skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It definately is a very promising distro, but not right now.

I installed this distro a few weeks back and found out it was Ubuntu 10.10 running an older 2.6.x kernel.
To keep things short, it just didn't work very well on my i7 Sandy Bridge laptop with SSD. I had to tinker with some drivers to get Wifi working. I had a lot of graphical glitches that I could not get fixed. The OS also performed like it was running from a USB 2.0 dongle, while in fact it was running on a SSD. CPU constantly hitting 100% fan usage. Random lockups were frequent as well.

Altough I really liked the look and feel of this distro, I i was dissapointed and frustrated not being able to get it to run decently on modern hardware.

Afterwards I installed Pinguy OS built on Ubuntu 12.04 and that worked right out of the box.

I migth get back at Elementary OS when they release a stable distro built upon newer Ubuntu builds.
"While your peers were content using MATLAB, you were off building things with NodeJS and learning Ruby on Rails."

How can people who promote tinkering with NodeJS to build yet another web app instead of, say, studying machine learning algorithms in Matlab, teach computer science?
America - home of the brave
The same way many landing pages don't link deeper into the site to encourage registrations?

News sites/blogs make a tremendous amount of effort to draw you to their other articles. I won't link them prominently because users are so easily distracted.
Japanese people get in trouble on the tip thing all the time in the US

I think it's not just Japan. Here in Sweden, tipping is done at times but it's certainly not something mandatory.

Please do educate me more on US tipping customs. I don't want to be a fool when I go there in future...
Yeah, as users we're always in survey overload and I've started to resent them. You go to a news site and an ugly popup asks you to take a survey. Or you call a service hotline and they want you to rate their service. You watch a netflix video and they want to know your experiences. Too much.

Maybe you can add analytics to mine this information. Maybe start a feedback/help/support forum. Those seem less spammy and offer real help and gives you insight into feature requests and pain points.
Show HN: Review my webapp please
Does the mouse have to move over a specific part of the screen? Does it move an image as it moves to wake it up? From a quick glance at the patent these seem to be essential parts and are the non-trivial parts of the patent that make it easier to work around and a more reasonable patent than is suggested by many commentators.

Again I'm not saying that slide to unlock is definitely valid as there may be prior art but I really find the arguments based on a straw man of what the patent is to be really unhelpful to the discussion.
"Just as easy" might be an overstatement. Equally doable might be closer to the truth.

One example where virtualization is easier in practice is where you're not in control of the network intfrastructure -- ie: you subcontract management of switches etc to someone else.

For someone the size of Etsy that wouldn't matter much -- they have an obvious need to manage the entire stack. But for smaller institutions that might not target "scaling up to serve the entire public web" -- it is a factor.

Another example is if you have heterogeneous hardware -- it is much easier to just install a hypervisor that runs on every box and then manage that via your vm-toolset, that set up many different images. It also makes it easier if you need to run different os' -- do all your os images have drivers for all your hardware?

Granted, in theory OS' should abstract away hardware -- in practice, if you need to change out a few of your mysql instances running GNU/Linux to Microsoft SQL servers for a new project/change in workload -- being able to just spin down the old vms and up the new ones helps a lot in terms of agility.

But yes, it's absolutely possible to provision physical hardware as well.
"Things like storing data in string-based-files, chaining small command-line-tools to do everything, a historically eccentric file structure, and pluralism in every-way (eg. custom built binaries on a per-machine basis) are never going to work for the 'everyday' user."

I'm fairly everyday user most days (LibreOffice, R via R-studio, a bit of graphics). I never see those things on Ubuntu (12.04, Unity on the laptop).

On Sundays I puggle about a bit with some python, and bodge up a few bash scripts, but that is out of interest not workflow.
What happens when you run `rm-Rf /*`?
Short video that shows what happens when we as root execute a forced and recursive remove command on the root directory. Which files are gone and which ones survives.
>That was certainly an interesting if not completely ridiculous read... The author seems to spend most of his time generalizing and erroneously misinterpreting the view points of those he perceives as skeptics (the most heinous of which include his characterization of skeptics as people who "hate and fear" philosophy, which is just about the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard).

