skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth I had the exact same problem with Ubuntu; I play TF2 quite a bit and could not get the mouse controls to feel right at all. The acceleration just kills any accuracy when playing the game.
We work off the same place and that's what he said to me. Will cross check again.
The anti-intellectualism in tech is quite surprising today. I find it shocking that we live in the age of CS yet great professors are quitting their faculty jobs to do startups and working at Google. I think the problem is lack of social status and compensation mismatch. Physicians still get some respect. Professors and researchers don't.
HN isn't in German. Not everyone works/learns/wants to spend all day in English
I feel that you're over-romanticizing traditional engineering. I'm a mechanical engineer by education (who knows how I ended up here, oops) and went to school with many civil, chemical, and electrical engineers.

Their jobs have as much corporate-ism and debilitating big management as ours. Perhaps more, since there's a distinct lack of startups in those arenas.

Sure, what they do has a boatload of ethics and standards that apply to it (unlike software, which is still very much fly by the seat of your pants), but they sure as hell don't have a lot of autonomy. Most traditional engineers also answer to managers, and build the equivalent of CRUD apps to pay the bills and get promoted.

I suppose by your sentiment no one is a professional.
I haven't read the post, just these comments. Easily the strangest comments I've seen in the past 4-6 months.
Evernote Partners With South Korean Messaging Giant KakaoTalk
"Carlos Betancourt, a marketing engineer for TI's Sitara processors, described BeagleBone Black as "truly" open source. He noted that open source software is not always as open as it claims to be. "When it comes to hardware, open source means you can buy all these chips and use them for your own design," Betancourt said. "

I'm sorry, but that is NOT open source "when it comes to hardware". It's very cool, it's open source when it comes to software, but open source hardware is a completely different kettle of beagles, and I find it annoying that TI spokespeople would be trying to claim as much. It makes us "hackers" dis-trusting and TI look disengenuous.

Still think it's awesome! Just wish TI marketing would stop hitching a free ride.

EDIT: What is a "marketing engineer"?
Accept It, Glass is Here to Stay
Fully on bored with UNICEF, but this article is poorly written.

First of all, the entire article says nothing I didn't get out of the headline but it used a lot words to say it. And, the paragraph that quotes Zeynep Tufekci seems to misunderstand, or the very least mis-apply Tufecki's statement. After all, it never took a full-on activists to donate four euro to UNICEF.
Is it just me or is Forbes a terrible news site? Everything I've read there lately I've disagreed with and at every corner they try to push this disgusting Forbes Top 100 Billionaires list down your throat.
Personally, I think the USA is on the better side of the equation. Id rather be the one defaulting, then the one not get his money back.
it isn't as much about the language. it's more about the content.
Myths of Password Security
Ubuntu

- PyCharm

- virtualenvwrapper

http://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
Paying for Great Software is like Paying for Fine Dining
To agree with you I have to agree that this site is "leaps and bounds ahead of any other government site we can think of", and that it is "truly useful and delightful for citizens" over and above previous sites and or designs.

I'm very sorry, but I don't agree with either.

Is that OK with you? Am I allowed to have my own opinion and express it? Am I some sort of idiot because I don't agree? Am I expected to say nothing?

I would say why, but clearly you would find it predictable and all :(
I think people's reactions to Glass pretty cleanly divide into two camps by their reaction to "you could be being recorded by anyone at any time":

A. those who actually find this to be a novel problem unique to Glass, and

B. people who have assumed that since inconspicuous recording of others has always been possible by, say, someone wearing a wire, it was a factor that is unable to be discounted from one's daily activities, and thus it was best to just act as if it were always the case unless one has taken specific steps to guarantee one won't be being recorded. (People with the security mindset, in other words.)

The latter group don't seem to have any problem with Glass: they already had their freak-out long ago when inconspicuously recording others around you became possible. Making it easier doesn't change anything for them; it just gives the power to record others around you to people who don't really have a strong motive to use it. The real "attackers" (in the cryptographic sense) never needed it to be easy; they had the motivation and the resources to use the clunky old methods.
And trivializing the condition is exactly what I think they are doing. The authors have no clue who the reader is or feels, and giving a dumb 1-2-3 solution can just make it worse when it doesn't work. Again, there are disciplines devoted to solving these problems, and it's not tech blogging.
> Obviously computer cryptography is more advanced

Wouldn't a single message from an unknown cipher be almost impossible to crack? You'd either need to know the algorithm or have multiple encoded messages along with the keys, right?
Mount all of your network storage to it, run bittorrent sync client on it, sync all your stuff to everywhere directly from your house / office / both.
On OSX Chrome, after I open one of the popups off a 'view source' links in the demo section and close it... I can't seem to open any other 'view source' popups (including the first one) again, clicking on the links does nothing.

Just me?
Show HN: Mixing HTML Pages Inside Your WebGL
Since designers are supposed to design for non designers, your criticism is vital to the process.
And the software developers work on everything, not just front end or back end.
Maybe the Low-End iPhone Is Really a Mid-End iPhone
Your website's banner is huge.

http://imgur.com/Y8V6V14
Or make the property(rivers, parks and roads) public and force the government to keep it in shape.
"If you answer to managers.."

