skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely think that Dell is in a tough position in that they must protect themselves against customers that are dumb enough to choose an operating system that they don't want.

I disagree with your suggestion to buy the Windows version if it's cheaper. It's frustrating to me to see the $1000 Windows laptop marked down to $900 and the Linux one be sold at the original price of $930. I want to buy the Linux version for $830, not the Windows one for $900 :)

In truth, the first thing I would do after buying a Dell Laptop with Linux installed is wipe it clean and install Linux with the settings that I prefer. So the value of the preinstalled Linux for me is really just that I know that the hardware is all supported under Linux and I'm not paying for an OS that I don't want.
1) Download the spreadsheets and process the data yourself, any way you want. Loading the information into Excel, Numbers, or OOO isn't really all that much of a "decoding" challenge.

2) Ever think that maybe your readers don't want you to "reach out" (i.e., spam) them? While maybe you wouldn't do that, others would. Personally, I'm very happy that Amazon doesn't provide my personal information to publishers.

3) Have you ever seen what passes for a royalty statement from an old-school publisher? Look into it. Amazon is a model of transparency by comparison.
> There are comfort tradeoffs, and really I've biked in Amsterdam (which is a bit more sketch in some areas than Copenhagen by the looks of it) and definitely did not feel I need a helmet.

Regarding comfort: from the day I decided to wear an helmet (and it had been a long time I hadn't rode) it only took me 2 trips to feel "naked" without it. Just like I feel uneasy when there are no seatbelts in a car.

> Helmets are for [...] cyclists who have to mix with automobile traffic or deal with poor quality roads (e.g. storm drains, potholes, etc.)

Which is my case in Belgium. However, I still believe that even in a safe environnment such as Amsterdam or Denmark, with or without car on the road, you'd better fall with a helmet than without one.

Sorry again for the fallacy, I just wanted to give more context to how things are here.

On a side note: I remember when helmets weren't mandatory in the "tour de France" and in "Liège Bastogne Liège". I thought it was really weird people were complaining about "the ridiculous helmets" and didn't really fight the safety arguments of pro-helmets.

I strongly feel the bicycle helmet "debate" is almost the same as the one for the car seatbelt made mandatory in the 90's (in Belgium): people were screaming they were all going to get strangulated, that the incomfort would bring more accidents, etc.
Google Builds up Largest Database of Links to Pirated Media
A payment method that:

* Can be used on any website that accepts credit cards

* Cannot be used to sign you up for a subscription through scams or hidden terms

* Cannot be charged more than the amount you intended to spend

* Can be set to expire after a short time

* Can be funded by bank transfer, eCheck, credit card or funds through selling items on eBay or your own website

* Is available instantly with just a few clicks

...was absolutely both unique and innovative. It existed nowhere else and offered compelling benefits. And they ran with it for 4 years. Innovative does not mean guaranteed to succeed, be profitable, and stay around forever.

Either you're not very imaginative when considering what it took to create this offering, the risks and costs involved, and what benefits it implied, or you have a petty bias against anything attached to the PayPal name. Either way, you've made no point.
How I Jumped Off the Corona Arch and Survived Fear
Grades and external validation (from school, parents, friends) don't matter that that much. Concentrate on doing what you enjoy and learning what you are passionate about.
'So if I started a charity called WhiteMenCode, do you think that it would be fair to all of the other races and genders?'

Do white guys need more help in America? Statistically, white men have a higher chance at being well... anything. Actor. Model. CEOs. Executives. Managers. Interracial marriages. Politicians. Lack of racial profiling. White men getting worked up about this is like rich people getting worked up about poor people getting welfare.
Sorting frack from fiction
See Resty https://github.com/micha/resty
The line below made me check if the article was published on the first day of april.

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The patient stated, "Eating these eggs ruins my life, but I can't help it."
One photo is not a demo. LG Prada first publicly unveiled Jan 18, 2007.

http://www.slashgear.com/iphone-samsung-f700-prada-phone-rum...

