skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Printer drivers seem to be the main one for me, I have a canon network inkjet all-in-one and a xerox 8560. The Canon I finally located the Linux network print and scan drivers finally on a UK or AU Canon site (which had an easy to fix glitch in the install file, Google around - you'll find them). For the 8560 had to get the Windows PPD from the Xerox site as the Linux drivers section was inaccessible and the pre-installed CUPS one didn't recognize paper handling. Still get a constant "printer is out of ink" warning - but it prints.

When it comes to laptops number one becomes the wireless card.

I usually avoid video issues by making sure the computer has an nvidia card or laptop has an nvidia chipset- learned my lesson there.
Ask HN: Have you had a good experience with ordering from Lenovo?
I've noticed over the past year that quite a few people around here prefer Lenovo laptops. I've been shopping around for something small and light, like the X230. (also looked at the MB Air) The X230 looks like a great machine at a great price, but I keep seeing posts in several different forums that claim ordering a computer directly from Lenovo (the only way to get a decent discount) is a nightmare and that the company takes forever to process and ship orders. I have also heard that if your system has a problem that you are pretty much on your own because their support is almost non-existent. Is anyone willing to share their opinion on Lenovo? Thanks.
Programmer 'quadruples productivity' after hiring woman to slap him
Are individual users still dependent on python2 on the desktop? I thought people were supposed to migrate years ago, and automated tools did most of the work.
> ...if the satellite is also being used for things like sat-phones...

And, reading between the lines, that right there is possibly your biggest clue. Beyond the juvenile intrigue of someone breaking something just to see if they can, or even some chintzy politically motivated anti-propaganda operation, another motive might lie in assisting/disrupting (depending on whose side your on) clandestine operations in a specific geographic area.

It's tempting to wonder if maybe it's just some Greek crypto-anarchists horsing around, but more likely it'd be someone with heavy-weight resources and know-how like CIA/GRU agents operating in Syria.

From the article:
"...together with a number of other broadcasters, is experiencing deliberate, intermittent interference to its transmissions to audiences in Europe and the Middle East."
FWIW Saumil is good dude, doing good stuff.

Note to Saumil: use a "spinner" script next time buddy. ;)
Do you have examples or references? My experience is that dishonest people usually reveal themselves in small ways, even when they get skilled at simulating positive traits.
I got this same message several days ago, and I assumed it had been mass-sent, based on the fact that my name wasn't mentioned anywhere in the message body and the phrasing was extremely generic.

I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that jason_slack would come to the same conclusion as I did, and claiming this is 'defamation' is absurd and baiting, especially given that you'd seen confirmation it HAD been sent to multiple users when you wrote this.
It's funny how we've been taught for years not to use eval for "security reasons" and I always thought "eh, how much harm can someone do in their own browser? But I won't use eval anyway."

...then Node came along and I vowed to never consider eval even an option. I mean, that's a HUGE risk if you eval any user input on the server side. In fact, the only valid use I've seen for eval is template engines like Jade, but they don't touch user input.
Or genuinely reach out to people individually who you think might be a good match for your company, and not just bulk-contact anyone who has an email address listed you find?
LibreOffice 3.5.7 Released
I thought of this same idea awhile ago and then realized that http://apptoto.com (stupid domain name) beat me to it. It has great integration with Google Calendar and is less expensive than your service.

p.s. I own MissReminder.com if you want to buy it. imho potential for much better branding... ;-)
Is anybody else excited that the future hope of North Korea is one letter away from being called Kim 'Han Solo'?? Awesome.
I received this a few days ago, and only got around to replying this afternoon, to quickly ask for more details.

It felt like a bulk-send to me when I first looked at it, too generic, with no indicator of why they might want to work with me. If they're looking for JavaScript guys I'm especially surprised they contacted me.

