skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, academia is constantly coming up with visual design tools and they don't do much at all for the world of software development. Maybe they help bridge students into using real IDEs and writing real programs, but they are failures, pretty much. Well I'm sure they've gotten a lot of people doctorates for writing them, so actually they accomplished their purpose.
I get kind of tired of comments like this:

"His opinion on desktop software is as meaningful as his opinions on rocket ships, film production, oil recovery techniques, sociology, religious history, automobile engineering or any of the other topics he has no meaningful expertise in."

His opinion on desktop software is valuable to me. Why? Because he's obviously a very smart person. And I listen to smart people a lot more closely than I listen to just anyone. I would trust a physicist giving his opinions on the state of medical care more than I would a guy who believed the earth was flat.
The fact this is pumped out by someone with an MSDN blog makes me suspicious. Very gushy. As a Microsoft gold partner, this gushiness is not universal. In fact most of us are currently being fucked with extortionate licensing changes and are considering bailing out.

For reference, out of our 5500 individual clients, we've got one single windows 8 user and they're internal testing team. That spans pretty much everyone from small businesses to corporations. We have seen a growth in win7 vs winxp though since win8 was released.
Twitter promotes a couple companies to buy tweets above the 100k API limit. We use Datasift for our app and it's fairly cheap and painless. Their API has a few nice things too like batching.

There are options, it looks like if you are going into building a Twitter client and you are not charging for the app, you're going to have a bad time.
When he said "SmartFilter", I think he was referring to smartscreen, which is kinda annoying, but can easily bypassed. IIRC, you have to click "Learn more" and then "install anyway", which is a tad counter-intuitive, but one can still run things without disabling smartscreen pretty easily.
If it weren't for the many applications that helped grow Twitter, this service would not be nearly as successful as it is today. Imposing these arcane limits is a slap in the face to the developers who made Twitter so popular in the first place.

This should also serve as a warning to people who build on top of other social networks. These networks oftentimes can only rely on their own information to make money, which increases the probability that they will block access to user data (or at least make it very difficult to access).
I suspect they have cottoned on but design for the mass audience and assume that niche needs will be covered by applications or that people will tweak.
I agree that full employment is not sustainable.

But that's a positive thing. Full employment in 1857 meant everyone from the age of 13 working 60 hours a week in rough conditions. Now full employment means everyone over 21 working 48 hours a week in a safe environment. In 30 years it will mean people between 21 and 35 working 20 hours a week at home. That's progress.
I'd actually benefit a lot from Linus being more listened to. After all, he gets pissed when desktops remove features coders need to be productive, and I'm a coder. Should Linus have written git to be useful by non-techies? It wouldn't have been powerful enough to compete with CVS and Subversion and the like and many of us would still be stuck on centralized version control. Making stuff for the general public only is all well and good, but it's not all that's out there. In fact, it is kind of anti-open source since open source is all about being able to adapt software to your needs, and our desktops now are ripping out all the options waving the flag of needing to appeal to the general public.
Sure, but does anyone have a doubt that he would have gotten the same treatment if it weren't for the Pirate Bay?

Plus, I'm pretty sure that the people involved are aware of the intense scrutiny and probably even avoid parking tickets.
I came here from google search for a problem- I missed HN the day this thread came on. I 'discovered' enlightenment last summer and found it to be a wonderful solution for my netbook. I was traveling alot and pretty much have my netbook as a full development 'travel rig.'

The problem is that I want to have gnome installed side-by-side-- which seems to mean that the network manager (EConnMan I think you call it) doesn't work.

I know there was a way to do it but I forgot (that's what brings me to this page).

So, my comment: If this could sit easily and seamlessly next to gnome- that is, whatever hack is needed for EConnMan (and perhaps other 'gotchas') were built in as shortcuts, for example, I think you would win a lot of people over. It's excellent for being an out-of-the way work environment.

I also think it helps show off the linux world when you can quickly and easily switch between work environments. My $0.02.

EDIT: So I'm now logged in on E and obviously remembered the network hack: start nm-applet from the terminal. It will at least connect to a known network.

