skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or by clicking a switch in system settings.

Explanation for those outside the Ubuntu bubble: 12.10 has had an Amazon search integrated into the main Unity lens, and this is enabled by default. Early in the release of 12.10 a graphical 'kill switch' was added to system settings. Before that, you had to uninstall a package manually from the command line.

As I commented up the screen, I hope Canonical don't alienate their users with (any) more of this sort of thing as switching between GNU/Linux distributions is relatively easy.
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I wasn't expecting this much traffic, so I didn't really care about server performance because it was irrelevant. I only posted it to my Facebook and Twitter, and now it has around 25 likes, I've been twittered by a guy with 4K followers and someone appears to have bloggd me. It's awesome, but very hard to keep it online. I may implement client-side JS in the near future. Thanks for the suggestions!
Really? I never heard of that! On what basis are they suing?
The laws don't define cookies narrowly. Just because you're not using an http set-cookie header doesn't mean you've circumvented privacy laws. For example, UK law:

http://www.aboutcookies.org/default.aspx?page=3

6. - (1) Subject to paragraph (4), a person shall not store or gain information, or to gain access to information stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user unless the requirements of paragraph (2) are met.

(2) The requirements are that the subscriber or user of that terminal equipment -

(a) is provided with clear and comprehensive information about the purposes of the storage of, or access to, that information; and

(b) has given his or her consent.
DoJ anti trust ruling means MS can't dictate what OEMs can or can't install on their PCs. Just another way the stupid ruling has hurt the consumers more than it helped them.
I work best with 3 virtual desktops on my laptop and 4 on my desktop, and the XFCE desktop environment has the best tweaks built in - that is, switching to the next desktop can be done by mousing past the edge of the screen. Of course you can click your chosen desktop in the indicator applet in the panel, and I'm sure there's a goofy key-combo that will do the same thing. But having a super fast target 1080 pixels tall at each edge of the screen is unbeatable. Application windows are always maximized, they never have to take turns sharing the same screen.

In Gnome2/Mate desktops, this switching action isn't built in, but available with the "brightside-properties" package. Brightside-properties also worked on the early Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but since Unity/Gnome3 came along it doesn't work in those environments and I've found no way to make it happen.

Although Windows didn't do virtual desktops, at least they didn't stand in the way of OEMs making their own desktops. My first pc was a Win95 Sony Vaio (200Mhz, 32MB RAM!) and Sony had some sort of desktop mask that would allow you to have a ridiculously huge desktop, like 4096^2, but it was windowed to whatever 800x600 section you felt like seeing at the time. It rocked! It's was better than what Gnome3/Unity have become now, 15 years later.
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Erm no the DoJ anti trust ruling means that Ms can't dictate what the oems can or can't install on their machines.
Could you give me an example of a route that was particularly messy if you didn't pass the full request map? Maybe I can suggest a better option (or at least admit defeat :)
Ms can't dictate such licensing terms because of the stupid anti trust ruling.
I think most of the examples assume a single developer beginning the process of learning Clojure. That would explain what appears to be the assumption that one person will be handling both the front- and back-ends because it's easier to set up simple examples this way.
Let's brace for another in-app purchase price hike.
That's only true to a certain extent.

My wedding cost quite a bit less, although my wife and I decided to do it in Canada and fly over people instead. Many people do a "Hawaii Wedding", fly the guests over, and it costs much less than the marriages ceremonies in Japan. (You talk about industries waiting to be disrupted..)
I agree with paulsutter - this does not comply with the law, nor do any of the hacky workarounds that I've seen mooted (except perhaps server side log file analysis - old school). I've added a comment to that site, which is awaiting moderation.
I'm trying to finish up a logger app for iPad. Based on NSLogger (https://github.com/fpillet/NSLogger), my goal is to build an app that could be useful out in the field when you're to debug or monitor how your app is behaving.
I'd also argue that Engineers are motivated by the technology, Marketeers (broad brush generalisation here) are motivated by the money.
+1 Haskell

+1 to you pjlmp

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According to http://builtwith.com/xkcd.com it runs on lighttpd.
UK: sms messaging here provides me with a uniform and universal way of contacting any mobile phone owner who want to be contacted, e.g. students I need to tell about a classroom change.

I just use a Web service like bulksms. In the UK and I believe Europe, receiving an sms message does not cost the recipient any money. I don't have to track who uses facebook and who uses twitter, they don't have to 'follow' or 'like' some institutional account.
Ah I see, sorry I misinterpreted.

