skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> screen -t "foo"

You mean

screen -S "foo"

right?
Not everyone uses the same editors.
Are there any Clover Trail tablets with more than 4GB of RAM?
Couldn't they donate elsewhere and have pretty close to the same affect? I assume that your choice to donate specifically to your school instead of another has something to do with your feelings for the school.
We have now changed the default for new users of any sort to have 1 private workspace for free. Thanks for your feedback.

We will also change new workspaces to be private if at all possible given the user's limits.
"deriving conclusions from the relationship between embryo development and (what they call) cancer"

Except that they repeatedly say "The new theory predicts that as cancer progresses through more and more malignant stages, it will express genes that are more deeply conserved among multicellular organisms, and so are in some sense more ancient". So, just to be clear, they're not deriving conclusions from a relationship between embryonic development and (what they call) cancer - they're deriving a relationship from their conclusions.

Physicists poking their noses into fields they know absolutely nothing about and making grand pronouncements isn't new.

Why this is a 2013 press release I don't know - they basically published on this in 2011 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1478-3975/8/1/015001) though they seem to be no further along now than they were then - which is nowhere, since in 2011 they were basically still saying "We think these are atavistic genes, here is the sort of research agenda that might reveal this..." and then they didn't undertake that research, as far as I can find. They're still just speculating on it.
That's probably because, as a funded company, they are solely out for your dollars. =]
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"Could it be, we wonder, that cancer’s predilection for a hypoxic environment reflects the prevailing conditions on Earth at the time when multicellularity first evolved, before the second great oxygenation event?"

Could it be that once cells are approximately 2-3 cell-diameters away from a blood vessel they die of hypoxia, and thus cannot break through a basement membrane and achieve metastasis without evolving a tolerance for hypoxia? This is essentially the cancer-specific version of the anthropic principle.

I love it when physicists start spinning yarns about other people's fields.
I hope you don't "own" an iPhone (after Jan 2013) because aren't they supposed to be illegal to unlock unless with carrier permission?
"Surface" as a transitional verb makes me break out in hives.
How safe is it to use? Have you heard of people having issues with the patch? If things don't work, would it be as simple as removing the patch or would a fresh Windows install be required?
Yep.

What are the govt gonna do, throw Tim Cook, Eric Schmidt, Larry and Sergey into jail? Disappear them?

The absolute best lawyers in America available to them, massive public opinion likely to be on their side, unlimited funds to defend lengthy legal action. If THEY won't and don't feel able to say 'no this is wrong' and stand up to the NSA mission creep then that is a very scary thought and makes Snowden's actions even more brave.
But nobody does this. Classrooms are still full of MacBooks and iPads. It is an assumption that sounds good on paper, but never materialized. If I had to guess why it is because generally your computer you're taking notes on is also a personal machine at college in the sense that you want to have fun with it. So when it comes down to fun with a little awkward notes or good note taking with awkward everything else the Mac products still win out.
Hey, heads up, your SSL cert expired about 2.5 hours ago...
I think most if not all of them only have 2GB.
Evidence introduced at trial, yes. Investigative materials and whatnot used to put the case together, things not directly used as evidence... perhaps not.
nice though I think it needs more breadth of development involved.
but perhaps it could grow to something more complex, perhaps I need to look at final projects found in text books.
> The clock sets itself up

I wish I could find a dumb phone with that capability. On my old Nokia (new dumb models as well) the clock is reset each time SIM card is changed (and I think sometimes if the phone runs out of battery).
Wish they'd backport it for XP, I am determined to get another year out of this machine.
Note that this doesn't enable you to run 64-bit applications, or for any single process to address more than 4GB of memory.

As a result, it's of extremely limited utility today - you'd need a 32-bit application that needs to run on bare hardware (ie, not a 32-bit OS running under a 64-bit VM), and needs a ton of memory, or a pre-64-bit system with > 4GB of memory, which would be both rare and inefficient, as that would be single core/socket systems that are at least 6 years old at this point.

