skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can we please calm down? All that happened is that they will no longer bundle an old version of XQuartz with every new release of OSX, which is probably a good thing because it will probably make it less hacky to install a newer version.

How many Mac users actually use X? I assume a fraction of the audience of HN does, but, again, the last time I used X on a Mac it was on a PPC G3.
> Is it just me, or is Macrumors by far the best Apple-news aggregator out there?

Ars Technica's Infinite Loop section is very good in my experience, they don't tend to do rumor as much and their coverage is usually good and informed.

appleinsider's quality varies a lot and it has lots of terrible writers who really don't know jack (Prince McLean for instance, really should quit the internet altogether), and the 9to5 network is just garbage all around, with 9to5mac being the Apple-scenting of that garbage.
http://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php

There's been a Quartz backend for GTK+ for quite some time. Working GIMP builds for native OSX have been available since 2011, and for most projects it's just a matter of finicking with the build system until it works.
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XQuartz comes bundled with every OSX install disk. That doesn't mean people use it. My mother and my wife probably have it installed, but I doubt they ever heard of X or used it.
They're offering additional game features in exchange for 5 stars, not merely prompting users for reviews.

Do other apps do this?
We are scientists and so willing to compromise, yes? So how about 0.5-based arrays? :)
It was a couple of years ago, and so my memory is off, and I can't seem to find the exact article I read. It appears there was a study done in 1992 which had similar results (I wouldn't be surprised at either possibility: I misremembered it as the 1970s, or there was a different study done in the 1970s by Friedman, as the particulars I remember are a bit different, 1901-1970 instead of 1944-1989.)

Found this, which gives a figure of 10X for a "hospital bed"
"In 1992, the Hoover Institution published an essay by Milton Friedman titled "Input and Output in Medical Care,"
http://mises.org/daily/3793

And also:
"Some years ago, the Nobel-laureate economist Milton Friedman studied the history of healthcare supply in America. In a 1992 study published by the Hoover Institution, entitled "Input and Output in Health Care," Friedman noted that 56 percent of all hospitals in America were privately owned and for-profit in 1910. After 60 years of subsidies for government-run hospitals, the number had fallen to about 10 percent. It took decades, but by the early 1990s government had taken over almost the entire hospital industry. That small portion of the industry that remains for-profit is regulated in an extraordinarily heavy way by federal, state and local governments so that many (perhaps most) of the decisions made by hospital administrators have to do with regulatory compliance as opposed to patient/customer service in pursuit of profit. It is profit, of course, that is necessary for private-sector hospitals to have the wherewithal to pay for healthcare.

Friedman's key conclusion was that, as with all governmental bureaucratic systems, government-owned or -controlled healthcare created a situation whereby increased "inputs," such as expenditures on equipment, infrastructure, and the salaries of medical professionals, actually led to decreased "outputs" in terms of the quantity of medical care. For example, while medical expenditures rose by 224 percent from 1965–1989, the number of hospital beds per 1,000 population fell by 44 percent and the number of beds occupied declined by 15 percent. Also during this time of almost complete governmental domination of the hospital industry (1944–1989), costs per patient-day rose almost 24-fold after inflation is taken into account."
http://mises.org/daily/3586

The 24 fold figure above may well be where I got the "26 fold" claim I made. Since the government has been running a deficit for a long time, including the period of the study, taking inflation into account is appropriate. Inflation is what happens when the government spends more than it take in, it prints the extra money. The impact of inflation on an economy is the devaluation of the unit of currency, causing a rise in the prices of everything denominated in that currency, including health care.
Yes, I pretty much had the same thought, but then I started thinking about multiple dispatch, calling C/Fortran libraries, polyhedral optimizations, and I realized that V8 developers may not have the same design targets in mind.
Actually GTK does have a Quartz backend. It's just likely that the programs compiled aren't using it.

http://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php
Great article for ordinary users because its simplistic. But it's a bad fit for HN; People here want juicy information...
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The RPG/ space simulator Starpoint Gemini is now available on Steam at a discount. The download also includes the Gladiators DLC pack. Read on for more info.
> It's not like they read the "standard", then deliberately misinterpreted it, as is the popular belief.

Is there anybody out there who believes that?

> At this point, it's probably too late, as we're all thoroughly trained to deal with the idiosyncracies of the W3C box model to bother using the CSS hack mentioned in the article to get us back to a sane box model where a box with a width:100px actually renders as a 100 pixel wide box.

There's no hack, it's an official CSS property which switches to the "IE" box model. And considering how useful it is (I've said it in the past, I'll say it again, I've never encountered anybody who thought the W3C box model was objectively superior to the MSIE one, it's just that one was the specified, cross-browser, standard model) I have no doubt whatsoever it will be used. A lot.

