skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably should have been "almost never what one wants," but that's quibbling over English. Even if it were true that there were no mechanism for doing remoting on Wayland (which isn't the case; remoting just moves to a separate layer in the stack, as handled by NX or VNC or whatever), it would still be a reasonable sacrifice, because it's not what most users want. Doing X remoting is the exception, not the rule, and there's no reason for the *nix world to get stuck in the Windows mentality of having to be backwards-compatible with every application and protocol written since the dawn of time. Having a huge networking layer shoved into the middle of the display stack has measurable costs in terms of both maintainability and performance, and users that have any use case other than yours suffer as a result. Android, which is now the most-installed Linux "distribution" (such as it is) ever, had to invent its own display layer because X was a terrifying, bloated hacktastrophe, and they come up with something specific to their platform such that now no other Linux users can benefit from any of their display work. That sucks. Keeping network transparency as a core feature doesn't pass the cost-benefit smell test.
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Ah, I assumed the OP was talking about the TechCrunch article the link goes to.
I find it ridiculous too and I am over 30. Maybe this is just some kind of joke or social experiment. Demanding things that are on the list from a partner or a friend really sounds absurd. But everyone is free to make their own lists and publish them wherever they see fit. In my previous job, I actually saw people chatting via Perforce change-lists :-).
I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm. Late 30s, undisclosed weight ("? I'd like to lose some") and a wall of demands.
Well that's not what we're talking about here. This is a thing too simple for a patent.

I could probably see many things in iOS/the iPhone worth patenting, but this is not one of them.

I'm not against Apple, I'm against ALL useless patents like this and probably many of Samsungs'.
The problem with OKCupid is that most of the profiles are absolutely dire, poorly written with bad photos.

There's also the problem of women getting hundreds of messages so even well written ones will rarely get a response. Not to mention people setting up fake profiles etc.

It's not that unusual in my experience for people who "met online" to have met through forums etc based on a mutual interest rather than a dedicated dating website.
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For people who like this sort of thing, this is exactly the sort of thing that they'll like.

If it works for her, great. Fabulous. Fantastic.

Everyone's life is their own.
On a LAN this doesn't happen unless the power goes down.
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Nobody touches my shell scripts!
Uh, thanks for the wiki link to the dot-com bubble, I guess.

a) I don't really care about. I doubt much has changed and I don't think it was from fiscal necessity. Also, if they were shell-shocked in 2006 I can't imagine things have improved since then. It's actually disappointing as I rather admire IBM's leadership in open source. Alas, much easier to damage a reputation than build and keep a good one.

As for b), okay point taken. So, don't work at IBM, if you can help it.
Sure there is: chemical exposure balance or random variation in the uterine or infant environment.

Fetal alcohol syndrome reliably retards kids, and it isn't genetically inherited. Hypothetically, maybe something like adderall works in utero with lifelong effects.

Also, hypothesis formation should be motivated by data, or else you are wasting time searching through an exponential space with 0 probability of finding a correct one.
I'm actually anti-ROR and not a frontend guy, but information systems can tackle all problems. If there is a problem that can be solvable, the critical step is designing the database (it's why ERP runs all big busineses).
It isn't android. It's the manufacturer skins. AOSP Jellybean runs really smooth on my low end phone. (512 MB ram, 600 MHz processor) But HTC Sense 4 runs like crap.
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I suppose so, even in small companies it's not uncommon for someone to have at least set up google alerts.
Because the quote in the comments is by the author of the article, expanding on what he said in the article?
based on the copy, It looks like Apple is locking Windows users out? I don't see why a Quicktime on Windows wouldn't work though...

EDIT: Based on other replies in the thread, it doesn't look like they're doing that.
Researchers at Fuji Film in Japan and IBM in Zurich, Switzerland, have already built prototypes that can store 35 terabytes of data - or about 35 million books' worth of information - on a cartridge that measures just 10cm x 10cm x 2cm. This is achieved using magnetic tape coated in particles of barium ferrite.

Where does the gain in storage density come from, New Scientist? This article is so breathless to capture the linkbait of using old technology that just about any useful info has been left out. The prototype, at about 4" x 4" x 0.75", is just larger than a desktop HDD, and can hold about 8.5 times as much data as a 4TB 3.5" HDD.

Does barium ferrite allow for tighter magnetic fields, which would allow for a higher data density? If so, is that material being used in spinning disk HDDs? And how does this extremely physically complex system stack up against SSDs, as they lower in cost?
Except all the line formatting gets lost in bash after executing the command; and it is automatically executed.