Having spent quite some time in sceptic forums and circles, I can assure that the article is 100% spot on.

(Oh, and the sceptics love philosophy, but only if it's the 1% of positivist anglo-saxon philosophy that caters to their prejudices).
Whenever I've looked at drawing tutorials they give stages. Just tried the hands tutorial. I can see what circles and bits to be drawing first and why they are there but only because I've done other tutorials. More steps and explanation would be good!
>Personally I found it extremely painful to read. This article is like a small piece of chocolate hidden inside shit ton of dog shit. That small piece of chocolate is totally negated by heaps of dog shit. You just keep reading in the hope that the hidden chocolate would be worth it, but you find out what you believed to be chocolate was few crystals of household sugar, and you ploughed through dog shit for nothing. Also, this experience left a bad taste in your mouth.

Notice how you didn't manage to come up with one iota of actual criticism on specific points?
Hitler was kind (high EQ, good at convincing people to follow him), but stupid (had some terrible ideas).

OK, maybe that kind of emotional appeal is a shit way to argue, and we should use a more ... intelligent ... approach?

High IQ and high EQ aren't mutually exclusive, so it's silly to ask which is important on its own. I think a higher-IQ argument is always better than a low-IQ argument with the same EQ. A high-EQ argument without a high IQ can be actively harmful.

Empty rhetoric is good for manipulating idiots. It's useful if you have a good point, and want to make it sound more interesting. But it's not essential, and it's actively harmful if you don't have a good reason for using it. Low-EQ / high-IQ arguments won't convince a lot of people, but they aren't actively harmful (unless you count a few ruffled feathers as serious harm).

Also, high-IQ arguments convince the right people - people who listen to reasoning, and are unlikely to change their mind when people use hollow emotional arguments. The kind of people I think we need more of.
Michael Larabel hates free games: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTExO...
Cheers, will check those out.
>It's not Islamophobic to pick on Islam, if the acts done in the name of Islam really are worse than those done in the name of some other faith.

It will take a while for the crimes made in the name of Christianity to match the crimes done under Islam.

And even more time for it to match the crimes made in the name of Western superiority. Last time I checked, no muslim country has dropped two A bombs in 300,000 civilians.
"Islamic cities and countries were much more tolerant of other religions than Christian cities and countries"

Of course. You were safe and treated as nearly equal to other citizens as long as you paid a tax for your "protection": the Dhimmi.
Here's a nice site to get you going on scrapbooking: http://www.csszengarden.com
> or know how many feet are in a mile (although this may be just folklore)

I can believe that. He grew up in metric countries.
Well, homogeneous management of applications/appliances on top of heterogeneous hardware is one reason. Another is testing and prototyping (on the same stack as you do production).

I think most shops with a high hardware need would probably have a mix -- things that scale well to the hardware (eg: database servers) might be set up as clusters of physical machines.

Less (performance) critical stuff like mail servers, bug tracking and time sheet appliances, backup domain controllers etc -- might be run as vms.

I agree that if you find yourself running a single vm on a physical box, you should probably reconsider how you are doing things...

Then again, all things considered -- if your (presumably) easy-to-mange vm based setup gives you enough performance -- why not keep it.

If nothing else as you upgrade hardware, if your workload doesn't increase exponentially, you will be able to consolidate on fewer servers. Consider a database service that in 2003 was set up master-slave on two physical pizza boxes. That could probably be run from two vms (on physically different boxes, for redundancy) -- with capacity to spare on either box today.
Absolutely the last straw for me here. I've changed the price of all my apps to $999 and edited their descriptions to inform potential buyers that I'm pulling my apps in protest of Apple's policies.

If the Apple gestapo doesn't yank my apps for me for this I'll pull them completely from the store myself as long as I've posted any updates for my existing customers required for iOS 6.

Fun discovery made in the process: Apple won't allow you to use the word "Android" in the app description.

