skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you can remember everything with 100% perfection there is no distinction anymore between the food you're eating and the food you ate 20 years ago. Between the people you're with and the people you knew long ago. And so on.

In one of Aldous Huxley's books (island) there is the Minah bird, whose main role in life is to remind people to live 'here and now'. This is the opposite of that. Either you'll end up re-living the past all the time or you will end up not using it.

Either way I don't see the benefit. I'd rather live here and now and eventually forget than to be addicted to my own past, my memory is more than good enough as it is.

The one place where this sort of thing could be a real plus is to help treat people with deficiencies in this area.
Particularly fond of, no. Actually, unless your topic is web design, I appreciate it if you're being unoriginal about your blog's appearance.

Trying to remember a few blogs where the content has distracted me from the appearance to the point where I couldn't remember what it looked like at all, I came up with blog.regehr.org and www.bunniestudios.com. The former uses the Barthelme theme, the latter looks like a default theme.
That's the thing that gets me about a lot of posts (and this OP in particular). Here you have someone knowledgeable about the subject matter, but they've done little more than say "Harrumph! OSes used to be so much better! You kids don't know what you are missing!" and then not telling us what we are missing. Given that a large chunk of these OSes are consigned to the dustbin of history (either due to licensing, or lack of hardware to run them), it makes it harder to find out about them for ourselves. As the rule for writing goes, show, don't tell.
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I think the average employer favors reliability because it's not acceptable for an employee to ever freak out co-workers or clients or just disappear - even if 99% of the time they are fine. There are people who have odd personalities, but that is not the same as a person who has psychotic episodes. I have been around the latter and it tends to make people very uncomfortable, which is just not acceptable for certain jobs unfortunately. There is a gray area as well where some people are socially awkward or just enjoy being "weird." But it's not the same thing.

As for jobs like programming where some degree of eccentricity is acceptable - I think it depends on how amazing that person is. If you're a genius you probably will find opportunities that will accept a decent amount of erratic behavior. If you are a below-average programmer, your employers are not likely to be as accommodating.
Why? To save trees/paper? Or to save the planet?

Where is the evidence to help me decide whether this pledge is worthwhile?

Is paper production a major polluter, and does it impact deforestation (I remember reading somewhere a while back that a lot of paper comes from managed woodland)?

If I replace my paper with these services (assuming a lot of others do too) am I contributing a meaningful carbon footprint?

I'm not saying this is a bad pledge, or one I won't take. But it seems to assume very readily that we agree using the internet instead of paper is a GOOD THING, without backing it up...
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Right. I don't know if I'd use the term "real doctors" in connection with psychiatry, though. Not when the diagnosis is subjective, without a hard medical test to back it up.
The console can save quite a bit of battery life on a linux box over even a lightweight gui.
That's because people like you go out and reinvent the wheel and create yet another centralized platform instead of implementing an existing decentralized option. It's hubris. Facebook wants to manage my identity. Its no shocker that they don't implement an identity system that they don't control.

If you're not paying, you are the product. That includes your identity and that includes forcing others to go through them when they want your identity. That's annoying. Implement BrowaerID please.
You just fed a troll with troll candy!
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Yeah, sorry, I'm mistaken. If one color is more probable than the other, you can win more by guessing odd rather than even, but you'd have to know the distribution. If you got 51 red hats every time, for example, you'd never win making even hats.

For this to work, however, you'd have to know the exact expected probability of each hat (and if it was even or odd), which is improbable.
i'm actually interested in the "augmented reality" aspect of this (as opposed to seeing new e-mail notifications, video calls, location info and whatever).

Imagine being able to create content only visible either through an app's camera or these kind of glasses. Like "Second Life"but on the real world.

"Placing" notes, pictures, videos for your friends or public at certain places; 2/3D objects like arrows pointing at that awesome coffee shop.

