skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish all the authorized repair shops were like that - the last time I used one, it took them 2 weeks (literally) to repair my machine. I had a similar repair later when we got our first Apple Store - and Apple fixed it for free and completed the repair within an hour. That one experience sold me on the Apple Store.

I'm glad to hear there's still some life in the authorized Apple repair network, though.
I don't think that everyone that knows about/uses X11 knows what XCB is. I didn't off-hand. I knew that there were C bindings for X11, but I didn't know they were referred to as XCB.
There isn't much to elaborate on. Anything that doesn't fit completely within their strict no-fun-allowed guidelines gets removed. This leads to two things:

1. Any result on google from StackOverflow is guaranteed to be of the highest quality.

2. I am never ever posting there.
> I think Apple's "design-first" philosophy works great in some circumstances.

Isn't "ensuring functionality is complete /and/ beautiful" the sorta corner piece of design? I mean, it sounds like you're describing 'design' here as aesthetics, and saying Apple's problem is that they went for pretty, while ignoring function. The latter part is true, but the real problem here is that it's not well designed. And had Apple's "design-first" philosophy been followed ... this whole thing might not have happened.
the letter frequency in Letterpress is already a little off. I've had games with one or two vowels and like 4 x's. It was tough to finish.
the era of pilots seated in the plane is coming to an end, as so often, the military (air force) leads the way. the f22/35 will be the last platform to deploy with cockpits.

air space all around the world is becoming open for drones. cargo planes will be the first to switch to drone operation. for the people pointing out that AI is not there yet - drones are piloted by humans on the ground. BUT: you can have multiple drones monitored by one person. only sticky situations need human attention. the flight time over the atlantic at 35000ft does not need humans on board, cause guess what, it is already being flown on auto.

think of the savings for DHL, UPS, FEDEX. no more pilots in the craft means more room (no cockpit, no life support, etc). pilots on the ground can follow different safety regulation for sleep periods. you can switch to any pilot during flight, not just the one in the plane. and liability is way cheaper, you can actually decide to crash the plane into the sea in case of a failure.

i would not invest in being a driver of any kind as a long term thing. trains, planes, automobiles - the writing is on the wall. subways already become automated, trains are next.
No, such things also exist when regulations restrict the market flow. Or when trade unions protect their privileges in an excessive manner, preferring the lead the company to bankruptcy than to accept any compromise. And you know what, you have both phenomena in the aviation business. Hardly a coincidence they face such difficulties.
When to kill a feature
Not to mention the nationwide assault on airports, carried out by corrupt local politicians, developers, asshole neighbors, and even the Obama administration.

First we have jagoffs who move next door to an airport and then start bitching about it (see: Santa Monica, CA), using the same lies about pollution and "danger" as excuses to try to boost their property values by stealing from everyone else. In every case, you can statistically prove that what they're saying is bullshit. But of course, these people know that.

And we have politicians who pander to these people, which is easy when the people who support the airport (which in many cases turns out to be the MAJORITY) don't have any particular reason to make their voices heard. And waiting on the sideline (and the city councilman's office) are the fatcat developers who're sure they're about to move in for the land grab.

When an airport closes, we all lose an irreplaceable part of our national transportation infrastructure and a great American freedom: the freedom to fly. At the behest of a few thieves, communities are losing hundreds of airports and you, your friends, and your children are losing the opportunity to learn to fly.

Why is there a shortage? Because ignorance is killing aviation. Yes, fuel prices are high. But electric planes and engines that run on automotive gas are not going to become widely available if there's no place to fly them. It's just an economic fact. And then we have Obama vilifying aviation and corporate planes, when in fact most of them are BUILT IN AMERICA and certainly serviced in America. They're used by such people as factory owners to fly to facilities that aren't even served by commercial airlines. And who works in those factories? Americans. But Obama wants to slap user fees on general aviation, which is what killed GA in Europe. Brilliant plan.

