skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have spent the last two years at university cycling to lecture and am now cycling to work. It saves a large amount of money (~£1800 insurance+£1500 running costs). If it rains you just wear waterproof clothing. You can easily get good quality waterproofs (e.g. Gore-Tex) for £200 which will last for years.

You have to be willing to live fairly near to work of course. For me it would probably take about the same amount of time to drive to work. It takes me about 13 minutes to cycle and rush hour traffic will slow a car down.

If I want to go longer distances I can catch a train (and take the bike for the other end) or take a bus. Occasionally hiring a car is also possible for rare occasions.

So for me using a bike is completely feasible for living in a city.
Looks a bit similar to https://www.google.com/search?q=bb+hole+in+glass&tbm=isc...
The majority of new laptops work out of the box with ubuntu 12.04. The driver complaint, while still fair in many cases, is not nearly as relevant as it used to be. Peripherals can be tough, but built-in hardware has come a long way.

Also, IMHO, weather dell is doing exactly what you want or not, they are continuing to support freedom of choice, freedom of software, and the hacker community in general. I commend them for the effort, and would love to see other vendors follow suit.
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If you want this reviewed you should have a video on the front page at the very least giving a walk through and pitch of the service you are providing.
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>>Oracle is just a business.

It's just that it's the kind of business that makes me glad kitten stomping doesn't have an appreciable ROI .
Thanks for this "Distraction is often a manifestation of doubt".
This is what I use:

var ratio = Math.min(window.innerWidth/BASE_WIDTH,window.innerHeight/BASE_HEIGHT)

document.body.style.zoom = ratio

or

document.body.style.WebkitTransform='scale('+ratio+')'

Resize the whole board instead of scaling every object.

* Half-baked example of what I do (Webkit only as usual)

http://georgenava.appspot.com/demo/poker/poker.html
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I'm not usually the one to complain, but really? Not just front page, but #1 of HN?
FDNN[1] is a french association created by La Quadrature Du Net[2] ("an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet"). FDNN's goal is "to collect money and fund actions and projects whose goal is to defend and promote net neutrality, and more widely free speech on the Internet".

Why it took so long, I don't know, I guess FDNN is not used to such a big case as wikileaks.

As for why visa/mastercard accept this now, they don't, all payment are actually processed by "Carte Bleue"[3], which is
100% compatible with Visa (they get their license from the european Visa company, which despite the same name has nothing to do with the american company, they only license the brand). Those license (Visa US => Visa EU, and Visa EU => Carte Bleue) are mostly irrevocable, and getting the french banking system to "ban" you because someone high up doesn't like you is much harder than what they did in the US with wikileaks.

I do not know about the mastercard situation, but the cards are accepted pretty much anywhere here so I wouldn't be surprised if Carte Bleue had the same sort of deal with them (but every Carte Bleue is not a Mastercard, unlike Visa).

Not an expert on the subject so I might be wrong on some things, but I hope it helps clear things up.

[1]: http://www.fdn2.org/
[2]: http://www.laquadrature.net/en/who-are-we
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carte_Bleue
Wait, Jony Ive Doesn’t Design Everything At Apple?
Point taken, but as a counterpoint... if your list was as extensive as the DDG !bang list, finding the one you want would be a real pain.
It's not really an underworld if it happens completely out in the open, is it?
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That's kind of how I feel, I don't think there's anything wrong with it but it does seem weirdly specific. It makes me wonder if other industries with poorly-represented population groups have such specific programs.

Surely the demographics of other fields need to be shaken up as well as tech. Nursing comes to mind.
I read this news with an incredible sense of synchronicity. Two hours ago I was eating a Subway sub and thinking how handy it would be to receive emails in my old Nokia phone via SMS. I do have an Android phone, but I don't take it in my bike rides. This SMS feature would be very welcome.

Edit: typo on 'synchronicity'
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1. Get a piece of paper.

2. Write down what you're going to do.

3. Work.
>Why not?

I agree - IF we can also agree that groups for "White Women", "Bald Hispanic Men Under 40", etc... are also allowed.

Society needs to come to a consensus on this. Either there is a useful purpose to segmenting private groups by age, gender, race, income, etc... or there isn't. If there is a valid purpose, then we should all agree that all possible combination of these factors are equally valid.

The end result is that some poor white woman won't be able to attend because of the color of her skin. I'm not sure what happens to her mulatto friend...I guess it depends how black she looks.
You can do this easily with other platforms as well. Flash is easy to copy and re-host with your own ads. It's also very easy to decompile and change credits, etc. Even native games are cracked and distributed for free the same day they hit stores.

This isn't much different.

