skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too ran Slackware in the Way Back When days, and I think it's simplicity helped admins to understand how Linux works, on a more general scale, than user-friendlier distros nowadays might not.

There's a time and a place for both. Simple upgrade mechanisms and scripted/UIed management tools make the OS more accessible to the less hardcore Linux enthusiast; but these benefits come at a price - larger distros, somewhat higher system requirements, some abstraction between what the user wants the system to do and what the system actually needs in order to do it.

I see Slackware used now in very small embedded Linux systems in a few places, and I think I would be hard pressed to come up with a better choice of distro for a limited resource environment (no distro wars argument here, I know there are others that'd fit, I just my opinion from using it).
Wow that's luck - just when I was browsing around I found the perfect analysis on overcoming bias : senior voters and their healtcare - paid for by the majority, but since seniors vote more, they favour the candidate serving their interest - at the expanse of the majority

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/09/us-politics-of-medicin...

Very interesting indeed- it seems to be the simplest pitfall of democracy : when the repartition of voters becomes detached from the repartition of the consequences and advantages.
Sugar Batteries Could Offer 20 Percent More Capacity than Lithium Ion
Is there any benefit to providing specific customisation beyond pleasing a subset of users who have a proprietary retina display?

I feel slightly at odds with providing something that can only be enjoyed by people who choose to purchase from a single manufacturer.
That's not what I'm comparing. I'm comparing one deprecated functionality to another deprecated functionality. The fact that the former lingered on leads me to believe that the latter will also.
Nope, Namecheap doesn't practice the shady conditions practiced by other registrars. The expired domian can be renewed just like a regular domain. No extra fees and fuss involved.
I'm surprised that in all this discussion nobody even mentioned David Weber's Honor Harrington series. He tries to make his space battles as realistic as possible.
I recommend the Honor Harrington novels for "plausible" Sci-Fi combat scenarios. Over the series of novels, the style of space combat changes dramatically multiple times as factions develop new technology, strategies, and tactics. They're quite a fun read.
I got tired of all hacking and came back to Ubuntu.
safari 6.0.1 on mountain lion: http://cl.ly/image/0d0V1B1C3V28
And not a single reason for me to stop using 2.7. It's been just bloat since 3.0.
In somewhat related news, here is Russ Cox's excellent blog post about cool hacks with the zip format:

http://research.swtch.com/zip
That is just odd normal printers work fine!
Hide and Seek can work in space, even without magical cloaking technology. Space is very big, so if you're far enough away it may be difficult to tell a (properly designed) ship from random rocks or man-made debris unless you're looking dead at it already. Especially if you're flying in an area where lots of debris is already present, like an asteroid belt or a planet's ring. Doing it in near-earth orbit might be tricky, though, since people watch the sky a lot. Information from ground-based tracking stations could be used to identify large unknown orbiting objects.
Seems like a powerful device. Did I miss it or is there no information on power consumption?
The analysis is reasonable overall, but trying to distinguish between "good" and "bad" NIMBYs is a pretty serious flaw. You have to put halfway houses and power plants somewhere. Those NIMBYs are still stealing from other people, they're just stealing from the residents of some other place whose residents have less free time or political capital to prevent something that lowers property values from being constructed in their neighborhood. Or they're again stealing from society at large if they prevent such things from being built at all. In either case they create a societal cost by adding the cost of the fight to the cost of building necessary things.
Energy density is a critical issue for aircraft because lift/drag ratios are capped at around 15 to 30. For every 15-30 N of fuel weight, you must supply at least 1 N of additional thrust (which translates to power, once you multiply by speed).

Cars, on the other hand, experience a combination of aerodynamic and powertrain drag and rolling resistance, of which only (mostly?) the rolling resistance depends on mass. The typical coefficient of rolling resistance is about 10x better than the typical L/D ratio for aircraft (if I believe Wikipedia). Hence, road vehicles are 10x less sensitive to energy density than aircraft.

So a statement that electric vehicles won't work is nonsense, without considering how sensitive the different vehicles are to fuel mass.
It's not quite behavioural finance but marginal benefits and marginal costs as applied to market efficiency.

From the author of the EMH in 1991, 21 years after proposing the EMH.

"A weaker and economically more sensible version of the efficiency hypothesis says that prices reflect information to the point where the marginal benefits of acting on information (the profits to be made) do not exceed the marginal costs (Jensen (1978))."
http://efinance.org.cn/cn/fm/Efficient%20markets%20II.pdf
I just started using foundation and just wanted to say thanks! It's a great front end framework. It does not get enough love in the community.
I've done it before takes a lot of time and effort. It's easier to just get someone from overseas to do it by hour.
Open webOS 1.0 On An Asus Transformer Prime Tablet
I'm a TROL
I'm not confused about that, it just wasn't my point. My point was the tool still existed past the introduction of the Windows GUI interface. I can still run commands that have the same API as the DOS commands, I can still pipe together commands, I can still redirect commands. I foresee that, in the same way, the ability to use the desktop for things that are not allowed in Metro; like examining memory, will keep going on for an indefinite period of time. Whether that future desktop is compatible with the one we have today is, again, not the point I'm making.
We don't.

