skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Facts are facts. What you have pointed out here is that words can have different meanings (very true) and that a fallacy is not a fact (also true).

I will agree that it is the case that certain facts as we know them today may cease to be facts in the future. For example, it was once believe to be a fact that the Sun revolved around the Earth.

Thanks for reading!
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Pocket down
I think private cloud are a pretty good alternative. Think about how many FIOS/internet box sitting at home unused most of the day, that would be a good use case.
I was wondering that too. I assume Dragonfly will die and they will switch to WebKit/Chromium's dev tools instead. If that happens, I very much hope that they will rebuild Dragonfly's unique bits for WebKit's dev tools and submit them as patches, so nothing of value is lost.
There are a couple alternate websites for mobile optimized HN, as well as like 10 iOS apps and 10 android apps.

http://ihackernews.com/
http://hn.gethifi.com/

or search your app store.

There have been many requests to update/improve the actual website and none get acknowledged.
I admit I'm not saying that ThePaperBay necessarily offers the right solution but I am refuting your claim that there isn't really a problem. The issue here is that there has always been a problem. Academic output should always have been available to anyone who wanted it _at a fair price_. Until electronic documents became so ubiquitous you could tollerate the constraints of publisher ownership because they helped overcome real problems of communication and physical distribution. The question is haven't we now reached the point where these problems have gone away?
Really? They seem to be selling pretty well as it is. Why does there have to be a way to run native apps?
So does this use cookie based authentication? Isn't there a more preferred way to do authentication in REST? (I'm actually trying to figure this out now)
Does a company that will buy software in the US and then ship it to someone in Australia upon request exist?
Actually the (X)(Chr)Ubuntu performance on a new ARM chromebook is pretty damn awesome for such a cheap, thin, light machine. IMHO. The hardware isn't at all bad.
Isn't there something inbetween?

I'm currently developing SaaS for a certain service industry in Sweden.

I wouldn't say this is hitting it small, nor is it batting for the major leagues. It's a decent sized chunk of project that will build the skills and capital needed for our next level-up sometime in the future.
It's funny. The first Linux distribution I ever used, way back in '05 on a terrible P2 laptop with 128Mb of RAM, was DamnSmallLinux. It ran in RAM from what I can recall, at least off my USB drive (the disk iso dd'ed to it) with a floppy as the bootloader to hit the USB :)

Those were the days. I also remember getting Slax to boot from the HDD, which it was never designed to do. Nostalgia...
Depending on what your project is, there are plenty of coders to be found overseas. If you want to be a programmer, be a programmer and put in the time to learn what you need from the beginning. If you want to build your idea now, hire a team and manage them best you can. With your money, I personally would have already hired a few teams to work on different projects. None of my ideas I would outsource are exactly super-ambitious or groundbreaking but are things I would like to have as sources of passive income that would give me a bit more freedom. I've got to say Trello makes it so easy to handle projects like this, from the few small projects I have managed with outsourcers.
You sound very pretentious. How can you claim to have the ultimate end-all definition of "shit that isn't there"? The mere fact that we are humans with extremely limited sensory perception should be enough to prove that "open your eyes" is not a good enough method to defining reality.

I mean relax dude... that's just like... your... opinion, or whatever dude. :)
Did they want a fast Linux or their "own" Linux? They are trying to get us to program systems now in the Go language, web apps in their DART language. They control search, increasingly smart phones too, what's left? Own your OS and hardware.

Linux is just fine Google, stick with it.
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Thanks for bringing up the currency risk - while certainly not responsible for the entire price difference, the cost for hedging risk against foreign currency in Australia has increased quite a bit according to the Australian central bank (from 5-10 basis points to 30-40 - http://www.rba.gov.au/publications/fsr/2010/mar/html/box-b.h...) which will definitely put a dent in your profit margin if you start accepting Aussie dollars.
That depends.. it would be more helpful to evaluate comparing to Doxygen if a more meaty C++ example was used. This is our std::vector implementation (below). The STL provides enough meat for any doc generator to chew on...

http://bloomberg.github.com/bsl/group__bslstl__vector.html

I'm no fan of Doxygen output, but it is used because it has proven to be the most robust for documenting complicated code.

edit: links
I've used Puppy quite a bit, and didn't realise it was running in RAM. I have to say though, that I still think Tiny Core has the edge in terms of speed.
If it wasn't the security issue laden monstrosity that it is, I could see it living on.

But the facts are that the only real "secure" version is the PPAPI implementation in Chrome (which has it's own limitations), Adobe has dropped future development for embedded systems and that it is almost non-existent on mobile does not speak to the longevity that you predict.