What is significant is that it's truly easy to change the code on the fly. People who cheat in flash games usually use memory editors. The barrier to cheating in a game like this is much smaller. It's very easy to change the script to give you 100 points per pellet, or slow the update interval from 30 to 10.
This is a nice curl and wget replacement that handles a bunch of modern use-cases without a lot of hard-to-remember command-line flags.

That said, there is a broader problem of "hard-to-remember command-line flags" which I have personally solved using snippet management (I use notational velocity or command history, whichever is handiest).

There is no doubt httpie's interface is a lot better, but it creates another problem (again, which is somewhat universal) of installing, learning and remembering to use a new tool. This is a non-trivial problem that is a key concern for anyone evaluating a new tool, and it's a problem that only really gets solved with ubiquity.

Finally, an observation that so many of our "traditional" command line tools pay no attention to usability because, at least back in the day, the problem they solved was hard. People had a choice: either put up with an (admittedly) bad interface or write their own version in C. The individual cost of learning a bad interface outweighed the cost of rewriting the tool, and so standard tools were born.

And now, decades later, new generations are stuck having to learn needlessly obtuse interfaces to standard tools. We have a situation where newcomers pay the cost of developer UI laziness in perpetuity. This is, of course, a terrible outcome and it's projects like this one that are trying to change it.

So I applaud the effort and hope it catches on, become ubiquitous, and I can take the curl and wget snippets out of NV.
I realize that the realities of the limited resources available for charities and non-profits is what leads to the ethnic and gender based targeting, but this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Is it a good cause? Yes. Teaching any disadvantaged group a useful skill is a great thing, but solving a problem of exclusion with further exclusion is, in principal, bad.

I grew up in a poor, mostly black, rural county in Virginia. The opportunities for learning to code were zero. There was no computer science class, while students attending public schools in the DC suburbs of northern Virginia got to have programming classes starting in middle school.

People WANTED to learn to code, but they couldn't. These were poor people, of all colors and genders.

Will this make Women's Studies graduates and professors happy? Yes. Will it make African-American Studies graduates and professors happy? Probably.

I could point out the bullshit in this idea in so many ways, but I'll stick with just one:

Among black americans, which group has a lower graduation rate? Males or females? Which group is more likely to be unemployed, males or females? Which group is more likely to be incarcerated? The list goes on.

I know it's not cool to help boys/males these days, but all the statistics point to a dramatic problem with young men of all races today. It's too bad that there isn't a powerful special interest group backed up by a bunch of humanities professors looking out for the impoverished non-black non-females of America.

Charities should be based on need and helping the greater good, not on playing favorites.
In lieu of Curiosity landing on Mars in just two weeks, I wonder if one of these is within reach for the rover to do some exploration? Although it's probably too dangerous and the rover is probably not equipped to explore something like this.
I usually know about this from newspapers (I'm Portuguese), but apparently there's a whitepaper by Glenn Greewald on the subject.

The paper has an obvious political slant, but the data is solid, and our national Institute of Drugs links to it.

http://www.idt.pt/PT/Documents/MontraIDT/2009/greenwald_whit...

There are other documents in the Institute's website. Most are in Portuguese, but there's some stuff in English. Check the dates on the reports, 'though, some are very outdated.

http://www.idt.pt/EN/Paginas/HomePage.aspx
so oracle says during 2011, centos was slow with updates.

Centos responds: no we weren't.. look at this chart of 2012

CentOS was terrible with updates during 2011.. and there's no guarantee that it won't happen again (after all, it isn't paid support). 2011 is the reason why I deployed several RHEL webservers instead of centos recently.
I would assume that if dell had an easy way to get a laptop with no operating system, it would be a support and consumer trust nightmare. They would then need to support how to install an operating system for every customer, as that's the only thing you'd be able to do when you bought your system.

If the os comes pre-installed, they only have to support drivers, and hackers like you or i can strip it if we want at our own risk.
Well, in people's minds it's not only "past" behavior, but also the quite current Android/Oracle/Java argument. These things (just like the Microsoft UEFI topic) are discussions about very fundamental issues that could have impact on the freedoms and livelihoods of people here.

I'm not sure how much success you'll have getting people to separate their issues with the larger entity from considering your project. After all, when it comes to business decisions it is understandable that people would want to take these issues into account.

What I could imagine to happen is your project building its own separate (and good) track record from Oracle. I think some people asking for a reverse-to-original option/script might have come off as insincere, but I think it would be a crucial part. If you can say "try it, use it, and if you don't like it or anything happens, there's an up-to-date and tested way of returning to the original", it could alleviate peoples fears for lock-ins.