Why call someone a liar man, just to prove some point?
But surely there are other design considerations and constraints that bind objects within these classes together.
Qualcomm Q3 Results: $4.63 Billion In Revenues, Earnings Of $0.69 Per Share
Behing the scenes story and reason for Bhug
It's like the guy said in "The Graduate" when asked for career advice: just one word, "plastics".

For my younger self, the word I'd use would be "smartphones".
Society does pretty much have a consensus on this. If you're working to reduce privilege and increase fairness, some selectivity based on race, gender, and sexual orientation is allowed.

So a group for helping women is considered cricket, but one focused on white women probably wouldn't be, because white people are already privileged enough.
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Because they are both white boxes with large pictures of the product on the front? Well color me outraged!

I think anyone with any eye for design would agree the two boxes are sufficiently different to rule out the possibility that Samsung was trying to pass of as an iPad. (Not to mention the two prominent uses of the Samsung brand on the Tab packaging's front - as opposed to a logo-less shiny black rectangle on the iPad's.)

I honestly don't understand where all these "Galaxy Tab is an iPad clone!" accusations are coming from. Is it a physically similar device? Yes, it is. But there's only so many ways you can design a minimal touch-based tablet. If you made a car that looked suspiciously like mine from the front I'd have a good reason to be pissed off. If you made a wood colored dinner table with 4 legs and a flat surface - probably not so much.
Then the Zenbook Prime is definitely for you sir.
Which laptop? I desperately want to replace my MBP with the highest quality Fedora-supporting hardware I can find.
Video: Designing a Beautiful REST+JSON API
Current state of nutritional science:
Propose hypothesis of heart diseased caused by high consumption of animal fats

Tell public to reduce animal fat consumption to reduce heart disease

Public reduces animal fat consumption

Heart disease rates continue to stay the same

Conduct studies to prove old hypothesis isn't wrong:
Studies show that Atkins style diets have closer to optimal HDL/LDL/Triglyceride blood levels than low fat diets

Ignore study

Claim that it must be genetics that causes "some" people to not get heart disease from high fat, low carb diets

Watch the documentary "Fathead" on Netflix. The movie can be a little annoying in its political overtones, but the fact that the guy eats an extremely high fat diet with low carb and sugar intakes and improves his cholesterol numbers is interesting. Of course, it must be a genetic fluke, according to the low fat promoters. Let's do the math, shall we:

Odds of a person having a genetic mutation where they are immune to cholesterol when most people aren't: low

Odds of a person choosing to make a documentary: low

Odds of a person choosing to make a documentary about themselves going on an extremely high fat diet for 30 days: extremely low

Odds that this same person just happens to be one of these people who is genetically immune to cholesterol.......
REALLY?
The article says "about 25 eggs per day".
Hmm, that organization doesn't seem very active. No updates for >1 yr on the "news" page. But in any case, their "donate" page actually suggests that you donate to the EFF if you want to support their work: http://www.onlinerights.ca/donate/.

They're partly funded by the EFF anyway (http://www.onlinerights.ca/about/), or at least were whenever that was last updated.
An in-depth look at the new Designers.MX
> The ruling was "they do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design."

Essentially, that Samsung didn't copy them well. As I understand it, the judge also refused to stop Apple from saying Samsung did copy them, saying Apple was entitled to its opinion.

Since the actual ruling is that Apple should note that Samsung's tablet doesn't legally infringe on Apple's registered designs, to your point, Apple's UK home page should just quote the judge:

Home Page Headline: "They are not as cool" -- UK Judge

Home Page Body: "The UK Courts require us to point out that Samsung's tablet does not have the same understated simplicity of our designs."
Using Neuroscience to Inform Your UX Strategy and Design
what tool(s) can a web entrepreneur use to check if his site won't be hacked by script-kiddies?
Well, they may not have had to do it, if Apple had not jumped at the chance (went the ruling was only tentative) to make a pro-active strike telling retailers they were not to sell the Tab. Why should they not then have to say otherwise?
Did anybody else see 'Pink Flamingos'?
Can't tell you how many time government and military refused to pay less for our product running on CentOS and instead wanted to pay lots more for a Redhat license so they can have support. Nevermind that once setup they only have to do yum update to get the latest security patches and not much else.

