skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to give this guy the benefit of the doubt and assume his english isn't great. He probably means something along the lines of: 'this DNA is so weird it could be Martian.'
Did anyone else find it unbelievable that he thought he was really talking to Denise Milani? She's kind of famous.
Poor man's solution:

echo 'pidof myapp > /dev/null || su appuser -c "myapp --arguments" &' > ~/check_services.sh
echo 'exit 0' >> ~/check_services.sh
chmod 700 ~/check_services.sh
#Add ~/check_services.sh & to /etc/rc.local for startup
#Add */1 * * * /root/check_services.sh to crontab
Stationery supplies sell them. Baumgartner is one brand.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ALPJIG/ref=asc_df_B001ALPJIG242...
The author of the blog post just told me it's DRI3[1] that eliminates it, not Wayland itself.

[1]: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTMwN...
I get the feeling that a lot of these apps are aimed at Chrome OS.
I'd love to speak to you about it and see what you'd like to see implemented.

can you drop me an email at devan [at] madebyswipe.com?
Well, it's a Friday afternoon :) You were right I didn't read to the very end (I kind of guessed what the OP was going to conclude)...I was mostly interested in seeing of other people thought 'and' and 'or' were good Ruby idioms to use (ignoring the precedence confusion).
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I'm not opposed to government spending or large investments in infrastructure, but it should happen when spending is at 15% of GDP, not 25%. The problem today is we are spending so much, and seemingly getting so little for it. The spending now is just political payoff to big corporations, unions, and thousands of various interest groups. Government is getting less and less efficient as it gets bigger and spends more.
Ah - I misunderstood your point, but to some extent, you misunderstood mine. I don't equate "America" with the "Federal Government". I equate the taxes we pay, with a benefit in public goods that must be administered by someone (hopefully someone we choose). That might be the federal government, it might be state and local authorities, some private folks, charities, businesses or some combination (status quo = some combination). For the sake of this discussion, I'm indifferent as to who administers it, but we can agree that public goods cost something - everything from intangibles (social stability) to really tangible things (like roads).

That being said - yes we could be more efficient. I'm doubtful that $1TN in deficits annually are attributable to waste though - are we really overpaying for services to the tune of $1TN? Possible, but doubtful.
Silicon Valley entrepreneur says go to Ann Arbor to start your company
Fairly recent? More like bleeding-edge.

I saw the same text. I am running Mint 14 (based on Ubuntu 12.10) and my version is 24.0.1312.56.
Calculating the correct sample size
Anyone have any experience with Bump's Angel?
Show HN: The "Lost Decade" for investors: did you make money or lose money?
They say that the first decade of this century was the "Lost Decade" for investors: the stock market ended flat. Say your portfolio ended flat as well. Does that mean your money was "flat," that is, you neither made or lost money? Of course not. You put in money along the way. Depending on when and how, you could have made or lost a lot. Pretty much anything is possible. We made a tool that shows you what happened: greaterthanzero.com
On the other hand, the only reason I first started to use Linux was so that I could run an SRCDS server for Counter-Strike and host Ventrilo. If video games were restricting you from having relationships (or "learning about life") maybe it is better that you stopped. Most normal people game with more moderation.
I think the honesty in here implies you wouldn't act greedily.
The problem with that route is I'm bit older and past the "intern level" age and the other roles expect you to already know everything. I'm looking for an entry level role where I can actually work with others to even begin to understand a professional front-end work environment. I've tried the telecommuting start up route where I work for peanuts and don't get paid until a revenue benchmark it made (assuming it ever is). In my case the entire experience felt pointless. No money and I wasn't learning anything. I actually dont mind working for very little as long as I'm in an environment where I'm learning something and actually have a purpose for being there.

Thanks for the thread regardless. I didn't know the who is hiring threads worked like that.
In case OP returns... what probably would have worked better: "I know there are regular stories here about how to build businesses and such, but boy, there is so much to learn! Has anyone compiled a Greatest Hits compilation of how to build a business online that I can read to get started off right?"
Like others have already said, monit also deserves a mention. Whilst it can start the process for you, it probably doesn't really fall under the same category. It's more about making sure things are running, do not consume too much resources etc.

However, the flexibility of monit beyond process monitoring is really great. Anything from filesystem usage, cpu, memory to monitoring tcp ports, file checksums, you name it. I'm yet to find something you can't do with this little toy, and it's rock solid. I even use it to pull graphite stats[1] and report when certain thresholds are reached, like the percentage of 500s compared to other response codes in my nginx logs.

I also personally like its configuration syntax better than most yaml-like DSLs. It feels almost like writing natural text.

