skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why does there need to be one dominant DE anyway?

Because, if a company is going to write software to run on lots of machines and be closed sourced like most commercial software, it is going to require a pretty stable target to run on.

When there are 25 different popular Linux configurations, it is prohibitively expensive to test them all for the number of individual users for each configurations.

> You think KDE is going to one day just say "okay GNOME, we quit"?

No, I think game/software vendors are going to ignore one or the other, following the lead of someone like valve. Then that one will become very niche, like the BSDs
What is this calendaraboutnothing of which you speak? Google wasn't very helpful here. I'm looking for a "streak-based calendar/motivational tool", and I gather that's what you are talking about.
Seems like the best approach would be to replace the activation server with something that says "Yep, you're activated."

That way you can gather potentially useful data, and perhaps change your mind later, while not requiring any support and resources beyond 0.001% of a CPU somewhere.
Regarding 1, enabling Javascript fixed that for me, Chrome Version 23.0.1271.101 with ScriptSave v1.0.6.13 on OSX 10.7.5.
I didn't realise it was a requirement of a dream job to be earning over $80k a year...
Bunches and bunches come up on Google.

But really, it's a few hundred bucks to have a lawyer draft one that is precisely configured to your requirements. With the added bonus that it will be written to your local legal situation, which generic templates can't be.
GitHub Introduces Contributions
I'll correct you. That is wrong. "Racist" is a negative term. If it meant "classifying people based on race," then the word loses all meaning unless you are completely blind and never notice any of the physical or social characteristics that tend to cluster in human beings.

Historically, people who defend the status quo have tried to broaden the word as much as possible, because one way to "win a debate on the Internet" is to move the goal posts. e.g. If Alice brings up a subject about racism that Bob finds uncomfortable, he asks her if she considers herself Black. When she says "yes," Bob accuses her of being a racist. Alice now spends a frustrating hour debating the meaning of the word "racist" and Bob has neatly eased out of discussing her original disquiet.
That is awesome! It reminds me of the old Erector Sets.
I think you are missing the media vector: who do you think is watching the TV and reading about the team the papers? And also the parents of the Athletes?I'm not trying to argue with you, but I've seen the math. Most student/faculty have a naive (at best) understanding about the University as a business (albeit a non-profit one). Do you have any idea how much colleges spend on marketing? Sports is a drop in the bucket vs financial aid (often 1/3 of aggregate billed tuition is comp'd).
It makes testing software damn hard. You can't justify testing 25 configurations of Linux. There just aren't enough dollars there to justify it.

Chromebook and android each present relatively fewer targets to shoot at.
I went and did a couple searches and the publications search always cut out after the first page. The list of authors would continue for multiple pages though. Not sure if this is a bug or if I'm doing something wrong, but I thought I'd point it out. FYI, my searches were just test searches to see how much depth you had in my field, like "bootstrapping," "pattern recognition," and "classifier fusion."
Yiftee Raises $850K For Local Business-Focused Gifting Service
> If you visit your "contributions" page while you are logged out, you will notice that all non-public activity is hidden.

This wasn't immediately clear to me, so I had to test it out with Incognito. As it is, my own view of my profile is dominated by repositories from my prior business for which I no longer have access to on GitHub.

In general, I'd really prefer to be able to see my public profile. I guess it makes sense to let people know how much I contribute privately, but I want to be able to audit my public persona in much the same way Facebook has "View Profile As ____".
Have you heard of Canada?
Privacy on the Retroshare Network
From Exchange to Contributions: Generalizing Peer Production
Nice work, I use this at the moment http://lite.launchlist.net/ as it has more checks and well a prettier interface.
Isn't #1 describing digital design? I associate flat design more with less gradients and box shadows.
MOOCulus - Massive Online Open Calculus
> Let's say that your client is late with last period's payment - is it ethical to drag your feet in project participation until you are paid?

I'm a bit baffled as to why anyone would think it isn't ethical. Suppose I go to a store and say, "I'd like a Coke", and they say, "That will be $1", and I say "Okay", but then I don't give them the dollar. Is it ethical for them to withhold the Coke? Of course it is. In the case you mention, the situation is even clearer, since you have a signed commitment to pay.

