skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then he happened to be having breakfast with Sting, a friend from his days in the music business. Mr. Jahnigen told him how soccer helped the children in Darfur cope with their troubles and his efforts to find an indestructible ball. Sting urged Mr. Jahnigen to drop everything and make the ball. Mr. Jahnigen said that developing the ball might cost as much as $300,000. Sting said he would pay for it.

Well...that's always helpful.
I generally use wget myself. For basic HTTP debugging needs, I run ":%!wget -Sd http://www.example.com inside a new vim buffer. Then I can read the Varnish headers or whatever and figure out what's going on.

I ran into an issue where the SSL implementation was a bit dated, though, and didn't recognize how a GoDaddy cert implemented multiple hostnames -- but it turned out to follow the standard. wget was just lacking in its implementation and reporting an error when the cert was fine.
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Navy seals who killed Bin Laden disciplined for role with video game
Not a Brit, but yeah, it is football to the world at large.

Congratulations to Sting and Tim Jahnigen, this is heart warming.

Regarding the cost of the balls, I think when you factor in a 30 year life and assume a cost of $30 per ball, we are looking at a $1/year cost. The up front cost might be higher, and that is an issue, but the actual cost per ball/year is a heckuva lot less. I'm not sure what kind of calculation Unicef is doing when they say “compared to the $2.50 we pay for a regular football, the current cost difference for the more durable solution is currently too high.”
Mate Desktop is a fork/rename/continuation of Gnome 2.
> ...even though financial institutions are wanting to saddle the average consumer with more debt.

This isn't a rebuttal to your comment specifically, but it illustrates perfectly why bankruptcy ought to be easier and apply to more categories of debt. A lender operates on risk assessment. If provided lending categories where they can saddle debtors with obligation that follows them to their grave, the risk drops significantly. Thefore, in a poor lending market, lenders will gravitate toward lending categories with low risk.
Of course. I'm not suggesting that there should be any limitations on who can join, but as the community moves more mainstream, quality will dilute. As the site is rather un-sexy right now, it seems to attract those who are genuinely interested. Remember what happened to Digg...
I hate GNOME 3, but I agree with this move.
If you like classic desktops, and you have been using Gnome-Fallback you are doing it wrong: GNOME 3 is designed to be used with the Gnome-Shell.

XFCE and Mate are both excellent Desktop Environments which follow a "classic" approach. (Or you can try KDE too).
Chimney sweep should inspect
I think the the case here is that they applied for patents, rather than their patents having been accepted.
If possible, Can you specify your job, sir?
This actually happens with the netinstall of Fedora, and I imagine you can do it with the netinstall of Debian as well.
It is a great idea, if it works like they say it does :) .

I've seen foam footballs before... (after google search):

http://www.decathlon.es/balon-futbol-de-espuma-kipsta-foam-i...

and they're much cheaper than the proposed one (you can get them for 1-2 dollars), but probably way less durable.

"A lion at the Johannesburg Zoo, who would go through six regular balls a day, played with two balls. A German shepherd spent a year biting on a ball. In every case, the balls withstood the abuse."

That does sound durable. As stated, U$ 40 is way too expensive for a ball, so the only way it will work is if they continue giving them away as part of relief efforts.

Unicef: "“compared to the $2.50 we pay for a regular football, the current cost difference for the more durable solution is currently too high.”"

And the shipping problems are also a hindrance.

"because the balls cannot be deflated, they are more difficult to ship"
I don't think it's that crazy to wish for emailed invoices from a payment processor. Unlike the examples you provide, it's a pretty natural and easy add-on to such a service which many providers (eg, PayPal, Square) do.
Txtbirds
...because this is the debt of people who don't pay their debts?
Fantastic idea, I'm an Objc developer from Hamburg, so seeing that you guys are from Lübeck makes me smile! Good luck! (I've also registered for notifications as I can see some usage scenarios for this already :) cheers
Just the same as if someone finds a bug in Boost.

