skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a matter of polish. If Unity were as fast as synapse, and would ease up on the configurability issue (like Gnome Shell has with its cool extensions site), it would be head and shoulders better than the tired old start menu.

Ubuntu was never 'targeting hackers'. That is why they used to use slogans like 'linux for humans'. However, they always have and still do provide a full repo of packages, including xubuntu, lubuntu, etc. which anyone who claims to be a 'hacker' should have ZERO problem installing. As always, Ubuntu is a Linux distro, i.e. they provide packages, which is a very basic difference from what you are getting out of Windows.

I found the analogy distastefully sexist (some of the smartest people I have known dyed their hair funny colors, for fun) and the article to be mostly a long, entitled rant.
There's a casual misogyny to the premise that ignores the face that plenty of teenage boys do/did the same things for the same reasons.
When apple does something new it's a "breakthrough" and "innovation". When Microsoft does it's "confusing".
Surely the launch(es) are more complicated than most MS launches, but that is because this a bold complex move. It's a humongous achievement if MS can make it big in the mobile world.
Ask HN: Does Stripe have a Donate button yet?
Just wondering if Stripe has a similar function like Paypal where people can donate money to you.
From their website: "Fancy Hands can purchase things for you. Yep, if you ask us to buy toner cartridges, lunch, or tickets, we can handle it.

First off, security is our number one priority with this feature and it's totally baked in from the start. At no point, does your assistant, or anybody else at Fancy Hands have access to your credit card number. Not bad, right? You don't have to worry about a rogue assistant using your credit card information, they'll never know it (plus, we don't have any rogue assistants)."

http://www.fancyhands.com/help/payments
Asahi Associates - Boost For RIM As BlackBerry Sales Rise.
First brazilian crowdfunding platform focused on animals in need
Thanks for mentioning the email Jacque. And you're correct, currently we don't handle multi site installs due to some issues with MU and our clusters.
How soon will we see "Please update your video drivers to their latest versions before using this site."
>The browser doesn't know if any of the following scripts may depend on the previous ones

Yes it does. That's why the way they're ordered on the page is important. If I include jQuery after I'm trying to make jQuery function calls, it won't work (in all browsers I've tested, anyway).
My thoughts exactly. My assumption is that Jeremy's never talked to anyone with dyed hair or piercings.
I host several sites on WPEngine and we've had some relatively minor issues. But we're getting ready to switch to multisite and now I'm nervous. We're generally happy, but we haven't been blown away.

Jason, if you're not scrambling to deal with this mess, you will be soon. And the main message I have is that you need to back off the marketing side a little and let the technical and customer service side catch up.

Godaddy makes an incredible amount of money, but they're still a terrible company from a technical and customer service perspective. But their marketing is so effective that they can get away with that [1].

I wonder if Jason Cohen's position in the tech community and general marketing prowess has allowed WPEngine to get ahead of themselves? I know when I read Patrick's blog post about WPEngine, I was really excited and it was a service that I wanted to like. And I do like them, but I'm not excited about them at all anymore.

1. Interestingly, Google is the exact opposite, and their customer service makes me want to take a spoon to my own eyes.
well.... that sucks... thanks for the clarification. I will totally go for the Windows 8 version.
I do not like Unity and its sidebar, and I'm saying that as a non-regular Linux user, which I assume puts me in the target market for Ubuntu, strangely enough.

I also do think the Metro UI is a passing fad, of which we'll probably get bored within a year, and if Windows 9 continues using it, it won't feel that exciting by then, especially considering it still gets in the way of using the PC as people are used to. We've had this sort of "UI for kids" trend with websites before, and it will probably pass just as quickly as it did back then:

http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/5192012043239windows8vsaol.j...
If we assume the article is true, people for whom it would have most utility would be least likely to have patience to read it.
Phone Gap? If I were Seth I'd be disappointed.
It's not distortion if it becomes reality.
> our constitution remain mostly unchanged since '88

There have been 73 amendements to the constitution over 28 years. Experts on the subject usually point out that it actually changes too much and too often.
Ask HN: why don't larger cloud hosts use container virtualization?
I've used container-based virtualization for Linux (OpenVZ / Parallels Virtuozzo) before and it's rather amazing performance-wise. Performance is bare metal, and the densities that can be achieved are staggering and easily destroy any density achievable with paravirtualization. In addition, OpenVZ/Parallels supports container migration and it works flawlessly in my experience.

(When I say destroy I mean destroy. I have seen thousands of containers on a single node that would support a few dozen KVMs.)

The only downside I can see is the lack of custom kernel capability, but that only affects a tiny percentage of applications. (None in many configurations.)