[1]http://blog.gingerlime.com/2013/graphite-alerts-with-monit/
I agree with the idea, but Apple is stuck with Intel's Xeon roadmap, which at this point multi-processor is lagging far behind the single processor lines.
It's not, though. I'd imagine Martian organisms would have a much lower shared proportion of DNA than the 86% mentioned in the article, assuming they even used DNA in the first place.
I'm confused, I thought 2D acceleration was introduced with 10.4. I'm not a Mac user, so I'm not sure, but Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_%28graphics_layer%29) seems to agree.
You might ask the same thing about Flash. You'd think that after the first dozen or so releases with gaping holes that they'd take a step back and rethink things.

I came up with a hypothesis about this kind of stuff not too long ago. Once your product becomes sufficiently crappy, nobody in their right mind will want to work on it. Good people will leave to get away from it. The project gets to a point where the badness "rubs off on you". Anyone who cares about their reputation will run from it.

Obviously, you can't write code without developers, so you start scraping the bottom of the barrel to get anyone who will work on it. You get people who don't care about their reputations and/or quality and are only there for a paycheck. You get green people fresh out of school who think everything is always nice and happy, and haven't been beaten down by the harsh reality of the industry yet.

The bozos got to the project, and broke it. Once that happened, the only people willing to work on it are more bozos (and the unfortunate ignorant folks who don't know any better).

I dubbed it "The Bozo Loop". I originally only intended for this to describe a specific situation (Flash), but since then it's become quite clear that it can extend to Java and many other things.
The article is utter bullshit.

EGL can work with OpenGL non-ES just fine (as long as the driver supports that, which Mesa of course does).

2D acceleration can be layered on top of OpenGL reasonably fine, with things like cairo-gl, Firefox backends, Qt/OpenGL, etc.

I'm not totally sure about rotation/resizing, but I'd guess it's supported and anyway it's not essential on desktop.

The author is an idiot.
Yep. For any game with severely limiting DRM, the maximum price I'm willing to pay is $5, which I deem fair for an indeterminate rental with no guarantees.

I think Assassin's Creed 2 has been down to $6 a couple times on Steam sales, but I'm not quite willing to put down even one extra dollar. Oh well, their loss. Meanwhile, I've spent a couple hundred dollars on Kickstarter games in the recent past, all of which promised a DRM free option.
Or as if he didn't try to attack healthcare costs first thing out of the gate.

Because he didn't? Instead of attacking the root causes of health care costs, he implemented yet another Big Government entitlement program that was in keeping with his socialist ideology.

There were lots of good ideas on reducing healthcare costs. Obamacare includes almost none: http://togetrichisglorious.blogspot.com/2011/04/levitt-on-he...

It's truly ironic that there you are saying that we all knew about the spending obligations 30 years ago regarding SS and Medicare - yet you call yet another government spending obligation that will certainly spiral our of control an effort to reduce healthcare costs.
I'll be looking for moderators who won't close "Why?" questions on the basis that knowing "why" doesn't solve an existing problem.
Yup. I was the original founder & ceo of Kout inc now ribbon.co http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/print-edition/2011/08/12...

We went through a pretty messy founder split which will probably come to light in full later on.

in short.

Chec's the original - you can probably tell by how consistant our product is compared. The old cofounder ran off with the corporation and didnt follow through on his agreement to transfer the assets over, after i was asked to stand down and incorporate a new entity - so i had to rebuild the company from the old room back in england.
MakerBot Announces Their First 3D Scanner, The Digitizer
I would watch that show.
From 2009-2012, these tax receipts were around 15% of GDP.

Total US government receipts in 2013 are projected to be $5.56 trillion. US GDP for the same period is projected at $16.3 trillion.

State and local governments consume about 17% of GDP (averaging across all states). http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/state_tax_rank

Current US (federal) debt is $16.1 trillion, the burden of which is largely hidden by the fact that interest rates are currently extremely low.

Add to the above numbers an inflation tax of about 1.5 - 2.5%.

Your analysis starts by excluding any taxes you find inconvenient (such as, apparently, social security, inflation, tariffs, ad-valorem taxes, and especially state and local taxes -- which you somehow don't regard as governments) to get the numbers you want. If a business did accounting the way you just did, they'd rightfully land in jail.

But if you're just going to point to the national budget, echo popular political talk-show points about "$16 TRILLION IN DEBT OUR GRANDKIDS WILL HAVE TO PAY"...

You fail to mention who's going to pay it then? It must wonderful to be an Entitled One and write checks that someone else has to cash.

...and "WE'RE ON THE ROAD TO GREECE" then I'd argue you're completely missing the forest for the trees.

Unfortunately, you didn't argue it, you merely asserted it without any evidence and worse, started by providing "evidence" that was misleading at best.

As for Greece, I actually lived there 15 years ago. Even then the government was obviously bloated beyond all recognition, with government "jobs" that required little or no work being handed out as political favors. I left in part because I knew that the country would deteriorate eventually, with a rapidly aging population and three -- count 'em -- viable communist parties and one socialist party (PASOK) that was at that time the largest party in the country. Current newspaper reports and email accounts from a friend there sound pretty ominous.

