skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So true, just makes me realise how many small but important changes I needed to make after a colleague was raising them whilst writing up the documentation.
Personally, I think Facebook would be broken if every message every person or group I'm connected to made it directly into my feed. The feed has been algorithmic for a very long time and paid placement is neither a surprising nor nefarious input to that algorithm. Paid posts are clearly labeled and, even if paid, don't guarantee distribution volume, but do provide analytics. If you don't like the results you're getting, then don't pay for them.

If you think that you can complain "But they are my fans! They belong to me! I deserve the right to be in their feeds" then be happy that Facebook is smarter than you: All those lovely fans would be gone in a heartbeat if Facebook didn't protect the advertisers from themselves. If you and all your advertising friends had it your way, you'd spam users until there were no users left to spam.
Is the transmission of information (1s and 0s) from one person to another not 'speech'? Would it be a free speech issue if a picture or movie was censored?

I don't know. I do know I've been berated as anti freedom of speech when I've explained my ethical issues with (me personally) running darknet nodes, because I'm unwilling to let CP be transmitted over my resources.
I personally dropped Ubuntu for Linux Mint.

I've heard a lot of people say they hate Unity.

It's not hard data, but it's anecdotal evidence that there's a substantial set of people that really hate it.
Python introduces electronic contributor agreements
So if you can make it at home so cheaply, why can't it be mass produced in a factory even more cheaply? It doesn't seem like shipping pellets would be much less expensive than shipping filament.
You have to admit, jumping from Norway to North Korea is skipping a few hundred steps.
Great work, and if the spools continue to be $50 I definitely would want one. However I don't think the spools are $50 because they cost $50 to make, they probably cost $1 to make. It's the razors/blades or printer/ink cartridge business model. I'm sure all the 3D printing companies are making fat profits off the spools of plastics, and this will push those prices down a bit.
If you're selling $200 jeans (Diesel), you probably want to control the experience down to fine details. But if you're selling $40 jeans (Arizona, Urban Star), smaller presence is cheaper and allows for faster iteration.
1 ) I was also under that impression, but coming to think about it who created that expectation, the community or Canonical? I don't know.

2) Calling unity a fiasco, is like calling it a failure. Which I believe is simply not true.

Yes some people didn't like it and moved on or made their opinions heard on forums etc.

But Canonical has a plan with Unity, and at the end of the day it gives a better user experience to me and hopefully a lot of other Ubuntu users.

3) There is reasons to unseat X and there is reasons not to unseat X. But what to unseat it with lies with the people that have certain problems, and maybe the problems Ubuntu face with mir is differently to the problems wayland and its community face.

I personally would like to see two different tools, then one large tool like X, and if you read the article they explain why they decided on mir instead.
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I find it interesting that Jason Walton was credited with bringing source maps to CoffeeScript. What happened to Michael Ficarra's CoffeeScript Redux?
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The reason that tech journalists are often repeating stories that were broken earlier is that they are able to sell the stories to editors. As far as many editors are concerned "if it didn't appear in my publication, it hasn't happened yet." This phenomenon is not just limited to news media -- I'm often boggled by consultancies like McKinsey who are still coming out with timely reports on "how CEOS can use social media."
The piratebay does not host content. It is a directory, it is pure speech. "Congress shall make no law..."
It looks very nice, and I'm pretty impressed with the effects.

I do have to admit though that personally I just don't 'get' rougelikes, maybe I'm just too young, but they just don't really interest me.
I like the idea and the design. This has some overlap with Launchsky (including a similar UI): http://launchsky.com

The main difference is that we're a platform for sharing ideas, and you're sharing projects that already exist. In any case, good luck with this!
It is sad how irrelevant "We the people" really is. It gives people an illusion that the government actually cares. The response to this petition is essentially "we agree with you and we will work towards ... {bullshit here}." I signed a few of the petitions to see what would happen, but I think I am going to stop now as it's just a waste of time; a trap, nicely put in place by the administration. The only way petitions would matter if they led to real actions, but it would be suicidal on the part of the government to try and intervene with telecom companies; wouldn't be very helpful for the next election, that's all. Oh... sigh.
"I was told that changing my behavior while being investigated could be held against me, because in an investigation it is suspicious to learn from your mistakes."

