skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I got the same feeling. They decided to address their decision not to base off of Wayland, but all I read was a convincing reason to fork off of what Wayland is doing. I wish they would have given the real reason for their decision, right now it just smells like NIH.
The difference is that if I choose to fly on a different airline I dont go to jail.

However, even if I continue to pay my monthly bill, as required by the contract, but I unlock my phone so I can use it in Europe, I am guilty of a felony.
Sort of, the can's bottom is flat (potentially with specific varying thicknesses) after the drawing. A punch then shapes the bottom to what it needs to be.
Fantastic - And I mean no sarcasm. Your previous comment was brilliantly written, allowing the user to draw his own conclusion. Except for that part 'incarcerate people at a rate higher than any other country' which gives it away...
Routing transparency. Sure, you can script a bunch of tunnels, but it's nice to handle routing at a lower layer. Having worked with both setups, I vastly prefer the VPN solution for ease of setup, use, and maintenance.

Also, different attack surfaces. Two layers of the same security measure (ssh) is, all else equal, not quite as good as two layers involving two different measures (VPN, ssh).
Same thing happens all over the Western world. The problem isn't that the cycle repeats itself elsewhere, the problem is that most of the time it doesn't.

If the "refugees" from the Big City aren't followed by people that bring real money (and thus all the "horrors" of gentrification), at best the new location stops developing, at worst the whole thing collapses under the influx of newcomers without having the money to handle the increased pressure on the social and economic infrastructure that was in relatively fragile state to begin with.

It may be a great adventure for young people that are very mobile, but I wouldn't start buying property in Oakland just yet...
I have ran unstable for 10+ years. The only problems I have ever had were graphics related and required downgrading to an older version of an X11 library. Debian unstable has never put me in a position where I could have lost data.
"It is frustrating being open source advocate, if software you use is somewhat inferior to what is available on other platforms, just try to use firefox on ubuntu and compare that to osx or windows."

What do you find wrong with Firefox on Ubuntu exactly? I'm not challenging just interested. I use Win7/IE9 and Ubuntu1204/Firefox 19 most days.
Speaking of the Bay Area, I don't give a shit about the Bay Area.
I really want to be excited by this.

For better or worse, after being in this industry for a long time now all I can say about a new database launch is: cool, I'd love to talk to you in 3-5 years when you've had time to work out the hinks and people have figured out what your strengths and weaknesses are and where the real gotchas will getcha.

Until then: good luck. A distributed, linearly scalable, easy-to-admin NoSQL database with transaction support and full ACID would be delicious indeed.
CoffeeScript is deliberately tied to JavaScript by design. Porting it to work with Erlang or C would be rather awkward. Outside the context of a JavaScript environment, CoffeeScript doesn't seem to offer enough benefits over, say, Python to be worth the massive amount of work this would entail. If you mean you want another language that can interact with Erlang or C code, those already exist (in fact, there are a lot of langauges that are C-compatible since it's the lingua franca of modern computing).

And if you want an alternative Erlang, see Elixir (http://elixir-lang.org/), Joxa (http://joxa.org/) and LFE (https://github.com/rvirding/lfe).
Exactly, I just think it's a tough sell when the difference between the non-believer case which sees this as ineffective, and the believer case that sees this as a "win," is sufficiently low expectations about what this achieves (nothing).

The larger question is a tension, not about what this process produces, but about what this process reproduces. The really dangerous aspect of ineffective but affirming processes like these is the implication that We the People have the power no matter how much evidence accumulates to the contrary. It follows logically that when The People don’t affect changes in our system, we must not want to change it. Hypothetically, we believe in justice, freedom, etc. or we would not have formed a democracy. Since we freedom-loving, democratic people would naturally act to end oppression as soon as we found it out, it follows that if a policy, law or practice does not change then it must not truly oppress people.

Clearly, this train of thought has not, does not and will never transport us to a genuinely free society.
Yes. I shall follow with interest and run Ubuntu if my hardware allows. CentOS and Debian are there as lifeboats if needed.

Choice is good!
Yes, it is forged, as explained by tuomasb.

Furthermore, a round trip time less than about 60 ms between Europe and North Korea is impossible, assuming the data is traveling at the speed of light. And we measured much less than that.
Emeryville, El Cerrito, Albany, Kensington.
I had to do that and enabling the forwarding of the authentication agent with the -A option in the ssh client was very handy:

$ ssh -A -t office_user@office ssh production_user@production

I have the same private key in all my machines, so this worked transparently avoiding the IP restriction of iptables of the production machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military-industrial_complex

The phrase does not apply to any industry, it refers specifically to the defense industry, of which telecoms are not a part. Otherwise, we could plausibly say that any sufficiently large business in the US is part of the "military-industrial complex," which is not the case.

