skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sennheiser HD 380 Pro.

I use them every day at the office to muffle out background noise/conversations. They're also great when traveling, I commute into Boston once a month and they muffle out the engine noise of the bus pretty well.
Well, if you need some healthy food, then yes, but not healthy food of a specific kind. For example, buying whole wheat bread in Safeway or QFC goes like this: ok, this bread is called whole wheat, it contains regular wheat as well, and HFCS, move on. Next one has regular wheat in it as well and more sugar than cookies, move on. Next one has list of ingredients so long, that by the time you finish reading it, you don't remember if you saw whole wheat, yeast, and salt in the list. Oh, that was the last bread called "whole wheat" in this store, no bread for you today.

Believe it or not, in Whole Foods there is a bread labeled with exactly three required ingredients - whole wheat, yeast and salt.
-> Interesting. They put a Sales/Ops guy at the helm of Motorola, which implies that (in a way, naturally) all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary.

This absolutely does not follow. Woodside is a senior trusted Google executive.

Edit: Removed absent-minded italics tags.
Ask HN: What is your method for listing to-do items? 
There are a ton of to-do applications on to-do list management, but none has the simplicity coupled with completeness.

In my view, any task management should have goals and results in hierarchical manner. Goals are broken down into multiple results. Results are tasks. Upon getting positive results, the goals can be met successfully.

The results list should ask 3 questions to get things done:

1. Where are you now in order to get the results?

2. What is the next action?

3. When will the new action be reviewed?

I believe you would be able to achieve any complexity of any task / To-Do management system if you keep answering these question at every review stage.

What do you think? Also let me know what is your favorite To-Do on web, Linux or Android.
Not true, you have to input a master password (it's what the ';sha512sum -' part does), which is also unknown to the attacker.
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I'm not trying to emulate pastie in allowing anonymous posting, so I opted for the quickest authentication system I could. I'll expand it to support other services or a standard signup form, but I'm not planning on opening it up to anonymous posting; I see it more like Instagram, for example.
Interested to see what 'MegaKey' is. There are only a few obvious ways to make money with free music: advertising and up-selling subscriptions. If he's managed to come up with a better way that's great. Maybe it will force Spotify and the other 'free' music services into splitting revenue more fairly rather than the current model of giving most of it to the major labels and screwing the indies.
Well thanks for the informative read. I don't agree with you that the rest of the site is garbage. Here is another good story I found there:

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51874

This one is of Miranda Gibson, who is a tree hugger sitting on top of the tree for 7 months, at a height of 60 meters. Her aim is to protect the felling of a forest around Tasmania.

Update: I do wonder on the juxtaposition of this mini story in the context of the OP's story (which makes a lot of sense to me BTW). So I don't know whether the answer lies in all of us pursuing our own extremes (e.g. Mars exploration on one hand and saving the the forest on the other hand). The latter extreme, of saving a forest - is it in some way similar to the view point the Nun was taking when she wrote that letter?
Indeed; I thought I was very good at math until I landed in a course where there was this guy who just instantly grasped everything and it's consequences without having ever seen the subject we were taught. It was great talking/working with him but it deterred me from pursuing math as major; I reasoned that if there is someone so incredibly brilliant that he can replace this entire auditorium by himself, what am I doing here? I was very young at the time and I now know that brilliance by itself is not enough. He is not working in math now but is a programmer somewhere; so him replacing the entire auditorium for math didn't happen.

For super programmers (definitely there are plenty of them like Carmack) this of course does not fly; one super programmer can maybe do the work of the entire auditorium, however the rest of the auditorium is needed as well as there is a shortage. Which is different from math, physics etc.
They don't have to announce any new products. If you look at the current Microsoft ecosystem, there are a huge number of product releases happening now; Windows 8, Server 2012, VS 2012, Powershell 3.0, etc... If you are in a Windows development shop or corp, there's an insane amount of new material to evaluate this year. Very little sleep for some over the next several months.
I don't agree with your logic of Sales/Ops guy -> "all strategic decisions will be made by Google and passed down to the subsidiary".

Dennis Woodside is a very respected and capable executive at Google. He's the kind of guy that would have probably left Google for his own CEO gig if the Motorola opportunity hadn't come available. Just because he came from the Sales org internally doesn't mean that he somehow won't have the autonomy to make strategic decisions!
Only pkgsrc part of the community ;)

Also, it's only used for packages distribution and the packages are still build from the ports:

pkgin is aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages.
In architecture - and humanities in general - you often see statements like "Le Corbusier is influenced by X architect" or "Frank Lloyd Wright influenced architects such as Y and Z."