I guess if you had some system you were trying to keep alive that needed a lot of RAM, PCI-X card slots, and 32-bit software it might be handy, but that seems very rare/esoteric at this point.
Don't forget that employee stock compensation also involves repurchasing shares off the market - which means some of the company's earnings do make it back to investors.
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systemd is not the software which depends on /usr, so I do not think that blaming Lennart is fair. I have no idea why this myth is still alive.
Doubtful... my guess (since I don't care enough to actually read their financial statements) is that the lower CPC is because mobile is growing faster than desktops.. and so they're getting more mobile clicks (which pay less). So in this case, after it's averaged out, they end up with a lower CPC.
I think what mikestew means is that the Surface RT makes her feel stupid because she can't figure out how to use it.
At a high level, we can consider the current buy demand to be weak based on the new information.

If bad news just came out, would you immediately want to buy? No, you'd probably wait. That overall pressure results in a downward movement in price.

Further, there is pressure for current holders to sell because they know there is going to be downward pressure. They can sell without much concern. Even if they really want to maintain their position, they can sell short term and buy back in later at a lower price.

The more significant the news, the more obvious the pressure will be and at a higher expected intensity - so more people will behave as described above.
That's quite a stretch. I don't really know what you mean with the Sony comment so I'm going to guess you meant Playstation 3 which was widely considered hard to develop for. When PS3 was released there had been exactly one x86-based mainstream console on the market. Even Microsoft chose to abandon x86 for Xbox 360. PS3 was hard to develop for, but not because it wasn't based on an x86 architecture.

Anyway, to get back on topic: Ouya has a well-know architecture. It has a well-known operating system with good tool support. What sets it apart from an Android tablet is the controller and the fact that you plug it into a TV. When Ouya fails, it's not going to be because it lacked good tools.
Sadly it is not trivial to do. See Geoff Chappell's article:
http://geoffchappell.com/notes/windows/license/memory.htm
You'd be better off with Server 2003 Enterprise, which is also supported until July 2015 unlike XP.
This could be pretty broad. You could take it all the way from the DSP of working with the MP3 encoded audio to gui design and development. It would also show a great deal of skill in overall application architecture.
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I think the only typical real world example of a "pre-64-bit system with > 4GB of memory" that have the NX bit required for Win8 is the Xeon Sossaman.
I thought the purpose of having a "smart" phone was to simplify things, not carry around multiple gadgets!
Nope. Certain elements of evidence are routinely kept secret from the public at trials and may be kept under judicial seal.
From the consumer point of view, sure, sounds great.

Why would the vendor be at all obliged to let them return the unit in the first place though? Outside of misrepresentation and fraud and things that are not fit for the purposes sold, sellers in general have no obligation at all to take a return.
You see retail stores always taking returns, but that's a business decision to stay competitive... they are under no obligation to do so.

If the terms of sale stipulates that you can return it for a refund, or if it was somehow completely misrepresented and then a fraudulent sale by default..... sure.

So if you bought a console dev kit, and it worked as described for the purposes sold (which aren't necessarily the purpose you bought it for) - the vendor is under no obligation to refund you.
gonna cost a lot of money and inconvenience a lot of passengers. if a non-emergency, wouldn't they loop in dispatch and maybe a Boeing engineer before turning it around? makes you think, better to wait til they work out kinks before taking one.
It's not perfect. Mountain Lion crashed for me just two days ago. Just based on my perceptions, I'd say Mac OS stability has declined since they moved off of PPC.
Long hardware maintenance cycles, especially in businesses.

The last 32-bit NetBurst (Pentium 4) systems with 2GB of RAM aren't that bad to work on, when given a video card that supports Windows 7/8 video features and a decently fast disk.

