skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In that case as a Gnome team member, please take the comments I made as complaints relating to things that need fixing. I wouldn't say them if I did't stand behind my opinion.

In fact, my argument is that Gnome should adhere to sound engineering principles. This is not my sole opinion - it is a generic opinion which can be applied to any engineering project and is an established norm. "Move the goalposts, expect trouble".

NetworkManager utterly wins at easily configuring your network, but only if you have one ethernet card or a wireless card. For any other circumstance, it falls over miserably and turns into a shitfest of epic proportions which proceeds to bugger you at every available opportunity.

ifconfig is a better tool, particularly on BSD as it handles ALL interfaces equally, ironically due to sound engineering!

My efforts would be better spent writing a new desktop environment which actually cares about UNIX's semantics and architecture rather than reinventing it every few months.
I'll tell you why. Because the c-libs probably block and having dependencies that have to be compiled increases the risk of something going wrong.

Why should this library parse .ssh/config? This is an application level library. IMO it shouldn't be reading .ssh/config at all.
> also, when i look at tiling wm screenshots, they often look terrible

the explanation on the rat poison page http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ probably says everything about that.

tilers are not for decoration, they are for functionality and performance. there is an option to replace xfwm with xmonad in xfce to get good tiling and save the looks, but I didn't have time to try it. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4722201 (btw that x-tile app is crap)
I'm excited to know those companies. I hope you update those list in the future!
It was just my personal attempt to highlight potential companies that may grow to a billion down the road. I maybe totally wrong.
Spotify is not american as well
[pic] http://www.giftag.com/clip/the-one-electronic/thinkgeek-sudo...

This one is my best geek tshirt. Just completely out of box for people who don't know linux and I like confusing them.
:D
"We've been working on new engine stuff for a while, we've just been waiting for a game to roll it out with."

Something something Half Life 3 something something something.
that is a very good question - and thanks to the ongoing drone warfare by the US, this is being answered right now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unmanned_aerial_vehi...

the wikipedia article above is a good entry point. note how drones were successfully used in the Vietnam war.
You don't see how uncomfortable for the hands it is to type `<%` and closing `%>` every single time you want to output something using code?

How can you compare that, to a simple `@` symbol? ERB (or even Mustache for that matter, feel like a relic compares to Razor.
Starting from small things, it would also be great to stop using #!/bin/bash in scripts for no apparent reason (hint: "it's my default shell" is not a good reason.)
sorry for lifting the data without asking you first. Seemed expedient.
Try scrolling down past the first answer. Subsequent answers have a blur effect applied to them.
A bit of logic programming in core.logic:

(defn cubo [a r] (fresh [a1] (fd a a a1) (fd a a1 r)))

(defn taxi-cab [n]
(run* [q] (fresh [a ac b bc] (infd a b (interval 1 (int (java.lang.Math/cbrt n)) )) (infd ac bc (interval 0 n)) (cubo a ac) (cubo b bc) (+fd ac bc n) (== q [a b]))))

NOTE: FYI, could be made more efficient.
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Can you give a mathematical recipe with assumptions and deductions? ROC curves don't cut it, it's just twiddling of a parameter of a classifier. Is it optimal in any sense? How do you know it's a good classifier for making decisions, when it's a classifier based on "given the hypothesis, how likely is the data" and not the other way around? Is it generalizable to other situations?
I think, being a BSD user, we're probably not concerned much about that. Gnome 3 accounts for a miniscule proportion of users. It's less relevant that Gnome 3 doesn't work on BSD to the BSD projects than Gnome if you ask me.

Bad PR for Gnome would cost more than bar PR for BSD.
Isn't this spam?
I actually meant 'what have you tried' in terms of getting help from Microsoft. You said that you don't know who to complain to - what have you tried in order to find out?
I use two network interfaces on my laptop (wired and wireless), and NM seems to handle both without any issues. Or did you mean something else?
I think that this is more to do with just the fact that it's so new and immature that it's going to take a while for things to settle down... I expect that the interfaces the extensions depend on should stabilise fairly soon.
Samsung reportedly raising iPhone and iPad processor prices by a fifth
I just checked. I've been given cookies by most of those companies.
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I like the bit where iTunes is a "professional music player". xD

Good post, interesting read. :)
Barack Obama's victory shows innovation is the way forward
No problem. Added link to the post. Thought of doing that, but didn't expect the list to explode.
Judge: Your boss has no right to your emails held by a third party
I, personally, am very much in love with DeaDBeeF[1] on openSUSE. When I was still using windows, I was using foobar and continued to do so in wine on Linux. However, I did want an open-source alternative that would integrate better with my DE, so I had a look at deadbeef, which is foobar-ish. Highly recommended, as it is by far the best of the lot for my needs, even considering some of the bigger players out there, like Banshee, Amarok etc.