In zsh you still have the opportunity to inspect it once more when you leave the editor, and it maintains it's multiline format in the history.
Nah, they're just doing it wrong. Let it work like this: You file a patent application, you pay all the fees you'll ever pay to the patent office, up front. No refunds if your patent is not approved, and the number of appeals/filings/whatever is limited to prevent large corporations from throwing lawyers at denials until they're approved.

Then they have an incentive for more applications, but little perverse incentive to approve them.

Of course, if they get a reputation for denying spurious claims then they won't get as many applications from spurious applicants, but that's true regardless of their funding source -- you can't produce a sensible budget without considering the number of applications they're expected to process. If the PTO's goal is budget maximization then they'll want to maximize the number of applications, which means providing incentives (in the form of low standards for patentability) for applicants to file more applications. You can't really fix that without creating some powerful incentives for not approving bad patents, like fining the head of the PTO $100K personally for every patent the PTO approved and the courts have to invalidate.
I'm the founder of Gitlab.com and this is very high on our list of priorities. All our code is open and we will try to merge the changes back into the main project. This functionality is the most upvoted item on our feedback site https://gitlab.uservoice.com/forums/176466-general/suggestio...
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It's not a real problem, those lists go out the window before the first drink is gone. Hers is actually quite good -- friends from school, own server, Drucker... they're usually much dumber than that (the lists, that is).
They're actually referencing the Ryan Gosling meme, not OAG. There's an image of him right on the page.
I think it'll be interesting to see if there are households who have a tablet but not a desktop/laptop. Until that happens, it still feels like a luxury product.
> Also, is there a standard way to make discoverable the http methods that can be applied to a resource?

HTTP OPTIONS method is exactly that. Mind your response headers, they can convey plenty of information about your resources: allowable methods, request and response types mime-types (you can rank type preference as well).

> In practice, does anyone write web service clients that use, and are driven by, link discovery? ...

Documentation is always useful. But HTTP can almost be self documenting for well thought out and linked resources. For link discovery, maybe a standard like HAL (http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html) or similar would be of interest. There is another proposed way as well, I can't think of it at the moment but will add an edit if/when it comes to me.

EDIT: I had poor wording, there are several 'json hypermedia specifications'. Another would be (Collection+JSON http://www.amundsen.com/media-types/collection/). Hope that helps.
BBC has been an underrated vanguard in advancing communications technology.
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TV viewing schedules have taught most US viewers to deal ok with PDT, CDT, etc. These same viewers are less familiar with converting from UTC.
Do you have a citation for that?

According to Nielsen, Americans spend about 35% on "Other", so I'd like to know where your 90% figure comes from.

Page 3 here - http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/social/

Older numbers from 2010 - http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/what-ameri...

At the very least, I think the meme is inaccurate.
It's possible that one doesn't want to be married, and that the impossible standards (which would appear quite reasonable to the conservative/traditional parent) is a neat way to say "see mom, no one fits this very reasonable bill, so lay off!"

Disclaimer: I have Asian parents.
Aha! That explains a lot. I think my expectation from the ted vid was that it was going to be something that wasn't already possible.

But while it's not quite that, it is still cool that it's a framework for non-techies to produce richer video content
Where do you see docs outside of the wiki? (Duh, the rest of the internet...)

Also, where do you get the idea that the issue tracker has been closed? It's possible that the maintainer has gone on hiatus, and there's not as much activity as there was once, but I see they have fresh issues this week and a release just yesterday.

I think that Fossil is a terrific way to introduce anyone to command line, database, and scm who you intend to sell or gift with a 'database' of any kind. It's very odd to me how many people can't wrap their head around the concept of a file, or database, let alone ./configure; make; make install

I think that SQL is the most accessible language to those people, since it fits a simple grammar and statements end in semicolons, and the fact that Fossil repositories can come packaged into a sqlite database file means that two weeks after you got them to try using Fossil to keep their copy, there should be no magic left in the box, you can show them a database and they should 'get it'.

