skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God is perfectly just, laugh at people who don't know God is just.

Jews got holocausted.

God says...

affirmed, saying, Of a truth this fellow also was with him: for he is
a Galilaean.

22:60 And Peter said, Man, I know not what thou sayest. And
immediately, while he yet spake, the cock crew.

22:61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered
the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow,
thou shalt deny me thrice.

22:62 And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.

22:63 And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.

22:64 And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face,
and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee? 22:65 And
many other things blasphemously spake they against him.

----

God says...
unskilfulness infirmity devoutness conspiracy dispensers
modification publicly Carthaginian drunkenness AM greater
reports supercelestial fowls Spirit vigour infinitude
derived year dug life
xfce is just nice and simple. Enough, but no more.

I've noticed a lot of Arch users here.
Use Multi-Mechanize for performance test of Web-App, Net-Service, Python Module
Useless, fun speculation: I predict that Tesla will eventually buy Pep Boys Auto, an under performing company with a lot of real estate in middle class American neighborhoods. Pep Boys also has many stores already with service centers. Tesla will then start turning the stores into Tesla show rooms and service centers. They've already shown they are willing to take over legacy auto facilities, specifically the old NUMI Toyota plant in Fremont, CA. What are the odds that we'll soon see Manny, Moe, Jack, and Elon? Pep Boys has a market cap of less than 700 million and is profitable, so it shouldn't be a money pit.
Yeah, I remember when `bluetile` came out---really a very cool project. From what I understand though, its floating is just like Xmonad's, which I could never coerce into doing what I wanted. (I found floating in Xmonad is useful when it's necessary for things like GIMP, but not so useful as an explicit way to manage stacking windows. Which, of course, is quite OK since it is a tiling WM!)

But maybe Bluetile has gotten better in the years since I last looked at it. :-)

> I'm probably going to migrate to pure-tiled in the future though because GNOME 2.x is dead and I abhor 3.x

Good call. I freed myself from the DE years ago, and I don't think I could ever go back.
Or at least link to a description.
No, but I make games, and playing them is a part of my "research".
I heard one of the Google guys say in an I/O video on WebM that VP9 will be ready for "streaming" in Q4 this year. I wonder if he meant for WebRTC, too. The sooner we can have WebRTC with VP9 and Opus, the better.
I never see anybody complaining about removal of features from epiphany (the gnome web browser). That's probably because everybody knows it's intended to be a simple, featureless browser for those who don't need something more powerful. If you need features, you install Chrome or Firefox, and all the other core apps are no different. If gnome-terminal isn't enough for you, install terminator. If nautilus isn't enough, install one of the others mentioned here. If the shell doesn't do something you need it to do, find or write an extension. I actually think the gnome way of doing things is perfect.
Why doesn't he know anything about Python or Ruby warts? I think his complaint about Python is valid. The other wart I would add is Python having a default empty list in a method signature. In successive calls to the function if you modify the list it retains it's value. (The solution is to have it set to None in the method signature). Read

http://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/controlflow.html#function-...
section 4.7.1 if you're curious

Generally though I'd say Perl has hundreds (or maybe thousands) of warts for every one Python or Ruby has.
It's appalling how the Verge commenters see this purely as a gaming device and not as a serious/less creepy competition for Google glass once the FPGAs are replaced by ASICs.
Not to my knowledge. I always use Emacs in terminal mode even when I have a window system available and I have never encountered anything that would only work with a GUI. I think there are some extensions that work only with a GUI but that's not an inherent limitation of Emacs and there are usually a ton of alternatives.
Paypall.

Question where do you get dummie credit card info?
I used to be able to watch movies online free but now there always are asking for credit info to sign up to watch a free movie. So any answers?
I didn't assemble it, but it's not a big-brand computer - it was hand assembled by a small shop.