It is hard to understand. It is efficient. It probably requires computer science knowledge to solve the issue. And yet it is as maintainable and well documented as they possibly can make it.

Not everything can be 'business logic' in the sense of 'something a manager can understand but not code'.

Some algorithms are just hard. And they are worth it.

What would be Google without PageRank? What would be Skype without their LAN piercing modules? What would be iD without their game engines? What would be CryTek without their game engines?

Worthless, that's the answer.
One that springs to mind is Friendster. I seem to remember there were lots of stories about it running like a dog when converted to run on Java (and I'm not knocking Java).
Coursera seems to have s course on Genome Science:
https://www.coursera.org/course/genomescience
So, nobody cares about more widely adopted <object/> which was supposed to be a solution for future media types and just happens to usually be more stable, have better perfomance and support much more media formats without having to invent new elements for each media type. Not even as a fallback.
Apple accused of dragging feet over Samsung court order
Same, I'm using it right now on my work laptop and I wouldn't dream of using another desktop environment. It's fast, fluid, and getting more functional with each release.
Show HN: A crowd-sourced MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
I have a huge problem with people submitting bug reports because it needlessly creates the perception that the software is buggy.

Pointing out racism has nothing to do with "stirring racial divides". This appears to be a reasonably sophisticated analysis, the methodology was clearly explained. It certainly, at least, appears they didn't just make up a bunch of numbers.

If you disagree, then find data and make your case.
You would be well served to based your world view around observable fact instead of tired stereotypes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/amer...

62% of all bankruptcies in the US have a direct medical cause, a sharp rise from only 8% in 1980.

"Vast majority" of debt incurred by lavish living indeed!

It must be a surreal world for you, one where it's okay to heap blame upon tens of millions of Americans without seeing one single shred of evidence against them.
Neat Idea! I would provide some form of "embedding" and customizing capability to match a target site.
For the current site, may I ask which Wordpress theme are you using?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4763091
really cool app. wonder how this will affect the rdio's of the world.
Under the circumstance that you discuss the history and etymology of the word like adults and not a bunch of idiots on xbox live.
Apple's arrogance on this is really coming back to bite them. I remember the pro-Apple bloggers (gruber cough) who thought the initial "apology" was so clever. This lawsuit is turning into a nightmare.
I completely agree, these people are idiots. Why waste time trying doing something so non-constructive to society?
It honestly would not be that difficult to implement something like this. Both the OSI and FSF maintain lists of "approved" licenses along with standard license text. In fact, Pivotal Labs has created a tool along these lines for Ruby: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder , and the Leiningen project tool from Clojure allows for licenses to be specified in a machine parseable format: https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/blob/master/sample.... .
Even though the percent might not be much higher, it's really about turnout, not percent won. Twice as many blacks showed up to the polls for Obama than for Clinton. Obama was a "movement" candidate in the black community.

However, I'm sympathetic to your argument - I think blacks turning out for Obama was more akin to Irish Catholics showing up for Kennedy, rather than whites showing up for George Wallace - more of a pride thing, and a symbolic triumph over past discrimination, etc.
Hi guys, OP here. This is one of my first major projects, and it's basically a crowd-sourced version of Khan Academy, Coursera, etc. Please give it a look and consider making a contribution. I'm always happy to hear any feedback.

You can check out the site directly at http://www.crowdcourse.com/
Well, what have you tried?
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I tell you what - I bet the game publishers couldn't have wished for better publicity.
Agreed. We dogfood our own product (we do the send an email part) to do this and it is ridiculously easy:

Consume a stripe webhook / send an email:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-...

Nicely formatted:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2454/Slingshot/Pictures/Customer.io-...
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btw he did get accepted to MIT undergrad and chose to defer. I know from a common friend.
Agreed! Would make sense to have a Stripe marketplace similar to what Shopify has to extend this functionality to those that want it.
They'll still see Gnome Shell. They added LLVM support for software-rendering about a year ago: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxM...

