skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Should the New York Times leave their front door open and allow anyone to walk in off the street and write an un-vetted opinion piece and place it on the front page of tomorrow's paper?

To elaborate, freedom of speech actually does mean the freedom to speak. If you're trying to speak and some asshole is yelling over you, you're being shut down.

> When the government limits your speech, you don't have that option.

More specifically, it's the government's job to protect that speech. When the government doesn't do that, it's nearly as egregious as when it actively censors speech. For instance, if you sent thugs around to threaten your critics, it's the government's job to stop that. There are a lot of angles by which they can justify doing so, and this is a relatively unused one (esp. because it's so abstract), but it's there.
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I go to a coffee shop often and among other things, I notice people's machines and how they interact with them. Two observations:

1. People with non-Mac machines always plug their laptop into AC power before starting work (unless it's a netbook). My previous Windows laptop had battery life of about 2 hours while my Macbook Pro has about 5 hours.

2. People with non-Mac machines have to be very careful where they sit, or the glare from the outside makes it impossible for them to see their screens. This was my experience with a Windows laptop as well.

With every new release the Mac operating system becomes, in my opinion, more complex and harder to use. Mac hardware on the other hand, just gets better.
If you like this sort of thing, you might enjoy the book "Physics of the Impossible", which examines the feasibility of various science fiction technologies (such as FTL) from a pop-sci level.
Also http://torrentbutler.eu
Ironically the biggest reason for me to stick with OS X is Microsoft Office.

If you are working with other organizations, they will use Office. Excel seems to run the world and is used for accounting, specifications, I've even seen customers give us mockups they have made of the website they want in Excel.

The various tools on Linux or the web for reading Word docs have come a long way and I'd say are mostly good enough, but when it comes to complicated Excel spreadsheets, you have to use the real thing.

If it wasn't for that I'd see Linux as a viable alternative. I'd miss Photoshop, but could get by with the Gimp. But for the time being MS keeps me solidly in the OS X camp.
I'm not saying that we don't have a fascist government willing to censor anything they don't like the look of but the Press TV thing might not be the best example.

They had their license revoked after broadcasting a "confession" by Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari that was conducted after torturing him and under threat of execution.

Then they apparently admitted to being editorially controlled by their Iranian branch, who are not licensed to broadcast in the UK.

http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/enforcement/broadcast-licen...

If they were any good at the international diplomacy soft power game they'd have just made sure only pro-Iranian people got hired to work at Press TV. Kind of like RT and Al Jazeera.
i got warned the site is affected by Troj/Unif-B?
These must have been questions on which the participants did not feel particularly strongly one way or the other. I'm pretty sure I would notice a 100% reversal in my stance on something I have a prior opinion on.
"We love our iPhone's" ?????

"Apples maps" ???

Someone please move that apostrophe!!
Terminology conflict I think :-) The pg_rman docs call backup retention management "backup maintenance" , and retention management is one of the things on the barman todo list.

As for compression, I think barman does log compression not the backups, but it could simply be that the barman docs [1] are out of date where they say :

"Barman’s most wanted features include: backup catalogues, retention policies, remote recovery, archiving and compression of WAL files and of backups."

[1] http://docs.pgbarman.org/
Under "potatoes", do you mean something like the promise by Ahmadinejad to spend money earned by Iran to feed Iranian citisens?

If the answer is yes, don't you see a fatal flaw in such political programme?
How would that work online? Cheating is already a problem - there's nothing to stop you googling for the answer to a given assignment, or getting your clever best friend to help you out.
I wonder if the kickstarter model can disrupt the publishing books model.

Anyway, I'd recommend the already published http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Star-Trek-Lawrence-Krauss/dp/0... for anyone interested in both topics.
God what has evernote done? Skitch was perfect, it's the most complete easy to use screenshot/annotation app i've ever used and is on my daily toolbelt since forever but with this update Evernote totally ruined the experience. Why on earth would they downgrade skitch? If they rewrote it they could as well just called it Evershot and released it as a separate App.

