skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd be interested in an answer to this too. Especially about support for multitouch gestures (that could be mapped to keyboard shortcuts, at least).

At the moment I use a debian VM inside OS X when I need to.
I still think the europeans drink more than americans. The germans have an entire week of festivities focused on beer; I don't recall the americans having anything similar. Their drinking age is lower, and you can always find beer/wine dispensers at local bistros where you can just fill up your cup without showing any ID.
You should ask a statistician what they think of the quality of the statistical analysis done in some of those papers. Applying a statistical test is easy, picking the right one and being aware of shortfalls and possible problems with the data is the tricky bit.
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Not to mention Doom was not at all "simple, playful, and colorful". Running around through Hell with dismembered corpses on spikes being chased but gruesome demons was frightening in the early '90s. Maybe it was just cause I was 10 at the time :)
I currently run Ubuntu on a 2008 MacBook (runs near flawlessly) and a 2012 top of the line Dell Latitude (buggy as hell).

A lot of the responses here are along the lines of "I think you should look at this laptop", not "I have personally run this laptop and it works great."

I bring this up because my experience with the Dell which is otherwise the best laptop I have ever used and technically meets all the right specs has been dreadful.

My advice is to seek out answers from people who have actually done what you are trying to do and get some real world feedback. Also, if all else fails, I believe the shear volume of technically inclined people who own an Apple laptop compared to products from other companies should be taken into consideration.

Good luck and make sure whatever you get has a solid return policy!
Why completely ignore storyboards and XIBs on iOS?
At least in European stores, I can't find one with more than 1600x900 pixels. That's too old nowadays.
Heavy machinery destroys some Nazca lines
> The fact of the matter is that war is a basic function of human societies, as much as food production or waste disposal.

That makes me sad. Does anyone on HN(besides me) believe that one day humans will be able to rid themselves of war? That one day we'd find a solution to these issues that don't involve sending a group of armed people to kill?
As I said in the first post, "why not MacOS" is not the question right now. Please, stick to the topic.
A History of Like
Did you follow that google vs oracle trial?
You can browse the most popular projects on GitHub for the last day/week/month, that might give you some interesting code to look at:

https://github.com/languages/Java

I don't write Java (I mostly work with F#, and a bit of C#), but I always thought the LMAX Disruptor was a really cool bit of software.

http://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/
What places outside the US pay salaries comparable to SF/SV salaries? I'm most familiar with London, where the average developer pay seems to be substantially below the average here.
Saturn Bomberman had 10 players for multiplayer.

I'm not quite sure I follow OPs point. Playstation had a bunch of thoroughly unfun uncute games.
> diligently pays taxes

This is a phrase that should only ever be used ironically. :/
I'm sure people do, but they're wrong. There are always situations in which the use of force is rationally self interested. As such, as long as those situations exist, a rational people will maintain and use war capability. Asking people not to go to war is asking them to put emotion (empathy) above rationality. You can do it to a degree, but only to an extent.

Indeed, US hegemony is good for peace. You can eliminate the rational self interest in going to war by imposing an external cost to going to war (like any negative externality). That's the role the US serves. Its military machine implicitly backs things like international sanctions that are punishment for anti-social behavior.
This is an odd post in that almost nothing rings true to me. The PC much more than the console was all about keyboard mashing.

And post Kinect launch MS seems even less about hardcore gaming.

We don't even need to spend billions to get people to play them.

What does that even mean considering I've never heard of them?
It's your license, but owning firearms somehow makes you violent? Certainly sounds like an elaborate troll to me.

Even if you could somehow iron out the kinks, the end result of your sort of action is a host of additional licenses that bar the various bête noires of their various authors, eventually leading to code that simply can't be used together because of conflicting moral obligations. I really don't want to have to run a program just to sort out the ethical dependencies of the stuff in my Gemfile.
That is an extremely high cost of electricity.

