skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally I am not a fan of "pay-what-you-want" products. It sounds very utopian but it neglects the cost of a guilty conscience. I try to derive a fair price in my head but it's still a balancing act between feeling like I underpaid and I'm a jerk or I overpaid and I'm a chump.

Overall, pay-what-you-want feels more like marketing than a socialist ideal.
I think that what we need is a way to get to polls easily, and page for them to be archived on. That way new people can easily go down them ticking their response and seeing what kind of dog co-founders are most fond of without a new poll being necessary every six months because people have forgotten the old one.
100% of active participants care about not getting negative karma on comments.

This is good actually, because rude or completely pointless comments are severely downvoted, this being the punishment instrument that the community has for people that break the guidelines.
Has anyone used TrueCrypt for full-disk encryption on Mac, or MacBook Air (SSD)?

Any experiences to share? Anything positive/negative /etc?
Would appreciate comments, esp on compatibility with non-Mac devices.

Thanks!
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Octopress (http://octopress.org) is a good static blogging framework built around Jekyll.

Instructions for deploying to GitHub: http://octopress.org/docs/deploying/github/
You are entirely missing the point when you start focusing on "cyber rapists" or girls, or anything like that. The point is that ANYONE can potentially pull and track this information and combine it with other data sources without your permission or knowledge. Months, years, or even decades from now, with increasingly better analysis techniques.

That could be a rapist, that could be an abusive government, that could be your ex boyfriend/girlfriend, that could be your employers checking if you were at the bar last night, it could even be your health insurance making sure you went to the gym yesterday, or else they raise your premium. It gets even scarier when you have companies like say credit agencies tracking where you went and who you were closest to, and determining your "risk score" for various things like loans and jobs, etc.

The point is there is a massive potential for abuse here that most people have absolutely no idea about.

Its simply startling to me that so many here work day in, day out on computers, yet totally fail to realize the power of data analytics when you feed in massive amounts of data.

The most disturbing point of all in this shit, is when you are refused a job, or a loan, or medical insurance, you wont ever know why, you will simply know you made the numbers go down for some reason, and people will become deathly afraid of that, so will take fewer risks in their life, and generally lead a very closely guarded, boring existence.
The PS3 and 360 are, without a doubt, used on a more consistent basis by their owners compared to the Wii. But in terms of sales, Nintendo blew everyone else away this generation, in both the console and portable markets.
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I used to do OS/2 support as an IBM co-op back when I was in college. In many ways it was pretty sweet -- I did some cool stuff with the built in Rexx interpreter, which -- though not as or widely supported as, say, perl -- was still pretty nice.

Regarding your specific problem, I'd add that IBM's support structure was byzantine, with multiple groups with different agendas and tons of snafus like: "this isn't our issue, contact Thinkpad support," followed by "this isn't a Thinkpad issue, contact OS/2 support." (Aside: I once tried to get a different IBM group to handle an issue I believed to be theirs, and after getting rebuffed multiple times, I wrote a rather angry response which got me in trouble with my manager. Learned a lot from that -- mostly, don't write angry.)

9 times out of ten, the issues we received boiled down to a) missing / out of date drivers for some piece of hardware (as in the S3 chipset you mention), or b) incompatibilities/errors running existing windows apps. I think OS/2 failed for a variety of reasons, but ultimately, even though it was better than windows (for a while), people just didn't feel a strong need for pre-emptive multi-tasking, so it was never a strong selling point, especially if it meant you couldn't run the latest PC games.
I agree that LibreOffice is not an equal to MS Office, but I wonder how many civil servants are doing a lot of original work in an office suite. Seems to me that most of what they would be doing is filling out forms and using other standard templates. Given a suite of working, debugged templates (which seems to be what the "WollMux" extension supplies) I'd be surprised if there'd be a lot of need to go outside that.
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There's definitely a lot to be said for insecure defaults -- and especially a lack of education.

It's easy to over exaggerate this threat though, in my opinion. Yes, Girls Around Me is really creepy, but will anyone actually get hurt because of it? Unlikely, I think.

It's important to bear in mind the positive aspects of "over" sharing information, too. Connecting with old friends. Making new business acquaintances. Scholars investigating the social graph to draw interesting conclusions.

Also, if data was private by default, who knows if Facebook's business model (advertising) would even be tenable. Then it becomes a question of whether we want a Facebook, warts and all, or no Facebook at all.