EDIT #2: The only other issue I've had on the netbook is getting the control-bar-menu gizmo out of the way of the windows so I can use the screen real estate I have for my editors and such. You have to turn this on in settings.
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I'm gonna start selling sombreros online.
Didn't get the "engineering major" part. Why he thought that 9 is prime?
It's not because someone is an expert at one thing that their opinion on a totally different subject matters at all. that's the point the articles wants to make, and I totally agree with that principle. We see a bunch of artists taking political stances, for example, and I do not even bother listening to any of them because they just see thing through a very narrow window. Just like Linus when he says the default desktop resolution should be Retina-like, he completely ignores the effect of scale, the fact that you need new lines to make such screens, and that there will be a lag from the time it becomes standard. And he simply does not consider the fact that someone who buys a low to mid-end Laptop does not care about resolution at all. They just want something that works. If they cared about screen resolutions or even screen quality, then no laptop PC in the 500 dollars range would sell at all. But they do. And it's not Linus who buy them, so he does not understand these people and his opinion is only valid for his personal use case.
Ask HN: Applying for jobs months in advance, advice?
I've recently started looking for a job to begin after I graduate university (with a computer science degree), and I thought it would be best to start early. I spent the previous year working in an internship position, and I will graduate at the end of April (about 6 months). I expect that most companies that put up job postings are looking for someone now though. While there are a few larger companies that hire students in advance (like Microsoft and Google), I wonder if I'm wasting my time by applying for jobs now. I've also been somewhat picky in the job that I want, I feel that I'd rather work somewhere that I can grow in an area I'm interested in, rather than just get a job for the sake of earning money.

I believe getting work doing something I enjoy, and growing through work experience would be optimal for my future, but I've even thought of attempting freelance work just to ensure I'm doing what I want to do after I graduate (which I haven't even really narrowed down yet, more so I know what I don't want to do). I wonder if I would be better off just getting a job anywhere I can, but worry that it will not lead me down a path I would be happy with. Perhaps I'm naive thinking that I can get everything I want after finishing University, but at the same time I feel that it's an achievable goal and I'd like to set myself up as best as possible to grow. I'm not opposed to moving pretty much anywhere in North America, and am not too concerned about my salary either (within reason).

Any advice for me, HN?
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Consumers may or may not "love windows 8" but this article is swimming in non sequitur.

But I get it.

To frame this post in context, from my stint at Microsoft I saw how serious points are awarded to those who beat the drums. Logic be damned; if your W8 app get 100K downloads and your glowing blog post makes the rounds it's a favorable line item on your review.

So it's hard to comprehend for a lot of us, but when Microsoft says that Windows 8 is the most openly developed operating system in the world, I think they honestly believe it. Believing it brings tangible rewards.
ADSL supports up to 24Mbps down in the UK - assuming that you're (very) close to the exchange. I could theoretically get that with my old ISP, were I not 1.6km from the exchange.

Cable supports up to 100Mbs down (at least I'm pretty sure that Virgin has started to roll that out, if not then 50Mbs), though contention might be an issue at peak times.

I've got BT Infinity, which is fibre to the cabinet rather than all the way to the home. Since the distance to the cabinet is likely to be pretty minimal you can get pretty high bandwidth over the last length of telephone wire. For reference, I get 76Mbs down and 20+Mbs up - more than fast enough for plently of thing to feel instant, such as downloading movies which now takes in the order of minutes.
Two (sets of) questions.

1. What do you do if your house burns down? What happens to the documents you care about most? Do you keep a USB drive in a safety deposit box and retrieve it regularly?

(I have a local USB backup, and I have a remote backup through the cloud.)

2. Do you have this local cloud poked out to the outside? How do you handle security? Is there a simple web interface that you can get to something when you're away from the house and your personal equipment?
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Then you are better off looking at a bunch of reviews rather than listening to a single point/article online. Instead of blindly trusting Linus or someone else, finding out what most people think about a particular solution/system/device is usually a lot more helpful. I am not saying that "the majority holds the truth", but you are less likely to go wrong by following several advices than just one.
Founder on the Run: London, Greece, Chile, Amsterdam, Berlin, NY, SF & Singapore
I really love it.
Just one minor suggestion, when the list of episodes requires a scroll (eg. Castle), the back and remove from favorites button should still be present at he bottom without a need to scroll.
> The reality is that Linus is good at kernels and DRCS for the same reason

OP says that whatever makes him good at kernels doesn't help to make him good at version control systems (X->K but X-/->V), whereas you say that there is a third factor that makes him good at both (X->K and X->V): I say that it is his long experience with managing a zillion patches and branches for the kernel that made him good at version control (K->V).
This reads like an infomercial... like someone was paid to write it.
Wow, if this works as advertised, this could really be a game-changer over the long term for education in third-world countries.

I would be much more motivated to donate money to get an education focused device like this into the hands of kids who don't have access to proper education than I would for most other causes because the impact on investment would be much more dramatic at $20/device.
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I stopped reading when I got to "Pls".

