skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Why does Twitter for Android and other Android apps suck so much?
Right after installing it, it is fine. But after a month or two, avatars are constantly disappearing, caching is awful, etc. It's obvious they won't solve it - 3.0.0 was launched a long time ago, we're already in 3.6.0 and they have done nothing about it! Just adding new features, but it's always buggy.

Why don't they do anything about it? And it's not something particular to Twitter, Facebook and some other companies do the same for their Android apps. They don't care about Android users? Not a wise decision, taking into account that Android has already taken over iOS market share... yet they don't seem to care.
Yes, I'm using the new Android app. The QR code does not appear immediately, but after a long and unpredictable delay. (This is with a credit card). So I've paid, have no proof of purchase, and have no idea of whether a valid ticket is ever going to arrive on my phone. Given the quality of SBB's data infrastructure as a whole and the strict penalties, using the app just doesn't seem like a sensible trade-off.
The greatest thing you'll ever buy someone is something they wish for. Fact.
We're creating something amazing, want to see it? It's invite only right now while we tweak, get in early, your friends and family will thank you!
So it's just another 14" plastic boat. Uninspiring.
That's a very subjective statement. I don't get even remotely burned out by 40 hours of work per week. I work every day of the week. I work when I want to. I don't have a family. I'm 32 years old. The organization of my life is by strict choice, and I love what I do, so I prefer to work longer hours. I'm more productive when I work 40+ hours.

I spend time learning, doing R&D / experimenting, doing product work, etc. The most fun I have is on the R&D. I've been doing it for 17 years straight and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing, I rarely suffer from exhaustion / burnout (and that's always when somethings fails, rather than feeling tired by the actual work).

This discussion is also going to vary dramatically based on the structure of your current life, including family / job / mood / etc. Adding further to the subjectivity of it.
I was just about to write the same thing, before I saw your comment. HN is a cesspool in these cases usually, but I'm genuinely happy that it's different this time around.
I second this. Learn a stack and build something with it. You will start seeing jobs that you are qualified for and that will put you ahead of the next guy. Look at the job listings to see what's in demand.
Getting fired from Applebees is the best thing that could've happened to her. That's divine intervention if I've ever seen it...
"If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today."
—Mike Krzyzewski
Compared to the model B: 70% of the price, 0 ethernet, 1 usb†, 256M RAM, same CPU, 1/3 of the power draw, a little thinner.

␄

† Not as much of a cut as it sounds. The 2 on the model B can't supply more than 100ma, so unless you needed exactly two ports with low power on each, you needed a powered hub anyway.
WSJ: Mojang Could Be Worth $1 Billion
Cue swapping of personal email addresses... Most people can't be available on their phone all the time, meetings etc. A large part of email's popularity is that you can communicate with people without having to both be available at the same time. The only other option is to leave lots of voicemails and that's way more inefficient than email.
Number of Java developers in the world - 8.3M
Sure it is, so long as you've remembered to fill Instapaper or Pocket with stories from the newspaper's website that you wanted to read. If you ran out the door without having time to peruse the stories on the internet this morning Instapaper won't do you any good.
The original claim was that UK universities are free, which they are not.

Just because you don't pay for it immediately does not make something free. And even if you end up not paying back the full amount, you still end up paying something back.

Additionally, relying on loan reduction schemes or scholarships does not mean education is free. The Scandinavian countries would have been a better example, because education is truly and actually free there, i.e. you do not pay anything (and as a citizen, you will probably get money -- which is not a loan and does not have to be paid back -- from the government as financial aid, further enabling students).

On top of that scholarships for Masters degrees (depending on subject) are exceedingly rare (and not means-tested), with few loan options available (none of them government-funded, if I remember correctly).
"The real, fundamental problem is simple: memory corruption should not be possible; put another way, pointers considered harmful. Possible solutions to this are the Singularity/RenrakuOS/SharpOS/MOSA approach..."

That is very interesting and it's reassuring to know there are still people out there who value security from the ground up, so thanks to you for working on RenrakuOS (didn't know it existed, I like the concept).
How MIT is doing it wrong in Kendall Square
That grammar rule is BS.

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003775.h...
> Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revolution Quiet?

Because Iceland has a population smaller than Provo-Orem, Utah?
Knocking on private back doors with the web browser
Google Translate tracking in Analytics
I can't find the chrome extension, do you have a link please? Searching for "Push Bullet" didn't return anything on the chrome store (france).

edit: found it, just had to click on extensions https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pushbullet/chlffgp...
What? No coverage in subway? You must live in Sahara.
Simplifying the buzz word "Responsive Design"
I agree with your sentiment, but it's not actually "theft." More like "copyright infringement."
What do you do when you have nothing to do?
I've been mining since July 2011 with a small operation of 17 ATI 5830s.