But it'll be hard to work against things like peoples fears that one of the reasons is an attack on RedHat. The only way to deal with that will be time and good behavior (not doubting that you'll do that, but you came out of a perceived lions cage. So the gazelles will watch you for a while to make sure you aren't a lion after all).
The title is leading. It's Not the game, and not entirely the marathon that caused this. The article it short on information and long on speculation.
I still have a copy of that paper they pulled that "debunks" nosql. I don't think I'm ever getting rid of it.
I'm not the person you are responding to, but I do think the idea of a Yahoo Phone isn't a winner. Mostly because phones are basically fashion items at this point. Can you imagine anyone being impressed that you have the latest Yahoo phone? Me neither.
This sprang instantly to mind.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
Apple ordered to run "Samsung did not copy iPad" adverts
If you're using Oracle, the cost of RHEL is a trivial factor.
It is the 2012 data release linked from the first paragraph.
This adds a lot to the speculation that the iPad actually came first, and they forked it to launch the iPhone, then came back around to launch the iPad.

I've always found that decision fascinating -- what a brilliant strategic move to recognize that Apple could create the new touch-screen market using phones first, rather than what at that time would have seemed more obvious, a touch computer.
I completely agree. What's worse is that the article doesn't even really present the opposite view, instead just agreeing with the general point of the original and stating it's attention instead of time, essentially arguing semantics. This is pretty aggravating.
From submission guidelines:

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I just spent a whole day in AES encryption, specifications and code. Being reminded there is a wider world out there, quite literally, is fine by me, especially a world where the answers are not obvious or wrapped in politics - why is the surface white? Is it impact or collapse?

Edit - just neatened up
1) If he's three or four orders of magnitude off, his point still stands.

2) Also, the data could be almost completely unstructured. You mine the data that you have to create structure. If you toss anything, or prematurely optimize things, you're missing out on what the algorithms that you come up with 10 years from now will give you.

3) If you're using enough redundancy to multiply $35,000 into $3,000,000,000, you're insane.
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Last time(2008) I dealt with Oracle support in regards to linux, they did provide support for CentOS, but funneled customers to oracle linux. IMO they have a good model for helping ensure oracle linux doesn't become a fork of redhat, by creating emergency patches on their side, then sending code/reasoning to redhat to get included CentOS/RHEL. They are helping the quality of redhat's product as long as they get good margins on support contracts.
Well, the EFF is U.S. based but is an international organization.

Online Rights Canada?
http://www.onlinerights.ca/
How ?

From the wikipedia page regarding the "australian bicycle helmet law" I read this:
For example, one recent French study analyzing over 13,000 cyclist casualties during a ten-year period "confirms the protective effect [of helmets] for head and facial injuries," and finds that "the reduction of risk is greater for serious head injuries. The study is inconclusive about the risk for neck injuries."[45] The most widely quoted case-control study, by Thompson, Rivara, and Thompson, reported an 85% reduction in the risk of head injury by using a helmet.[46] It has been suggested that these studies may be fundamentally flawed.[47][48][49][50] [51] [52] Thompson and Thompson have rejected these criticisms.[53]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_helmet#Case-control_stu...

Are you suggesting something along:

1. Cyclists wearing helmets are prone to take risks because they are wearing helmets ? ;

2. people don't want to ride bikes because they don't want to wear a helmet because they don't like the look of it and as a result of that they might do less exercise activities than if they could have ride helmet free ?

edit:
I found this:
http://www.cycle-helmets.com/

There are some frightening points being made (and contradictory to my position) but I have some tingling doubts about some. Have to read it with more attention later.
I'm having problems with seeing why CentOS may cease as a result of this move from Oracle and Mr Daher.

CentOS is free, so as long as the sponsors continue to sponsor the work on CentOS and as long as whoever pays for the servers &c continues to do so, the project can continue.

Scientific Linux and PUIAS exist for other reasons than commercial server provisioning and those reasons will probably stay around.

The CentOS and Scientific Linux forums contain useful information, the mailing lists contain more technical information. Oracle won't to my knowledge be providing self-help forums or other community features as they wish to package support as a product. I can imagine Oracle Linux users who do not require support dropping into, posting to and contributing to the CentOS and SciLi forums.

How will CentOS (or another clone) be impacted to the point of extinction by Oracle Linux? Am I being dense here?
I read your rant a few times and I've yet to see your point.

Charities should be based on need and helping the greater good, not on playing favorites.

This isn't a charity. A black woman started this program to address a legitimate need that she saw. Others who agreed with her gave her money to do it.

Where is the bad in this? How is this anything but a net positive for the world?
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> 1. First of all, it is mandatory in my country.

This is a bit of a circular argument, isn't it?