So it has little, if anything, to do with the military-industrial complex.
Great game! Too bad it bugged on me at some point; after getting out of the dungeon I can't move anymore...
Numbers can indeed be manipulated easily. I am sure you have heard the term Potemkin village. I am not sure you realize how prevalent this kind of deception is in the world outside of the US and a few other "Western" countries.
My take on a TPB North Korea debunking.
I live in Oakland downtown, in a firehouse commune with a bunch of other physical technology entrepreneurs/researchers.

It is great. Machine shop is in the garage; walking Lake Merritt (the closest thing to a diverse, integrated utopia I know of in California...) and jack london square is lovely, easy access to the bart. The area around Lake Merritt and the Lake Merritt bart (where we are) is safe. Art murmur is a ton of fun, and the restaurants are great (Tamarindo, Trappist, Boca Nova, Chop Bar, Arizimendi, Cana are favorites).
Sorry to hear that! Can you post the output of your browser's JS console?
A lot of people on HN don't have kids :)
YAGNI and Design
Ubuntu is not really a go-to system for advanced users...
Where were they when it passed? sleeping?
That sounds like a great idea -- more lives lost when the Big One hits!
Congratulations on all this hard work. Source maps will CS an even more appealing alternative to plain Javascript and make my life as a developer better.

Thanks to all parties involved in producing this release.
Most major daily e-mail sites do this, they just don't always send an additional e-mail to let the customer know that they do it.

Basically, it's best practice to auto-unsubscribe users who never open their e-mails to reduce risk of being marked as spam after a while.
Interesting ... I've been playing around with the idea of having a hopper (mounted above the 3D printer) that fed pellets to the print head and used the same heater to extrude the filament right as it was being joined to the work-piece.

The two stage process is convenient for existing printers, but wouldn't it be nicer if new printers took pellets as their raw material?
The real question is why did you need something newer in the first place ? Are years of bugs, misconfigurations, random crashes worth the minimal improvement end-users will get in the end (when everything finally works for everyone) ?

Yes, pulseaudio has all sorts of awesome esoteric features. You can stream sound transparently from a linux box to a windows one. That's kind of useless if it brings down your computer.
The commute to your downtown SF technology job, however, is sometimes shorter than it is for some of your coworkers who live in the city :)
Oh wow. I played a lot of Jane's F/A-18 in my youth, and recall some of the names and public issues mentioned in the article. There were many complaints about low framerates in the game, which had so-so graphics for the time. The developers stated this was due to the very complicated radar modeling loading the CPU, which apparently included raytracing and cloud penetration modeling. It's fascinating to see how far they took the radar simulation for a video game.

> We had CJ who had intimate knowledge of the radars, and we had Matt who had been at the CIA and knew about the information systems. So when I was doing the part of the A2A radar that identifies enemy planes by their radar signature, I had put something in and said to CJ ‘Is this how it works?’ he looked at it then went into Matt’s office and closed the door (something we never did unless we needed privacy). They were in there for 10 or 15 minutes, and then CJ came out and said it would be fine. I learned later that what I had put in was close to what the classified system actually does, and they needed to discuss whether it was too close to ship with, but they couldn’t tell me that (because then I’d know what the real system was like).

Also, funniest bit I found:

> We were now using EA’s QA department to test the game and quite frankly they didn’t impress us. One of the bugs they sent us was if you Alt-Tab out of Jane’s F/A-18 and delete the game directory the game will eventually crash.
I don't know any F# either, but I know that in Ruby the order of files does matter. When you define a class that inherits from a class that lives in another file, you'll have to require that one first.
Are you being facetious?
Obviously private schools are an option. Along with just not having kids, or moving when the oldest closes in on the big 05.

We live in Hayes Valley right now and public schools in SF aren't all that better than those in Oakland. When we have kids, we'll optimize for that.
The plan B gentrification destinations don't collapse, they just stay in a state of half-gentrification forever. Oakland, Jersey City, Northeast Minneapolis, etc. They have been the next hot place to live for the past 20 years.
Now you're talking about commercials use of downloaded ROMs vs. personal use. I'd say that the majority of ROMs are downloaded for personal use, so the idea of "bootlegging Pac-Man ROMs into a MAME cabinet and placing it into a Chuck-E-Cheese," isn't really relevant.
System.Transactions refers to support by RavenDB of the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service on Windows. This makes it possible to enlist transactions in multiple systems (MSSQL, MSMQ, RavenDB, NServiceBus) in one single transaction with the possibility of a rollback. It is not needed for transactions inside RavenDB, and I think foundationdb does not even support something like that (it is Windows specific, although Mono supports it on other platforms).
True.
Unfortunately, Gecko doesn't have the weight behind it that Webkit has and the most contributions to Gecko stem from Mozilla itself.
Slightly off-topic: since a customer doesn't care what rendering engine they are using, I believe Firefox is making a mistake by not releasing a WebView based Firefox browser for iOS (like Chrome did). If only to provide tabs/booksmarks syncing.
VerifyValid
> Calling unity a fiasco, is like calling it a failure.

