skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This site has an image of a hole in the ice of Lake Chebarkul: http://say26.com/meteorite-in-russia-all-videos-in-one-place

Here's the lake: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=lake+chebarkul&hl=en&...

~40 miles due west of Chelyabinsk and a little south.
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Do you really think gaming on Linux would become mainstream without functioning drivers? In this hypothetical situation, I don't think that will be a concern.
Almost all the items NASA tracks have orbits inside the solar system. This thing came out of nowhere (if it's orbiting around the Sun, it's so excentric that the orbit period is very long so it's like we saw it for the first time - if it's not orbiting the Sun, we did see it for the first time).
Microsoft is the Office company right now. A great many people run windows just to run Office. This is not a boat I would rock quite so hard just now if I were them.
People stop right in front of you on the motorway so you would crash into them,and then sue for damages. If you manage to stop in time,they will reverse into your car, and then they will lie about you hitting them. Dashcams prevent all of that,and from what I heard at least half the drivers in Russia now have them.
Your response doesn't really seem to be directed at my comment. In your first sentence you're using "this" as if you're talking about the blog post which is what I praise in my comment(the tone of it), but then in your second sentence "this" refers to the routing issue raised by rapgenius, I wasn't commenting on that at all - I'm not a Heroku customer I was merely commenting on a GM's response to negative press.
I like being able to come and go as I please. That's why.
The real question is: "Is 2007 the year of the Linux Desktop?"
LibreOffice: good as gold.

http://www.libreoffice.org/
Who are these drivers? My car gets 180 miles range on a full tank (less than the Tesla) and I fill it every week, maybe.

Yeah, if you need long range, don't play with electricity.
> the paperless office gaining traction

Really? Is there any evidence of this? Most attempts I've seen at the paperless office have been failures.

Also, even in the attempts I have seen, nobody is writing reports in HTML + CSS. Everything is in Word/ppt/Excel, usually on SharePoint.
It came across as a "beat the journalist up" because they posted a bad review. Reminds me of the sort of thing you see bad restaurant owners do when they respond to diner's complaints.

I disagree completely -- a better analogy would be that a restaurant owner gets pissed off because the reviewer complains of a fly in his soup when circuit cameras reveal this was never the case.
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I got into computer programming comparatively late, because it wasn't taught that it was even a thing.

I didn't know it was a career option, an academic discipline, anything. Computers were just the thing this boring woman taught us to do spreadsheets on.

At home my old C64 was something that could be programmed, sure, but I was under the impression that was basically a toy. If I hadn't had a parent who were at least interested in this stuff I would have been completely unaware.

In fact worse than that, the boring 'computer proficiency' type courses actually put me off investigating anything to do with this area. Beyond that, with the proliferation of consumption devices, the actual machine and code part of the computer is more hidden than ever before.

Computers run more and more of everything, we owe it to our kids to at least tell them that they can be programmed, and give every kid at least a small intro into how to do it.
Is the desktop their core product? Or is the feature phone their core product? Opera Mini is big.
those emoticon smilies are truly a horrid thing (http://iwilldesignyou.com/blog/?p=194) I can't for the life of me figure out why someone would put that much buffer around the generous use of icon_wink.gif & icon_smile.gif
Interesting that the article claims that Apple dominates mobile gaming but then shows a graph that does not include any of the dedicated mobile gaming platforms such as the Nintendo DS.
An interesting, speculative discussion would be to examine if the harm (if any) that came from Microsoft's monopolistic activities is out-valued by the good done by Gates in his foundation.

Where would the value captured by Microsoft and Gates have been redirected if MS didn't have a monopoly on the PC industry until recently? My guess is not fighting tropical diseases- but where?
I was sitting here thinking it didn't work at all until it dawned upon me that it was supposed to drive on the left side of the road.
OK, thanks. It wasn't my intent.
Size isn't everything. Tracking objects in Earth orbit is much easier. You can combine multiple radar measurements to tease a signal out of the noise floor, and model the orbital mechanics to achieve better spatial resolution than your instrument can actually resolve.
The NYT grammar blog had an excellent entry on this: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/the-most-com...

The author, a college professor, lamented how many students still come to his class making this mistake.
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Steam has now officially launched its Linux client, rounded up a surprising number of Linux games, and is selling all of them at a decent discount for a week. It's do or die time for games on Linux. There is currently no such effort for HTML5 games and I can't see what the advantage would be in making yet another incompatible platform on top of the Linux kernel.
Clearly Mozilla matters to Brendan Eich because without it he would struggle to find somewhere to meet his atleast $500k/year[1] pay package?

Mozilla's board are accountable only to themselves. It's a personal playground and cash machine for Baker and Eich.