The router is cheap though.
i3 is the best tiling wm I've ever used.
When you're ready you should check out Microryza: https://www.microryza.com/

They do crowdfunding for science stuff like this.
Interesting, the only thing I really learned though was the orange names between YC founders.
Hmmm. I would suggest maybe listening to some 'new music' so to speak. Put one of the soundcloud 'discovery' genres on and just leave it playing. You probably don't like the shuffle function as you get to a song you don't really like and you want to skip it. Or you get reminded of another great song and that album and want to put it on. With new music you'll just think "it's okay", "this is awesome", "this is bad. hopefully the next one will be better". You aren't reminded of other songs and previous ideas so it doesn't interfere with your work.
What do you think the fan would do?
How can it possibly be?
That is actually the reason why I started using Fvwm 10 years or so back.
While it is relevant due to the similarities of shells available, BSD is not Linux. I can see how someone might see it as the same as saying, "I don't use Linux. I use Windows with the default shell.". That is not relevant.
Man I miss Flashdot.
Here's a crazy thought. What if they use this opportunity to teach kids about the processes of scientific discovery and how it is sometimes based on pure chance. What if they then teach those kids about the scientific method and how to conduct a controlled experiment. Even if the story turns out to be a dud I guarantee the experience would make the students much more excited about science than growing some cress in a window sill.

Or we could explain how a bunch of scientists are crackpots for even thinking such a thing.
I just realized I called it "tiling WM", but I use tabbed windows more than tiling features.

I tend to have one main stack of tabbed windows on each workspace, out from which I "push" a window or two to create splits whenever I want to display multiple things at the same time.
Saying that Qt is sane sounds kind of flame bait. If you need own custom preprocessor which is bolted on "some" compiler to be able to build your GUI.. well I prefer something else. Like GTK.
Having run a textbook scanning service (http://www.ptrfy.com/) for a while now, I can say assuredly that keeping master digital copies or the physical processed books is a substantial legal liability.
MacVim, vi, Emacs (though by far the least often), Texmate 2, Sublime Text 2 (as much as Emacs), Mou...
If it works well then I can imagine it would be amazing however it probably uses the accelerometer (I assume) and so I doubt it can be that accurate (Although I may be wrong)
As a single user I could run two programs utilizing different glibc versions.
I understand why smartmatch is labeled experimental, but what's the "modern Perl" replacement for given/when? I only use it as a stupid switch statement but I don't want it breaking with Perl 5.22 either...
Why would you get fired for covering an obvious and well-known CDN alternative in your blog post? Honestly interested :-)
You typically get consent for chemotherapy.

These doctors were butchers because there was no consent. Always a tricky problem in mental health, still one to this day.
Are you for real? I am trying to figure if you are a troll or whether you are truly psychologically damaged by your time at google?

Dude google is not going to change or issue an apology because a former employee rags on them on the internet... you do realize this right?
Errr, I'm a pretty hardcore Linux user, but, on the desktop, I use OSX.

Why would I ruin my pretty, pretty servers with some ugly GUI?
The Power of the Clouds
i was thinking about this the other day and wanted to share my thoughts with HN in a blog.

the thing w/ the cloud is i heard on CNN it's becoming ubiquitous... everything is in the clouds.

for example at first it was only the ability to download this cloud and that cloud but now you can merge clouds and also push clouds. pretty soon in the future you'll see a word where the definition of cloud can be used for everything.

imagine when well be able to buy clouds at the grocery. or even on your tv.

to end ill leave you with the pic below and say that sometimes techology has adcanced so fast that we forget how amazing it is... like how we even got data into a CLOUD in the first place. i mean who thought we'd ever be able to harness the power of a cloud... it used to be something only in cartoons. dont take that for granted.

http://blogs.babble.com/famecrawler/files/2010/12/care-bears.jpg.gif
Oh no, please please NO.

asm.js is a nice hack and a commendable technical feat, but it's an absolutely horrible way moving forward. Do we really want to look back 10 years from now and see that we picked some crooked-n-twisted subset of JS to be the bytecode to which native code is compiled, just because "hey it's JS and it already works". Have we learned nothing from decades of horrible backwards-compatibility laden platforms?