It would be interesting to see architectural or art history described using image recognition. It might lead to completely different classifications and also reveal influences that are different from the ones described by scholars.
Usually I just delete my account.
Actually, the ABS construction is something to write home about. It is quite solid and very easy to disassemble for thorough cleaning.
For what it's worth, iZettle got back to me with a statement after I covered this on The Next Web:

"Being a startup ourselves we always encourage entrepreneurship, including innovation in the payments space. In this case, unfortunately, their very similar company name – in combination with also being in the same industry- risked confusing both our and their users. We believe that changing their name will benefit the both of us and we wish them all the best with Droplet."

Link: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/13/mobile-payments-sta...
ah, I see. then probably I'm just not your customer :)
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"Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him; then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say , this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow. The wish, however, must be implemented by deeds."

Louis L'Amour, The Walking Drum
I'm not that familiar with html5/js, but I am curious if it is viable to develop games for it old-school. What I mean by that is having a framebuffer and direct per pixel control. Is this what people do?
I agree that's probably why - for all the studies not showing any concrete harm from hashish use, I've yet to meet an avid hashish user who can count to 100 without assistance.

But still, they should at least say that. "The effects of hashish on the fetus are not well studied, and doctors heavily recommend abstinence."
I knew droplet is a actual word but my brain made the link nevertheless. Maybe it's because english is not my first language
That's fine :D
I'm just hoping there are customers for the quick-share-creative-writing market!
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Also, all of the poem "If" by Rudyard Kipling
That may be true for RedHat

It _was_ maybe true, kind of, sometimes: config files were not always marked as config files, for example.

It's definitely no longer true now. On Fedora you run preupgrade. For RHEL point releases, yum. For RHEL major releases, you need to run a kickstart upgrade.
The 3rd party needs to be someone who is trustworthy in two senses:

1. They can be trusted not to misuse the authorisation they will be given to Dalton's Stripe account. The Stripe API (https://stripe.com/docs/api) does indeed give access to identifying information.

2. We can trust them not to misrepresent the facts on behalf of their client (i.e., Dalton).

I've no idea what kind of institutions Dalton is thinking of, but reputable accountants should fit the bill.
I bought a new laptop a few days ago. Ubuntu 12.04 makes it useable. I have multitouch laptop you cann't believe how much productive I am when I learned to use the few built in gestures and started making my own. It is very fast.

It came with Windows 7 which made it just dog ugly and slow, but then, I only had the default Windows installation for 2 hours ..
I wonder why the power plant has been blacked out?
Why, can you resolve things 250 nanometers across?
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It's amazing to me that we can manipulate individual particles. Even if I knew how it was done, it'd still be magical.
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The document lays claim to "Java, OS and OO" as Apple innovations?
Typical PhD project. A few neat graphics and "data points", and completely useless.
Even within the German speaking world, Austria has a reputation of being obsessed with titles.
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I've never worked at a "big company", but I've worked at small ones, and one of those grew to be medium-sized.

One thing that I notice that's missing from the article is support.

At every small company, I was in charge of more than 1 aspect of the product, even if that wasn't my area of expertise. I've even been in charge of every aspect, as the sole employee that could handle them.

This is extremely exciting and fun, for a while. Eventually, it wears on you and you need someone else. As the company grew and we hired more and more, I eventually settled down into having 1 main thing I was responsible for, and even that could have been handled by someone else if needed. (For vacations, even.)

Because of that, I don't want to work at a small company again. Being able to go to a database-specialist and ask for help with performance was amazing. Even though I enjoyed all those hours of DB tuning and learning about it, I'd rather have been coding. (And of course, the DB guy would rather be doing DB-guy-stuff. They tried asking him to code, and that didn't go well. It wasn't what he was good at. To be fair, I was similarly inept at DB tuning at first, but when there was nobody else, you couldn't tell how bad I was. Heck, I couldn't tell, either.)

Anyhow, my point is that bigger companies have a network of employees to lean on for support, where smaller companies require more of people.
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It seems to be inaccessible for much of the Internet, but perhaps there is a Tor exit node that is hosted close to Wikileak's ISP.

wikileaks.ch seems to have two IPs: 88.80.2.31 and 88.80.16.63, both of which are inaccessable from my NZ ISP.