Bye!
Things that fly are really, really dangerous, and the benefits really need to be worth the risks. I don't think a Taco is worth the risk that one of these things goes out of control over the freeway and causes a 100-car pileup. The idea of cheap and plentiful multi copters would make this sort of event inevitable.

Of course there may be a much simpler problem: hungry seagulls.
And there's no executive board in most sovereignties... yet similar patterns arise. Despite some snarkiness, this is a legitimate question and a serious problem. I'm disappointed HN downvotes it.
1. Get inspired. Keep bookmarks of interesting beautiful designs you like. Think about what makes it beautiful. Similarly, think about why you don't like any particular design. How it can be improved.

2. Learn. Learn both practical things like HTML5, CSS3, Graphics Design for web(icon/logo etc) and theoretical things like color theory, grid system, UX design, etc. Read books, blogs, html/css code for it.

3. Practice. Use what you have learned to design some sites. You can design your own sites, templates, or redesign some existing site you like.

4. Share your work with other people and get their feedback. Make improvements based on their suggestions.

5. Rinse and Repeat. Be patient. Like all arts, designing improves with time and effort put in.

Some resources you may like to use -

http://www.awwwards.com/

http://www.smashingmagazine.com

http://www.cssmania.com/

http://dribbble.com/

http://www.uiparade.com/

http://patterntap.com/

http://ui-patterns.com/

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

http://www.welie.com/patterns/

http://www.alistapart.com/

http://siteinspire.com/

http://designingwebinterfaces.com/explore

http://www.reddit.com/r/webdesign

http://forrst.com

http://paulstamatiou.com/startup-web-design-ux-crash-course

http://www.slideshare.net/Wolfr/design-for-developersonlinev...

http://52weeksofux.com/
I hope you are right. If so my domains will become more valuable...

- pizzacopter.com
- burgercopter.com
- foodcopter.com
If you spend lots of brainpower on basic algebra and calculus, you are doing it wrong. Learn the tricks (i.e. theory), and it'll be so easy that even a computer can do it.
Thank you for the insight and link for email campaigns! Addresses a lot of biases i had about them.
http://clonezilla.org/ has saved my bacon a couple of times when having upgrade problems with distributions or other radical changes.
When you say "my big fear", I can't help but read "m irrational fear".

Do you _really_ fear "multicopter bombers" with a fleet "like a swarm of supersized wasps"?

To me, that's in the same class as people wo are afraid of flying, yet happily drive their car to the airport.

Realistically, terrorists don't skill up with brand new technologies to try carrying hand grenades around, they use cars/trucks/airplanes. If _I_ had a budget set to get explosives in amongst people, I'd be buying or renting cars/pickups/small trucks which can carry thousands of pounds of explosives around a city relatively inconspicuously. I wouldn't be training up teams of rc-pilots/hobby-UVA-geeks to be able to deliver a pound or three of explosive at a time.
We use those 4-in-1 Supermicro systems too, but with AMD CPUs. They seemed a much better deal to us and have a few more DIMM slots (= 128MB per node in our ~2-3 years old boxes). The only issue was the almost-half-length PCIe slot, it's actually 6" instead of 6.6" so you have to be careful when buying PCIe cards (might not be an issue with the Intel version board layouts).

We've also invested in a 10gbe infrastructure rather early (we're smaller than etsy traffic-wise) and found it to be very useful for avoiding congestion issues when we need to transfer large files or pull data from a busy Postgres server.

As for HP servers, we avoid them since our DL360 D6 reported obscure fan failures when booting with an Intel 10gbe card and we had to buy the (slower) HP NetXen-based cards instead. Supermicro boxes are not that picky and you don't get the feeling that a vendor might be using dirty tricky to lock you in.
I'm really surprised this managed to get to the front page. Then again, I watched it and liked it, so I guess it comes down to similar preferences in the HN crowd.

Jiro's dedication to his craft is a fitting example for those who aspire to the highest levels of achievement in any field. The film's a paean to putting your life into what you do; it's also about the sacrifices that involves, and the impacts on those close to you.

