skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steve Jobs email addressed this in an email: http://macdailynews.com/2010/06/29/steve_jobs_on_ios_multita...

“People shouldn’t have to understand multitasking. Just use is [sic] as designed, and you’ll be happy. No need to ever quit apps.” – Steve Jobs’ email, June 29, 2010

another email too: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=955236

regarding quitting apps to save battery life: "You don't need to do that to save battery life. Trust the iPhone."
Anyone else find absolutely no surprises here? I guess I am just anal about denying things access unless they need it...
I used Jekyll. It's static content machine and I loved it. I now use nanoc. It's the same principle but I think it's better. I don't think that there are any books about Jekyll, but you can google around for basic tutorials.
Yeah, that's also their explanation for focusing on diffuse small donors. It's not really strictly the case that Wikipedia is going to go offline if they don't raise enough money--- for one thing, their actual core servers/admins/bandwidth budget is much lower than the overall Foundation budget (which includes a number of ambitious research/outreach/etc. initiatives), and for another thing, companies like Google have offered to donate bandwidth and servers. For a while they accepted some South Korean servers/bandwidth in a Yahoo datacenter, but generally they prefer to remain independent as Plan A.
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36 and I could probably cut that by a 1/3 and not notice. Well, I'd notice an extra $120.00 bucks in my pocket each year.
I agree that the National Geographic map looks better superficially. To my eye the labelling on the Imu map is more functional. You are drawn to larger or more important places first, and other labels are less intrusive. The approach adopted by National Geographic is much less effective in this respect.
The fact that you don't allow comments because of "dogshit" and "spam" means that your comments system is broken. That's like saying "I don't do email because of dogshit and spam". Spam is manageable in email, so the fact that it's out of control in comments means that noone has thought through a proper comments system.

When you say "Say it somewhere that you control, and link it. That's how the web works." I understand where you're coming from, but this is simply not true. Wanting something to be true doesn't make it so. The web is not made of a collection of interlinked static HTML files. But the root of your complaint, that by commenting on someone's blog you give away your worthwhile thoughts, is also a failure of the bad comment system.

Comments should work a lot more like email does. Imagine if each blog entry had an email address (or sub-address of the blog's email address) and sending a "comment" was really sending an email to that address. The comment box below the blog entry is really a small email composing window which sends the comment to the blog. And it can also send it to your own email address (as a cc for the purposes of the thought experiment). Then it would be in your email archive and not lost, but you would still be contributing to the discussion happening at the blog. A further benefit of this is that the spam filter for the email address would function for comments on a blog. Why reinvent the wheel? /end example.

I have come to this issue from the experience of working with bloggers with quite long-running substantial blogs on Wordpress or Blogger. They have a huge laundry list of complaints and annoyances with the software but I cannot in good faith recommend a jekyll-octopress solution or a wikified solution, or a "static--html" solution etc. These "solutions" are poorly thought out and would represent a severe reduction in functionality for the sake of "that's how it should be done". It is the result of developers who look at a hard problem (how to best implement all these required features) and decide to get rid of the problem by disparaging the features or the requesters themselves.
According to Google translate your quotation says:

Business entities engaged in activities on the sale of goods, works and services in the Republic of Belarus with the use of information networks, systems and resources with an Internet connection, you should pay attention: if these networks, systems or resources are not available on the territory of Belarus and (or) not registered in the prescribed manner to the subjects can be applied to an administrative penalty of a fine from 10 to 30 base units.
> You may think that, if an app is resident in memory, you have to somehow remove it to conserve memory. You don't because iOS does it for you. If there are Suspended apps lying around and you launch a memory-intensive app such as a big game, iOS will start to purge Suspended apps and move them to the Not Running state. That is, they will be completely removed from memory and will launch afresh the next time you tap their icon.

This, however, is not "impact-less": when running truly memory-intensive games, they will experience performance degradation while the OS performs cleanup and shutdown of the various applications "hibernating". This is sensible on games like Infinity Blade.

iOS also suffers from not allowing the user to make a distinction between "not running or hibernating" (no resource consumption) and "keeps your GPS or data connection active" (very high battery drain), and not providing a way for the user to know which application requested what (in the way the "Notification" settings let you control notifications rights for all applications, or iOS5's new "General > Usage" gives you a size estimate for the system's applications).

