skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have googled a bit about these or similar issues and there are some other maybe or maybe not related bugs in the kernel bugzilla. One was about the GPU randomly not entering the low power states and there a developer commented how many of those power saving parameters are disabled for a good reason and that you shouldn't even report bugs when you have nondefault settings.

There are still a lot of weird bugs for example i915.rc6=1 would produce the problem with the GPU not even entering the (lower) power states that the default settings would.
As technology improves, so does our standard of living.

We also went for millennia without computers and cars, yet we have no problem discussing those. Heck, the species survived without medicine for the vast majority of its existence; yet now we have it we'd never go back (and attempting to do so would be legitimately considered inhumane).

So I fail to see how discussing a sanitation issue is a first-world problem.
1. Uses less water
2. No splash back
You're extrapolating all that from a phone that is manufactured in small quantities and subsidized to the point that it's basically an off-contract phone for an on-contract price selling out?

I don't want or need the thing and I'm thinking about buying it. It undercuts every high end off contract Android phone on the market by about $100-200 while also boasting a much better design and spec sheet.

This is basically a fire-sale at launch. It sold out because it's decent and market-disruptingly (some would argue dangerously) cheap.
the text is wrong. it's not a "brewer without a brewery". It's maybe the opposite.

the brewery and it's brewer are making the beer. This is just a case of a salesman without a factory.

The car analogy is trying to buy a new battery. there's 3 factories, and 999 brands. The work to know which battery will not fail you sooner is to find out which factory puts out the brand you can get cheap on your area. With the beer it's the same. the recipe can be great, but which brewery is making which batch, with water from where?
It's for washing your nether regions.
How is it wrong?

Their original website was taken offline by a (now former) developer, forcing them to change domains. Seems like the title is perfectly accurate.
I sold my Android app on Apptopia and it was really a great experience. I spent 6 weeks developing a really nice, 100% original Android game that I thought was great. I had some IAP and an ad or two, but I never made more than $10 from the game. Nonetheless, I had 10k+ downloads and it was certainly a high-quality effort. I thought (and still think) that there was money to be made from the game I just didn't have time to execute. I listen on Apptopia with a high price of $2500, being totally honest about my ~$0 revenue so far. A few months later, I had an offer and my app was sold. The process was easy and I'd recommend it to anyone with a side project they don't have time to maintain. Also I'd like to personally vouch for Apptopia's founder, Jon. I have been in email contact with him since the early days of the website and he will work incredibly hard to sell your app if you list it. He personally found my buyer for me and made the deal happen.
Sensationalist because it is false, and misleads you in a way that makes you believe this is a bigger deal than it actually is.

Nothing is offline. All that has changed is the domain. "Cyanogenmod" is not offline. "cyanogenmod.com" is offline, but everything that was there is at "cyanogenmod.org" so even saying "cyanogenmod.com is offline" would be misleading.

Also, the "taken offline by developer" part is patently false. The website was taken offline by someone who donated the domain name, and is now using it to try and make affiliate deals and extort the developer.

Really, there is an actually interesting story here. The title could be "cyanogenmod.com hijacked by rogue admin"; that is just as interesting, and actually true. Almost nothing about "Cyanogenmod taken offline by developer" is true.
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There is a list of known issues with the latest nightlies[1]. I was talking about the international version of S2 (i9100), because that is what I tried CM10 on a few weeks ago.

[1]http://teamhacksung.org/wiki/index.php/CyanogenMod10:GT-I910...
I checked out the InstaCart source code because I had a hunch it was built with Bootstrap. The header comments were hilarious.

"Yes, it's Bootstrap.
Don't like it?
Join us and fix it. Email &#106;&#111;&#098;&#115;&#064;&#105;&#110;&#115;&#116;&#097;&#099;&#097;&#114;&#116;&#046;&#099;&#111;&#109;
"

Maybe I will email jobs@instacart.com ...
From the couple of eps I watched it still is a little reality tv style. But compared to this show it is great.
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It sounds like way too hi-tech. I guess people around the world are pretty much happy to get the job done one way or another. I know that there are people who wipe and people who wash. Then some others who do things I probably don't know how to imagine.

If you're not keen on using a piece of paper to smudge your shit into your anus more permanently than necessary, then there are always bidet showers (without the bidet sink, it's just an extra shower with a smaller outlet). Wikipedia says "Its [bidet shower] use is very common in Finland, romance speaking countries, arab countries and other countries of muslim background."