If one would design a portable bytecode today, would he come up with asm.js? Not in a lifetime (or two). PNaCl is way, way closer to a sane design for such a bytecode. Yes, it has its problems, but these appear to be incremental and can be solved with investment of time and effort (which Google seem to be willing to invest). In its _core_, PNaCl is the right approach to this problem. It uses a subset of the hugely successful and important LLVM IR to represent bytecode. IR that's way more suitable for the task than a subset of JS. And the sandboxing model PNaCl uses also makes way more sense than asm.js's use of typed arrays to represent the heap. Where is your memory model, asm.js? Do you think it's an easy problem to solve? I don't see threads with shared memory coming to asm.js in _years_, while PNaCl already has them. Say what you will, but threads are important. Games use them all over the place, and other applications too.

Remember, speed means battery life for phones and tablets (it's only a matter of time until PNaCl runs on Android, who doubts it?) So 2x native vs. 1.15x native is a huge difference.

Again, as a hacker I can see the coolness of asm.js and kudos to Mozilla for creating it. It's a great interim approach to ensure that native code can truly run everywhere, in all browsers. But looking into the future, I hope it will die and PNaCl (or some derivative of PNaCl) will take over. Even today it lets you compile C++ code and run at nearly native speed with threads on several architectures and several OSes, in a secure way! Other browsers should definitely adopt it. Although I understand if Google doesn't worry much about it - Chrome is the most popular browser today, and its lead is growing. Lack of adoption from other browsers may end up being _their_ problem, not Google's.
Amazon Web Services does offer a worldwide CDN, CloudFront. http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
The Official Arduino Robot
As a gamer, I have felt this way about Nintendo at least since the wii. But it's hard to argue with results. That said, their recent results haven't been so great. It wouldn't surprise me if the company went the way of sets eventually, producing games for other consoles rather than making their own.
People don't run desktop environments to squeeze performance (although it's a plus!), but to gain productivity in a convenient and easy way.
nbp is correct it is not a problem for the same user to install multiple versions of the same package.

> Can Nix use a different libc version for a specific browser plugin?

Are you asking about the case where the browser depends on a newer version of libc then the plugin?
+ gmrun + xfe + tilda + unclutter + parcellite. Yep, I know there are not desktop managers but are the perfect combination with Openbox+Conky+Tint2.
Wouldn't they sell for $25.53 in a heartbeat if they knew they weren't going to going to get any other offers or money?
Excellent content and suggestions. To attack the 3 kinds of laziness at once, I for one find motivation in reading the dharma (see the miracle of knowledge) and Seneca letters.

Speaking of Seneca letters, the last one is especially thoughtful, in reminding us that physical pleasures should not be scorned either.

The parent article may insist too much in spirituality - but besides that minor drawback, it's a great read, with actionnable practical advice.
It's sad and indicative of the quality of tech journalism when this line gets written by thenextweb and then quoted by techcrunch without being questioned:

> Having a big audience isn’t really the goal. In comparison, Hacker News’ inspiration and the first big YC exit, Reddit has seen as much as 4.4 million page views in a given day.

If 4.4 million page views in a given day were special for Reddit, it would not be the hugely successful page it is and tech journalists should have a rough idea of traffic figures like these. The same thenextweb post claims further down that Reddit averaged 3 billion page views a month in 2012.

(it was the Obama AMA subreddit that hit 4.4 million page views in a single day)
Surveys Gone Bad - When "Yes" means "No"
> That's a pity, as I find it helps me to be open-minded about editors. =)

You only think it helps you. In practice, you are exposing people to the the darkness.

> Still, it's Creative Commons-licensed, so feel free to make a new version.

For the record, you are awesome for doing that.
You forget the best desktop manager : e17
I'm using the Gnome 3.6 fallback mode. My main workstation has 4,000 sq cm of display across two monitors. I have found a taskbar is the least worst way of dealing with lots of windows, especially if there are multiple ones from the same app. It is important that the taskbar allow reordering and hover to raise (eg for drag and drop). Being horizontal also means that mouse travel distance isn't too far even from the furthest points - a problem for desktops that focus on the top left corner.