Google "subsequent remedial measures" and know that this isn't always true. INAL yet but I'd love to represent tech-savy clients who need help navigating the horrible world of the law.
I notice that rasterization to non-display devices (e.g. printers) isn't mentioned in the proposal at all. This was a serious weakness of X11 and I'm surprised it's not discussed. In mainstream consumer OSes, such capability is part of the basic graphics toolkits (GDI, Carbon).

If Canonical is serious about attracting mainstream Linux adoption, this is going to have to be addressed from the start.
cat file | grep searchterm ? Really? <shivers>
What's next Dwarf Fortress?
Are you asking if it could be used for slow motion capture? Because if you're doing something that could be captured at normal 24/48/60 fps, then I don't see any reason why this camera would care if there was motion or not
Check this out: http://www.calphoto.com/moon.htm

There's a lot of great information on how to best capture the moon.
These are massive platforms. They have incredible reach and potential for developers. If you choose to use them (specifically in a manner that makes them vital to your business), you have put yourself in a potentially bad position in exchange for a potentially massive gain.

If you manage to leverage that position... you are that much more dependent. And with the number of acquisitions and implosions of this nature that have happened over the last few years, there is no excuse not to see it coming early on.

I'm not suggesting Big Social (I just made that up!) is good or right, just that it's not horrid or evil (from an API access standpoint). It's operating exactly as you should expect an entity run by people to behave: In their own best interests. Is this ideal? No, not for the rest of us. But that's how it is, always has been, and always will be.

That anyone still considers this newsworthy is the only surprising part of it to me.
Of course we do, especially when there is a huge imbalance of power between the parties.
See Neal Stephenson's IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE COMMAND LINE. It's all symbol manipulation.
Facebook & Google Bury Hatchet To Defeat Core Problem In Gingerbread Dalvik
Response != action.
Programming career is not for everyone, but learn to code anyway
I think you're right in some circumstances and perhaps not so in others. Gmail in it's current amalgamation is slick and some features are hidden in menus that really don't get that much action. This is certainly a preferable user experience.
At worke we track Omniture analytics on every click event on our websites, half of most buttons/links/actions are never interacted with.
Sorry, I wrote it out poorly.

HIV has a combination of latent virus and active viral expression at all times. It never goes entirely dormant because of its high replicative rate. You are correct that there is always some virus that is latent, however the overall infection will not assume latency without drug intervention.

This is as opposed to Varicella where the virus will go systemic latent and then reactive much later without any outside intervention.

Herpes is another viral infection that has true systemic latent periods where it is more or less hiding in your own DNA. It is periodically released and can then cause outbreaks of Herpes lesions such as cold sores on the mouth, genital lesions, etc.

The latency of all three diseases are why they cannot be cured once contracted. Varicella can now be effectively vaccinated against, and shingles can be avoided through boosters (not to mention avoidance of stress). One dream for curing HIV would be to signal all latent virus in the body to activate simultaneously, essentially causing a explosion of HIV viral particles, and then immediately flood the person with medication to wipe it all out. The problem with all DNA latency is how do you reach the virus, and if you can reach it, how do you reach it all at once to prevent the virus from reestablishing itself.

A patient on HIV medication can have undetectable viral load, meaning that all active virus is being suppressed. Stopping medication, even for 1 day, can lead to mutation and the rapid reestablishment of progression towards AIDS.
Yes. Canonical clearly lays out the project motivations, including not choosing to use Wayland, on the Mir wiki page[1].

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec#Why_Not_Wayland_.2BAC8_Westo...
Yeah, like Unity cough or upstart cough.

