skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the iPhone didn't come to Verizon for years because Apple would not let Verizon put its bloatware on the phone. Verizon only caved because Apple sales were so strong. iPhone only comes with Apple software, you have to manually download any Verizon apps.

My parents both got Androids recently, and while you can "hide" the pre-installed bloatware you still can't delete it. It took me about 30 minutes to clean the phones of all the widgets and crapware.

As the newcomer, a Ubuntu phone really wouldn't have any bargaining power and would be as bad or worse than Android.
I guess its safe to presume they wouldn't sell it. Otherwise, the simplest way to deal with the "piracy problem" would be to buy piratebay and shut it down.
Ask HN: What do you do?
Clearly we all like technology given that we browse this site. But I'm curious as to what we all actually do for a living. Do you like it?

And, if your career isn't technology focused, how did you find out about HN?
Honest question: could your success be at all attributed to placebo? IOW, is there any question at all as to whether or not you could have made a conscious decision to "buckle down" and have met the same result?

I fear for myself that when facing similar hardship that acquiescing to meds could just be "dealing with the situation" and not properly processing what the actual hardship is, why it exists, and how else it could be dealt with.

I suppose that in the end, solutions mean progress. And I'm all for working smarter, not harder. Perhaps it's stigma. At any rate, I'd appreciate your perspective. Also, awkward high-five for doing what you're doing.
This looks like an interesting way to have oats in a savory way - http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/miso-oat-porridge-recip...
Totally understand, thanks for the clarification. Obviously this is something I'm passionate about ;)
If your question is learning language for "career" it would almost certainly be JavaScript.
I have no confusion between the two concepts. Common sense always applies for starters ("Wow, a 99¢ hamburger! Obviously those cattle were treated humanely!").

Likewise blissful ignorance is no excuse (in an indirect world) for being unaware of the reasonable impact or influence of your allocation of capital. Otherwise there's no reason to complain of indirectly helping the government by paying taxes, for all I know every single penny of my tax money could have gone to provide food for the needy and beds for the homeless and it's just your taxes that are going toward funding guns and NSA.

The whole idea that one must know that some corporations are shadier than others belies the very question I asked, since one could willingly contribute to only those aspects of government which are considered good and to none of the other ones (which are considered bad, knowingly or unknowingly).

OP has rejected that argument in its entirety though; there is no way to claim unknowing and unwilling support of bad government in that view, so why should it be permissible to unknowingly and unwillingly support bad corporations?
And you're wrong about the quote sourcing.
"As I alluded to in my original post, my ideological objections to drugging our "broken" children are more than simply pragmatic. "

Do you have similar objections to drugging alzheimers patients?

I'm trying to understand where you draw the line.

Given that actually diagnosed ADHD people have brain chemistry differences that various drugs are meant to control, i have trouble seeing a difference between the two cases.

If you want to pretend you aren't neurologically different than others, great. Maybe you aren't!
Plenty are.

If you believe ADHD is a biological advantage that shouldn't be chemistry'd out, again great. Convince enough people, and eventually evolution will win.
Spooked by NSA, Russia reverts to paper documents
Had to deal with this once or twice for some integrations. It's a PITA for little additional security. Often you can just use a VPN or IP restriction instead.
Sorry, I wasn't being critical, just emphatic.
A brief description at http://seeed-studio.github.io/Air_Quality_Test_Box/
Don't trust this any more than any other closed-source "encrypted" communication product (like Skype). If they control both the source and the backend, how can you be sure it isn't compromised? How can you be sure it won't eventually be sold to the highest bidder?

Disclosure: I am the original author of ChatSecure, the only open source OTR+XMPP app for iOS devices.
Reminds me of this

http://www.gocomics.com/foxtrot/2013/06/30
Any.do is great. waiting for the android version of Cal
Each time a study comes out and people will link it to me (I've already had this linked to me three times) claiming that my ADHD medicine doesn't do anything and that it is worthless ... for me it isn't. Without my meds I wouldn't be able to concentrate, I wouldn't be able to get work done. At one point it got so bad at work that I was afraid I was going to get fired since I couldn't focus on any single task at hand at all.