I think the routers where you can flash your own linux on, and run it as a server, might already be able to do so. Other than that I think they innovate too slowly to be a significant competitor to AdTrap, for now.
Haven't tried it, but isn't that blocked by Javascript's cross-domain protection?
...people like when they are being noticed and when their opinions are valued more than those of others ...it's a reward mechanism absolutely necessary for OS, and taking this away would make the OS world seem like a washed and grey socialist cooperative with no joy in it ...people like rockstars, and some people even deserve to become ones, so don't try to take this away from them!
It's a SquareSpace site.
Virtual workspaces are not new. They've been around for decades, on Linux at least. They've been around on Windows for decades too if you count third-party software. They're great for when you're doing several screen-real-estate-intensive tasks in tandem. e.g. Making/editting figures in a graphics program and working on a LaTeX file they go in. Workspaces come in particularly handy when you have multiple windows going per task. e.g. Say you're making a figure and drawing images from several sources. You can switch to another task by switching workspaces and then come back and not have to go looking for windows.

Virtual workspaces can be confusing, which is probably why they haven't really made inroads on most OS's targeting everyone right down to neophyte users. The more recent versions of OSX do include them, although they're turned off by default and not implemented with much configurability or power.

I have yet to try Unity, but I'm actually surprised it didn't have virtual desktop support from the get-go, if indeed that is the case. That would have been a rather glaring omission.
I'm based in Europe and do pricing in USD because that's where my customers are. Is your originating currency rule a hard and fast one?
That's pretty cool.

Have you found that there are useful expressions that are awkward to express without the lambda trick?
From the en-gb FAQ: "Which currencies does Paymill accept? Currently, we can only accept €. However we are very hard working to being able to offer you more currencies shortly."

So which is it?
diiq, you should have made the font a bit smaller.
I think you're absolutely right. The theory behind many concepts I find is actually very simple, c pointers being another example. I mean how simple is this?

int x = 15;
int *y = &x;

The hard part is using it to solve your problems.
Hi there, github has some difficulties with the page url and tend to show some weird 404 :(

Please, could you update the link of this post to http://garlicjs.org?

Thx!
Do I need to write a Web page with the title Ending the cult of the 'normal user' in Interface Design?

The short version of such a Web page would contain a Venn diagram with a large number of intersecting circles representing the needs of different users. Under the diagram would be a simple question: "Are you designing for the intersection or the union set?".

What I actually think would be really neat is a UI authoring kit aimed at interested people and not requiring huge coding experience. Such a kit would gently encourage users/UI authors to think about the flow of activities and would mirror the limitations of the widget libraries. Something visual working a bit like puredata. That would get some interesting alternatives out there, it would let people who want something different design it for themselves, and it would give a wider range of people an insight into UI design principles.
For currency conversion just google like this..
"21000 yen to usd", "21000 yen to aud", etc..
I wonder how long until we see legislation popping up to try and stop this?
Clojure does make difficult things easy. And it's getting better and better with the rapid evolution of new libraries and middleware.

Given one of the core differences in approach, composibility for Clojure and 'convention over configuration' for RoR - I don't think there will ever be a monolithic RoR equivalent in Clojure. Instead the micro-frameworks that are emerging are finding their niches, and are being designed from the ground up to work with other micro-frameworks. Working in tandem these compositions of micro-frameworks are quickly getting mature and I'm sure will be in the same league as RoR soon enough.

What I like about this is it allows you to handle Clojure a micro-framework or middleware at a time. It's easier to digest this way, at least for me: Ring -> Compojure -> Hiccup - Enlive/Comb/Fleet [x] -> Korma -> Friend, followed by Domina, Enfocus and others on the ClojureScript side.

[x]: marks where I am.
I didn't know about you, this looks really interesting, I will give it a try, thanks.
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Excelent talk. I've been asking in various places how could I access the local file system with a web app and the response was always "You can't due to security reasons" (makes sense, I wouldn't want any website messing with my files).

When I saw the drag and drop + filesystem API + download, I was amazed, that is exactly what I've been looking for.
Louisiana petitions White House to secede 
How about a swap: Puerto Rico becomes a state and LA can leave?
(German legislation) I don't know the sources (probably many court rulings, not a law by itself), but I have heard that quite often: don't explain why a person was rejected, just say that you're sorry.
Depending on the legislation, of course, but I have seen many, many strange court rulings in Germany when it comes to employee rights (or wannabe employees). So I doubt its because of not known things.
What nnq said [0] plus some more:

As the IT industry matures I can see a tendency to make everything Serious, Business Responsible, Grownup, etc. I don't like this development of things. Open Source started as a fun place. People were coding to Have Fun, in the broad hacker meaning of fun. See that recent (and reoccuring) flame against Crockford's "not for Evil" licence. Why are we denying people right to do that? It was a joke, he did it for fun. Hackers like jokes. Fun is a part of FLOSS.

