skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spending hours to install Chrome?

apt-get install chromium

Or just go to the chrome download page and download the official chrome debian package?

I'm also not sure that chrome ios "proprietary software."
PHP gets Generators
Here it is: http://xkcd.com/917/
Comcast Said Near U.S. Approval to Encrypt Basic-Cable Signals
I'm running Linux Mint on an Asus Zenbook (basically a cheap copy of a MBA). The only real issues I'm having is that I haven't worked out how to get the laptop to sleep, and there's a weird order of steps I have to take to get an external monitor working. Oh, and the keyboard isn't great.

After a few months I've got used to the problems, but I do miss OS X. (I'm more than happy to give Apple my money to make things Just Work.)
iTunes Content Dispute – Report IP-violating Apps
I'm more afraid of lobsters than handgrenades.
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Well that sucks. The US govt probably bribed the Cambodian govt into arresting him on a trumped up charge.
At any sit-down restaurant, take the total at the bottom of the check, divide it by 10, and multiply it by 2. $15 check? $3 tip.

There's no other situation in the US where tipping is mandatory; tip the same way you would in Sweden. You probably want to tip valet parkers, but you don't absolutely have to.
You are not, technically, required to tip the cost of your wine.
That's the upvote. Until you have (I think) over 500 karma, the downvote arrow won't appear.

I'm guessing you're new... might want to try hnnotify.com to get emails when someone replies to you.
It's a wonderful little tool. I love it. Give it a try, you won't regret!
I guess, but the saving grace is that the passengers of such cars are less likely to care, unless they're in some special rush.

I mean, if I had one, I would be reading or working or talking to someone, and might not even notice a few extra minutes transit time. It'd be like riding public transit minus the inconveniences (noise, strangers, waiting).
You had asked for some examples of Perl modules that extend the core language. As was stated by @knighthacker, MooseX::Declare and Test::Class::Sugar are excellent examples:

https://metacpan.org/module/MooseX::Declare
https://metacpan.org/module/Test::Class::Sugar

Just look at the SYNOPSIS section for example code. If you know some Perl, you will notice that the code would normally not be valid syntax. Yet simply by using a module, you can define classes (MooseX::Declare) or describe tests (Test::Class::Sugar) in a brand new way.
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Yeah, he said in the U.S. :-)
http://tnw.to/o3dt
I am sick and tired of the hundreds of multiple trees of comments wasted on misunderstanding plain English terms that another meaning was tacked on and the sides that people take for words used in a casual context.

Examples:

Copyright infringement vs. Stealing

open source vs. Open Source

free software vs. Free sofware

Viruses vs. trojans

patent troll

Why can't we have a wiki or manifesto or something where we all agree on some definitions? It's funny how otherwise highly intelligent people(and programmers used to strict programming languages, no less) can't decide on one definition and resort to nitpicking.

Back to the topic:

>Indeed, you won't need them, others came with a plenty of fresh ideas: http://dewith.com/2012/its-not-just-phones/

Please, someone put a stop with the cherry picking 'before and after' memes. Here's the Sony x505 from 2004 with the wedge shaped look.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20020535-64.html

Why wasn't that included in the picture on the site?

Because it doesn't fit with the agenda they're trying to push. Not to mention that there are tons of laptops nowadays that don't look like Macbooks. So now does that mean Apple copied Sony?

Industries borrow look and feel all the time and make incremental changes all the time. E.g. the fashion industry or the car industry.

Edit: Hell, even Apple had a side project to explore how a Sony inspired iPhone design would look like. (yes, I know they didn't go to market with it and did have earlier prototypes that looked like the later iPhones but weren't Sony inspired) http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/07/early-iphone-prototypes...
> Aren't there already unmanned blimps built to solve exactly this problem?

This solution might be less expensive, more flexible, and easier to control on a windy day. Not that a model helicopter would be easy to control in a high wind, but compared to a blimp -- no contest.

Also I think the setup and takedown time for a model helicopter would be much less than for a blimp.

> Except they're insanely loud when they get in close to you.

Not an electric one -- they're surprisingly quiet. I was thinking of a battery-operated helicopter, to make the system easier to use as well as quieter.
Interesting that he seems to be arrested in an apartment where he has stayed in the past.
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If I could hand-craft circuit boards and CPUs, I probably would :-)
Some day I'll understand the real connection between what I write and how people mod it.