With the amount of ASIC preorders currently speculated, I don't think its worth my time to upgrade. I'll be selling my mining hardware off this year.
Part of this subthread discusses how Bill Gates started out in life and how much he has prospered since he wrote the open letter. Just on that point, it might be of interest to check an online post "Why Bill Gates is Richer than You" (more than a decade old, before Gates got involved in philanthropy full time) about how he made his money.

http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/bill-gates

Note that I have not fact-checked this at all, so if anyone has any factual corrections or updates (which could come from one of the published biographical writings about Gates), I would be glad to hear them.
I can't seem to download any pdf's, they stop at a few kb's. I'd love to offer a mirror however! Are all these articles public domain? Where were they obtained from? I see that (the majority?) are directly linked to http://libgen.org/?
It's too bad people have had a hard time getting these, they look really cool and I love the project's idea. Really looking forward to getting one myself.
> and have never been attacked on the basis of their sex

Do you really know this, or do they just never ever mention it?

I agree that everyone with enough followers will be the victim of attacks. But those attacks often take the easy route - someone who is Jewish will have anti-semitic rants posted about them; a woman will have graphic depictions (in text or imagery) of what people "want to do to her"; etc. It's fine to call a hateful attack sexist if it's using sexist tactics for the attack.

And it's a fact that women are more likely to be attacked than men. This is easy (but laborious) to prove - you get a list of conferences and speakers in 2012, then ask speakers if they had any attacks, then categorise and finally run some graphing / plotting software.

(I didn't downvote you BTW.)
Auto Affiliate Links 1.0 release
Illegitimate copying in perfect disguise. Don't fall for the trap of thinking this is legit. Seems like a Library Genesis mirror.

edit: Bah, it is an insult to leech off Aaron Swartz's open access ideal. There are no _direct_ links, they seem to require Javascript, Cookies or something else I have not tried enabling yet. The site also does not offer an easy way to mirror, in fact it limits the results shown for a search.
don't like honestly! Also, I can't open downloaded book.
Apple quietly debuts App Store vanity URLs
I disagree.

Stallman was hacking in 1976 and many of his ilk were free software advocates.

Gates knew what he was doing. He derived his work from others, but denied others the same leeway.
That's your choice.

You should also be allowed not to put up with their apps. I simply opted for not reading the news on my phone as it's painfully inconvenient to me. My 512MB phone struggles with 5 odd apps in the background and I'm not going to install yet another app taking over my phone as it didn't run anything else. Yes I do kill processes etc but this kind of shite should not be the standard.
He wasn't anything close to poverty either.

OK, if you aren't poor, give me $10K then. According to me, you have enough!
location ~ "(^#.*#|~|\.sw[op])$" {
return 401;
}

Or something along those lines.

Nodesocket's answer is good as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5164017
Affordance and Concision
That's not restricted to PHP, since it does not even depend on the language.
DjangoCon Europe 2013 Talks Annouced
Ubuntu and Multiple Monitors – AMD Edition
You don't need a sign for that
I can, unless you mean white straight men.
Direct link to Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-bankrupter/pnd...
> So it comes as a shock to me that there is a lot of hate for BBT in geek culture.

I didn't realize this was a thing.

Just because you can google for "Big Bang Theory Sucks" doesn't demonstrate that there is lots of hate for BBT "in geek culture".

I can also google for "Puppies Suck". Okay, you only get two results of relevance. But still.

There are haters for every TV show in the universe. Haters are always louder than those who love the show. And easily googled. This doesn't mean they're numerous.
Those are not the only two options, you know.

There is a systematic method to deciding which stories are covered by MSM outlets and which aren't. It is not a coincidence that most outlets chose not to cover the Iceland story, regardless of it being a very small country.

Not everything is a "conspiracy", and failure to acknowledge that there are certain forces at play is a blatant misunderstanding of the role MSM plays in public brainwashing.
What do we do about less overt sexism? For instance, there's a popular developer who writes useful plugins named after genitalia and sex acts. I find his code useful, and I've asked him publicly and privately to choose nonsexual names for his code, but he and his users see nothing wrong with this. Even consider the "weinre" project that's on the frontpage right now. "Get your weinre out"?!