[1] http://thetruthaboutmozilla.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/analyzi...
Nice design!

I signed up hoping to look for a present for my wife. But once I signed in, I just see a generic list of products. I don't see how you are solving the gift finding problem.

I have signed up and tried pretty much every single app like this. And not one of them delivers. So, you're right this is a problem that people face, but you will face 2 issues:

1. It's not a problem that people have frequently enough. So even if you get some users, keeping them coming back will be very hard.

2. It's a really hard problem to solve - most apps I've seen just grab my friends' FB likes. Guess what? My friends don't go around FB liking every single thing they like in real life. So, your algorithm has to be really clever and process the text and links that people share.

I think it's a bit like the voice recognition problem. People have been trying for years, but only recently have there been big advances because we have a lot more data now.

Right now there are millions of people sharing data on social sites. But for any one person, or a pair of friends, the data is still quite sparse. Over time, this will get better. So if you can stick around, your app might improve, otherwise you're probably too early.
That's not what the pluperfect tense implies in English. It simply means something that took place prior to a moment in the past [1]. There is still some ambiguity that could lead a reader to infer that Gates is finished donating money.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_aspect#English
The year of Linux gaming? no. Will Valve use Linux for a gaming console? Yes. Similar but not the same.
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oops, ignore downvote, my mouse slipped. Yeah, totally the mouse's fault.
Office is more important to them now than Windows. I believe that they are pushing the subscription model hard so that people will pay monthly for Office as a cross platform solution.

I hope they succeed in making Office cross platform, but I hate the subscription model and hope they fail in making that the norm.
Elon Musk’s misguided attack on New York Times
In essence, Elon Musk doesn’t think the New York Times author went far enough out of his way to make sure the car succeeded. (In fact, the author made way more concessions than a normal user would. He drove under the speed limit. He let the cabin temperature drop. He called Tesla HQ for tips and triage recharging locations. I wouldn’t have done any of that.)
It wasn't, largely because of games. PC clones sold for years under the thinnest pretense that they were business machines, with games being one of the biggest reasons people bought them.
1. CNN reports bitcoins are how Al Queda gets money they earn from drugs washed out into these exchanges around the world

2. CIA goes berserk and can do two things: go after the exchanges and if that doesn't work, they can implement the great firewall of America.
I don't want to suggest that this has not been a good thing overall, but donations of this sort are a highly political act, and can't escape being in spite of any intention.

An interesting (I found) examination of the the effects of such a volume of donation coming from a single organisation can be found here:

http://newint.org/features/2012/04/01/bill-gates-charitable-...

Again, not saying it's not a net good, just that it's perhaps not a perfect model to pursue either.
Maybe instead of "Get help developing your Wordpress site" you should have your subtitle as title?

Blog has neither and would benefit from either.
Have you tried Django's ORM? From what I understand its not perfect, but for the most part it really rocks.
No. SteamBox is vapor. There is no EA FIFA. And there are no significant Linux only titles.
I love it, except, unfortunately the product name seems misplaced and forgettable. Anyone agree/have better name ideas?
This is a bad way to measure philanthropy, and I think Bill Gates would agree.

Anyone can dump money on a problem. But Bill Gates's money is still finite, and he has tried to make his money be the most efficient at solving given problems. He measures the stuff he does and sometimes finds out he goofed.

I'm not exaggerating when I say he's likely one of the top 5 people in the world at knowing how to spend billions of dollars to help people, because he has the most motivation of anyone in the world to know how to best spend billions of dollars.
Would someone care to address the faults in my comment rather than just voting me down?

I asked a legitimate question.
Thank you for the suggestion, I'll put it in
Perhaps as good as gold but not nearly as good as Office 2000 was...

Seriously what is wrong with Libre/Open Office's slow ugly UI? I mean even GIMP finally managed to modernise its look and feel.
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You forgot to mention it is during the quarter one financial crunch.
For jailbroken iOS devices, some potential solutions would be to replace the default lockscreen with one of the alternatives, and/or install the Cydia tweak that disables Emergency calls.
The God that Failed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIgb7cMgJEw
I doubt 2013 is the year of Linux gaming because lets be honest everyone has been saying 20xx is the year of Linux is some aspect. However, the support behind Linux appears to be stronger compared to 2007. I don't want to speculate Windows 8 was behind it, but it kind of is (Gabe from Valve expressed his disdain for Windows and their new app store model a while back).

Linux is as good if not better than Windows. It has come a long way and gaming will definitely be just another feature of Linux in 2 to 3 years time. I'm predicting 2014/2015 is when Linux gaming becomes really hot and everyone releases games on it.
In fact, the author has explicitly confirmed that he had to do 1-2 laps of the parking lot to find the unilluminated charging station in the dark.

