skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used sid as my main desktop for over a decade now. To be honest I actually run a mixed system with a few packages (not just one-offs but big things like xmonad/iceweasel/awesome/git/pandoc/git-annex/gitit) from experimental. If it has been a long time (5-7 years) since you tried unstable you can think of experimental as what unstable used to be. When was the last time you tried sid?

When I first made the switch from RH to debian there were occasional issues but these went away as I became more experienced with debian. It has been years since I encountered a bug that caused me to lose more than an hour of productivity. The most recent issue that I have had with unstable was over a year ago and it was simply a matter of pinning a version of libcairo. The only reason I remember this so well is that someone else on HN was having trouble and my comment[1] on how to fix it was my highest rated comment at the time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3907796
I have tiling in cinnamon with gtile. Have you tried installing it?

For me the mint community has been a big difference. I have gotten great text support on irc from volunteers, much better than I got with Ubuntu in various places online, where people seem to be swamped with new and clueless users.

I am worried that unity integration will become fully incompatible with the gnome backend, making cinnamon as a de problematic. But so far so good.

Though I am also experimenting with getting fbterm and potentially tmux to play nice when I boot to text console and just ignore the DE altogether for some serious power savings. tmux seems to not allow fbterm to use its 256 color capabilities though. But I have digress.

Ultimately I feel like mint has a lot going for it. Some of the design decisions are not quite what I would do, but the mint team has been awesome about working with other distributions/forks, and even collaboration on shared components.
Pocket covers nearly all of the requests you posted from HN; cross-device compatible, Pinterest style layout, export to html, search, tagging & sharing. I'm really enjoying it as a private bookmarking service.

http://GetPocket.com
Unless this provides the entire distro it seems like people are still going to get hacked through vulnerabilities in other software.
There's an amusing though mean-spirited article of Paul Samuelson's purporting to debunk the use of the Kelly Criterion - [url]www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Courses/434F2005/Context/Kelly%20Resources/Samuelson1979.pdf[/url] (pdf). All the words are one syllable. I find the title rather poetic - "Why we should not make mean log of wealth big though years to act are long".
Because you cannot immediately think of a study does not mean one is not possible.

Consider: Measure changes in parents during child-rearing and correlate with measures of amount and style of "care" given to children. Are those that are more caring parents happier, on average, than those who are not? Control for anything you can think of controlling.
And this is exactly what I'm worried about when MPs raise proposals for a similar system here in the UK.
Ultimately, I think that this article fallaciously anthropomorphizes Google, and that is the reason why the situation it posits seems so scary.

Google is a machine, designed by people. It is true that they have lots and lots of data about individuals, but it is being handled by vast amounts of software and hardware alongside so much other data about so many things about people that there is somewhat of an anonymizing factor. If Google were an individual, what they do would certainly be creepy, but they are not. To put paranoia to rest, it might be in their favor to enact transparent safeguards of some sort that assure consumers that their data is in general not being accessed by Google employees or nefarious third parties (the most notable nefarious third party being, of course, the government).
I wonder if Alex Ruiz's Swing background had any bearing on working with Intellij... #toolkitwarsredux?
Ha! That backtick is the only reason most of my "scripts" are being written in Ruby instead of Python. :)
"Coinster?" "Coin Hipster" just seems too tautological as two words. Coinster wold be no less so, but just seems less that way because it's "one word."
YouTube as a platform? The YouTube Analytics API
This sounds way to much like Ameristralia
I agree: It's the old Steve Jobs quote "choice is a good thing"
If you're willing to be relatively public with the problem you're having, you might get some help from a StackExchange site, probably ServerFault in this case.
Quite. In the Star Trek example, the Captain can say "Computer, locate X", and sometimes he says "Computer, deactivate X's devices" and the computer just does it. It's very unlikely, because he's an idealized fictional hero, that anyone with that kind of power in the real work, is as wise and benevolent as Picard - and even Picard makes mistakes.
Google's official backing?
Yeah, I'll clarify that bit. Basically I'm trying to convey.

- Opcodes exist
- Here is one of many
- Don't squish them

Edit: I also should mention that my style is a show/do. I'm trying to balance how much to tell the reader, but not bog them down.

In my next post we can take a look at the disassembler javap and dive in a bit more.
Why [language] for [purpose]?

Universal answer: because it's workable, and I'm emotionally invested by now.
Mobile IDE

Already (mostly) done: on N900 and Android, you've got Emacs, plus Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.
Indeed. "Don't be a Glasshole" flows a little better, though.
Online Cards Against Humanity quote generator: http://scriptagainsthumanity.appspot.com/
It isn't difficult at all. You just have to shift your perspective.

Now: Keep them in your browser, local to you. Keep the frequently-used ones right in front of you in the bookmark toolbar. For example, I don't rely on Chrome's Apps tab, so I have Gmail in my bookmarks toolbar folder called 1.Launch (1 because I have several others sorted accordingly).