There are some companies that offer CentOS support but they are not as prominent perhaps. I think Oracle should have done that, and in the process win some brownie points with the OS community.

From their point of view pissing off some idealistic OS nerds wearing T-shirts and flip-flops is nothing to worry about. However, the problem is a lot of these nerds end up making technology choices, directly or indirectly by advising their managers what is better, etc.
How VCs get paid
Women Beat Men on IQ Tests For First Time
10 lines of CSS makes this site slightly more pleasant to the eyes :-)

http://i.minus.com/i0i1hE5frYO4T.png
This reminds of a kid who got totally destroyed in a fight: both eyes are swollen and black, his nose is broken and bleeding, he can barely talk through his swollen lip, and he has a chipped tooth. Then the teacher tells the other guy to apologize and shake your hand. You walk away thinking, "I showed him ..."
> being a poor white person is more difficult than being a poor black person

Evidence? I'd especially like to see a video of you visiting the trailer parks and public housing projects of America and asking people if they agree with that. I'm not sure which group would take more exception to it.

Regardless, as a former poor white person, I think it's bullshit.
You're even righter than I thought. This is definitively faster than the method in the article. And with your method there's no point in rearranging the items. You're no more likely to have to deal with a confusing small item than with the method in the article.

The only possibly worse aspect is that, when the item is chosen, you have to make sure to identify everyone who got a copy of that item. With the method in the article you always consider items one at a time, in isolation.
Ruby Association's 2012 Call for grant proposals
Just put whatever words in my mouth that make you feel comfortable.
Wear your silly helmet or don't, it's nothing to me.
But why the insistence on forcing it on everybody else?
Mars Curiosity Rover Swaps Computers, Gets Updated Arrival Data
100% agree. Continuing to create division with gender or race biased events/groups doesn't seem helpful. The greater issue here is the disadvantaged at large. Why continue to divide our efforts in smaller niche segments? What's wrong with allowing anyone to join in on these sessions?

A lot of these groups, and their titles, just seem to further stigmatize the segments they're trying to help. True equality will only come when access to information and opportunity are available globally and without bias. Drawing lines in the sand isn't the way to go about change.
This image is probably not the resolution all of Mars got imaged at, right?
All good points. Especially, "The price to society is just too high otherwise."
Look, it's simple. There has been an imbalance for a long time. One group is lagging behind because of hundreds of years of slavery, discrimination and oppression. Being a black women means that she was being doubly oppressed, one for being black and the other for being a women. What is happening in this particular example is that somebody is trying to fix the injustice that happened against a specific demographic for hundreds of years.

Even though slavery and "separate but equal" are gone, and finally women have the right to vote, the effects of all that oppression is still being felt because of inertia (i.e. they are trapped in a cycle of poverty). The healing from all that oppression is happening slowly and some people are just trying to speed it up.

At least I think that is what is happening here.
'Everyone having the same chance' is what happens when we get rid of racism/sexism (we're not there yet).

Indeed. Someone wrote a post about how being born white and male in America is like starting a character in an RPG with boosted stats.

It does have a hint of truth to it. There is literally nothing a white man can't do in America whereas other races have significantly less chance of achieving the same success, especially Asian Americans.
I'm not so naive to think that people aren't already doing this all the time, but how is that the SaaS products mentioned in other comments are able to (and/or confident they will continue to be able to) avoid getting a C&D letter from Google? Isn't this a violation of their ToS?

Even using a supported API--which for Google seems to be limited to 100 queries per day--the search engines are officially OK with the submitting queries for the sole purpose of monitoring rankings?