I'm curious as to why Amazon, Linode, Rackspace, etc. do not offer container-based virtualization. Is there some Big Reason?
Fair enough, but I still think my point stands. I suppose if their goal was to make a quick-hit and get rich very quickly while making a lot of people's lives much worse, then they succeeded. I believe that gives them too much credit. I don't believe that they knew this was coming and loaded their pockets while everybody else was confused.

Either way I still say good riddance.
Teaching Computer Programming to Underserved Kids
I do have the number of highlights. I'll consider showing those in the next release.
Cut it out with the pathos and human interest, and get some of the real point in there quicker.

Maybe you could slow down and read the part about how slowing down is good for you.
I'm all about constructive feedback so if anybody has any thoughts, please let me know. Thanks!
They can't do anything that requires your credit card:
http://www.fancyhands.com/not/good/for
I think the author merged in two terms of his analysis of performance that are really separate:

- Response Time (how long does it take per task)
- Throughput (how many tasks can we complete per N)

For some of us, getting better responses means in-and-out quicker and so its easier to serve more throughput. For apple, they have plenty of capacity, so new product launches aren't really a motivation to improve response. They will we able to support that volume anyway. The motivation would be to improve user experience.
Either he was very good at misdirecting competitors, or he was good at changing his mind.

I'll take the latter. I have every reason to believe that he vehemently and even violently against putting iTunes on Windows, but that, more than anything else, is what turned Apple around.
Maybe he messed them up, but this just proves his point. To anyone who doesn't know all the intricacies of Windows 8, it's all very confusing.
Yes! Mission accomplished. I said when I started if only one person discovers a new book I'll be happy. Which book if you don't mind me asking?
> Page.ly are probably doing this to get more clients.

... huh?

Edit: are you suggesting that the poor service I got from WPEngine is in fact a cunning conspiracy to boost Page.ly sales?

Because ... well at least temporarily, yeah, I guess it worked perfectly.

"Cui bono?"

-dramatic violin music-
The first book was pure gold and I desperately needed something that packed all that information so nicely. Really looking forward to this one on TCP Sockets.
I've been following Jesse on Twitter as he's worked on this book and he has really put lots of care into making this a good book. Sadly I didn't have time to review it yet but read his previous book in full and it was pretty good so Jesse is the real deal :-)
These quotes are from users on the Amazon Kindle, all quotes are linked to the exact book the person was reading.
In addition to what the article says, this particular island sure has a very healthy way of living overall, not necessarily in the medical sense.

Shops and offices open at noon, and people generally wake up late. They do stay up late at night.

In general, they don't follow a particular timetable, they go as they feel. They are mostly joyous and celebrating, with what we would call a "cafe culture" (only the are as likely to party with hard grappa-like liquors).

Their culture as relates to time is something that's unlike even nearby islands. This "on demand" thing? They are not for it.

Living in a wonderful land surrounded by wonderful, swimmable sea, doesn't hurt either.
It authenticates the domain of the sender, right?
Destined to be a classic, just like Working With Unix Processes!
Time to put the tires on - NOIIZ
Precisely. What is the hurry with everyone?

We’re all gonna die. Let’s be cool to each other and try to enjoy the ride.

Oh, time for my nap!
If you look hard enough, anything can offend you.
This is important information to me (I manage many wordpress sites). The author is just being frank, and that's a rarity in this world of shilling and murketing.

Where else am I going to read this?
Firstly, many users don't just use genealogy software to track their DNA ancestors, people use it to record details of their family tree. If a relative died without leaving any offspring, that person isn't deleted from the tree, they are still there. Likewise, people may want to record same sex marriage in their family trees, even though there might not be any off spring. People in same sex marriages might want to track their own family trees. A man might want to include his mother and his mother-in-law (his husband's mother).

Secondly, yes, some same sex marriages can produce children. From adoption, to artificial insemination/surrogacy, to one partner having a child(ren) from a previous marriage, which the other adopts, etc.

Thirdly, it is possible to have genetic children from a same sex marriage. Some countries have gender recognition law which allows trans people to legally change their gender and get a new birth cert. Depending on the law, they may still be in the original marriage, and still legally have children. (Yes there are people who start living as a different gender and their spouse still loves them and stays with them.)

Yes, these are new issues, and a lot of genealogy deals with stuff in the past, but this is only going to get more common as time passes. Blanket statements saying essentially "This is nothing to ever be worried about at all" is false.

(As an aside, bisexuals et al. can enter into same sex marriages, it not just 'homosexual marriage')
This article is more about communication. To convince others, make the idea their own.

On communication:
The best way I have found to communicate to mixed groups effectively is by giving the straight shooter response immediately followed by imagery based elaboration, which ultimately gets more airplay/screenplay. Some successful speakers flip the order, but that is more dependent on the audience. Notice this the next keynote or quarterly conference call you listen to.

