skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say a university is going to do some research. They look around for funds and decide to do a project that the government is offering some grant money for. In that case, the government's money didn't really pay for the research, it just influenced what direction it went. I think the grant money did its intended job even if the results aren't public.
I suspect Partition Magic is intended merely as an example of the crapware-and-misleading-download-buttons trend. You can spot similar scamminess on (for example) http://getpaint.net/ and http://tortoisesvn.net/.
That is a workaround for an Internet Explorer bug. You can read about it here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4104474/rails-3-utf-8-que...
You're making it sound like no big deal. Maybe by that time, the damage was done. Anyway, the real issue is the Orwellian pressure tactics used by the state to destroy a relatively powerless individual.
Yeah! It should be 'Appraise' or 'Go', thanks for pointing it out.
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to create a straw man, just trying to tease out a hidden premise, although I suppose I could have been less of a dick about it.

I think we can all agree that judging people based on things that they have no control over is not an effective way to evaluate them. This happens in education, as the parent comment outlined. This happens in engineering, as you outlined. It does not follow that teachers should be evaluated in this way, or that a discussion about the problems with this method should not take place.
Only the Java installer stub (online installer) has the ASK toolbar prompt, the offline installer does not.
Well, that's exactly how Dropbox or Apple's iCloud work. Kinda standard these days
As others have pointed modern processors are three orders of magnitude faster in terms of clockspeed than processors from back then. There's also the fact that modern processors do a lot more per clock than this guy: using 64-bit wide datapaths, and executing multiple instructions every clock cycle rather than taking multiple clock cycles to execute an instruction, and having multiple independent cores. One rule of thumb is that your performance tends to increase with the square root of the number of transistors you use so you'd expect another 3 orders of magnitude increase in performance from the 6 orders of magnitude more transistors, for a modern chip being 6 orders of magnitude faster at executing some algorithm overall (if there's a normal amount of parallelism to extract).

Now, normally you have to worry about increasing clockspeeds having diminishing returns, since memory latency remains constant despite a faster CPU clock. But anything that could run on the amount of RAM the 6502 could handle would fit in a modern processor's L1 cache, and the scheduler is perfectly able to hide L1 latency so I think ignoring this factor is fair in this case.
Get rid of all artificial lights in your bedroom. No night lights. Put tape over the little LED light on your smoke detector, black out the windows, etc. Avoid blue-light exposure after sunset---that means computer monitors, televisions, phones, etc. You can do orange sunglasses if you must use these light-devices or install applications like f.lux. If you read before bed, prefer e-ink devices to light-emitting devices, or, you know, an actual book. Make your reading light as yellow as possible in color temperature (2700K yes, 5000K or 6500K no), or even red.

Keep a notebook by your bed to capture any remaining thoughts at the end of the day. This will release you from the need to try and remember them overnight.
We're big on listening to customer feedback so we're going to address that issue sooner rather than later. =]

When bandwidth pricing is introduced it will be in line with the pricing that we have for SSD/512MB servers so it will still be one of the lowest in the industry, that much is guaranteed.
This is why I have no moral qualms about using AdBlock on most of the internet. I made the mistake of disabling it on one such download site once, and it took me a while to find the actual download link in the mess of DOWNLOAD! ads. Then I went back to having plenty of whitespace on that page...

For me blocking advertisements online is no longer about blacklisting bad sites, but whitelisting the few good ones I want to support.
The news.layervault.com link takes me back to the top of the page.
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duuude. Run app in production mode, to avoid this page with debug info. And add some filtration for input data.
I've just updated the post with a comment of Jacek - our great programmer and author of this feature.

If you'll have any specific questions, we'll try to answer them :)
Too expensive to keep in your bedroom.

(Mark Crispin /did/ have a Dec 2020 in his spare bedroom. And I was once jokingly offered NBS-10, but I was in college and renting a room at the time).

