skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, something appears to have gone very wrong there, yes. That image is not supposed to be paired with those answers.
I did not say the proposed colored card system was the end all solution and that everyone here should shut up and take it. Absolutely we should question and propose different solutions. But I'm not sure that I saw any comments on alternative fixes besides the general theme "women should know what they're getting into".

I think you're saying that i need to understand this is a scientific crowd and they are of course going to question and apply logic. To which i would respond, why then did we end up with a majority of comments applying unchecked anecdotal evidence (which this community is usually very quick to dismiss) to subtly undermine the authors point?
After my initial outrage at the title, I found this comment to the actual article perhaps more telling than the article itself:

"Geographically, this is southern Oregon, near Medford; not the North Cascades. That part of the state simply dosen't recieve the amount of rain annually that Oregon is "known for". Eight acre feet of snow melt and rain waterannualy to fill those ponds, that's impossable. He's not filling from his well or tapping localized springs on his property, this guy divertied water flowing thought his property which feeds a tributary creek that supplies the city of Medford with it's potable water. Geeze can the truth be told once and a while? He admidted to doing just that some years ago. He's free to "store" all the rain water he pleases; which will likely evoporate by mid June."

Aside from the defensive tone, it looks like it's not that he's just innocently collecting water falling from the sky here, he's actually diverted natural resources that happen to flow through his property to suit his own needs because he wants ponds. That's a really important point that was left out of the article (glossed over, at best.)
Tried out a similar service at NYC's La Guardia while waiting for a flight. Not a fan -- a few gripes:

(1) Cleanliness is a concern. If I'm going to be eating a burger or something else with my paws, you'd better believe I'm going to want to clean my hands after touching one of these bad boys.

(2) Novelty for novelty's sake. I have no problem interacting with another human being when I'd like to order a glass of wine or dinner during a trip--in fact, it's often a welcome break from a long day of traveling alone.

(3) Poor functionality. My friend and I were prompted to enter our flight information under the auspices that we'd be "alerted" with updates about our flight--boarding, delays, etc. No such luck... We arrived at our gate and were scolded for being the last ones on the flight. If only they'd known we were distracted by the future of airport dining!

There's no real pain point here. I suggest that E la Carte pivot toward creating more edible food in airports... That's a disruptive mission that I can get behind.
Most people could name a grand total of one city in all of Sweden. Just not on people's radars the way the US is.
I don't think it's broken. I just personally feel the information should be displayed better. Email just needs a better UI/UX. For example, Microsoft did a great job with the outlook interface, it's still the same old email and I can pretty much do everything I can do with Gmail with it but I signed up because the UI looks much better. I don't feel so "bombarded" when I log in
My point is that it isn't similar at all, on any level.

A typical foreigner to the US probably knows where some large cities in US are without having the slightest clue about which state many of them reside in.

That is my perception of it.
Duolingo is attempting to do the same "gameification" of language learning that Memrise is doing. They're both fairly successful, but I find that neither of them are as "sticky" as a really good game. It's too easy to put it down.
Yes. One instance is the law that says that a child should be executed if he disrespects his parents (one of the ten commandments).

The text says the parents must "speak with one voice" of their child's disrespect. The rabbis interpret this to mean the parents must speak literally with the same voice as though some divine entity is speaking through them.

And of course that's not possible so there is no record of any child being executed under that law.

And the justification for this radical interpretation is that "the Torah is not in heaven" [1]. Essentially this means that even if there is some divine indication that an interpretation is incorrect, it is irrelevant. God comes down to tell the rabbinate that they've made a mistake and the rabbis tell God that his opinion doesn't matter.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_in_Heaven
I don't trust people who leap to a new, breaking major version while ~40% of people can't run the in-theory-supported old one. Their prerogative, but I won't use their library because of it.
Spoken like a true OpenGL programmer. :(
Here is another, older take from Wolfire Games (Overgrowth, Lugaru):

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/Why-you-should-use-OpenGL-an...

and a follow up:

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/01/DirectX-vs-OpenGL-revisited
Facebook launches new curated site for great stories
Introduction to Realtime Web with Meteor and Node.js
How Coffee Meetings Power Silicon Valley
It's a slick looking memegenerator.net
Congrats, Thomas. I'm glad to you have you around.
Apple in PC sales' top spot: Windows PCs at all-time low
If it said, "the right of the people to bear arms for this purpose shall not be infringed" then I would agree. But it doesn't, it says "[This amendment is important because of militias;] the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." ... with some extra commas that are incorrect now based on how grammar has shifted.
There is quite a lot of science and study behind fasting, and it can actually be good for your health. I say this as someone who does a caloric fast (read: no caloric intake at all, fluids allowed) 6-7 times a week for intervals of 16-20 hours, in addition to my 3x weekly heavy weightlifting programme and my full-time job as a programmer/devops.