It's not mandatory in Denmark, so by that very logic these people, following the law, are "good bikers."
So you're saying that charities should do a breakdown of all the demographics in a given area, and spend exactly the same resources on getting them all help? I wasn't aware that charities and non-profits were supposed to be so generalized.

I thought targeting specific issues was part of the point, to have a greater chance at solving at least one problem.

The net effect of this organization's efforts will be to elevate several different demographics by targeting one. White/black/etc women will be able to relate to the black women in this course. Black men and women will be able to relate to the black women in this course. On top of that, since it's kids, their friends who are kids of any race/sex will find it easier to relate to, and eventually study and work in the field.

tl;dr This helps a ton of people by only targeting a few. It's an amazing and effective idea.
Off-hand this seems like a rather cruel and unusual punishment. Are there any previous examples of this sort of order?
The bad in this would be a young black girl trying to bring her hispanic friend. Exclusion is exclusion.
If this were the WhiteBoysSew club, you would call it racist, despite the fact that very few white boys learn to sew.
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Bummer, but not a problem. They are different products targeting different markets. You don't want users being able to switch between windows or linux pre-installed via a simple interface. You want them to know exactly what they're doing. (Or in case they don't know what they're doing, you want them to buy windows)

Dell also needs to be able to promote their laptops using features of the OS, or software that comes with it. They also need to mark down the OS versions to coincide with promotions or market activity.

Plus, if you're a linux guy, and the windows version is cheaper, just buy that and get the ubuntu image or drivers from dell support. It's not like canonical is missing out on a sale.
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I feel like missing those sort of opportunities is pretty much why RIM is doing so poorly these days. It seems like they forgot what they are and what they do best.
Wa.
That is... incredible!

edit: http://www.cycle-helmets.com/imgs/yehudamoon1.jpg
:)
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Parchment only.
Papyrus has a standing export restriction from the issuing superpower (Egypt circa 200BC), so if it becomes a superpower again you could be extradited for disobeying the law of a that foreign country that attempted to force an unfair business advantage to the rest of the world.
I'm going to assume they mean they don't condone it. (possibly because of a licencing agreement with microsoft) Obviously if it is a computer, which i think it is, you will be able to install grub.
This guy has become a caricature from a cyberpunk novel, maybe without the cool clothes. He's so insufferably pretentious. Why is he popular again, something about Netmeeting?
We have a pretty creepy looking one here on Earth too:

https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=61.279143,-73.66333&spn=...
Why isn't it red?
I think the general rule keys around the relative level of privilege a group holds in the relevant society.

I don't see society coming to consensus on this any time soon - but a lack of consensus doesn't and shouldn't stop private meetings that don't clearly cause or promote or contribute to harm to others
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Heh, I think you're just getting old. This is the new normal of public discussion in the blogosphere. I think it's a drastic improvement over the walled-garden editorials in major periodicals.

I found this article in particular insightful, even if the "hook" feels a little cheap.
That is strange.

BTW, I saw Jimi Hendrix in concert a week or so before he died - he was an awesome talent! I have some nice pictures I took at that concert shooting Anschrome ASA color slide film that I developed myself to push the ASA rating up for the dim light.
I would be a little surprised if anyone seriously objected to a sewing for boys class
It depends on the site, and the stack you are using to manage it, but ideally you would have the following features.

1. All assets are under version control.

2. Committing code of any sort (HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, Python, PHP, ...etc) triggers the unit tests and a failure of the unit tests prevents the commit from completing.
#unit tests should take n < 3 seconds

3. Pushing the code to the deploy repo (or branch) triggers the acceptance tests (behavior driven tests that look at the functionality of the site overall, account creation, login, profile_view, checkout) failure of the acceptance tests sends an email to the whole team. Code changes affecting security sensitive modules should be considered failing until they have been manually qualified (e.g. anything touching passwords or money).

4. If the acceptance tests pass and no critical modules were affected by the commit, that commit gets deployed into the production environment. That fact is recorded on the dashboard and emailed to the team.

This is difficult to achieve but once reached, it's like being over the step on a boat that hydroplanes; friction is reduced and you get greater velocity for the power expended.
Awesome to know it's out of beta. Hope there is more Onyx documentation available since the last time I tried to learn about it using the Sampler I was a bit confused with some controls and how to implement them.
Sounds fair, considering.

Apple's suit damaged Samsung, so this seems to me like fair payback.
The fate of OpenSolaris is quite sad. Do you think SmartOS and similar efforts will significantly diverge from Solaris in the future?

This thing with Oracle Linux - I always felt that Red Hat should've made RHEL (+ Desktop) freely available (including updates) since the beginning.
1. this is UK law, not US
2. "cruel and unusual" has no meaningful definition for a corporation. is a $1 billion fine "cruel and unusual"?