I live in what I believe to be a relatively high electrical cost area and I pulled up my bill online for 2/13/2013 to 3/14/2013 and I'm paying 13 cents per KWh solely for energy although by the time I add on the substantial fixed monthly meter fee, the state low income assistance tax, 100% energy for tomorrow (in theory, all my KWh come from the local windfarm instead of from coal, in practice its probably merely a greenwashing scam) I'm writing a check (well, paying online) for about 17 cents per KWh, other words the number of KHw divided by the debit to my bank account. So the optiplex would cost me a whopping $4.04 per month lets call it a buck a week. Do I get a buck a week of fun out of my homemade firewall/PBX/other things? Yes.

If I did my math right, this is equivalent to about 4 minutes of labor at my current family income, other words spending time on detailed monthly accounting is more expensive than just paying for it outta the slush fund.

I don't have a wifi network installed merely to roast my brain with microwatts of RF. It exists solely as background infrastructure for a small herd of apple idevices and android phones/tablets all of which are value engineered to be disposable after a year or two. If I had no wifi devices I probably wouldn't have a wifi router. In other words if I wanted to save money in the category of "tablets", I'd look first at not replacing it every year or two. Just the capital/depreciation cost of only one wifi connected idevice is about an order of magnitude more than I'll pay for the electricity to run my home router/PBX/Buncha-other things. Electricity is so cheap its not even a rounding error in total systems cost, and optimizing for the wrong value is always a fail.

Another interesting anecdote is a couple decades ago I was taught as a pretty crude consumer product engineering estimate "a watt for a year is about a buck" but via inflation etc its now about $1.50. Apparently folks in less civilized areas are paying around $2 for a watt for a year. So something that runs 24 hours a day and costs $8 at walmart like a 5 watt clock radio alarm clock uses its own cost in electricity in a bit more than a year. This is also the genesis of trying to save money on wall warts, if a wall wart costs $2.50 and uses $5 of electricity per year, a more efficient switcher that costs $10 and uses only $1 of electricity per year pays for itself rather quickly.
I am sorry, I HAVE to ask out of personal curiosity and to play devil's advocate...

What tells me "Martha" even exists and that she was admitted to hackerschool and will actually go to NYC with the money she just begged for? Even the twitter and github accounts could be part of an elaborate scam. Plus she asked for around $4000, by now has raised quite a bit more. Will that surplus be donated to further her "cause" (if there even is one) and support other girls to join her? Or is that just going to be nice pocket change?

To further satisfy my own curiosity, why is donating to her more "ok" and others asking for money are just "beggars"? Or would you donate to some random e.g. white guy who would ask for a couple of thousands for a nice trip like that? Would you consider donating to a person who is in a stable living condition but simply could not afford a trip to NYC or Berkeley? Or do you have to be third world and implied broke to apply for that? Which I don't think she is, by the way.

Also, why is "women in IT" a cause that even needs supporting? How would the world be better off with more women in IT - when actually nothing is really keeping most girls from getting into IT, unless there are local equal-rights shortcomings to keep girls out of ALL education; in my own experience, for whatever reason, most of the women I have met do not want to and actually say they hate all that technical stuff. The ones that did want to start programming, they worked hard at it and picked the right university; unfortunately many of those who did simply failed the programming exams or other technical courses. The remaining rest who wanted to be in IT and made the cut, they are doing just fine... it's just a small percentage and I do not think this is the case because anyone is actively keeping girls "out" - and I doubt things are going to somehow be "better" if only there were more girls in IT.

And aren't there local institutions to help people like her to further her education? I am quite sure there have got to be, even in Africa. Even for nice trips like that.

So, at the end of the day all I see so far is, you are supporting a romantic story and at first glance, that is tugging too many heart strings so it naturally sets off my "scam" alert. Please do prove me wrong! I am honestly curious.

Finally, most importantly, even if all she said is true: There are people simply dying not too far away, I think 5000 or the surplus 1000 could buy a good amount of actually very cheap but vital medicine to keep locals from dying under horrible conditions, to give them back their eye sight and keep their babies from starving.

