skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find community proliferation like this very entertaining. People learn to identify so well with one community or its content, that they replicate it inside other communities. For example, I was bemused recently to learn that Reddit has an r/4chan. I asked, "Wouldn't you just go to 4chan?" But they found it more moderate, more suited to a Reddit user's taste.

To each their own, eh?
Reduce the hassle of cloud-related budgeting and resource management
"Marks of bad science:
Has failed to convince many mainstream scientists of its truth"

This is wrong. From Copernicus to Einstein to many others, agreeing with the "mainstream" has very little to do with science.
I don't know what a karamat is or why that would be more useful for this purpose than a dictionary.
Because the stuff he built is open source?
I'm sure he gets paid a high salary for his work, but he's still an engineer, not a founder.
And maybe he likes working in an office?
It was only obvious in the last sentence. It's impossible to read tone over the internet, and there are enough legitimate crackpots that you need to label sarcasm or risk being taken at face value. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
It's a shame that the ridiculous amount of hyperbole involved in anything that Stallman seems to say these days is probably reducing his stature among the tech community and the history books. IMO his opinions would be more constructive if he tones it down every now and then.
This needs to be standard for every image uploader, I can't express how useful this is.

It's one of the main reasons we've switched from Acunote to Trello.
Oh, "obnoxious explaining" is a thing for both genders. I'm quite fond of obnoxiousness myself! But mansplaining refers specifically to men who feel like when they're in a conversation with a woman, they have to explain the basics of whatever topic they're discussing, even if the person they're talking to is much more experienced with said topic than the man is.

For instance, a lot of this conversation has revolved around men explaining why they think a policy against harassment at conferences is a bad thing. We don't have a lot of women participating in this discussion, but I suspect that if they did, they'd garner plenty of responses saying "Clearly you don't understand this issue as well as I[, a man,] do." And I suspect that because when topics like this on HN do get responses from posters that go "I'm a woman and I think this is helpful," they inevitably receive that exact kind of response.

I've been told, by some of my close ladyfriends, that this behavior is enormously frustrating, and that most of them recognize it as a thing which is almost always what a guy does to a woman, rather than a guy to a guy or a woman to a man. I see enough of that behavior to agree with them that yes, the term has a legitimate use (though it doesn't preclude people of either gender from being more generally irritating, of course).
You can achieve that even more effectively by using a zero-force keyboard without having to split your attention between programming and personal interaction all day.
Richard Stallman is absolutely correct in calling this spyware. At the very least, this "feature" should be off by default.
Guido wrote the NDB framework for AppEngine, which, as an AppEngine user, I'd say has one of the most clever ways to do async requests that I've seen in any major language. I'm used to the C++ frameworks for async that are used in the main search stack, and switching to AppEngine and having things pretty much "just work" has been great.

He also did Mondrian, which kicked off the trend toward web-based code-review and was a huge step forward from just critiquing patches over e-mail.

Usually famous programmers get famous because they've done a lot of programming; that experience translates into some pretty cool programming chops.
A continent generally provides more opportunities to be self-sufficient than a retro-fitted cruise ship.

EDIT: Also, survival rate on those colonization trips? Not so great. And that was with things like DIRT around that you can PLANT things in.

Basically, the 'floating city' idea is just a rebranding of what current cruise ships already offer: Pay exorbitant prices for everything in order to be on the ocean. Ain't no new society coming out of that.
I think it's a good thing for Python that Guido doesn't work on it full-time, and instead keeps his hands dirty with other projects. It allows him better exposure to the experience and perspective of regular Python users, and the sorts of problems that they use Python to deal with on a day-to-day basis.
Heh, I was complaining about this in the other thread as well. It's encouraging to see some love for their issue tracker.

Now if they could only fix their damn search! :)
ah the dog. One of the first things to get rid of in XP :]
Can you offer a more descriptive and less evasive answer? I'm not trying to be rude (and not a smoker), I'm honestly curious as to what you would do "different".

Most states have moved to blocking smoking in public areas to differing extents, the more blatant exceptions to this tend to be areas like Las Vegas where establishments pay fines for the repeat violations of their customers.
Jeesh, Could read my post?

The "myth" claimed by the OP was that manufacturers have left the US. That is not a myth despite the US remaining a top manufacturing country - because, as you say, what remained specialized, high-value items (planes, chemicals).