Flex is cool, but it's dependency on Flash will be it's noose.
Thanks for this link. :)
Ask HN: Is there a benefit to giving out free versions of web apps?
For those of you who offer a free version of your web app, is it a vital resource in attracting buyers?

Also, how did you determine wether you should offer a free version or not?
If i was in your situation i would move to silicon valley,
visit coding events and finds bright coders and offer them your time , not your cash to help them to get traction , you will develop plenty of other skills you will need to succeed and you might find an activity you really enjoy that is not coding
I think the issue is about expectations of what has been hyped about electric cars (for better or worse) and the reality of their operation vs. what is already known and accepted about internal combustion engines (ICE). People already understand and accept the tradeoffs and costs of using ICE cars, and the "general joe" is hoping for something that provides a significantly better / different experience with their electric car experience.

This has little to do with reality, but regardless, explains why the TNW article was written as it was and why the parody article analogy doesn't hold as well. Although I understand that at some point, people need to get more "real" about what electric cars can truly offer and their real advantages / disadvantages.
Yes. But you are not comparing a hosting company to hosting company. In the above example, Linode Win hands down.

DO just need to improve on their Networking. ( But i guess you get what you paid for )
Wow, you're a winner. Have a good day dude, time to go back to work.
Is New York pizza really the best?
Not to derail the topic, but did anyone else read that headline as a negative, only to find that it wasn't (necessarily)?
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When you folks hitting the UK? You guys rock!
>You're saying that's the fault of Opera when it's possibly the fault of lazy devs.

Obviously it's "hobby devs" breaking the standards and Opera having low tolerance for that. As a matter of fact, a large part of the web's success is due to hobbyists. The hobbyists were only able to contribute to the success because it was and still is so easy. You don't have to be a HTML or JS guru to create a dynamic web page. On the other hand this allows for many devs that never even heard of HTML validators, JS linters etc.

I think it's good that most HTML/JS implementations are very fault tolerant. It's good and the decline of XHTML, XSLT and friends underlines that.

>You used to (still have?) devs testing for Opera and then preventing users going any further. Users would spoof the agent id string. So then devs started doing more tests, and rejecting Opera.
>(https://groups.google.com/group/alt.sysadmin.recovery/tree/b...)

In 2003 Mozilla and friends had the same problem sometimes too.
It seems they went all big plan offices, no small offices at Google?
This is because they're both using http://octopress.org/
WebKit and jQuery -- and Bootstrap -- are becoming the new 'Win32 API.'
It depends. Some people get a decent speed in both DC. Some dont. For a hosting company you want most people to be in the great speed camp, and good speed for the rest.
It supports cookie auth for the browse-able web interface it makes available for APIs. It's optional though and it also supports HTTP auth and other auth styles as well I think.
VAT also adds 20% to the price.
>If I design a nice website for someone and they give me a bottle of wine, that's still a customer relationship even though no money has changed hands.

But who is the customer?
It doesn't seem to support Linux presently... Which is a shame because I'd love to set this up on my Linux-powered HTPC.
Too bad BMW couldn't make the bivalent (Hydrogen) engine very effective. One day I'd like to tank H2O and have my car's engine create the hydrogen using electrolysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_Hydrogen_7
Ask HN: Why does an email unsubscribe take "10 business days?"
I unsubscribed from the email list of the Wall Street Journal today by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link in an email. The page comes up and says that I've unsubscribed, but that it may take up to 10 business days for it to take effect. Why on earth does it take so long? I've had other sites say something similar in the past. Anyone have any insight?
A good way to find out if there are issues with a CPAN module is to look at the Test results provided by the CPANtesters smoke testing.

For eg. on TryCatch (https://metacpan.org/module/TryCatch) it currently shows... Test results (1933 / 172 / 1)

This means its tests have passed on 1933 different test machines (on various different versions of Perl & OS's). However there have been 172 machines reporting a problem. Clicking on the Test results link delves down deeper - http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/T/TryCatch.html#TryCatch-1...

From this I can see there are a lot of failures with this (version of the) module recently. So there is a new problem that's manifested itself recently in a small number of tests - http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/42fb1e6c-749d-11e2-8c...

Looking at the test failure (it failed 6 out of 58 tests) I think it was fine to just force installation for now. The module owner will receive an email for everyone of these 172 smoke test failures so I doubt it will be long before he/she fixes this problem :)
Well interesting, not the first, won't be the last.

I am using ownCloud on my own server for things, that are not that mission-critical and I am using git on my own server for private repos.