I also believe this:

> 5. Five classes of apps - audio, GPS, VOIP, Newsstand and accessory apps - and some built-in apps such as Mail may run indefinitely in the background until they complete their task.

is partially incorrect in following 4.: these applications can all be killed as memory pressure on the system increases, however they have a "higher priority" (and thus will be killed last) compared to suspended applications.
All legislation affects something outside of politics, that's what they're for. But I still don't see how this fits on HN, even if it's important.
> "so long as they are larger than 120 sq m"

120 sqm is quite a big restaurant, not a mam-papa noodle shack.
Sadly, it's not feasible. For a great overview of why, see: http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.science/browse_th...
I can't see the whole line of the code.
Please explain how countless cultures who are severely malnutritioned and live off of less than 600 calories a day are obese? There are no credible studies that are currently being done that can answer those questions with calories in / calories out. Because it is simply wrong.

Taubes google talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4
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Are you implying that all restaurant owners seize every possible good business opportunity?
Here's the mistake:

"I have come to the realization that most people who want something for free will never, ever think of paying you, no matter how valuable they find your service."

This is true, but irrelevant. What matters is the total number of people paying you, not what percentage of your users that fraction represents.

https://www.google.com/search?q=dropbox+revenues
Thinking Forth by Leo Brodie has a good worked-out example of representing rule systems in various ways including several approaches that use tables. I think it's much better motivated than in the linked paper. Starting on page 52:

http://books.google.com/books?id=1AlWbXItiCYC&lpg=PA52&#...

The entire text can be found here as a free PDF: http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/
ah, that explains why both my manager, his manager and the team's group manager keep making the "... is is that" mistake. I'm a poor ESL guy, and my grammar parsing brain paths get fizzed whenever I hear them speak like that.
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Fixed. It's also in the git repo.
Could you explain what happened to change your perspective?

Certainly. Rakudo Star wasn't what everyone hoped it would be, but I figured another few months of tuning and releases would let it stabilize to the point where our customers could rely on it as a significant part of the product. That was my understanding of Rakudo Star, sort of the Perl 6 version of Debian Testing versus the Debian Unstable monthly compiler releases.

Performance wasn't a huge concern; the five to ten percent monthly improvements we were getting were sufficient for our projections, if they continued. (They did.)

Around December 2010, some of the Rakudo discussion turned to rewriting the main implementation language used to bootstrap Rakudo (and part of the discussion was "Hey, this'll be a great opportunity to consider targeting additional backend VMs!"). Scopes creep and rewrites produce regressions and remove stability.

Rakudo forked its development into "The old stuff that used to be Rakudo Star but won't get any updates or even releases" and "The new branch which will become the main branch even though it won't see any releases and has huge regressions" and they're starting to address regressions now.

As you might expect, the release schedule for Rakudo Star slipped from "every month" to "every three months" to "whenever things get stable".

In the absence of project discipline to release stable code every month--in a culture which believes it's okay to tell people "Sure, it's useful and usable, just track Git HEAD for multiple components"--you can't deploy a product without heroics. I'm not going to risk my business on heroics.

In short, they stopped delivering a stable product and I stopped believing in their ability or their desire to do so.
Which makes it all the more infuriating that Geniuses are telling people to clear that stuff out. A directive needs to come from on high to stop that.
Oh, I had assumed the darker purple outer border on the Natgeo was the blue of the river. Wow, that's bad.
True. However I should point out that cleanup and shutdown is pretty minimal: it's killed without warning. (I don't know if you even get a signal handler called.) A hibernating app is not allowed to execute any code.
There isn't a metro to Dulles. One is planned but it hasn't been built yet. They just finished the agreement on who would pay for the second phase from Wiehle Road on to IAD. The first part from West Falls Church station to Wiehle isn't complete yet. My understanding is that 2013 is the target date.