This has gotten singled out so I'd better say that I meant to find a more polite way of saying "shitstorm". It's not a judgement on Unity itself, but I think it's fair to call the reaction at the time a fiasco.
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Is there a theme like YCombinator for blogger?
I need something very clean and on the homepage to be just a title with link to the article.
Interesting! All I know about .NET is that the native ORM is apparently awesome (second-hand opinion, no less, and I can't even correctly recall its name).

I learned a little Scheme to try and help a friend while I was in college, but that's about the extent of my exposure to functional languages... it seems like a real shame that this style of development is apparently so highly-regarded but doesn't get much attention in early programmer education.

I definitely see the utility of OOP, and as far as marketability goes it's still the good bet, but it'd be great to see better resources for functional programming.
No. Like this
<rant>
What the hell good is XML anyway, all that damn bloat and why, WHY? so I can put a style sheet in it? So I can nearly parse it. screw XML.
</rant>
LOL. Weev isn't getting support from the EFF because he is Weev. Who the hell would want to defend him? And specifically here, Weev burned certain bridges there through his normal every-day work as a troll.
The PC wording is "First World Problems".
They said "slightly".

OSX is hardly open at all. Only a few pieces are (important pieces, but still). Something completely open is more than slightly more open than OSX.
Try Breeze (http://letsbreeze.com), it's agile tool that shows your tasks on a board, also includes todos and calendars.

For more professional use it also has time tracking, reports, email notifications, dropbox and google drive integration.
> 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.

Mark Shuttleworth created that expectation, when he made a blog post saying Unity would be switching to Wayland: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
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Remoting over a network with latency is not even an afterthought; none of those words appear in this spec at all. I'm worried that a new display system might start getting traction in the industry while assuming there's only one computer in the world I care about and that I'm sitting in front of it, because that would be a huge step backwards.
Most of this is why I moved to Portland OR from Boston.

Edit: Granted this involved a move back to Boston re-cementing my opinions.
I recently signed up for this after hearing some friends try it out and love it. I guess the nicest part is that as an employer I can pay my employees for .50 a check and I don't have to ask for any of their bank account info. They can either print out the check and bring it into their local bank or they can have the funds electronically transferred into their account.
:) Good point!
"4GB RAM" in hardware requirements.. Why? It's not Java, it's C++, so why??? 4GB just to store definition of empty storage?

Is Debian 6 supported?
How Much Does Google Glass Cost and Is It a Business?
It is honestly a bit offensive to any white person who grew up with serious problems, of which there are many.

The term first-world problems is much more acceptable.
Oh no, I agree entirely. I'd say this is proof that you can't buy a world class university although time will tell. They haven't been around long enough to establish a reputation.
"Consider all the embedded applications of WebKit, from game consoles to theme-park kiosks, and the idea of a homogenous, stagnating WebKit monoculture seems even more unlikely."

This is attacking a straw man. I'm not worried that WebKit isn't going to continue to improve. I'm more worried that WebKit is going to dominate so much that WebKit's implementation quirks result in de facto standards. Take the HTML Hard Disk Filler from a few days ago: the reason that WebKit can change to fix that bug is that the Web doesn't depend on the semantics that WebKit implemented. If Web sites relied on subdomains' quota not counting toward the parent domain's quota, as WebKit implemented (contrary to the recommendations of the spec), then that security issue would be much harder to fix without breaking sites.

"The proliferation of WebKit will be a rising tide that lifts all boats."

Assuming that no better engine comes along. If the Web starts to depend on WebKit's implementation, then the Web will basically be defined by this large pile of C++ code, presumably in perpetuity. That might be better in the short term, but it doesn't seem like a good long-term bet.
I wasn't debating semantics, I was just wondering what he meant.
WH: This step is "important for ensuring we continue to have [a] vibrant, competitive wireless market"[1]

Vibrant, competitive wireless market? Coulda fooled me.