> ... is quid pro quo always ethical and to what extent should or could it be used?

That second part is a very different thing. You are trying to run a successful business, not just do whatever ethics allows. And that may mean giving customers some slack on occasion. But are you required to? Of course not.

> Discussions among freelancers and contractors often end up being focused on collecting payments from clients and the methods used.

Indeed. But such discussions are largely not about ethics.
They may have an exclusive contract with the company for that position, for a certain period of time.

Or maybe the company name (or contact details) is NOT part of what they will expose to the candidate.
I don't quite buy it.
A power supply is $70 retail from the OEM versus $500-1000 for the entire device. Unplugging and carrying a cable may have increased the risk of detection.

Passing morphine withdrawal is an interesting experience. I tried once, and it was by far the most physically intense pain I have ever experienced. Even with the most powerful sedative I could only cry in pain. If I was out of luck and on the streets I'd steal stuff to avoid it again. (Not that I would. Even entry-level coding is enough to avoid a junkie lifestyle. I did it just for the experience. Also, I gave up after a few hours.)
Clean URLs aren't really necessary and can be difficult with some frameworks.

Automated backups also aren't necessary for all sites, particularly if the entire site is in a source repository somewhere and doesn't have users.
Perhaps "Rare Earth" by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee.

http://www.amazon.com/Rare-Earth-Complex-Uncommon-Universe/d...
Working on Battlecode was the same way for me, most intense time I've ever spent at MIT. Lots of teams were really into it which made it all the more competitive and fun.

In 2009 one of our rivals was a solo coder who was in the top 8 of the previous year (we became friends through the competition and still hang out to this day). He relayed to me a story of how one of the other teams had tried to sabotage his efforts. They sent a female member of their team over to his room to convince him to drink with her. It didn't work, although that was mostly because he already liked to drink and code.
Coinbase wants a link to a bank account in order to buy bitcoins. How is that less intrusive?
Yes that is my understanding of their history. Peasants who were being hassled by the Samurai and so developed these skills for defense. Later they moved on to doing jobs for hire.
It's in development right now, and will be ready in about 2 weeks.

Thanks for checking our site out.
The cookie is a first-party yahoo cookie that is sent via a GET parameter to a remote server in plain-text.

So nope that won't help.
Now it redirects. :X
GIFs seem to be making an uprising online and the next logical step is to use them in design.

The more things change...
Well, not for me. I only want to be able to receive payments as a merchant. At the moment I don't care about exchanging bitcoins and bank accounts. BitPay, on the other hand, wants all the information before I can start receiving payments using their gateway.
USB 3.0 to get 10Gbps throughput
export CDPATH=.:~/projects
export PS1="$(uname -n)$ "
alias ltr='ls -ltr'

More of a procedure, always list file and edit the command before deleting it:

$ ll file.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 zera staff 0 Jan 7 20:28 file.txt
Ctrl-p, Ctrl-a, Ctrl-d, Ctrl-d, r,m
$ rm file.txt

So this is a sanity check to avoid this mistake:

$ rm *.txt

*Edit, one more:

Ensure you overwrite a file (or aren't):

$ cp -i ~/file.config /etc/
Good eye! We've changed it - thanks for the heads up.
Guide to using a RaspberryPi to power a company dashboard
This is sort of terrifying, given that we haven't observed any space-faring species from any of those other Earth-sized planets yet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter
Ok, but if I'm hanging out on the corner selling drugs, do I really want to deal with a bunch of laundry detergent tubs?
CellPhone Signal Jammer with Hidden Antenna 
Cellphone Jammer with Hidden Antenna
No one will notice it's a cellphone jammer
Perfect for underground gambling dens
Perfect for church, theatres, broadway stage and/or libraries
Comes with fans/vents for smooth and trouble free operation
Designed with screw slots for easy wall hanging
Despite charge indicator, this product does not ship with an internal battery.
Jamming range depends on the signal strength from various sources, as well as local environment conditions
Thanks for your kind words and your grammar check. Appreciated and fixed!
One in a billion, though, what are the odds of life existing? It might be much higher than that. I really don't know much in this area of science though.
I've no idea, I'm not one!
Bullshit. They're just getting better at hiding.
Or you can just select the block of text and type gq. This will do what par does, and can be adjusted with vim's 'textwidth' and 'formatoptions' settings.
One page:

http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/#...
Show HN: PonyUp, the absolute fastest way to repay your friends
but easier to launder
The first thing I noticed was that your header text is part of the same JPEG image that has each background image: http://redstamp.ca/wp-content/themes/redstamp/images/layout/.... This is especially visible with the red text, which is thoroughly mangled by the compression, but it's just as obvious with the white lettering if you're used to being grouchy about how browsers all render text differently poorly ;)

Speaking as a nerd / web developer, I would of course be delighted if you managed to use @font-face (via Typekit or whatever) with something clever to draw the strikethrough, or an SVG, since that would scale really nicely with high resolution screens and mobile browsers (which use funny DPI numbers). For a simple and widely portable solution, though, please please please just move the text from those images to transparent PNGs. It's making my eyes hurt.

Of course, I'm hoping you fix it because I expect to see more of your website. Good luck! I live here, so Vancouver-based web developers are my favourite :)
"tell me about the last time that happened" is better than "how often does that happen?"

How often doesn't tell you much. Plus it's unlikely to be accurate - people just don't keep track of things closely enough before you ask a question like this.

But "tell me about the last time" is specific and someone can tell you a story. Then you can dig into it.
Would calling or emailing Adobe have caused any kind of response? Highly doubtful.
Interestingly, it would also be rather easy to counterfeit, assuming the fragrance isn't impossible to nail down. Wonder how long before we see that start happening...
Not to mention terrible pieces of software. Every time I'm forced to use basecamp, I run smack into an annoying bug. I don't get the hype, really.
Thanks for your feedback. I hear what you are saying about the check marks, however it's consistent with the rest of our site and our order forms (http://redstamp.ca/marketingplanv5/ still very WIP, but might give you an idea of the application).
IMO, it's not very good, especially for the HN crowd. The Big Short and The Shock Doctrine both provide a much more technical discussion of some of the same economic malaise while remaining far more riveting.
Thanks for the bug shot, and thanks for the wishes :)
Freelancers Union
That's a great observation. I wish people post it everywhere so that discussions can be about the word instead!
That's a consistant feedback we've been getting. We're going to add a new section in the near future.

Thanks for your time.
NASA discovers 461 new planet candidates in search for another Earth
You could use arbtt (http://www.joachim-breitner.de/projects#arbtt) and then just toss your favorite screenshot utility like ImageMagick into crontab set to fire every 10 seconds.
Thanks for the feedback, we're going to do some additional bug checks over the next few days.
Regarding the Fermi paradox: one of the civilization has to be the most advanced and has to be so intelligent that it obviously knows the Fermi paradox ("probably" under another "name" ; ) all too well.

Must s*ck to be that one civilization: being right about the universe actually holding several carbon-based lifeforms and yet scratching their heads thinking "We can't be the most advanced, we can't be the most advanced".

: )
Scrolodex 
Hey Guys, check out my little project. Let me get your feedback on it.
To answer your stated question: My ex was career military. He spent more than 20 years in the army before retiring and we were married more than twenty years. Thus, as long as I don't remarry, I am technically entitled to free medical care for life through the military medical system. However, I never bothered to renew my military ID when it expired and I haven't seen a doctor in like six and half years, so it might be difficult or impossible for me to take advantage of those benefits. I don't really care.

To provide info that might be useful on the assumption that you are American and that what you really want to know is how to best take care of your needs: New laws mean some Americans can get covered under their parent's healthcare plan up until age 26, even if married. This isn't necessarily free, but for some people it opens up additional opitions they wouldn't otherwise have.
Along the lines of magic shell variables, there's also '!$', which selects the last argument of the previous command. Often I'm looking at different aspects of the same file:

$ file foo
$ ls -lh !$
$ vim !$
Eric Schmidt arrives in North Korea
Portions of our site are responsive. We'll be launching a separate mobile presence in the coming weeks. We just felt fully responsive was not the best way to get our message/story across.