Actually thought hard at implementing a prototype (for Android) but my current skills are under par.
Definitely more awesome code out there but I think you're seeing that from a VERY vocal minority of developers who are 1) very vested in the OSS community, 2) love to share code and 3) are pushing to get the most out of JavaScript.

As I think John eluded to, there's a number of developers that don't fall into any of these buckets and a book like this would certainly be useful to them. I was with John on the jQuery team and I know that I'll be picking up a copy of this since I'm sure I'll find some nugget of awesomeness in there that will make it worth the price.
I don't know. I find (as an adult) I pretty much follow those same rules in my normal day-to-day usage of my phone (not exactly of course, but close). And I do that because of what I find to be emotionally healthy (connect with live people, not digital icons), polite (don't bug people too late) and reasonable (I have to pay to fix my own phone). It's called parenting, and it's pretty hard. It seems like society needs more of it, not less.
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Just to be sure: you're familiar with Z notation? Given that the Z from this article is special quite specifically because of its notation, choosing the name Z when there's already a "Z notation" feels a bit, ehm, odd.

Oppose this to S-expressions, which is a term not used a lot when not programming Lisp. You wrote that program in Lisp, not "with S-expressions".
Coincidentally I have a pirated version of the whole dune series and it is nearly flawless.
Reliability will be the key issue with these systems, and probably is the main reason we have not seen these in wider use already. A restaurant kitchen is a hostile environment for electronics and precision mechanisms, and if the machine jams up at 12:05pm it's pretty much a disaster for the business.

A busy fast food restaurant will at peak times have four or five people working in the kitchen. All probably making < $10/hr so that's about $50/hr as your top labor rate for kitchen staff. Most of the rest of the day they will have one or two people in working in the kitchen.

In place of this staff you will instead need an "operating engineer" who can monitor, adjust, and if necessary quickly repair the machine. This person will require more expensive training than a fry cook and will command a higher wage or salary. You would also need to amortize the cost of the machine and its maintenance and depreciation to an equivalent hourly rate in order to really determine cost savings compared to human workers using simpler, cheaper cooking equipment.

In a large industrial setting such as an automobile manufacturing plant, robots are cheaper than highly-paid unionized laborors. In a smaller scale environment with low-skill, low-paid labor, like a restaurant kitchen, I'm not sure the case will be as clear cut.
If porting Intel compiled binaries (dll/exe) to ARM is as easy as this article makes it look, then Microsoft has some explaining to do about Windows RT and legacy apps compatibility.
Kitten - high-performance statically typed concatenative programming language
Are you hiring for the London office as well?
"Additionally, we encrypt all of your statically-stored user files and signature information in Amazon’s S3 servers"

Why wouldn't you host those yourself? Aren't there concerns and operational risks involved when using Amazon?
The thing about freedom is that you aren't the only person who is free. Sane or rational behavior is not a necessary outcome of being free. Its not freedom from stupidity or narrow mindedness. :)
There's a multitude of negative effects on the water and air supply in paper production in addition to the adverse effects of removing trees from the ecosystem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper
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Rumour has it, the image was actually created by someone female - https://twitter.com/skytee/status/285909186565517312

Looks like the cards didn't go down very well with women either.
I don't think we need more operating systems. We just need more ideas, and to make sure that our existing operating systems are modular enough to allow them to fit into the picture.

Trying to recreate an entire operating system from scratch is almost universally doomed, even when the end result is something "better" -- Plan9, BeOS, take your pick. Doomed. Because if it's too great a departure from existing platforms all at once then after you're done reinventing the wheel somebody has to go out and build all new roads before you can actually deploy it at scale. All the apps people expect have to be ported (and who is going to port them to an OS nobody uses because it has no apps?), all the drivers for all the different hardware have to be written (and who is going to write them for an OS nobody uses because it has no drivers?), on and on.

Which doesn't mean they aren't useful as research projects rather than operating systems: You build something that works on one hardware platform and has no apps, but does something cool, and now you've got a proof of concept and the operating system(s) people actually use can adopt it. And then after they do, the research project OS fully dies because it no longer offers anything novel and it still has no apps and no drivers and no developer community hunting bugs and so forth.