As of right now I'm the healthiest I've ever been in my life (physical strength and cardiovascular health), and my mind is as sharp as ever, especially when I'm fasting.
The judge will be in charge of that. If you have tons of money and very interesting case - nine Supreme Court judges, otherwise - probably your local court judge. And from what I heard, judges are not very tolerant to people that try to game the system and make fools of them, so you better be sure you are very persuasive with your new religion or you'll lose the case very quick.
IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends (w/ data)
Authy (YC W12) launches two-factor auth as a service
Just because there are problems with cameras, don't discount vibrational sensors. (Non-recording acoustics, to get around legal problems.)

People are already putting little processors that can be powered for a few >years< on two AA alkalines on boards with little MEMS microphones. Give them a low-powered way to communicate, and you can do a lot with just sound. Put one next to a piece of continuously operating machinery and you can use Fourier analysis to determine if the operation is normal, or if there's a malfunction. People are already doing this, but the degree to which these systems are getting more mobile, remote, and maintenance-free is amazing.

Create 2mm square "smart glitter" that communicate through low-powered radios to radios mounted on power and telephone lines, and you could have a system that can recognize the spectral signature of a scream, gunfire, a car accident, or the sounds of interpersonal violence, localize it with GPS and communicate it to dispatchers immediately.

And yes, the potential for evil with such devices is tremendous as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky
> addressed the memory
pun intended?
I dunno, I constrain my multithreaded processes to a single cpu sometimes and it does seem like multiple threads and multiple CPUs get me performance benefits. Maybe IBM knows something I don't.
AT&T Looking to Add to Their LTE Spectrum With NextWave Wireless Acquisition
Zero? It's a bit funny if even the developer hasn't downloaded their own app to test it..

It's true however that if you just publish an app with no marketing (or some kind of existing brand leverage), you pretty much get zero downloads from anybody else than yourself. Unless maybe you're a SEO guru.
Recommended by who? The mac pundits that I listen to, Gruber, Siracusa, certainly don't seem to have a problem with upgrading in place on OS X.

And, "no matter which OS" is definitely incorrect. I've done an in-place upgrade of an OpenBSD system for the better part of six years (twelve upgrades, twice a year). The _recommended_ approach on that platform is to do _in place_ - not clean install. It's how you maintain library compatibility with all your legacy apps.
> Normally my brain is thinking 10 different things at one time. It is fairly difficult for me to focus (more so since I work at an office that has 5 TVs that I can see, and a couple of channels I can hear).

I think a part of the reason why programmers prefer working late hours (late as in after 12 in the night) is that the brain is sufficiently tired as to not be able to jump all over the place. You'd focus on one thing : Your code.
agree with rouxbe.com. their how-to videos/classes are very well put-together and the community of users incredibly active, insightful and participative.
There doesn't have to be a specific badness to be mal-intentioned. Disparate, fuzzy, or nonexistent intentions are just as much a waste of time for the other side than specifically harmful goals. It's all garbage on the receiving end.
That assumes that software development is infinitely scalable.

I don't see how overgryphon's post assumes that; whether the project can meet the required deadlines could be a go/no-go decision rather than an assign-more-resources decision.
Well, keep in mind that this is a pretty innovative idea, so it takes time to figure everything out...
I think what they do is actually pretty awesome. Especially when it comes to paying the bill - it save a huge amount of time.
I'm happy as long as we are not confused with Switzerland, but you missed my point.

Is the state that large US cities reside in on (foreign) peoples radars?
The Threshold After Which You Should Stop Specializing and Be a Generalist
"I'm concerned that we focus a little too much on Space-X."

That is an unusual point of view. A common behavior for people exposed to a 'success' is to focus intensely on it and try to learn from it so that they can duplicate it. It is also common for people who feel threatened in some way by a success to try to diminish it or explain it away as a fluke. From the perspective of someone who feels more access to space is critical to the future of the US economy, if not the worlds economy, I dig into everything I can about Space-X to see how they changed the formula.

They are certainly not the first company to attempt developing an orbital launch capability. For those to young to remember Ronald Regan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) it was going to require literally hundreds, if not thousands, of satellite launches. That potential market drew a lot of smart people in to try to figure out how to build a commercial launch capability.

My personal favorite of that time, the DC-X [1], was considered a leading contender. (From what I've seen of Blue Origin, and that Wikipedia reference, it looks like B-O has picked up that line of research). But none of these efforts came anywhere close to being as successful as Space-X. So I really really want to know how they avoided the traps these other companies landed in.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
If you're on Android, install Cyanogenmod and get free tethering. I don't use it a lot, but I've never had any trouble.
London is more ethnically diverse than any American city?

Hmm. Los Angeles may have something to say about that.
> I'm of the school of thought that says, fine. I'll fail to finish some books.