(Looking at Google's new-ish terms of service, I see they are much vaguer about this now. E.g., "Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide." <http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/>)
Winner, yes, but I think the core of it is that he doesn't believe there will be a billion dollar exit.
Scientific Linux
https://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/errata

Q. After RedHat releases a security errata, how long until it shows up in Scientific Linux's errata?
A. Within a couple days.

Q. That seems like a long time for errata, why so long?
A. RedHat is not perfect, and sometimes their errata completely break programs.

Q. What happens when the people recompiling the errata go on vacation?
A. Because these security errata are part of Fermilab's security procedures, the entire Scientific Linux development team is not allowed to go on vacation at the same time. So there will always be at least one main developer able to do recompiles.
Firefox 14 release notes
There's a talk by Dr Donald W. Miller regarding how the original study claiming low fat diets lowered cholesterol was wrong, yet it was taken as basis for dietary guidelines by the USDA.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY&feature=my_li...
You specifically claimed Apple aped it's design, soemthing anything with a brain would find laughable. Please keep making these ridiculous declarations.
One ironic thing is that, at present, apparently the only way to run Oracle Linux without registering an account on oracle.com (and agreeing to an awful lot of legalese) is to install CentOS first and then use Oracle's little upgrade script. Unless that somehow requires registration later on.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4255842
Bishop: Ah. You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
Dick Gordon: No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.
Bishop: Oh, I see. You just overthrow governments. Set up friendly dictators.
Dick Gordon: No, that's the CIA. We protect our government's communications, we try to break the other fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty.
Bishop: Gee, I can't tell you what a relief that is...Dick.
Nanoparticle Completely Eradicates Hepatitis C Virus
> Why not dedicate full time engineers and donate?

Do you know ANYTHING about CentOS ?

They aren't exactly the most open and accommodating OSS project around. And with the very worrying communication issues around that developer who went AWOL I am surprised you think Oracle would give them any money at all.
Twist Aims To Replace Those Annoying Texts About Running Late
It was more to highlight the different attitudes in most countries.

Pay anything toward public/alternative transport and it's taxpayers money being lavished on subsidies. But spend a $Bn on a highway that just creates bigger traffic jams and it's vital infrastructure improvements.

Here they just voted themselves a big property tax hike to pay for a new $Bn freeway bridge after it became clear that the tolls wouldn't even cover the interest. But the express bus route that was going to use the bridge has been cut to save money.

It's also the argeument behind "cyclists don't pay toward the roads" when the majority of massively expensive road building is for stuff that cyclists can't use (freeways/tunnels) and they do pay for these in tax.
Ironically, as a t-shirt/flip-flop nerd myself, I was hoping that this would be something that would appeal to nerds, rather than pissing them off: "Hey, Oracle is giving me this thing that sounds useful for free".
To be fair, he might have decided to create this documentary precisely _because_ he has this mutation (I'm not saying that that's the reason why his cholesterol is low, or that this is good/bad), and therefore reacts abnormally to this diet.
Thanks for this link - I have been searching for hardware along these lines for quite some time.
Odds of someone choosing to make a documentary when they can dispute commonly accepted wisdom: pretty good

I haven't seen this documentary, maybe he started out thinking he'd prove that his diet was actually bad. If not, then I think it's pretty likely that this documentary was eventually made.
Learn from success, not failure.
Hypothetically speaking, I think the good Cardinal would say "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
> Fundamentally, there is a market need for something to fill the niche of CentOS.

You know what fills the niche of CentOS pretty well? CentOS. If CentOS goes away, you know what will fill its niche? -- Scientific Linux.

> I happen to think that free-Oracle-Linux can be a better CentOS than CentOS

I think Oracle (which is already not having a stellar reputation in the open source community) just worsened its position. People with money pay Redhat for support. People who don't want to pay, will use CentOS, and a large proportion of those don't like Oracle and out of principle will avoid it.