Later: Link blog them (on Tumblr or G+ may be). Or you can even keep them local to you using above number 1 perspective.

Future: Don't worry about loosing the bookmarks you have already consumed and not going to come back to them anytime soon. Again, if you're link-blogging the content you feel you need to save, than you don't need to worry about future.
If I understand the scenario, and feel free to restate if I've got this wrong, you're talking about being at a public urinal and noticing another man staring lustfully at your junk. This places you in fear of imminent physical violence to which you feel justified responding in kind.

So, there's a general response from men here that this sounds like an absurd overreaction, but I'm not in that camp. If anything I'm trying to defend your point of view. It's just it sounds to me like you're describing a feeling of trapped, threatened vulnerability that is extreme and rare for men, but a daily occurrence for women, that goes something like this:

"Gosh, that man seems visibly interested in me as a sexual object despite the totally inappropriate context, and the fact that I haven't made any advances or invitations whatsoever. Well, I'm sure that's the hard limit of his disregard for social convention.

"Okay, he just told me to smile. Well, I'm sure that's the hard limit."

Now I'll distance myself from the herd here by saying I think men who act like that (a strict superset of men who might stare at your junk in the john) ought to experience some fear of physical violence themselves. My original question to you is whether you intend that to be an implication of your asserting your right to self-defense in this situation, where the consensus seems to be that it is unwarranted. Though perhaps I'm belaboring the point because it seems your answer is no, or at least no contest.
Hey intropic, requestAutocomplete() is only invokable in response to a user action (load's not considered that), so it's more likely that this would be done when you click a "checkout" button or something like that.
And that's how probability works?
Zencoder announces officially supported integration library for Node.js
Don't forget about Denver! Lots of interesting stuff going on here. Between Tech Stars and Galvanize, things are really amazing around here.
VC-funded != VC-istan. There's a lot of overlap, obviously, but (a) plenty of VCs aren't assholes, and (b) there are good reasons to take VC.

VC-istan is a certain social hierarchy and its surrounding ecosystem. It's a certain game that is played where engineering, design, culture, and even human decency take a backseat to marketing and rent-seeking and ridiculous careerism (like technical pivots that make no engineering sense but support some flavor-of-the-month CTO protege's career goals).

I don't hate every VC-funded company, obviously. Who knows, in ten years I could be running one. I hate the VC darlings with unethical management and, for that, I only find the VCs to be indirectly responsible by being bad judges of character. (Then again, considering some of the companies I worked for, I don't think I'm a great judge of character either.)
Comparing this game to Apples to Apples isn't really fair because the genius isn't in the formula (which is really basic) but in the content.
I added Minneapolis. I agree. It's a good choice.
Size in terms of software (and data) is always a perspective thing to be sure. I have worked on 2 separate millions of LoC codebases. Maybe its my ignorance, but i think there is more difference between a 10k Loc vs a 2mm Loc than 2mm vs 20mm.

I might be wrong, I've never worked in something an order of magnitude larger than a few million.
How well does the EUR pallet fit into the non-metric dimensions of a 40' container?
Try gtile. Cinnamon tiling. Or pseudo tiling since it isn't fully keyboard driven. Still worth checking out.
Apple and Google may have surpassed them, but Microsoft's market cap has been pretty stable since 2002 or so. They are no longer a rapidly growing company, but they haven't been in decline.
Yes, by mine. I thought this was a pretty uncontroversial view. Self defense and not one millimeter more.
Invested?? "ok"...
You're right. I think the Midwest has a few advantages, which are (a) excellent universities and (b) low costs of living.
Ask HN: Can anyone help me here? 
I got accepted to the MakeGamesWithUs summer internship in San Fran but I don't have a place to stay and I don't know anyone out there. I'm from the midwest. Being 17 kind of makes my situation a little tougher. I really want to go to the internship but finding a place to stay is my problem. I plan to be there for 4-6 weeks which makes my problem even bigger because I don't know if anyone will allow me to stay with them for that long.

If anyone can help me, please let me know. I'm sort of desperate. I need to know by June 5th.
Interestingly I had that exact discussion with some friends yesterday too.

I normally divide it up a little different.

1. The things I want to save for possible use later.
2. The things I need for something specific but only once.
3. The things that I want to read later.
4. The things that I use now and then or often but can never remember the url for.

The last of the four to me is the one most often overlooked and is why I still haven't found a tool I like.

Things that fall into that category is.

My netbank, internal links, insurance site, things I am a member of, online tools, asset libraries that I use often etc.