A large number of particular manufacturers left the US.
This is alright, but which app really gets to own what's on the lock screen? I think there are better design solutions posted elsewhere, including the existing design. I imagine most people think it needs to be improved, but would any change actually make them happier? Probably not.
John McAfee Saga Gets Bizarre Animated Retelling
It's OK, it's gone now.
The Civil War is an excellent example, and the best example of the ones I gave.
I know nothing about Guido outside of his work with Python but I assume he's not hurting for money at all. Nevertheless, our capitalist system does not reward people for brilliance alone; it rewards people for taking risks. Some very wealthy people are still being rewarded for the risks of their ancestors, and others have managed to keep wealth gathered in different economic systems, but that is generally how new wealth is created in our economy today.

(By definition, risk takers are collectively expected to fail more often than they succeed. There is probably some level of intelligence below which success rates drop even further, but I would be surprised to see any strong correlation between success rates and intelligence above that level.)
Not really. I have like 8000 followers. I'm basing it on observing their activity as well as mine.
So it's using bone conduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_conduction
You bring up a good point about charity and anonymity. In general the act of making a wide public announcement about one's charitable acts is strong evidence that it's being done for publicity or is primarily self serving in some way.

In this specific case however, he is financing a public health initiative in a geographical area where many residents read his blog, therefore getting the word out that the shots are available through one's blog is not an unreasonable way to make sure the effort is effective and makes a difference. Many who read his blog will reblog and word gets out. Let's compare this to a nun who arranges for free flu shots at Target instead. If no one knows about it, then it doesn't do any good. Those who can't afford the shots are not going to go in and ask on the off chance a donor has provided them. One wants to get the word out. Is she being self-serving by announcing to people that the shots are available? It seems unfair to make that assumption.
The government builds roads, but doesn't provide individuals with a car, or liability insurance.
Just use Mint!
Actually:

Rasmus --> Etsy
This is ridiculous. Why doesn't he spend more of his time and money building Google's customer service? Has everyone suddenly forgotten the Google Apps story from yesterday? They presumably stopped giving out free accounts to maximize profits, and yet this imbecile is going around burning his cash on preventing the spread of influenza and other diseases.

Your self-driving vehicles are the future, Larry. Why would you invest in helping more people survive when we'll actually end up leading less of them because of all the driver/cab jobs you'll be eliminating?
sounds a bit like my own story (though you're a bit farther along!)
A place for hackers to share news
Can't say I'm overly thrilled by this news. But I guess even language designers have to suck it up and pay the bills sometimes...
Fedora is good enough although it's a bit more bleeding edge.
Money is innocuous and inert, greed however is more accurate.

Saying simply 'money' is disingenuous and it doesn't indicate obviously enough that Canonical is acting in a greedy manner.
Seasteading is about the frontier. It's not about any political system. Lest we forget, there's quite a tradition of utopian thought within the progressive worldview as well. I think it's wrong to dismiss ambitious idealism as unrealistic.

Worst thing that happens - a bunch of people that don't want to live in the US anymore drown in the ocean. Best thing that happens - they experiment with new forms of government, some of which influence people back on land. Either way, we need more experiments in government, not less.
> Use Super-A. You can tell Unity exactly what you want to search. And in future you’ll be able to do that from the home lens, too, more easily than the current Lens Bar at the bottom of the Dash.

From http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1182

It sounds like they're working to expand the search functionality with users' best interests in mind, not adding advertisements as everyone seems to think.

> it is being done to track my interests for monetary gain in the form of referral links

They're just search results, not ads. Read the blog post from Shuttleworth.
I would love to hear why the github team waited so long to bring this feature into existence? I am sure there is a good reason (or maybe not) but it would be awesome if a member of the team would stop by and post the details.
Shameless plug, searchco.de allows you to search over github,

http://searchco.de/?q=irq_create_mapping+url%3Agithub

You just need to add the url:github portion to any search. You can do the same over bitbucket, codeplex, google code, sourceforge and the fedora source tree too. See, http://searchco.de/blog/view/variety-of-updates
Lawyers are not nearly as necessary for negotiating contracts as they want people to believe.

Lawyers, by reflex, attempt to insert themselves in the middle of processes, and naturally tend to create conflict. (This is according to my experience, and the experience of many others.) If a lawyer can do this, the negotiation will naturally take longer, generating billable hours.

Secondly lawyers all know that the person who is in a hurry to get a contract is going to get a worse deal, and so will NEVER be in a hurry to close the deal. But there are times when "winning" this negotiation is simply not worth the delay.

Now step back and look at it from the point of view of a company. Paying lawyers fees is not good. Creating conflict with someone you want to cooperate with is not good. Making negotiations take longer is not good.

Making this concrete, I was in a recent negotiation for a pay for performance compensation. Because it was pay for performance I could quantify how much delays cost the company versus what I will get paid. Their lawyers' delays cost them several times what I will get paid. On my side I did not let my lawyers negotiate. I told them to identify everything in the drafts that I should object to. Then I negotiated without them. Once there was nothing that made me unhappy, I signed. And what I got was pretty much the deal that we agreed to up front, in person, which I emailed to them months earlier.

