skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice app, I look forward to seeing it grow. Like some others have mentioned here, I was left to hunt for screenshots. With something like note taking, which has been reinvented hundreds of times, showing off your take on the UI is very important.
Fear of lawsuit when the truly unpredictable occurs, I imagine. Again, not justifying the mandatory application of this policy.
Also, Netflix and Yahoo are pretty big users. I used to use BSD on my personal machines just because I prefer their approach to things and the documentation. I now use Linux just because my day job practically requires it.

edit: And regarding GP's surprise about Mandriva - Mageia is a community fork and is #2 - the Mandrake users I knew all switched to Mageia.
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Lightworks is a video editing application, not a distro. For more information, just read the wiki page for it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightworks
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Avogadro's number matters. At 100 atoms/sec, how long will it take to make something larger than a cubic millimeter?
It's nice to see more and more proffesional desktop apps on Linux.
If it was opt-in then mashing the "Next" button would be sufficient to prevent the app from misbehaving...
The wisest words on loyalty I've heard came from my now 68 year old retired programmer mother: "my loyalty to the company goes until they cut a check on Friday, then we start over again on Monday."

Add to that "when you hear 'here at Initech, we're like a family', don't take the job unless you want to be the family dog."

So much for the loyalty of older generations. They knew how fast a company will screw you just as much as we do.
Here's a much more specific response (from http://www.fdareview.org/harm.shtml):

Gieringer (1985) used data on drug disasters in countries with less-stringent drug regulations than the United States to create a ballpark estimate of the number of lives saved by the extra scrutiny induced by FDA requirements. He then computed a similar ballpark figure for the number of lives lost owing to drug delay:

[T]he benefits of FDA regulation relative to that in foreign countries could reasonably be put at some 5,000 casualties per decade or 10,000 per decade for worst-case scenarios. In comparison, it has been argued above that the cost of FDA delay can be estimated at anywhere from 21,000 to 120,000 lives per decade. . . . Given the uncertainties of the data, these results must be interpreted with caution, although it seems clear that the costs of regulation are substantial when compared to benefits. (196)

In short, that paper estimates the FDA has killed more than twice as many people as it has saved.

The reference: "Gieringer, D. H. 1984. Consumer Choice and FDA Drug Regulation. Ph.D. diss., Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, Stanford University."

Here's another really good (and SHORT) general overview article that should address a lot of your concerns, "Economists Against the FDA" by Daniel B. Klein:

http://www.scu.edu/civilsocietyinstitute/articles/upload/Eco...

When I said that delaying good drugs and good drug information kills, by drug information I meant stuff like this (from the Klein article):

Today men with risk of heart trouble know to take half an aspirin a day. By 1988 it was well established that aspirin greatly reduces the risk of myocardial occlusion. But for years the FDA forbade aspirin makers from advertising that fact (the FDA still significantly restricts advertising
about it). The FDA surely killed tens, and quite possibly hundreds, of thousands of Americans by this restriction alone."
Likely they have. I had to completely wipe a Firefox profile of a customer because ten toolbars had messed up the search engines so hard that I could not add Google back.
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I might be missing something, but that link really only talks about the potential benefit of a file already being cached locally on the end-user's device.

There's still a significant benefit in just storing the file closer to the end-user, rather than in a single central location, as the CDN is likely to have both lower latency and have higher bandwidth than the source website.

Now, if your file was so unique and rarely accessed that it wouldn't even be cached on the CDN, then I'd agree with those findings.
It could be similar to how apple laptop camera lights work. Those light come on when the camera is recording and as far as I know it is impossible to stop them within the software. Hopefully glass does the same thing.
I read two of the links and skimmed the third. They weren't terribly convincing. You certainly have a point about beta-blockers, there was already a natural experiment being conducted on a mass scale in Europe. If it looked like it was safe and effective, there's no reason why that shouldn't have been used as evidence to expedite the approval process in the US. This isn't an indication that the entire process needs to be overhauled though.

As far as determining efficacy, I prefer this to the alternative. Simply judging rates pre-1962 doesn't really capture the potential for abuse that exists in our current media-saturated lives. Many European countries completely ban drug marketing towards individuals. If the FDA allowed drug makers to market unproven drugs in the US, that would create a huge clusterfuck of false advertising and manipulation. You cannot responsibly advocate both positions.