I think you're right, it's definitely partly a matter of taste or mindset. I must have a similar mindset to you, and maybe other people have a different attitude. I'm not worried or anxious about being unable to finish a book this week, or this month or even this year. Maybe it's also about setting reasonable expectations, and as the OP writes, not guilt-tripping yourself when you don't keep a brutal and impossible to maintain pace. Most of what is worth reading isn't easy to get through in 7 days.
Ontario confuses encryption with compression, then loses 2.4M voter records
Brief report of the work rules I have had:

- On this ships, we had to be in for Officer's call at 0700, then Quarters at 0730 to deliver the plan to the troops, but from there it was off to the races. Leave when done. Manpower studies said my job in port was 69 hours a week. Underway? Add 12 hours of watch daily.

- When I checked in on staff at the Academy, I was told "I don't care what you're schedule is, just get the work done." I was in the office from 7:30 to 5:30, but often did homework before heading to night school.

- Medical school. No rules, no assigned work. Pass the tests.

- Internship: Only 80 hours a week, but every second was accounted for and usually assumed you were wearing running shoes.

- Current job: doing QA on Navy corpsmen trained to something between an EMT and a nurse, assigned to small ships (300-400 mostly young healthy people).
show up by 8, see clinic, get the work done.

- Pathology residency (next job, knock on wood): have to get to work by 0645 because that's when parking fills up. People are usually around until 5. Get the work done. Side projects are required to graduate.
What about:

$ diskutil enableJournal /dev/diskXsY

ML's diskutil(8) says:

enableJournal device
Enable journaling on an HFS+ volume. This works whether or not
the volume is currently mounted (the volume is temporarily
mounted if necessary). Ownership of the affected disk is
required.

disableJournal [force] device
Disable journaling on an HFS+ volume. This normally works
whether or not the volume is currently mounted (the volume is
temporarily mounted if necessary). If the force option is speci-
fied, then journaling is disabled directly on disk; in this case,
the volume must not be mounted. Ownership of the affected disk
is required.

moveJournal external | internal [journalDevice] device
external will create a 512MB Apple_Journal partition out of
journalDevice and an HFS+ partition will be created out of the
remaining space if available; journalDevice must be a partition,
not a whole-disk. The journal for device will then be moved
externally onto the newly created Apple_Journal partition.

internal will move the journal for device back locally.

I don't know if it can work on the mounted root filesystem so you may want to try that from the recovery partition.
@rickmb Thanks. Not natively supported by Firefox is bad. However, at least the firefox user can install the extension to make it work. IE is another story. I hope it can be supported in later version of IE 10.

Those two specs are not competing. Both Chrome and Safari supports both. But the implementation of FF extension is based on the old spec and that's why I say it's better to stick in old spec now to give users the consistent user experience.

Again, thanks for reading and commenting.
REDDIT!!!
whoops , sorry - apart from reddit, Slashdot, techcrunch, engadget, fark, theregister
I really like the idea of the site, and the mission to limit the number of things on it. Too many options, and I just get choice paralysis.

However, to be frank, I don't know who you are, so why should I trust your recommendations? I wouldn't mind if you were the only person to decide what gets posted, but I would like to see content from users, primarily tags, votes, and comments. This might also increase user engagement.

You could also make it "social" if you wanted. Allow users to publicly commit to doing a certain tutorial X hours per day/week, and you track that from when they click through your site to the tutorial site, and then they check back in when they're done. Or it could be complete honor system. I wouldn't worry too much about people lying, because really, they'd just be hurting themselves.
You don't understand sessions, it seens.
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"You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion."
That's actually what got me to close my FB account. I was tired of getting emailed birthday spam because FB knew my birthday, so I changed it to April 1st and forgot about it. This April, I got about 10 or 20 'Happy Birthday!'s before I posted saying "It's not actually my birthday, April Fool's!" ... and then people kept posting happy birthday without noticing.

Wasn't worth keeping it around after that.
Startup developer in SF? Are you making this much?
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San Francisco and Los Angeles are in what US state?

Dallas?

Miami?
It seems like Kickstarter has been used more and more lately as an announcement platform that has the very nice benefit of generating a little extra income on the side.

For now it's going to work because a lot of backers don't actually realize that they have another (probably much larger) source of income to build the product with, and they feel like backing is the only way this product will get off the ground.
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Scientology's Concentration Camp for Its Executives
The SGSII on T-Mobile that I mentioned (T989) does have an NFC chip.
Downvotes aren't necessarily punishment; they mean "I want less of this on HN". It might just be that people don't think your comment contributes to the type of discussion they want to have.
> Also, DirectX is a more complete solution for developers including networking, audio, controller handling code

I gather you're talking about DirectPlay, DirectSound, and DirectInput?