The thing we need is an operating system modular enough to allow the implementation of new ideas. Which we pretty much have; and if you can identify an exception, kindly do your part and submit a patch.

Most people don't need a versioning file system, but if you do, they're available. And if you don't like the existing ones then you can write your own and plug it in without having to write your own SATA controller drivers. The list of features in Plan9 is basically a TODO list for the Linux community with a good chunk of the boxes already checked.

Evolution beats revolution better than 99 times out of 100. All competition is simultaneously healthy/necessary and a wasteful duplication of effort. Having the competition occur at a lower level of granularity reduces the reduplication. Once you get one piece right, that piece can stay as long as it fits while you keep iterating on everything else, without having to reinvent and reimplement all the things that already work.

Saying "we need many more operating systems" is like saying "we need many more mutually incompatible version of Internet Protocol" -- even if you can point out a hundred reasons why IPv4 and IPv6 are both terrible, you're still wrong. There are areas where it's better to work collectively toward getting it right the first time (or at least, getting it right the second or third time instead of the thousandth time), because incompatibility and wasted reduplication are not without cost.
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Nice and simple, although I would change the default bootstrap font.
Thanks! If you have any suggested improvements then just create an issue on Github and I'll try get around to it (or create a pull request alternatively).
This is far from pointless.
I can't recommend Doxie portable scanners enough. The centrepiece of my paperless workflow.
Oddly (to me anyway) my youngest kids love Windows 8. I'm not sure if it's because they didn't have as much "invested" in the old desktop experience, they just like the dancing colors, or if there is some generational thing I don't quite grok.
Hmmph. I noticed the (dead) comments by SparrowOS a few days ago and was very curious about them. They didn't look like any sort of spam or advertising, because there were bouts of normal conversation amidst them.

I posted a "Ask HN" question inquiring about this user and his comments, and my post was marked "dead" within a minute. Only thing I've ever had marked dead on here (that I'm aware of at least).

Thank you for your explanation; I would have never guessed it was something like schizophrenia.
Also check out the many posts by catonmat (peteris krumins) about linux commands and scripting. I find that they are good examples of blog posts on how to use standard command line utilities.
I cannot agree with this enough. I implemented BrowserID on one of my sites once, and never looked back. Now every new project uses BrowserID as the only way to log in.

It is superior to all other ways I've seen in usability, which is ultimately what counts, and integration takes all of two minutes, much less than traditional password auth. Plus, you don't even need to secure any passwords.

I really, really hope it catches on, and Google/Yahoo!/other mail providers start supporting it.
Archaebacteria: The Third Domain of Life (Carl Woese 1981)
Adblock filters stat services? Like analytics? I did not know that.
The Impossibility of Historical Flavour
If C had only one source file (i.e. headerless C), then I'd agree that C was great. Otherwise, its a verbose piece of shit language.
Just as we carry out hand everywhere so that we can sign papers easily, each one of us should have a token or something equivalent that is based on PKI. And then native OS drivers to add functionality to sign any file with it. Something like "Right-click" -> "Sign" for the signer, and then he either inserts the token (preferably a USB) and a biometric/password or swipes it on an NFC surface. And thus, the document is signed.

Even with native OS drivers, I don't think there's a way to implement this for authentication without the help of an online "profile", which I personally hate because it tends to centralization of data, which in this case is NOT a good idea.
Your demos are down btw.
Joseph here, cofounder of HelloSign.

The average office worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper a year. Multiply that by the working population and that's an enormous footprint. The unfortunate part is that using that much paper is completely unnecessary, as there are services that make paper use obsolete.