RH is doing similar stuff, although they're more deeply involved, and while I don't especially like how they impose some of their technology, at least it's generally well though out.
Aren't airlines providing cheap tickets at a discount rate but with extra restrictions (no baggage, etc.)? Or discounted tickets that cannot be turned back, even when you are sick?
I mean, if you don't like that, by an unsubsidized phone. I don't see the special treatment of the cell phone companies.
Parsoid: how Wikipedia catches up with the Web
For anyone wondering (since it's such a new thing that not a lot of people know much about it): Source maps are currently only supported in Chrome, but it's also implemented in recent WebKit nightlies and Firefox is actively working on support. In order to use source maps in Chrome, open the options panel on the dev tools and make sure the "Source maps" option is enabled.
TL;DR:

1. The White House thinks this is a good idea, but it is not within their powers to implement change under the current law.

2. These rules (DMCA exceptions) fall under the Library of Congress, and the White House has recommended a review of said rules.

3. The LoC has also responded and agreed to re-review these exceptions: "We also agree with the administration that the question of locked cell phones has implications for telecommunications policy and that it would benefit from review and resolution in that context." [2]

4. In an amicus-like capacity, the FCC has also responded and commented on the current regulatory regime: "From a communications policy perspective, this raises serious competition and innovation concerns, and
for wireless consumers, it doesn't pass the common sense test. The FCC is examining this issue, looking
into whether the agency, wireless providers, or others should take action to preserve consumers' ability to
unlock their mobile phones." [3]

(end summary)

The Library of Congress could choose to reinstate the unlocking exception, which they at least purport to be reviewing. Or, the FCC could step in and claim regulatory oversight and create new regulations. Neither of those actions require direct congressional intervention, and both appear to have much higher visibility as a consequence of this petition.

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[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...

[2] http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-041.html

[3] http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2013...
So everyone can leave except the people we say can't leave?

I know, and I know that it's (societally speaking) a necessary tool. But many see the rate of incarceration in the US as a massive problem itself.

Note that I in no way compare the DPRK with the USA, I just think that talking in absolutes or framing them as opposites doesn't really help. We got a lot of problems in the west too...
No, I meant both. I got an IP which was identified as belonging to an Italian ISP by ripe. On top of that geoip results were obviously wrong/right depending on how you look at it.
"only write the apache config-file" Ha!

Local privilege: yeah, that's a lot but over a long time span and none should be current on decently maintained box. I've never even seen anyone attempt a 0 day on my boxen.
Is there a button available to users that will cause stories posted by pages and friends to actually show up in the news feed? It seems like there is no solution available on the receiving end.
From the article, and I'm sorry if this seems condescending, I would truly love to have a conversation about this, but I believe your question is to vague:

* The input event handling partly recreates the X semantics and is thus likely to expose similar problems to the ones we described in the introductory section.

* The shell integration parts of the protocol are considered privileged from our perspective and we'd rather avoid having any sort of shell behavior defined in the protocol.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec#Why_Not_Wayland_.2BAC8_Westo...
I don't think it's conning them into something they don't need. I think it's giving them what they want (shiny, easy to use) so that they have something that they need but don't realize it yet (libre).
I agree that after the contract expires it should be fare game.
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My understanding is that QML describes the interface, but the actual application logic is written in something else.

From Ubuntu's developer portal:

> While Ubuntu and the applications that come with Ubuntu are written in many different languages, from C to Java to Haskell, when writing something new we recommend using Python. Many important parts of Ubuntu are already written directly in Python, and we work to make every important API and framework within Ubuntu available from Python. Python includes a rich standard library and a vast set of third party modules, so there are libraries available for just about everything you can think of.

http://developer.ubuntu.com/resources/programming-languages/...

I've not gotten far into it though, and likely won't for a month or two. My experience lies almost completely on the web; I've never written a native mobile app or released desktop software.
That's curious. You might be a victim of this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=813407

I'm not sure if this could affect the CPU usage. I hear that you can play with the resample setting to lower it, but I haven't had to do that on a 5+ yo desktop.
Ubuntu Announce Unity Next, Will Be Written in Qt/QML
Ubuntu Announce Unity Next, Will Be Written in Qt/QML
Confirmation bias: Are you too much in love with your idea?
> In the process, they deny content authors the freedom to select channel of distribution that will allow them to be compensated for their work.