That web developers have had to put up with it for the last ~5 years does not matter, it's still cognitive load and it still has to be learned by new developers. `box-sizing` lowers developer cognitive load, it'll get used whenever it can be used.
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I understand the need for better app stores, particularly with any filtering, but Yelp's lack of filter power actually keeps me from using them for anything but cursory reviews and locations/hours.

The filtering illustrated in this article speaks only to the filter as an editorial component that floats up the reviews it thinks are worthy, a filter that's more useful for initiates than people who are actually trying to find something, in which case it kind of sucks.

But I'm pretty sure that's a different filter.
Taking a look backwards, Theodore Nelsons "Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers NOW!" takes on a whole new meaning 38 years later. (And is sadly out of print.) The hacker culture that contrasted itself against the IBM priesthood has itself become a priesthood.

We've given a significant portion of the world personal computers. And told almost nobody how to use them.
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The should seem obvious to most, but the problem with countries that have laws that "protect" workers (as in Poland, where I've been working for the past several years) is that such laws dramatically suppress wages and job creation.

You can't get laid off for no reason (only so-called "mass" lay-offs where a minimum of 20% of staff has to go due to restructuring reasons - or, of course, disciplinary action) but the salary you employer pays you (much lower if such laws didn't exist) has to take into account that there can can be long periods of time where there is no work for you to do and they can't get rid of you legally.
Library.nu is closed forever, Ifile.it is no more
It's never too late to do the right thing. As an extreme example, everyone who's used to it now, will eventually die

And this "extreme example" somehow proves your point that it's "never too late"? If it includes people having put it with this dying, then I think, it IS too late.
MATLAB toolboxes are simply awesome for users, even though they are expensive. We hope that if enough people find julia useful, many such libraries will be built. Having written a ton of mex and matlab stuff, and a lot of julia libraries, I find that julia is nicer to use personally - but of course I am biased. :-)

I do believe that open source + good compiler + simple C/Fortran calling interface will lead to others being able to write toolboxes in julia itself and plugin libraries when needed.
If you happened to feel like trying to port it to Julia, it would be fairly doable. All the low-level functionality is there to allow it — bit twiddling operations, growable dense arrays of integers, etc.
Have you considered the possibility that "privacy" is mostly a Hacker News moral panic, an obsession of the sententious personality that only really leaks out into the outside world when it can drive eyeballs or pageviews?
Singapore is an excellent example of how easy it is for governments to encourage a vibrant economy. 40 years ago it was literally a third world country. They changed strategy and it wasn't rocket science. Less taxes, less interference = thriving business environment.
Arguments aside, this is just a starting point for those who wish to set up a business in Singapore.

1) www.acra.gov.sg - Companies and businesses need to be registered with the authority. There is information here on the type of companies you can set up etc

2) http://www.edb.gov.sg/edb/sg/en_uk/index/why_singapore/Guide.... Another government site to get you started

3) Setting up offshore office. You can do a google search for "virtual office singapore". These guys provide a basic address which you can use when you register a business. If you are setting up a Private Limited company in Singapore, you will need a company secretary, which most of these virtual office will also provide for a price. Most also have a package where you can get everything ie registering a business, company secretary, virtual address for a year for less than SGD $1000
Thanks everyone. My curiosity has been satisified.
I took a year off to travel before my current job. Best thing I ever did. Before leaving, I made sure I had several standing job offers. Get your foot in the door when you're in a stronger position. Do it for your own peace of mind if nothing else. You don't want to spend half of your sabbatical worrying about what to do when it's over.
I'd suggest using the ballot and the soap boxes first.
There have been a number of miscarriages of justice in the UK.

It's important to remember that there is not right to silence here, and Judges can make inferences based on a person's silence during police question.

Better advice is to ask for a solicitor, and say calmly that you'll only talk when you have legal representation.

If you're innocent it's important to give a minimal account (with legal representation) of your actions, because not doing so could lead to a false conviction.
So get a used Mac Mini for probably $300. Any 2009 and up models are still fairly powerful machines, and are better and quieter than any desktop PC I've owned.
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Your missing the point, your not learning the lesson, you forget the importance of product development, why didn't your idea catch on? Why might Caterina's version succeed why yours didn't? I don't think it's just publicity.

Instead of developing something, waiting 3 months to see how it goes & then putting it in the closet because it wasn't popular enough, iterate. Why didn't it took of? What should you change, who are your customers, how can you get them to use the product? If your customers don't use the product, why don't they use it?