So, the dry and wet options are already covered to most countries' likings and the spraying toilet seat doesn't effectively offer any groundbreaking improvements in the appropriate department.
No, we (Thai, Laos, and Cambodian) do eat with our hands. Chopsticks were a cultural import from the Chinese.
Just reading the title, I was under the impression that CyanogenMod itself was no longer available from the developer, not just the website. I'm not sure if "sensationalist" is the right word, but, it wouldn't pass an editor's muster.
Does anybody know how this "rogue" webmaster took undue advantage of the CyanogenMod brand? The Facebook post states something about referral deals with community sites. Any idea what that would mean in practical terms?

Just curious.
basica b:donkey.bas

Wonderful.
Looks to me like a lot of search results return cyanogenmod.com, which suggests that many bookmarks are now broken.
Swiping up to move closer feels natural to me. Perhaps it is the other platforms that are wrong?
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> Intel peripherals is true today, but wasn't really true ten years ago.

Absolutely. Linux was a nightmare to get properly working then. Trust me, I remember. You essentially bought hardware that you knew was going to work. You couldn't buy anything just off-the-shelf and expect it work.

Same problem with mobile.

> So my real question is why do the old drivers have to leave the tree or at least become perma deprecated?

Because Google keeps messing with the kernel? Which is fine, they have to move the platform forward.

> Is there that many breaking interface changes for which drivers cannot be mostly mechanically updated?

Most drivers are closed source. You only have binaries. This is truly unfortunate. So if the manufacturer of the component doesn't release the source (almost never happens) or a new device goes on the market with the same component and updated Android (almost never happens), you're stuck in a very unfortunate place.

Even the slightest change will break everything.

> I know this is a problem that the kernel devs managed just fine over the years

No, they didn't manage shit. They hacked. Hacking takes effort and time. Nobody wants to spend time on old hardware.

> I'm not asking for them to conjure up someone to magically do extra work to support my device ..

You are asking that because ...

> I'm asking why they don't change their process such that this extra work is unnecessary in the first place.

... this isn't possible.
I'm just back from holiday in Japan. All the toilets I used had heated (tepid) water. To me that's what made the difference between pleasant and what could have been awful.
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Amazon, Google and Starbucks before the select committee in the UK.

Some great wriggling from these companies as to why they don't need to pay tax in the UK.
How do you "click" with your finger...

MS should buy these guys before they go live. This seems like the perfect accessory for Windows 8.

Being able to "touch" the screen without actually touching it would solve a lot of problems with finger prints on monitors and also make Win8 on non-touch machines more intuitive.
Yes, perhaps "sensationalist" wasn't the right term; "false" would have been better. Cyanogenmod is not offline, and it wasn't the developer who took anything offline.
It's confusing at the very least. "CyanogenMod [domain] taken offline by developer" vs "CyanogenMod [project] taken offline by developer"
Oh, I didn't realize. Although, that title is a little strange. CyanogenMod is fine, they moved it to .org.
Because the title doesn't say "the website" was taken offline. It suggests CyanogenMod itself is no longer available from the developer.

Imagine the headline "LA Lakers Closes!" That tells me the basketball team is no more. But, if instead their website was closed for a planned relaunch, then the headline should read "LA Lakers' Website Closes!" or "LALakers.com Closes!"
Well they want to know how many people were lied to, it is mentioned at the end.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? Web presentation of dynamic content tends to be rectangular by nature; do you mean the "static breakpoints" responsive design style rather than the "fluid layout with breakpoints" design style?

We went the fluid route to try to accommodate as many screens/devices/orientations as possible without wasting a ton of space; a more rigid design is definitely sharper (and frankly, would be easier to produce), but we're gunning for a design that works on just about any screen size or aspect ratio, and found that rigid designs weren't cutting it.

Totally fair if you don't like, it, though. What would be the first thing you'd change?

(I don't lead design, so it's not my call; I'm just curious)
Great! Looking forward to it
What does the site actually do? That's my biggest question! Nobody likes signing up for a service without knowing what they will get and how much it will cost. I would add two more pages: 1 that shows screenshots and describes the benefits to potential users, and another with pricing charts. I would also replace the video with some descriptors. I, personally can't watch video at work and if this is the main source of information, your cutting anyone without sound out of your potential user base.
Yeah; the Earth would remain warm for millennia -its 55 degrees underground only a few feet all year around. I always wondered, why didn't these people just live in a basement or underground garage or cave or something? Would have massively simplified their lives.
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Actually from the CM post:

> Refusing to be extorted for funds, and then being threatened is “ending it bitter”? Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too.

At one point CyanogenMod.com was down. The title could be clearer on that for sure, but I don't think it was meant to be sensationalist.
I think inheritance basically _is_ composition plus self-recursion.

You get into trouble because of the self-recursion. Any time a base class method calls another base class method, that call is part of the class's interface, because when you extend the class, the call will be redirected to the subclass' method.