I've repeatedly tried Gnome 3 shell and even the 3.8 classic mode. They always fail due to not having a functional taskbar. Notifications are also completely messed up - I can't figure out why you would want them hidden! Most bizarre are things like the system monitor being in the hidden notification area - in what way does that make any sense?

I've tried other environments and just didn't like them - eg KDE (too busy), LXDE (too spartan), Cinnamon (I like other Gnome 3 advancements).
If they got such an offer, I imagine that they'd be willing to hold out for a couple months to get something better. But a $1.1B offer? That's not something you wait to accept. If they don't get a better offer in the next few weeks, they'll gladly take $1.1B, even if they suspect they can get a bit more in a few months or a year.
> With 1.6 million page views a day (...) Hacker News

> Reddit has seen as much as 4.4 million page views in a given day

These numbers didn't seem right to me; reddit gets way more than 3 times hn's traffic.

Last December, reddit had 2 billion page views [http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/2-billion-beyond.html] which works out to over 60 million a page views a day and over 30 times hn's count.
The Founders Formula for Successful Startup Hiring (as you grow)
I for one am glad the community has been diluted to the point that I can participate.
Since this thread will likely turn into people asking about Cloudfront performance, does anyone have any real-world experience with CloudFront vs. Rackspace with Akamai CDN?

On paper the Rackspace one looks like a great performance/price alternative.
4 hours per day! Thanks, pg
"The idea of a VC having its own news aggregator was a bit outlandish in 2007."

This coming from Tech... crunch/fund?
Michael, you are wrong on that.

newbie12's made very insightful and somewhat unexpected observation. I personally value such observations a lot.

Even if newbie12 is wrong about his insight and recommendation - I still enjoy reading it. And if newbie12 made that recommendation to me personally - I would appreciate such recommendation even more.

Now compare newbie12's comment with your own: your comment is rude, provides zero insight, and attempts to silence newbie12 for all the wrong reasons.
You would think it would be louder.

P.S. I fully admit this is a stupid joke but it makes me laugh so there ya go.
Choose a language. Any language. People will try to convince you that X language is better than Y language but really it's your choice.

Now you've chosen a language, go and find some basic tutorials. Start with 'Hello World' (as per tradition) then work your way up, make a counter, make a calculator, make a clock. Just keep on doing these basic projects.

Soon enough you'll start to get bored. You'll start finding these projects easy. You'll no longer have to look up every line of code to work out what syntax to write, you'll just get used to it. Once you get to this stage, start looking for what other people have done. Look for a basic application that someone else has created and start to work out how they made it, their programming style. Once you've worked it out, try modifying the program. Trial and Error. Try to change what the program does, try adding on new functionalities.

Finally, create a big project from scratch. Start with an idea, it can be simple but try and make it challenging. Work out how each part is going to work, how you're going to code each bit. Then just get programming.

Once your first project is done, you'll most likely have another idea, and another. You'll keep on programming new things, each project learning something new.

That (at least in my opinion) is how to learn to program.
salim! It's great to hear from you, how are things? We are making great strides at Rackspace.
I held back upgrading from Ubuntu 11.04 to 12.04 for a while because I didn't like where Unity and Gnome were heading but the lack of support for my aging distrib finally "forced" me to upgrade. It was an absolute disaster on the performance, stability and usability fronts so I installed Cinnamon which is delightful on this old PC.
I am happy HN is here, even if the small village has become a big city. On a given day, there is a decent percentage of the front page that I don't understand at all, and I enjoy reading the articles and comments. I find it an interesting way to learn new things.