I bet Caterina is busy asking all these questions and iterating her product. If it succeeds, then I think that's the reason why it succeeds an not because she's a "celeb". There is a difference between the experience from a guy in a coffeeshop and the co-founder of Flickr & Hunch..
How is this different from many other grid projects out there, eg. Condor?
> Another major interop issue is support for arrays of inline structs

Oh, so arrays of complex numbers are implemented as arrays of pointers to objects? That would give really bad CPU cache performance.
Uhhh, based on what?? This is just a long list of countries on a top list without any specific measures or anything. The only explanation is that it's best in some other field but that position is equally unexplained.

I'm not doubting Singapore or the rest of the countries can be good for entrepreneurs but this infographic is just fluff.
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Under 18s do, and students can claim back the costs (At least for the dental, I'm not 100% on the glasses).

Adults don't get those 2 for free though, same as you.

I think the idea of taking the break to learn is a great one, but only if you have the purpose for it already decided. There is an endless amount of fascinating content on all sorts of topics available, but if I were to take a break to really brush up on a particular area, I'd want to know that when I was done, I'd be in a better position (For a particular job I want, startup idea to tackle etc.)

If it's more general though, I think it's harder to justify (of course, learning while building a personal project is a different scenario altogether!)
It is true that a number of people do their scientific computing on Windows+Matlab or Windows+R, but that most parallel stuff is typically on linux clusters. It would be nice if julia worked on both.

It is not by design that we do not have Windows support. It's just that none of us uses windows. We do believe that code is largely portable, and with a little effort, it can be built on cygwin or mingw. Nothing like a native port though. Maybe someone who is familiar with windows will come along and contribute. This is a common question our friends and colleagues ask us.
Thanks for the link. I don't use CM at the moment but recognize the importance of what they do and just donated.

As an aside, it would be great if they keep up support for N1 :)
Those seem like the same false positive case to me. For a false negative, did you mean "0.1% of spam messages are not marked as spam"?
Open Source VLC media player 2.0.0 is out
Put the paypal link in the post! I'm sure that will increase donations significantly, not everybody wants to scroll down that long list of comments..
Yeah, but you're probably the only one who's account is connected to both of those and some other places you've been at various times. Or? (I don't really know what I'm talking about.)
I wonder, how would the author change his argument if he was talking to people who take the position that the faster the TV industry dies, the better?

If people get cut off from traditional TV, they will seek other media, likely through the Internet. This is a good thing.
Thanks for the response. I'm still a bit fuzzy this morning, and I think I was conflating a few things.

I think:

~ They want to get rid of the existing "basic cable" distribution. Which is still analog. Digital signals consume less bandwidth, don't they? So, if you are knocking off relatively few basic/analog subscribers on a segment (the rest are already digital), you can more from the elimination of the analog signals -- even though they are "shared" -- than you lose to the additional digital signals. (All the more so if those viewers don't often view TV, e.g. with Comcast those who have "basic cable" because their pricing models essentially make it "free" when you subscribe for residential internet service.)

~ In going all-digital for TV, by not putting the basic channels or some subset on clear QAM (instead, everything is encrypted), they don't need a physical presence to enable/disable TV service -- even for "basic cable". You get a box in the mail, or you have a smart enough / new enough TV, and then upstream controls whether or not you can decrypt.

~ As for my "FCC" comment, as I somewhat poorly understand it, as part off the "digital conversion" negotiations, cable TV companies agreed to maintain the "status quo" until... I believe sometime in 2013, was the date finally settled upon.

But they've pushed the boundary. In my area, forcing everything above an ever-shrinking channel set of "basic cable" to be digital, with digitally switched (if "free", in limited quantities) set top boxes required. So, your old VCR or DVD recorder or perhaps some older models of Tivo (don't know, don't have one) no longer work fully in that they can't pick the TV channel. They're dependent upon this digital box and only get whatever one channel it is manually set to output.

I'm one of those people who has "basic cable" basically because of the Internet pricing. My parents had "extended basic", but found themselves forced to upgrade because these "freebie" digital boxes meant that e.g. the Tivo stopped working.

Now they pay more, and have some POS Comcast DVR all because Comcast was allowed to skirt the edges (exceed, in spirit if not in (re)interpreted letter, in my opinion) of this "it stays the same for cable customers until 2013" agreement.
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Ask HN: What is the best font for development in Eclipse IDE?
What is the best font for development in Eclipse IDE, which is visually appealing, easy for eyes when we stare at code for long time.
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The BBC is pretty much the gold standard for un-biased reporting, regularly taking the government to task on issues of the day.

It's only the "gold standard" for mainstream sources, which is not saying much. For people shopping for more accurate information elsewhere, it's nothing to write home about. Would you take your technical reporting from the BBC? Well, I wouldn't take my world affair's reporting either.