Years ago a prominent foreign politician -- I'm sorry I can't remember who -- was asked how his country went bankrupt. He replied "Two ways. Slowly at first, then quickly."
Why is there a picture of Jay Parkinson in the testimonials section with a quote from "Mike L.". Did wash.io get permission from Jay to use his picture?
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Good point, I could have chosen better anti-science examples--just picked two recent issues that I think are hurting innovation.

I think the tech industry magnifies your inherited financial circumstances less than most other industries.
Ask GMail: Please read my airfare receipts and make calendar events
Tripit does it for me when I forward them the email - but I don't understand why gmail can't read my United emails, decide if its a trip and then create calendar events...
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The good sides of gaming digital delivery
This seems too good to be true. I have a need to store dozens of GBs of photos, and I can put them on GAE for free?

According to GAE's quotas page [1], free hosting of code and static files is only for the first 1GB. After that it is $0.13 per GB per month.

[1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/quotas#Code
This is truly delusional. Your model assumes that the current model, (buy once own forever), isn't making them enough money to keep the lights on.

The issue here isn't that EA is not making enough to keep the lights on. It's that EA wants to make more, and more, and more and more, and more... And is too lazy to figure out a true solution to piracy.

Nobody will pay $60 to "rent" something for 2 years. You already pay $60 to own for life.

If it were some insane price like $10, then yes. That makes a whole bunch of sense. It's the model that Netflix, Spotify, and the iTunes Store subscribes to. Saas will only work if it provides value at an extremely minimal price.

What happened with Sim City is not a failure of the Netflix, Spotify, iTunes store model. It's just that EA, as a company, is just simply blinded with so much greed to understand the way the world works today.
Before Jukely, I was the product development manager for several iOS applications. Comparing my experience of building Jukely in RubyMotion to those other iOS apps my developers built using Objective-C, I can say that an application in RubyMotion can be built probably twice as fast. This may sound controversial, and is my personal opinion but that's what I believe. It took me around 2 1/2 months to build the iOS portion of Jukely and my estimation would be that it would take 4-5 months to build it in Objective-C.
Like the parent said, it depends. A normal App Store pull won't remove installed instances from users' devices, but that mechanism (the "kill switch") /does/ exist for Apple to use in extreme cases (or, really, whenever they want to, since they're the ones who are really in control).
Is this in any way affiliated with Rap Genius? In either case, you should make it abundantly clear where you stand, as they're very publicly involved with this spat.
Luck trumps everything else, by a huge margin. Choosing your parents well is the best decision you can make.

For equal-luck people, I stand by the above point.
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This is interesting, because I don't remember any similar class action lawsuits/attempts like this in the tech/SAAS sector, though I've often heard of threats. Have there been any similar attempts?
wtf is this? No one will get money from this. Last time I checked I got a .06 payout from some company that supposedly defrauded me of over $60. Quite a payout. Lawyers took 30% right off the top. Hmm.. maybe someone will make money.
What's next, catroulette?
My wife did excellent work on a training simulator, and regularly impressed both the military customer and higher ups on the corporate side.

She credited three video games with building her most impressive skills: Descent taught her to visualize and maneuver in 3D space, Starcraft taught her to think about force composition and disposition, and Nethack taught her to make thousands of decisions (and type thousands of characters) without making mistakes.

She still games pretty extensively (she'll be taking Tuesday off for the SC2 expansion), and has a great job and family. And at least part of her excellence is due to the way she uses video games to sharpen her mind.
Ahh.. the smell of blood in the water!
Absolutely spot-on. The day Apple scuttles the Pro is the day they have fundamentally checked out of the computer industry.

(That mobile and portable is preposterously more profitable is beyond the point. PCI+x86 is an empire.)
Unfortunately you just dumped $400k of some bad guy's product, and he knows where you live...
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I actually say that government is bad at picking individual companies to invest in. I do think infrastructure investments by the government are important; go try to do business in a country where the roads are terrible and the trains don't run on time. If we had an efficient system for the private markets to do this, it might be better, but we don't right now.
yeah, my argument is that scheduled downtime (scheduled by the infrastructure provider) and ddos attacks (against the infrastructure provider or other customers of the infrastructure provider) should count against the infrastructure provider's uptime.

The current balance of power is tipped, right now, so hard in favor of the attackers that if anyone wants to take /you/ out, well, it's pretty difficult (read: expensive) to stop them, and if you are some $20/month customer, your upstream is probably going to just finish the job and cut you off... but if the guy next to you gets attacked and you are collateral damage? You should count that against your service provider. There are usually things we can do (as service providers) to limit collateral damage, even in the cases where we are unable to protect the target. If nothing else, providers who tend to tolerate sites that get attacked often, well, they suffer collateral damage from attacks, generally speaking, more often than sites that are less tolerant. It's sad, really 'cause sometimes the targets are not doing anything really wrong, but you've gotta protect your network.

