skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same here. I'm kind of pissed. I wonder whether I should try contacting Apple but I'm pretty sure that they won't give a shit.
I don't buy into the view that women are less aggressive. IMO, they display a different kind of aggressiveness, somewhat less frontal but just as damaging.

This may be a guy thing, and a clash in behaviour of the sexes. Guys are more prone to bursts of aggressiveness, gals more adept of moderate long term aggressive stances. Which one is more difficult to handle is largely a matter of opinion. Quick bursts are automatically solved immediately, leaving bruised egos, long term allows more time to manage the underlying reason. Just because Linus' stance is flashy does not make it wrong.

Unless you posit that aggression is never warranted. Then, we'll have to disagree. Aggression is a normal behaviour, artificial suppression leads to non healthy alternatives; it's better to lay problems out in the open and fix them than to sweep them under the politically correct rug.
We use Bugsnag. It's been great and easily integrates into a variety of platforms.
I have used publishers like Springer-Verlag, McGraw-Hill, J. Wiley, etc. in the past - a nice experience. I am now using leanpub.com and I am very happy with them. They take all the hassle out of writing.

I recently released the 4th edition of my Java AI book on leanpub.com https://leanpub.com/javaai and in a few weeks the 3rd edition of my "Loving Common Lisp. The Saavy Programmer's Secret Weapon" will be released.

Leanpub.com pays 90% royalties, minus a $0.50 handling charge so you might be pleasantly surprised how much money you can earn.
This advise (sentence) is worth its weight in pure gold. Kudos!
>Their second biggest mistake has been the "me too" attitude. Netbooks popular? Ubuntu Netbook Remix! Oh wait, tablets you say? Ubuntu for Tablets! Google and Apple launch TV platforms? Ubuntu TV! Oh, and don't forget that we have a phone OS as well!

They think they're a content company trying to put their on OS on as many devices as possible (control a horizontal).

Really they're a platform company, and they should be trying to make exactly one most popular thing (my guess is Amazon instances running Ubuntu) run as well as possible with all their other services, like their package manager, their cloud, etc. They should try to own a vertical, like Apple does.
I used to look at those as if they were some kind of joke, but they are no joke. They will make you the annoying-insect-executioner.
Is the underlying concept, to generate leads for the car dealerships where you going to test drive at ?
Are you asking if it would be a bad thing if spying operations that should've never happened, get ended?
Rails 3.2.14-rc2 has been released
Mmm. Smart Euro girls FTW!!!
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This is right on. Just because he's a guy that gets a lot of challenging stuff done and can also be a jerk doesn't mean that being a jerk is somehow essential to getting a lot of challenging stuff done. Correlation isn't causation, etc. He's a jerk because he can get away with it, plain and simple. I sort of understand the people who are amused by his jerkiness, but at the same time I frequently get the vibe that many of those people wish they could be jerks too in their day to day life, so they're living vicariously through him. I can slip up and be a jerk too sometimes but it's not something I aspire to, and I don't know why anyone else would. That's only a form of leadership if the people you are leading are idiots and/or jerks themselves.
Yummy Bird is so tasty
I have just released v 0.3.0. of a Clojure library for monad (et al.) programming.
There is a lot of documentation ant tutorials at the accompanying website http://http://fluokitten.uncomplicate.org/

I'll lurk around here today, so if you have any questions, comments, observations, please do post :)
If someone hasn't mentioned it yet: http://www.smashwords.com/about/how_to_publish_on_smashwords

I found it to be a great resource for finding information as well as people to do the cover and/or formatting of the eBook.

Yes I have one out... :)
I can't find the relevant research articles at the moment, but there is evidence that success on the marshmallow test can be improved with training (also referenced at the end of this article: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/the-willpower-circ... )
I was expecting something that could be used in the developing world. It seems that solar power fans could be provided reasonably cheaply, maybe even made locally (apart from the solar cells) from "recycled" (dumped) materials from the west.

Would it have any useful benefit over bed nets?
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Ableton's summing is completely transparent, as numerous tests have demonstrated. It's really just basic float math. Ableton's reputation for muddy sound has a lot more to do with somewhat mediocre stock effects plugins and the audio stretching algorithms.
I've also published a book with Leanpub (https://leanpub.com/learn-python/) and would definitely recommend them 100%. There is, essentially, zero downside in going with them, as they only get 10% of what you make, provide an excellent platform, and don't mind if you publish anywhere and everywhere else.

I particularly like the fact that you can publish a single chapter of the book, people can buy it, and you can keep writing it and improving it (with feedback) and people will continue receiving updates for ever. I just love it.