It seems after the litigation debacle, Oracle could have done something to improve its standing the programming community and maybe donated to CentOS, for example. That would have been nice. Instead they keep shooting themselves in foot.

Will this affect Oracle's bottom line. Perhaps not. Maybe in the longer future. But don't be surprised at the negative reaction from other programmers on HN or other tech sites.
Summer weather in the DC area is such that many days you can soak through your clothing sitting on a park bench in the shade.
None of these were about garbage collection, which surprises me. Is GC considered a solved problem?
No - it just means you haven't opted in to Google+.

To check - I just created a test gmail account and opted out of Google+. The Google+ section disappeared from my account settings page, which makes sense.

I don't work on the sign-up/opt-out flow side of things, but AFAIK the policy should be basically the same everywhere.
New Yahoo CEO want to beat Facebook and Google
I think that many people post jokes here because on other similar sites they're an easy way to get (often quite a lot of) upvotes, and a lot of us here dislike that mentality.

My criteria for upvoting a joke are generally the same as my criteria for upvoting any other comment: if I feel it adds something to the discussion, it gets an upvote. If I feel like it contributes nothing at all, it gets a downvote, because reading it is a waste of someone's time.

Most of the jokes posted here are surface humor. They are relatively obvious and add nothing to the discussion, and so I downvote quite a lot of them.

Occasionally someone will use humor to make a good point, and then I will upvote them. In general I'd discourage it, though--it's usually much easier and clearer to just say what you mean, and people here are usually receptive to well-argued points.
I don't use CentOS actually, I'm fairly happy with Ubuntu, and if I didn't use that, I'd go back to Debian.

For many years I was a Debian package maintainer, and Debian got by ok without much corporate support, despite the existence of Redhat.

In other words, your thinking is way too zero-sum. I think there's room for both. Perhaps the competition will make Redhat think about their model some too, improving things for everyone.
Ask HN: What is the best way to find out about competition for an idea?
I know that it's a pretty common desire on HN and in the startup community to find out what competition exists for a particular idea, but I don't know of any fool-proof ways of going about it. You can use a combination of startup indexes like Angelist.com and Techcrunch's Crunchbase, search through HN of course, and browse the app stores, but it's very easy to not find out about competition for a long time even employing these tactics. Does there exist one all-encompassing resource or directory that makes it easy to vet an idea?
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I'm suggesting that any group that limits itself accoring to race or gender is unaccecptable.

If these hacker groups are white only, then we need to break down the barriers that are keeping minorities and women out rather than starting new groups and self-segregating.
Why only for mobile?
Most, by far, of the stuff you think matters really doesn't.

Acquire the habit of finishing stuff, dammit.

Finally, not only is life short, it's shorter than you think.
How out in the open is it?

For years before the banking blowup that preceded the Great Recession, people knew that there was a lot of risk somewhere. It's just that nobody knew where. It turns out that too-big-to-fail banks and fears of systemic collapse meant that the risk was with taxpayers.

Or you can look at private equity's privatization of gains and socialization of losses:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-15/romney-s-bain-yield...

The finances were out in the open, but what was hidden was that the companies were no longer being run in good faith.
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>There is a very large economic demographic in this country that is apparently at a disadvantage. It's called black girls/females.

The only point in your reply that I understand is that you believe black women are poor, therefore typical social rules regarding segregation don't apply.

>If calling the group "Black Girls Can Code" allows the group to raise more money...

By this logic you are OK with a group called "White boys can code" IF it helped that group raise money? And why not, these could be boys from Appalachia who have Mountain Dew and Snickers for dinner every night.

I think this is a conversation worth having. At some point we need to go beyond convenient stereo types and get to the root of the problem.
Anyone who hasn't watched Breaking Bad should take the time go through it. They will then understand why anyone would be motivated to code a tribute to it.

See also: http://octodex.github.com/heisencat/