Limiting my lawyers' role saved me thousands of dollars. If the company had limited theirs, they would have saved thousands of dollars. And would have had a contract faster.

TD;LR, just because your lawyers want to be involved, and try to convince you that they should be, doesn't mean that they are providing value.
Now to combine with arm assist exoskeleton: http://www.robotshop.com/x-ar-exoskeleton-arm-support-right.... ...
Ask HN: Do you have friends who are not software engineers, outside of work?
Friends who are not software engineers, and whom you know outside of your work (all of your workplaces combined). How did you meet them? Ever had conversations like "FB isn't actually good for your privacy" only for them to look at you as if you were insane?
How about bikes with internal gears built into the frame? These bikes would also have a small low power device with a radio receiver. When a key fob is close enough, the device would unlock the internal gears, otherwise the pedals spin free. Also, if the device doesn't receive a signal from the fob within 6 hours, the device starts waking up and listening for a cell signal. If it receives the right token, it self destructs, taking the gearbox with it.
Has to or wants to? Guido has chosen to focus on building an awesome language rather than maximising his personal wealth. Some people just like programming, and I'm sure he's extremely well compensated and does not have to work 9 - 5.
You completely missed the point of the post.
The point of the post was not: "look someone made an exoskeleton". As the other commenters pointed out before you edited the title, there have been many exoskeletons made.

The real point of the post is: a company has named themselves after a fictional company that almost brings an end to the human race.

By blindly changing the post title you are filtering out relevant information in the post. The relevant information here is my perspective, why I think this article should be read by other HN readers. The whole point to having comments, and an open text field for submission titles is to get the perspective of HN readers.
Dont have time for screenshots but i can tell you that i'm on firefox 17
I prefer LMDE and to skip the Ubuntu derivation.
That would definitely be frustrating, and would strike me as a poor communication technique to persuade an audience to your point of view.

I thought you were talking about the general phenomena of people who know almost nothing about a subject thinking they know almost everything.
For those who want to avoid this crap, there's a simple solution: come to Xubuntu. You can avoid spyware and at the same time get a simple, straightforward desktop UI without any modern "tablet" or "phone" UI flourishes: http://i.imgur.com/6fF0C.png
Actually, it is even more dramatic. Infection rate is essentially binary: either the disease spreads (which means the number of sick people goes up until pretty much everyone in the community who is not immune gets it - this is called epidemic) or the number of sick people decreases and the disease dies off. There is a tipping point depending on the percentage of people who is immune. For common flu you need to have 50-70% vaccinated to prevent epidemic (its basic reproduction number, R0 per wiki article, is between 2 and 3).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_modelling_of_infec...
Shameless plug, searchco.de allows you to search over github,

http://searchco.de/?q=irq_create_mapping+url%3Agithub

You just need to add the url:github portion to any search. No branch support yet, but working on it. I doubt they will be able to buy Ohloh though as that's owned by BlackDuck. I also find Ohloh search lacking in some areas such as the following search,

http://searchco.de/?q=%3D~+lang%3Aperl
http://code.ohloh.net/search?s=%3D~&browser=Default
> People do what is in their own interest by definition.

No, people do what they believe at that point in time is in their interest, and may (and often do) revise and reverse their beliefs a moment later.

May acts, like voting, are by virtue of being done every e.g. 4 years, are supposed to reflect long term interest.

An analogy: Your immediate interest might be to get the gratification from eating a jelly doughnut, though your long term interest might be to lose weight and be more fit and healthy.

I'm referring to the many people who vote once every 4 years to eat a doughnut every single day of the next 4 years. There are a lot of them, and they are voting against their (long term) interests.
Well, actually a big chunk of your taxes is going to farm subsidies, and you wouldn't be 70% corn if it wasn't.
Can anyone advise from experience how long this may take to filter through to Github:Enterprise?
I wonder if this situation won't be a bit of a litmus test for Stallman and the FSF. If Canonical says "no, we aren't changing this" does the FSF counter by forking Ubuntu and removing that feature? That response is at the root of Stallman's four freedoms. Or do they simply tell people to avoid Ubuntu?
Maybe github should use a different TLD for pages? Like Githubpages.com ?
Shameless plug, searchco.de allows you to search over github's public repositories,

http://searchco.de/?q=irq_create_mapping+url%3Agithub
They did. They even linked to wikipedia pages on him twice.
Many countries, including the USA, do have such programs. The American version is food stamps, paid for out of general taxation and distributed to millions of people in low-income households. It's not as all-encompassing as your suggestion, but then neither is government involvement in healthcare.
bon appetit!
In a perfect world: the next release (usually a few months apart). But software has a way of coming up with unexpected problems, so let's call that a goal :)

We've spent a lot of time this year ensuring Enterprise has feature parity to every new feature we ship on dotcom, and this was no exception.
Their whole opening about the delay in rotating a phone seems way off base; I thought developers added that to the OS intentionally to avoid over-sensitive sensors triggering rotations too frequently. While the sensitivity of the sensor plays a part, this seems like an entirely software implementation that has little to do with physics.
Well, it may be 50, it may be 150, but the point is, it's probably fine to call a company of 10 a startup, and it's absurd to call a Google or Facebook a startup.