While that might qualify as "driving in circles", it did not appear to be intentional, and is a valid issue that one might have.
Does no one read HN via RSS or am I doing it wrong?
Haha - see the comments on the page. I have no idea where their weird twisted logic is derived from. I would much rather see the redistributive efforts occur through the Foundation than let it run through a public choice theory test.
Not sure if I see the distinction. Whenever a linux based system becomes popular for some use people always seem to make the claim "but that's not really Linux". I'm not really sure what the definition of real Linux is.

Besides, it would seem that whatever games are made available for steambox would be binary compatible with other Linux distributions anyway (and software for other Linux distros should run on steambox) unless they do something really crazy with it.
Android games are not Linux games at all. They only work inside Dalvik VM with Google's APIs. Linux is not even relevant to them. And, these mobile games are almost always little puzzlers, platformers, stuff like Angry Birds.

Windows is still the premier platform for fancy big-budget games and Android doesn't seem to be going there any time soon.
To me it implies that the event took place prior to the end of his lifetime, which implies that his lifetime has ended.

"Has donated" carries the correct meaning and is unambiguous.
Read the details of the prediction. It sounds to me like he's describing a post-apps API Facebook. Not in so many words; I doubt he was thinking along those exact lines. But his prediction doesn't cover MySpace or Twitter or other social sites quite as well, while he describes Facebook to a T.
Yeah, one sex worker rights activists described the approach politicians take to prostitution as "they don't criminalise us, they just criminalise everyone around us". So if a woman dares to have sex for money whilst living with a partner or with a teenage kid over about 12-14, their partner or kid can be arrested for living on immoral earnings. (Some other countries are even worse; apparently in Sweden landlords risk being arrested if they don't kick out sex workers renting from them upon discovering their line of work because it's illegal to make money from them full stop.)
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I never really understood this line of thinking. Rather than trying to "hack" the license terms, you should just buy a new license when you buy a new computer, since that's what you agreed to.

If you're willing to violate the license, why not just pirate the thing in the first place?
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Office 2010 OEM license states exactly the same limitations

I don't know, but I do know that Office 2011 for OS X allows installs on at least two machines. Because I've done it.
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Canonical wants to know what you want from the Ubuntu desktop
Obviously, except the phone won't talk over USB unless it's unlocked. Unless of course you really want that data and take it apart and read the NAND directly. As always, security is not binary, you decide how much you need. If you are that concerned about your data you can enable real passwords.
Why would Apple intentionally add a backdoor like this to iOS? If their goal was to create a way for LEO/courts/etc. to access locked phones, why wouldn't they make the backdoor function only when the phone is in DFU mode, or make a separate application that can access locked phones, and strictly control access to that application?
And, notably, it's also a lot cheaper than the retail version which allows multiple installs.
This might be a little naive, but I'll ask.

I'm completely unaware of games, or any software, that is sold specifically for Linux (sold, being the keyword here). I've never installed Linux and purchased software for it.

So, my question, does the Open Source ecosystem for Linux simply eclipse the for-profit software, or are there special licensing requirements that are difficult to comply with?
JavaScript as a compilation target is ineffecient for both runtime and development; it's a hack.

PNaCL -- and any other alternatives -- are in no small part incomplete because Eich has stated repeatedly in no uncertain terms that its JavaScript or nothing.

If you want to produce an alternative, there's no chance of it being accepted.

Imagine this sort of total language myopia in any other general purpose platform.
This is all written deeply from your perspective of doing this 24/7 for months. You have to step back, shed all of that immersion, and write to the perspective of someone who's never heard of this before.

Also, a much better angle for posting this on HN might be "Tired of friends asking to help setup their blogs?" This audience doesn't need your service, but they probably get a fair number of requests for help with things exactly like this and may send customers your way.
For every micro-second Libre/Open Office stays ugly or slow, I pass the time by thinking about how cripled/proprietary MS Office is, and time flies fast. YMMV.
If Steam can get viable business out of selling indie and smaller-publisher games then that is self-sustaining even if Linux does not take over the entire industry (FIFA, Deer Hunter, etc.)
This is so true. In fact, there's an excellent book by a journalist named Amanda Ripley that describes this phenomenon called The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes[0].