It ticks most of the boxes and supports plugins and DSPs, Bauer stereophonic-to-binaural DSP[2] amongst others, and can be extended to suit pretty much every need. :)

[1]: http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

[2]: http://bs2b.sourceforge.net/
Careful, there's 'lying with statistics' here. A graph which looks like Romney's likes are in fast decline is actually showing a - shocker - 0.1% decrease in likes.
Ability to market in the the most affluent markets, more likely.

When I say 'market' I mean top down know-your-customers and investors and partners intimately. Leverage the local connections etc.

Yes perhaps its local.
> An identical clock is used at most of the swimming pools I've competed/trained in for lap times and synchronization.

It's quite possible - you can buy them new from the original manufacturer. They are not exclusive to the railways.

http://www.mobatime.com/products/analog-clocks/analog-outdoo...
i'm sorry, but that doesn't explain why you'd want to use one, unless you have a really slow machine. it just says that they use few resources and you don't need to use the mouse. but i have a decent machine and, as i said, already alt-tab between windows.

i realise appearance isn't everything, but if you had the choice of dating two people, otherwise equal, one who was ugly and the other cute, what would you choose?

i also realise i may be coming across as a troll (that wasn't my intention, but your reply seemed to wilfully ignore what i asked). i really am interested in what the advantages of one of these would be (since if the reason is convincing i would try one).
Also known as Rubber Duck Debugging:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Copyright Infringement Correctional Facility has a nice ring to it don't you think? Lets start a private facility and get some of those sweet sweet Government dollars. We can crowdfund it on Kickstarter as well, it's a win win.
People underestimate Quora. They underestimate both Quora and Google+ like they did with Twitter, Facebook, Blogger and YouTube before them.

What people don't seem to get about both Quora and Google+ is that they are networks not based around the people you just randomly happen to know - but instead around the people and things that you are actually interested in. There's a huge difference between the two.

They are interest-based social networks and are essentially pulling niche, technical, specific forums, specific blogs, and just general chatter into one mainstream and real time feed - away from the pseudonym driven, trolling, harsh, fractured, and separate niche areas that we currently have in many areas (Yes I know both Twitter/YouTube began like this - but they have slowly become things you put on your business card/real business use and are based upon).

Quora should not be underestimated as a SV centric bubbletastic startup - although it often appears that way. But then again, so did Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and even YouTube.

Quora is where you go to hang out with people who actually share your interests (and not just a zip code), talk about the things that you really care about (not about who was the most drunk on the weekend) and just generally talk shop about the world, with the added benefit of a centralized repository where content bubbles up everyday (kind of like YouTube's subscriptions feature). No more refreshing pages :D.

Quora is like the Hacker News for everything else that doesn't already have its own Hacker News with really, really, freaking good UI, addictive game mechanics and really good content filtering.

Quora should not be underestimated. And neither should Google+.
In my case, I have a wireless and PPTP VPN connection. I tried SSTP but couldn't even get a build working during to API breakages.

The VPN configuration is a mess and hideously impossible to debug properly. There is no way an average end user would be able to get it working as you have to set log levels via cryptic dbus commands, start various services including network manager in debug mode and dredge through log files etc.

Add to that, the source is comment free, there is no documentation whatsoever.

That's all just shitty engineering.

The whole thing feels like it's been built by 12 year olds.
I don't have any. But now it's gone. It got served out of a stale cache, I guess.
Say what you want about 4chan, this is adorable.
Well, both.

The BSDs are inarguably falling behind when it comes to active, daily, "regular desktop" users, and a lot of that is due to the struggling they're doing with hardware support and with desktop environments. Either the BSDs are going to end up relegated for a long time to server-only OSs (arguably they already have been), or they are going to somehow commit massive resources to catch up (possibly inventing their own replacement pieces along the way), or they are going to disappear completely.