Pre-supposing one supports intellectual property.
I know I speak for many others when I say I have been waiting for this for a long time.

This is fantastic, thanks so much for the hard work :)
Cool site!

Suggestions:
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- Add a field in the profile for GitHub

Also, just added mine... http://breakpoint.io/116-straply/
Whoops! Very sorry about this.
Interesting data point that 50% of your products features are never been interacted with - I would assume that this is true for many products
There's basically 2 ways for them right now:

1) Make the GNU/Linux stuff work on Android. That's what Tizen does, AFAIK. It's a lot of work. Advantage: everything works with it, and it's well understood.

2) Glue stuff up to work with whatever Android does. That's what they're aiming for. Advantage: less work.
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Rubunthy on Mails?

[edit: Oops, I've jumped all the way to their own web development framework. At least this way they can also build their own DSL's.]
"Sort By: Most Recent" ?
Fedora? Bleeding edge? I've heard that Red Hat is what's holding a lot of people back in the Python world, because their Python version is so ancient.
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Redux is still on ongoing effort, but Redux is about more than just source maps. It is also about redesigning the compiler to be more flexible and extensible.

If you're interested, I suggest subscribing to the Github notifications. They're often quite informative. https://github.com/michaelficarra/CoffeeScriptRedux/issues
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Because it was easier to answer, I'd guess.
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I have one of these and they are quite popular amongst amateur videographers.

They definitely give a cinematic quality to captured video.
It's not the same. Unity heavily relies on Ubuntu specific patches. There was quite some effort to get unity running under arch Linux
Facebook is betting this will all blow over and everyone will accept it as the new status quo just like 80% of the previous evil changes they implemented. They are continually pushing the envelope to see what they can get away with, and I think in this case they will probably pull it off like they usually do.

The article describes it as "as plain and malignant a case of conflict of interest can get", but I don't see it; Facebook's interest is to make money, not to guarantee equality of Facebook's posting. Even if you grant that their primary interest is to assure the highest quality feed, this doesn't go directly against that either since a paid post is not inherently worse than free one even if it skews that way.

What people are really objecting to here is the blurring of the lines between ads and organic content. Certainly it smells bad, but it's not the same as an investment bank shorting the very securities they're selling to clients, after all, you can still get something for free. All they've done is just is turned a formerly free service into a freemium service without removing any functionality. Sure they can ratchet up the cost arbitrarily, but you have no excuse to be screwed by that because you can dip your toe in any time to figure out if the ROI makes sense. If they didn't offer you the opportunity to pay for placement you would have been drowned out by the noise anyway. I think the business justification is precisely that: the stream is so noisy for most people that paid placement can be done without significantly degrading its quality. They may be wrong about this, but I don't see why they aren't justified to try.
"Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity." – Dennis Ritchie

As someone who has been shell programming for the most of their life; I really enjoyed that article. At the local ruby group I am invited to talk frequently on automation and depending on the group; remind the current generation on the sheer power they have at their fingertips.

It really is an empowering operating system. Yielding power of the user with minimal tokens and dependencies provides it's elegance and beauty in simplicity.
The difference is in simplifying the UI versus taking features away. The former is perfectly fine, the best UIs (in my opinion) don’t exist/are perfectly invisible. However, taking features away in order to ‘simplify the UI’ is the wrong approach – making these features accessible in such a way that they don’t clutter the UI, preferably sorted/ranked by frequency of usage certainly is superior to dropping them. That's why Emacs has M-x/M-:, menus were invented, every sane desktop environment has some way to bring up a programme by its name and human-readable configuration files were invented: Such that the most obvious parts of the UI can offer the most frequently used features and all other, less-frequently used but still necessary, features are accessible in some way.
Basecamp, by 37signals, is a great example of this in practice. They stripped back features so they could focus on the core. In the end they were left with a great (IMO) project management SaaS. No, it doesn't do everything, but what it does do it does really well.