>By any rational standard, killing a hundred people by preventing them from getting their medicine is MUCH WORSE than killing one person by letting him get his medicine

Yes, using the severely biased statistics that are available. In an environment where proof of efficacy were not required, one can imagine that the drug making business (in the US where direct marketing is allowed) would be even stronger with greater pressure to push drugs on the general population. At scale, deaths rates due to drugs will show up that are impossible to discover using small scale testing. It is known that generic Aspirin kills a hundred or so people a year around the world. More widespread usage of drugs, which is the direct result of what you're proposing, would undoubtedly cause more such cases.
I was wondering the same but then I realized this isn't a linux distro - just the linux version of a video editing tool.
Would mega's "load signed scripts" approach work here?
> They've built a community that is obsessed with showcasing their lifestyle through their tastes and gazing longingly at consumer products. I think they have a few options.

It's exactly this sort of thinking that is the problem these days. They don't just "have a few options." If it were so easy, they would've done it by now. But it clearly isn't.
If you know those things... and are fresh out of Stanford, MIT, or Berkeley
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This is really the availability heuristic (basically that the information that is most readily available seems most accurate or likely to be true).

When smart people explain complex subjects clearly and confidently we have the tendency to say "oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense." In reality nothing is always true but that doesn't necessarily mean it isn't good to fool ourselves into thinking so. In fact it's probably how progress is made. If people knew how hard most things were going to be at the outset, they'd never start and look for something easier to do.
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Reminds me vaguely of http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played...
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On the other hand, you can't manage what you can't measure. Rather than simply bashing productivity measurement, I'd be very interested in seeing a good discussion on non-intrusive productivity measurement.

If there's a community where this can produce nice results, it's HN.
I never suggested that we should imitate Europe, did I? That would lead to even worse economic problems than we already have.

I just think that we need to introduce more competition so that the parties are forced to compete on concrete goals and actions, rather than lofty ideals that are more suited to a sports match (which is what American politics often feels like).
>> Does anyone really hold software developers to the same standards as licensed professions (laywers, accountants, doctors, professional engineers etc.)?

I don't know. But if electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, and software engineer are all working to build a jet, it would seem reasonable to expect the same diligence from them all.

>> I have to be careful never to refer to myself as a "professional"

You're a professional if you make a living at it.

"A professional is a person who is engaged in a certain activity, or occupation, for gain or compensation as means of livelihood; such as a permanent career, not as an amateur or pastime."

UPDATE:

BTW, licensing helps only if there's a reliable way to determine competence. Arguably, different areas of programming could be considered different fields of expertise.

Licensing can also be harmful to a field. See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/so-you-think-you-...

If you had to get a software license to build a web site for your local soccer club, that would make it very hard to get started programming.
Perhaps someone will helpfully design a "PSU stability dongle" comprising a 26.1 Ohm resistor (standard 1% resistor value sufficient to ensure >450mA from 12V) and a Molex connector. Make it a passthrough.

Of course, it'll have to be a >5W resistor, but that's what I like to call an opportunity to excel: just more room to add some rakish heat sink fins. You could even spend some of your power wasting budget on LEDs instead, but obviously we'll have to charge more for that model. The margins, you see.
"The going idea is that texting has, in essence, made graffiti a universal pastime: Barely punctuated, sparsely capitalized and with decidedly creative spellings throughout, texting means that today's America is reveling in writing badly."

This is an extremely poor and essentially meaningless comparison between graffiti and texting. People spell properly in spray paint on walls all the time. A defining characteristic of graffiti is its engagement with public spaces; I see no real connection between graffiti itself and the words the author used to describe it. To make a better comparison, this description could actually be applied to poetry rather than graffiti.
Free desktop apps I assume you mean - there's a plethora of high-end VFX desktop apps available on Linux.
Sure, but it's one less avenue for a MITM attack.
It's a very good way to bring trust to your brand. If you honestly say: "This is good with <product>, this is bad with <product>". If you do that enough, and isn't afraid to say that in <particular circumstance> a competitor's product is better, you might in time be seen as something more than a salesman.
To each their own. A lot of girls do like pink and will be drawn to an environment that makes them feel comfortable. This environment may be repulsive to you, but then again you already fit in with the "mainstream" programming culture/environment, so its no great loss. On the other hand, I'm sure there are girls that are in the middle and who are turned off my the extreme girly-ness these events try to push. I can agree that its an unnecessary assumption that all girls would be attracted such a caricature of femininity, and they would be better served by avoiding this trend.