Thanks for your time!
I'm advocating that Apple doesn't ship displays that can't be driven by the graphics hardware in their devices. Whether they solve that by shipping better GPUs, larger batteries, or lower resolution screens, I don't particularly care, but I think the current situation is ridiculous.

I applaud their attempts to push the limits of hardware, deliver new and innovative experiences, etc etc etc but ultimately at the end of the day you shouldn't ship optional features that won't work in basic usage scenarios. I think 'being able to scroll a webpage at 60fps' is a pretty basic usage scenario.

I don't understand the claim that a GeForce GT 650m running at 1920x1200 is doing 'more work than even their high-end desktop counterparts are used to' though. That's blatantly false. Furthermore the claim that rendering is largely serial is blatantly, tremendously false - modern GPU architectures are embarassingly parallel and even the kind of rendering Apple does for their UIs can be parallelized to a large extent. Perhaps the intent here is to describe how the workloads that suffer (like scrolling webpages) can't be parallelized?

Thanks for the explanation on the 15", that makes sense - I didn't realize that you could only get a larger battery for the 15".
Faceless sensors and tiny routers needed for the Internet of things
Excellent points. Personally I find early detail obsession to a be a red flag about my own behaviour.

As a developer when I notice myself re-tweaking about what shade of green to use, what perfect image to put in place, or what pixel size of font to use, it means I need to walk away for a bit. I've burned out for the moment on the big issues that need to be done and am just fooling myself with inconsequential work in order to maintain the feeling of progress.
Toyota Reveals Self-Driving Car
It used to be at http://www.calendaraboutnothing.com/ which seems to be down now. You can get an idea from the archives: http://web.archive.org/web/20110716142534/http://calendarabo...
It's not really like bitcoin. For one thing it does not broadcast to the whole world whenever it changes hands.
Cool Code by Kevlin Henney - YOW 2012 (video)
Direct video link: http://videos.eventer.com/videos/1181/20121130213135_dual.mp4
We use greyed out buttons in two ways:
1. To gather data around interest in the feature. After clicking tell your user "thanks for the vote you just cast for this feature, we will notify you when its ready."
2. To indicate paid account only features
A Method to the Madness (Lean Startup)
As a Chairman or CEO I would straight up sack someone who, of their own initiative and with warning began a "big bang" change to the company's IT entire DNA without some sort of consultation.

Progressive rollout over 5 years? Local trial programs? Experimental work? All fine. Go ahead. Report back.

Bet-the-company without so much as a peep? Please leave.
I am curious- what was the atmosphere at the finals like when you were a contestant?

I remember when I first went in 2008, it felt like the superbowl for nerds. Competitors would get up on stage and provide commentary while their swarms of virtual robots would duke it out on screen. There would be a bunch of oohs and aahs from the audience as each team of robots tried to gain the upper hand. The entire auditorium would erupt in cheers at the end of the match for the winner. I remember thinking Albert Ni was a coding god after seeing his team walk off stage as champions of the tournament.
That has been a consistent concern in our feedback. We will adjust this shortly.

Thank you!
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awesome :D
Pentagram Redesigns NYC Parking Signs with 140 chars or less
None! However, I will soon have an office job with good insurance and am very much looking forward to going to the dentist.
We do escort old websites into fabulous new ones!

Thanks for the feedback!
That's probably the approach Microsoft is taking with their activation, not sure if Adobe incorporates similar scheme. Not that Microsoft's server always respond "yep, you're activated" but I heard from somewhere they do reset activation counts after a certain period after last activation. (Something like 6 months.)
Oddly enough, my first thought was to suggest talking to your local public librarian. See if they can help you find some good books on the subject?
As a fresh college grad from a non-top tier school in Silicon Valley, many of my friends are making ~$100K/year right out of school. I'm sure people from top tier schools going to Google and Facebook can make double that.
I can't figure out why the unscrupulous retailer is buying Tide from anyone except P&G. Except that he knows Bob is up to something and willing to assist Bob.
Yes, getting the Master's degree is a good call, for the reasons you mentioned. PhD bigotry is pretty severe in a lot of places.