So all the doubts aside, let's cut to the chase: WHY should I or anyone finance a nice NYC trip for Martha while that is going on and she can very well pick up ALL the necessary skills right where she is, over the internet, for free? Just like pretty much all "hackers" did.

Why does she ask for money instead of asking the community to support her with knowledge and skills?
I mourn the perpetuation of sarcasm as a means of communication. I can't even interpret simple sentences.
What about hunters and police officers and security guards and sport shooters?
Time date stamp
There must be a way to change a date stamp on an email. Can someone help a little??
This looks nearly identical to http://jhollingworth.github.io/bootstrap-wysihtml5/

So ima take the hit of being a stupid person and ask, what's the difference? Why should I use this over bootstrap-wysihtml5 (or why should I use bootstrap-wysihtml5 over this)?
The game Soldier of Fortune (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_Fortune_(video_game)) was pretty serious, and it came one year before Halo.

I also think you might be missing quite a lot of games you did not know.
I don't. I just looooove sarcasm.
Really cool story.

I had my bike stolen a year ago in the UK, and it was a really nice mountain bike worth almost a thousand quid.
I hoped it would be easy to find, since I gave the police pictures, serial number of the frame, and most importantly - the brand of the bike(Kellys) is completely non-existent in the UK, they never sold their bikes there,and I brought it with me from my home country. So I thought, it should be quite easy to spot among all other brands, since it's pretty much one of its kind. Well, I was never able to, never popped up on Ebay, Craigslist or any other trading websites. I really do wonder sometimes what happened to it.
I don't agree with it, but I think the American idea of guns is like what you said about knives: hunting guns are okay (like how kitchen knives are mostly used to cut tomatoes), but there's a line drawn somewhere for "assault weapons" (nobody cuts tomatoes with a switchblade).

Personally I think that although this idea makes sense for knives, guns cannot be justified because they have no purpose other than killing (hunting is still killing).
This is the nature of living in a free society (or at least what parts of one that are left). You don't get to dictate what other people do. If you release your code "free to the world", you have to open your idealistic eyes and realize that that might include things you aren't comfortable with. And to maintain consistency with the views that led you to opening your code, you have to be okay with it. That is the unfortunate conceit of most people who claim to be tolerant and open minded, they often mean "but only for things I approve of".
I've had an Asus Zenbook Prime (1920x1080, 256GB SSD) for about half a year now and am generally very happy with it. I run Debian testing (with Linux 3.7.1 at the moment) and as far as I know everything works.

Compared to my girlfriend's Mcbook Air I have to charge the battery much more often, but I'm not sure if that's the hardware or the OS. Another minor nitpick is the rather high fan speeds it prefers, even with low temperatures. This makes a noticeable noise in a quiet environment (I don't hear the Air).

Keyboard is not great but ok (better than that of the older Zenbook), I love the screen (this resolution is new for me) and wrt size/weight/form factor/price it's pretty much equivalent to a Macbook Air.

As I said, I'm happy with it, and would probably buy it again. The only other model that made me just a tiny bit jealous is my colleague's Lenovo X1 Carbon, but it's quite expensive and wasn't available half a year ago.

HTH.
Yes, good points. Of course I value most answers from people with actual experience. But I'm also happy with answers of the kind like "see, manufacturer X is going to release model Y in 2 months"...

Same observations about Dell, except for the cheap class (which I don't want) which is extremely good for its price.
bootstrap-wysihtml5 was a great inspiration. it links in wysihtml5, and gives it a skin. here's a few reasons why we decided to build this one:

- wysihtml5 minimised is 112K + 20k for bootstrap-wysihtml5, without styles and images... this is only 5k, non-minimised.