I visited the Living Computer Museum here in Seattle recently. It's got some great minis in a raised-floor machine room. I wanted to open up cabinets and get my hands dirty again. (Booting up 4.2 bsd on our 11/780 used to walk the disk drive about an inch /thataway/, and it had to be repositioned periodically. You don't get visceral stuff like that now).
I'm not following- how do they get paid?
same for .me
Unfortunately it's not a standard in Saas tools e.g. wireframing apps.
Ask HN: What's in your bag when meeting clients?
I travel a lot for work meeting clients out of the office. I put together a list of things I should always keep in my bag but I feel like I'm overlooking things. So I ask: what's in your bag?

Here is my list:

* Laptop
* Charger
* USB to MicroUSB
* USB to iPhone
* Wall to USB charger
* Flashlight
* Multihead screwdriver
* Collar stays
* Lint roller
* Tide pen
* Tylenol
* Airborne
* Several USB thumb drives
* Mouthwash or chewing gum
* Instant sanitizer
* Pens
So being hypocritical is "pretense of having virtues, beliefs, principles, etc., that one does not actually possess"

You are assuming that edw519 does not find Cory's eulogy to bring understanding to sad and confused people.

You also claim it doesn't affect him deeply.
Maybe it does because he felt he was so hard on him?

In essence, I guess I justify this change by saying I believe his post when he said he feels it will "bring understanding to sad and confused people."

Again, it's perfectly reasonable to dislike or villify someone, but be sad or confused at their passing, and find comfort in a eulogy.

Let me risk a few pitchforks and say I used to villify former senator Ted Stevens. He was an unapologetic pork barrel politician.
When he died suddenly in a plane crash, that does not mean I was happy for his death, and I was definitely sad and felt bad for his loved ones. I was not at home screaming "wooh, that arrogant fucker's dead!" while dancing around the room. Had his eulogy been posted here and I noticed, I would have hoped it would bring understanding and comfort to those who loved him.

Does this make me a hypocrite?
No, because it's not a pretense. I was in fact, genuinely sad. Personally, I don't think that makes me anything more than "not a sociopath".

It could be i'm just different than a lot of folks, of course. As a lawyer, it's basically beaten into our heads to be dispassionate and objective when evaluating people, emotions, and events.
Some free-thought comments did get through. My favorite went something like "This is great! How much does it cost to join?"
I was considering mentioning Windows RT/Windows 8 and it's "Metro" (Modern) app-store. but decided that I wouldn't. Not because I didn't think about it, not because I wasn't aware of it, but because I decided that so far it seems not to be a very effective means to the end of salvaging Windows' reputation.

Especially given how the "Metro" platform so far seemingly have caused more negative user-feedback than positive-feedback, I'm not sure this counts as Microsoft "being able to do something about it".
Linux would probably do better because few people have any reason to stray outside their distribution's repositories. And these repositories are just as rigorous in their way as the Apple or Google walled gardens; Debian packages have to be signed by the GPG key of a debian maintainer who takes personal responsibility for that package, and whose identify has been verified by having their key signed by another debian member (with a chain that presumably goes all the way back to the original founders). I'm not aware of any cases of a debian maintainer being "struck off", but I'm sure there'll be procedures in place.

You would get plenty of shady sites encouraging you to add another line to /etc/apt/sources.list for cool free screensavers, but it would be a lot more practical than it is in windows to tell people to ignore them and never install anything that doesn't come with the system.
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I used MS paint. I don't remember the exact font. Image I got from google search.
I'm not sure about Fedora but Debian has a very strict policy for the packages in their repos.

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/
You could've said the same thing about e.g. download.com. Turns out there's such a thing as momentum.
1) I'm sure pundits predicted a lot of things.
2) That's nonsense. The only thing the iPad had was its screen, otherwise it was already inferior when it launched. Didn't stop people lapping it up.
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This is the reason why I don't understand that people say that Linux is for "technical" users while Windows is for regular consumers.

In Linux it's easier to install something that in Windows.