GA needs a massive PR effort to combat the ignorant portrayal of small airports and planes as non-essential playgrounds of the rich. Seriously, hang out at an airport. Take a flying lesson. Talk to pilots. That's not who these people are.
You already know whether your play is legal or not. If you're not cheating, then all your plays will be legal. You don't have to wait for anything.

As to your opponent rejecting legal moves, what's the problem? You made a legal move, and then they refused to continue the game. There's no issue here.
Probably one of the most human pieces on HN. The comments so far are enlightening.
Busy, busy, busy, is what we Bokononists whisper whenever we think of how complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
Thanks, but I need a library I can use in an app (and not just on OS X).
"Power Off" is now a default option in 3.6. It seems like they're using extensions to get a feel of what the most popular feature requests are, then adding them to the default experience. You may disagree with it, but a hard number of extension installs is more to go on a couple blog posts.
It's Time For Apple To Unleash A Major Software Overhaul
I doubt that it makes SO a better resource. I've seen the CV patrols in action. These are teenage kids hanging out in chatrooms, gaining enough rep to close-vote (which is easier than you think) and then throwing themselves like hungry mobs on interesting questions to shut them down.

The moderation system on stackoverflow is broken because an unskilled user can gain high reputation by getting upvotes from other unskilled users (I've seen a lot of wrong answers getting up-votes). This means that over time the average level of skill in the people moderating the site drops and you end up with a lower quality of moderation.
Yes, as explained by Jon Stewart[0], Sheldon Adelson, the top Republican donor, poured a ton of money into the primary campaign to smear Romney. Or as Stewart put it, "This election wasn't murder. It was auto-unerotic asphyxiation."

0: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-november-7-2012/post-d...
$50 an hour? Where are you renting? That wouldn't even cover fuel.

I fly Cherokees at $120 per hour, minimum.
Join the club. I also got a degree (and almost a PhD) in psychology. I'm now working as a web analyst, learning hadoop and various other things for big data. Seriously though, one thing a psychology degree tends to give you is a solid understanding of experimental design, which is an extremely marketable skill in this world of AB testing. So stick it out, and you'll get there.
Man plans and God laughs.
The Berkeley Packet Filter mechanism is implemented as an interpreter in the kernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter
Exactly what I suspected as well. Just had that experience with this Go code-generator generating wrapper packages based on XSD files, here's a fine example: the "TxsdModesUnionTxsdModesUnionListTxsdModesUnionTxsdModesUnionListUnion" ( http://github.com/metaleap/go-xsd/blob/master/pkg/www.w3.org... )

Alternative would have been hundreds of "AnonN" identifiers with N going well into the hundreds...
It'll grow on you :)
I'm suspicious of his reason for bringing up Scott Adams and Berke Breathed.
Who’s Vulnerable Among Internet ‘Fantastic Four’? Apple, Facebook
The Ultimate Mobile Computer: Connecting an Asus Transformer and a Raspberry Pi
Signs It Might Be Time To Consider Hiring A CEO
This is my mobile setup. Let me know if you have any questions about the specifics or ways I could improve this. I just finished it today and thought I'd share.
Seems like Gnome Shell has been in the headlines quite a bit lately, which is kind of weird since it's been about two months since the last version was released.

The articles on the development philosophy behind Gnome Shell are indeed troubling, but I still think Gnome is getting much better with each release and I can't imagine using a different desktop environment. As a developer who is acutely aware of design and user experience patterns, so much so I can't bring myself to use "ugly" programs even if they might be useful (which is why I use Sublime for coding), Gnome satisfies all my urges. If I wasn't so vain I know I'd try a tiling manager like Xmonad or Awesome, and those can be customized to look decent but Gnome satisfies all my design needs out of the box (with a couple one-click-install extensions for functional enhancements.)