There is some advantage of scale here, too... The DoS that is hardest to fight is the pipe-filling attack. If the attacker can fill your upstream port(s), then there isn't really much you can do, besides blocking the target at your upstream, (I mean, assuming the source is random, as it often is.) The larger your upstreams are, the more you can absorb before you have a choice between cutting off the target customer and having all your customers cut off.
Hi, author of the post here. The thing that really surprised me, when writing this, was how difficult it was to find the edge of the topic: where does process supervision end, and server monitoring begin? If most of these programs include something for handling logs, are they then also logging software? Where's the boundary between watching processes and gathering metrics on them? Good software is canonically supposed to do one thing well, but it seems like nobody can agree what handles what here. I even started writing sections on logging and server monitoring, before sanity prevailed and I chopped them out.

It's maddening that we have no clear separation of responsibilities for this stuff. And so we end up with things like Upstart's half-hearted logging, because it's not clear where Upstart's job stops.
The metaphor would work but for the fact that smaller is a harder technical challenge than bigger. They're not skirting some kind of spiritual calling to make better technology by focusing on portable instead of workstations--if anything, they are doing exactly what the author wants. To equate pushing the envelope with losing money is very superficial reasoning.
My intimidation doesn't come from the difficulty of Objective-C but 1) The time it takes to build iOS apps using Objective-C and 2) verboseness. I explained above that I think it would take twice as long to build the same app in Objective-C and that thought intimidates me as for most of us the apps we're building are experiments. We don't know if it will catch on or not. And I would like to see results as quickly as possible, especially in a bootstrapped project like this.
And Lisp takes this idea one step further by having operators just be normal functions that are in the prefix position like normal functions. This, combined with the explicit parentheses to denote evaluation, mean that operator precedence is not even an issue in Lisp.
phantomjs crashes almost non stop https://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/list?can=2&q=...
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This is really a great creation, please allow people to submit (and vote) plugins, count my vim-seek in as soon as that is possible! I also second the parent's suggestions, making it a social experience would be amazing and a real boon to vim users everywhere.

Also allowing little functions and custom mappings that people have in their vimrc, in a more organized and social way than those vim tips websites do, would be awesome.
oh look, a parasitic lawyer-company trying to suck some money out of a technology company. it must be a day that ends in -y.
Yes, SQLAlchemy is excellent in this respect, but without getting into a Django ORM vs SQLAlchemy debate, it is the less-preferred option among Django developers.
General question: do class action lawsuits need to be sponsored/initiated by an actual plaintiff, or can lawyers just start a bunch of class actions hoping one will eventually stick and they'll get some fees out of them?

Edit: s/defendant/plaintiff/
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As far as a user was concerned, before Mac OS X, the Finder's icons and the files they represented were one object, as were the Finder's windows and the directories they represented. However hard you tried (which you didn't, because you knew a file was the same as its icon), each file had only one icon and each directory only one window. Also, each directory/window had its own position on the screen, size, and layout.

Now, that 1:1 identity is broken. You can have multiple windows showing the content of the same directory. Also, you can have multiple icons on screen 'pointing' to the same file.

This may look like a minor change, but the feel of the UI is very different. It feels much less a direct manipulation interface.

Yes, Mac OS already was slightly inconsistent. Open and save dialogs could show directories and Windows that wer visible in the Finder. However, these felt as part of the application, and were very focused on the task at hand. Icons in those dialogs felt as representations of files, not as the files themselves. Also, there were aliases, but being files, they maintained the 1:1 correspondence between icons and files. Altogether, those things never killed that illusion of 'an icon _is_ a file, a window _is_ a directory'.

Because Mac OS X is a multi-user system, I think Mac OS X had to break this rule (network shares were already stretching the metaphor (almost) beyond breaking years before Mac OS X), but even today, it still feels like a loss to me.
Google Now does this. Also with packages, etc. It is quite nice. So the infrastructure is there...somewhere...
I think you misunderstood my point.

I am a big believe that the middle class, not the super-rich, are the job creators for this exact reason. And I'm not saying we should take money from them.

All I'm saying is that everyone can get richer together, but the way that works in our current system is that there will be a big disparity between the rich and the middle class.
Note that stagnation is often caused by high levels of risk-averseness. If a company is sued out the wazzoo for healthcare constantly, they jack up their prices to compensate, as well as upgrading their process, which increases prices.

Note also that government winds up loosely reflecting the will of the people. Popular pressure gets things done to some amount.

It's not all the government's fault is what I'm trying to say.
Hello! The HTML5 audio does not work because I didn't have time to add it in :)

The main timeline was animated in flash and we wrote a little exporter to output all the items to a js file.