E.g. to install a CD to MP3 rip program, in Archlinux all you do is:

# Search for some mp3 ripper program
pacman -Ss mp3 | grep rip
# Install one of them from the list that looked ok from the description
pacman -S ripperx

In Windows, the steps are:

Search the internet for rip mp3
Go through hundreds of spammy results
Try to identify one that isn't crapware
Download its installer
Run its installer
Be careful at every page of the installer that it isn't installing crap

How can they say Linux is harder than Windows? I don't get it.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]

"Yes" & "No, I do not not want to install this"?
> 2) At $499 not only it REALLY was a bargain, but competitors had a hard time for 2-3 years to offer anything as powerful for the same money. Competiting tablets were in the $699 - $899 range.

Things that are 'really a bargain' are hard to quantify as such. What do you mean by this?
Yeah, I am a radical libertarian. I'm not hiding it, but this is an instance where I don't think the point I am trying to make is one that is specifically radically libertarian.

EDIT:: Which isn't to say it isn't radical, but I think several non-libertarian groups who oppose such things as the war on drugs and other victimless crimes would like to see the system grind to a halt and only important cases sought after.
Looks like it's not quite live. Nothing happens upon clicking "Get Crazy".
Ever wanted to ride a giant robot? [video]
I like it :) Some pointers...

- Validation on the input form

- HTML looks like it's been generated in some WYSIWYG editor... Have a read over this: http://learn.shayhowe.com/advanced-html-css/
> "The Domain google.co.uk is valued at: $0.00"

> "The Domain google.com is valued at: $2,009,961,449.08"
From Lessig's response it sounded like the information was common knowledge ...
That wasn't my point. The point is right now unimportant and victimless issues get a lot of attention. If no one took a plea charges would be dropped except on really heinous acts.
Hasn't this already been done with Epic Win[1]?

Is anyone able to explain the differences between the two beyond cosmetics?

[1] - http://www.rexbox.co.uk/epicwin/
Hopefully Gnome 3.6 will be a bit more mature and address some of the concerns people have with it, although MATE is now a first-class package in the Fedora repository for those who can't stand Gnome 3.

Looking at the feature list, there are relatively few blockbuster features, but I'd be interested to know how useful people think the Active Directory support is, relative to support in other Linux distros (or OSX for that matter).
I thought checking for empty strings and non alphanumeric characters was good enough. Needs more work!
I found the link to hercules to be the most interesting part of the article. Though the likelihood of me installing the VM and exploring it approaches 0.0, the anthropology of its culture is fascinates me.
The problem is it leads apps to include their own copies of libraries - which then get out of date and have bugs. I remember when a vulnerability was found in zlib and just to update all of apple's first-party programs with the fix required something like 2.6gb of updates. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there were still some more obscure third party mac programs shipping the old, vulnerable version.
> Is there something about OS X that makes bundleware more difficult to develop or is it just easier to monetise an OS X app without bundleware?

MacOS apps very rarely have an installer, so there's little opportunity to install this sort of thing.
This is exactly what I was trying to say. Millions of dollars shouldn't be spent prosecuting people like Aaron. It is a waste to society in several ways.
Well basically it's almost a pyramid scheme. These companies will go and promote another crapware company and get commission off that. So basically it's like a giant loop.

Or they will sell the data they have harvested such as your personal details (email/full name/date of birth/location) to a 3rd party.
And this is not new, I've written an article on the exact same topic a year and a half ago about VLC:

http://blog.l0cal.com/2011/07/07/these-companies-that-mislea...
checkout this thread on the Apple discussion forums:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4322714
(it's already at 219 pages and counting).

There are many such threads in that forum.
Also, precompile assets: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/asset_pipeline.html#in-product...
Where Akka came from
I am interested in mainframes. They have some pretty awesome hardware, great reliability parameters, and some seriously interesting modes of operation. You know how we like to throw data at a hadoop cluster and do a lot of big batch map-reduce jobs? A lot of those end up being very similar to the types of batch jobs mainframes are great at. Distributed transactions/shards/etc for our databases? Again, stuff mainframes have been doing for decades.