I came out wishing I could be just half as dedicated as Jiro. Maybe one day I'll dream of code?
Yeah, I don't think it works for copyrights, but patents already seem to have this solved. There's already a set unit for them, and they already cost a substantial amount of money (unlike copyright, which is currently free).

Keeping things secret now to patent them later is a problem, but no worse than it is now, I think. The same incentives apply to the exponential scheme as to the current hard limit. You'd keep the requirement to file within a certain time of the first public reveal, so you'd have to move quickly if you wanted to patent anything you were actually going to use.
The guy probably learned quite a few things about how the project is structured simply by doing this, so even if it's not where it wanted to be, there was some value in doing it at least for the project initiator.
Weakness and power does not count populations, and especially not population dispersed.

E.g A colonial power, like England that had a population of 30 million people, ruled colonies of 1 billion (and more) people 7-8 decades ago.

And it's not Israel vs every muslim country, it's mostly Israel vs the palestinians. Check any map of Palestinian territories, 1930 to present, to see which entity has more power. Or check a tally of casualties on both sides.

That said, it's not "racist hate propaganda" that left wing idealists accept. That's how Israel describes it (understandably). What they do accept is that other people can be right to protest against Israel, and that that does not automatically means "antisemitism" in the historical sense.

Believe it or not, the incredible harm (genocide) done by the Nazi's to jews, does not automatically translate to modern day Israel being on the right against it's neighbours, or generally in any possible conflict.
What would it take to get Coreboot people to support some modern server motherboards? Ideally, Dell R720 or HP DL160 or an intel reference E5 design.
Orange Berry Muffins Recipe
Can Square Remain Hip?
Congrats! i was in berlin and watched your presentation at campus party. Good job!
> as long as you trust a tiny subset of it -- potentially just the Intel CPU.

http://www.xakep.ru/post/58104/ (use Google Transalte)

TL;DR

The author has found an undeclared software module (backdoor?) working as a hypervisor in the System Management Block chip on the South Bridge working with Intel CPU with VT virtualization technology.
Solving The Developer Deficit In The Cloud
I'm in a similar position to you, I'm bootstrapping an analytics service and need feedback. I'd be happy to give you a free account and help you with your analytics so you can figure out what's wrong with your churn.

Send me an email, if you like, the service is http://www.instahero.com.
All feedback appreciated, especially:

- is it clear what we do?
- is it easy to use?
- is the search intuitive?

Thanks :)
If You use Boot Envionments (FreeBSD/Solaris/Illumos) then its harmless, You will just need to reboot into other Boot Environment.
>Dawkins does not call Skepchick "muslima"; he addresses the missive to some "muslima" to ironically point out that there are women who suffer far worse sexism than being asked if they'd like a cup of coffee.
Reading comprehension problem. He is not saying that Dawkins called Skepchick muslima.

He is saying that Dawkins conjured the made up _victim of Islam_ "muslima", to hypocritically (with "crocodile tears") pretend to defend her plight against the minor plight of Skepchick.

That said, the accusations against Islam (and "pro" muslima) are BS stereotypes that only someone fed and informed on Islam by western media can come up with (including blatant misinformation, like attributing the practice of FGM to Islam).

Full disclosure: I work in a muslim country, and have visited several others.
The "Gnome Office" was Abiword+Gnumeric. Unfortunately, Abiword did not try to clone MS Office, but tried to make their own thing. That meant missing/bad support for opening doc files.

Gnome Planner is the official project management software. Not a serious solution, though.
You can avoid using temporary variables with the @{[...]} and ${\...} idioms:

my $x = 1;

say "$x + 1 = @{[ $x + 1 ]}";

sub plus1 { $_[0] + 1 }

say "$x + 1 = ${\plus1($x)}";
Show HN: Element Capture, a Chrome extension to screen capture any HTML element
Apple goes after Galaxy S3, Note in new court filing
Its more than that I think, international laws require internation courts so all countries would have to relinquish control of intellectual property to a central authority and world patent court. It would create as many problems as it creates.
The world would be better with NO patents.

