skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"a beautiful and lean user experience"

Yes please! Especially the lean bit. Saves all those older laptops and PCs filling up the landfill. Do I really need something more powerful than a Cray 1 to run a noddy spreadsheet or an R script?

"Tightly integrated with the Unity shell, fulfilling the shell’s requirements while at the same time not dictating any sort of semantics up the stack."

Does that mean that Linux graphical applications will 'just work' on the Unity/MIR platform?

"we wanted to decouple the way the shell works on top of the display server from the application-facing protocol"

That sounds like what I was asking above. E.g. LibreOffice will 'just work'

"We are in active conversations with GPU vendors to enable Mir on those drivers/GPUs, too"

oh-oh; nvidia not on board so back to Debian from the one after Wheezy...

It will be fun to watch... possibly on the sidelines if they don't sort nvidia drivers
Bullshit. Who would let them in? How can they even afford to get out, if anyone would let them in?
Vaccine I should have said
At least equally likely: your daily emails will generate so much noise that the customer will train themselves to ignore you. (One could argue that that's why they stopped reading your emails to begin with.)
I received a similar email a few months ago. I was rather annoyed to receive it, to be honest, because I had been reading the emails. Just with images disabled.
The app library looks like a killer feature of this site.

If I wanted to fool with my own application stack, I could just buy from a VPS provider or EC2 instance, and have total control.

But a lot of people probably just want their website to have a blog, or forums, or chat, or bug tracking, or Git hosting, or other stuff, without having to worry about keeping their Ruby gems up-to-date, installing a database and maintaining a database user, installing and securing Redis, maintaining a separate user account for the application, maintaining secure permissions on application files, and the like. And they're willing to pay to make it happen.

This is a place where a startup like you can make money by adding value, since there aren't a ton of big providers offering commodity services at rock-bottom prices.

I'd suggest including more apps in the library, and featuring this more prominently on the front page.
Fab is notoriously bad about email delivery. It's become a joke between my girlfriend and I that when one of our phone buzzes it "must be Fab again". I can't recall how I ended up on their lists but I believe it was due to some competition.
Except the UK is nowhere near destroying their arsenal; in fact, they are trying to figure out how to replace their current missile boats. The country described by that line does not actually exist.
They've made a distinction between 'friends' and 'fan' etc. pages. It seems logical that providing a full/friends-only/fan-page-only set of feeds would be a good way to manage spam, with the existing ability to unsubscribe from fan/friend pages. With all the resources and experience at their disposal, you're right, it's a bit ridiculous to suggest there's no way to avoid killing usability/usefulness without satisfying both users and companies.
That's a Fedora bug. It wouldn't be bleeding-edge (enough!) if it didn't crash. Running Fedora and complaining in a public forum about crashes (without saying the distribution name in the first place!) makes no sense to me.
Texas has executed people with IQs as low as 61. Google for Marvin Wilson.
"It was comparing the USA to every other developed country, where the USA ranks very poorly."

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

It does?

Doesn't Europe have at least one violent ethnic conflict going on at any given time? Usually several?
Sure not everyone can or should become a programmer/software engineer. But you would expect a progressive forward thinking society like the United States, who has pioneered most of the technological advances in the 20th century to have a steady flow of STEM graduates, wouldn't you?

I believe there was 60 minutes episode for this.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-25/companies-say-3-mil...

This story includes all open jobs which require "high-tech skills", not necessarily being software engineers/programmers, and they don't have a breakdown by job function, unfortunately. Maybe I was misled by the over use of IT and high-tech that led me to believe they meant IT jobs only.

This snippet is from Obama's Google+ Hangout:
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Perhaps the most notable exchange during the Hangout was when participant Jennifer Wedel of Texas, whose husband has had trouble finding permanent employment for the past three years, interrupted the president.

Obama had said he had a list of folks looking to hire engineers, her husband's specialty. "There's a huge demand for engineers around the country right now," he added, when Wedel jumped in.

"Um, I understand that, but how — given the list that you're getting, I mean we're not getting that — You said in the State of the Union address that business leaders should ask themselves what can they do to bring jobs to America," she said.

The president had a very personal response which Wedel seemed satisfied with.

"If you send me your husband's resume, I'd be interested to find out what's happening," Obama said. "But the word we're getting is somebody in that high tech field should be able to find something right away."