I'm back to using 1.X for now.

Evernote, you guys have a long way to go with Skitch before it's back to where it was.

PS: I do like the new design though, they made it "look" sexy, the problem is that it's all facade :(
Problem #2 can be addressed with this.

touch ~/.hushlogin
But those private actors that the policy applies to must be middle men or acting on middle men in a network. Net neutrality as I understand it is about placing restrictions on network operators and regulators can do so that they cannot restrict access to content. So Wikipedia blocking access to it's own website would not be a network neutrality issue, but an ISP blocking access to it would.

And there are other laws/policy ideas beyond net neutrality to consider.

I was responding to a comment about network neutrality to say that it didn't apply. I wasn't discounting the possibility there could be other issues, although if Wikipedia decided to block access in Texas for a day (perhaps only allowing access to pages about patents, prior art etc.) I think that would be for the public good.
Possibly, hadn't read it that way. (And if that's the case, my apologies.)
Learn something new every day. I stand corrected.

Although you seem to be wrong about it being available for 4 or 5 years. Apparently (in the US) it became available in February of last year for Verizon customers and a little later on the AT&T network.

What sucks is that, in order to enable it, you have to pay an additional $20 to $25 per month on top of your data plan.

That's just wrong. My iPhone is in WiFi nearly 100% of the time. This means that the carrier's network almost never has to deliver data to my phone save text messages and, perhaps, notifications. I'd be interesting to find out if it is actually smart enough to use WiFi for messages when available. If it does, then nearly no data goes over the cellular network. I suspect that lots of people fall into the same pattern.

So, carriers charge us for something that is underutilized and then, if we want to simply use the phone as a personal hot-spot we have to pay more!

Maybe I was right after all, in an odd sort of way.

Granted, not an Apple issue after all.

There's plenty more that could have been better with the iPhone 5. For example, why didn't they move picture and video storage to a removable mini/micro/whatever SD card and also enable this as an external file system that could also be accessed when plugged into a USB port?
I'm sorry you feel this way about it, but the Golden Master has been out for a while and I'm not sure how this violates the NDA (I haven't said anything that you wouldn't have learnt from any website already from… "people who have tried the betas"), so it's not an issue with beta software. In fact, I was replying to the comment in order to confirm that yes, tomtom is probably the weakest partner, and the article is not showing simply a biased opinion.
Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the clarification.
Not happy with the change. More whitespace, but harder to see what is going on. I would like:

- to see the activity of all repos at a glance, not just on hover
- visually pick out repos that are predominantly in one language over another
can you talk about how you did the backend, and/or reveal any of the technical details?
Thanks. Sure, you could definitely use this to keep a record of the condition of any number of rooms in a hotel. Care to expand on what exactly you'd want that's specific to hotel rooms?
Making Sense of the Intel Haswell Transactional Synchronization eXtensions
Ask HN: Moving to Linux full time
I've been a long time (on and off) Linux user but I neve managed to become a full time user. Recently at work I have started using OSX on a beautiful iMac, this has made me realise that I don't need to be dependant on Windows anymore.

The thing is, I don't like OSX. I really want to go back to Linux and stay there this time.

I do see a couple of problems that I don't have to get around though.

1) Using and iMac and MacBookPro has made me really enjoy high resolution displays. By high resolution I mean a nice compact UI where the borders are un-intrusive and the fonts aren't too big.

2) I love Eclipse on OSX and Windows, it's nice and compact and visually pleasing to use. On all distros of Linux that I've used, Eclipse if very chunky, bulky and generally ugly, this makes it very tough to use day to day.

I really want to get Ubuntu (or something with great community support) running on a fairly standard Samsung laptop but the two issues (above) are really putting me off.