How do you know before a tough, life-threatening operation whether the tumour you are getting removed will kill you? You don't.
To sum up the pain points that this is fixing:

- More pins, enabling more input/output. While there are some projects that only need a few pins, larger ones like big interactive light installations benefit from more

- Almost all pins are analog or digital compatible, with a few high current digital ones

- Compatible with Arduino header boards

- Better IDE

- Included ADC (two types, one can drive CD-quality audio), DACs, comparators, op-amps for bufferring, capacitive sensiving. These remove the need for a lot of external stuff to make simple and common things.

As someone who already has a stack of Arduinos, a PIC programmer, and a handful of Raspberry Pi's... this is still something that is unique and relevant. Pretty awesome and I hope it makes its funding goal.
>> "It's actually kind of the other way around, desktop apps can mess around with much more on the system than Metro apps can, except for some new APIs."

This may be true but the majority of Windows 8 users are probably going to want to use the new Metro interface. I've only being using the OS for a month and it already annoys me to have to switch to the old desktop interface. Preventing apps not distributed through the store access the new interface isn't right. Customers will want it and developers will have little choice. Either piss off customers or give Microsoft a cut of your sales and distribute through them.
Please stop using this bs terminology, rockstars, ninjas and all that sort of crap. With all respect to Ryan he is just one of many great programmers.
Ask HN: Best solution for source code escrow?
You're right, I don't think that's been stated yet. The chip itself is fairly low power draw- but with those op-amps and other stuff onboard I'm guessing that stuff might be able to draw a good bit more.
I don't know if you've ever heard about a site called Facebook.
Did you manage to hit the Yodobashi in Akiba? That's really the place to see both some more Japanese products and get a wonderfully overwhelming "this is what it'd be like if you put a Fry's inside a Fry's, added a Best Buy, and threw in an amazing food court" experience.

The electronics dealers along the Akiba side streets are a great place to get off-generation parts on the cheap. For example, last-generation RAM upgrades for your machine, at prices pretty decently discounted from newegg. But I certainly found the rest of Akiba more dedicated to anime/manga/jpop idols at this point than the electronics-focus that we (I'm also a child of the 80s/90s) had been promised.
El Reg came to more-or-less the same conclusion a month ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/23/akihabara_decline_an...
Yes, EMH is likely to be as true as Newtonian physics. Both are good approximates but neither apply perfectly.
You're Not That Busy
If an email was sent to a mailbox that wasn't being checked, it doesn't matter how many emails were sent. I don't know if it's the case, just guessing as one possibility.
I work in both camps, and I always felt it was the web developers that were better about moving on to 3. Scientists in general are loathe to risk breaking well-tested code for the sake of new features. In my research group, in fact, we've just barely moved on to 2.7 from 2.4! I doubt there will be any motivation at all for moving to 3 any time soon.
"Metro makes it a lot easier for most developers to sell native apps on Windows."

As long as Microsoft approves your app.

I want my politically incorrect apps, full of boobs, farts, surveillance evading tools and bomb-making instructions.
USD:EUR = 1:1,2859 (today)

I laugh at the media-fabricated 'Euro crisis' and the 'Economist'.
The OP and your post have the word 'stealing' in. It's an incorrect use of the word.

It's not hard to find respectactable nimby cases. What if someone wanted to pub a pub at the end of your street? You are not a drinker, and you object to the prospect of people stumbling down your street shouting at strange hours, leaving mess on your property and more chance of intoxicated drivers.
Gotye remix using old printer, oscilloscope, etc.
France could certainly use this technology. With their abundance of unused nuclear power and access to the sea, this could bridge the gap between hydrocarbon powered and electric vehicles.
So basically what you are saying to me is that 1=1 if and only if rational investors have more capital than irrational ones. That's useful isn't it...
I work in a Japanese company which began strongly in the mobile market (on imode) but which is now pretty much pandering to the lowest common denominator with fortune telling, social games etc... My workstation is a win xp box from a few years ago with 2 gig ram. So is everyone else's. We still invest a lot of time & effort making flash/terrible HTML inline styled tag soup for the Gala-kei market (Galapagos keitai / mobile). Being native English speaking, I'm often tasked with obscure bug squashing or creating demo apps to show other debs how to use something, since most documentation is in English. I will bide my time for now, but i do feel a need to move to a more forward looking position.