"I'll have to take you up on that," she replied.
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Although he was getting calls from companies he couldn't move away from North Texas:
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/09/144558/texas-engineer-...

And in typical brain-dead, southern conservative fashion his wife blames H1B's for his inability to get a job (I lived in Texas for over seven years, I know these things first hand).
"You wouldn't download a car, would you?"

A whole class of patent holders are about to get napstered. Once you can simulate just about any electronic board with a RasPi for $25 and make just about any plastic part on your 3d printer, what good will a patent even be?

I'm making popcorn.
Also the diagonal numpad keys.
I'm personally not too worried here. The thing is both Wayland and Mir will be able to run X on top of them, so currently all available GUI programs will still work.

What matters is the "winner". They will both hit mainstream usage, we will see which one is easier to develop for, and that one will take off. If Mir's claims of fixing input / specialization issues in Wayland comes to fruition, then it will probably win. If Mir hits like Unity, or atrophies like Upstart, then Wayland will probably win.

The problem is his Wayland fails everyone can switch to Mir. If Mir proves weaker, we are stuck with a more fragmented desktop space because Canonical doesn't change their minds on these things.
US prisons are no place for civilized people.
Angel Investing Matures From "Stupid Money" And No "Do Diligence"
So if I have no friends who paid to promote their posts and no pages who bought promoted ads for my demographic profile, my news feed will be blank, the story implies.
What I don't get is why Canonical doesn't just implement Unity as a Kwin frontend if they are rewriting it. They obviously know Compiz has no support anymore, and if they are switching the bulk of their projects to qt, it seems like they have a compositor just kind of sitting there waiting to be adopted.
Shoppers are pretty jaded about retailers telling them they have "low prices every day". OTOH a sale where it really does cost $10 less this week than last week is concrete evidence.
> I like the reference to the toolkit on the homepage.

Oh. That's a problem. The only thing I can think of that might be more of a productivity drain than playing a roguelike is writing one. Goodbye sweet, sweet sunlight...
> A browser is required for running the tests.

Why? This is a red flag.
Browser sandboxes are regularly escaped, both between same-origins and surroundings of the browser. Native apps are usually verified cryptographically, mobile almost never. Webapps shamelessly reveal many information about your usage patterns and put even your cached data at risk of being revealed to third parties.

Relevance of overhead depends on what you do. Not all people restrict themselves to decoding cat videos.

Browser and web-app server are additional SPOFs; and browser is unauditably complex piece of software.

Cloud has storage limits, low speed, great latency and zero privacy. Moreover FSes are all about interoperability; this WebKit-only API has nothing to do with that, it only gives an access to a restricted lease of space.

Websockets only allow your app to talk with its mothership and its friends, not other apps working locally.

Sure.

They won't allow me to connect two computers behind a NAT with SSH.

Nope, only certain fraction of their output. There is no option to configure them, and sharing policies do not exist.

I was thinking about a way to squeeze few things on one screen; most webapps are designed to work full-screen, at most giving you a chance to open a tab.
BTW WebGL is a giant security hole because for years of GPU development no-one imagined that low-level access can be given to an untrusted code.

Great, but 95 in 100 of such innovations are total failures, 99 in 100 break keyboard navigation and accessibility, finally 999 in 1000 have zero personalisation options.

That's not the point; they give me a chance to switch to other, working app and continue using the service/data.
You're correct that they cannot do much to change domestic law. I'm glad to see some sensible commentary here.

On the other hand within this mindset what they can do is put pressure on other bodies. In this case it's pretty clear they are putting pressure on both the Library of Congress and the FCC. If either of those bodies take a step in the direction we want then it would be a much quicker process than going through the entirety of passing a bill through to being a law.

Something a lot of people seem to be passing is that bills are typically large behemoths when they go through the entire process. They can be sweeping an powerful but due to the process of committees they go through there are often unforeseen items tacked onto the bills in an effort to further various platforms (be they legitimate, pork, or lobbied).

I personally really appreciate the route the White House seems to be taking with this as it would prevent the muss and fuss of the entirety of Congress while potentially making for a quick and reasonable change.
Yes,

- and the source code for each of those programs is more interesting than just the measurements

- and understanding that some of those programs are written for multi-core and some are not is more interesting...