Any ideas?
It's definitely worse for reading through complete project code. For reading a single-file it's one click more than github which I can live with. It's very nice for getting a quick view on file-based changes, why and when someone did them and I use that interface a lot for that. I find it way easier figuring out file changes there than in github. SF is generally a lot slower (sometimes so horrible slow that browsing is near impossible). GitHub on the other hand sometimes freezes my browser when it has a lot of syntax highlighting to do (not sure if it still does, been a few months since I last run into that).

They have different ways to present code with different design targets and different problems. I prefer GitHub for reading code online without having to check-out, I prefer SF when already working with a project where I have the code locally and using the online interface to hunt for changes.
btw, if you do get an X220, go with the IPS screen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8MO-XaCZ_8
This seriously simply "depends"; there are a ton of people discussing this issue in different locations on an r/apple thread on reddit called "Apple maps in iOS 6 is useless if you live in small countries/cities".

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1013ha/apple_maps_in_...

Some people, such as a few specifically living in New Zealand and Belgium, are reporting reasonably similar quality to Google Maps. However, many are not:

"I live in Oslo, the capital of Norway. The quality of the maps are so bad that I spent an hour or so just laughing."

"Here in The Netherlands the maps app isn't providing any useful information on landmarks, shops, hospitals.. etc. heck, even Amsterdam Central Station isn't mentioned."

"I live in Torshavn - The Faroe Islands." <- the guy who started the thread with this image -> http://i.imgur.com/7ZI66.jpg

"India :("
I think it would be more suited to hotel management. Not to be used per guest but on a periodic basis to keep track of the conditions of all rooms.
You have Linux/Ubuntu development envinroment, right? Why do you use it in a VM on a Mac in the first place?

Why not just using a fast desktop with a couple of monitors at your workplace? And ssh/xterm to it, if you need to work remotely?
I saw DXR when I was searching around, but did not know of the github, and that it is still actively maintained. Thanks!
I turned all the powertop options on. Granted I did do this before I started using it for anything serious as a test case and left it a day. Worked fine.

To get 9-10 hours I used a 9-cell pack and keep the brightness fairly low. The screen kills it more than anything. I also have a 128Gb Crucial M4 SSD in it which is a little less power hungry than most devices. It does only have 4Gb of RAM though.

As for usage, mainly Eclipse with JDT and a Windows 7 VM spun up for Visual Studio 2010. CPU is throttled most of the time and memory usage is about 60-70%. Disk IO is fairly low once everything is up. Unity is running in 2D mode or disabled entirely in favour of Awesome WM. I don't do heavy compile runs as a rule as our dependencies are quite small and coupling free.

Regarding charging, it spends most of its time docked in an Ultrabase but when away or sitting in the garden I rarely have to bother charging it. I've got to the point I don't actually bother dragging a mains charger with me. The 9 cell pack was a year old when purchased with the laptop off ebay - neither were new. The battery had 108 charge cycles when purchased. I have no idea what it has now as I don't know how to extract that info from Linux.

Battery life is better if you install Windows on it as a rule though. I actually much prefer windows on it to Linux but I'm forcing myself to use Linux as my primary OS for a few months to see how I get on.

Windows 8 will probably give best battery life as it is tickless as well but I can't stand metro.
Scientists, Your Gender Bias Is Showing
Yeah I avoided the external graphics T61. Anything that isn't integrated is a PITA on a laptop. I have an Intel integrated one.
By making sure you're building something that is intuitive and that people are interested in.
PR mistake 101: The unfindable patent of the Gamepad Android tablet
Avoid low end consumer. My G575 basically sucks.
Wow, I did not expect the plastic for this to be so expensive. Nearly $100 for a lb of plastic?! Is that cost really in line with their costs, or is this selling razors without giving away the handle?

http://store.makerbot.com/filament
kudos fot the "lesson learned" part of the story
I was pleasantly surprised to see that DXR uses clang too, these days:
https://github.com/mozilla/dxr/tree/testing/plugins/clang
I'm on a thinkpad t530 dual booting Mint 13 (which is Unbuntu based for those that don't know) and Windows 7. screen is 1920 by 1080.