I disagree that one must "love" programming to be decently good at it. There are many programming jobs in this country that don't require supreme levels of talent, passion, or dedication. Those of us in the HN bubble tend to forget there is a big world of software development out there. The majority of it does not require knowledge of lisp, or that one programs on the weekends, or spends hours a day reading tech blogs, etc.
I would like to see that as well, but I would want them to let it sit for a long time - months, maybe. Because eventually, you may still get a mutation that can withstand the jump from 0 to 1000x.
Can anyone with a legal background explain if Adobe can actually force Ninite to change the way their software works? AFAICT, they can't. Why did this guy give in to Adobe? Because they've got an army of lawyers they can attack him with?
'I refuse to write "seeking work" in capital letters under my real name'

SEEKING WORK is not the same as OUT OF WORK. The former admits cases where an opportunistic person with a job is looking for something to do on off-hours.
I'm not sure if that should matter. I got picked up for truancy one time. Therefore in comparison I should get the death penalty.

Seems irrelevant unless it directly relates to the situation (perhaps they yelled at her, then they wrote her up, then they yelled at her parents, then a suspension, then the fifth time she did the same exact harmless thing they called the FBI/CIA/NSA/Blackwater on her)
It's not a terrible thing,

I was right there with you until this. What do you mean "it's not a terrible thing"? Someone trying to change the world for the better, and they fail, that's not terrible? Someone giving up on their dreams, is that not terrible? Sure, sure, everyone has to pay the bills, and I'm not going to fault anyone who tries and fails, but it still (at a minimum) disappoints me every time I see someone with talent and/or skill waste it on something of no lasting value or meaning.
At will employment does not prevent a company from negotiating a contract that would demonstrate two way loyalty. It merely sets the default conditions in the absence of such a contract.

One could offer a contract with, say, a 1 year intro period during which both sides were effectively at-will, followed by 3 year renewals contingent on acceptable performance by the employee and acceptable compensation and working conditions from the employer. Everything can be negotiated.

I suspect that this would be viewed more favorably if it was proposed by the potential employer than by the employee, though it should be to both sides advantage to have such a degree of predictability.
Has anyone considered that perhaps Path did NOT violate any ethical boundaries?

Perhaps the guy checked a box that said "Please notify all of my contacts via text message".

Then all the messages went into queue that was delayed a bit.

Then the phone companies converted text messages to voice calls.
Designer News has a similar setup with UI/UX Designer positions being posted, you may have more luck there.

https://news.layervault.com/
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The only reason why people are willing to pay AirBnB is because of their audience (classic chicken&egg dilemma). But that audience was initially captured/harvested mostly through illegal or semi-legal ways (at least the ways that a decent human being wouldn't do that).

Lookup my previous posts I rant enough about AirBnB owners and their criminal past.
The large number of Americans in jail are pretty irrelevant to ~you~ and your friends/family not being in jail.
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I know what it means. Why add it to the end of an argument out of the blue if it's not intended that way? Still it was late at night and I should have added my own smiley. ;)
If by "risk" you meant the horizontal transfer of resistance, then I point you at genomic studies of horizontal gene transfer across bacteria. It happens with such regularity that the concept of a species cannot be naively applied to bacteria.

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Isn't the concern of downtime and hacking only relevant if you have reason to believe that they are more likely to happen with the CDN than with your own servers?
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There is a difference between the lay definition of "professional" and the legal or regulatory definition in some jurisdictions.

In many contexts a "professional" occupation is one that is governed either by the government or a self-regulating body. Accountants, electricians, doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.
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I've tested the protocol-relative URL in every version of IE that was available on Browsershots about a year ago (which went back even further than IE6, IIRC). None of them had trouble with it.
Angular maybe but Express? Even the longevity of Node is a gamble in my opinion.
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I can appreciate that. And I was just having a little fun with you.

But I was simply referring to the part where you surface the boat before starting the diesels. I think some folks might be under the impression that you can run those while submerged which is most decidedly NOT the case.

What I think many people don't realize is that a reactor shutdown is likely to be a mission-over/career-ender type of deal for almost the entire officer corps onboard. It's not supposed to happen EVER. It's like forgetting your gun as you exit the helicopter.

BTW, It was "supposed to work" but didn't isn't an excuse. You (as an officer) are responsible. That's what maintenance and drills are for. Reactor shuts down and diesels won't come up? Wow. Major UNSAT. A dead-in-the-water carrier is almost as bad as running the damn thing aground.

I'm wondering how the CNO felt about that poodle-screw.
It was designed to treat them, but was designed poorly. Due to a combination of poor risk assessment and QA hardware and software mechanisms to ensure safety were not in place. That is an ethical lapse on the part of the individuals and teams that developed it.
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The document.write method makes it impossible to do async script loading, that you ordinarily could do here to improve perceived page load time. No?

I mean, for instance, you couldn't load that FIRST CDN jquery as async, because you need the browser to block on it so your NEXT script tag (which also can't be loaded async, naturally, cause it has a document.write in it) can check to see if it was loaded.