That said, I have worked with the BBC several times in the past (and other outlets, as a stringer). No mainstream coverage is accurate, and a lot are just used to justify a point the reporter has already made. Don't be fooled by spectacles like a BBC journalist "destroying" another BBC journalist on air.
Ask HN: am i a "coder" or a "programmer" 
i can understand code very well regards less of which programming language it is.

some time i can't understand the algorithms

i like coding in scripting languages

i don't think of optimizing the code or efficiency of the code

i love open source project because i get to explore the code and get to know how that works

leave the comments please
Tout un fureteur ce Firefox
I know one thing chrome leaks memory badly in OSX lion, not sure if these magic things happening in background has something to do with it
AFAIK there hasn't been any delay announced for Udacity courses. Can you please cite the source, from where you got this info.
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Make yourself look so valuable that they wouldn't dream of rejecting you for some invented reason. If front-line resume screeners are the issue, get an existing employee to submit your resume and vouch for you and get buy-in from their boss. That way HR can't reject you on a flimsy basis.
Slightly off topic, but V8's benchmarks really surprised me
In reality, Amazon doesn't link incognito browsing to your regular session.
Forget a few months, I took a few years.

Of course survival is neccesary during that time. You could do any of the following:

1) Move home
2) Consult with a higher rate and work very part time (5-10 hours a week tops)
3) Move somewhere cheap with your savings
4) Consider going back to school or see if there's a program you can use for learning / training that will help.

I took a combination of #1 and #2, worked great.
It's harder to nerd-rage on, say, Valve than it is to ride that Zynga-hating bandwagon 'til the wheels fall off.

Of course, if Valve ever makes a deal with Facebook then naturally that'll be a different situation altogether.
Excelllent view from the inside. The problem the article highlights is filling out gov't forms that have moved to the web; these are often just PDF scans.

These gov't forms are often ripe for improvement via improved UX with step-by-step inputs, contextual help, and multi-language capabilities.
Groupon acqires Hyperpublic, developer API shutting down
... and the JVM (HotSpot) is even better than V8.
Inkscape only runs via X on Mac.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05/08/article-0-012B17C3...

Have you considered trying these?
Jeez, good to know. As mfalcon mentioned, freelancing would be a good fallback, but you'd still have to talk about what kind of work you were doing etc.
No wonder I've been seeing youporn.com in my history.
A thousand times this. I find the ultra-libertarian stance that our community sometimes takes to be counter to what web applications have been about. Are we empowering people or aren't we?

Libraries are hugely important knowledge transfer hubs (and, as the MeFi commenter rightly says, community centers). Furthermore, selfishly, for us as builders, they're the only place a lot of people will ever come into contact with the stuff we make. They can't be allowed to die.

The entire California library system was given $12m in state funds in 2008. It's now down to zero. How can we, as a community, help?
When you try to install julia on MacOS X 10.7.3, you may see the make fail because wget is not installed. Easy to fix with:

brew install wget

[Edit] git page says gfortran (and wget) are downloaded and compiled, but if they're not already installed make fails. So...

brew install gfortran

The need to do this separately may have to do with licensing?

[Edit] And if you're not root, install to /usr/share/julia will fail. So you'll need to do:

sudo make install

I'm sure all this is perfectly obvious to Unix-heads who are inured to this sort of abuse, but I'm a Mac-head, used to things that Just Work, and I hate this shit.
This depends on your OS a bit but I use Dejavu Sans Mono at 11pt on the Mac.
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried that, but it wasn't it. I'm still getting lots of build errors, culminating with this:

Saving to: `lapack-3.4.0.tgz'

2012-02-19 01:03:26 (55.3 KB/s) - `lapack-3.4.0.tgz' saved [6127787/6127787]

make[3]: gfortran: Command not found
make[3]: * [lsame.o] Error 127
/bin/sh: ./testlsame: not found
/bin/sh: ./testslamch: not found
/bin/sh: ./testdlamch: not found
/bin/sh: ./testsecond: not found
/bin/sh: ./testdsecnd: not found
/bin/sh: ./testieee: not found
/bin/sh: ./testversion: not found
make[2]: * [lapack_install] Error 127
make[1]: * [lapack-3.4.0/INSTALL/dlamch.o] Error 2
make: * [julia-release] Error 2
Training for Focus
I would say that both companies have founders with strong personalities. I don't know if I'd go so far to call either a "cult of personality."
IE's box model always made more sense than the Standard. Why would I ever want 100% width plus an additional 1px of border adding scroll bars to my page?!
I'm not sure how much of each they do, though I'd imagine it's a bit of both, as obviously they're experienced in taking APIs public so they both have the tech to support it and the past knowledge of what users/developers want. Check out http://developer.rottentomatoes.com/ to have a look (it says Masher Made at the top)