Using route-views it appears to be routeable:

$ telnet route-views.routeviews.org
Trying 2001:468:d01:33::80df:3367...
Connected to route-views.routeviews.org.
...
route-views>show bgp ipv4 unicast 88.80.2.31
BGP routing table entry for 88.80.0.0/19, version 3495795015
Paths: (35 available, best #12, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Not advertised to any peer
101 101 11164 3549 42708 50683 50989 33837
209.124.176.223 from 209.124.176.223 (209.124.176.223)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
Community: 101:20100 101:20120 101:22100 3549:4819 3549:31752 11164:1110 11164:7880 42708:400
Extended Community: RT:101:22100
3277 3267 50683 50989 33837
194.85.102.33 from 194.85.102.33 (194.85.4.4)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
Community: 3277:3267 3277:65100 3277:65320 3277:65326 3277:65330
3333 50683 50989 33837
193.0.0.56 from 193.0.0.56 (193.0.0.56)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
...
16150 50989 33837
217.75.96.60 from 217.75.96.60 (217.75.96.60)
Origin IGP, metric 0, localpref 100, valid, external, best
Community: 16150:63392 16150:65213
...

When I ping either address, I get destination host unreachable from 213.248.89.150. Assuming that it isn't being spoofed by an intermediate router (and it seems unlikely any ISP would really want to do that), that is from AS1299, TeliaSonera, which is not the final hop but a backbone provider several hops away from any direct route. It could be that they were asked to block traffic to that IP to help with the DDoS.
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The windows phone team would be more impressive if they supported existing models.
So I implemented this stricter definition of C pointers and it's neither interesting, nor representative of Real World uses that I know of. Need to investigate a bit more.
I agree with most of this, except I'm a little skeptical of the claims in the "More bodies means better articles" section, such as "featured articles are so good precisely because they are edited by so many". Many featured articles are good precisely, to the contrary, because a small number of people did the library research to write a good article. This doesn't necessarily have a 1:1 correspondence with the views discussed in the article: When a history article includes coverage of 4 major historiographical views on a controversial subject, often all four of them were added and summarized by the same editor who is describing the debate, not by separate editors each representing one of the viewpoints.

That does seem to vary by area. The featured articles on major recent news subjects may be closer to fully crowdsourced, piecing together hundreds of sources, mostly newspapers/magazines and mostly available online. The good history articles tend to be more often written by smaller numbers of historians or history enthusiasts who have read and can cite proper books and journal articles on the subject. For example, one user I've run across is single-handledly responsible for hundreds of lengthy articles on classical antiquity, with >80% of the content and >95% of the references in each typically being hers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cynwolfe

I think more and more diverse editors could have many positive benefits, but I think quality is more important than quantity. Some areas have very good editors. Mathematics comes to mind as probably the best in terms of having editors who are very knowledgeable in the field and also interested in writing Wikipedia articles; I was tickled to find out that mathematician David Eppstein is a prolific Wikipedian, among others. But some areas lack much in the way of editors who are knowledgeable in a subject and willing to do the library research needed to produce well-cited articles. Those areas could be greatly improved if they had the analog of folks like Eppstein (or Cynwolfe) writing articles.
Then where do I buy an american made cell phone or television set?
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At I guess I would say it's going to be advertising. e.g. megaupload except 90% of profits on downloads the artist has endorsed goes to them. Instead of 100% to megaupload.

Probably with targeted upsells for more content from the artist as well.
Now this is how you go about redesigning a project like Wikipedia. All due respect to those other guys ( see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290), but Wikipedia doesn't need a branding makeover. Everyone knows Wikipedia, but not everyone contributes. Why? It's a pain in the ass to do.

A better Wikipedia starts with streamlining the editing process (although something can be said in favour of a healthy barrier to keep the trolls out). Making Wikipedia look prettier is a nice extra to have in the process.
I'm not only the smartest person around, I'm also incredibly good-looking
It worked well for me using http://diveintoios.com/
FreeBSD is (more or less) moving towards pkgng, which has roughly the same goals. I'm not sure what the OpenBSD guys are doing

And yes, it's only for distribution. But if it works well, it's the only thing end users should care about. Though I'm not exactly sure the BSDs have basic end users in the way linux does.
Previous posts:
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266701
The Tier-1 visa which made it easy for developers to enter the UK and work for pretty much anyone they wanted (including themselves) as long as they were earning market rates has been abolished and replaced with a scheme more similar to the US where you have to get an employer to sponsor you.
But isn't BSD gay?
:)
I think it differs greatly from person to person what categories of things that affects you, though.

I'm like GP in that there are many mundane thing that are far more outside my comfort zone than "extraordinary things".

E.g. starting a social conversation with a stranger for any reason takes a lot for me. I also don't like making phone calls, and will invent excuses to myself to avoid doing them if I'm not careful. I'm aware of most of the things I try to avoid, and so keep it in check through conscious effort, but it's something I have to constantly work at.