His assertion is that it's not sexist if his projects are called "testicle" or "foreplay", since those words aren't intrinsically sexist. How do we, as a community, emphasize that sexuality and development can't mix if we want women to feel comfortable, given that they're currently a minority?
I've bought many laptops, and regretted it every time I didn't buy a ThinkPad. That's not to say the others are bad. It's just that ThinkPads are in a class of their own.
Discovery is a huge problem for native apps. We're finally come to not an "either or" but a "which one". When building something, don't think I need a drill, think I need a hole.
There is no risk of fracturing. I'm not suggesting changing the protocol, or UI of the existing clients. You may use your client to send/receive money, no problem. I may build another client which will allow you to do manipulations with transactions without affecting anyone at all. E.g. timestamping is just a funny way to create an address and send back-and-forth the money. No one else needs to be concerned about it except for the people who wish to verify existence of a document. Money was not destroyed and it did not change its shape. This is not fragmentation, it is "building on top of" in a very compatible manner.
Survivor's Gilt: the flash sale industry struggles to stay alive
Google searches expose racial bias, says study of names
I can't give you any experience on that front, since I mostly use Linux.
Is your name Ockham? If not, you must be a dear friend (as am I). I salute you!
What if that person is a dad who has two kids, a wife, and parents living locally, who take care of their kids during the day? Not everyone can so easily be uprooted.
Anatomy of an Exploit: An In-depth Look at the Rails YAML Vulnerability
First 256 digitised manuscripts from Vatican library
This would be much better than existing mobile data infrastructure for consumers.
However, given Britain's often lousy climate, the royals probably pay for themselves in the value of the additional tourism dollars generated alone.

If there was nobody living at Buckingham Palace, far fewer people would go see it.
I wonder if that "insurance" was the same cunning plan as the UK banks selling interest rate swaps alongside loans to small businesses?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21275527
I predict a sharp rise in Muslim "terrorism" in the United States in the next few decades. It won't be real terrorism, just gang violence called terrorism by the authorities so that they can pull out their big guns.

As far as I'm aware, gangs in America are typically formed of from communities that are socially cohesive, discriminated against by their neighbors, who live in times & areas where opportunities are limited. I believe that all three of these conditions apply to Muslim immigrants.
Interesting, yet I'd have liked a little more of a break down of the results. For example the GPU will probably need to transfer the sorted data to and from the card. This will have a dramatic effect on performance.
Tuberculosis vaccine hopes dashed
Your startup needs a reason to exist
The battle of search keywords is still the biggest battle in online travel
The "qhimm team", from the qhimm website, are rather famous in the FFVII fanworld, it's probably the biggest modding community out there. The mods, mostly for the PC version of FFVII, have dragged the game over the various versions of Windows, improved the models, etcetera. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, one of the qhimm developers that made the game compatible for modern Windows versions and added graphical updates was hired by Square to work on FFVII's PC re-release a few months ago - at least, parts of the new code correspond to an existing mod.
That works for your own key, but if you visit `http://github.com/<username>.keys`, you can get that user's pubkeys. Likewise for Launchpad at `https://launchpad.net/<username>/+sshkeys`. This tool pulls keys from these locations so that you can add other users to your servers.
To find VIM swp files you can run this command on your public_html directory:

find . -name "*.swp"

You can find and remove them with:

find . -name "*.swp" -exec rm -f \{\} \;
R.I.P. Pixels?
Working perfectly for me. Just downloaded a couple of papers with no problems.
Working fine for me, I was able to download a couple without any issues.
brilliant... i always hated adding weirdo js for such standard tasks, polluting the content with meta-code/meta-content ugliness!
Modeled on man: Breathable skin for buildings
Biologist turned architect, Doris Kim Sung, is working on another energy efficient and passive method of ventilating buildings, taking inspiration from the human body in search of a more sustainable design. She is advocating the fairly simple yet ingenious idea of a breathable skin, like that of the porous human skin, to encase buildings.
I don't like the show, and I have a single "geek" friend who also does not. Everybody else seems to enjoy it. Not just my other friends, but people in general. People I meet IRL, people I see on Facebook, people I stumble across online. "A lot of hate for BBT in geek culture"? I don't think so.
Ask HN: Really good CRM for B2B startup?
I've looked at a lot of options for a nimble, focused CRM for my SaaS startup's lead tracking, but haven't found something yet that really felt like it "fit".