The best analogy I have been able to come up with so far is a desktop/launchpad for the browser and it might be exactly that way of thinking about bookmarks that will make someone come up with a good enough solution one day.
What is wrong with having str1 and str2 declared on separate lines? Like this:

char* str1;
char* str2;

What is gained with combining these declarations (except for less typing)?
> Take Python, which is supposedly a "scripting" language, but requires relatively painful amounts of boilerplate to actually read from or write to pipes, etc.

It's a shame Scheme Shell didn't catch on more. That had a syntax for pipes that simply used the pipe symbol in a way that feels a lot like just using pipes in bash. Unforunately, the project page is down, and the Wikipedia entry doesn't have the best examples.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsh
> Even if the article seems to overtly take a position, that's kind of irrelevant if you think that it's the resulting discussion that matters.

I'm a big proponent of this notion. Often I'll quickly dismiss an idea I have because the discussion it created led to a much better one. However, my original idea was still crap. And saying in hindsight that I only offered it because of the discussion it would inevitably lead to is just... bad.
Dropping my props as well. Great work. Very clean and simple.
Winklevoss Capital leads $2M funding round in BitInstant
I love statistics and probability...but I thought this was going to start off like one of those old mastercard commercials lol. Just a question...isn't the odds and probability on the back of the scratchers???

100 $1 lottery tickets = $100 bucks

scratching tickets = 15 mins

learning ROI and tending to a cramped hand = priceless
Respect "no"
Convince them to switch to XMPP instead. Get an account from Jabber.org, and install Pidgin or Adium. Then they can talk to anybody else with an XMPP account on any domain, which includes Google Talk users until that service gets nuked.
Someone who is violent without reason is not just a victim, they are also a perpetrator.

There is no reason to ever be violent if it isn’t absolute necessary to defend oneself.

Ok, maybe pushing someone away can be ok in that moment, however the glee with which people here talk about violence is absolutely vile. Violence is not ok. It is to never ever be used, only in the most dire emergencies.
Join #rackspace in irc.freenode.net -- we'll help out as best we can with general infrastructure problems as well as using our APIs. We just like having nice chat about anything.

If you want general consulting, consider the Rackspace Professional Services team: http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/services/proservice...
He showed how to pay the 'stupid tax'
I think you are misreading the Bityota pages. On the contrary, you CAN run queries with JSON... but you can also just pass in regular SQL statements. I guess Postgres direct protocol is handy; I find that ODBC covers many of my needs, so I haven't actually looked at Bityota as a Postgres drop-in.

Might be worth playing with what Bityota offers; Postgres is awesome but sometimes makes you bend over backwards to do things that are easier in other systems. Paraccel/Redshift has some good extensions, but sometimes there are better ways to do things.
Yes, any kind of initial filming would be illegal. But once there's an argument going, everyone decent, I wouldn't see it as a privacy violation to overtly film the proceedings. I suppose it depends on the exact wording of the law.
To give credit where credit is due, Keith Tantlinger invented the system that allowed locking containers together for stacking and lifting to and from ships. He convinced the company he worked for to relinquish the patent to encourage adoption and standardization. That invention and standardization are what gave us our current shipping industry.
"If this were just about me being unlucky, I'd be able to do that."

Exactly, this is you being unlucky and constantly throwing yourself under any bus-like object that crosses your path.
I'm no physicist, but my understanding is that observing a virtual particle is a contradiction in terms.
Negative examples can sometimes be the best examples. :)
Could Facebook and Yahoo Stage a Bidding War for the Rights to Ruin Tumblr?
I'm always amused that when they list the overall odds of "winning", they include the odds of just getting your money back ($1 prize on a ticket that cost $1), which isn't "winning" at all in my book.
Articles like this are always so superficial, they also remind me of the very same articles from back in the day that would go on about Apple being dead.

The reality is that most silicon valley CEOs don't have charisma, in fact the only one I can think of who is around today may be Marissa Mayer at Yahoo! I also think if you look at Google and Samsung that you won't see an superior charisma at work.

What's missing is a new killer product -- and when that comes I have no doubt that Apple will do an amazing launch of what ever that product will be.
<title>Meteor on Windows</title>
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It has always pretty easy for me to read from and write to pipes in python, assuming you are talking about /std(out|in|err)/.

from sys import stdin, stdout, stderr
for n,line in enumerate(stdin):
stdout.write(str(n) + '\n')
stderr.write(line)

Is that the kind of reading and writing you are talking about?
I think I saw you commenting on this on twitter.

First, although it was before my time, let me take responsibility and apologize. You're completely right - this was not clearly communicated, its confusing, it is misleading and should have been handled much differently.

I will get the needed information in place, and handle this properly. I personally apologize for the confusion.

As you noted, the officially supported Python SDK(s) are: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrax and the https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-swiftclient/ which pyrax leverages internally and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-novaclient/ for compute.