I believe that Open Source community needs not to become adult. It needs place for fun, humour, role models, rockstars, religious preachers; place to agree or disagree, to judge people on their merits and just plainly do whatever one wants. It's how creativity is born.

[0] - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769230
As a side note do not use the Bootstrap class .well together with .row cause it overflow because of padding. Create this structure: div.row > div.well > the content.
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Don't blame lawyers. This is a perfect example of the stupidity of the idea of anti-discrimination laws. The intentions may be noble, but the reality bites you in the ass.
I wonder if it actually works in that political direction. If I knew my preferred candidate was down perhaps I'd be more determined to get down the polling station. Conversely if he was clearly ahead, perhaps I'd be more inclined to skip voting. ( I'm talking theoretically, I always vote, it's the law here)
It'd be less frustrating if they didn't completely neglect their official clients. And their website isn't exactly perfect, either.

Shame, really, because custom Twitter clients have been great for experimenting with the API and even UX design, and it being a full on client means enough people use them to test those experiments.
Unity and Gnome3 have virtual desktops, just not the best functionality. You either do a key-combo or move the mouse to a hot corner, pause, then it shows a sort of tiled or thumbnailed view of each open application as if it was on it's own desktop, and you click on the one you want and it then fills the screen.

Instead of behaving like multiple desktops, it's more like a slow way to maximize the application window you want to use next It's almost like the Windows Alt-Tab/Alt-Shift-Tab maneuver to scroll through to the next or previous open application windows.

What I was describing in XFCE is how you switch workspaces.
It's not about modifying; just reading the addresses you don't want to send mails to is informing enough.
Do people in the US tend to pay for individual text messages?

Almost everyone in the UK has an unlimited or close to unlimited texting plan (3000+ texts). Given that everyone's paying for it anyway, the actual revenue gained by someone sending a text is 0. In fact, because a text will use some tiny amount of infrastructure, they'll potentially lose more money the more texts people send.

Most people I know who use whatsapp use it more like an IM client for group messages rather than for one-to-one messaging. As everyone has more or less unlimited texting available to them, nobody uses whatsapp for financial reasons because there's no savings made.

This will only be an issue once people start to realise that they're not using as many texts and demand to pay less. I can't see that happening in the UK.
Can anyone explain the consequences/seriousness of this to a foreigner.
This is a massively late reply, but I've been signed up for the perl weekly newsletter from its inception. Thank you for mentioning it though! I'm sure Gabor is grateful for the link. :)
s/Louisiana/Some guy from Louisiana/
Actually it is a bad thing since system updates should be a centralized feature and not something that should need to be reinvented (badly) by every other program you install.
Perhaps also the reasoning behind it. Why Louisiana? Why at all?
I'm not American, but this submission feels pretty devoid of content and is more something that belongs on /r/politics.

Anyone is free to create a petition on petitions.whitehouse.gov

This particular petition has only about 8000 signatures, the population of louisiana is 4,574,836 since 2011.
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You could bribe ("recruit") someone inside to spy for you...
I really hope they reach their goal.. They should bring a few more states along for the ride as well: TX, AL, MS..
Seems they have posted it for other states also: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions
Doing what the OP challenges us to do: I don't care what Linus Torvalds uses on his computer. It's easy.

And I particularly don't like KDE Plasma, even if Linus does. But I do like Linus Torvalds. He's a straight talking guy who has consistently walked his talk, even if some don't like what he has to say. AFAIK there is no cult of personality as far as he's concerned. Historically cults of personality are nurtured by the personality involved. Linus has done nothing of that sort.
I believe Linus know something about software, and specially software for geeks.

Trying to discredit Linus opinions is a new low. If you don't agree with someone you don't need to discredit him, because something he is saying could be right.

What I'm not that much sure about knowing what they are doing is the GNOME guys, it seems nobody could criticize their actions, and they keep doing strange things only pleasing their selves. Total onanism.

It is obvious to me that they can't listen to the outside world, they support each other in their actions like the Kodak execs before bankruptcy still believing that "film was still the future".
I would say that this isn't very serious at all. Anyone can create a petition on that site, "Louisiana" isn't asking for this, some person in Louisiana is. That state is the size of my country, if someone in my country decided to try and make a decision like this for everyone I would be fucking pissed.

Even if this reaches the threshold, it's still only a tiny fraction of the state population. What is to stop this state going into a Civil War? There is probably equal or more that would want to stay as part of the US.

Honestly, this is a really stupid submission to HN.
In my experience Metro apps work well in cases where I do not need to multitask or where I do not like distractions. I like to read my feeds in Metro and I like to write personal email in Metro.

