skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They may be able to make a business out of it. For it to be the Year of Linux gaming, publishers need to be doing so. I can still run Solitaire on my Windows 2000 laptop, but that doesn't make it a gaming platform in the sense implied by the article. Few people are going on eBay to pick up a Windows 2000 laptop for gaming, likewise, few people are going to install Linux in order to run games.
Technology Whiz Kid Tackles Greek Tax Evasion
What technical recruiters can learn from online dating
I would say your demographic is too small or fits into a banded age group. Most likely what they listen to will be influenced by the music they liked while growing up, or what they have found puts them into a comfortable zone. I know what I listen to changes based on my mood and the task at hand.
One of my programmer/EE coworkers turned me on to the band Dope, now I alternate between that and K-Pop, next month it might be something else.
Gates' donations are invested in problems that should have been dealt with by governments, whose tax money is spent instead on the semi-corrupt self interests of their leaders and their business cronies,[0] an economic-social structure which contributed much to the way in which Gates and other Global business billionaires have made their fortune. It's a twisted system, and conscience-cleansing philantropy by its current and past players only brings back a small portion of what should have been invested in the first place.

[0] http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,5320.msg22368...
The goalposts are moving. That's not what the article claims.
And absent of any intent on the speaker's part to contextualize vis-à-vis this prior moment in the past, it is the wrong tense.
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Interview with a Rebel:  A Chat with the X-Wing Kickstarter Team
It's not going to change. The only changes I have seen in ~4 years are A) hiding the up/down vote counts on comments, and B) adding the search bar at the bottom.

I'm not complaining, by the way. There's plenty of extensions out there if you want to change cosmetic stuff.
Downvoted you because of this gem:

>Second, a lot of porn out there focuses on and glorifies the woman's suffering, pain and degradation. Seriously, you only have to read the word "painal" once to realize that. However, if that's not enough, you might also look for the occurrences of "choke", "gag", "destroy", "slut", etc.

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You're searching for that specific type of porn - of course it's going to be degrading. Your whole argument falls flat on it's face I'm afraid.
The four R's: readin', 'ritin', 'rithmetic, and R! <http://www.r-project.org/>;
Any idea why the status bar turns blue after cancelling a shut down attempt after touching emergency call?
Normally status bar changes are for calls/tethering.
I keep Firefox up-to-date because it's the only web browser on Linux that appears to support the PKCS#11/Client-SSL/CoolKey/etc. needed to support using smartcards for SSL-enabled authentication on websites.
That's a great question.

Obviously, I am simplifying a complicated legal system with my reply. I am not a lawyer, but I have studied open source licensing.

With some exceptions, the Linux ecosystem does not eclipse for-profit software. You are free to run closed source software within an open ecosystem.

With that said, I personally develop and sell open source games. Linux is a first-class citizen in my market. I find that the person who makes the decision to run Linux as their main OS is the same type of person that will avoid a purchase of software that is closed source. In that case, the barrier is the mentality of your users rather than licensing restrictions.
Nothing philosophical about it. We use Libre Calc to manage 3 million dollar / week budget. I am happy with it, coworkers are happy with it, and its liberal license has never stopped us from doing our job :-)
The VM example is interesting. At what point does a VM qualify as a different computer? For example if I shutdown my VM and then "upgrade" it by allocating more RAM or changing some of the emulated hardware does that mean I lose my office license?

What happens if you keep the same hardware but install a different version of Windows?
...which then donates money to philanthropic causes
This doesn't handle daylight saving time.
For full disclosure - my friend (sw007) and I run this site. We don't make money from the site - it's just a fun project. But this is one of our favorite ever quotes and figured HN crowd would like it and we wanted to share it with you as it not a particularly well known quote.

Thanks

Steve
Is it really just a coincidence that this happened the same day as the 2012DA14 asteroid? Some news articles are saying this came from the other direction and that these kinds of smaller asteroids hit 5-10 times a year, and while I put a low trust in my memory I don't recall seeing this stuff all over the news (and at the top of HN!) every couple of months... Or is that true but normally they land in the ocean or unpopulated areas and this one just happened to hit an area with lots of dashboard cams and just happened to occur on the same day as the 2012DA14 flyby? I'm sure less probabilistic things have happened in the history of the universe, but I'm still very curious. Or is it soon to do much but speculate?
Truth is, both the landing page and blog could use a bit of extra love. With V2, we have outsourced some functionality (which I'll cover in another post) so we're hoping there will be more time available to us to polish these things. It's only so much a 3-person team can do in a given time :)
In mid-2006 I was hearing about facebook, and it was being described as: "kinda like myspace, but for college kids - something universities can buy into and keep the creepers[1] out".