If you have further questions, let me know - @jessenoller on twitter, or jesse.noller@rackspace.com if you need it.
Seconding this - #rackspace on IRC is watched by a lot of us, and we do also watch stackexchange/stackoverflow.
> Everything Google does is about ad sales.

Interesting contention.

Could you explain exactly how paid web services that do not embed advertising that Google provides (paid Google Apps, and backend services like App Engine, Computer Engine, Cloud SQL, Cloud Datastore, etc.) are "about ad sales" rather than about leveraging Google's core technical competencies in search, cloud storage, and web services to generate non-advertising revenue streams?
In the Box: A tour through the simulated battlefields of the U.S. Army
These paragraphs are very deep, and quite revelatory as to the nature of relativity and the Universe itself:

The speed of light is strange in that it has the same value independent of the relative velocity between the source and the observer. This fact is an experimental one that can only make sense if relative motion changes the relationship between space and time intervals to keep the distance covered by light per unit time the same for all observers.

The fact that space and time must get mixed up to keep the speed of light constant implies that, in some sense, space and time must be the same, despite our habit of measuring space in meters and time in seconds. But if time and space are similar to the extent that they can be converted one into the other, then one needs some quantity to convert the units--namely, something measured in meters per second that can be used to multiply seconds of time to get meters of space. That something, the universal conversion factor, is the speed of light. The reason that it is limited is simply the fact that a finite amount of space is equivalent to a finite amount of time.
That should have been more clear - you're right; it's application developers (api/sdk) level support. I apologize.
I think the final paragraph sums it up, although the author seems to miss the point:

>The thrill and rush of possibly winning started to wear off after about the twentieth losing ticket. Each card had a couple of “Life” symbols on them, and every time you got a second you just dreamed of seeing the third one under the remaining graphite. However it never appeared and never will and it just kind of turned depressing. How could people put themselves through this humiliation and teasing every day of their lives? This is definitely an investment that is not rigged in your favor and can never really bring you positive returns.

There is a thrill to knowing that, however small the chance, there is a large payout potentially waiting for you. Most people don't buy 100 scratchers at a time, or I would guess even one a day. Buying one lotto ticket a week, for instance, is a trivial expense for many people which also happens to be fun (the aforementioned thrill). The inevitability of the loss doesn't become as apparent over those time scales: selective memory results in people remembering their (typically small) wins and forgetting all of the losses in between.
Would like to know whether the author feels his rewrite is more successful than the original. The following takes me longer to read:

for (
;
(*to = *from) != 0;
++from, ++to
)
;

Whereas the idiomatic version seems simpler:

for (; (*to = *from) != 0; ++from, ++to);
All of those examples pose threats, but none of them is guaranteed to overtake the corresponding Microsoft product. Microsoft isn't sitting still, it's rapidly adding features to each of its products (e.g. Office 365 and the Office web apps, adding things like StreamInsight and Hekaton to SQL Server, etc.) Eclipse has been around for a long time and hasn't hurt Visual Studio yet. It's definitely possible that some Microsoft products will be disrupted, but they haven't put all of their eggs in one basket. Besides, Microsoft created enough successful new businesses over the last 10 years that I wouldn't bet against them doing the same in the next 10.
I wonder where the spent S-IVB stages from the three previous missions are, right now?
I'm not a eclipse user, but here's a comparison. On my workstation, visual studio 2010 regularly consumes over 1.5GB RAM. It's painful as hell, especially as I'm sometimes working on multiple solutions at once.
I made a word cloud of this

I removed "and", "you", "the", "that", "a", and "to" as those were just a bit TOO big.

http://i.imgur.com/77V6OvQ.png
Dart 1.0 this Summer, next Step: Dart VM in Chrome
> since it concretely bounds what is necessary

What do you mean by this?
You've been a month in Rackspace, but thanks for your response.
Well for him it was an investment, because he was writing this article and it formed the basis thereof. So for him the expected reward of (monetary return + pleasure of playing) was bolstered by (increase in value of the resultant article by having a physical illustration).
You might check out

1. http://www.digitalscienceacademy.com/dsa/index_general.php They are offering a game development course.

2. Udacity's HTML5 Game Development course - https://www.udacity.com/course/cs255

3. The ultimate resource and forum in Game Programming - http://www.gamedev.net/page/index.html

I am in the same shoes like you. And asked the same question to someone. I felt like sharing my findings with you.

I am interested in learning game programming but have to make time. Currently I am off to a trip volunteering and would return on 13th June. I am also working on a startup idea.

But I know, I will make time for doing something if I really want it.

Most of your specific questions are answered on the internet.

Shoot me an email if you want to collaborate.
<a href=https://www.virtualbox.org/>Meteor on Windows</a>
so you could say it's like comparing Apples to Oranges?
It's interesting that they blank out the MICR routing number at the bottom or the check but leave enough information elsewhere in the check to trivially figure it out.