I have not tried this with anyone, but it should work... of course unless they just aren't trying...
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In most arenas, professional photographers have access to the built in strobe lights. You can notice (if you pay attention) to the flashing of the lights when professional is snapping pictures. They typically have little antennas on the top of the camera, so the flash is automated with the shutter. This is most noticeable at hockey or basketball games, where the arena is much smaller and the lights are closer.
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The demo is great. I like the repetition with different ways of asking. It would be nice to have the option of the common English names too, like "iliac crest" instead of "crista iliaca". I'm coming to it from an art perspective rather than a medical one. Does it teach the direction words too? ("anterior", "distal", etc.)
Ah yes, it really is a difference in articulation. I also don't see westerners expressing their "requirements" quite so bluntly, though from private conversations these lists certainly do exist, and are every bit as ridiculous.
Using github for it seems brilliant because she probably sees herself ending up with someone who is on github. If github is where a lot of your potential mates are, of course go there!

Imagine posting that requirement about writing beautiful code on a dating site-- how very few bachelors would even know what means
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I am just surprised the way these companies work. They don't even owe as little as information to their customers and our government enable them to do that.
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One of my most life-changing bash configurations is having history-search-backward / history-search-forward bound to the up and down arrows.

Put the following in your ~/.inputrc

"\e[A": history-search-backward
"\e[B": history-search-forward
"\e[C": forward-char
"\e[D": backward-char
set show-all-if-ambiguous on
set completion-ignore-case on

Now if you type, say:

cat <UP ARROW>

You will cycle through commands in your history that start with the prefix "cat ".
Better translation somewhere in the comments of previous HN submission:

http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4629969
Where does our alphabet come from?
Anal retentive came to my mind.
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For such an incredibly long list of demands... her GitHub profile only listed 4 projects. Very disappointing :p
"I don't discriminate based on looks."

It's always hilarious when women say this, are you saying that somebody with severe disfigurations and scars or someone is morbidly obese would not affect the decision at all?
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The various teletext services in the UK were a powerful connector in the days before a consumer internet. Someone up thread mentioned stock information available to consumers - probably helping contribute to the boom in the general public owning and trading stocks along with the rash of privatizations that happened in the 80s.

Buying discounted airline flights and package tours through the TV; classified listings... all great precursors of online commerce, normalizing it ahead of the revolution that came with the web.

But the strength of Ceefax in particular, among these services was the written content. Well written articles on up to days news (often long before other sources), and sports (instant sports results - an amazing service in its time), which foreshadowed the great BBC website that eventually followed, probably teaching institutional skills that carried over.

Ceefax and the commercial teletext competitors represent another example of where solid government sponsored innovation can have big societal benefits and provide a roadmap for business to follow.
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Yes, they have really been responsive and responsible about the occasional lost package and other shipping problems. When I lived in Scandinavia, there was nothing comparable to Amazon Prime at all in terms of convenience and customer service.
but the subjunctive is used inconsistently in english, and less so in england than in the usa. it's really not as clear as you assert.
I agree that the exposure to female role models is key. At the Stanford Graduate School of Business, we introduced a short course about 6 years ago called "Entrepreneurship from the Perspective of Women." Each year, over a 2 week period, we bring in 25 women entrepreneurs and investors. The impact has been meaningful; in <5 years, women have gone from representing just 12% of the entrepreneurs in a given class to over 25% (remember, women are only 40% of the entire class).
YC can do better than this. Anyone from YC out reading this? I'll even offer to help you!
Wow, how incredibly timely...

Just this morning I was griping to a friend about my frustration at the lack of modern / affordable / convenient / dynamic tools for learning Anatomy & Physiology as it's a course my SO is currently taking.

This looks really, really good. A potential godsend.
Looks good!

When you click 'places' the 'cancel' button to close the popup doesn't work for me (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 ID:20121010235235)

I added a place with a 20 minute radius, then realised I wanted to go back and make it a 30 minute radius. It wasn't obvious how to do that with the UI, I ended up adding another place by mistake.

When I have two places, if I choose place 1, adjust the time radius slider, then I choose place 2 I get a new popup and my previous settings change is discarded. Could the changes auto-save, like when you drag and drop the place marker?

I'd also suggest, after I've picked a price range, instead of the "Property listings will appear here - click anywhere in the orange areas to see what's available in that area." bit why not auto-click somewhere suitable, removing a step from the UI process?

Also, if I could have a house cost heatmap with and without travelcard costs, that would be awesome. At the moment it's easy to visualise travel distances, but a heatmap would let me visualise the travel distance-house cost trade off.

What's your source of train time data? Are transfer times taken into account?
For people who prefert a visual illustration:

http://www.conniewonnie.com/2012/09/single-girl-asian-daught...
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This is correct, Minecraftforum.net is not owned or operated by Mojang, that is done by Curse.
Google Talk has worked this way for years.
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This is not a backdoor. The behavior is expected, intentional and perfectly normal.
Very cool!