Maybe it is because I have both arts talent and logical thinking, but balancing the two has never been a problem for me. Make each one as concise as can be while still accurate/full picture.
So, what is the key innovation that changes hadoop from batch processing to real time. Is it similar to google's dremel?
I agree. I thought it was obvious from the first part of the article that the man was misdiagnosed.
So in this metaphor, are you the crotchety old man at the mall passing judgement against the teenage girls? Imagining you're fighting societal decay when really you're just xenophobic?
I'm not sure why are you saying it's unclear what the article is about, IMO the headline elegantly explains the subject and basic idea, while also giving some notion about the style. I was turned off by the anecdata that the article begins with, but I didn't expect hard science anyway. Having finished it, I find it interesting and well-written. =)
There are a lot of stories of people getting jobs by disclosing security holes like this.
I wouldn't say it's full blown hiring. Maybe micro-hiring. Is that a term?
The other problem with blue zones is, they could just be a statistical blip. It's especially bad when you try to identify things like centurions, or spontaneous remission of cancer - things which are rare are the most prone to statistical blips.
Why We Test: an article for developers, managers, and executives
How LikeALittle (YCW11), Reddit, Hearsay Social and others got their first users
From what I can tell of Stripe, you can take payment for anything. You'd have to find your own button (http://images.lmgtfy.com/?q=donate) and create a payment page. Stripe is basically just an API for a payment gateway.
There's also crazily high variation in rare events, like living past 100 or surviving "incurable" cancer. But those are the things which people are interested in.
Whenever Apple messes up people say that now. However remember Apple messed up under Jobs. Remember the iPhone's poor signal? What do you think would happen if the response to the Maps app poor quality was "You're using it wrong?", that's what happened (essentially) under Jobs.
> Right now the only pressure to reduce water use seems to be on consumers (watering policies, low-water use appliances), but they only use 11% of it.

Where does the other 89% go?
The Tokyo DC isn't a universal win for Australia. The results are actually pretty bimodal depending on your ISP.

From Perth, iiNet routes directly to Asia, and it's a big win. But Amnet routes AU -> US -> Asia and it's a big loss.

It's a big enough issue Australia-wide that Blizzard sells a dual-region Starcraft 2 in Australia, because (ping to battle.net Singapore for some) > (ping to battle.net US) > (ping to battle.net Singapore for others) to a significant degree.
Hi! This is Ted Roden, Founder of Fancy Hands.

So this can be confusing. We can definitely purchase things for you. Want us to order flowers? Have someone come install your air conditioner? No problem, we can even handle the payment for most things.

However, we do this by billing you securely (just like iTunes, etc), and then letting the assistants use "the company card." So the assistant won't actually handle your credit card information, but we can still make these purchases for you.

So users never have to expose their Credit Card information to their assistants. The assistant will never ask for it. If you need us to do something that actually requires knowing your entire credit card number for some reason, that's the type of thing we can't do. But making purchases doesn't fall under that umbrella.
The laptop keyboard is in no wise as thin as the touch keyboard.
I got all excited about Fancy Hands, then realized that this is just a post to farm referral dollars and give free advertising.

FH had a message on their pricing page that immediately turned me off. Sometimes, it's better to not be so dynamic (i.e. I would have signed up had I not seen the message below):

"Steve Corona knows you'll love having Fancy Hands.
Sign up now and get 50% off your first month or 5% off your first year."
The website is confusing. They can buy things for you. I'm not sure how it works exactly (but I used it to signup for a $30 race).. I think they billed it to their own credit card and will charge me for it at the end of the month?
The metaphor chosen is weak because it requires a generalization of others choices that is false.

"Remember the girls in school who were not overly ugly or attractive yet still wanted to be the center of attention?"

No, I remember individuals who died their hair because they liked the style and wanted to express what it meant to them.
The thing is it's not a standard. It's a set of protocols and good practices. That's what makes it really difficult to limit in space.

But it's easy to know you're not going in the right direction when a choice of yours contradicts or duplicates something clearly mentioned in the specifications of one of these protocols.

For example, the ".json" suffix to URLs is a convention is Rails. How can a language/framework-agnostic API borrow conventions from a framework?

It's not about usability. It's about consistency which will impact developers perception of simplicity. They'll just have less work to do before they can actually get started using it.
I posted my own reason of why they sucked (and WP-Engine responded) the other day http://jamespanderson.tumblr.com/post/34114537491/why-i-cant...
The Presenter's Paradox
This doesn't change Hadoop from batch processing to real time - it's a new query engine that uses the same data sources/formats as Hadoop and the same interfaces as Hive. So yeah, similar idea to Google Dremel / F1.
Ok, thanks. I'll definitely look into it.