Oh, and I'm usually one of the first to go home.. We work in a massive open desk environment so i'm pretty sure of that!
OP here. Retina displays are catching up really fast and it is not tired to Apple at all (although the term is). A retina ready blog will look better on most new HD-ready Android tablets, like the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD, and phones likes the Galaxy S III many others.
Thanks for commenting here.

> For the desktop, look at Metro as a way to have some content-focused apps and games that come to life directly on your desktop through live tiles. Don't look at them as replacements for heavy-weight, traditional desktop applications. That's not their point.

I don't think Microsoft has communicated this at all. I don't think there is any definitive statement that the desktop is not being deprecated, and will continue to exist and be developed for.
>hoping

That's why you test - so you know whether or not something works. Additionally, there are significantly more important factors to consider than whether or a particular OS runs your application.
Lack of "drive". Young people mostly want to find a nice job and that's it.

what most people don't realize is that the time of uninterrupted careers and job security is over, and so even if you want to be just an employee, you're still essentially an entrepreneur. You'll still have to do constant R&D to keep your products (job skills) current, and do sales to get the next job.

This way you may not have to invest into things and get into debts beyond typical mortgages or car loans, but you'll also lack the potential upside of being in business for yourself.
Many do actually.

There are some problems with allowing that though. In some cases a clueless CSR could allow the person paying for the domain to gain access to it. The assumption is wrongly made that if the person is paying for the domain they have rights to it. After paying they will simply say something like "oh, by the way my address needs to be changed" or open a conversation about something else and end up gaining access.
Need to take on freelancing - but what? 
I have a startup with a product in the market which is doing OK, but not great (yet). We are two people and have revenue which allows us to pay minimum salary to survive.

We'd like to take on some extra freelancing work, to generate extra cash. However, we have no clue what the market is like in the bay area. We don't want to take work that would make it impossible to keep running the startup.

I guess that means we can't take work on site, and would be best off with projects where we can deliver work each week and get paid for it, rather than having to be there between specific hours and keep timesheets?

We can both code but feel we've gained a lot of experience beyond coding the past years and would like to put that experience to work, rather than just grinding code all day.

I'd love to hear from other people here on HN what they've done in a situation like ours, and if it worked out or not, and why.
So what? Ubuntu has package management. It is a superior experience to the package management in Debian. (Or so I assume, since you have not disputed it.) Therefore it is not true that package management in Ubuntu is second to Debian.

I'm probably going to tap out here, because this doesn't seem like it's going to become productive.
That's an old version of Android. The current version is not open to anyone but Google employees.
No one can truly know the mind of another human being, but I'm pretty sure Carson Gross is sick of the term as well.

I do agree with you that sincere language is more likely than sarcastic derision to turn the tide, but you should know that you guys are on the same side.
Registered mail to your attorney with explicit release instructions should not cost more than $100 per year.
I wonder if Japan suffers from a younger generation or a something being lost in translation. I'm reminded of this article:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/24/3177332/ia-oliver-reichens...

>Japanese web or app design is not comparable to Japanese art, graphic design or architecture. I could fill a page explaining why. It has to do with the way Japanese read, with the corporate fear of doing something different, and with the generally low level of design for the masses.

>One reason why Japanese web and app design feels weak is that technology requires good active and passive knowledge of English. English is the lingua franca of contemporary web and app development, both of our tools and our discourse. Even if you master English-based Objective-C or JavaScript, if you are not able to communicate with the international community of developers and designers, you miss out on what is desirable, even what is possible. Japanese developers and designers that don’t speak English are trapped within the relatively low level of tech and design that currently reigns in the Japanese corporate world.

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>Even the Japanese companies’ strengths matter less now, as consumers have lost the willingness to pay a premium for quality.

This is not true or Apple would not be as successful as they are today. In some areas foreign manufacturers have caught up enough where quality is less of an issue such as TVs. Consumers now value the TV less. This is not true of smartphones, tablets, or cars. The latter is an area that Japan still carries a heavy amount of influence.
Single points of failure can emerge but hopefully they're rare. The classic case is something like British Airways Flight 38 at Heathrow in 2008:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_38

(By sheer good luck and good piloting skills the crew were able to make it over the runway threshold after both engines lost power during final approach: injuries and a hull loss, but no deaths. Problem was a design flaw in the fuel oil heat exchangers, only triggered by unusual meteorological conditions on a long flight. Both engines had the same design issue and were drinking the same fuel ...)
Paypal rejects hackerspace because they consider the word 'hacker' too risky
Incorporate your startup only when you’re forced to
> senior voters and their healtcare - paid for by the majority, but since seniors vote more, they favour the candidate serving their interest - at the expanse of the majority