I was really just trying to say that I didn't think at all that it was a very readable document and that if you read through it, the whole "Starts with a question" mode faded away somewhere in the first 1/3 to 1/2 of the document - leaving just a regular old TOS to follow.
If you don't already have a mailing system in place, check out MailChimp (www.mailchimp.com) or SendGrid (www.sendgrid.com).

MailChimp is great if you want a full WYSIWYG newsletter solution.

SendGrid is great if you want to roll your own software to generate emails - they provide a ton of terrific SMTP-based add-ons that trick out your emails with analytics, click tracking, and best-practice stuff that's a pain to automate. I don't work for them - just love their service.
I have an X220 with an i7 and have no issues with the touchpad although I use the trackpoint most of the time and it doesn't run particularly hot. I have verified that cpu throttling and fan control both work perfectly so you may have a configuration issue. I didn't do anything to explicitly make it work for me. The notes at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/X220 do mention that the touchpad is a bit shaky, so maybe that it what you seeing. Honestly I wish they made a Thinkpad without a touchpad at all. I much prefer the trackpoint which allows me to keep my fingers on the keyboard where they belong.
It's an upvote.
Surely you can make a UI to deal with this.
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The article outlines some (current) limitations in the car's judgement when evaluating the dangerosity of an object ahead. If/when this becomes mainstream, how long until pranksters and terrorists find ways to leverage limitations and cause accidents?
Perl 5 has been around for a while and has seen quite a bit of optimization. It's fast.
This can probably be solved easily, but my first thought is under-tested quadcopters being dropped from planes like spinning taco bombs.
We have aliases in pretty much all of these forms, and they all point to our respective Gmail accounts. What does that tell about us? :-/
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I recently heard of GymPact, they seem to be doing something similar.
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Don't let bad marketing give email a bad name.

Yes, I too have had my biases. If you do them well, then email can be incredible effective and welcomed by users. It's all about how you target, segment, and position yourself in a genuine, authentic, and helpful way. (The "bad marketing" emails tend to forget that last part.)
Looks good. I would be interested to see a side-by-side comparison with http://opalang.org, though.
No, I haven't seen it and in that case (based on your description and my very quick reading of the claims) I would hope and expect it to be found not to infringe. That is a separate issue from whether it is valid (except that both should be judged under the same understanding of the claims - narrow or broad).
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How do we deal with it when a judge makes a misjudgement for good laws? Or a panel of experts?
Human populations, as with any other animal, grow exponentially until a point where the environment can no longer sustain such growth. You can of course use technology to push that further away (case in point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process). Eventually, though, you'll always get there: that's why plainly stating "humans will have fewer childs" is... I guess naive at best, deceptive at worst (humans will have fewer childs because no one will have the opportunity to).

What happened here is that one particular luxury (meat) was cherry-picked, out of ideology, and then coated in the veil of population growth and sustenance.

Thats distorting the point, because as the population continues to grow exponentially, any luxury will eventually subside. That can be a car, electricity, a toilet, more than a few square feet for yourself or your basic human rights.
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How Mitt Romney made his fortune
I have. Check out yesterday's HN.
> capitalism begets conglomeration

Not if the state actually does it's job. For a free-market to exist the state must necessarily prevent anti-competitive practices.

In the U.S., unfortunately, the notion that social democracy is necessary arose during the great depression (because capitalism clearly failed /s) and resulted in the New Deal, which was, of course, socialist policy. It was that which started our slow and steady path towards heavy government involvement into the economy and, as a result, corporatism.
The Citation Telephone Game
I was expecting something subtle and clever.
I don't see a contact method in your listing or profile...
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I posted this because I'm interested in HN's opinion of private equity - the article takes a very negative view on it (and Romney himself), but there's always a 2nd point of view.
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Email in profile. Look forward to hear from you.
.onion addresses exist on tor.
What's Really Delaying the Defeat of Aging?
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"Warning: This tacocopter's location has been dispatched to the local police department!"

Maybe even spray a canister of that bank robbery dye (probably a bad idea)
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Expertise:
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It's pretty awesome that they opened this up and told the world where the money went. I'd love to see this kind of openness for other companies that become acquahired or get shut down.