Which leaves open the question of what to call Dropbox. Well funded, profitable, late-stage startup? Sounds like too much of a mouthful.
I hate it, but they absolutely have the right. That's like saying "too bad Google thinks they have a right to my emails". They're up front about it, and you're perfectly free to a.) campaign to change their decision or b.) not use their product.
I'm at step 1-5
This is a company that has consistently insisted that the demand just isn't there for even 50 Mbps speeds

Sadly, I have to agree with Time Warner. While gearheads like myself (a sometime work-from-home software engineer) have a constant craving for the fastest internet speed, the general population cares more about keeping costs low. So for a typical family with a laptop or two, and maybe an XBox and a tablet, 6Mbps might suffice. In our house, we have 4 Android tablets, 3 Android phones, 1 iPad, 2 laptops, 2 desktops, 1 media player, 1 Skype video phone, and a security camera DVR that streams over IP all using the same internet connection.

I live in an area where Time Warner offers 50Mbps internet, so I took advantage of it. I previously had 24/3Mpbs AT&T U-Verse, which was the fastest internet available in my old neighborhood. But even among techies, I think we're atypical...a simple poll of 6 of my coworkers revealed that most had 6Mbps or slower connections, and these are all software engineers. One was considering getting 18Mpbs U-Verse, but he hasn't yet.

So it looks like the demand just isn't there yet.
It's a lot easier to have your data be shared with the whole team. Otherwise, with a personal google account, sharing a document with a team requires adding each individual person to each document. There appears to be a feature of adding a group to a document, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to define groups, and even if it were possible it'd be a few extra steps to manage as well as to keep track of, since the document overview only shows "shared" but not the people/group it's shared with.

With a domain-specific account, it's easy to set a document to be shared with the group - added benefit is if you add a new user to the domain, she is automatically given access to those documents. Also, the document overview is much easier to manage since anything marked "shared" usually means teamwide.

I get what you're saying, everything can be accomplished with the still free personal google account, just it includes a constant daily drain on mental processing power.
What is an API? The federal government explains.
Influenza is a horrible virus. I want it eradicated as much as anyone. What I don't want is for us to pretend we have a solution, when we clearly do not.

That removes the incentive for us to find a real answer.

I took my infant daughter to get her second flu shot last week (babies get two). She contracted a stomach virus at the doctors' office. She was puking for hours, repeatedly, even when she had nothing to throw up. We took her to the emergency room. A day later, fever and diarrhea for me. Same for my wife. Fun, right?

If my baby doesn't get the flu, this will count as a success story. Part of the "50%" that worked. I don't even want to think about the years they don't get up to that 50% ...

And I'm supposed to do this every year?

> Are you really saying that risk of nosocomial infection is sufficient to offset the value of influenza vaccination? Really?

Yes. If you think I'm off, I want to see math, not hysterics and italics.

At best, twice as many people die from nosocomial infection as influenza in the US. At worst, twenty times as many. That's all from the CDC.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/us_flu-related_deaths.h...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosocomial_infection
What you are referring to is history. Languages borrowing terms and lending them out back then is nothing something I have a problem with.

Today, the Internet, globalisation, etc. have decreased the number of languages in the world dramatically (last thing I heard is one language dies every two weeks) and there are approximately ~7000 languages alive.

While I know that most of these languages that are dying are spoken by very few (otherwise it wouldn't die). It is now more important than ever to keep each language unique.

What was great before (loanwords and such) may actually be a problem now.
He could have set the entire thing up and then said, "I found out there are free flu shots at Target."
We don't have roadmaps or a prioritized backlog, so we weren't exactly "waiting" to implement this. Someone got fed up with the image workflow, figured out a solution, grabbed some other people to help, and shipped it.
> And do you really think they would have difficulty getting funding for climate research contradicting the current consensus?

Indeed, as BEST showed.

edit: erm... why the downvotes? I was giving an example of a climate research study from the "climate change skeptic" side and funded in no small part by the Charles G. Koch Foundation, not exactly a proponent of anthropogenic global warming.