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...
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Skimming the article, Canonical has some legitimate criticisms of Wayland, and are working on something that doesn't have those problems. Yay, this would be good! Except that it's by Canonical, and as you said, "Canonical never delivers". (That wasn't a quote from you, it was an iteration of "OP (never) delivers")
> Upstart is a bad example. pacman is a package manager only used by Arch Linux and nowhere else. Should Arch abandon it because it hasn't seen wide use yet? Better yet, there are plenty of package managers that are better than both aptitude and pacman (http://nixos.org/). Should we abandon the technically inferior solutions for the technically superior ones?

A couple of points:

- one example does not plenty make

- Nix has a really interesting technical design. However, it trades the ability to patch security holes across your entire system for the ability to install multiple packages side by side and have atomic upgrades.

More importantly (I was lying about the two points), the package manager is tied intimately to the guts of the distro, it's much less shocking than having Ubuntu implement Unity.

Now, we'll see what becomes of Mir. Whatever mindshare Upstart had went straight to systemd as soon as it came out. If Mir is primarily an expression of hubris, I expect it will follow Upstart in obscurity. If Canonical manage to convince enough developers in the community, they may get something going.
Brilliantly done! Nice lighting effect.
Fear is irrational.
You can't ssh -X on Wayland, either.

If it is running an X server on top (and Mir says it will, and Wayland can) you can probably still do ssh -X.
> Gnome3 is familiar, but very dated.

Have you used Gnome 3? Familiar and dated are not words I would use to describe it. The Gnome team is clearly focused on user experience and without rendering judgment as to whether or not they've succeeded (disclosure: I think they largely have), it's immediately obvious to new users of Gnome 3 (see Torvalds for the canonical case) that the product is not clinging tightly to familiar design patterns.
My wife and I moved to Oakland in October.

The reasons we moved were basically:

- We wanted more interior space. Our SF loft was awesome, but was one giant room, and we wanted to be able to have guests and give them (and us) some privacy.

- We wanted outdoor space. And not public outdoor space. We wanted space for us. To plant a garden. To bbq. To entertain. To sit in the sun.

- Our rent was increased from $2200 -> $2400 -> $2650 and we bought a house with a mortgage payment of $2072.

Those are the big ones. We both absolutely love SF, but we couldn't find a place to rent for a reasonable price with 2 bedrooms and an outdoor space that wasn't perpetually fogged in for what we pay now. We are both very happy that we made the move.

There are drawbacks like using the car a lot more and having a longer and more expensive commute, but overall it's been great for us.
>Piracy is not freedom of speech. It is the copying and syndication of the intellectual works of others. I suspect more HNers would be upset about piracy, if they weren't using SaaS business models which are not as vulnerable to it.

Or, if they realized how much wealthier they would be if they didn't have to resort to SaaS business models in anticipation of frequent piracy.
Oakland has a bag fee now. That's a reason to move to the Peninsula.

(I live in San Francisco but the most convenient supermarket for me is the Safeway in Daly City. I keep wanting to hoard bags from them.)
"Because my link use actual arithmetic"

No, they don't.

They use the assumption that population and energy use per capita will continue to grow exponentially, when it's clear that it doesn't. That may be "arithmetic" of a sort, but GIGO, you know.

Essentially every developed country is below replacement level (the United States is an exception, but only due to high immigration).

Find out why that is and then you can discuss the issue without, as McCarthy said, talking nonsense.

I did use actual arithmetic in the waste heat calculation, which I notice that you did not dispute.
That is true in oakland too. Or actually, maybe it's berkeley. it's tough to know living on the border!
Regarding #2, if I were somehow forced to choose between being in an American prison and living in North Korea, not in prison, I'd have to sit down and do some serious thinking and research before I could make a decision.
Intentionally "leaky" ;) Martin Fowler has written a good post about how and why this is desirable:

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TransparentCompilation.html
I implemented one for work. Basically, you have a websocket for each client, and any message received from client X is transmitted to clients Y and Z. There's not much to it at all; the magic happens client-side.
SurfaceFlinger is missing a lot of essential desktop display protocol components, like native windowing, chrome allocation, it only uses openGL ES, and isn't environment agnostic at all.