For fucks sake, write the word out. Please is not that many extra characters to type and it will allow those reading your article to at least consider your points rather than having to slog through what I am guessing from that point on is written in texting shorthand by a 16 year old girl.
No, we haven't. It's missing only from the Terms and Conditions webpage. We have Belgium in our hearts, in our language switcher and in our activation form :-)
28MB - 35MB depending on the GC cycle IIRC.
Excellent work!
If you feel like adding an extra feature, I would love a link to the 720p version of each episode.
Quite cool... But if this is generated by the text to speech engine from OS X, then I am afraid it is going beyond the license that come up with OS X. I remember reading through that license and it was clearly stated that using the OS X TTS was only for local usage on your Mac.

So I am extremely curious to know the license behind this tts-api? Can the OP provide such info or provide some of the tech behind it?
One recent experience I had left a bad taste in my mouth. I applied for a position, did a quick screen interview, took a 2-hour online IQ and math test, did a one hour phone interview, and then did an in-person interview where I had to take another test and then meet with 3 people for one hour meetings.

I got an automated email the next week letting me know they were not interested. At the very least, I would have at least like the email to come from the corporate recruiter I had been communicating with, not noreply@companyname.com. I think it's rude to not give some personal acknowledgement and I put in close to 10 hours of my personal time working with them. Though a company that behaves this way is probably not one if like to work for.
They worked with three different OEM keys I had just fine, all from different manufacturers.
Show HN: Stash Belts, for hiding USB keys and SD cards
Stashbelts is a physical product startup that aims to make the best moneybelt you can buy.

The product is a regular looking belt with a slot for a USB key, and a zippered compartment in the back that can hold SD cards, documents or cash. I use one as my main belt, no complaints.

A friend of mine started this company after living in Kenya and finding cheap leather and good craftsmanship.

I haven't told my friend yet that I'm submitting this, but I'm sure he'd appreciate feedback on the site and how to market the belts.

http://www.stashbelt.ca/
Git having a horrible interface is orthogonal to it being a successful DVCS. In fact, I'm quite convinced that it's precisely due to the article's subject, cult of personality of Linus, that git took off.

Mercurial is a good example of a powerful DVCS (it can do everything git can) and yet a sane user interface that is easier to teach. Almost nobody "non-techie" that I know about learns git's command line. It's a horrible mess! Instead they rely on GUIs (Git Tower, gitk) or WUIs (Github). But almost anyone can learn hg's command line, since they go through great pains to make sure they pick user-facing names and words and concepts that map to familiar ideas.
http://deaddrops.com/

Internet without cables? Dead drops started as an art experiment...
We have it both in our Terms and Conditions page (hint: Belgium is missing there, but that's a mistake) and in our activation form.
I use StreamToMe (http://projectswithlove.com/streamtome) on iOS, and there are a number of similar apps.
Apple and HTC reach a sudden patent peace, but at what cost?
Agreed with the other comments that things like this could be a game-changer for education in developing countries, but I do worry about sustainability. It's already a problem trying to get consumers to recycle old devices as is, but at least when devices are expensive they tend to have a life in the resale market. What happens when these devices are so cheap they're a commodity? And it's easier to just throw it in the bin and buy a new one than bother to sell it on? That's not going to happen in India, but it might when you can buy a $20 tablet in the US.
It takes exactly 30 seconds and it is fully automated. Punch in a string of numbers, hear back the activation code. No personal information, no humans involved. I too was dreading doing over the phone activation, but it was remarkably nice experience.
i've had some success with the web api provided by att: http://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId=... it's in beta i believe.
Love that term, "Sneakernet". Would love to see an analysis of a modern day sneakernet. This article just seems to remind us that it is possible.
I consider myself a power-user, one which has grown extremely tired of doing the same re-install routine.

ninite seems just like what the doctor ordered and I cannot believe I haven't heard of it until now.

I know what I'll be trying out when we get new dev-machines at work and need to go through yet another reinstall. Thanks a bunch :)
Good post! Generalizing the point, maybe a good description of sophistication is: using one's intuition in a natural way to explore the boundaries of one's knowledge, having previously refined that intuition by rigorous study and experiential learning. It's through an increasingly refined intuition about things within our horizon of knowledge that we're able to focus our conscious thought on the border of that horizon and expand it.
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I couldn't come up with a smart title, sorry. But it just fascinated me to hear the story. I've met so many founders unwilling to relocate or move because of classic reasons like apartment leases, car, family and friends etc. - and then you have these guys who can't stay anywhere for longer than a few months and move somewhere else, get into a crazy funding program in Chile, then in Germany, pick up some cash in London, suddenly show up at the TechCrunch disrupt in NY - just felt their story is a great representation of what some people like to call the 'hustle'. They go way beyond the phone call.
I got my first proper introduction to Tesla from the Oatmeal. I'm not sure how much of it was true, but he definitely came off as a hero of technology. Time to dive a little deeper. A biography maybe. Recommendations?
burnout?
Fear, senseless violence, and shitty drugs
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Interesting, but it IS a joke, which usually requires taking some liberties with the truth.