Starting on Aderall has changed my life. I am able to concentrate on work, I get more done, I feel calmer, it is almost as if a fog has been lifted and I can clearly see what I am working on. It has been a complete shift, like the difference between day and night.

When I don't take my meds (doctor recommended breaks) I go back to being the old me, I become disorganised, I am constantly distracted and thinking about other things. I lose focus and space out. I don't like that person, because I feel like I don't accomplish anything :-(.
I wish I could remember the specific issues. It's been a few years now, and all I can recall about it was that feeling that we had a couple of experts in the open source community who could make it work, and the rest of us just shrugged and accepted their patches. I know that the bugs tended to cluster around the Certificate Revocation List, but I can't remember how they manifested.
It's html, a lot of fancy CSS transforms, and jquery/js.
The headlines are currently stored in just a static json file with urls I picked out.
I found it surprising that it's actually easier to get quality "real" headlines (fark, onionlike.tumblr.com/) than believable onion articles.
The next challenge is having the headlines stay up to date.
We're currently planning on seeding the database using the onion rss feed. The problem is filtering out the headlines which are too obvious.
Any ideas?
Yeah, I tend to prefer the lambda notation over the sqlish notation, but either way the lambda form of your solution would be similarly terse. The select call that constructed an anonymous-typed object was unnecessary, as were all the temporary variables... C# coders should never be afraid to embrace the Rubyish leading dot approach.

return s.Split(' ')
.GroupBy(word => word)
.OrderByDescending(wordGroup => wordGroup.Count())
.Select(wordGroup => wordGroup.Key)
.Take(10).ToList();
I played around it for 5 mins and deceided to delete it. Too fancy. Fantastical is much better IMO
AMD has very good free drivers, good for anything but "hardcore" linux gaming (whatever that is). Nvidia similarly has good free drivers, though those unlike the AMD drivers are reverse engineered. Still works fine from what I understand.

Mir just uses KMS like Wayland right? It should work just fine unless you want to run Crysis with WINE or something.
This information was brought to you by the Ministry of Truth division, MegaCorp-M. Have a fun, happy day, Consumer. And remember: relax, and don't think too much!
This is exactly what I did.

Too bad, it looked like it might have been a cool app.
What's the point in this? Of course the stuff doesn't boost grades by itself. It enables kids and adults to work for school or university or whatever like someone "normal". It doesn't increase your motivation, it increases your ability.
I've been running FreeBSD on my netbook since last autumn and it's more responsive, and noticeably faster than #!, which I tried out last month. (I just reinstalled FBSD last night)

Crunchbang just doesn't compare as far as speed goes.
I tested both OS' with Xfce4.1, as well as no DE with dwm & dmenu. In each case FreeBSD blows crunchbang away, and this is on an Intel Atom N270 with 1 GB RAM.

The only thing #! has going for it is ease of setup, but FreeBSD isn't that hard to setup and use, and all questions I've had are easily answered by reading the FreeBSD Handbook.

Some will decry FBSD's support for suspend/hibernate, but since I never use those features it's a non issue for me.
That said, I do believe that suspend, etc, is working for some laptops, although YMMV.
For (almost all) photos, JPGs are smaller and therefore load quicker. Its compression is much less noticeable in photographs, and therefore the size savings are usually worth it.

For logos, text, geometric imagery, etc, you generally need the image to remain relatively undistorted, so PNG is the way to go.
Draft feature set:

- Local daemon running that manages this process, on PC or Mac. It can't be done solely from the browser.

- The software manages the import from the SD/CF cards, you put them all in, it sorts everything out and wipes the SD cards on the way out.