But how many base classes have documentation for every self-call that can be redirected in such a manner?

See e.g. the "hashtable with plurals" example:

http://norvig.com/java-iaq.html#super
I'm not saying that this isn't a big deal. I'm saying that the headline is false. It implies that Cyanogenmod itself has been taken down by its developer. That is not true at all. The domain name has been taken down by the person who donated in the first place, and is now trying to make a quick buck off of it.

Sure, bookmarks may break. Yes, it's an important story. But Cyanogenmod has not been taken offline by its developer.
Or just take a shower afterwards.
I was speaking of a model of how python does things, based on a C style implementation. Not an explanation of how C works.
I haven't tried the service since I'm not in the coverage area but it would be nice if you could take a pic of a grocery reciept and let it automatically import an order
The trouble with the micro-payments (micro, campaign-funding-wise) is that they are not vetted in the same way that larger payments are. Pardon my ignorance, but would it not be trivial for a foreign entity to take advantage of this and create a great many small payments from disparate sources (prepaid credit cards and such)? I understand there was some minor hand-wringing over this prospect in the most recent US presidential election.
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I suck at design and I think omitting the sketch step is part of the reason why.

Dick Tracy poster is great.
Unless you've got a ridiculous RAID array, there's plenty of times where processing anything over 100GB without a cluster is going to suck. Sequentially reading 1TB of data is going to take a few hours even with a RAID array, or be very expensive with SSDs.

I maintain a database that's over 1TB and Oracle handles it very well. The trick there is understanding that, under absolutely no circumstance should you ever need to do a full table scan, because the table isn't designed for that.

So, I'd argue that a monolithic database is okay even up to 10TB even with slower disks as long as you never need to touch more than 10% of it. If you need to touch 100% of the data 100% of the time, I'd say anything over 100GB is too big for one machine.

The reality is that it just depends. There's times where you're going to want a hadoop cluster even for only 16GB of data, and there's going to be times where a database is going to be fine with 10TB of data.
This article needs a demo video.
"betrays the spirit of what startup culture is supposed to be" is probably implied by "reality show"
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An innovation agenda to help people win the race against the machines
Yes, that's the black and white market vs government worldview. The App Store thing turns this black and white thinking on its head. It is oligopolistic from a practical standpoint, for people making and distributing of mobile applications.
It's kind of like the difference between the Joint Strike Fighter and the Chia Pet.
This is the worst article I have ever read regarding programmers vs engineers
once hacker, always hacker^^
It is about the balance though. Sure everyone goes to parties, I wouldn't devote most of an episode to it unless it was relevant to what they were doing.

Clearly though it isn't directed at the majority of people working in startups, who would be way more interested in what the characters were building and how they were doing it.
Encountering tech support people that would fail a Turing test is not nearly as rare as one would want it to be.
and before that:

cp -a project project.$TODAY
No, they stand because that part of the world is used to squatting when they go to the bathroom. The "toilet as throne" model is from the west. Over there, historically, toilets are built into the floor. The toilet bowl is a rounded-rectangle depression in the floor rather than something that sticks out of it. You stand with one foot on either side of the bowl and squat while you do your business.

I prefer Western toilets (I'm American), but think the squat-strategy has a lot of sense to it: you never touch anything, and the squat position angles your body "just right" if you know what I mean. It's just a bit awkward for us (Westerners) when you're not used to holding that body position, though.

There, now I can cross off "get into public internet discussion of pooping strategy" from my life goals list. :)
This. My first thought was that CM was no longer available. I did not think anything of the domain.
The title was NOT sensationalist, and the change here is a loss of information. They aren't "transitioning" to a .org, their domain was stolen. the .com shouldn't be trusted at this point, as it has apparently been taken over by some rogue former-team-member.

edit: thanks to the mod that fixed it :)
So, we're done here.
Code Complete was a huge influence for me, but the book (understandably) focused on procedural modules and abstract data types. I still refer to some of the book's cartoons about information hiding when I think about code. :)

The book that brought me OO enlightenment was Eric Evans' Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software. The book is quite dry and, in the small, it seems to describe nothing new, but by the end it was quite deep.

For impatient readers, I recommend Abel Avram and Floyd Marinescu's Domain-Driven Design Quickly, available as a free PDF: http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly
Eventually crashed Safari on my rMBP, but this seems to be a trend, so possibly Safari's fault (and would explain why WebGL is not enabled by default).

In any case, great visualisation. Would be a perfect use for a 3D monitor.
I think it happened, but everyone screamed and/or crapped their pants, and ran the other direction.

ActiveX and DCOM.

(shudder)
I can't wait till we get to the point where you can pretty much buy any phone, download your favorite Linux/Android distribution, hit install and watch it come alive.