I know you usually have good comments on HN, but is it just me or you really have something against "management". Anyway, the fact is that everyone answers to someone in some ways when it comes to money which we need to make to survive in this world unless you have family inheritance. Having said that, I am not saying that managers are necessarily the best thing in this world but i don't understand how you can get away without answering to someone. Even if you are a superstar entrepreneur who is his own boss, I have one word for you: customers.

"people who build rockets do, where attention to code quality is critical "

So are you saying that code quality is not critical elsewhere ? I agree in general that many companies have shitty code but there are many places which actually do care about code quality and code reviews are actually important.

"build CRUD apps to support their careers rather than your own, then you're not a professional."

Just think about what you said here.
Collective Intelligence Enabled By The Internet
Step off the ledge, man. Downvotes happen.
Totally agree. All I see is the web site equivalent of William Hague in a baseball cap.
I have to say that whilst your site is making some very bold claims, I think it's extremely clear what your goals are. Furthermore, I found it really engaging that your request for an invite form was a little more interesting than simply entering my email. It's nice you're offering a mini service around this, and furthermore the idea of running a mail check on a friend's mail account is a nice way of ensuring some virality.

Best of luck, and I really do hope you can solve the problems you outline. I can't wait to try it out!
Thanks for the clarification. I hadn't noticed the right-click to whitelist option before. I'll have to go change the preference back.

I don't know if the software I was using was just old or if signing isn't common place yet, but I felt like I got prompted while trying to use some fairly popular software.
I was disappointed about this, too; not because it's necessarily bad, but because they had set the bar so high for themselves and then totally missed it with this. On the bright side, it raised a lot of money for charity.
I'm unable to log in right now via Firefox but Chrome works fine. Could be related.
I think being off work recovering from a minor op, and thus house-bound, is making me ratty. :(
I only got one, but I too am working on a remote robot, modifying an old Robie Jr.

I originally was attempting to use an MK802 android stick running ubuntu and interfacing it with an Arduino Micro.

However, for $45, it saves much time and "just works".

Also, like you said, it cannot do 1080p, so if you want that for XBMC get a Pi, but for a robot, this, to me, seems ideal.
"After all, isn’t that what open source is all about – the idea that collaboration and teamwork achieve amazing things?" Written by Valve in the cited blog post, despite having nothing to do with open source.
On making big decisions before or during a long trip (don't)
...and evolution is directed toward a more perfect form? History isn't moved by invisible forces towards a precognitive goal any more than an invisible hand of a creator directs evolution, or deities direct kings to make divinely sanctioned choices.
I'd guess because you didn't answer his question "where can I go learn about this?". You told him how to do it.
Eh, just be both. Problem solved.
Like you I'm a gamer, and like you this doesn't appeal.

However I can see exactly why people are doing this. There have been a big explosion of indie games recently and that can be put down to iOS and Steam. Both make it super easy to get games.

Anything that reduces friction is going to be very appealing to game makers. And installing Steam is friction. If playing your game simply involves visiting a link - thats pretty easy. As HTML5 matures, as more people use modern browsers, and as Flash becomes less reliably installed on browsers, expect to see a lot of casual games moving to HTML5.
You're right. It's suppose to be a stylish kind of thing...
The header only download is a client side thing and can be done already (with a client that supports it). The Unused Output Tree (UOT) - the second thing you mentioned - needs amendment to the blockchain (adding checkpoints).

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Thin_Client_Security#Header-Only_...
That's how Medium displays a blog post's featured image.

More examples: https://medium.com/
Bankers Explain How They Cannot Possibly Live On $1 Million Pay
The number of people who do not use English all day in a tech/science environment is rather low, and the number of people willing to trade a global community against one speaking German is probably even smaller.
Wow! Thank you for such a comment. Probably the best thing I've ever read about what we're doing :)

It won't be easy but we can see it really happen. It needs to happen.

Stay in touch!
- Premek
As freyr said, logins are messed up right now.
I'm doing the PGM class on Coursera, and Prof. Koller mentioned that one reason the expert diagnosis systems never took off in the 90s was that it was hard to integrate them into the doctor's workflow.

She also mentioned that situation was changing with the advent of usable tablets, so maybe we'll see some progress here.
Junctions have been available on Windows ever since Windows 2000 (which used NTFS as the default). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point
Without minimum wage, companies would fix a cleaner's salary at 3 usd per hour. No matter what your experience. Unregulated, most ism's are bad.
It's just internet points, no worries. Everyone who matters can see you were trying to help. Hope you recover soon.
So, you are basically upset at Valve for changing course for the better? Compared to the other game publishers that will support Linux the day that the Devil skates to work? So hypocrisy is worse than being consistently evil all the time? Thanks, got it. /s
Is there an easy way to load via ajax, and then make it such that additional links in that loaded content will also have their content loaded in that same popup?

Sort of a little mini-window effect?