- You then use Lightroom to do whatever you're going to do. The software would do well to have a Lightroom plugin that lets you select particular images to mark as "high priority" and "low priority."

- Now the daemon uploads all of your RAWs, Lightroom metadata, and corrected JPGs to cloud storage.

- Based on your settings, these RAWs get discarded after some set amount of time (maybe immediately, maybe never), and the highest-quality JPGs are also discarded after a longer amount of time for lower-quality JPGs just in case you need a emergency backup. After 6 months you lose the raws, 1 year the highest quality JPG, 2 years the medium quality JPG, etc. You are charged per gigabyte per month so you can decide how much you care about backup. Basically offload the cognitive effort of discarding old data that isn't worth its upkeep costs anymore.

- The files are available via an API that you can use to build your own gallery/shopping cart site, with the ability to call a certain quality, PROOF watermarking, etc. on-the-fly. But the service offers a default site right there for you to do the same, that's stylable and can be implemented on your own domain.

- You can get your entire catalog shipped to you on a hard drive at any time for a few hundred dollars.
I don't remember ever being afflicted with Alzheimer's, so I can't speak to that case.

But what is evident is that ADHD affliction is a broad, very continuous spectrum and not a black/white "disease" in the traditional sense. It's largely based on subjective factors. The hypochondriac parent will very easily convince a doctor to prescribe ADHD medication for his/her child. This reality, in addition to my own personal experience, leads me to believe that "ADHD" is less a disorder and more just a feature, like having brown eyes or fair skin.
Mo' money, mo' quantity of problems.
Cool, how do you do that with a dynamically changing list of hosts that you're getting from somewhere else? I would totally use this with a team dropbox and a .shuttle.json file full of all of our systems.

Or, put another way: think beyond your own use case before posting, yeah?
This can already be accomplished with Dropbox just by symlinking...
It's worth keeping in mind that a number of the people who would show up in statistics as not working would be devoting themselves to activities that are socially beneficial but not currently economically viable: community art projects, gardens, mentoring children, cultivating time-intensive abilities that are inhibited by the archaic idea that the only worthwhile way to exist is to work 40+ hours per week. I know that's what I'd do.

I'd also like to travel, and would be more than willing to work a sane amount of hours to contribute to the basic functioning of society in exchange for the means to do so. With respect to the Italy example -- raise wages enough and I'd bet the shortage would disappear. If the societal need is great enough, the prices will reflect that (maybe we don't actually need more garments?).

The basic functioning of society would need to be redefined a bit -- perpetual economic growth is neither sustainable nor desirable at least while it comes at the expense of the environment, or social and medical well-being (obesity, depression, etc).
>> "...they want to be what Google and Apple would be if they merged"

I don't see much upside to becoming another Apple. I always thought of Apple's strategy as being dictated by MS, since the volume and business ends of the market were off-limits, Apple had to take what was left, making a niche for itself at the high end. Apple is doing well now, but their situation doesn't seem any less precarious than MS, and there certainly can't be room for both companies in Apple's market. Google's market, too, doesn't seem to have enough room for a MS.

If I was MS, my priority would be protecting the health of my cash cows. The PC is not literally dead. Just because a van is not a sports car doesn't mean companies that make vans are going out of business.

This reorganization seems to be a response to criticism of Windows 8 and Ballmer's leadership, and this seems to be Ballmer's way of saying he doesn't intend on going anywhere. At least, not without a lot of bureaucratic box-reshuffling.
Restore the 4th - San Francisco - Come plan an August 4th rally
this is awesome. if i could enter arbitrary repositories i'd use this every day
So don't take consideration for Dragonflybsd, OpenBSD, or the biggest elephant in the bsd fork room, OSX.