But ordering food in a strange country without knowing the language, for example? That's fun

I went to Beijing a few years back, and one night our hosts didn't have time to entertain we asked at our hotel for a restaurant recommendation. They tried sending us to a downtown tourist trap, but we refused and asked for something local.

After much arguing (they did not like the idea of sending us walking down the road when we did not speak nor read Mandarin), we got a piece of paper with a carefully written name of a local restaurant that should be easy to find, and walked down the road holding it up to compare it to signs.

Nobody there spoke a word of English, and my Mandarin was limited to about 10 words from a phrase book, but we pointed and gesticulated and got a fantastic meal without any problem.

Like GP, to me if something falls in the "crazy (or not so crazy) adventure" category, it pretty much automatically overcomes my inhibitions. For example, I went to France on an exchange while at school and had no problems walking up to total strangers to ask for help in halting French, while at home I'd have worked hard to avoid having to ask anyone for help.

I wish I knew how to trigger this change at will.
I'd make a snide comment about receiving a phone call from 1980 asking for their computer back.
There aren't enough good developers on the market, demand is significantly exceeding supply.
I have added a link to your comment to the gist in the warning.
OpenBSD have always encouraged the use of the pkg* tools to install binary packages rather than using ports: http://openbsd.org/faq/faq15.html#Ports
Is App.net The Beginning Of 'White Flight' From Facebook And Twitter?
Few of them designed for anything console-shaped.

More to the point, your XBMC box can run ordinary windows programs, of which there are many orders of magnitude more than android apps. Plug in an Xbox360 controller and you're playing on something very like what many existing games were designed for.
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I suspect that Kim Dotcom is something of a Walter Mitty figure, one of those people who fundamentally sees the world and his place in it very differently to how the rest of the world see him. As a result I don't think he'd view this as a change (which would involve him accepting that he'd been a heel in the past), I think he'd say he's still the way he's always been.

At the end of the day though I think he's in it for himself. He only wants to disrupt the music industry and free artists so long as it makes money for himself. He's clearly a smart and driven guy but I'd need to see a lot more than we've seen now to believe he's any sort of altruist.
>I suspect Tap5 is incompatible and a wholly different beast to Tap4, but to this day I never want to work on a Java based web framework. Give me a pile of rotten php spaghetti any day of the week.

I might be getting a bit too evangelical here, but Wicket will change that. It actually uses the Java type system the way it's meant to be used (it's the only library I've ever seen that uses final classes and final methods effectively), and as a result its backwards-compatibility record is superb. It's so good that when writing wicket I don't even miss python.
It's $30 per phone and with a discount of 20% for cross licensing or something ... not really $40, but still orders of magnitude more than Apple needs/wants to pay for patents they use ... that aren't software related.

And everywhere "Apple defined the paradigm with the iPhone". It's true, the iPhone made mobile computing sexy. But seriously, touch-based PDAs, even with phone functionality, existed before. What apple did is simply add some animations, a better browser and a capacitive touch panel. That makes it a more usable device, but not something completely new.

Why can (or try) newcomers like Apple and Microsoft charge these $10+ license fees for some UI stuff, but those who really make everything work by decades of research and building the industry get only pennys for what they did?

Strange world ;-)
You think like a piece of code with its many what if-else-than scenarios. This is a philosophical question and you are not nearly smart enough to even begin to understand the consequences (postive, or negative) of your helping someone in need. Every human being, be it a saint, or a murderer, has the right to not be hungry, and to have a shelter. The sad part is that there is someone above you in the social chain who is thinking exactly the same way about you. Maybe you deserve no help to get to the next stage in your life, because you know, these are all stages. Maybe they should just let you where you are. But no, we are not where we are today because we are Darwinians and let the fittest of us survive. We are where we are because some us want to further Human Kind without prejudice, all of it, the strong and the weak, the rich and the poor, the well-fed, and the hungry.
Has anyone mentioned CH already (http://www.softintegration.com/)?

Kind of an interesting (hi-level) tool, too.
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I use Java in my day job and it's easy enough to write code in.

The problem with it for me is, it's totally unusable for writing quick command line scripts/applications because you need to either

a) Run java -cp <classpath> <class-with-main>

b) Write a shell/batch script to do the above.

Then there's the lack of good stuff found in modern languages like first class functions.

It's not all bad though, recently I've been learning Go and the lack of generics makes me pine again for Java like a long lost love.
I'm all for improving the functionality of Wikipedia (e.g., the visual editor and Flow), but I'm very much against changing the look of the site. Wikipedia's layout is simple and puts focus on the content instead of the design.