Also, I quite like pinning things like twitter or IM into a Metro sidebar/split next to my desktop. If I have multiple monitors connected, I even fill the second monitor with Metro apps, for example a browser for documentation.

But despite all that, my main work space is still the desktop and it is quite hard to get real work done in a Metro-only environment. (Disclaimer: I am a programmer)
Interesting that After all these years Compiler still haven't catch up with self written Assembly speed. Or is there some LLVM optimization not used yet?
would be nice to know which bootstrap version its using
I don't understand this sentiment. Good riddance to what, exactly? A simple and universal method of quick communication between literally every cellphone in the world?
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and which is why now i cannot use it even though they support turkey.
>As the IT industry matures I can see a tendency to make everything Serious, Business Responsible, Grownup, etc. I don't like this development of things.

uh... no.

to steal a joke: it used to be a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie.

IT used to be serious people with post grad degrees working with multimillion dollar machines. it keeps moving towards not away from cargo shorts, flip flops and "rockstar code ninjas"
Linus is a smart guy - if he offered an opinion on "rocket ships, film production, oil recovery techniques, sociology, religious history or automobile engineering" that opinion would influence my own opinion on the subject, and I think for good reason.

I.e. I think a model whereby the credibility of a person is specified by a single measure has value. The model could be improved by measuring credibility on multiple axes, but a single measure model is still useful.

Linus would clearly have a positive credibility by pretty much any measure you would reasonably want to use. Perhaps the author's complaint is really that this measure is elevated way beyond where it should be due to his celebrity status.

But how do you measure credibility of relative nobodies? Without good information on credibility, it is pretty rational for the casual observer to overweight the general opinions of people like Linus in forming their own opinions.

We are working very hard on this problem and more at backrecord.com. We don't have a go-live-notification list set up, but if you'd like to know when we make the website live, feel free to send me an email at the address in my profile.
We're using Node.js as an example of something good?

Did we collectively forget everything known about concurrency once web apps got big or something?

This is embarrassing. I should switch to embedded or something.
Nope, we also offer currencies which are supported in your country as well as USD/EUR and other way round, if you contact us directly at support@paymill.com.
Personally I blame A. Seigo for having a large role in the mess that KDE 4 was. Linus was a big proponent of KDE, that is, until the big rewrite.

That's not to say that Seigo doesn't have some fair points, but as far as I'm concerned, everything coming from him on this subject just doesn't hold any value. If anything, it just emphasis just how out of touch the KDE devs are with their users.
They're mad that Obama wont he election. The Declaration of Independence, while not possessing the force of Law like the Constitution, states that the powers of the government arise only from the consent of the governed, and that since they did not consent to a second Obama term they want to leave the Union.

What's interesting is that the US today seems more strongly divided than at any time since immediately after the Civil War. Secession is not necessarily impossible in this environment, and imagine what would happen if the USA fell into open civil war again. Added to this is the fact the the US Territory of Puerto Rico seems to be closer to Statehood than ever before. So we could lose one and gain one in short order.

Louisiana was one of the states in open rebellion during the Civil War. If anybody's going to do it, it's a Southern state like Louisiana (or Texas, but at least Texas can take care of itself.)
Output parameters are indeed a safety problem not solved by sum types.

However, sum types would still give extra safety in most cases.

Also, it is possible to differentiate a type of allocation and a type of a usable buffer, such that "io.Reader" could take an allocation as an argument and return a sum type of an error and a usable buffer. The allocation should be an opaque type not usable as a buffer unless io.Reader converts it to such.
Probably the rediculious fees for sending and receiving text messages. As a British person I can't believe the American networks charge to receive text messages.
Technical right. Fantastic!

Look at what cookies websites actually store.

When you go to many sites there are a bunch of other people spying on you and setting cookies that you didn't even know.

I don't agree with the implementation of this law, but I certainly agree with its intent.
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What's the point of supporting both Greece and Turkey but not the other part of Cyprus? Just wondering.
Does anyone else see the memory slot on that motherboard? I don't.
As a previous commenter pointed out, this is the petition of several individual citizens, and not any kind of official action by the State of Louisiana. Furthermore, a petition on Whitehouse.gov has absolutely no legal significance, and only minimal political significance (this one is likely to be completely ignored by the White House). Thus, this action has no consequences.

The Declaration of Independence[1], which the petition cites, has historical significance, but is not a part of U.S. law. If I remember correctly, the U.S. Constitution[2] (the underlying basis of U.S. law) does not mention any mechanism whereby states can secede from the U.S., which means that the government would have no legal authority to allow Louisiana to secede.

Historically, Louisiana and several other southern states seceded from the United States in the 19th Century and fought the Civil War[3] against the remaining states. After losing the war, the southern states were eventually re-integrated into the U.S.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_I...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War