instructions after my first visit (or maybe first edit) with a list of the "crowds" most popular features and how my feature selections compare to the group."

I also just got a captcha with an umlaut ... not very convenient on my keyboard.
"Sorry, we could not find any information on research!dmr." -- google

Well then, here are some of his first usenet posts: http://olduse.net/blog/Dennis_Ritchie/

The one on dsw is especially good.

SYNOPSIS
(put number in console switches)
dsw
core
Most of the page is cut off on Android (2.3.3)
Ask HN: can anyone here create a laptop for $50?
Hey everyone!
I am looking to make really cheap laptops for my students they should run on Linux and won't require the best hardware specifications it will mainly function in the cloud. Email me at michaelabehsera@gmail.com if u are up to the task.
Makes sense. They mention other benefits to forced exercise too. I wonder if it is an evolved response to stress. Sort of: if the bear is chasing you your body responds differently to deal with later bears.
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Same error when trying to save ... perhaps I need to clear my cache if the fix has been pushed?
> Time (epoch-seconds) starts on 1/1/1970 for a reason.
Startup visibility accelerator
Yep, I've seen phonegap, but I'm not looking to port the website, just have an app that could display it.
Shuttleworth once stated that they are removing configuration options on purpose in order to decrease the total number of exsiting different configurations, to build a configuration brand. The logic is that every time 2 users make 2 different settings, it is harder for them to talk and to learn from each other, so removing options artificially levels the field and eases information exchange.
Security ("Oh, I'm sorry, sir, go ahead. I didn't realise you were root") still reads pretty well today. Vi might no longer read its conf file from the CWD, but the standard toolkit has plenty of SUID=0 programs: this vanilla Debian has 17 of them in /bin:/usr/bin. Of these, only sudo really benefits from being architected in this way. Cf. http://lwn.net/Articles/199004/ for another approach.
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"C is a poster child for why it’s essential to keep those people who know a thing can’t be done from bothering the people who are doing it."

Being a "can't be done" person is easy, being a "I'll do it" person is hard... but it's so much more fun and liberating. True story.
Build a Car.  Don't Make a Faster Horse.
Seeing as how big of a deal the $100 OLPC XO was, I doubt it's possible.
That's a phenomenal idea! Thanks!

And re: your post below, yeah, try the cache - I just added a feauture called "Testing validations" with no problem.
Yes, it works fine with two (I use Nvidia's twinview for that). It's when you hit three that there's a problem.
Diaspora is asking for more money, hmmm...
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Things To Tweak After Installing Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
Highly detailed Mario-themed wedding invitations
Yep ... the fix appears to work with a cache refresh. I would also suggest an "X" button (in addition to the up and down arrows) so I can just drop the features I don't care about and see features in positions 11 and below immediately.
Thats great, I'm going to check them out. Could the same thing be done for android apps as well?
Thx for the feedback - duly noted! Would appreciate the specific example for the .com.au stuff here: http://duckduckgo.com/feedback.html
I'm fine with it being one page as page loads in browsers still suck, but it would be nice to be able to link directly to page 3 with something like http://cdn.pllop.com/3294/#3.
It's basically cpu scaling but for the graphics card. It saves power but its not well supported in linux (apparently - I have no issues).
Thx! We're working on auto-complete, but you can get Google autocomplete w/ DuckDuckGo here: http://ddgg.nfriedly.com/
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I don't think it's that complicated. I just meant learning different ways to move your legs: get your abs involved, pump your arms differently, etc. Parkinson's can make people "forget" how to walk even if they can still run. So learning how to move your body in different ways could help combat that. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/health/01parkinsons.html
I've been sticking to 10.04 LTS for quite some time.

I'm finally starting to appreciate the old adage 'If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it'.

LTS works ultra-reliably.
I don't have a specific idea at the moment, but...

I've often wondered why emacs seems to have these plugins and modes that make one want to learn emacs, and vim doesn't. For instance, org mode. I don't think there something inherent to emacs that makes a mode like that work better there, and I'd love to see info on how to write plugins like that.

In fact, perhaps a simple org mode clone would be a good example project; it would certainly touch a lot of vimscript.
Meh... I don't think this is really big news.

"Massachusetts firms experienced a year-over-year decline in the number of VC deals in the third quarter"

This is looking only at this quarter vs. the same quarter a year ago. Take a look at VC funding over a year and it's not a smooth cash flow. You get peaks and valleys and it's often a few really big investments that drive those variations.