They've all been deprecated and removed from modern versions of DirectX. You need to pull in other libraries to replace those portions (Games for Windows Live, XAudio2, and Windows Message Loop + XInput is one way to roll up that functionality).

Honestly DirectX is mostly just Direct3D in modern incarnations. The situation is fairly similar to modern OpenGL.
I suppose I was a bit defensive because I generally consider this forum to have a slightly "high-brow" slant. I also take much advice from it. So while you're certainly entitled to your opinion, and to like or dislike the films, I think the works are all good enough that people should be encouraged to watch them. As opposed to you telling me Transformers 3 sucks, and me never having to think about watching it after that.

When I leapt into the comments there happened to be a slightly unfavourable sentiment regarding Adam Curtis. I just wanted people to know that everything he's produced is at least worth a viewing.
Facebook Drops Below $20: Worth Less Than What MSFT Offered For Yahoo In 2008?
open office -> try libreoffice, it is evolving much better.
Trident: a high-level abstraction for realtime computation
Beach ball is not necessarily a low memory warning (or memory related). It's showed (only) when a GUI application fails to respond to UI events. Sometimes it's because of bad threading in applications or things like that.
45 Best WordPress Themes in July 2012
The month of July was surprisingly interesting in terms of WordPress themes and in this list you will find the best ones with responsive design, using HTML5 and CSS3 technologies and even themes that contain their own theme builder.
Most people don't even know what they are actually asking for when they ask 'how long will this take?'. I always try to tease out whether the person asking is looking to find out 'when will this be done by?' or 'how much effort is this?'. Even when you've figured that out, you need to understand what they think they mean by 'done'. code is changed on my machine? I've checked it in? code deployed to QA and tested in multiple browsers and run through the regression suite? code deployed to pre-production for approval by the client? code approved by client, deployed to production and live? Also, do you want me to take into account the time I'll spend waiting for decisions to be made about how this feature has to work, or just tell you how long it will take me to do it once you've got me the answers to these questions?

One thing I've noticed is that organisations can only normally operate at a certain number of 'decisions per day' (and the larger the organisation, the lower this number). For estimating anything where requirements are not yet firm, or will be discovered during development, that rate is usually the constraining factor, not the development effort.
> I don't see how stack depth matters much, though.

You knew someone would say it so I will: it matters on RAM-constrained systems. I'm currently working on a CPU with 384K flash (a lot) and 48K RAM (not quite enough).

Many systems in this class use preemptive multi-tasking OSes in a shared, non-virtual memory space. The question how to pre-allocate stack space is tricky. One non-traditional model is to use run-to-completion threads without stack switching so the problem reduces to estimating your overall worst-case stack usage.

Another popular model is main-loop + interrupt handlers. In a lot of ways that's more like an actor model.
U.S. outlets are grounded mostly, unless they're older construction.

We do still sell some non-grounded extension cords because lots of appliances (toaster, coffee maker, lamp) have non-grounded plugs.

I have no idea what they're talking about with regards to sparks. If the appliance is switched on while you're plugging it, maybe?
A 'CSS Hat for native mobile UI's" is basically what Pixate supports. That is, we can take CSS, and style native iOS (and Android) components just like you can web components. Pixate is the engine that enables all of this (whereas in a web page, the browser is doing all the rendering for you).
I feel it's excessive for collecting what is essentially free.
Where's the box where the project manager, given an otherwise realistic estimate of project time, decides that the number is too high, and cajoles the developer into cutting everything by half (or more)? Because that happens all the damned time. I've even got a catchy headline: "Why do managers always want to squeeze blood from a stone?"

Granted, newer programmers are bad at estimating these sorts of systematic overheads. But people get better at estimating as they gain experience. One root problem that never goes away is that the people who want the estimates don't often want to hear about a cost that can't be broken down by line-item and individually justified. An answer of "it's going to take twice as long as we think", however true, rarely satisfies a manager.
Check out Expression Blend.

Yeah, it's for Windows apps, but it's still pretty sweet. The designers at my old company could basically use it instead of photoshop and turned out some pretty impressive stuff.

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/Blend_Overview....
What makes you say that? I've been running the same install since 10.3. It's changed machine several times, and I have run every version of OS X along the way, all without any problems.
Though they are very handy, they tend to promote a misunderstanding of the pipeline that can hinder later OpenGL work. Learning the modern way right from the start saves a lot of annoyances, especially as the streaming interfaces have some different weirdness when compared with the newer stuff.

Honestly, I view the old GL stuff as a sort of toy language for graphics--and yes, it's annoying to write the boilerplate (oh so much boilerplate) to get a spinning quad onscreen nowadays.

At the same time, if people need a toy language to get into graphics, we really should just write a simple layer on top of modern OpenGL, instead of polluting the API and spec with old garbage.