(I wonder if anyone's actually studied the value of Facebook. Would be a pretty mammoth undertaking.)
While I support the general notion of your statement, I have to correct some facts:

- The recurring costs for licence upgrades are said to be 2.8 Mio Euros every 3 - 4 years. However, there are other cost factors that need to be taken into account: migration and training costs for the new windows and office versions and cost that are now saved since they took the opportunity to unify some of their document management. That's not 10 mio pounds per year, but still a sizable amount.

- In the original document, no amount is given for the cost savings for the hardware that's not replaced.

- There are no statistics given for the number of support queries in terms of linux vs. windows. There is anecdotical evidence but they response explicitly states that full and valid statistics will only be available in two years. The number cited is the total number of support queries for the linux workstations over time. It is cited as proof that the pain points from the beginning of the migrations have been resolved and that the number of support queries is dropping sharply even though the number of linux workstations is rising. The number is also said to include all kinds of errors, including network, server and database errors.

Still, the cost savings are totalled at somewhere around 3.8 Mio Euro for the whole period and since most of the up-front investments have been done now the number can be expected to rise. It's not as huge as you make it sound, but it's still big. And most importantly its a proof that this can be done without disrupting everything.

(most numbers taken from the original statement at http://www.muenchen.de/rathaus/dms/Home/Stadtinfos/Presse-Se...)
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I'd be interested to hear the reasoning behind the use of Windows, by those who voted, if those applications are not .NET (obviously it's understandable using Windows in that case).
maybe you could turn it into a dating service in the off-season?
Looks like you've got some easy karma, I guess
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> If this is the standard by which you deem a currency insecure, you may want to be more specific. Physical goods are also susceptible to theft.

Theft and loss of bitcoin is much much more common than theft and loss of any normal currency. Insecure.

Bitcoins are data, and data is very easily lost. What if the hard drive with your wallet on it fails? When a hard drive fails at a bank your money is still secure. Storing bitcoin on a home computer is not even close to as secure as storing money in a bank.

>Cash is much less convenient than digital transactions. Have you heard of a credit card? Cash is only useful for anonymity.

Bitcoin is much less convenient than cash and credit cards. Nobody accepts bitcoin as payment. And as far as I know there is no existing way to link a bitcoin account with a credit card. I'm not saying the flaws are unfixable just that they are huge flaws with bitcoin. I'm criticizing bitcoin for what it is, not what it could be.

>The currency incentivizes its own operation, yes, but this is not even close to a ponzi scheme -- you should look that term up. The technology does not distinguish early adopters from other participants.

The bitcoin distribution system is a big problem. Whatever you call it, it is an unfair and unstable system where early adopters profit when more people adopt the currency, and late adopters end up holding a risky asset with unstable value. Without a backing authority stabilizing the price, alternative currencies are just toys and far too risky for normal people to get involved in.
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Wasn't there some legal ruling about that? I found some discussions [1] about it. The section about CPU vendor string manipulation is very interesting.

[1] http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=49
Hardly the most reliable or even useful of sites.

1. Completely anonymous - who is this person who has dedicated a site just to this topic?

2. Clearly neither German or even speaks German (using Google translation!) - so, we can rule out an insider or even a user.

3. Railing on all topics relating to Linux for government use anywhere on the globe without giving reasons other than quoting other sources.

As I said, not reliable and someone clearly disgruntled with no independent information or expertise (technical or managerial).
"Furthermore, you’ll notice that each Project Card displays up to ten people per card. This again is by design, as 10 is the sum of the first three prime numbers (2, 3, 5)."

If this didn't let you know it was an April Fool's joke, you should come over to my place to watch Google's self driving car in its first Nascar event.
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Actually, that's a misinterpretation in the article. The original document mentions those figures, but in a different context: Those are the total number of complaints for limux workplaces in the beginning and in the end and it includes all kinds of errors - application errors, user errors, database and network connectivity so it's nothing but a rough upper bound. It's given as rough indicator that most problems have been solved.
Personal laptop: Linux Mint 12 (was running Ubuntu since 8.04 or so until recently... since Unity I've been wanting to move to another distribution)

Work desktop: 21" iMac running Debian (dual-boots to OS X but I rarely need it, and I'm much more at home in Linux)

Synergy works to share the mouse / keyboard across the desktop to the laptop to create a three-screen environment at work.

I used OS X for a good month or two when work got the new iMacs in; it just wasn't my cup of tea. My coworkers have a mix of Windows and OS X installs mostly.
There's the Wikipedia non-profit model, for one. Probably can't create all kinds of content, but it has created some of the highest-quality online content.
I semi-agree with you... but only semi.