For example, an issue I have with it is that it's not actually possible for the Sun to explode. It is incapable of going nova. This is an old sci-fi trope, of a civilization that dies because its Sun goes nova, but this isn't a thing that actually happens. There are very specific circumstances where a nova can occur, and it is typically a recurring thing. More so, it requires the presence of a white dwarf star, which must come into existence only after a star has gone into a red giant phase. None of these things are conducive to life developing on nearby planets, they aren't even conducive to the continued existence of nearby planets. Regardless, our star is not a white dwarf, nor does it have a companion and therefore will never produce a nova. More so, it is about 1/8th too small to go supernova.
As a partner, we get a view inside the organisation occasionally. What we see is almost what you've described, but I think its more a crazy mix of Stockholm syndrome, dictatorship propaganda and everyone clambering over each other to suck dick.

It scares the shit out of me that so many businesses trust this culture.
It allows you to install some software.
God says...

and in the night is as a thief.

24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, saying,
No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.

24:16 In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for
themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.

24:17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one
know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

24:18 He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth:
he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

24:19 Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave
those which have sinned.
Careful, though. This is expressly against the license agreement for Mac OS X.
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Let's hope that Facebook is experimenting with this, such that the end-result is not 80% ads. Facebook pages are starting to get noisy. I'm trying http://www.pinvolve.co/ and it removes all ads from your FB pages.
There's one called Wizard which I'm heard some recommendations for. Best to just look at the average review on Amazon. They've got so much data, there's got to be something valuable!
Hacking your resume for better communication
Show HN: RewindHN - Go back in Hacker News history
Nice designs :)
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It's a mis-nomer that they frequently end up selling to the US company they cloned. Ebay and Groupon are about the only two examples.

Stripe would never, ever, ever acquire a clone like this. First, because the notion is already rare. But more overwhelming is Stripe's intense focus on creating its own culture and building its own stuff.
They can't lose what they never earned.
This is great fun, especially if you have a torch you can shine on your face.
You are talking rubbish....
I really like this sentence:

> All statisticians use prior information in their statistical analysis. Non-Bayesians express their prior information not through a probability distribution on parameters but rather through their choice of methods.

Also, from the comments:

>My problem is ultimately not with the cartoon. My problem is that there are practitioners and teachers of statistics who spread cartoonish ideas about statistical methods without recognizing these ideas are inaccurate.
1 TB or more outgoing is not so uncommon once you factor in bots , crawlers , lurkers etc.
The open-source, cross-platform equivalent of `say` is a piece of software called "SVOX Pico". There is also a Python-based wrapper for it called picospeaker. Relevant AUR link for ArchLinux users:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/picospeaker/

EDIT: SVOX Pico is a component of the Android OS.
I'm in a weekend long iOS bootcamp as we speak :)
He brought design sense to the company, making -- in my opinion -- the first computers ever made that did not look like shit.
A maker-manager's schedule
It is too bad that the links to the advertised site (pre-site?) don't work.

I'm always impressed when reading Mathematics Teacher or Arithmetic Teacher, or other such journals, how much energy, creativity, and love there is out there from teachers. A lot of it has no way out of the single classroom and it'd be good for more to get out.
In a sense the "Cookie law" is a confusing misnomer. Not only "cookies", but also local storage, flash cookies, plugins, toolbars, and even resources like images, HTML, CSS and JS fall under this law.

The Dutch minister spoke of (freely translated): "Everything that reads or stores your data on your appliance, without permission, without a functional goal other than tracking".

Some techniques like browser fingerprinting ( https://panopticlick.eff.org/ , but also possible with http://modernizr.com/ ) don't store anything on your appliance, but would still fall under the "reading your data from your appliance" part of our law, if used for tracking purposes.

You would need permission to use the "grey" technique from the article. Even if you were to store that data in aggregated form.
What I do:

1. fire safe. 200kg one. Usb stick in it, although I'm considering switching to DLT. USB stick in my bag. Both encrypted with truecrypt at moment.

2. Do without it. Got a moleskin with everything useful in it.

note: I use a film camera and have cds so my media load is quite low. Negatives live in the fire safe and I have a list of cds in a text file so will just buy them again. I also bin emails. My data volume is approximately 800mb. Not much.