Interesting but not surprising that roughly 25% of the kickstarter money went back to kickstarter and their funders. Of course if they really wanted to make the money stretch they could have cut out salaries, maybe I can find our year 1 financial statements :-)
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While run by a US startup is fine but when you say "in English" you are not aware of the other world.
6 truths about rockstar developers
Is this good for zsh? Is there a preferred alternative?
If you're going to mention Maxima, you should be aware that an actively developed open-source program collection called Sage (http://www.sagemath.org/) uses Maxima as well as many other open-source packages to create a rich mathematical environment that's becoming increasingly popular.

Sage uses Maxima internally to generate symbolic results, but Sage also has many other integrated math tools, and has a Web 2.0 interface -- a server-enabled front end.

My Sage tutorial: http://arachnoid.com/sage
Works on the iPad and works well
I wouldn't say Asus was 'cheap', they are lower cost. I like Asus laptops now, although at home I have a Thinkpad R61, but for work I have Asus.
Why you should continue working on your bad idea
I've had a great experience with the Thinkpads (Lenovo). Can't praise them enough. They are ugly, though.
Discussed last year:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2976139
Michael,
I live in Silicon Valley and grew up most of my life in Israel and Europe (France). All I can say is honestly Americans don't even know how good they have it. France is doing so bad I don't even know where to start. They barely have any innovation and whatever they have comes from companies that have been in power for decades. France made it so easy to get welfare and taxes so high (40-50%) that it's better to collect welfare then actually do any work (I have friends there in their 20s actually doing this). What I love about Capitalism is NEW wealth and power is created every 10 years. Where was Facebook, Google, Salesforce and Twitter 10 years ago? (this is a short list there are many smaller multi million dollars companies created in the past 10 years in the US). I know you see this as something normal or not such a big deal, but in other countries this never happens, the same companies stay in power. What I am trying to say is that Capitalism WORKS very well, the wealth in America changes hands very rapidly and there are endless opportunities to create more wealth. Did you ever think of the impact that Facebook/twitter/reddit had on the world? Helping the Arab spring, flowing information freely etc.
I am sure you will find holes in what I said, all I can say is that I am a huge fan of what this country represents (capitalism) and if you stray away from this system that has made the US what it is trust me we will fall hard.
What I think is happening in the US is a bunch of lazy people who want something for nothing are rising up. They hate the 1% (which created a lot of jobs and innovation) for no good reason.
I hope Capitalism gets more "sexy" and gets great new representatives who defend it not retards like Paul Ryan and Romney. I think it will make everything a lot better :)
Nothing subtle, but he was clever in the sense that he managed to stuff a complete injection attack into his single file and included a Google-call in case his script didn't recognize the operating system.

Worth a read not because it's a genius-level hack, but worth to see the breadth-first attempt that the attack takes to utilize a number of strategies. Realizing the number of attack vectors that you have to defend against is key to writing secure code.

In that sense, I wonder if there are other good examples of attack code hosted on github somewhere. Seems like there's as much to learn from "black hat" code attacks as there is from doing code reviews on your own codebase.
Realaxy RASE, an alternative to HaXe?
Starting with Development? Here are some tips.
I'd say it's more a like a pointer than not.

Are you familiar with the distinction between "pass by reference" and "pass by value"? If you call everything which behaves in the former way a pointer, I think you confuse an implementation strategy with a language construct and you lose an important feature of C pointers.

What you see in Perl (and Ruby) is a unique identifier that happens to be a memory address. It could be anything else, but the memory address is an identifier that's essentially free to generate. That's it. It's otherwise irrelevant. You have to write code in a language which has pointers to do anything with that information, and even then you have to cast it to a real pointer to do so.

We could discuss Perl 5's dereferencing syntax (it's ugly, no argument there) but that's a syntax issue and not an implementation concern.
I just moved to NYC from California a year ago. In many ways my quality of life has shot way up. You can't beat the transportation, food, culture, and intelligent, diverse population.

Cities are perfect for attracting the kind of young, interesting, and smart people tech companies want to attract. Also, tech companies are often capable of generating relatively high profit per employee; for these companies, the biggest downside of a city (cost) is not as big of an issue.
DungeonScroller: Experimental scrolling-based adventure game
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