And it is that third outcome that really should make anybody that cares about Linux crap their pants, because the BSDs have some very very nice architectural features and have collectively contributed a lot back to the Linux ecosystem. In some ways, they are way ahead of anything that Linux has to offer. (pf versus iptables is an easy example. I think I would weep with joy if Linux ever threw out iptables and replaced it with pf.)

If the support for BSD dwindles down below a certain point, that's going to be bad for the entire Linux community too.

Unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be either inexperienced in either Linux or BSD and don't know any better, or they are short-sighted and don't see any reason to be concerned about the long-term viability of the other.
Thanks for sharing. These are a nice set of libraries I never used. I am bookmarking this page.
it's called "social proof", instead of "Twitter-ness"
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There seem to be a lot of implementations of the same concept around, that is transforming code to an asynchronous state machine. See my comment at a previous thread [1]. Some implementations not mentioned in this submission are TameJS (for Javascript) [2] and CPC (Continuation Passing C) [3]. It would be interesting to see more comparisons of those, especially Protothreads and CPC, both working on top of C(++).

I especially like how in C# this asynchronous mode of execution is part of the language itself, and no code transformation tools (or macros) are necessary on the user end. I think this makes it much more accessible, both because it's immediately available, and because it avoids fragmentation. See also my NCD programming language [4], where asynchronous execution is an essential feature of the language.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4736630

[2] http://tamejs.org/

[3] http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~kerneis/software/cpc/

[4] http://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD
Why am I fell in love with Meteor
The coming war on general computation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg
My country (Uruguay) deployed the OLPC, but the problem is that teachers are not prepared to take advantage of it. I worry that India will make the same mistake.

I interviewed some teachers, and they praised the fact that most children were inquisitive and taught themselves how to use the main programs quickly. But they also cricicized that they disrupted classes too much, and the lack of support from the education ministry.

Teachers are much more resistant than kids to use them.

Another problem is that the XO laptops break A LOT, and when they're functional, kids forget to charge them before class, no idea how a tablet will fare.

I also believe that the tablet form factor is much better suited for class use. I dislike the fact that the screen in a laptop breaks visual contact (tablets are much better at that), and laptops are not the ideal form factor for books (I'd rather have e-ink, but a tablet would be multipurpose).
Or a company is estimated at a billion every 3 months. How many billion dollar software companies does we really have?
Metro UI? Microsoft is an one of the MEGA investors? :)
Or Reddit? Which is the hackernews for everything else?
ITA Software was acquired by Google for $700M. Endeca was acquired by Oracle for $1B. And what about VMWare?
If you already have a diverse taste in music the last.fm recommendations will be diverse too.
Javascript memory leaks can be identified using Browser Profiler (e.g. https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/he...). Are there any other better/recommended tools for the job?
Does "social proof" generally account for gaming?

For instance, what if Microsoft chooses not to report spam accounts whilst Apple does?

It would be very much related to the rate of retweets as this is primarily how information traverses Twitter.

I think the formula is something like trendiness - honesty.
If it isn't good enough, then promote something which delivers the same goal, but is technically better. That's how to positively and practically change things.

No it's not. The way to positively and practically change things is to do them right in the first place, or failing that, fix the system you have. The "throw it away and do something new" attitude is the driving force behind everything that is wrong with Linux on the desktop.
Thank you for sharing. I plan to buy a Transformer (with a cellphone card for data access) for Christmas. I'll use the VPS instead of the Pi, but it's nice to know that it's a viable option. Every suggestion for the software is greatly appreciated.
no problems LibraryGenesis ( http://coinread.com ) has hundreds of thousands of ebooks already for free download, in soviet Russia DRM is irrelevant
The linked articles have some interesting information as well.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/09/15/hardware-is-dead/

Decently spec'd tablets are already selling U$ 35 in China (though, from personal experience, the real cost is higher due to lack of quality control).

Edit: the same thing happened with the 1st gen Aakash: "Hundreds of Aakashes arrive at IIT Rajasthan for testing; a third of the devices don't start at all."

I'm also excited about the potential of tablets as enablers of new business models :) . It's a nice time to be an entrepreneur :)
And I'm quite a fan of http://www.tldrlegal.com/license/mit-license
Concerning NetworkManager, you might like my NCD scripting language designed specifically for programming of network configurations. http://code.google.com/p/badvpn/wiki/NCD
Still uses pseudonyms. Sounds like a small difference. It isn't.

Facebook existed before, on millions of forums, blogs, websites and various accounts. But what changed everything was using real names. It was the real names and social proof that changed everything from something a bunch of nerds used (like IRC/various chat services/various forums) - to something everyone needed to be on and used daily.