[1] Creepers being defined as people who just trolled social networks looking for friends/sex/whatever, that was new and terrifying to a lot of people then.
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One of them is Half-Life. It's fifteen years old.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/70/?snr=1_614_615_linuxrel...
Yeah, pretty much. One I saw was a webcast but discussing the same thing. It's pretty well publicized now.. at least in the HN community :) Thanks.
Yeah, it works great... but only if your csv file has a .txt extension and you select that is a delimited file.
As a developer I find Linux very annoying to use.
I have tried Ubuntu on different boxes, even on powerful gaming computers, but it doesn't seem as stable as Windows 8 does. Launching programs, or switching between windows has sometimes a little bit of lag (and I'm on an i7, 8gb of ram etc...) I hate having the slightest bit of lag.
For me it would be easier to work on linux, but its just not as nice to use as Windows 8 is.
Gecko embedding is being worked on as a community project:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Embedding/IPCLiteAPI

I agree that Mozilla should start supporting it officially. Especially after they decided to kill mobile XUL Fennec off: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=831236

With official Mozilla being too engrossed in Android, this remains the only alternative for normal mobile Linux to use Gecko.
Peer Dependencies - Hidden Variables
Damn it, we just went over this article on HN a few days ago. The numbers are wrong, and if you correct the male circumcision number to 18.5 million rather than billion, the total drops by half.

See previous submission:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5191094
Everything interesting seems to happen right after the UNIX epoch.
Apple: Tim Cook Isn't The Problem
A farmer working a 40 (60... 70... 80...) hour week can produce enough food to feed hundreds of people, freeing them up to do other things. If you've ever played Civilization, agriculture is a prerequisite to doing any sort of technological development.
Would this create a problem around Daylight Saving Time until the user logs in again to reset their time offset?
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The most common mistake in job interviews
Mozilla appears to have thrown in the towel with regard to an embeddable Gecko. Fortunately, one of Servo's core goals is to be easily embeddable[1], and unlike Gecko can be engineered from the ground-up to make it happen.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/171ooy/servo_embedding...
Wow, that is pretty terrible that logged-in users see less data than the public.
> Orlando is in Florida, but I wouldn't call it "Florida". ;)

So what would you call "Florida" then?

> That's like Austin is in Texas, but it ain't "Texas".

That statement is mostly wrong. Yes, Austin is a very unique place. However, I think your perception of what constitutes "Texas" is biased and incorrect, based on that statement and the sentiment that typically underpins it.
Universal Music Deal to Give Publisher a Cut From Ads Alongside Cover Videos
Building A Money Machine
Seems a little hypocritical to plug your book in a blog post that's ready-made for the social media he criticizes. The, admittedly great, tweetable quote about the celebrity chef is already bold so the hurried blogger doesn't even have to read the article.

Agree 100% with the content, though.
Google Removes Asteroid Near Miss Doodle
I imagine the $18.5 billion on male circumcision is wrong, but you are also wrong:

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Grants-2008/Pages/Population-...

That's a single $50 million grant. Back out, create a search for Africa+HIV and you immediately see hundreds of millions of grants, so I imagine the bulk of the misstatement is from conflating HIV programs with those only targeting male circumcision.

http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grants/Pages/search.aspx
Thanks to IoE, the Next Decade Looks Positively ‘Nutty’
I guess my thinking on thousands of acres is that management of people starts to become an issue. Keeping track of what your employees have done, and should do next, is something that needs to be communicated anyway. Whether FarmLogs beats the two-way radio remains to be seen, but I think there is potential there.

Of course there is competition in that space too. John Deere has an integrated management solution on this level built right into their equipment from the factory. It actually looks very slick, reporting all kinds of data that FarmLogs will struggle to access without the same level of integration. I expect it is a little too costly for the average sized farm though, which is where FarmLogs may fit in.

I do think they have hit the mark on grain storage management. While that is not a big problem on my farm, as we send all our grain straight to the elevator, it is a real problem other farms have. It is a request I have heard many farmers make. That is data that is easy to lose track of and one you want to have at your fingertips.

I'm quite keen to watch where they take the company. I think they could use what they have as a good starting point to solve some of the deeper problems in the industry.
Yeah, it is a coincidence. It was debunked pretty early on, mainley because the direction it is flying in exactly the opposite direction the 2012DA14 will be flying in.
It seems strange for me to read in Heroku's response how forthcoming they are to accept blame and responsibility for the "a degradation in performance over the past 3 years".

Yet they state their action plan to "fix" this issue is to update their DOCUMENTATION and no mention of fixing the DEGRADATION issues itself.

Just bizarre.
>I might be mistaken here, but as far as I can tell this kind of porn is the minority. Also, isn't this 'degrading porn' meant for people who identify with the person being degraded?