You don't need a whole lot more to run a greenscreen terminal emulator or a basic web browser.
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If all the decisions were based on users, the company will never be able to define the future. I think we clearly see that in product failures/criticisms - even the new Xbox backlash for MSFT. Consumers are fickle. They never like drastic changes. And consumers always choose near term interests than long term benefits.

I don't understand why HN Users need to single out MSFT/Steve Ballmer as making mistakes all the time. They have made mistakes but my point is - RT wasn't one of them. It's cool to analyze strategies without associated fanboyisms/ individual hatred.
Very prescient, except for this bit, unfortunately: But the direction of both computing and communications, on the Internet and in mobile telecoms, is towards open standards: communication devices are less useful if they cannot all talk to each other
As someone who used to work in the web hosting industry, this article completely ignores the technical side of things of handling _THAT_ much attention.

I've seen startups be hosted on shared hosting plans, get a boat load of traffic, the site gets suspended, and they are dumbfounded as to why it happened!

If you spend the amount of money to launch a start up, get a beefy server, load balance it with at least Varnish, and do some load testing before going on mainstream media. Nothing is more embarrassing as when your site tanks after being advertised on National television.
The real question is were it's capabilities misrepresented - did they sell you something that didn't do what they told you it would do?

Because if not.. and if it was only your personal assumptions that were off despite google being clear about what it was you were buying.... that's your problem, not theirs.
I've just been setting up MacPorts and pkgsrc side-by-side and though certainly have not plumbed the depths of either, I'm finding MacPorts to work better and have more packages.
I paid about $600 for a Samsung 500T and I think it's a great device, albeit for a small market. I bought it because it was effectively a 1kg netbook with a 10 hour battery and a stylus. It's not as good of a tablet as the iPad but it's a real computer, which makes it great for running office, gcc, CAD programs, and all that "on the go." When I need to do some reading I pick up my iPad, but as my super-portable meeting/lunch/whatever computer the 500T is a big winner. Given that an x86 processor (Atom) can get 10 hours in a tablet I'm not sure what the point of RT was though.
Sure. I have a scanner that is now useless because Canon never released a 64-bit driver. (The useful lifetime of a scanner is longer than the life of an individual PC or the time a manufacturer will support it.)
Lots of scientific and industrial equipment will not have 64-bit drivers.
Was that fact noted by google pre-purchase? Because if it was..... again, google did nothing wrong.
You could teach them to how to use SmartGit or a git management application. I'm technical and I still prefer SmartGit over the command line.
There is another option, which is to do your own research and live (and die) by a personal code of ethics.

I don't believe that people "sell out," though I do believe that people "buy in." Adhering or conforming to a system you do not believe in is "buying in" to it.
Delusional thinking is not going to get you to places in life.
Keep in mind that the rate at which a block of ice melts scales with its surface area, so it actually becomes easier to transport large blocks of ice, if you have the other infrastructure to support it.
Anonymous is just a /b meme, suspended in thin air. And it makes no more sense to talk about anonymous as a group as it makes sense to talk about protesters as a single group, without specifying if you talk about the Syrian opposition, the Muslim Brotherhood or the local NIMBY initiative.
Can't we consider a fighter pilot's HUD augmented reality? That's not exactly new.
I also have a ASUS Zenbook Prime. I bought it based on Jeff Atwood's glowing recommendation on his blog. I am running Ubuntu 13.10, which fixed several hardware issues and possibly introduced a couple more. Here are my main issues with running Ubuntu:

1. Ubuntu does not remember screen brightness after reboot.

2. Getting Flash properly installed so I could watch Amazon Instant Video was a struggle. Netflix over Wine works like a charm if not ideal (it's broken for me a couple of times but it's working again now) and HBO GO works even better.

3. Firefox does not seem to support high DPI screens for Linux yet. So you either have to zoom on each page or use an add-on such as NoSquint.

4. The SSD is apparently too fast for lightdm, the logon software, to handle. I had to change the default logon software to gdm.