Personally I would generally care about being downvoted because generally I don't comment anything that I would expect to be downvoted, and therefore if it does it annoys me to know that either I was wrong in my judgement of what I said, or that the downvoter was wrong in how they read it (or that the downvoter is just an asshole - the ultimate conclusion I always come to when wondering why somebody downvoted me!)

But I'd never care about it as more of a signal of how a comment was received... if I felt there was a valid reason for me to reply with a one-word comment to somebody simply saying "Cunt." then knowing that I would be downvoted wouldn't come into it.

So far I don't think I've ever written that comment on HN, but I have written a few that I expected to get quite a few downvotes for - often accurate expectations, occasionally completely wrong. And as long as I know that they're downvoting for the reasons I expected, not that I've said something I wish I hadn't, I'm fine with that.
Source for said $37.8 million figure: http://www.thelocal.se/40044/20120402/
I have been led to believe that Windows runs great on MBPs. Does your experience contradict that?
Look, can one of the HN wizards check to see what's going on? I have DEAD set to ON and I'm now seeing PLENTY of posts that have several points attached to them being killed. And many of these are NOT spam links! Something is going wrong here at HN today.

Edited to add:

Someone else is seeing this as well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3788740
A bigger problem is the brain drain government spending creates. Why risk your neck for a startup, when you could work on a fat government IT project?

And digging up rocks is not a good long-term plan. The commodity market has a little thing called "mean reversion". Basically, nobody cares where the rocks come from. Australia has a slight advantage over other countries, because our rocks are pretty good quality, we have reasonable governance and management, and we are close to Asia.

But, there's only a massive premium because China's demand has grown faster than supply. Once the resource companies pull their finger out and start digging faster, prices will drop right down. Rocks aren't iPads - nobody cares where they come from. If Brazil or South Africa or Nigeria or Russia can dig up similar rocks, or China funds a bunch of new resource companies in Australia, supply will start exceeding demand and the price will go back to around the cost of production.

It takes a long time to get the mines set up (there's something like a year's lead time on the tyres of mining trucks), so there's a few years (maybe a decade or so) in which miners can charge as much as the market will bear. After a while, supply will increase and the market will start asking for big discounts.

That's how commodities work.
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It's a bit immature to link to a dystopian fiction as a citation to show that "everyone" can be evil
hah, I unfortunately need some better compat with the lunix stuff. Loongson soon! (How soon? not long!)
I agree with your conclusions regarding recruiters.

Most all of them will tell you they are shackled by their clients; and I don't blame them for being treated like that since they are charging large amounts of money.
No one has provided any evidence at all that the $544 million figure (itself essentially invented) is in any way a subset of the $2.5 billion "mobile run rate". From a purely rational perspective, there is no reasonable reason why Google needs to include in-game advertisements, or web ad revenue, in Android revenue.

Does Microsoft include Google search revenue in Windows revenue? Does a purchase of a hat in Team Fortress count as Windows revenue?

I suspect -- with no more evidence than anyone else -- that the $544 million is but the sum of partner payments for the Google applications or accelerated access, added with Google's cut of the Nexus line revenues. Advertising, though....Android itself has zero advertisements. I don't see ads in Google Maps, gmail, or in any system service or function.
A nice read and informative about the background of OpenStack, but doesn't really give the reader any information about what state OpenStack is really in and what trying to use it is like.

I work for a small to medium sized web hosting company and we looked into using OpenStack as a solution for offering a Cloud product, and the problem is that OpenStack is very much in a dough-like state. It's great if you want to bake your own solution. But if what you need is bread to build a sandwich on, you're going to be starting a lot further back in the proces than you maybe want to.

I also fundamentally disagree with the whole direction of playing chase with Amazon. Linux didn't supplant Windows by copying it; it supplanted Windows by offering something that was better. If Linux had merely been free and Windows compatible, I don't think it would be the success it is today. It was not just free and open, but also technically superior.

I think OpenStack had -- and may still have -- an opportunity to provide a much better platform than what Amazon has. EC2 has a lot of design flaws and faults which result not from technical limitation but just bad design choices, and there's no need for OpenStack to follow in them.

The biggest of them in my mind is the flavor issue. In the EC2/OpenStack model, you cannot have customers spool up VMs with arbitrary specs; they must choose from available flavors. So that means if you want to offer a wide variety of options, you have to have many, many flavors on option. Which then leads to the customer having to pick one of them -- or to obfuscate this issue behind an interface which can match up the user's choices with the appropriate flavor. Neither of which is a good solution.