Linux for the hackery stuff and tools, Gnome Shell for a beautiful and elegant user interface. And isn't that why OS X has become so popular with hackers these days? A Gnome installation is pretty much that, but with more emphasis on the hacking and open source aspect.
Officials Say F.B.I. Knew of Petraeus Affair in the Summer
I can't wait for practical & automated electrical airplanes to start becoming a market reality. So many short hops will become affordable that could really use it. The Victoria,BC, Seattle & Vancouver triangle is one good example. Victoria is on an island, and requires a 3hr ferry boat ride on a schedule to get off the island.
Zed has got it twisted. Khan Academy's environment was 'inspired' by Victor's 'Inventing on Principle' talk which encompassed much more than what's discussed here. Resig did not implement Victor's 'Learnable Programming' article, because the article was, in fact, a response to the Khan Academy implementation. I imagine Victor built upon Resig's work to make those little demos in the article. Victor explicitly states JavaScript is a poor educational language, and the demos are just the simplest examples of his principles, by extending the Khan Academy model. [1]

[1] http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/ (the bottom)
Windows 8 - best to pass it up: review
Apple's innovations are myriad and subtle, particularly on the software side. Almost all of these things have been copied by the various Linux environments:

- Sub-second reconnection to wifi when resuming from sleep, using past remembered networks and IPs

- Bonjour zero-configuration service discovery for printers, network speakers, etc.

- Exposé window management and the GPU-accelerated desktop in general, not to mention just-in-time-compiled GPU accelerated image and video manipulation with CoreImage / CoreVideo.

- Spotlight indexed desktop search that's actually usable for real world filetypes

- Quicklook instant previews, not to mention native PDF support not involving Adobe Reader

- A mail program that autoconfigures based on just the email address, just by trying the obvious options

etc

Add in the fact that Apple is still the only company to have multi-touch work properly on a desktop, that their hardware has been dominating geek conferences for years because of its travel-friendlyness, and there is plenty of innovation to go around.
Chiming in here to say Gnome has run great on all the hardware I've tried it on, which is more than I can say for Unity which is jittery on even mid/high-end-ish hardware.
"Power Off" is a default user menu entry in Gnome 3.6 now. :)
It doesn't require a GPU for hardware acceleration anymore, Gnome 3.6 uses LLVM for hardware where GPU acceleration isn't available.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxM...
Windows 8 is great
It also helps that there are effectively infinite teams when compared to politics. If there was a sport with only two teams, and everyone was expected to be a fan of one of the two (passed down by your parents of course), we might approach a politics level conflict.
Can someone explain why they want to do this in Python and not judt C and Xlib?
I'm not sure I buy this. First off, why are people going to therapy unless something is wrong? Secondly, once this person goes to therapy and ends up asking for a divorce, what makes the other person such a reliable source on whether things were going well?
Agreed - the Lua community should really focus on coroutines instead, since it actually has them, unlike Javascript. Coroutines are way easier to debug than callbacks.
A month ago I was walking around (not in Canada, but for the sake of argument, let's say it was) taking pictures when a gentleman called me over and asked if I would take a picture of him and his wife (technically, a commission) with his camera.

Now, who owns the picture I took?
Like most things in Linux, terminal commands are the solution to everything, so I like comparing the out-of-box experiences. :)
So if you want to read a book on "unapproved hardware", it's now less illegal to pirate it rather than buy the book and break the DRM? Lawmakers sure have a firm grasp on technology, don't they...
i am not an american so i dont know too much about your election campaigns, but maybe these people did not donate just for personal advantage reasons.
Windows 8 upgrade diary: gaming and performance
Piloting machines (cars, busses, trains, jets) is a task that is fundamentally fit better for a machine than a human.
I'm of the leads on that project. We're working on upgrading the code base to support all of Python, and hope to have that ready by PyCon US.
They could just unsubscribe from his updates, no need to unlike.
Simple Recommendation Engine
I don't think the designer who stole the clock (and cost Apple $21M) is still with Apple. This is damage mitigation, not paying for the actual value.