[1] https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...
"I don't know if Debian has a similarly friendly desktop distribution"

Debian Wheezy (currently testing but which will be the stable release soonish) provides Gnome 3.4 desktop but with the options of xfce4, KDE and lxde. A recent install using defaults onto a low spec netbook was basically easy. See

http://www.sohcahtoa.org.uk/pages/linux_debian-wheezy-instal...

When Wheezy goes stable there will be live images which can be installed from.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaand nothing really happened.
Apple iWatch Will Reportedly Run iOS, Still Has To Overcome Battery Issues
minus the 980 errors :)
iPhone 5's camera is probably comparable to a 10-year-old DSLR.

It's true that DSLR cameras have many advantages compared to smart phones, but I was talking about image quality. Professionals and hobbyists will buy the DSLR instead of shooting with a camera phone, but this doesn't apply to your average consumer.
I like that Dennis Rodman does what he does. He lives on the outskirts of our norms and enriches all of our lives by pushing the limits and exploring our options.
The foremost reason is that root is carte blanche to ruin a system. This may be fine for a developer seat or even a desktop that is not critical infrastructure (shared), but on a multi-user system (and this includes things such as email and web servers), you really should have a "think twice" prompt, along with logging of who did what and when (eg, sudo). Even if you leave root as ssh key only login, then once an attacker has gained that key (or found a remote exploit), they don't need a password; they're root. Setup administrator users who are given a limited set of sudo commands and only allow them to login via SSH with keys and require complex passwords for sudo, and that's multiple layers of protection and logging. Nothing's perfect, but it has long been recognized that root is a big gaping hole in UNIX security; that's why things like SELinux and RBAC were created, and it's why Windows for so long was so insecure (ie, the main user was essentially passwordless root).
It's supported in WebKit nightly too.
Thanks for sharing! We seem to be quite similar in our spending pattern. Although I saw an increasy in our income the last couple of years, we're still living quite frugal. Perhaps being Dutch has something to do with this... We still don't splurge, although I'm glad we don't have to cut back on things for the kids anymore.
As for the yard sale: we cleaned out the attic just last week and made over EUR200 with stuff we don't use anymore... Such a good feeling!
You need to understand that nothing could change. The White House has responded that they are on our side. Obama is not a tsar: he can't go in and change the law. So to detractors, I say: You turned the key in the ignition and the car started. You still have to drive the damn thing to get where you need to be.
Want to take over my startup?
I have two side projects that I believe are both viable businesses, but I just don't have the capacity to run them both and continue building the enterprise software company that I founded last year.

I'm looking for someone, or a team, that is interested in taking over either of the projects. I can provide the existing technology, advice and put together transfer paperwork. I expect to maintain a portion of ownership, but am pretty flexible on everything else.

If you're interested, here are the two companies. They are both built on top of the latest Ruby on Rails and have extremely low operating costs. They have both made more money than I have spent on them.

SupporterWall.com - A web based fundraising tool that I launched two years ago. It has about 150 active walls and paying customers, but so much more potential.

OnceOvers.com - An advice service where you can have an expert review your work in a video / screencast. The experts set their price and provide the service.. the technology just powers the ordering and the delivery of the videos.

If you're interested in starting a conversation about either idea, you can find me here: http://about.me/jbaker
Haha, thanks; I knew there was something more appropriate there. One reason I love living where I do, though, is that almost no one gives a rat's ass about political correctness... even the minorities. :)
I came across this algorithm today doing research on how to categorize our users based on attributes (or in KNN terminology "features") and activity and then allocate resources accordingly. Heres another nice little intro tutorial showing how an implementation in JS for those interested, http://burakkanber.com/blog/machine-learning-in-js-k-nearest...

I was surprised at the elegant simplicity of this, if anyone has other links or resources to implementations Id really be interested :)
Hi, it's still super small relatively speaking. As far as Node and Redis, those are both pretty common these days.
I thought the major problem with SF isn't lack of rent control but the inability to build up. Don't they have a lot of laws preventing larger/taller apartment complexes? Get more renters into an area and the rent should control and stabilize itself better.

I'm not too informed about this so please correct me if I'm wrong.
(Some silly additions) Because:
1. San Francisco charges for street parking on Sunday's now :(
2. If you work downtown/fin dist, commute is better on the BART than taking MUNI
3. If you're Warrior's / Raider's fan living in SF and hating on the Giants/49ers fans.
4. There is no Walmart in SF but there one in Oakland
If you make a friends group that includes all your friends it will post everything in chronological order with no in feed ads or crap from pages you've liked. It's far superior to the news feed IMO.