The problem as I see it is access. Sure, like the SO poster mentioned, Hercules exists, but you can't really run modern mainframe OSes on it (legally and easily that is). Further, you can't really get the same experience, because you don't have the hardware offload or partitioning available to you for real.

Heck every time I think I should look into the beasts, I can't even find decent technical documentation describing things.

Compare most of the stacks people on this site use - there are complaints if the documentation isn't formatted right, let alone if it is incomplete or wrong...

I regularly see things people are talking about and/or doing here, and think "man I think mainframes solved that years ago, it sure would be nice to play around with doing this on a Z series". Of course since I can't just do that, I say whatever and play with it on a few linux instances and then can use it myself - with actual knowledge and some experience.

This is why I think no one is interested in mainframes: we can't play. We can't say, how can I...? We can't cut our chops by building a million and one little tools that grow up into really helpful software for everyone. We can't just whip out our phones and read about it when we are whiling away our time in line at the coffee shop or futz with things on an airplane.

It's that when compared to the availability of software and information of the bazaar, the high priesthood of mainframes with their mysteries and closed access can't provide us with what we need to just build.
It says that my domain (http://vv20.com) worth $64K cant understand why. http://www.domainmongrel.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&domai...
As someone already replied, message queues under constant load can grow unbounded.

> If I synchronously hit some service then I need to build facilities into the service to say that it's too heavily loaded, and perhaps handle those responses on the client.

Most of the time, you have to have timeouts when there is a synchronous API across the network.

In a large system ideally you'd want to reflect the level of loading back to the input source so the source can slow down sending the data. Think of TCP, tcp works this way on a small scale. One way to fix the problem is to leverage that to actually open a TCP stream and send data that way. The sender will slow down accordingly.

Now if you know that your load is not constant, so there are periods of high activity when inputs are generated then you can try and absorb (and amortize) those high volume peaks using asynchronous queues.
Entertainment Tonight is still on TV.

The Atlantic used to make money by being reputable and engaging.

They could easily decide to make money by making money. I'd miss them, but one day someone will say "The Atlantic is still on the web" in response to a similar comment.
Probably takes only a couple of hours until someone publishes an app on Github to take a screenshot and descramble the user pictures.
Lots of pens, but no paper?

I bring a laptop, charger and something to take notes on. If it's a trip where I need to spend the night at a hotel, I bring a couple of more things like: Laptop, Surface, 2 phones, 2 phone chargers, 1 laptop charger, 1 Surface charger
I noticed via a site retheme on OK Cupid. A few minutes ago the "Get Crazy" button had a box to put in your phone number in order to get the App download link via text message.

You can probably still access it via the web interface on OK Cupid, unless I'm part of a testing group instead of a launch.
I was really sad when they killed the original web-based Crazy Blind Date a few years ago -- I was single and in the Bay Area at the time, and it seemed just random enough to be awesome.

Would strongly recommend this to anyone in the market. Although hopefully it gets promoted in places other than just hacker news, or there will be obvious issues.

I know a surprisingly large number of tech people who have gotten long-term girlfriends or married via OkCupid. I only ever met actually crazy people (although interesting and fun for a few months), but somehow it seems to work for other people. I'm not sure how well it works outside the Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, and NYC, but in those markets, it's pretty good.
Or like the Government of United States, which supplies arms to both the Government and the Rebels.
It's dead for me.

NoMethodError in SearchController#search

undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass

http://www.domainmongrel.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&domai...
Been using Fedora 17 for a while at work. Used to hate RPM-based distros, but I took another look about a year ago. It's actually pretty nice.