Reddit/HN will remain non-mainstream for the foreseeable future.
> was failing to format his drive and start with a clean Windows install

HAHAHAHAHA IT'S LIKE I'M ACTUALLY LIVING IN 1997
Mega Conz? Really?
Indeed - I think that is the entire summary of my point.

There is reinvention due to ego, not sound engineering.
Apple only use your email for sending Apple software and hardware news.

They don't sell you out to 3rd party advertisers like Microsoft has sold their Metro and Xbox UIs.
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if you can figure out how to uninstall things in it
PlayFramework: stream a big Zip generated on-the-fly without memory load
could you expand on that?
I still use Winamp. I particularly dislike using the same player for audio and video as I would often pause one to play the other and don't like losing my music playlist.

One thing I always wanted is for a playlist which have ended to start over if I hit play instead of playing the last song again. Like a cd player would. Never found a solution to that.
This, if meant to be serious, reveals a very (wrong) fatalistic concept of marriage.

The state of a marriage is not set in stone. It is absolutely possible (and happens all the time) that a great marriage falls apart because one or both partners gradually stop giving attention to each other.
The opposite may also be the case. A marriage that started off badly or took a big hit still can be amended.

It just doesn't happen automatically.

Marriage is mainly what both partners[1] make of it, und requires constant work and care. Of all the divorces I have seen in my environment, there was always at least one partner who wasn't willing to give his share of commitment.

Quote I heard somewhere:

After 65 years of marriage, an old couple was asked how they managed to stay together for so long. The woman thought for a few seconds, and then replied: "You know, we were born in a time where people used to repair things instead of throwing them away."

[1] This admittedly does mean that the fate of the marriage doesn't lie completely in the hands of one individual. You can't single-handedly make your marriage a good one. So maybe thats even the singlemost important trait to look for in a potential partner: Check for the ability to cooperate.
YouTube Will Pull the Plug on at Least 60 Percent of Its Programming Deals
'Massive discrepancy' in UK broadband speeds revealed
Looks like they got the tracker back up, but the website is still taking some time.

Torrent sites should just have an "export to XML" feature for all of the existing magnet links, in case of a site outage.
European cities are built around public transport. Thus main railroad and bus stations are usually stationed downtown.

And you should note that railways in Europe are often fast and comfortable, thus using rail can get you to your inner city destination a full hour faster (only measuring from the city boundary) than going by car (degree of luxury really plays no part in city traffic speed).

Do not forget that European cities have not been built around its majesty The Car.
Great and inspiring list. But I think there should be a difference between companies that crossed the $1B worth in the open stock market, and companies that got this value by external purchase.
Any chance of more than 4GB?
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Right. And I want a flying Llama that poops gold bars.
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Check out the Limitations beneath the "How to become a Hosting Partner" page.

> Unfortunately, we can't work with hosting companies based in the United States. Safe harbour for service providers via the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has been undermined by the Department of Justice with its novel criminal prosecution of Megaupload. It is not safe for cloud storage sites or any business allowing user-generated content to be hosted on servers in the United States or on domains like .com / .net. The US government is frequently seizing domains without offering service providers a hearing or due process.
This was obviously generated using the Enterprisify your Java Class Names tool:

http://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
Amazon didn't insist on having DRM, although it worked out to their advantage. The publishers did: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120210/01364817725/how-pu...
Backbone subview handling can be a real pain and memory management has to be kept in mind.

Which is one of the main reasons why EmberJS was created.

Sometimes I wonder why backbone is still getting so much love when saner alternatives (Ember, Angular etc.) have been around for so long.

Is it only inertia or is there perhaps a need for a framework in the middleground between backbone and ember (in terms of abstraction)?
LOL I just posted the same thing.. In some ways you can argue that he knows better then most what is "really" happening on that front..
Would love to see this paired with a similar list showing operating profit.

Or to put it another way, how many billion dollar software companies are there whose value hasn't been created substantially by the markets alone?
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Reddit is already mainstream. It had 3.8 billion pageviews and 46 million uniques in October (http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/11/08/expenses-mounting-r...)

Websites using pseudonyms use karma, upvotes etc. as social proof.
I wonder if we'll ever get any numbers of sales for the Surface or if we'll just get multiples like the Kindle.
Surfaces will be distributed to employees in late December.