I definitely don't think this is cool - contacting someone you find via HN because you have something relevant to discuss: that's actually awesome. Mass sending the same generic message to anyone who lists an email address: that's just spam.
What if one of the libraries you call into use it?
I agree, but I feel the more likely scenario is the 40 year old with domain expertise who is rationally confident he could strike out on his own but is hindered for fear of losing health insurance/income not only for himself, but for his family. The current conditions seem to discourage these individuals from starting companies in favor of the far more common mid-20s silicon valley web junkie who has far less to lose and a minute chance of success.
Well, appendicitis can kill you, so theoretically, it's always worth the money.

On the other hand, when clever people notice this and decide to get in on that infinite, inelastic demand, the rest of society tends to get grumpy.

Hence the ceaseless political trench warfare over how to pay for health care since the Johnson administration.
Ask HN: Splitting profits between a programmer and a sysad/network engineer?
Hi guys!

Let's say my friend and I got a nice freelance job going that pays a lot. I did the software dev and he does the sysad and networking duties. How do we split the profits?

To make it a bit more complicated, what if we outsourced some of the tasks. How do we know how much to split?

Any help/comments/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for helping us out!
There are a handful of partisan issues that are attached to renewable energy -- things like government funding (particularly through the stimulus bill), related allegations of favoritism and corruption, and climate change related regulation (cap & trade, etc.)

For example, a handful of "green energy" companies received stimulus funding and later went bankrupt; this has led to a great deal of partisan bickering over whether Obama is wasting taxpayer money, or whether we should leave it to private enterprise to figure out renewable energy. So while the concept of renewable energy is non-partisan, policies/discussion relating to funding and regulation of renewable energy can be quite partisan.

EDIT: http://www.people-press.org/2011/11/10/partisan-divide-over-... - see the chart near the bottom, titled "Partisan Gaps over Energy Policies".

I would say something similar is the case with respect to many other issues that sound non-partisan, like national parks -- peripheral issues like government funding and restrictions on private enterprise (logging on federal land?) can lead to a fairly significant partisan divide, even on issues that don't seem controversial.
>I don't think that decreasing risk will result in more entrepreneurship.

TOTALLY disagree, as well as with folks who are saying that "risk is an important part!"

For one thing, there are a series of studies that show that people who are more risk tolerant actually create worse start-ups (for example, [1]). There is at least one meta-analysis that indicates that there's more risk tolerance in entrepreneurs (though the individual studies on that point are contradictory) [2], but OF COURSE there's risk in going off on your own, the biggest one being the opportunity cost of the cushy salary you're foregoing for a year.

No, it's not for everyone. But that doesn't mean that people who start businesses are reckless, and it is HARD to get a good price on health insurance in most states -- and if you get badly sick in the US WITHOUT health insurance, you're screwed (if and when the health insurance reform kicks in, this could change).

I personally refused to quit my job until I knew I'd be able to get health insurance, and it was much harder than I expected despite not having any health problems (as in, I was denied by two providers and had to get the "high risk pool" insurance). So I think it would be effective to reduce the risks of entrepreneurship for people in my situation (i.e., over 35 years old). It's risky enough to begin with; no reason to make it a matter of life-and-death as well.

[1] http://paraplyen.nhh.no/sfiles/85/88/1/file/hvide-panos-2012...

[2] http://psycnet.apa.org/?&fa=main.doiLanding&doi=10.1...
> can be used as the middle sandwich layer with carbon fiber.

I've learned a lot about FRP construction and I've never heard of cork used as a core matarial. Are you sure you're not thinking of Balsa?

Balsa is a hardwood despite being so light, so it has capillaries in it. The wood is cut into blocks and then the end-grain is pressed into the wetted-out FRP mat. The resin in the mat is drawn into the balsa through capillary action forming a very secure bond.

Manufactured foam core material doesn't have capillaries and therefore has trouble forming a bond with the resin. If you're using foam instead of balsa core, the manufacturer will specify a bonding agent that you need to use between the mat and the core.