If, at the end of this year Boston is raising less cash than NYC (comparing all of 2011 to all of 2010) and then I might concede something is happening.
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RIP master.
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Minus for iPhone Released
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Opera announces Opera Mini 6.5 and Opera Mobile 11.5
Is it wrong I am upset that people happily pay for their visual themes (which is materialistic therefore easily justified to them) but never if ever donate to the plugin authors who are typically doing all the heavy lifting?

Go look at the plugin list in your WordPress/bbPress - when was the last time you donated to any of them?
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AppHarbor announces GitHub support
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Warning signs in a non-technical cofounder (can you spot them?)
Dmr's self-described other lives (outside computing)
Edit: Here's one called a "Zipit" for about $50, hackable to run Linux: http://revision3.com/hak5/chromeos/unlocking-linux-on-the-zi...

Here's an 8-bit, hackable hand-held computer for $70 (cheaper if you buy in bulk) https://www.adafruit.com/products/330
Yes, even more annoying is that the sidebar can autohide, like when you open a full-screen window. They just disable that ability otherwise and provide no way to enable it. I'm not a Mac user, but I was under the impression you could even hide the dock in OS X?
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The richest-ever American, John D. Rockefeller, had a personal fortune of about $320 billion in today's dollars.

John D. Rockefeller's grandson David Rockefeller was the head of Chase and Exxon, with Exxon being the most profitble company in the world (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/fortune/1104/gallery.for...).

Wikipedia says David Rockefeller's net worth is $2.9 billion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rockefeller) -- that number seems too low to be right.
I disagree with your assertion that "American society is built to tear people down." In my experience, american society is built to reward entrepreneurship and creativity.

For education, we have free schooling for the first 18 years of life, an extensive community college system, and, if you live in the right state, fantastic public higher education. You can educate yourself through a BA for less than the price of a car if you're willing to consistently work hard for grades.

The private sector is similar. Those who have proven themselves exceptional rise in the ranks. Looking at Fortune 500 company CEOs, yes, there exist executives who are not the "best and brightest," but "there exist" does not mean "all are". By and large, I would say that most of the CEOs and their executive teams are working toward what they believe to be the best path forward for their company. As publicly-traded companies, those who hold stock in those companies act as a check on incompetent management, and companies incompetently managed have a tendency to be heavily penalized. See HP recently, and its stock price.

Your rant takes a very harsh and dismissive tone towards "American society" and its political nature is not what should be discussed on Hacker News. I don't think your harsh tone, your evidence-free assertions or your conclusion ("The only way out is to radically reshape society") have a place here. Please go back to the #OccupyWallSt rallies.
when a company says their website design is data driven you can pretty much take for granted that they are bullshitting you. and when they are not, they are wasting the opportunities to find more distant maxima because they are obsessed with finding strictly local maxima.
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Would love to hear feedback/suggestions!
but what about dryad?
Remote debugging mobile devices
Agreed. HUGE problem for app developers and this looks to be a very simple and focused solution - something that's so key to get traction from the start.
the technical cofounder has to have knowledge about server side code, database, etc, so at least one of you is totally in picture of what's going on.

also can cooperate with new employees, subcontractors on a technical level, and certainly can act instantly in a given situation...and probably won't complain about working round the clock :)

with such team, i would feel much safer as an investor too.
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Not anymore :-(

But really, the horizontal axis in my case would be labeled "perceived maturity of the linux distribution I am using"
True, but that requires reading. And reading is haaaaard.
It canont on mine, Asus N73S with GT540M
Why didn't anyone help this poor guy?
So I was on my daily route this morning and saw a bruised blind man standing near a construction area. I ran to him as fast as I could and when I reached him, I noticed that he had a scrape of blood on his forehead and he looked very confused and nervous. I slowly held his hand and told him that I would take him to his destination. I was carrying about 25 helium balloons in my hands so it was a bit difficult but I managed.

It was a busy street and as we took a couple of steps I noticed a huge crowd of people standing at a bus stop looking at me with a sigh of relief. These people were waiting for their NYC bound bus which arrives every 10 minutes.

So my question is, why didn't any of them help this poor man? Would it have been so bad if they were late to work by 10 minutes? Why were they all waiting for 'superman' to arrive when anyone who can see and walk could have helped him?

-Samir
Good question. Sounds to me like they've simply made the output of backtrace() available online.
"You know how people are always saying Google is arrogant?" Yup, bidding funny numbers like pi for the Nortel patents was incredibly arrogant. It certainly wasn't humble. There was no humility there. The representatives from Google acted like a group of teenagers giggling and making fart noises in the back of the classroom. I'm sure they thought it was funny at the time, but this is a prime example of what people mean by arrogant. The public perception is that Google people are geeks, and geeks and arrogance go hand in hand. Watch Fallon's Nick Burns sketch on SNL sometime if you need an illustration.
This may come off as a bit bitter, but there is an enormous difference between "Send to Coventry" in the wiki schoolyard sense and shadow banning.