Fallback Mode was only still in use by people who preferred Gnome 2 and forced it on, everybody else with Gnome 3 saw Gnome Shell.

Per the link, even back then they discussed dropping Fallback Mode after full LLVM had been added:

> "As said by Red Hat's Adam Williamson on the Fedora mailing list, 'That's really a policy decision for the GNOME / Fedora desktop teams, not for ajax. But based on what they've said in the past, I expect that once most hardware that previously needed the fallback mode is covered, fallback mode will die. AIUI, fallback mode isn't meant to be a GNOME 2-by-stealth for Shell refuseniks, it's purely an attempt to accommodate hardware which doesn't support Shell.'"
For a really simple example, you could try a Todo app.

For example, this site does the same thing for a number of JS frameworks: https://github.com/addyosmani/todomvc

For something more complex, you could try to simulate a mail client (mail user agent). You probably don't need to make it fully functional, just simulate the email layer. If you do this, you are just obeying Zawinski's Law! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski.27s_law...)

See what UkiJS does here for a browser example: http://ukijs.org/mail/index.html

In general, check out RosettaCode to see how to do the same thing in different languages.
Thanks. I never lived in the US. I came to Britain (from Germany) with neither car nor credit history. They let me rent a place, and I never had to buy a car. (Oh, and didn't have to worry about health insurance, either. But that's a slightly different topic.)

I wonder how my move to Singapore will play out.

But should I ever come to the US, I'll make sure I have plenty of money.
Thanks! That is exactly what we had planned with our "widgets" where you can embed individual customer stories or even rotate them so they can be displayed inline with sales copy or during a sign up process.

The Wordpress theme is a child theme that we custom created on the Genesis Framework.
Do you have a CC tied to your account?
"the first couple years are not going to be dedicated to research"

Depends on the country - in the UK you can/could go straight from completing an undergraduate degree to working full time in research doing a PhD without having to attend any more classes.
I agree with you here. But the software is $free, just now for available to everyone, and "non-free" in the FSF definition of "free".
I know Python well, is there any reason I should learn Perl?
"Most startups aren’t competing with other startups; they’re competing with no one giving a shit"

... so true!
Oh here we go. White man's troubles and all that. The problem with those minorities is they're just lazy and need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps!

Thanks for at least refraining from using the N word.
I think it could be really valuable if you can link (with permission) to some form of real identity (ie. probably Facebook/LinkedIn profile) - makes customer testimonials more believable.
Papers can be published about tools that are developed. For example, NAR has a web server issue every year. http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/W1.toc
The easiest would be to modify your web server to reject requests to that URL. Therefore it no longer causes annoyances. However, if that URL is still being used, your best shot is to reject on a per-IP basis.

You cannot DDOS any server, a DDOS attack works primary on web servers, and the server it's coming from isn't likely to have a web server that matters, since it just redirects DDOSing would be nearly impossible to accomplish without a huge effort.

What may be easier is getting the website shutdown, if you trace the host provider or ISP you can file a claim and possibly get their connection or hosting turned off.
Sure, just try it out, maybe it doesn't work but you'll never know until you make it real, go for it!
We've just spent a few months writing a component of our stack that uses Objective-C/Cocoa, because it's the only environment that supports a very specific API that isn't available on any other platform to same the level of quality.

We used an HTTP server[1] around it, exposing an RPC style interface. Our app exports metrics with a StatsD client[2] we wrote.

[1]: https://github.com/mattstevens/RoutingHTTPServer

[2]: https://github.com/newspaperclub/statsd-cocoa

The good news is, it's just what hoped it would be. The app performs incredibly well, and having access to the APIs like GCD and so on is great. The downside is that it's a pain putting the application into production. Being forced to use Mac hardware is incredibly annoying. (We knew this would be the trade off.)