If cork were to be used as a core, I'd think it'd have the same problem bonding with the resin as foam has, and you'd have to use a special bonding agent formulated for the cork.

EDIT: Heh, after posting I decided to google around for cork FRP core. It turns out there is a company selling a core material manufactured from cork: http://www.mcmc-uk.com/products-corecork.html; most of the users of it I can find are surfboard builders though. Here's a not-very-long thread about it on boatdesign.net: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/materials/corecork-material...
They should let people pledge donations to increase the bounty.
Pacman presents 6 Cool Tech Acquisitions for 2012
Invert the colors, and there you have it ;-)
But both are intended for consumption primarily by computers, so that shouldn't (heavily) weigh into a decision to use one over the other.
Why is rooftop solar cheaper in Germany than in the U.S.?
Or even just Silicon Valley really. Is the number of successful startups coming from the rest of the US really that high internationally?
I take some prescription allergy pills. Probably cost the same as your birth control medication.

The catch? I signed up over the phone. I made sure to stress how I won't be going through the insurance for these, how it won't be a cost for them. A human on the other end of the line - no matter how dedicated he is to finding a reason to say no - is better than a soulless piece of paper.
Great Article. Thanks.

You might find the following research interesting.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/privacy-by-design/
Maybe the writer should email the CEO or whoever it was that a week or 2 back was announcing Paypal's brave new era of happiness, joy and customer service.
If you care about good journalism, follow the source. This is Engadget aggregating an Ars Technica story. That's fine -- there are good reasons for aggregation -- but if you are going to share on social networks, take the time to click to the original and reward the real reporting -- in this case from Dan Goodin.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/apple-removes-java-from...
Blue Cross Blue Shield IL.
1. Price and wage controls weren't forcing companies to compete on benefits, starting us down a path of employer-linked health insurance.

2. People paid for their medical expenses directly providing direct feedback into the system.

3. Less gov't red tape constricting the supply of medical care.
Very professional looking. Did you design this yourself?
Swamp/Evaporative coolers are popular in western US. We had one in Colorado and worked extremely well and was cheap to operate. Not very good wine country though.
Nginx is open source and easily auditable. Huawei's products are not. Trust, but verify.
> It IS acceptable to reach out to people on HN

If you have something to say to or ask of me, personally, I'm all ears! But it's lazy and discourteous to blast out a half-true template to e-mail addresses you've harvested from the site.

I was at least entertained by "I saw your submissions," which is vacuously true because my submissions are an empty set ;)
Today was my first real usage of PostGres (moving one of our assetdb from sqlite to it, and although the update of the db is 5 time slower - well I haven't really done well there, the query later (which is more important) is from 1.5sec to 300msec on one recent example - about 100,000 assets for a video game).

I've also looked briefly about fdw, as a coworker of mine is trying out mongodb for our level editor... Looked at all implementation and read the every fdw code there (except oracle - as it seems most complex, but for good I guess - it checks the pgsql's AST (is that how it's called?) more deeply).

As for redis, maybe this line is relevant:

https://github.com/dpage/redis_fdw/blob/master/redis_fdw.c#L...

yes, for certain cases (I guess "select ") it does "keys ". I'm also trying out redis for our distributed caching in the studio.

So PostGres is my new favourite thing :) - the fdw looks easy to start, but probably hard to master it.
also multiple class support like that only goes back so far
After I get an unwanted robocall, I want to dial "*RC" for "RoboCall". I get a credit on my next phone bill for 25 cents. The phone company charges the originator 50 cents. Now the phone company has an incentive to track all robocalls. And I have a little compensation for my time.
The term "spinner script" was new to me; here's basically what it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_spinning
Unlike the previously built-in Java, Oracle's Java plugin doesn't seem to work with Chrome on the Mac due to Chrome being 32 bit. Anyone know a workaround?
Well, it's not really something you can turn off. When I saw Tony Stark crash in the sand, the effect on me was very much the same as if I'd seen his head disintegrated by a shotgun blast. I was viscerally sure he was dead.