5. Frequently, the feature which saves Facebook/Google/Twitter login info for desktop apps would forget my password and generate blank popups and error reports.

6. Random error popups every once and a while.

All of the above are minor gripes considering I am not paying anything for this software. Overall, I am very happy with the entire stack from Ubuntu to the Linux kernel. I choose to do most of my home desktop activities on Ubuntu when possible. I keep my Windows desktop around to run iTunes and that's about it. I like the Ubuntu/Linux experience but the above problems prevent me from recommending it to my family.

Issues with ZenBook Prime:

1. Touchpad is not great.

2. I have hardware problems with the keyboard and the power and I've had to send it back to ASUS for repair. Seems to be working fine now.
Smart phones can go days without recharge if you disable the data (edge or 3g/4g). I was traveling with my iphone 3gs in France without data and didnt have to recharge for over a week. Only light SMS usage, may be 1 txt a day.

I use my smartphone as an iPod/Audio Books reader, occasional snap of whiteboarding/documents.
Unfortunately Win8 requires NX so only the very last ones will work and Intel released socket compatible 64-bit capable NetBurst CPUs not long afterwards.
How long ago was this? Even OpenBSD, one of the most conservative OSes out there, is pretty much plug/play for monitors these days.
For what it's worth, I installed Debian Wheezy on my ThinkPad T420 last week, after years of being away from Debian GNU/Linux (I got caught by the Ubuntu bug), and I must say that I was extremely impressed; my video card, sound card, ethernet card, webcam, microphone, trackpad, trackpoint, SNES and Xbox360 controllers all worked out of the box. I had to apt-get install firmware-realtek, a non-free package to get Wifi working, but once I had downloaded it, my wireless card worked without any further configuration.

As for stability, I think Debian's reputation for being rock solid is well established and deserved. I'm extremely happy with the setup I have and with how little effort I had to expand to get it.

If you have an older machine lying around, I'd heartily recommend giving it a whirl.
Yeah I could do a whole other article on how we shifted from minimizing friction on the sign up form to actually increasing it. If it's too easy to sign up for your service it's hard to tell if your marketing actually worked and you have qualified leads or if you just have a bunch of people that "clicked here".
Offer HN: I'll build your iPhone App idea For $200
Email me at natasha at natashatherobot.com if you'd like me to build your iPhone app idea.

Why I'm doing this:
I recently learned iOS development and am looking to get more practice / build up my iOS portfolio outside my job.

Why $200?
I'd like to work with people who are passionate enough to pay for their idea but might not be able to afford the actual price tag.

I currently have 2 apps in the App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shoplater/id664768597?ls=1&mt=8
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How it works:

1. First in, first out: The sooner you email me, the sooner you get your app. I'll have a queuing system set up, so as soon as I'm done with the first app, I'll move on to the next.

2. Once I'm ready to start working on your app, we'll have a Skype call and keep in contact via email to clarify the requirements and figure out the business logic. Communication is key and I want to make sure you're happy with my work, so please be available to answer questions promptly while I'm building your app.

3. Payment: $100 up front, $100 on completion.

4. Design: If you have a design ready to go, I'll implement it. Otherwise I'll be using the native UI components. You'll need to provide the app store icon and loading screens.

5. Back-end: If you have an API to use, I'll use it. I can also use Parse, but you're responsible for paying for it. I'll also implement CoreData as necessary. If you need a more heavy back-end API component, you'll need to build it yourself.

6. You own the code, but I can blog about how specific features were implemented. You can see examples of my blog posts on natashatherobot.com.

7. I have the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.

Let me know if you have any other questions, and I'll answer them in the comments.
Do you mean removing referral links from legit links? Yep. No reason to give them even more information than they already get from the visit.
MS gave users no upgrade path from 32bit to 64bit Windows.

You need a clean install, something many are hesitant to do, or can't do.
The hardware is fine - if I put it in Airplane mode, or, carefully disable every single background process, then it can sit in sleep mode with little battery loss, for a week.