It's difficult to see how this is at the expense of the majority since it's not exclusive: the majority will eventually become members of the beneficial group. I.e., why not have a policy that benefits the elderly since most of us will one day be elderly?
I think your missing the point. The text is going to be encrypted in and then decrypted in the external JS. The append style parameters are just to show that nothing is in the html/js besides that.
Slightly off-topic, but kudos on having a large banner leading from your blog back to your flagship product. Too often I read an interesting post from someone I've never heard of and have to click on obscure "home" links or even chop off the URL.
Not just web development. Programming in general. Can't imagine what it would be like to learn programming and don't understand English.
Not really. You obviously need to take care of the height too and it must depend on video dimensions. Other players out there are designed for fixed widths.
It always bothers me when I see listings where Eurozone countries are seen as separate entities. We're not. Our economies and social structures are heavily interdependent on each other and that's only ever going to increase. Regarding Eurozone countries as completely separate states would be akin to thinking of California as a different country.
Thanks, yeah HN has taught us well, I'm pretty sure I read a great blog post on that exact topic.
Myapp. Platform for my campus to ask questions 
Frustrated at school, as there is no place to ask a question to my campus folks. Building an app where you can ask questions for my campus.

thoughts about this app? possibility to scale?....
But "rational" and "fully informed" isn't enough. If I encode prices as a 3SAT problem, then your "rational" and "fully informed" person will be required to solve a (thought-to-be) too hard problem in order to do the efficient thing.

Therefore, either you can solve such a problem efficiently (and P=NP) or the idea that all you need is rationality and information is false.
I think it's a gag on nodeJS's current trendiness.
Seems to work just fine for me with Safari 6.0.1 on Mountain Lion.
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s186/sh/2b0936f2-0581-4b57-96...
That's exactly true. Emails bounce and the person who is in charge of the domain often changes jobs and the contact isn't changed. Some go straight to the spam bin.

But you'd be surprised at how many people ignore even postal notices that some registrars send.

What you have to keep in mind is that restoring domains that have expired is a profit center for registrars. [1]

And having incorrect email contact info helps as well since not only does it favor that profit center but it also prevents competitors from soliciting your accounts (as well as preventing spam, right?)

[1] In the case of the nodejs.org domain it was taken offline on the day of expiration. It wasn't deleted it didn't go into redemption. Generally most registrars give some grace period (but if you aren't getting the emails that doesn't really matter, does it?)

There is a new policy being floated by ICANN that addresses these issues. If I can find the link I will post.
It may not be the development trunk, but it's not an "old version". It's the latest release, 4.1.1.
Thanks for the info. The bit about enterprise-specific stores is new to me, and sounds like a damn good idea.

Working with Apple and therefore being forced to go through the public store for everything creates more problems than it solves.
Hide My Ass
Works here too: http://d.pr/i/XRdu
No issues here, same browser and OS. It seems you have a problem.
In fact, 80% of users move email messages out of their inbox and into folders while at their desk

I'd like to know where they got that number: it's nothing like the numbers that I've heard elsewhere, although it might be closer if they're including any action that moves email out of the inbox (like gmail 'archive').
The title on HN is innacurate. The original title is about Japanese tech giants i.e. Sony, Panasonic, Sharp and the like.

Note that these aren't primarily software companies. So although some of your points about software in Japan are true, they aren't very relevant for the trend in question.

> The main problems are simply that they can't keep up with the rate of development and change that other companies can handle

Having worked in Japan for several years, I heartily (or sadly?) agree with this.
In some ways, Japanese megacorps still work like American corporations used to 50 years ago: life employment, seniority system, women have little chance of career development, etc.

That said, web companies are arguably on the rise in Japan. Cf. Rakuten, Gree, Cookpad.
In the case of tumors we do have a pretty good idea what would happen. We have statistical evidence from large numbers of people with similar tumors.
I disagree, jQuery is more of a compatibility layer. Think of it (in a way) like an ORM for various SQL backends. They allow you to change between different SQL implementations without needing to learn the various nuances of each engine. The same can be said for jQuery, allowing you to modify classes even though browsers implement that DOM property differently.
Is the difference between 2 and 3 so huge that it is not possible to make a jump?
Why use python at all? All languages have been just bloat since assembler :P
It's old news, but it's still a surprise to people.
An unordered list of things that happened on Steve Jobs's watch
I think the author makes the argument that while Europe once was able to produce huge companies, it produces significantly fewer after WWI. Many of the European companies on the Global Fortune 500 list were founded in late 19th century to early 20th century. Shell (#1) and BP (#4), for example, were founded in 1900 and 1909, respectively.

That said, I agree with the comment about many in Europe generally favoring the "good enough" way over the "home run" way of thinking.
+1 This is probably very very subtle for most people to notice, but I'm seeing aswell and it's bugging me to no end. I'm pretty sure even the colors in the developer tools are off.

At first I thought it was just me seeing things, but surely enough a side by side comparison with firefox (15) revealed otherwise: http://i.imgur.com/N29QC.png