If you haven't seen it recently, here's the scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ1cyUN9RuY#t=5m01s

I mean, I know it's a superhero movie, and I still wince at the force of the impact. It's like watching someone get hit by a speeding bus -- only the average superhero would destroy the bus and slow down over its length. The sand actually stops him.
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Rails newbie here: Can someone explain how ActionController::Live compares to websockets and other similar technologies? Pros + Cons + if my comparison is even sensible?
Rendering templates obsolete
You misunderstand individual freedom. Freedom, in the context of a "free nation", isn't freedom from consequences or risks (even those out of a person's control), it's freedom from the imposition of state-sponsored force. This is an important distinction. We all invite a little state-sponsored force into our lives (i.e. the persecution of violent crimes, the civil court system, etc). Your version of "freedom" actually requires state-sponsored force at a fairly low threshold: if someone can't pay for their own health insurance or medical bills you're going to force others to pay it for him. You're not asking for voluntary donations, you're taking with the threat of legal consequences. That can't be congruent with any meaningful definition of freedom.
Opal is a Ruby to Javascript compiler
Google’s Stock Takes A Dive After Accidental Mid-Day Earnings Release
What sort of small ways?
Yes. Additionally, blocking access past 100k also stops one client from being the-tail-that-wags-the-dog too. Imagine a dispute where Twitter faced blocking the chosen mode of access to a significant percentage of users, or caving to the client owner.
I really liked they mention that although Apache is not as efficient at handling a large number of concurrent conections and uses more memory, it's still the preferred web server for a number of reasons.
I would have liked to know which version of Apache and which MPM they used.
I'd make a realistic list of hours worked, both take your hours * hourly rate out of the total, pay the outsourcing fees and divide the rest 50/50.
Awesome, always wanted to learn graphviz. Now need one for tex
The issue was with rails' default 255 character limit on strings. Quick change to a text field with no limit fixed things. Small oversights like this truly make me feel like a #NoobNinja :)
I've been on Ubuntu for years. Whatever pains I had were minor annoyances compared to pains experienced while using Windows up to version 7, which was considered to be good compared to the others. Windows is only friendly until you have a problem, after which you're screwed. I mean I'm a freaking dev and I can't figure out how to investigate problems on Windows which start to happen after maybe 4-5 months of usage, after which the probability of reinstalling it completely converges to one.

OSX is the most user-friendly of the 3. However with Ubuntu you get freedom in all senses of the word. People complain that Ubuntu has hardware issues, yet they never tried building a Hackintosh, not to mention that you're not allowed to do it anyway. Of course you have more problems on Ubuntu with hardware, but there is hardware supported out of the box and for the others for any issue you may have at least you'll find a solution.

For me Ubuntu represents freedom. Freedom to fix issues with it, freedom from a gatekeeper, freedom to own it entirely in every possible way. I see that few people, few devs actually, place emphasis on the ability to own something. And then they get pissed off when the gatekeeper changes the rules. Well, you make your bed, you sleep in it and so on.
How do you use this when different people are responsible for the layout/design and the js?
You can still preserve modularity by pulling styles and markup into their own JavaScript modules and requiring them as you would any other module.
I switched from FreeBSD as my desktop to OSX about four years ago because:

a) I needed a unix based desktop

b) I needed end user components (browser, printing, etc.) that just worked

Circa 2008, everything in Safari "just worked" - every site, every player, every piece of embedded bullshit on every little web 2.0 site blah blah blah.

But now I need to manually futz around with flash every two weeks to keep it working ... and now java as well ?

I think OSX still has an edge for me, in terms of getting things done, due to printing and ... ? It's getting awfully close to even, though.
It is not responsive down to the images, so nothing much of use now.
If you want to be proper, you're forgetting to add the 'u' to the end of ohayou and arigatou :P
That and with a better battery (sure they will come out or exist in some form) it becomes much nicer.