The disadvantage Linux has to Windows or Mac OS X at this point is mostly small ease of use issues and polish. Sometimes to have to do stuff to make stuff work, though most stuff worked out of the box.

The stuff that is easier to do in Linux is really easy to do. The stuff that is hard to do is sometimes really hard, but I've yet to find anything to be impossible. Where as with Windows and Mac OS X, some simple things are easy, some simple things things are difficult, and some things, especially anything unusual, seem impossible to do.

I think where Ubuntu occasionally falls is in a lack of unity a focus on functionality before ease of use, and a tendency towards a tabla rasa. I'd probably be on xmonad (a tiling window manager) now if it came with a nice setup to start and then let you select from built in user set ups, tweak existing setups, OR make your own. But that's also part of the strength of the linux ecosystem, people build things to be interoperable and flexible and hackable. And for a Developer, the latter is preferable anyway.

tl:dr Linux isn't the same as windows or OS X. But it is perfectly viable as a desktop OS. And where it rocks, it rocks hard.
For a quick overview I use http://redditmag.saibotd.com/r/pics
the maps for the town i'm living in (250k people, state capital in germany) are not entirely accurate. the positions of the listed businesses especially. some are downright false and some are misplaced by sometimes 400-500m.
Absolutely. Ruby on Rails 3.2.8, Postgres, theMoviedb.org for the movie information and pretty backgrounds, jQuery autocomplete for the insta search functionality, nokogiri gem for the magnet link scraping, and Google fonts.
Depends from their maintenance.
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Model driven code generation FTW!
There also exist exceptions where there are competitors: Sharehosters
Just as a reminder: 'Linux Is A Lemon On The Retina MacBook Pro'

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple...
> Although you seem to be wrong about it being available for 4 or 5 years. Apparently (in the US) it became available in February of last year for Verizon customers and a little later on the AT&T network.

That's a slightly different issue: tethering has been built into iOS since 3.0 (there had been kinda-hacky HTTP thethers in 2.0 but let's ignore them), but it is indeed a service operators can lock or unlock via operator settings.

> What sucks is that, in order to enable it, you have to pay an additional $20 to $25 per month on top of your data plan.

I don't, for what it's worth. My carrier gives me 2GB of data per "month" (it's prepaid so I could always get a second bundle) and i can use it for wahtever I want.

> For example, why didn't they move picture and video storage to a removable mini/micro/whatever SD card

Because now you'd need a slot for reading a microsd card. I don't know if you've looked at the teardowns, but the only way to do that is to remove a significant chunk of battery to make room, the phone is packed to the brim. And Apple is not going to trade battery life for an SD slot few people (let alone clients) care for (let alone want).
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If it is Linux/Debian/Ubuntu the development environment setup problem can be solved by maintaining internal apt repository. It takes a bit of effort to setup, but after that it is a really smooth ride.
Ah, I guess I shouldn't keep brightness at full then :-) Unfortunately I can't get away from big compiles …
Thanks for the detailed answer.
> If you're iPhone doesn't have it, blame your carrier http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937

FWIW this only lists "partner carriers", when you buy your phone unlocked (or get a "partner carrier"-provided phone unlocked, which they have to do on request in most euro country) you can use non-partner carriers which often have different sets of restriction (up to "no restriction"). The only one usually missing from non-partners is visual voicemail.
Well actually, they should have more data. The description and reviews should be available to them without an issue. More importantly, they could mine backlinks for more context.
So why is the front-end proprietary?

That is a betrayal of MakerBot's founding principles.
> The only real regressions I can see are poorer satellite imagery coverage

Map coverage of US campuses is also way down. Which makes a very small but vocal segment (US uni students) completely lose their mind over the issue. If you go to the apple/iphone subreddit, 9 out of 10 maps criticisms are US uni campus.