- we bind hotkeys for common operations automatically (eg cmd+b for bold etc)

- drag&drop for images

- automatically upload images using filereader, not just provide links

- good support for touch devices

- no magic around toolbar, so you can use your own styling

- we don't force an inline iframe which mirrors a text area, which wysihtml5 does

Wysihtml5 has a better support for older browsers, the bootstrap skin has toolbar translations, so I'd still use that if you don't want a custom toolbar or need to support older browsers
In 1996, my wife would call my pager Tuesday night because I hadn't come home from the office. We were playing Quake over the Novell on our CAD workstations. It's easier now, but there hasn't been a quantum change.
Streaming sites and the rise of shared accounts
For what it's worth, I'm generally indifferent to the FPS genre, play them very badly, and still managed to gulp down this game in four evenings (on the least challenging setting). Approached this way, the gameplay simply becomes part of the emotional texture of the narrative.

Of course, a FPS connoisseur might find that their more refined knowledge of what makes a good game of that type breaks their immersion, in the way that (some) lovers of classical music find that they can't enjoy (some) popular music.

Bioshock Infinite does have exploration elements, you can hunt around for recordings and other evidence that reveal more about the background of what's going on. Oddly enough, for me, rushing in guns blazing seemed more in character, as opposed to carefully checking behind a store counter, seeing if there is something more I could learn.
I want to hack your software such that it always returns null. And then write software that identifies better distribution methods of food and water to famine and drought-stricken areas. Or maybe find the best areas to reseed of those that have been deforested.
They recently released updated versions of the Series 9 with 1080p displays.
Well, it kind of is a question, since I asked it as I would like to know why people do it. Feel free to ignore it though, there's plenty of other comments more on topic for you.
Can Situational Awareness Improve Safety and Efficiency for Heavy Equipment?
A few other helpful tools are:

require 'tracer'; Tracer.on

That works a lot, but in some cases it can get caught in a loop where it doesn't print the trace. When that happens, or if I want to just see method calls, etc. I'll use a tool I wrote called autolog:

gem install autolog

Then in the code:

autolog do
# some code
end

Autolog is basically a quick and hopefully more intuitive way of using Ruby's set_trace_func. If all of those don't work, I've listed a few other options in the README that others have mentioned: https://github.com/garysweaver/autolog
Technology is morally neutral. To use your own examples, a hammer could be used to build a house or commit a murder, and a drone could be used for aerial strikes or to monitor endangered animals for poaching activity (http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/2013117135...). The initial use case for a technology to be developed will always be shaped by the morals and intent behind it, but other uses can always be found that are good or bad no matter what the technology is.
Although I like the idea of these, I'm far too paranoid to allow any user to use them.
It's really a preference thing. I have the opposite feeling, i.e. why keep OS X when you can run Arch?

As for battery life, Linux can very greatly depending on settings and distro. Don't expect to beat Mac OS without any configuration/tweaking, but if you go far enough you can get match it or do better.
Somebody said, you can be a little weird and it’s going to work out.

Yes.
http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/permalink/2013/20130103vinyl
Vinyl sales are consistently up year on year since 2006, so you'd be shooting yourself in the foot if you didn't release your new material on it.
Chrome on Android shows an apple
you are, of course, right. but it's irrelevant to this point. there is a strong consensus, that it's 'Tor' and not 'TOR'. there is _no consensus at all_ on 'gnu/' or not 'gnu'.
Yes, all those points and more :)

While I don't consider everyone who owns a firearm to be violent - firearms are instruments of violence.
Potted plant or pot plant?
I find the title of the title of this article bizarre. I almost expected it to be some kind of takedown or smear article. But it's just a standard interview...
$17,000 figure is correct:

1) Store buys TV (COGS = $7K): -$7K

2) Sold TV for $10K. Realized P/L: $3K

3) $10K refunded (chargeback): -$7K

4) TV is gone as well. Inventory: -$7K

5) Potential profit loss: -$3K

Total loss: (7+7+3) = $17K
Maybe next Google can fix the traffic problems in Austin :(
The power I had was to be able to keep saying: “I’ll do it myself. I do not need you.”