I've dated women (note the plural) who were into this sort of porn. I'm not a random sample, obviously, but take a look at books like A Billion Wicked Thoughts and The Evolutionary Biology of Human Female Sexuality, or Meredith Chivers' work: bdsm-style desires appear to be more common than is commonly depicted in the media.
You're replying to a post in a thread about Microsoft limiting the number of installs per license. I don't know about your definition, but that qualifies as "crippling" in my book.

I choose to use Free software because I value my time and freedom. It's Libre/Open Office for me. You are free to choose whatever you want.
Actually, it is not such a bad tool for that, since about 2007.
Two Linux tablet projects take a step forward
Any tips on watching quicktime that doesn't infect your computer with apples garbage? I'm not familiar with .mov files, but it seems I can't just download the file directly and play it with my menagerie of players capable of playing m4v's. Which is frustrating.

.mov is acting like some kind of meta-file to point quicktime in the right direction. The only string in the file worth noting is the name of the actual video file with the .m4v extension. Maybe it's storing an IP address?

Honestly I'd rather not go through all of this, if he had used a modern standard I would of being able to scrub through the file locally.
it's just their business practices that were a problem

Yes, agree. But everything is relative, right. All of a sudden the stuff they were doing doesn't seem that evil, and the hip kids from the block are suing the pants off everyone else that comes to play in their playground.
PyPi will be resetting passwords (if not changed by you) on 2013-02-22 00:00 UTC
I received this email today from richard@python.org in light of the earlier wiki.python.org compromise. In case you did not get it, thought to share it here. If you don't reset your password yourself, you will have to use the password recovery mechanism once they reset it.
Show HN: Isit, python environment discovering
He has a few here: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/stories.html

IMO, learning about the sub-groups of the "street person" culture isn't going to net you much useful knowledge. A lot of the differences between people here are political, ethical or social (anarchists, hippies, gangs). At some point you realize everyone's just living out a script.
What is hoisting, really?
Because Google Docs is better than it was in 2010, has more market share than it had in 2010, and is free for individuals. It's fascinating to watch a market leader gradually being chipped away because it is unable/unwilling to cannibalize itself.
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My impression after reading "Masters of Doom" was that Carmack never really wanted to be in the licensing business. The main driver behind id's early licensing pursuits was Romero, and although Carmack went along, he did so without enthusiasm. After Romero got fired, there was no one at id pushing for the studio to do much besides making games. Epic Games, on the other hand, took engine licensing very seriously from the beginning. There is a feeling of "continuity" between iterations of their technology, and this is very important to toolkit licensees, and something that you don't get from id. I've always felt that Tim Sweeney has a lot more business acumen than most people would expect from a programmer.
The Man and the Thinking Behind the Minimum Wage Hike
His TED talks were pretty good too, gives a good insight into the work.

http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates_unplugged.html
'Finally, I find the claim that "female porn stars dictate the type of sex they have by listing in their modelling profiles the acts they’re willing to perform on camera" to be disingenuous. It propagates the idea that everything is okay and whatever isn't okay is "her fault".'

I honestly don't understand how you come the conclusion that women controlling their working conditions ends up propagating victim blaming in sexual assaults. Hopefully you can clarify.
> Since I left my job at Amazon I have spent a lot of time reading great source code.

I know (or think) the OP has another job/company now, but the idea of still diving into source code after leaving a technical job is a pretty cool pursuit -- especially with the intention of explaining it to the world.
Also the only reason its getting press is the video most likely. That really helps at getting the reptile brain attention of viewers.
Yes, the donation for the Male Circumcision Consortium (MCC) was 'only' $18.5 million not billion.

The press release for this is here: http://fhi.org/en/AboutFHI/Media/Releases/081124_male_circum...

BTW, the press release says that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation donated the money. So this does not necessarily mean that the money came from Bill Gates. Plus, you would count it twice if you count his donations to the foundation and the donations from the foundation ...
It was a little weird that the author felt they had to give the definition of 'panhandling'.
Insurance companies charge you less if you agree to install a dash cam.
Not paperless but paper reduced, point taken. I know we are changing toner cartridges less often than a decade ago. So we are using less paper than before.

What I meant for the html + css is that anchoring your documents to the a4 sheet, while people are consuming more and more content on screens of various sizes and less on paper is somewhat strange. Also google docs are html + css and a lot of javascript :)

Office has great advantage and is not going anywhere soon. But while in 1999 it was impossible to not have office, now depending on your company and employees can go from mildly inconvenient to annoying.