A taxi ride from Dulles to downtown Washington Dc isn't terrible. I've caught a ride from IAD to the Fairfax/Vienna metro for something like $35-40. The ride from there to downtown DC is about another 45 mins and $4-5. If you just cab it all the way, figure about $65-70 for the ride.

http://www.washfly.com/Taxi_rate.htm
So a group of people who are devoted to food service now have to become experts at wi-fi deployment or hire someone who is. Sounds like a really crappy tax and a distraction.
my "credentials" SF 14 years, Seattle 3, Austin 5

Austin, TX: really great (and surprisingly large/active for size of city) tech/meetup/UG scene. Very low unemployment, did not get devastated by housing bubble. Don't let "Texas" scare you off. Austin is a diverse, liberal, urban center. Texas charm without stereo-typed bigoted redneckness. No snow. Live music capital of world. It is a small city (which may be good or bad depending on POV)

Seattle, WA: probably the 2nd largest tech hub. But, I really didn't like it. Too expensive, too Microsoft, horrible climate (depressive short winter days).
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Fiction is now either Science Fiction or Historical Fiction
I compel you to consider the life narrative of women and men who choose to be objectified sexually: I believe you will find that none of them thought when they were young, 'I want to grow up to be objectified for my body'.

It is not so much 'I can get paid for this' but more of 'In what other way can I get paid?'. There are exceptions of course as in all cases, some workers have a high degree of control and as long as they have great working conditions and a say in how they do their job I have no problem with the industry but again, my first sentence applies.

In the case of these Hi Gear girls, I cannot speak for them but likely they were simply hired by a modeling agency and have no particular commitment to the car company itself.
As someone who works on their computer all the time, I find it remarkable that so many coffee shops in NYC still don’t provide free Wi-Fi.

Probably because they don't want you there using your laptop! I avoid coffee shops that are overcrowded with laptop users because I can't find a place to sit and drink my coffee.

Starbucks has taken a different approach in NYC: keep the Wi-Fi, rip out the power outlets. This lets you use your laptop but effectively imposes a time limit.
I would suggest reading The Implementation of Lua 5.0

http://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf
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I believe this might be due to sharpening issues and noise and fuzziness due to compression in the photograph/scanning of the Imus map. When scanning/photographing text one must sharpen more aggressively than usual, and also use higher quality/lossless compression.

It seems the author of those digital pictures is not skilled enough as to faithfully reproduce paper documents digitally.
"Out of Print--Limited Availability" is what I see on Amazon for that item.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0981855121/sr=8-10/qid=1325...
The idea is that ones who seize good opportunities will stay in business, and those that don't (offer Wi-Fi in this example) will eventually go out of business without the need for laws.
I came across an article about the Belarus dictatorship back in November, on Reddit. It's a pretty interesting read:

Belarus, the land of no applause (http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/belarus-land-no-a...)
A surprisingly fragile company. There are plenty of thriving car hire companies (and yes, you can hire high-end vehicles).
Why not just have a git repo working copy in your $HOME directory? That way you can avoid any symlinking mess. The actual dotfiles are the ones from the working copy.

I used to do symlinking but found the working copy in $HOME approach much better.
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We need talented engineers to come and help us accelerate the world's research. We believe that there is a chance to make a big impact.

We just raised $4.5 million from Spark Capital and True Ventures http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297812. Some of our angel investors include Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Ubuntu) and Rupert Pennant-Rea (Chairman of The Economist).

We have a strong engineering culture. We're a 6 person team based in downtown San Francisco. The site is Rails, and other technologies we use include PostgreSQL, Redis, Varnish, Solr, Memcached, Mongodb, Beanstalkd.

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I really wish the article explicitly explained exactly what happens when you manually manage the multitasking bar. My anecdotal experience is that removing an app from "recently used" does have the effect of terminating it if it was in one of the semi-background states.