0. http://www.amandaripley.com/book
This is great and nice to see some competition for Google. One thing I do like when I've seen the Google car, is it seems to bomb down the road at top speed. I've not seen how the Oxford car reacts at high speed. Hats off though, nice work guys.
I think there is a real possibility that Linux will be a legitimate gaming platform from this point on thanks to steam and html5 games, it will still take a few years to knock MS off their throne due to the proprietary nature of DirectX and the perceived ease of development using it. When almost every game is supported on Windows, it will take a serious effort (like the steam box) to change that paradigm. The only reason I still use windows is because of the gaming. Wine helps a lot here as well, but it's not perfect. Developers will have to see the benefit of targeting linux before it becomes the platform for gaming.
The post you replied to is so, so short, yet you couldn't even be bothered to the end of it, preferring to react to the first few words. Scary.

However, I must thank you because I think you just demonstrated why western society is such a complete mess better than anything I have previously read or seen. A hair trigger reaction with out even bothering to consume the point, let alone understand it. And how could you understand it, you didn't even read it? The sad thing is that you're not even giving yourself a chance.

And that is leaving aside the sheer blinding irony of you criticising people for making assumptions.
If Flash, Silverlight, and Unity Web Player were based on open standards and they each had as many competing implementations as there are web browsers, then they might be a real way forward. They're each useful in their own way, but their application is limited because they're each locked to a proprietary implementation.

Granted, Silverlight was "open" in the sense that it had defined specs, but the specs were clearly written by a single company, and competing implementations would be at a significant disadvantage.
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Android is linux.
And of course it's the only one that seems to have been removed.
Both RedShift and Google's BigQuery are very useful for enterprise applications that involve aggregating data in many ways.
>It simply means something that took place prior to a moment in the past

True, but that implies that there exists such a moment with particular significance. Otherwise, you wouldn't use that tense. In other words, it leaves you thinking Bill Gates donated 36 billion dollars before X, where X is his death, an alien invasion, the collapse of the dollar, etc.

I don't know if there is a rule of thumb as to what tense to use, but "had donated" in this context feels plain wrong. That kind of dissonance is captured perfectly by this Mitch Hedberg quote:

>I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
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Neither. http://store.steampowered.com/sale/linux_release/ is currently showing off their Linux sale, you can page through the games they are selling and become less naive/unaware of what is out there. It's no Windows, but there are some games.
nr 8) is a manifestation of my wish that there must be something better "out there", i don't know what it will be.

some of the best frontenders i know rant about CSS regularly (and with a passion), and some already started dreaming of something better. lets hope they fix it until 2020. (7 years from undefined dream to market, should be possible)
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> First of all, there's very little porn out there where the woman truly enjoys the experience.

There's a lot of porn out there that has no women at all in it.

I agree with you that there is a lot of bad porn, and that there are a lot of bad things prevalent in porn, but that specific point of the author stands pretty strong. You have to preface the discussion by asking "which porn?". In your comment you've already narrowed your definition of "porn" into a specific segment.
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One place you see a lot of good "under the covers" stuff going on is with .Net 4.5. The task parallel stuff they have is really decent. You still have to think a little bit about concurrency issues, but if you are careful to use their thread safe structures, they have taken care of a lot of the harder parts for you. It is a neat model that just plays out pretty nicely.

Another cool product is Disruptor - they have figured out a good, fast way to do message passing that minimizes the need for concurrent data structures between worker threads. (Provided of course you can model your app in that way). Under the hood, they have some crazy dep memory barrier based stuff, but for most of the programmers on a team, thinking about that stuff is just not needed. (as an aside, I think if Beautiful Code 2 was being written, I think Disruptor should be included, that source code is downright inspiring.)

The point being, once you have a good, trusted and vetted set of primitives, and are willing to put a little effort into working in a paradigm someone else sets, you get a lot of benefit. This is no different than using RoR or Django instead of rolling your own web framework.
Sure, but Office is a tool that lets my users do their job. I don't have time for a philosophical war. I'm supposed to tell Excel power users that they need to use Calc now? They would laugh in my face (and rightfully so).
This is an important point. Two others; one big, one small:

BIG: iafd doesn't cover loops ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porn_loop ) or their descendents, internet scenes, unless they were eventually compiled into a movie. I would expect 'one scene and out' performers to be more common at the lower end of the market (not shrewd/no body of work) and most of that is going to be internet.

small: The fact that porn tends to cluster around samey names, plus the fact that people who are just dabbling in porn don't put a lot of thought into their names means that a lot of one time performers end up accidentally rolled into another performer's filmography.
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Hemel Hempstead also has one:
http://goo.gl/maps/zBZWC

Had to go round this on my driving test many years ago. The examiner must have had a death wish.
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Proprietary, yes. Crippled, no. Excel is vastly better than anything else out there, and if you want you can even save to open formats.

I hope open source catches up, I really do, but saying MS Office is crippled is plain false.
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