I guess another way of double checking this, is just reinstalling the Operating System from scratch at the Genius Bar.
You mean the current scientific consensus doesn't believe that is correct any longer.

Scientific consensus believed bleeding patients was a proper treatment for two thousand years.

Things change.

From a common sense point-of-view it still seems like a legitimate theory to me.
Call it beta or whatnot... but Google was very up-front that this was the initial release of the product, and that they wanted to select a limited size team to get them out in the world, to people who would give them perspective.
He wrote that he'd use it and blog/journal about it and whatnot.

If he wanted an end product that was polished, he mislead google and misled himself.
Judging by the number of duplicate submissions that I flag on a daily basis, the duplicate-finding algorithm doesn't work very well, even on variants of the same URL (e.g., parameters after the "?", like "print=yes" aren't always ignored). And there are lots of things the algorithm won't find at all but are obvious to a person:

- Frequently, the identical story is cross-posted to multiple sites.

- Someone posts the mobile version of an article (m.foo.com) in addition to the canonical URL (www.foo.com).

- Several very similar articles on the same topic: every breaking news story on the Zimmerman verdict or the Bolivian president's plane had pretty much the same facts in it, so if you've seen one, you've seen them all.

So I'll just keep on spending those valuable seconds for the good of the HN community.
The article did not discuss genetics. Your question makes no sense.
I would more than gladly purchase a pro.
Be outraged every day, or not at all.
> But as far as I can tell, the affected companies are the victims here. They were forced into doing this by the US government. There's no "cooperation" when the US government says "we are legally compelling you to do this".

Think about other instances in which the U.S. government "forces" companies into doing things: say a new EPA reg or a new SEC reg. Every such activity is met with a flood of litigation from the companies affected. But here, apparently only Yahoo put up a fight.

It might seem like the DOJ is omnipotent, but really, it's a very budget-constrained and capacity-constrained entity (it's too busy fighting Nancy Reagan's drug war). People need to get their stories consistent on this point: if the government is owned by big evil corporations with lots of money, well the tech industry has plenty of those that can throw their weight and money around.

To be fair, I don't know all of the details, but my gut feeling is that if these companies had wanted to, they could have at least forced the DOJ to spend a lot of money and time getting their cooperation. As a practical matter, not doing so might have been the wrong move even from a business standpoint--each company possibly stands to lose a lot more than they would have had to spend on enough litigation to ruin the DOJ's day.
Or you could get a smart phone, and not suscribe to social networks on it. If you like getting lost, maybe you should just a) not check your GPS on the phone b) take trips to go to places you've never heard of. The internet can help, but doesn't need to me your source. I respect your decision, but at the end it's all a matter of self-discipline. In H.S. people were face in dumb phones as well...
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"Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." - Wallace Stanley Sayre. [aka Sayre's Law]
Realistically, I do think that this is pretty normal.

That kind of depresses me though. I guess it seems odd how so many adults don't have close friendships. I'm not sure whether it's just a common part of adulthood, or whether it's because of cultural or other factors in the US.
Obligatory xkcd http://xkcd.com/1205/
It's a nice way to think about it, but you have to sell out from one system to buy into another, right?
Salespeople: Do Your Fucking Research
I fully understand 4chan /b/ culture and so forth. Trust me, I know what you're talking about. Look at how I worded my response, its both "yes" and "no". Russian criminal gangs have the full right to call themselves Anonymous, as does the NSA if they really wanted.

And whether or not it is "right", there are groups of people on the internet who "respond to the call of Anonymous". As long as you invoke the name anonymous, then you recieve them as an ally. This is dangerous behavior, and leads not necessarily to "false flag" attacks (in the strictest sense), but allows the groups that align themselves with Anonymous to be easily manipulated.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Jester-Anonymous-Hackers-...

Its a dumb, irresponsible, and juvenile setup.