The problem with people going paperless isn't the technology, but the awareness that the technology exists. That's why we teamed up with Gogole Drive, Fujitsu, Expensify and others - to help people stop using paper for good.
Can't wait to see all Google Glassers stumbling around addled by pop up advertisements.
I don't think it's a good idea to go paperless unless you can avoid dependence on services over which you have no control. These things have to be self-hostable.
Same thing for chrome too, I remember seeing a stat saying the two ad block extension were the two most popular extension on the web store. And then add extensions like ghostery and its ~500k users on chrome only, etc ...

Those stats are never meant to be taken to the %, or even 5%. It only gives a raw idea of who uses what. You don't know for sure if firefox/chrome is 15% or 25%, all you know is that it is massive but not overly dominant.
India still receives foreign aid, around 60m pounds from the UK alone this year. Though the UK's development aid will be phased out by 2015, when technical aid & assistance will replace development aid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583

China has much higher levels of corruption than India, in terms of pure cash stolen and likely as a percentage of the economy too. Its just that in China the infrastructure is built (even if poorly & massively overpriced, with much hidden) and the pie from which to be stolen from is enlarged by state owned and controlled enterprises. While in India, the infrastructure is not built and the pie mostly stays the same size because no one wants to give up control, even if it means they could steal even more if the pie was bigger.
It's one thing to port a specific application and work out all of the kinks. It's another thing entirely to claim that millions of different applications will be able to make the transition. Even the article points this out: Winulator isn't compatible with Starcraft: Brood War yet. It's a work in progress (each game requires specialized tweaking in order to work).

Microsoft is not willing to tweak every single application to make sure it works on Windows RT, and neither are the developers of most of those programs.
Out of all the of astronauts who flew, only 8(Some sources say 11) have died of cancer. About the same number of cosmonauts have died of cancer. Even fewer died of brain cancer. Deke Slayton was the only Skylab astronaut to die of a brain tumor.
One way to combat a repressive copyright regime is to directly ask living authors to be reasonable. Authors know how much they're not making with their out-of-print, but still under-copyright, works. I did this this past year with publication designer Jan V. White: http://www.janvwhite.org/public-domain
I don't think it's "wrong". I would say it's "suboptimal" for what you might be trying to do. It's subliminally advancing another brand in service of yours.
I've been re-reading William Gibson novels in order, currently on All Tomorrow's Parties.

Anyway, when I re-read Idoru, I wondered why we don't really have anything like its proto-cyberspace. With its Walled City, a distributed common virtual world. I can see why the matrix of Neuromancer doesn't really make sense, but having played enough mmos in the intervening years, I'm a little surprised Walled City or something like Snowcrash's Metaverse isn't a thing.

It seems like if the infrastructure for it existed, the Reddit crowd et al would build it out in no time.

We've got half-assed things like Second Life, and I think a lot of Minecraft's appeal is from that same strain. But nothing that really works properly.

It just seems like something that would actually happen eventually, it seems like the demand is there.
My late brother-in-law was diagnosed with schizo-affective disorder last year. Unstable, paranoid, and off his meds, he took his own life a few months later, still in his mid-twenties. He left a surreal suicide note. His family wants someone to blame. It has been very hard.

Thanks for sharing your and Sally's experiences. It takes a lot of courage to do.
As bad as breaking changes sound, keeping historical baggage isn't ideal as well. I don't know about your friends, but if this is all that has changed, it would be a simple migration provided you already are on 3.2.
Getting a 404 on that sage.org link..
What did you use to calculate entropy? 147.3 bits for "I like Microsoft's login page."? Looks highly unlikely that a proper sentence consisting of 5 dictionary words has 147.3 bits of entropy. For comparison, a truly random string of 30 characters from 73 charset has ~185 bits.
I hope it's more than just ads from their partners.
You failed to provide the proof he asked for though. What he means is, assuming a majority of the paper production comes from managed woodland, making the destruction of habitats and so on a mute argument, how does that compare to having datacenters being built everywhere, and what is better?
Isn't it likely that Apple knows some unique identifiers of all these stolen devices that they can track once they come online?

Should be very interesting data to track these devices, telling investigators and Apple a lot more than just were the devices ended up.