Is there some online tutorials as well? Scala has Scalatra for example, which is a great way to get started.
You're missing the point.

The point is that FU money is the point at which you have enough that you can walk away from situations that you don't agree with without that impacting the rest of your financial life in any manner.

In other words, it's retirement but at a younger age.

It's not to say you don't walk away from situations you don't agree with before you have FU money. It's just that you're at a point where it won't impact the rest of your financial life.

I don't really see why it has such a negative connotation.

/edit I should add this term is usually used in terms of someone who has spent 20+ years in a career (and typically the same company) and is at loggerheads with upper management in an unresolvable situation and is about to get forced out over the situation. i.e., upper mgmt is doing something that person believe is wrong, unethical, etc.
To say nothing of heat.
This was great fun to research. Thanks to PStamatiou, Prasanna and the others.
Are in house, corporate startup accelerators like this one the next big thing?
Definitely not up to PG's typical standards for a reply.
If you really think you can do better than them, go for it. If you have something of value then users will choose what they prefer.
Fascinating, I didn't know that.

So, being in Perth, I've picked the DC that serves me best. Hmm. I guess I will ask my bloggers how noticeable it is.

I tossed up hosting in Australia, but the bandwidth is just so utterly ruinous.
I don't think you follow that with a local file system, file stat (basically to see if the timestamp has changed or file modified) can be done directly inside the local memory cache.

On NFS/NAS it cannot be done locally, because other devices may have had access to the remote filesystem and changed files. So it has to travel the network to make the query. Even if it doesn't have to touch the disk remotely and can fetch it from a remote cache, it's significantly slower than local. Even if it's only 1ms per file, if there are 300 files, that's 300ms (a third of a second) on the SERVER side, before it can start sending output to the internet.
It was 1976 and he claims 9 other doctors confirmed the diagnosis.
As Russ (rsc) says, it is not a requirement, but it is easier in my opinion. There are two common operation classes: sweeping while a button is held down and chording invocation. Sweeping is easy, as soon as you learn to hold down a key while sweeping.

Chording is mostly used - except for one specific chord which isn't extremely common to use - for Cut/Copy/Paste. And you already have that on the Cmd-bindings, so they are not that needed.
How is this different than hive? Is there a page that explains what exactly this is?

Edit -- I found this: https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/IMPALA10BETADOC/Impala+Freq...
The nice thing about org-mode is it's as involved as you would like it to be. Sure, the beginning is a bit steep, but if you're already using Emacs, it will be a breeze, and you can keep it light (as pnathan is doing). I've been slowly inching my way into using it over a long period of time; I have to admit, it's quite involved for me, but it never felt forced, it was always "cool, that works nice; but I wonder if I can X?" and with org-mode, you can almost always do X. Or not, if you don't want to. Unlike a lot of other "productivity tools" it's very flexible.
Switching relays and read ADC and GPIOs with Android application
This is small demo code how to access low level resources in Android, in this case A13-OLinuXino is running Android 4.0.3 and have connected MOD-IO board with relays which are controlled by I2C.
Pretty close. We charge you right away (you would have received an email asking to approve the charge) and then use our own card.
If a racer was going to use science to perform optimally, why didn't he just buy a motorcycle? 19th century thermodynamics would push him far past anything he could achieve with 21st century biology.

You might argue that it's against the rules to ride a motorcycle, but so was doping. It's also against the spirit of the sport, but so was doping.

If the objective was to use the best available science to compete at the highest level, then they failed horribly.
It's been a personal goal of mine to make it a habit to write scripts to automate a repetitive task, no matter how minor or rare the task. As long as the solution takes 9 minutes to code to deal with 10 minutes of grunt work. I'd argue, though, that the benefits of practice (and habit building), that it's worth spending 12 minutes of scripting time per 10 minutes of code, even if you never have to run that script again. Obviously, TMMV.

Using Mechanical Turk for proofreading/editing has always appealed to me. I wonder what the OP's results were with that that led him to choose Fiverr instead? As a writer, I would be paranoid about throwing any of my (commercial valuable) work online to the crowd...what if you wrote a script to break your manuscript into sentences and paid 2 cents per sentence? You could only catch within-sentence grammatical errors. But you'd vastly reduce the fear that your work is floating out there for someone to misappropriate.

[pedantic]

There's a grammatical error (I think) in the last sentence of the post ("half an hour an Amazon"):

> You can automate almost all of the boring parts of your life, today, for less than 25 bucks and half an hour an Amazon. And make sure to have your assistant email me telling me how much time I saved you.
SI Prefixes - a plea for sanity