On the other hand, considering how those things work, I'd expect non-US locations to be just as downgraded as US campus (and testimonies in this thread seem to confirm it)
What you're describing is known as "prior art": simply publish your idea anywhere public, and it automatically becomes invalid for patenting. You don't even need to implement anything.
They are more complimentary and in fact storm has a spout implementation for kafka

I would add to this that a lot of Storm users (myself included) use Storm together with Kafka - that is, Kafka is used to get data into (and possibly out of) Storm while Storm does the actual processing. Kafka is more along the lines of Kestrel and RabbitMQ.
They are "sh*t" in Turkey. Just cloning OpenStreetMaps does not give them a good Point-of-Interests (POI) database. They don't have any hospitals, post offices, stop buses, subways etc.
If you're hiring in London, I'd be keen to find out more - any chance you could drop me an e-mail and point me in the right direction?

Thanks.
Not quite true. Patent trolls tend to go after companies big enough to pay their demands but too small to be able to fight them in court.
Which is sad, because he won a lawsuit the next year for the exact amount he sold that company for.
> Or perhaps the "everything is in the IO monad all the time" nature of imperative code is just fundamentally at odds with code correctness, and we'll always have to fight against it.

In some languages, like D, you can fight against that, by declaring functions to be pure. That's a bit like having everything in IO by default, but marking the exceptions.
> I am struck by the dissonance of the video.

A minor thing, but using Star Wars motif at the end in movie about Star Trek kind of surprised me.
This is your friend for big compiles:

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/itemdetails/0A36280/460/2D575BF5CD...

Weighs a bit but you'll get another 5 hours :)
Asked @holman about the blue (https://twitter.com/holman/status/248690023887675392):

@damncabbage: @holman Was the removal of the blue from
the repo commit timeline bar-graphs intentional? Update
looks good, by the way. :)

@holman: @damncabbage definitely. Blue behind text
would be really distracting.

@damncabbage: @holman Hmm, point. What about having
the blue appear when the timeline fades in on hover,
or just a darker shade of grey?

@damncabbage: @holman The post over at HN has a few
reasons why some of us are a bit blue about the
missing, uh, blue in the graphs:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4546703

@holman: @damncabbage We’re pretty pleased with it.

(??? Confused about that last one.)
If I need Windows, I use a virtual machine. Works very well, and I usually don't need to stay in Windows-land for a long time. YMMV, of course.
Four glaring apostrophe errors, and at least two grammatical errors, on the first reading. I appreciate and agree with the sentiment, but there's no way I'm putting my name on something that amateur.
I don't understand what this furore about the lack of public transportation in the new Maps app is about? The fact is, outside the US public transportation was never part of the Google Maps app.

I'm in the UK and have to do with dedicated apps, like National Rail Enquiries and NextBuses. So for me, literally nothing changed.
Yes. Though, as with lots of projects, the core that has to be written in a C or C++ can be relatively small. Haskell's FFI is quite powerful, and it should be possible to use it in a way similar to how people embed Lua.
Outsourcers: Do not outsource
Because being able to have a copy of the deployment environment - especially one that you can build, deploy and test automatically, is stupidly useful.

It's not being able to have a linux machine. It's being able to have one that you can build, throw away, test different deploy strategies on, etc. etc.

Suddenly you have all the developers dealing with deployment problems as soon as they occur - cutting that loooooong feedback loop to minutes saving everybody time, pain and money.

TL;DR - coz it's a good thing :-)
> it lacks public transit directions

I would say 50% of my phone-in-hand time is (was) spent in Maps, and 50% of that time was spent navigating with public transit. This is a huge, huge problem.
Re: Delay on terminal - Yes, well known (and annoying) problem in OS X. It isn't actually a terminal issue but a log processing PITA. See: http://osxdaily.com/2010/05/06/speed-up-a-slow-terminal-by-c...

But, basically, sudo rm -rf /private/var/log/asl/*.asl fixes it.

I live in Terminal.app - usually have 15-20 tabs open all day long - so little tweaks like that (saving 2 seconds each time you open a new window) makes a big difference.