What is left, is some kind of alternative (selfhosted, open source) for google docs. Some alternative for a spreadsheat and some text-document, editable via a browser.
Let's hope it doesn't get that bad.
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That doesn't really make it any less confusing
Here's the real link:
http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...
I suggested to remove I/O in Unixbench on WHT, is that still being considered?
No, given that it's from ejohn.org...
True, but are they worth so much less? Do you think that any publisher would sell their textbooks as ebooks for the same price to US students and to Indian students?
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Can you explain why you think that doxygen is horrible?
All around pretty awesome service. Good for them.
Here's what I don't understand about this business model.

On the one hand, you're targeting guys who feel like they don't know enough about fashion to be able to make good clothing choices themselves -- so they trust an unknown stylist with unknown credentials to make the choice for them.

On the other hand, you're targeting guys who value premium, name-brand clothes.

I would think that if you're in category one, you wouldn't know enough to have strong brand preferences, and if you're in category two, you know enough that putting everything in the hands of a stylist would be uncomfortable for you.
I like the arguments: "Don't worry about <x bad thing> happening, because it's already happened!"
Would be nice to see clang somehow generate a 'cscope' compatible database.

This would make cscope much more reliable for C++ projects (cscope VIM/emacs plugins are very useful for efficiently navigating a large source tree).
Can anyone who's used this compare it to tastypie for django?
The new ACTA? I hope the EU is not desperate enough to fall for this (again).
A duplicator cannot get the patent. This is for genuine parallel inventions since you still need to prove you invented it.
Microsoft Surface Pro teardown shows it to be less repairable than Apple's iPad
Some price comparison site should set up a how-much-it-would-cost-you-in-America feature for Aussies. You search for a product, see a few local prices, and the US price alongside.

Local vendors would scream at this sale-killing feature, and the PR win would be something amazing. It might even lower local prices.
"Office spaces tagged with names such as 'Clown College', 'Funland' and 'Bouncing Castle'."

How infantile!

This place looks like a daycare center. Imagine working there -- Not only must you suffer through their insipid "doodles" and live webcasts of Vince Vaughan and Owen Wilson, you also have this goofy primary color architecture to contend with. Imagine being a new hire ("Noogler") and walking around in a propeller beanie in this place.

What does the actual daycare center at Google Dublin look like?
My friends in São Paulo just did that with an iMac - bought it in Arizona during their Christmas trip to the US, declared it at Guarulhos airport, paid the import imposts and still came in with a huge discount to the local retail price.
Companies like that often work with third party vendors to do the actual distribution of emails. So when you unsubscribe, that notification likely has to be passed through various internal systems and then on to the vendors handling distribution who can remove you from their lists. These are frequently batch process that only run periodically...
Your comment's good, it's the children of HN not liking what you said. Nothing to do but move on.
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Maybe it depends on what your view of jQuery is:

In the case of JavaScript libraries virtually everyone has standardized upon jQuery at this point.

In other words, as far as he cares things other than jQuery don't have a right of existence. Although it's very popular it's probably even more arguable if there aren't better JavaScript frameworks than jQuery, compared to whether there are better rendering engines than WebKit.

I believe it comes pretty close to illustrating what I believe is so wrong about his arguments.
Love the wise and simple way groklaw explains the complex matters.
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The HTML output.
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He answers this question fairly concisely in the first section "What I do", the link in the first section [http://www.the-adam.com/adam/math-4q6/hypersq.htm], and the second last section "What I am not".

I am finishing an MS in Industrial Engineering, a synonym of Operations Research. I have also been looking for related jobs that use those skills for two years. Many relevant jobs are in big data and analytics, subjects common to Hacker News; many belong to business operations such as demand planning and supply chain management. To find jobs I use Indeed.com and this is the search query I use. I based a term project in business intelligence on the problem of finding good search terms based on course descriptions.

[http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title%3A(-vp+-director+-manager...]

But I will digress from making this more personal. Basically from the stand point of one line job titles, there isn't one for the line of work he is in. The obvious ones are to frightening to the masses. Maybe it is just our culture today where "Math" is a four letter word.
Pretty much! People worry that the transition to a WebKit monoculture would result in some terrible things. On the contrary Chrome has shown that a shared rendering engine does not result in stagnation. Stagnation is a separate concern from a shared core.
Instead of, "But the author seems to have considered (and discarded) them"

I ought to have written, "But the author has considered them and concluded that their benefits don't outweigh their costs in his case."

I totally support what you're saying! IMHO it's definitely not worth it to document/open-source/etc code at the cost of one's career or happiness, especially when the code is of questionable utility to others.
Good article about making tough decisions early on that enable growth down the road. Thank you for the perspective and transparency.
Like I said in the title, the second half of this post is very product-heavy, but the first half has some good data. I'm just curious to see where the discussion goes.
"…because it's already happened and the world hasn't exploded."