Though the 16GB storage, thought even with the Nexus 7 they are dropping the 16Gb and replacing with a 32GB as the new top end model. But this is the base model. Even adding a 4-cell battery and an a base of 40gb would of been a nice move and offered a longer lasting platform.

That all said I recently got me a netbook cheap on clearance, 2gb ram built in 3g modem...Even if I stuck a 80gb ssd in there it would still work out cheaper. Though this does look appealing as a grandparent/parent pressy given the time of year. Just show them how to email google and your covered; Very tempting.
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Interestingly enough, according to one post I read just today, that's exactly what Chinese factory employers are doing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/10/18/foxconn_facto...
Maybe instead of blocking, put this caller on a "hellban" list, where the calls go through but are redirected to robolisteners. Perhaps patch two robocallers with each other.
If the phone company is going to charge the originator, they'd have to verify that the call you reported was actually an illegal RoboCall. Some dishonest people might report people whom they know but don't want to hear from as RoboCalls. Others might erroneously report organizations that are legally allowed to call them, like companies with which they had a business relationship or political candidates. Verifying that each claim was valid would probably cost the phone company much more than 50 cents.
"Actor-based Concurrency via Lou Bega's Mambo No. 5"
Creightit
Penalties for disagreeing?
It was created by http://bost.ocks.org/mike/ Mike Bostok. https://github.com/mbostock/bl.ocks.org is the site.
Interestingly time.gov/ still requires an applet to run. I often find schools and test centers using them because of its accuracy. Wonder why they still haven't switched to javascript yet, maybe "if it ain't broke, don't fix" mindset.
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Yes, his English is great. Much better than my Spanish or Korean.

No, it's very possible to never lose your accent. I have German/Swiss landlords who have lived in the US for decades, and they still struggle with English, as well as Southeast Asian and Mexican folks who do the same. I'm sure I'd be the same way if I up and moved to Russia, for example.
> The less Java, the better.

That's a pretty broad generalization. As Java+Scala programmer I personally seldom use, see or write Java applets. Advocating against the use of Java in general is just silly however. Java (+other JVM languages) is very well suited to backend systems, and with the addition of modern web frameworks like Play it's pretty good choice for frontend work too. Java (+other JVM languages) is used heavily by companies like Google, Amazon, Twitter etc.

> At the risk of sounding a bit ridiculous

You do indeed sound ridiculous, especially since it's just Apple no longer maintaining their own Java plugin, but letting customers install the official plugin from Oracle, just like customers do for every other major operating system.
Don't forget Runescape, one of the biggest MMORPG's in the world, which uses Java for it's 3D front end client, but even they will be gone soon; they're moving to HTML5.
I'm with you. Switched from Linux in about 2003, but lately I've been trying to get back into Linux (Ubuntu, as if that matters). I feel like the walls are closing in and I don't like it.
We need to define risk here. Startups are risky and most fail. That doesn't change, even if we gave people free health insurance and other benefits.

Jon Stewart is arguing to increase the safety net so that downside of failure is less harsh. It won't make the downside scenario less likely, just not as brutal for those who experience it.

But I bet his proposal would INCREASE the risk of failure for precisely that reason. People are more likely to hustle harder when their livelihood depends on it [1]. For example, the social safety net is higher across most of Europe and I bet the level of entrepreneurship is higher in the US (I wish I had data about this, please share it if you do).

[1] This reminds me of the AirBNB founders selling Obama O's. Such great hustle: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/airbnb.html
Sorry to be negative, but I've personally found that people who offer me prizes, money, etc to help others result in my choosing not to. I have people who are willing to pay me real money to help.

But places where I get involved in discussions, I'm willing to offer valuable advice on.

Since this draws a distinction between people who get and receive help, and discourages public discussion, I can't see myself getting involved. Sorry.
Older (by nearly 20 years) version of the same gag:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei2WhctlRHY
September 2012: eleven Cisco vulnerabilities