I've hacked that together for other modal/popup implementations before, and it works pretty well for simple interactions. But I'm starting to get weary of re-implementing it on the next new better modal/popup implementation, heh.
I created a homebrew formula for it. The PR is not yet merged, but seems to be working quite fine: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/pull/19590
Patient examination is rarely about lack of information to complex research, but really about the art of listening and empathy. Therefore, Google Glass like device will most likely distract the doctor from focusing and empathizing with the patient.
Cyberstalking and Why it's Killing Entrepreneurship
KDE Software Compilation 4.10.2 for Windows released
I think one of the whole point of YC is that it will make connections happen between those who can tell great stories, and those who can't but have great tech?
If you license under MIT but restrict who can use the software, it's not really MIT. MIT explicitly states that you may use the software "without restriction".

The GPL is even more stringent in that it doesn't allow you to further restrict the usage of others.

It's less about the cost and more about the fact that they don't understand open source licensing.
At least they promote a bill to allow people to view all the big data that companies have of them. Not a fan of giving away my privacy.
I'm pretty sure they fall under existing bans. Casino personnel probably just don't recognize them for what they are yet.
Satoshi included a headline in the blockchain to serve as a timestamp to prove that mining had only started at the time of his public announcement about the project. However, the particular headline chosen as a timestamp was probably not selected at random.
Digital and physical restrictions on your own device
I've had the completely opposite experience. Windows is where I have to go hunting around for drivers on vendors crappy FTP servers.

Linux on the other hand, over the past 7 years I've been running it, works OOTB for all hardware I've ever thrown at it, especially lately.

Weird.
I think it is approximately correct to say that no industrialized nation holds on to slavery. Slaves are not productive enough in industrial and post-industrial economies.

The point of US civil war was that the industrialized North wanted to rid of slavery and the agricultural South wanted to go on with slave-dependent growing of cotton etc.

Likewise, places where formal abolition of slavery was more recent (e.g. Kingdom of SA and Yemen until 1962, Oman until 1970, etc) are hardly industrial nations.

(Yes, this is not the complete picture and things are not straightforward or simple: compare to slave labor in Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia, etc, where some of it was used in industrial-type activities, and even R&D, as described by Solzhenitsyn in In The First Circle; however, you could describe these as solutions for war-time economy, and not sustainable.)
How eBay Worked With The FBI To Put Its Top Affiliate Marketers In Prison
Boston University sues to block sales of Kindles in patent dispute
Yeah, I shouldn't speak for everyone when I speak of my own bitterness ;)

Overall, I'm glad I worked for a startup because it gave me the insight to understand what I would want to do differently in my own business.
Go figure, I never knew there was a competition between capitalists and entrepreneurs. I always figured that they needed each other. Marketwise, this "win" could shift back when entrepreneurship drops and investment picks up due to the asymmetric fluctuations between supply and demand of the two commodities.
A new RefCard from the GlowingPython
Likes can lead to money. Think of likes as volunteers helping to spread the word.
No worries, best of luck with the convalescence!
A poster above mentioned that there is a Sublime plugin for livereload, as well.
This is a bit of a fluff piece, isn't it? All five points are "true", to some degree, but not when you consider the details.

Take point #4:

> "4. MYTH: Two-Factor Auth Means Any Password Will Do"
>
> This is absolutely not a dismissal of multi-factor auth. Use it when it’s available! Two factor is on the Stormpath roadmap, and we use it for many backend systems. Just don’t consider it a substitute for strong passwords.

The example that the OP blithely cites is Cloudflare's incident in 2012, when CloudFlare's CEO explained how his GMail account got compromised despite activating 2-factor authentication. However, if you actually click through the post, you see that CloudFlare's problem had nothing to do with a weak password, but a flaw in AT&T's authentication procedures which allowed a hacker to bypass GMail's password/auth requirement with a little social engineering. It had nothing to do with the CF CEO's password, which he says was strong and 20-characters long. In his case, it wouldn't matter if the password was 8 characters long and a dictionary word, if 2-factor auth worked as it was supposed to.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/post-mortem-todays-attack-apparen...

And that's kind of the whole dilemma of security, isn't it? That certain maxims ("Your password should be x characters long and contain y different kinds of characters") do not universally apply, and that the implementation of security protocols is extremely important into understanding your potential to be hacked. The OP's mythbusting is somewhat counter-productive here.
Seems like they want it both ways. They put share and like and follow buttons all over their site, but then they say it's meaningless.

"Likes" seem very similar to ads and mailers. They generate donations. At least Likes don't cost Unicef anything... that mailer they send me stops some kid from getting a polio vaccination.
I'm curious, what's the difference between the two: being told how to do it, and being told where to go to be told how to do it?
I agree with you. It's nonsense to separate UI from application development these days.

What comes first is "Web App Developer", "Android Native App Developer", and so on.
I while ago I wrote a series of introductory articles that builds from the ground up, using a single coin toss as a running example. Here's the first:

http://blog.moertel.com/posts/2010-12-07-on-the-evidence-of-...
U.S. Ambassador: Internet Piracy and Illegal Immigration are Both a ‘Compliment’