The schoolyard kids are a lot less cowardly and passive aggressive than you.

Ostracism itself is not a passive aggressive act, it's blatant and obvious. (And in some cases, the silent treatment is considered a form of psychological abuse. http://www.google.com/search?q=silent+treatment+psychologica...)

But shadow banning is purposefully spiteful way to waste your contributors time and energy, precisely because it is not obvious.

And so, if you mistakenly shadow ban otherwise good users (and what test does not suffer from false positives) than you can truly have abused and damaged a member of your community.

It really isn't something you should take lightly as ha ha, I've sent them to Coventry.

It's your community to manage as you see fit, but I think a more ethical way to treat people is to specifically state straight out they've been banned.
Why #define Is Evil
Most amateur runners don't hit close to 180 spm unless they are barefoot runners. The general idea around a shorter stride for amateurs isn't about efficiency, as I understand it, but about injury prevention. Smaller strides means less time flying in the air, less mass displacement, and a softer landing.

edit:
that doesn't mean you aren't right about professionals doing it for efficiency reason, I just don't know.
Hidden habits of ineffective people
Trying a bit of my own medicine on some of these.
It is a mobile feature : there are two GPUs in the laptop. One is a small one, poor performances, low consumption and the other one is a full-fledged GPU.

When the usage of the small one is two high, the big one is switched on and used. By default, it is switched off and nvidia does not provide a way to switch it on on linux and stated they would not support it under linux.

I was under the impression that nvidia was the most linux-friendly GPU manufacturer and bought one because of that. I should have looked more into details but I was in a kind of hurry.
IBM helping kill OpenOffice.org
Thanks for building and growing DDG! Have been using it for awhile now as my default search engine and I love it.
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They're most likely putting little to no effort in to promoting their work. Discovering the level of interest you need to create to get near the top earners would be interesting.

This question comes up all the time on the Themeforest forums, but I haven't seen a satisfying answer. Most authors seem to think that if you have to do significant outside promotion, it isn't worth giving 30-50% of your sales. At that point, you might have better luck selling direct, like Thesis.
Time to start charging those plugins :)
how do you run unity in non-accelerated mode ?
It has always refused to run for me unless I had graphical acceleration installed.
CocoaRestClient: a Mac OS X app for testing HTTP/Restful endpoints
Backbone.js and Rails presentation
Because somebody else should/could/would do it? There's actually a pretty small percent of us (I hope I would have your compassion) that will take action when part of a crowd, but many of those people would have helped if they were the only one there. Sad huh?
#define is one of the reasons I don't touch most C code. While yes, you can use it to determine environment and load appropriate modules it is abused so often to either obfuscate "open source" code or to inline something.

If #define had been simpler I might've cut my teeth on C instead of Object Pascal.
I would never use plain debian. security updates, support, broader user base, just to start.

And

Juju. Juju is going to be huge. https://juju.ubuntu.com/
Make an animated signature using GIMP
Maybe those plugin guys should start charging for their work, so users see their output as having financial value.
Tim Armstrong really wants Yahoo to buy AOL. Seriously, Yahoo, call him.
Absolutely.

Which is why I outlined that it's important to only apply shadow banning/send to coventry to those who are unambiguously going to redouble their efforts to spam and troll.

If in doubt, have a word with the person first.
The people who buy themes are, in my opinion, definitely not the people who will be donating to a plugin. It is unfortunate.
I just have to re-quote the best (IMO) comment below that article here (it's not mine):

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Blake October 12, 2011 at 6:14 pm

Next thing you know, you find yourself spending more time with Siri. She understands you. She can practically predict what you’re going to do. While Siri does nag you, she only does so in ways that you request. What started out as a few commands here and there turn into long conversations over candlelight. Soon, you find yourself avoiding your wife to be able to spend more time with Siri. After all, Siri doesn’t ask for much and is always eager to listen to whatever you have to say.

Unfortunately you didn’t have the foresight to see that Siri is a harsh mistress. Soon, the iPhone 5 will be released and with it will come a better version. Siri 2.0 will start wooing you with her helpful ways and ask you to leave the old Siri behind. But by then it will have been too late. Siri knows the intimate details of your every life. She’s been listening into all your conversations, reading all your emails. And she never forgets.