I also don't hate Gnome 3. It's a bit immature, but it's pretty and fairly easy to use and stable.
2-3 years ago OKC tried this CBD here in SF. I tried it, but couldn't get 1 date out of it. Most of the times, there was no response; and the one time we decided to meet somewhere, she didn't show up. Then OKC shut it down.

On asking women friends, the general feeling I got was that women were much more leery of going on a blind date, figuratively, blind about the other person.

However: that was my experience with women in their 30s. Will it be the same for women in their, say, early 20s? Who knows. As it is we're seeing a massive shift in social interactions with SnapChat, FB Poke, etc. People are sexting more, for instance.

It is a good idea, which, if executed well, can have legs.
EW is badge-based, and iPhone only. This will be traditional SNES-style, highly social, and web first - then cross-device mobile.

In all honesty, I didn't know about EW when I built this. When I saw EW after finishing the website, I thought "God damn it! Effing spot on, too" and walked home dejected. But their Android app has been long in the works, there won't be web, and in all honesty - I want something REALLY rpg. My goal with Habit is to push as many possible traditional RPG features into the app, starting with a 5-person party system, healing and all (see http://goo.gl/TvPTg)
Are we really disrupting higher education?
Absolutely loved this post. The opening sentence is just as important as the headline and subheadings. Great copywriters (and blog editors, evidently) know this. Coming up with original, compelling opening sentences isn't always as easy as it sounds.

Fantastic read.
"Being attacked" seems a bit strong and current for a change that passed into law 18 years ago. If anything, protection for the defendant has been strengthened since then with the introduction of a clause making that section inapplicable to anyone questioned before they've had chance to speak with a lawyer.

You have the right to remain silent. You don't have the right for the jury to draw no "reasonable inferences" from your insistence on remaining silent.
Akka: an event-driven middleware framework for distributed systems
Great article. Also I would like ton mention a point : implementing a "chaos monkey". As Netflix team nails it "We have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often." [1]

[1] [http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/07/chaos-monkey-released-in...]
When I was mainly just a Java developer I always found that kind of embarrassing.
Googling for "vlc", "vlc download", or "vlc player", the top 3-4 results are all to videolan.org.

Ads may distort this for some users, though...
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Thank you for being so transparent. I'm impressed at how easy it is to spin up a new VPS and network link from Bangkok to your New York data center isn't very bad either. :)

Great job!
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I threw a wish in the well,
Don't ask me, I'll never tell
I looked to you as it fell,
And now you're in my way

I'd trade my soul for a wish,
Pennies and dimes for a kiss
I wasn't looking for this,
But now you're in my way

Your stare was holdin',
Ripped jeans, skin was showin'
Hot night, wind was blowin'
Where you think you're going, baby?

Hey, I just met you,
And this is crazy,
But here's my number,
So call me, maybe?
thanks :-)
I did the html with a lot of <br/> statements and ad hoc CSS. I need to learn how to do this more professionally. Thanks for the link.
As someone who is extremely indecisive and laid back on little decisions like "where do you want to eat" or "what do you want to do today", I love this idea.

Just pick for me, and I'll go do it. It's fun!
Agreed, their supply chain management and component agreements were disruptive to the industry. However, that didn't stop them using behavioral nudges to make buyers also think the price was cheap.

The use of the price anchor was great because a) it was regularly published in the press so it couldn't be seen as being too 'salesy' and b) it was significantly higher than the actual price thus the manufacturing price was disruptive and the perceived value (via the price) was disruptive.

Further Reading: Dan Ariely: http://danariely.com/the-books/excerpted-from-chapter-1-%E2%...
I'm not sure that's a legit fear... Linux on the desktop in 2013 is fairly 'popular' and if it were that simple to infiltrate popular repos with spyware it would have been done years ago.

There are a ton of good people who work to keep those repos clean. Lets not trivialize their contribution by acting like anyone and their mother can make changes to the repo for a popular distro. Sure, a black[/grey] hat can make their own repository, but who in their right mind will use it?
TechCrunch is bad
Branch and Medium show how primitive the web still is