What CRM have you used that delighted you and made it easy to keep track of your contacts and deals in the pipeline without getting in the way and forcing some very non-startup process on you?
Yes I think you are right about exclusivity. I think what they paid for House of Cards is significantly more than what they pay for other shows. That is really my questioning about the model. But yes, they paid the premium to not only show it, but for exclusivity. If you are right they could license it outside the US.
Pakistan Domain Registrar PKNIC Hacked - Hacking News
This seems really awesome for the people but I have a feeling a few companies/lobbies would not allow this to happen.
Filthy PCs
Been there, done that (I leapfrog iPhone generations, so for some months before each upgrade things are running painfully slowly). I will note that disabling Javascript on most news sites seems to disable the "why don't you download our app?" nonsense and a lot of the irritating fripperies that slow down the basic news experience.

My main issue is that this exposes some of the drawbacks of a business model that relies on advertising: it delivers false incentives that cause the business to pursue ad clicks rather than customer satisfaction (i.e. short term profit over long-term customer base).
More karma whoring off this poor kid's memory. Flag this garbage out of sight.
Wonder how many use the same password for ssh and mysql though
how much % of these 1% websites have their database server allowing remote connections ?

does the DB password mean anything without allowing remote connections ? (let's forget shared hosts for a moment)
I'm downloading one now, but it's EXTREMELY slow.
Context-sensitive spell correction for the first time on iOS
The biggest journalistic failing of the BBC - who are like the rest of the UK TV media legally required to not editorialise the news - is that they go overboard, and will present two sides to every damn issue. This means they regularly air the views of absolute nut-jobs whose input on stories is batshit-insane, but are included just to try and be fair and balanced.
Interesting proposition, but too blanket of a policy to be a long-term solution.

Email is the biggest problem to those who not only receive large amounts (100+) but also have to spend large amounts of time coordinating responses to those emails (it is not quantity of email received, but complexity of replies that drives email overload). Shutting it off to everyone removes a valuable communication channel that, while often abused, is important in the workplace.

One of the best things a company could actually do IMO if they wanted to mandate an experiment, is to have everyone chunk their email checking and responding times. Studies have shown doing so, checking for example 6 times a day, greatly reduces context-switching losses and reduces time taken to complete primary tasks.
We all understand what is being discussed here. We don't need to argue semantics over what it means to obtain something you didn't pay for (but should have).

It seems that the tech community stands adamantly behind the "copyright infringement isn't theft" mantra but in reality the moral crime is taking something you weren't entitled to. Our actions don't really seem to consider the state of the original product making the difference between "theft" and "copyright infringement" because it is not concerning to us. For the developer/distributor/publisher/artist or whomever is expecting a cut from sales the result is the same: they lost a part of their wage.

Admittedly I've done my share of piracy but now that I spend a good chunk of my free time releasing software or writing code I have stopped; it feels kind of shitty to see something taken without any regard for your hardships. Hell, as a result I even go out of my way to make sure developers are paid their dues by purchasing almost any app I use. If I come to expect others to pay/donate for my effort it is quite hypocritical to not do the same as a consumer.
No, I'm not going to read your linkbait headlined article.
It's probably a coincidence, but the title and subject of this article are the same as last week's Ihnatko Almanac episode:

http://5by5.tv/ia/58
Yes you can. Dotdeb's php-fpm.ini even includes this line by default:

; To configure the pools it is recommended to have one .conf file per
; pool in the following directory:
include=/etc/php5/fpm/pool.d/*.conf

Then you could configure ENV inside FPM pool using the env directive:

env[DB_HOST] = localhost
env[DB_USER] = foobar
env[DB_PASSWORD] = foobar

...and use something like this in e.g. Wordpress config:

define('DB_NAME', getenv('DB_NAME'));
define('DB_USER', getenv('DB_USER'));
define('DB_PASSWORD', getenv('DB_PASSWORD'));

The biggest caveat is you MUST disable phpinfo()

php_value[disable_functions] = phpinfo

Otherwise these ENV will shown up in any page that calls phpinfo();
Grand Central at 100
Indeed, and I speak of personal experience.

Do note that many of our compatriots put more money into IceSave than was covered by the bank guarantee system. Hence, they did not deserve to be made "whole" (they took a risk, willingly, for a higher return).

Also note that The Netherlands single-handedly increased the max. amount to 100k euros, then demanded that the Icelandic people repay them, which isn't really right either. Sure, there were major issues in terms of lack of oversight and irresponsible investments resulting in risk of insolvency in case of a "bank run", but the "greed" of the UK and NL consumers dropping their life savings for one extra percentage point should not have been rewarded.

Lastly, I seem to recall that Iceland has agreed to repay most of it in the long run (though I may be mistaken, that proposal has been voted out and reinstated several times, and I'm too lazy to find out the latest status)