It's hard to know now what the very–long-term effects will be but John's point that the web has benefited from Chrome's creation is hard to argue with. As for whether it's benefited more or less than if Chrome had used a different rendering engine, we'll never know…
That was a good interview. I also got very interested in Scala while taking Martin Odersky's excellent functional programming class last year. I ended up concentrating on Clojure for my (solo) work because of decades of Lisp experience, but the Scala language and developing ecosystem is also very compelling.

I have friends who are still doing Java enterprise scale work, but for most applications something more light weight and concise like Scala, Clojure, or JRuby seems like a better way to use the JVM ecosystem. In addition to more agile languages, I believe that the best practices for most development use microframeworks and composable libraries.
It's an interesting claim to say that iOS has aged poorly. I tend to agree that the use of skeumorphic design does make the standard apps look a bit out-of-date, but is that really a problem? How many powerusers are really bothered by this? If you don't like the Podcast app, just get Downcast. If you don't like Calendar, just get Fantastical. And using your claim that skeumorphism helps smartphone newcomers adopt the platform more easily, isn't the current situation a sort of a win-win for the iOS ecosystem? Newcomers get an easy entry and more versatile users can enjoy the great results of third-party developers.
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My issue with lekky cars at the moment is one of style. Unless you have a skwillion pounds to spend, you have to get a prius or leaf or something.

There doesn't seem to be a stylish looking electric on the market yet. Something that might change once BMW release the i3.
What kind of clients do you have? If I asked my clients what code repo to use and then asked them to set up a github org, they laugh me out of their building, probably making some sort of comment that I turned my problem into their problem.

Maybe you have tech-savvy clients who care about source control. Mine only care that I do what I said I'd do when I said I'd do it.
I was hoping to get boost using games in wine, looking at it now i don't think it would have a useful affect, games would still need to use the hd for assets and swap space.
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I'd flag it as spam in the meantime.
I believe KTHML->WebKit has pretty much illustrated that having standards that allow new implementations to be developed is a good, essential thing.

We'd have been in an interesting, and perhaps worse state if Safari and Chrome were both Gecko based instead of competing therewith.
With ASIC bitcoin miners starting to be released I wonder if this means we are close to peak in terms of making $$$ of mining.

Most likely not, but still crazy to see someone mining this much when the price of a BTC is $26+
I agree with that, it's just that the way the argument was phrased was funny :)
We saw the demo and presentation of Slick at Scala Exchange 2012 and it was really a bit of a "huh?" moment. It felt a little like being shown a query engine from a previous software generation... I agree that I can't really see anything compelling at all about Slick. Add to that the fact that at the presentation they were talking about looking into "ideas" on how to support NoSQL stores made it all feel fairly uninspiring overall.
This article feels really forced.. No place for bags in front of the car? You have a huge trunk. Car heating in traffic jam? Maybe if there is 30'C outside. Huge amount of mechanical technology? Electric cars are full of far more complex technology, harder and more expensive to fix. And what about refueling, why didn't he mentioned "wow, refueling takes only 2 minutes! I don't have to wait an hour".

I know what was the point of this article, electric cars are quite young and given some time many of the issues will be fixed, but it doesn't mean people can't complain about it right now, I think there is still a huge gap between electric and petrol cars.
"on all the metrics that people really care about"

Minor correction, but its really extremely important to the discussion:

"on all the metrics that journalists really care about"

Another important part is all the gas mfgrs ganging up on their advertising salesmen and telling them exactly how the review had better read if they want to continue to get highly profitable advertising.
As far as I can see it doesn't offer anything that isn't already covered by OwnCloud. Owncloud also offers integration with many other web apps featuring calendaring, ldap, email, etc.. The only license info I can find states "All rights reserved".. I don't have a windows pc to install it on but I assume it has a click through license agreement.. I would have to read that carefully for any "you grant us remote access to your self hosted files" or similar crazyness.

Owncloud is released under the AGPL v3.. my only real gripe with owncloud is the fairly shoddy android app!
It looks like shit.
Rackspace Cloud is the next poorest performing and most expensive VPS next to AWS EC2. And even though Rackspace calls its VPS cloud it isn't cloud at all.

But Unlike AWS where you get all the other AWS features and services via API and a half decent price if you play their reserve pricing and bid game. Rackspace has NONE.
It would be much less of a problem if iOS allowed one to actually replace stock apps with new ones. There's no way to make GMail my default mail app, Chrome my default browser, etc.

Lack of intents is also a serious problem, apps have to specifically support sharing to each source.

A related issue is the lack of system accounts. One has to log in to each app separately, even if many of them use the same account.