FOSS will fragment because people have different opinions and are passionate about the choices they make in the software to create and use. There is no alternative, because in free software the developer has last say. There is no school of "the one way" of how to do anything in foss, the only possible proxy being the popularity of the software created.
I've fairly often eaten oatmeal with chili, and curry wouldn't be bad, probably.
Currently, the server-side code is not public. But we might open-source parts of it in the future after adding some more features.
ADHD is both over-treated as well as under-treated. Some children might not need medication, but others suffer from the effects of untreated ADHD.

It often looks as if the side effects of Ritalin are overstated, and the negative effects of untreated ADHD are understated. ADHD has been linked to Depression and poor social life.
We're looking into adding support for Exchange sometime soon.
Playing with semantics, if a pro agreed to power such a helicopter, he'd most likely be doing it as an amateur, since amateurs do things for the love of it!

Pros take risks, but I'd theorise that a part of the career would be managing those risks, to maximise the career. It would be very cool to power the first human powered helicopter, but I suspect we are not typical, in that the typical punter cares more about sport than a helicopter. From a professional point of view, the fame and returns from piloting a helicopter are negligible compared to the rewards of improving in the Tour or the Giro.

I'm descending into hot air production here, since I have no real evidence on which to base it!
It seems brief text-based communication presents fertile ground for misunderstanding ;)
It will likely continue to work with Xmir, though I would think NX/FreeNX would need changes to work with Mir directly.

(Same applies to Wayland.)
I'm going to purchase a subscription to the Guardian out of principal. I invite you all to do the same. This is absolutely fantastic work they've done.
The stack of OS upgrades? Or the stack of critical software updates? Or the stack of windows on the unmanageable, broken-metaphor 'powered' desktop? Or the stack of useless Microsoft 'powered' devices now in landfill? So many stacks. So little time.
> Qt has a lot better abstraction capabilities
> now than it did for Qt 3

Qt has run on not-X since the beginning. It's always been available for Windows, and has had (suboptimal) OS X support for over a decade.
Sitting still at least some of the time and not attacking fellow students and teachers more than they deserve is certainly a good start...
Comparatively maybe less than .01% of all banking transactions involve illicit funds.

I had lunch with a DEA agent who claimed that 5-10% of all dollars transmitted by Western Union were the result of drug trafficking.
Outside of a tiny percentage of people with a problem serious enough to warrant medication, the point of the drugs is to make kid easier to manage.
Web/data mining freelancing. Working on bootstrapping a scraping/data transformation product leveraging a text analysis platform I built.

Overall, I can say I wouldn't be doing if I didn't like it. There's something empowering about throwing mass input at a computer and having it auto extract things you want to know in milliseconds (not talking about just search either!).
It'll be interesting to see who AMD and NVIDIA decide to jump on board with. I can't see NVIDIA supporting both Wayland and Mir.
This is super obvious if you watch some of Erik Meijer's excellent videos on Channel 9. Recommended viewing for anyone reading this who hasn't. Watching him bounce between Haskell and C# felt like someone explaining etymology by moving between Latin and English.
Since we're talking calendar apps, thought I'd post this thing from Teehan+Lax called Upcoming. It's a calendar UI experiment. I'm not sure they nailed it, but it is great to see people trying new approaches...

http://labs.teehanlax.com/project/upcoming
I have seen too many believe that refactoring code was "doing the right thing." One guy I knew attempted to rewrite Boost's build system because it wasn't "the right way".
To anyone not familiar with this, jlgreco is referring to open-source drivers - both AMD and nVidia provide closed-source driver binaries that tend to outperform their open-source counterparts.

nVidia and AMD's closed-source drivers have advanced noticeably since Valve released the Steam for Linux client.
Is this really 'instant'? I tried using Coinbase to buy Bitcoins a little over a month ago. Spent a week or so logging in repeatedly, including right at 6 AM EST, which is supposedly when the site 'resets' and the day's limit goes back to 0. I was never able to buy; kept getting "Sorry, we're over the day's limit" error messages again and again. Tried a solid 10 or 12 times over the course of a week. I guess that means things are good for Bitcoin if it's turning away that much business (I assume there are legions more and I'm not the only one), but it certainly sent me, for one, looking for alternatives.
The key word in your question was "better." Sure, building a YouTube alternative is doable. But to make something better than YouTube (disregarding politics) would be an extremely impressive feat.
I follow a similar strategy when I'm interviewing for a job. I play it a little loose and speak freely. If they don't have the good sense to realize that questions about my resume or github code are more important than white boarding and programming riddles, then I don't want work for or with them. When I'm interviewing to hire someone, I reverse the situation and try to get them to loosen up. The interview process is a window into company culture.