Phones are computers these days. And this is how we deal with computers, right? We keep installing Ubuntus, Fedoras, Windows, even OS X on any x86 box. We've got decades of experience of doing that.

The current phone market resembles the 80's home computer market: there were dozens if not hundreds different computers that were incompatible with each other. In the 90's the PC architecture had won and Linux started to be usable with the most basic components. In the 00's it became commonplace to be able to install Linux on nearly any computer you could buy off the shelf and expect 99% of things to work out of the box.

It would take till 2040 to reach this on phones if it took the same time. However, given the faster development and evolution of the phone ecosystems I would expect that we'll hit that target in 2020's or so. By then, the cpu+gpu+modem variations have converged to a few well-known architectures for which open source drivers are available. They might be slower or consume a little more power than the original drivers but nevertheless at least you can boot your phone with your own software that you downloaded somewhere.
I am reading it for the information it conveys not the emotions it evokes.
Because not every criminal can become a Frank Abagnale. It's very possible that Withered Rose is legitimate now, but the reluctance to install his code is not unreasonable.
Roughly half of the characters in your comment are part of platitude-phrases. By my count, exactly zero characters are about how to tell what the right tools are, which would at least have been making a concrete claim. This is unsatisfying.
Was I the only one really hoping for "Reticulating Splines"?
They must have really dedicated customers. That, or their users are required to use their system under the pain of multi-year imprisonment. I see no other way why would anyone agree to suffer through this.
BTW, it is really irritating that the MSVBVM60.DLL shipped with Vista and later and the VB6 ActiveX controls shipped with MS08-070 and later has no symbols on the public symbol server (MS had provided DBGs and PDBs for older versions of these in the past).
Obligatory reference http://xkcd.com/932/
I'd say its not worth it at all though I last tried it a couple years back and don't know what the current versions are like. But if they still use the same click on a picture method, I'd say no. But it also depends on what your goals are. For me I don't care about grammer or reading because I never need to use this, all I need is to speak/understand spoken language. Anyway, I wouldn't say I'm an linguist but I speak 4 languages fluently and have learned 3 foreign ones in my life and of all courses I've ever tried the pimsleur method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimsleur_method) is the one I think best simulates a real language environment if you're not fortunate enough to be able to surround yourself in the language. Also I've found listening to the radio in a foreign language is a big help because you're forced to concentrate to know whats going on unlike tv.

hope this helps, good luck :)
For me, the db being in pure-python means a db that can be easily extended or augmented. If you have some quirky requirement your options are 1) implement this in the client, or 2) modify your db. Option 1 is probably what most people opt for (how many people have the confidence to dig into postgres/mysql source, how many of these people want to?), and a pure-python db makes option 2 more feasible.
I find it amazing you talk about mindsets that keep us in the status quo, and then you disparage IDE users and write a post full of hacker news groupthink regurgitation. I've noticed the type of person who hate IDEs tend to fall much more into the religious and close-minded crowd than those who don't. Most people I know who use IDEs are perfectly competent at an editor like emacs/vim and simply prefer different tools, but that doesn't stop many people who prefer text editors from trying to feel superior by stereotyping IDE users as paint-by-number morons incapable of embracing the beauty of the command line. It's a traditionalist and condescending attitude that I think is holding us in the status quo more than something like OO's popularity, because there are all sorts of cool programming language ideas you can come up with if you're willing to sacrifice the source code being easily edited by a text editor. Yet we see far less experimentation there then we do with functional programming languages, and I think that's because functional languages are perceived as cool and smart but IDEs are associated with the philistine class of programmers.
Really? I never saw anyone eating with their hands in SE Asia, well, anything but street food. Its hard to eat a rice or noodle dish with your hands, especially without bread!

Genuinely curious.
Yeah that poster is sick, and the notes he wrote next to his sketches are really interesting to read
For developers, tool problems are people problems.

Can I get quick answers to questions about this language? Are there plugins for this IDE for the kinds of programs we write? Are there mature, well documented libraries for our problem domain?

For languages, especially, the culture around the language is probably more important than the language itself.

So arguments about tool sets are indirectly judgments on entire programming cultures, and humans are pretty passionate and defensive when they feel like their cultural values are under attack.
I am not codewright, but we had troubles with sphinx on search queries containing larger number of terms (for us hiccups started after 100 terms or so). Besides, setting up delta-indexing is PITA and extensibility/configurability is limited. We ended up using solr (which is a memory hog) but at least it works.
Is it time to create a new Facebook account? I am so totally not liking this.
This is incredible, and with all the positional, magnitude, and spectral information publicly available, anyone could do it.

I would really love to see a search box that would allow me to jump to a specific star.