Also, completely opinionated, but after reading some of the SF code in the AOSP, it seems like just as much of a mess as X is implementation wise. It is all over the place.
Introduction to K Nearest Neighbor Algorithm
If you count to 100 or iterate over some array, i, j, k, l are more readable than index1, index2,
index3, index4 simply because they are shorter and still mean the same.

And if you iterate over some collections of "meaningful" objects, meaningful names are more readable than either i or index.

It never makes sense to use index over i.
Yup, I can understand that, but it looks like Canonical are moving to phone/tablet/turn key device/fridge market anyway.

I think there is room for Canonical with a slick tablet OS and Debian/RHEL clones/The Others (Arch/Slack &c) as 'traditional' OS
Going overseas is a great example. I take my original unlocked t-mobile nexus one out of the states and am able to buy a sim and get local phone service for very inexpensive rates.
Am I the only one surprised that the Library of Congress has rule-making abilities?
Yes, I should expect bugs soon after release

But PA is 8 years now.

I don't remember any software being so problematic as PA in the Linux world. Some have more problems, yes, but they usually have a limited deployment.
Wow, very nice. I kept looking for an inventory too, but I like that it was kind of stripped to its essentials.
You're right. I should also have mentioned that it was more intuitive (for me), that {mono-, di-, tri-} was the 1000 factor prefix, as opposed to {mono-|{-ion,-ard}, di-|{-ion,-ard}, tri-|{-ion,-ard}}.

I'm not arguing expressibility. It's just different names. I just found the system my country uses (long scale) to be less intuitive than the one used by the US (short scale).

Just take a look at the comparison [1], and make up your own mind on what is intuitive, and what not. I'm not saying you or anyone is "wrong". I find it hard to see good reason for the long scale, but I'll entertain arguments.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Long_and_short_sca...
Ask HN: Where is the best place to find a co-founder?
I'm a techie, I've already got a product that's been a year in development and I would like to find someone more skilled in the business side of things than me to help move things forward commercially. I'm in London so in theory I'm surrounded by people who might be able to help, I just can't find them. Where should I be looking? Any online services that could help me?
Given storage sizes these days you could have that buffer be a full on hour than you can grab from.
Here's another idea. California is not the be-all end-all of technology or employment, and spreading the love around -- to places that already have good tech scenes but are largely ignored by the media -- will not only get the seeker a higher quality of living for the money, but might also eventually result in the US west coast mellowing out rather than hogging all the pretense.
Regrettably, I think a lot of journalists are also spoon-fed PR and don't dig deeper or ask more questions.

Just last week I saw two stories, one on MIT Technology Review [0] and another on Fast Company [1] about Facebook's up-and-coming "Entity Graph." Ostensibly aimed at bolstering their search and informational relevance, neither article reported that many of these pages are scraped/imported content from Wikipedia and have been there since 2010, then called "Community Pages." Fast Company goes as far as to compare Facebook's efforts in this area to Wikipedia's, but doesn't mention that millions of pages are taken directly from Wikipedia. I did some digging on my own and found that at the time this was started, Wikipedia's director of business development was quoted as saying this was a positive development and viewed favorably by the foundation [2], but neither piece of reporting mentions anything about it. Both position Facebook's effort as being grassroots and not something seeded/bootstrapped off of Commons and a not-for-profit site.

[0] http://www.technologyreview.com/news/511591/facebook-nudges-...

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3006389/where-are-they-now/entity...

[2] http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/21721
How does this compare to http://reyesr.github.com/fullproof/?
Apples and oranges. AOL was not buying design and developer time. They were buying talent and eyeballs.
All right... but who is faking this? Who can be faking this and how and how does it change the traceroute?
Canonical is a business, I believe they do care for Linux because otherwise I don't see why they will be part of the Linux Foundation. But they are a business.

And like most businesses they need to make unilateral decisions. The only difference is that Canonical makes these decision public knowledge while it is trying to achieve a hectic roadmap, for business purposes.
Back to Basic: Doubly Linked List with JavaScript animated example
This is a great article. I think a lot of people are assuming that WebKit plays a much bigger role than it really does in browsers.
Except when its justified.
The talk focused on observability tools, not experimental tools like micro-benchmarks. I probably should have made that more clear (I only mention experimental tools on slide 84).

I've actually been using fio a lot recently, especially since it can do non-uniform random distributions.