All our dedicated Mac Minis came with 10.7 on them from the hosting company. Upgrading to 10.8 required someone to be present, or attached to the KVM just press next on an iCloud wizard before it boots back in, and I'm always worried that a point release might do something odd.

VMWare ESXi 5.1 supports running OS X 10.8 on top of Mac hardware (legally), so we're leaning towards using that to make the managing the machines slightly easier - being able to snapshot and rollback if an upgrade does something odd or drop into the console if we lose remote access.
How can you share Agile techniques with your marketing peeps?
Should developers use Issue Tracker as their TODO list?
I think developers should keep a personal TODO list that breaks down what components he/she needs to resolve an issue (e.g. investigate, fix-code, testing).
So I'm clucking derisively. And the nice ad hominem touches about sexism, racism, privilege etc.

This isn't LN, it's HN. Where both the methods and the motives can be discussed. My opinion is that OWS is aiming more for a political statement with this program as opposed to helping people. They may believe that this political statement will do more to help people than just acting as a charity; I'm not ascribing cynical motives in any way.

I'm also not advocating that a charity charge in any way. For example, when I had cancer, my church, without any prompting gave me a cash payment to help with my bills. I had been fired two days before Christmas, and unable to work during my surgical recovery and post-op chemo. It was immensely welcome, though as many are, I was intensely embarrassed to need the $$.

For a hobby, I kept all my bills and tallied up the cost I'd be responsible had I not been covered by my wife's group policy. I stopped after it hit the $600K mark. So I know first hand how staggering my debt would have been.

But I could have discharged all that medical debt in bankruptcy. But that wouldn't have put fed my daughters, nor helped keep a roof over my head. That check from my church did. I know the fine line between being privileged and being out of work and afraid of dying. The old straw about the difference between middle class and poor being one paycheck is really one malignant cell.

So be careful when you start calling people privileged or sexist, or racist. And when you start to decide whether a question is "legitimate" or not.
Offtopic: the list for the meta information is missing an overflow hidden or something.
Helpful. I 'know' these, but this is a good cheat sheet to save around.

Really like the casual plug of your new project; I signed up :-)
For a brief period of time, I used Fedora and Gnome3. Having a radeon hd46XX, gnome refused to display anything properly, except in fallback-mode. I think this should be its use: not a UX choice, but a mode for when graphic acceleration fails.
I have followed GNOME since almost the start. Helped out since 2005.

I help out out because it is fun. I know a very large group of people and everything I do is appreciated.

User community for me is Mageia, where I help out as well. The things I do over there are also very much appreciated.

On various sites there is a lot of negativity. E.g. on Phoronix some person ("BOSS" or similar nick) often says GNOME developers should due.

I rather focus on making GNOME better and having fun than deal with the death threats and so on, bad reporting ("Debian defaults to XFCE"), etc.

Being public about helping out with GNOME: Why not? I don't mind explaining why things are done the way they are. Often the assumptions are just that, assumptions. I also go to FOSDEM, totally different atmosphere than displayed on forums.
You mean being born a first world country. But there are other first world countries that have better average quality of life than the US.
Do you have a start up? Do you hope that you will some day be able to make an exit with that start up? Are you willing to entertain a buy-out by a larger corporation as a possible exit?

If yes, then as much as you (the hacker/startup founder) might not care or have a second thought about licenses like this, you should keep in mind that your potential purchaser almost definitely will.

Also, just for the record, I'm actually a big fan of Crockford's "Do no evil" license. What bothers me is the number of people who don't pay any more attention to the licenses of the software on which they build entire companies than they do to the EULAs of the software they install. Casually agreeing to a EULA is not the same as disregarding an Open Source license.
Can we have one for:

a) rockets fired from Gaza into Israel
b) drop in suicide bombings since the wall was built?
Anecdotes do not prove the existence of an entitled generation. I have plenty of contrary anecdotes, and they would mean as much.
Drunk or Kid?
We did no such thing.