This is a great lesson about entrepreneurship but is only half of the story. Ultimately he was able to get himself into a position where he had an upper hand in negotiation, and it took a unique vision and a ton of work to get there. This is where every business person wishes to see themselves.

But, in the process of getting there he was working within the system to learn it inside and out. He was also practicing and increasing his story telling skills and discipline so that he knew how to do it himself. Eventually he learned he could disintermediate his fans from the ticketing/venue/media system because he had enough knowledge of how it all worked.

"I do not need you." is the goal, but you often get there by coming up within the system. There is a crucial moment where you know enough to do it yourself and have the vision, energy, opportunity, skill and luck to grab it and run with it.
I'll have to add in my vote for the Zenbook Prime UX32VD. I use it as my work laptop and it's awesome. Go for the UX32VD over the UX31A. The UX32VD comes with a 24gb SSD (which I use for my Ubuntu install) and a 500gb HDD (used for a Windows 7 install and the /home directory of my linux install). The benefit is that you can easily swap out the HDD for a SSD and you can also upgrade the RAM to 10gb. The UX31A and Macbook Air both have soldered, non-upgradeable RAM.

I've heard people mention the fan noise but I honestly don't notice it. The one thing I'll say isn't that great is battery life. Due to the discrete GPU, I get about 3 hours of battery life. There are some things you can do to turn off the GPU, such as installing Bumblebee.

Check this out: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbookPrime
Makes sense for IBM, as they do have a history of that sort of thing [1].

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/mar/29/humanities.highe...
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Pay them market rates. I worked at a company that would give performance based raises to market rates. Its not infinite and I knew it would cap out but starting at a jr and doing sr level work and being brought up little by little in salary is the guaranteed way to lose talent. Keep their raises at market rates for their talent. You'll pay more, but you wont lose them, and you will have a sr level in no time that knows your business in an out. Why would they look for other employment you are already paying them what they'd expect, and if you aren't, they'd expect it the next time raises come around. I only left that company because of a geographic move. May even go back one day.
People keep referring to Scott Aaronson like he changed his mind, and it's pretty clear he didn't. He just didn't want to be the Chief Naysayer anymore; he has more important things to do and frankly that shouldn't be his calling card.

I think the only part of "general-purpose quantum computer" D-Wave can claim is the "computer" part. They have not proven that any part of their annealing is "quantum". They have pretty epic lithography/fabrication skills, and are barreling ahead without any regard for coherence. They also have just an insane number of control lines, so there's some innovation there.

But their net worth becomes negative if you count the bad press for quantum computing in having a charlatan claim they have 1024 qubits and are "500,000" times faster at solving Sudoku. Other fields are having this PR problem too, where even careful program reviews are getting brutalized by the PR news cycle (see recent dark-matter experiment: http://profmattstrassler.com/2013/04/03/ams-presents-some-fi... -- forgive the typography)
I totally understand him, as I am also "that kind of gamer". I don't have a taste for FPS and I've never owned a console. I play mostly on iOS devices, and before that, Flash games on the PC.

But let's not forget that those games are HIGHLY successful, and it clearly seems that there is a huge market for those. I am not surprised that some game companies (MS among them) treat those games like "the only true way".
Fortunately, it looks like the gaming industry is expanding and other alternative games are also being created and are easily accessible... Probably the game industry will be more diverse and fragmented as a result, which is great for gamers with not a taste for blockbusters... But while enough people like to play violent FPS, the games are going to stay...
It's excercise like any other, it's just using the body's own weight instead of dumbbells to create load. Stretchin is a lesser part of yoga than strength.
Same for iPad.
Rules for Managing Creative People
Maybe relevant, my only submission was of this, it got no attention at all:
http://www.dfj.com/ApolloConstruction/Apollo_11_LM-5_Constru... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5005502)