One issue - when I enter a place and then a property, I click search and all is good. I then click Property again, which pops up, but the search results cover the "cancel/search" buttons on the Property page. Means I have to reload the site and start over. A button to close the search results, or closing them automatically on smaller screens could be a good thing (I'm on a 1366 x 768 resolution tablet). Unless such a function is there and it doesn't work on IE10.

Some functional enhancements would be great -

- In the Property search box it'd be awesome if I could filter by type (house/flat/etc).

- It'd also be nice to see a price heat map of not just the area covered by a place, but of a wider area around that place. A bigger house for the same money is an incentive for a longer commute.

Otherwise, awesome!
Hm. There might be interest in a tool for learning more about movement etc. in the (strength) traning community. E.g. I would be really interested in learning more about functional anatomy as present in this article for instance: http://robertsontrainingsystems.com/blog/round-back-deadlift...

Perhaps /r/fitness over at reddit and/or /r/weightroom might be able to chime in with some feedback.

Anyways, started at the lower extremities this afternoon and it's been fun so far. :-) Haven't delved into the texts in the library yet, so I'm slowly decoding the meaning of superior/inferior etc. Your approach makes sense.
Are they if I buy them through Amazon?
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Note that you don't need to 'enable' the Meta key in Terminal on OS X.

By default, option does what it does in other programs, allowing you to type alternative characters. If you'd still like to keep that behaviour, you can send meta by pressing escape first -- Meta-b becomes escape, then b.
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I do not want to be a jerk here, but the only reason I joined was the promise of "lifetime" - they can NOT just cancel our accounts does it does not suit them. Please contact me webmaster @ opendomain ORG if you would like to join the class action lawsuit. We already have quite a few people signed up.
Is there a redo to go with undo?
Why does the web still suck at letting people discover others - love interests?
The thread on this girl posting a boyfriend request on Github is symptomatic of the utter lack of a web service that allows people to discover or flirt with others, in a fun and non-creepy way. Anyone else think that love and hapiness deserve better than being shrugged off as corny pursuits, and certainly deserve better than the like of eharmony? What do you think could work?<p>Do you think making flirting a game in which people play to find how others laugh - and who they might like - makes sense? (this is a tough question for me as my startup has been tryng to develop such a game - the beta's here if you wanna try it apps.facebook.com/flirtati )
I completely agree with you, and in general hate when people whine about security where there wouldn't be an expectation of some.

That being said, I think it would be nice if Google made this particular functionality optional. For some shared user environments where you want to maintain the illusion of privacy (e.g. "family computer"), it might be nice to force password to view more sensitive information (e.g. e-mail).

I won't comment on DropBox because I don't expect any better from them with regards to security.
I'd be curious about the practical durability. EBS claims a failure rate of 0.5% per 20 GB per year as per http://aws.amazon.com/ebs/ -- I wonder how an e.g. 200 GB volume on RS would be provisioned (how many drives are involved?). The cheap storage seems to be SATA disks
The reaction to this is a bit interesting.. There's some understanding, some judgement, some cultural explanations, but nobody seems to be asking whether the fundamental question here. With the web doing all it does today, why is it that it still sucks at making people meet one another?
Actually just made that a ask hn if you think this warrants a bit of introspection. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4688533
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> What's always funny about these lists is that they are only based on your previous experience and are not necessarily real predictors of future success.

Probably the same reason and the same problems as with the stereotypical bullet-point-list job requirements.
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Since this is a marketing piece, they should have to put some real money where their mouth is. Typical SLAs don't come close to being punitive for downtime. They might offer to refund the hosting fee for time down in excess of the benchmark, which would not be interesting marketing and does not indicate that they have especially high confidence in their service exceeding its uptime (relative to competitors).
In other words, a tape drive RAID. But since you can use related techniques to improve performance with hard drives, I don't think that will make up much ground for tape drives.
The solution is to unionize. I really don't understand why we don't have an IT union, especially for network ops and engineering - it's a very logical aspect of the industry to standardize and unionize.
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I've seen this problem too with Amazon, though only when I first got the Kindle a couple of years ago. I suspect those books date back to when publishers didn't take ebooks seriously. Now that they do, the formatting / spelling errors have mostly vanished.
Why would anyone keep 3rd party cookies enabled? I have found only 2 or 3 sites that needed to be whitelisted. Everything else works just fine without them.
It was about time.

I wonder if they get more viewers than Redbull on Youtube.