Copyright is more than enough for software, medical research should be directly funded by the goverments (just like weapons manufacturers or big public infrastructures), and the rest just on trade secrets.

We are now in a interconnected world, rich with information. Independent reinvention is extremely easy. The risk of some genius taking his great, great, unique discovery to the grave because of the lack of patents is tiny compared with the economic, scientific and technological damage of this constant hemorrhage of time, money and energy that is the patent system.

No more insurmountable entry barriers for entrepreneurs, no more monopolies, no more trolls, no more unnecessary roundabouts to avoid using obvious patents. The only one to lose would be the patent lawyers.

Forget the romantic fairy tale of the poor lonely inventor robbed of his great idea by big business. Using patents in court is extremely expensive, he couldn't afford them anyway. Patents are guns for big guys.

And no mention to the goodness of the free market. Patents are government-granted monopolies. You couldn't be furthest from a free, competitive model of an economy. Patents are not capitalism, they resemble more some feudal privilege taken from the middle ages.
Which is very advanced for the times, and even for today.
Samsung reveals MB Pro Retina competitor
I call it the 'red Honda effect'. If you are waiting for a ride, and the driver of the car has a red Honda, you start to notice a lot of red Hondas.
User-Friendliness on Windows and Linux
>Weird rambling. From his style of argumentation ("other skeptics are sexist and Star Trek fans") he probably wasn't a very good skeptic anyway.

Yes, because "no true sceptic" would be sexist and/or a Star Trek fan right?

Have you been to ACTUAL sceptic forums and web circles? He might miss a few outliers, but his actual criticisms are spot on in the main.
Yes -- it's pretty feasible for there to be lots of evil chips on a normal motherboard. It's not feasible for anyone but Intel to attack an E5 CPU right now, and probably not for the next ~2y, unless there's an implementation bug -- no one else can make a chip that dense and fast right now.

The BIOS is probably the lowest hanging fruit for an attacker now. Most trusted boot doesn't even really check the BIOS in any real way, it starts sometime after the BIOS.
You seem to deny that antisemitism hate propaganda is prevalent in the Muslim world? This is well documented. Start with e.g.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_the_Arab_world#...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_Antisemitism#20th_cen...

Continue reading about the expulsion of the Jews for religious reasons -- they had the same religion as the state religion of Israel, if you want more. That were a larger number than the Palestinians, which happened connected to a civil war.

And so on.
Previous discussion, from a submission by Alex3917 319 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3120721
Freetile.js - jQuery plugin to organize content in a dynamic/responsive layout
Except they're insanely loud when they get in close to you.

Which also is a (potential) feature. Consider a burglar alarm at your home, when it goes off you can just launch the quadcopter from wherever you are to investigate (and at the same time make the burglar aware of your presence). A lot of deterrents go out of their way to be visible. It gives you the opportunity to cancel the alarm or call in the police quickly.

And as for video productions and art, there quite a few products targeting this already, where you can preprogram movements etc. that just wasn't possible before.

http://vimeo.com/35432485
Maybe instead of approaching the HR guy with your carefully crafted resume and explanation, reach out to the engineer you contacted and ask for his advice. These guys are often far enough removed from bureaucracy and HR they might give you some honest advice. But be tactful with him too. You don't want him running to the HR guy like "nevermind he's a high school punk"

Above all, you're young, so do whatever you can to strike some sort of relationship with them as you mature. Keep yourself in their mind. Attend company events, submit more patches, ask for an internship or freelance work. You have your foot in the door already, just keep it going.
Can we stop downvoting because we disagree please. It's not there to show disagreement, it's for individuals that are behaving badly.
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I find height way more emotionally charged than IQ.
For all you 'diet' fans:

http://www.google.com/search?q=aspartame
How about one that works like the osprey?
No, she didn't. She had a bolt. The mechanism and implementation is significantly different, unless she had a 100 year old capacitive screen attached to the door in order to operate the bolt.