While the advice to manually manage this is ham-fisted troubleshooting, it is unfortunately effective (cf. restarting Windows). I suspect (and would love to see more analysis on this) that some apps in the categories allowed infinite background time are behaving badly. It may only be one VOIP app running persistently in the background that drains the battery, but this advice would consequently solve that problem.
SOPA seems about as directly relevant to internet startup business as an issue can get. It's not tax or social policy or political campaigning... it's impending legislation that affects the way people have to configure their servers.

So I would support a ban on most political discussion here as long as the very few relevant things like SOPA are exempt.
The Commodore 64 is 30
It doesn't help that much in December dark Scandinavia if there is snow.

I'm outsourced to Cluj, Transylvania and love it here. Nice people, good food, cool nature, etc. The company is hiring Python devs. :-)

That said, I'm personally interviewing in this city, since Python bores me (and there are some growth problems in the company right now). I hope to avoid London.
When I first clicked his link there was one Amazon Marketplace copy listed for $12.95, which must've since been bought.
Seconded - I've used Unison to sync across PCs and between different OSs for many many years; it just works
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Another good replacement for C might be the D programming language:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language)
I have been using duckduckgo, but I do admit that when the results are not what I am looking for, I try the "!g" to get google results. I find myself doing that most often for extremely vague searches, or highly technical ones.

More recently the google results have not been much better than the duckduckgo ones, without having to resort to quoting everything or further changing the search terms.
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SEEKING WORK - Remote or occasional travel around Europe fine. Native British based in Warsaw, Poland.

Backend jack-of-all-trades, concentrating on PHP/C#/MySQL, experienced with Apache/nginx/IIS, Linux admin also good.

A few sample projects I work on in my spare time, using PHP/Kohana/MySQL/jQuery:

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Email in profile.
Previous submission:

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Well, however, the 'killing the app manually' is useful while you're testing your app. We had a situation where the app is not the culprit but a middle-layer that authenticates through Facebook. As we've not yet taken care of the middle-layer failure, our iOS app was unable to figure out what to do but sent us in a Limbo.

Killing it manually help us 're-start' the app so we can use it without doing the 'un-install' and 'install' all over again.

Outlined in an article I wrote recently - http://brajeshwar.com/2011/kill-a-background-app-in-ios/
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And he's right. I can take my parent's iPhone or iPad and the recently open app list is 5-10 screens, yet the device still works perfectly. My mother doesn't have to know to quit things, the OS just does the right thing.

That said, there are a few cases where closing all the background apps makes a difference with a game. Some games (I've seen it on Worms: Armageddon, Angry Birds, and a few others) can lose their fluidity, I think the problem is memory allocations. Closing all recently used apps (thus forcing any that are suspended into the not running state) can fix this.

This was much worse on my 3G. The problem is very rare on my iPhone 4.

But for normal users, it's perfectly possible to use the phone for months and never need to close a single app manually.
I do the same (https://github.com/nixme/dotfiles). To minimize noise, I put * in my .gitignore so only files that are 'add -f' are tracked.
What do you think of Raven Maps? Their state maps are more topographic but offer excellent detail.

http://www.ravenmaps.com/
Unfortunately, full-disk encryption absolutely kills SSD performance because it makes the data look random (i.e. incompressible). It will wear out the SSD much faster than using it without would, because the hardware compression unit in the controller can sometimes achieve 8:1, and therefore have to rewrite only 1/8th of the NAND cells that it otherwise would.
No. You'd avoid friction. You may be able to accelerate faster, meaning less waste (as you won't be fighting gravity for as long). And you'd gain potential energy by already being up so high. But there's still a minimum amount of energy you need to get to orbital velocity.

If you didn't burn fuel to match speeds, you'd smack into the robot, which will be moving at orbital velocity.

See, the way a satellite stays "up" is by moving really fast in a straight line perpendicular to the earth's surface, like this:

satellite earth

^-> falls "down"
| /
| |
d-0-b |
|
\

The satellite "falls" towards the Earth, but it's moving so fast that this "falling" just becomes part of a giant circle, around the earth. If it was any faster, it would shoot away (or move to a higher orbit). If it was slower, it would fall down to a lower orbit, and if it was too slow it would hit the atmosphere where it slows down even more (eventually crashing down).