Same goes when I'm setting up partnerships for STEAM classes with schools. Schools can be strict with their staff and their students. I don't ever want to put forward a persona that suggest I will also be strict or by the book because that will never work out. No one will be happy.

I suppose if I can't ever find a job and no one will let me teach, it's time to re-examine my personality. Until then, no reason to keep my disregard for bureaucratic norms and fake corporate civility a secret.
> Honest question: could your success be at all attributed to placebo? IOW, is there any question at all as to whether or not you could have made a conscious decision to "buckle down" and have met the same result?

I'm 27 now. I began taking ADHD medication when I was 21. With the exception of methamphetamine (yes, it's actually an old, crude ADHD treatment) I believe I've taken every FDA-approved ADHD drug there is - both stimulant and non-stimulant. Even the patch. It was a hard road to figure out what is effective for me with minimal side effects, but there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that medication contributes heavily to my success.

The sensation is difficult to describe, but when I'm not medicated I'm often completely unaware that my focus has shifted. No amount of mental exertion (aka "buckling down") changes that for me.

I'm a very passionate software engineer. I wake up in the morning and before I've put clothes on I'm reading about something to do with software. Chances are the last thing I look at before I fall asleep also has something to do with software. This has been constant since I was 12 years old -- long before I was medicated. In college, before I was medicated, there was absolutely no way I'd be able to make it through a lecture and retain all of the information -- even while taking notes. I'd pause to think about something the professor said, and a few tangents later I'd be drawing unicorn fish or something in the margins. I still have the notebooks. I've gone back and looked -- the difference between before and after I was medicated was stark [1].

Whether or not medication is the right choice is a very individual decision. Hell, even your doctor doesn't really know. If you have the ability to "buckle down" when needed and you don't feel like your life is ready to crumble because you're just barely getting by - you're probably fine. There's a ton these drugs can do to mess up your life [2] and the narcotic effects can be plenty distracting on their own if your doctor is too liberal with your dosage.

1: Something worth noting is that an outside observer might view this as having my creativity squelched. "Oh look at all the drawings, and now just boring mechanical notes? This person's soul has been snuffed out by the evil chemicals!" The truth is just the opposite - I was finally able to direct my creative energy where I wanted, and the feeling was utterly profound.

2: Appetite suppression, insomnia, depression, addiction, heart palpitations, aggressiveness, diminished sexual desire, and horrible irritability are all common side effects. They might not all meet the FDA definition of "common," but they're plenty common enough.
What many people don't understand is the stress people with ADD are exposed to. Especially when they're smart.

Imagine having a porsche in your driveway, but for reasons you can only use the first gear. No matter how hard you push the pedal to the metal, you won't be as fast as you want the car to go. Plus if you keep going full throttle in the first gear eventually you'll break something.

Sounds depressing, doesn't it? And that's exactly what happens. People eventually get depressed. It won't go away by itself. When they go to the doctor, it's basically a game of chance. If the doctor is competent, he'll do the proper tests. Unfortunately most aren't. There are a lot of syndromes, illnesses, conditions that match the symptoms.

If the ADD patient is lucky, the correct diagnosis is made. If unlucky, he may be treated for borderline, depressions, etc. Antidepressants may worsen the condition, because they may increase motivation without increasing ability.

A well diagnosed and medicated ADD patient however will lose depression in almost no time.