But for Apple design is everything, so it's not a noticeable dent in the budget.
Windows 8 to get first 'critical' security update
I'd point that unless I'm greatly mistaken there is no server involved, as it is all done through Game Center's turn-based game functionality.
you have to hope that the benefits of the war would somehow trickle down to the general populous.
Definitely important.

You only skip the HR process if you have a pre-existing relationship with a decision-maker in the company. Cold-calling can work, but the most likely outcome is getting black-listed if they think you're one of the crazies.

If you really do want to go the cold-call method, use the cold-call to establish a relationship (i.e., ask for career advice, to talk about their technology stack, etc.) Once you have a real connection, then it may be appropriate to give them your resume.
Yes. Definitely much more poetic than the counterparts found in Rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activerecord/lib/...
Yea right. They've been saying this for years.

How is this possible when there are so many qualified pilots looking for a job?
Maybe they expect air force vets to fly them?
I thought that was sarcasm. No one actually hopes a company will go and do unethical things.
Some people use browser fingerprinting for anti-spam techniques, would they need to get the spammer's acceptance before enabling this?

As you can see, these European laws border on absurd.
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Having lived through a similar experience as Al3x, my biggest take-aways after the fact were:

- If she/he finds enjoyment from it [pick anything] then encourage it. Don't find a fault in it and be an ass.

- Comments and attitudes over time do matter. Don't be condescending. You're not "all that." You may think you are, but you're not.

- Everyone has dreams. They may not align with yours. That's OK, if you aren't narcissistic and an egoist. Look in the mirror from time to time.

Everyone wants to be loved. Everyone wants to be appreciated. All work is honorable.
That's what KDE has done: the big rewrite of KDE4 let them use the same libraries to power two different shells, for distinct purposes. That's a good way of doing it. Though it does not solve the problem for the rest of the applications.
No, it is the same in Germany and for a long time. Over here, you cannot transfer the copyright to your code/photos, but you can transfer usage rights. Of course, people still get commisioned to take photos or write code.

It is not really a big deal, in practice things mostly work as in the US.
"Circle Jerk"? Really, Techcrunch? Do we need to force this stupid term even further into the lexicon of the Internet?
The suggestion that OkCupid's algorithms were right all along and that's why the 4-year relationship failed is, if taken seriously, indeed questionable. But I'd assume that remark is more an offhanded joke than anything.
Well for someone like Adelson, he's dead convinced that President Obama has passed laws unfavorable to him and will continue to do so, so I don't think giving to both parties would have made much sense to him. It looks to me that a lot of these people are similarly simply ideologically aligned with whichever party already.

Perhaps the situation may be different for corporations though?
Ahh good old TalkFreelance :).

Jon did a good job, I enjoyed visiting the DailyBooth office. I'm going to miss that on my next trip to SF, but I'm sure he'll be working on something else that's very cool. Same goes for David, Julian & Ryan. Josh, who helped financially in the beginning (also a Talkfreelancer) is now working on MinoMonsters which is proving to be a success. I believe some of them are also working on Lockitron which is doing well so far, presales wise. All in all, a very talented bunch of people & a lot of fun to hang out with.

- Sam Granger (if you're wondering who I am)
Google account passwords stored in Clear Text on Androids with S-memo
>I remember hearing some things about how this was the first time an incumbent president was outraised by his opponent.

Is this including the Super-PACs or the candidates themselves? I was under the impression that President Obama out fundraised Governor Romney by a significant margin, and that it was the Republican Party and its supporting Super-PACs that allowed Governor Romney to close the gap.
Japanese Company develops smell transfer mechanism
Preventing memory leaks in Backbone.js
XMonad is very good, but is only a window manager (eg, no toolbar), so you need to fiddle with configuration files to integrate it with a third-party toolbar (eg, xmobar or taffybar). You can try awesome, which I found much easier to use out-of-the-box. It's fairly mature by now, features a clickable toolbar, and a library of additional widgets.
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I think that this passive philosophy is important for finding happiness, but that going against the grain is exactly what it takes to achieve success.