5 years from now - will you worry that some content looks great on paper, or that it looks great on the person's tablet or google glass. If your answer is the second - word is in for a rough ride.
I have no idea where they spent their money - from the article it sounds like some of it may have gone towards misguided inventory purchases, but why would a company like this need its own technology infrastructure? It seems very well-suited for operating on someone else's sales platform (Shopify, or something similar). Let the third-party focus on uptime and scaling while you worry about marketing, promotion, and order-fulfillment of your site and its products.
I don't see any explosions here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i...
If you can add even one worker per dyno, things get much better, faster. See http://rapgenius.com/1504221/James-somers-herokus-ugly-secre... for details.

The really big problem there is having dynos that can handle only one request at a time.
thanks. I will do that
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Meanwhile, if you get it online, it's $99.00 a year for up to 5 devices, and moving the license from one machine to another is as simple as logging on and deregistering the invalid device.

Microsoft have been skeevy in the past when it comes to licences, but I've no complaints with the current system.
Twitter Hires First-Ever Research Chief from Google
Must watch tpbafk, if u want to understand the war between the new and order
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Adobe CEO desperately tries to avoid answering a simple question
Or then you have a super fast, super productive desktop with no distractions. Depends how you configure it. Here's mine. (the configs can be stored to github, of course)

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2402047/Screenshot%20from%202013-02...

It's not doable on OSX or on Windows. It's damn fast on my own macbook (2008 edition) and on my work desktop (i5, 16 GB, SSD)
First I've seen this, but that donation jumped out at me immediately. How could a male circumcision program possibly use all of $18 billion?! 18 million makes much more sense.
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The Web Audio spec is more a user manual than a spec, to be fair. We are implementing the API at the moment, but the spec is so unclear that it is impossible to implement it properly. We have a couple things done and working, though.

And about "We innovate early, often", keep in mind that we had a counter-proposal to the Web Audio API, that we implemented. The W3C has chosen Google's instead of ours, and I believe that the fact we are late to implement this particular spec is quite normal.
It does take care of DST: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_gettimezoneoffset.asp
Meteorite Explodes Over Russia, Panic Spreads : Videos
Conscience cleaning philanthropy, because he is responsible for so many deaths! Come on, this makes us sound silly.
This probably works well when you're at home and have your own charging point in the garage. It doesn't work so well when you're in a hotel somewhere and the nearest charging point is a public one in the next town over. (Attempting 110V charging may actually make matters worse in cold weather, based on the experiences of other Tesla owners.)
Google Maps tour of an NFL Stadium
Those people are scary. The writer might have actually had to work at getting his story, rather than collecting anecdotes from those that have romanticized the lifestyle.
I didn't even understand the position of the comma in this title until I mentally removed the "is." Maybe the headline writer has a first language that is more regular.

IANAGrammarian, but I think that the comma itself would be the copula in this sentence if the "is" was removed. With the "is", no need for the comma.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_copula
...could we have caught this one ...

According to Dr Neil deGrasse Tyson (speaking on NBC's "Today Show") it was too small to detect.[1]

[1] http://todaynews.today.com/_news/2013/02/15/16973245-neil-de...
He and Buffett seem to share a skepticism of setting in motion a large charitable foundation that will outlive them. Hence, Gates wants to directly oversee the spending, and spend it at a high enough rate that it uses up most of the money in his lifetime, rather than setting something up in a will. Buffett even conditioned his recurring donation to the Gates Foundation on Bill or Melinda Gates still being alive and in control of the Foundation.
Nhashem is definitely wrong. It is impossible for 80% of Americans to receive something from their employer if 80% of Americans didn't even have an employer.

My graph does go back to 1987, because that's when the census started collecting data on health insurance. If nhashem has data he is free to post it. It's up to him to prove his claim, not on me to disprove an unsourced assertion.
I don't see anything in this space attracting Windows gamers to Linux, but if you are already a Linux user, things are getting better.

No one can really claim "year of Linux gaming" until we start seeing a wide variety of publishers releasing AAA titles. And until that happens, windows gamers will like it or not remain with Windows.
Accelerating Agile
The argument works both ways: if the PSF cannot assert a trademark on the name "Python," the owners of the python.co.uk domain shouldn't be able to take ownership of the name either. Why are they trying to do it right now?
It seems a bit harsh to call something that was only announced as being in development a couple of months ago "vapour".
Wow! This article really hits home. I had never seen (or smelled!) a homeless person before moving from Nebraska to SF. But here it seems like they are everywhere! I stay out of the Tenderloin at night, hope they move the symphony someplace safe.

Are these the people responsible for the shootings in the Mission? Really scared about how these kids are in gangs and have turf wars. They don't look like the media's portrayal of gangbangers, not that I trust the news.

Does anyone know if there are any black people left in SF? I know there are some left in Hunters Point, but I heard the housing projects are getting bulldozed soon. Why waste such valuable property on poor people/freeloaders?