There's no reason a cloud VM platform should have this kind of restriction. Other competing platforms don't. I think OpenStack will eventually be supplanted by something much better. It's just that this is a very new industry, much more like competing computing platforms in the 1970's than the much more mature battle that happened in the 1990's. Where even though Linux was new, it was based on 25+ years of prior work and experience.
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edwinnathaniel:

You're absolutely right about Microsoft Sharepoint (and InfoPath): it makes switching away from Windows much more painful and costly. FWIW, I have no doubt there are a lot of smart people at Microsoft thinking 24 hours a day about how to increase switching barriers for customers.

As to Microsoft's licensing discounts in key markets, they're not new. Ballmer traveled personally to meet with Munich's mayor and reportedly offered similarly crazy discounts to prevent them from switching to Linux. (See http://www.infoworld.com/t/platforms/microsofts-ballmer-figh... and http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.heise.de/... for some details.)

Regardless, the important question (for budget-strapped cities and governments) remains the same: can they save a lot of money by switching to desktop Linux? If the savings claimed by Munich are accurate, the answer is a resounding yes.
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First world problems. :)

PS: This is only as off-topic as your reply.
As someone also involved/familiar with the tattoo culture, I'd say that "accepted" is taking it a bit far, and that "tolerated" is closer to the mark. Most tattoo artists I know produce flash because they know it pays the bills, not because they really like people using it. I don't know any tattoo artist that won't jump at the opportunity to create something new and unique.
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I don't believe they need to downplay at all -- in any rational analysis there is no reason they would include, for instance, someone clicking on an ad on a website. It is not reasonable to call that "Android revenue", just as it isn't "iOS revenue" if someone clicked on an ad on The Verge in Safari.
I think you'r missing out on another large group of users: Those in a large organization that need a defined set of features, often provided by a custom application under control of the given organization. Those users have well-defined requirements and do have an IT department backing them. Pretty much all of the administration falls into that category: They're not supposed to go wandering off changing config settings or downloading and installing software. They have a handfull of programs that they need, nowadays often server-based, and if those programs can be made to run on linux, they couldn't care less about the underlying OS.
At the risk of sounding like a negative-nancy the problem he is fixing is the artificial impedance mismatch that was constructed ON PURPOSE by Ian Bicking when he created WSGI.

Composability is one of the most powerful concepts we have. WSGI wasn't mistake-proofing middle-ware by making the protocols different, he was breaking composability that is now being fixed by Kenneth et al.

Thank You! But let us not allow these mistakes to be made again.
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I suspect this is very similar to tipping - many people say that it's illogical, or that they hate it, or it makes them feel awkward... but personally I love tipping, it's something I am actively happy about when in America (not so much tipping here in the UK).

Personally, if the service is terrible I'll leave no tip, if it's standard, as expected, I'll leave a generic tip (something like 10-20% in restaurants, depending on the total price), if it's great I'll leave a generous tip.

I often feel good being able to thank someone by tipping well, and the only times I have ever felt bad about it were when I wanted to tip more but didn't have the change on me and there was no way to add the tip to a card payment.

So I guess it's just different people prefer different situations socially.
I use the terminal heavily on OSX and Linux and I don't see a difference. It sometimes can be perceived as inferior on the Mac because of the lack of package management and issues with dependencies especially when working with Ruby tools. But as far as capabilities go my experience has been that the OSX and Limux terminals are equally equipped.
I like the sentence length progression graph. It's interesting to see how it changes over the course of the article.

One suggestion I would make is to add links for example articles on the home page to make it easy for people to test it out without having to go find an article to enter.

I'd also be interesting to see what other information you could get out of an NLP (Natural Language Processing) library.
Or they will stop using the system altogether and that's when you start having these unofficial shadow systems spring up, developed by someone who read Access For Dummies in 7 Days, and next thing you know you've got 250,000 credit card numbers posted on pastebin.
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It's a bit absurd to imply that the only reason Google is in this to make sure that one company won't control the future

Seems like your thesis is that it's exactly the reason Google is in this. They just got the company wrong.

I think this is a trap of trying to read moral content into factual data. Saying that Google wasn't trying to become a dominant platform isn't the same thing as saying they are saints for it. But I think it's broadly correct: Google has always viewed its future as being the central arbitrage point for online communication. Apple and MS mark success by unit shipments, and the strategies for protecting those kinds of positions differ.
Ubuntu, sadly. But it's what is kind of the default on EC2 and also what the customer wanted us to deploy.

I'd rather go for Debian or FreeBSD, and that's what my own boxes are running, mostly.
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