Speaking on behalf of GNOME (and yes, I can! :P)
How are these sandboxed to prevent local privilege escalation exploits?
If you're on windows and don't feel like using the commandline you can click around in Fiddler to achieve similar things. The help is much shorter
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler/help/composer.asp

I wasn't able to change the Host header successfully, though. A workaround is needed:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/httpfidd...
>I think Firefox has to take a lot of credit for the state of the web today.

Of course. It was Firefox that broke IE's grip on web-standards.
So you can use -I with another method, but as soon as you add a body curl refuses. Went ahead and just took that scenario out of the post -- but your redirection snippet is great.
Works only on chrome, Firefox(15 on XP) just shows a blank screen.

Edit: Apparently it doesn't work on FF 15. It worked on FF16 XP. and it also works on Safari
Years ago I saw a video where kids made a ball by blowing up a condom and covering it with some srap fabric.
Well, that certainly brings my opinion of IBM down a notch.
The 'try it now' feature is nice. Perhaps you should have a default website, maybe based on the referrer?

It doesn't work on google nor hacker news for me:

http://embedded-chat.com/example/?url=www.google.com
http://embedded-chat.com/example/?url=news.ycombinator.com
they worked out that she'd been lying about Santa (which they immediately extrapolated to the tooth fairy, Easter bunny and so on).

I wonder did they extrapolate to Jesus?
Works for me in the UK too.
Patronizing someone and linking to fox news to support a nonsense narrative isn't helping your case.

Edit on your edit: Selecting a single extraordinary instance to support your case isn't helping your case. This is no different from someone looking at the idiotic things on Fox News' prime time shows and saying they represent all conservatives.

I know many decent conservatives who think Fox News is for idiots, just as I know many poor people who are completely responsible and still struggle.
It's funny how different countries and cultures have different views over the same thing. I'm not sure about Canada, but in the US taxes are added on top of each purchase so you advertise a price of 14USD and end up charging X% on top of that price.

If I understood your suggestion correctly people dealing with these problems should do like we do here in Brazil: use the taxes to compose the final price so if I have a product that I want to sell for, let´s say, 10USD and will cost me an average 10% in taxes I would advertise it for 11USD and just deal with the taxes problem internally in my app and not by creating N different plans on the payment processor.
Especially when you're selling something like gasoline. When I worked in the gas business, they measured the tanks every single day and knew the amount of gas there to the millimeter.

Sounds like multiple people were complicit in this.
Works fine for me on Firefox 16.0.2 (Win).
Why Doesn’t the Nexus 4 have LTE?
Kind of a lame and unnecessary rip on YC?
> but these days nobody will even notice

Clearly 2 people on this forum alone have already noticed.
The trinity of product design
We actually asked for feedback to distributions various times. We would've made a decision earlier but e.g. OpenBSD would have problems. Also this time there has NOT been any official announcement yet. What we do is mostly in the open, so things are announced beforehand.

Now, with fallback I thought it should be announced in the 3.6 release notes that we were thinking about it. Unfortunately it was taken out, you can still see what I wrote in the git module though.

For distributions, the suggestion is llvmpipe, though that is terrible. What we are more after is better drivers, with llvmpipe as a workaround.

One thing that is overlooked is that not only gnome-shell relies on good drivers. Various applications have started relying on this as well. So the value of fallback mode was already decreasing.
The Facebook Effect...or not
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What is this? There's no information, just a paragraph of text that contains no details. Is this HN material?
Good point - Obama's results with the Black vote was more of a bump, rather than a sea change compared to White candidates in the past.
This clause was put in there for humour and is completely unenforceable in court, and that's even if someone actually wastes his or her time challenging it. They should get over themselves.
The first Onion Talk is a great parody of half the startups
Safari 6.0.2 is fine
latest safari is peachy too.
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