CS academia is less scammy than other disciplines, because of the high-quality exit options. You're not doing wrong by going for the MSc. That's a good call.

Regarding being "locked out", I think the new rules are:

* network aggressively at all times. When you join a big company, network internally so you can get a decent transfer after 6+ months. You won't get hired on to the ML project at the front door. Nor will you get it through official channels. Network aggressively and find someone who will request you.

* keep learning. Eventually, you'll stand out as the guy who's 30+ and keeping abreast of cutting-edge software trends, and that has its own kind of impressiveness.

It's harder than it should be to get interesting work, because the world is run by idiots, so there isn't much tolerance for interesting stuff. I'd love to see that change, but for the mean time, you just have to figure out how to play the world that is. Stealing an education from work is usually a good idea (don't consider it "deception"; honest people mouth off and get fired.) Keep Learning and Carry On.
You might think so if you know schoolteachers only by reputation, but actually, they spend a ton on teaching materials. They will go to Barnes & Noble, scour the educational section and plunk down $200 without blinking.
+1 for xxd, great for debugging purposes e.g. analysing serial output from socat (also mentioned by another commentor below).
Common SEO Myths You Should Know In 2013
> Personally, I'm happy with trends like BYOD etc. If the CEO loses data because he wanted email on his iPad (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that), then IT won't be blamed for it.

Yes, it will. For the same reason "the government" is blamed when someone eats a lump of poison out of a can labelled "poison".

"Why didn't you stop me?"
Completely agree. This redesign feels claustrophobic. I prefer some of the newer API doc styles, like:

http://underscorejs.org/
http://expressjs.com/api.html
Quote from the article:
"Despite its popularity, Tide is not a big moneymaker for stores. P&G’s proprietary surfactants and enzymes are relatively expensive to produce, notes Bill Schmitz, a Deutsche Bank analyst, so Tide’s wholesale cost is steep. Only so much of that can be passed on to customers. “It’s so tight,” says Schmitz of the profit margin. In general, a retailer clears just a few percentage points on a Tide purchase. A store that charges $19.99 for a 150-ounce bottle might claim $2 in profit. But if it buys stolen bottles for $5, that jumps to $15."
I thought the bitter flavour was the reason for drinking them?
Great catch! It was actually Yoast SEO plugin forcing the domain name at the end of every title.

We've fixed it - thank you!
They are common in Germany as well.
Startup Demos at SVNewTech Jan 2013
This is covered in the article. If the retailer's supply was exhausted by theft, their tracking system fails to alert them to reorder in time. They're in a bind and can't get supplies in time, so they turn to the local suppliers that very likely are selling them back the stolen goods.
Github really needs a "deprecated" flag for repositories (maybe it has one already? I don't know of one). This wouldn't solve your specific issue with the weekend projects (assuming the code is still serviceable), but would really help the signal-to-noise ratios in these lists and on other areas of the site.
A dream for someone looking at a github profile with the purpose of see if he/she should be hired or not.
Ah. I see what you're saying now. Yes, Coinbase has an easier entry than Bitpay does.
My local produce market has a box of $10 Square readers near the checkout, right next to the blow-pops and M&Ms my kids constantly claw at. What is special about the Starbucks deal?
Very cool! It's interesting how much mine changes when I am logged in and can see all the private repositories I've contributed to at work.
How to get your public IP address from the terminal
We will be looking further into the chrome/windows issues tomorrow. Thanks!
I created a Programming Music playlist and started out with very mellow, non-lyrical music from Tycho. From there, I kept following the Related Artists feature (I'm using rdio) and added a number of other artists including Ulrich Schnauss, Isan, and others. It's taken some time, but I'm able to concentrate on my work without being distracted, while the music tends to keep me upbeat and focused.
Maybe we are who we are looking for:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4843540