In my mind the hardest part of life is figuring out and prioritizing what I should do. During my freshman year of college (another 19-year-old here) I was very deliberate about taking classes I was interested in, rather than ones that my friends from orientation were taking. As a result I learned a ton of great stuff, I had an awesome schedule, and I met kids I wouldn't have met from just staying within my comfort zone. At the same time, I missed out on valuable chances to get to know other kids that were in the same boat as me: fledgling freshman looking for a friend group. I think if I had gone with the flow in this situation I would have been much happier that first semester. I would've been taking easier classes, getting more sleep and exercise, and hanging out with soon-to-become lifetime friends. That's what I've been trying out this semester, and it's turned out that I'm much happier for it. But is this a road I want to keep going down?

In tasting the happiness of wu wei and satisfaction of focused drive, I've realized the dilemma that I've always been in. As a social yet ambitious individual the hardest part of my life has been finding balance.
Well the problem arrises in how such a game with "passive" cheating (your opponent having removed words you might play from their dictionary to thwart you) would be counted. Detecting a mismatch is simple, determining if it was malicious, and thus the next action you take afterward is more complex:

1. You could send back a rejection. This would handle the legitimate mismatch where differing versions of the app could have different dictionaries (there are notable missing words in the 1.0 so I wouldn't be surprised if words are added in newer versions). Receiving something like "could not verify word" is much nicer than the game just ending on you. However, this still allows your opponent to cheat in the manner described above by removing words you want to play from his dictionary. It would thus be frustrating to play against such a person. He knows the word is valid, but cannot play it against you and must play something else. He is forced to decide whether to forfeit or try a different word.

2. The solution you described: simply end the game, no win or loss since you can't know who was at fault. If this game EVER employs a ladder system, then this is the equivalent of pulling the cord in an internet game, you avoid a loss. Not to mention, again, this doesn't deal with the cases of legitimate differing dictionaries.

The problem with both these methods is that cheating still has an affect. Whether it be ending the game or volleying back to you, a cheated action changes the state of the game. It is instead preferable to prevent cheating. Prevention really does thus require words to simply get checked on a server. 1. There is a clear trusted source for the words, 2. You don't need to ship an App Store update to update your dictionary. 3. There is simply no such thing as word cheating anymore, short of hacking the server.
That's because the current software intentionally uses very simple cookbook algorithms for flying the plane. Proper software would simulate thousands of scenarios when an anomaly occurs and pick one that gives the least bad result.

The BA 38 example highlights why we need to get humans out of the loop. Good software would have instantly detected the uncommanded loss of power, and immediately started raising the flaps and landing gear. In fact, good software would probably have exercised the control surfaces and engines before descent and diagnosed the problem then, when the aircraft had tens of kilometers of glide remaining.
Dan Doel [1], who works with Edward Kmett, gets it too.

And there's the inimitable Luke Palmer [2], whose blog contains nuggets of gold for those who care to dig through the archives.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/user/doliorules

[2] http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/tag/haskell/
Hopefully this will be rectified via constitutional challenge.

"Many experts believe that the government's decision to adopt one of the most restrictive digital lock approaches in the world - it creates potential liability without actual copyright infringement - renders the provision vulnerable to constitutional challenge." [0]

[0] http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6557/125/
To this I might add my own minim of insight:

Don't try to like the things you think you ought to like, just let yourself like the things you do like.

It seems simple enough, but I found it quite difficult to actually do. If you succeed though, it not only makes you happier, it also seems to inoculate you against pretentiousness.
It seems like the next step would be to modify the binary or wherever the checksum is stored.
Yes, typically, the Republicans collect more at the federal level. Local races are different, and there's a mix.

Dems generally get many more small donations, and that's why the bundlers category is full of Dems.