Thank you PG for creating Hacker News. I read it daily.
ErrorApp Heroku add-on in beta
Flashdot was replaced by HTML5dot and now it's much better.
The truth is that I/we don't need a Linux interface my parents can operate. They can get some Apple thing or what ever. I need a workstation user interface with which I can do my work. GNOME 2 was this interface and GNOME 3 simply is not.
For those who wish to try before they buy (into) a tiling window manager, the repository dwm/suckless-tools work fine on Ubuntu 12.04 so you can log into a DWM session, and log out again using Shift-Alt-q. If you like the experience, you will need to uninstall the stock repository dwm binary and compile a replacement from source as the configuration is in a c header file.
I am in the process of abandoning Cloudfront, because they have a serious bug when serving video files. They serve HTTP 206 (Range-Get) as HTTP 1.0 but 206 didn't exist in HTTP 1.0. Chrome and Firefox treat this as "uncacheable", thus media assets bypass the local media cache.

Depending on the nature of the content, Cloudfront is not usable for video, particularly the kind where people seek around a bunch, like instructional videos and tutorials. Also, people with slow connections expect the video to buffer while paused. This doesn't happen if you serve the videos from cloudfront.
I hope you're right, and that this perception just comes from startupdom.

Actually, come to think of it, I think you probably are correct. But a more accurate quote would be "the most well paid best minds of my generation are busy getting people to click on ads." I do know of people doing incredibly cool stuff in industry and academia, and none of them are making what the ad-analytics and finance people are making. In many cases they are making a graduate stipend (read: vow of poverty) and have poor employment prospects post-graduation (if they actually want to use their degree).
dwm.

A while back, I stumbled across dwm.vim[0] which, although clunky at times, has proven itself to be really useful in my Vim workflow. It was inspired from the actual dwm[1] project which I looked into later.

The key bindings are quite different from Vim, but are easy to pick up on the whole.

Prior to dwm, I ran WindowMaker well beyond its prime (as in, I dropped it less than a year ago). I still have a sweet spot in my heart for that WM.

[0]: https://github.com/spolu/dwm.vim
[1]: http://dwm.suckless.org/
I can see where you're coming from and I agree to a certain point. However, I think the file manager is such an important tool; oversimplifying it and making it hard to use is not a good idea. I loved Gnome 2.6; it is probably my favorite desktop environment. It felt like a great balance of simplicity and features that make my life easier. So I find that taking that away bit by bit isn't working for me. I don't really want to have two of every app because Gnome's default is too awkward or lacks some pretty basic features.
It sounds oddly mechanical, like an overhead helicopter at times. Can anyone give a not-too-technical explanation for that?
Downvoted? Really? Why would this be disapproved? Should I use something more popular?

I used to use ion until the author got wacky with the license. Too bad about that.
Bill Gates on Steve Jobs on “60 Minutes”
I sincerely apologize for my bad attitude in my previous comment. It was uncalled-for. Thanks for not taking too much offense, and thanks for the pointer to the examples.

Perhaps my feng shui was off balance yesterday!
How are you going to learn theoretical physics by yourself? Lol. Do you have any idea how much math something like string theory uses?
> It sort of reminds me those companies you hear about every once in a while that say "No" to being sold in Wal-Mart.

Speaking of which, I wonder what became of this one?

http://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart

Apologies for deviating from the thread's topic, but I re-read that the other day and got to wondering.
5. Elon will finally tell us what the hyperloop is, now that Tesla is profitable and doing well.
obvious: Amazon product isn't that great @ a service that's optimally provided by another Amazon product.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
I hate the whole "leeching off the fed" argument. Every large-scale business venture in this country leeches off the government, often in multiple ways:

* Free use of state-subsidized infrastructure.

* Free use of state-funded research and development. (This is huge.)

* Government contracts.

* For the finance industry, they are backstopped by the government if they are "too big to fail."

* Government limits on liability for many risky industrial processes.

... and so on.

Tesla is threatening the status quo in a stale, moribund industry. That is what people don't like.
If you are using Ubuntu, here is how to install the Nemo file manager, which is from Linux Mint and based off of Gnome 3.4 before things were removed: http://www.webupd8.org/2012/12/how-to-install-nemo-file-mana...

I've been using standard Ubuntu as my sole OS for over 6 years now. I'm most likely switching to Linux Mint or Xubuntu when I get a chance.
Perhaps she meant ſlashdot.