My advice would be, get on Leanpub now (or, well, two months ago), let a few people discover and give you feedback on the book, see what works and what doesn't, and then publish the final thing somewhere else, if Leanpub isn't working for you, using the feedback you've gotten.

Also, everyone else's advice sounds sane too.
That only requires that you keep the logo file in the project, not necessarily that you use it.
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Andy ignored my advice and created a successful iPhone app.
Unless you plan on making your own vocal or acoustic instrument samples, most of that equipment isn't necessary.
So what's the upgrade policy? I suppose since the Mac App Store doesn't support paid upgrades, everybody gets the new version for free?
I'm founder of Sellfy and we have many ebook publishers on our platform - we see what works and what doesn't so I'm happy to share few tips if you are interested.

Here are few quick tips:

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I disagree. While the majority of smart kids at school do follow the traditional route, doing their work, conforming to the system (sometimes because it's easy for them, and they may as well take advantage of their brains to get a decent job, and sometimes because they're simply blind), there are always a number of exceptions. You have exceptionally-bright kids who don't know what to do with their lives and slack in school because they're bored and lazy, but you also have exceptionally bright, almost enlightened kids who are extremely passionate about learning, but find themselves disgusted by the mindless conformism required to excel in such an institution. Not every person who can excel wants to excel at something so pointless.
I think it's all about demand, that's why prices are lower, these days demand is a lot more than before, and everything is really accessible.

With that being said, it's not cheap if you add other things you have to buy, studio monitors, a fast computer, and good midi keyboard (and that's the minimum for a full in-the-box musician).
It really is. When you look into the history, you realize that most of the Amendments arose from specific abuses of the law by the British state, and are really an attempt to permanently protect rights that already existed at common law.
I'm not sure about scientific evidence, but it's almost the case you don't need scientific evidence to know that keeping an active mind severely mitigates dementia. I think there's a lot of research regarding Alzheimer's, but this kind of research has huge timeframes which make hard to draw good conclusions from because of experimental design limitations.
This is totally placebo. Ableton is completely transparent for audio as long as no audio stretching is involved. You have to be careful though because if you don't configure audio clips the right way and do route them through the time stretching algorithms you will definitely lose some sound quality.

Probably Live's biggest problem in this regard is that it doesn't make it as clear as it could that this kind of stretching is going on.
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blend.io is trying to do that.

You just have to make sure to include all your samples in your project, in ableton you do that with the "Collect and save all" option, Logic has one but I don't remember how it is called.
Labor in the Lifestyle Triangle
`apt-get install xfce-desktop lightdm` isn't exactly what I would describe as slackware territory.
That's kind of the idea. These leads would be very high quality, since consumers would actually have to visit the dealership. My target for the leads is primarily the manufacturers, not the dealers - but both are interested.
Midges in the Scottish Highlands are so sensitive to wind that the act of hiking itself creates enough of a breeze to prevent them from biting.

As I found out first-hand this week: just keep walking.

[Additional: Avon Skin-so-Soft seems to prevent midges from surviving a landing, but I didn't find anything to beat larger clegs/horseflies except a good slapping - they will bite through clothing]
Why wouldn't I get away with it?
I read the email thread. Sarah asks to be polite on mailing list, because there is no feedback, and author can not know how it was taken. Latter she talks about karate and beating opponent when he is down.

There is really nothing about sexism/racism in there.
VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (27 KB)
a complete business application in a 27 kb com file. from a real programmer. worthy!
Separate compile-time from run-time....

(DESCRIBE #'functionname) from the REPL will give you information about the function; you can also pick up source if you configure it right.

The key idea is that software as written only loosely defines software images as they are live. 'Static' languages attempt to ensure that there is a tight correspondence, but dynamic linking defeats that in part.

Image based software ideas take this idea and run with it: that's why you download Smalltalk images, not smalltalk source.

Anyway, food for thought. :-)
Keeping the NSA in Perspective
> but it's almost the case you don't need scientific evidence to know that keeping an active mind severely mitigates dementia

What makes you say that? There's plenty of medical phenomena that exist / don't exist despite being logically appealing.
This was a problem for me also. I decided to use unrelated pictures (i.e., unrelated to the topic of my books) that I have taken near where I live (Sedona Arizona - a beautiful place).

I have a friend who is a visual designer, and he has commented favorably on my approach.
Totally agreed, accusing someone of "playing the victim card" is a super lame oratorical trick, frequently used by people who don't realize that that's what they're doing. It's up there with saying, "now, I know it may not be politically correct to say this...", which is pretty much 100% of the time followed by some completely idiotic statement. The trick is that it sets up an environment where objecting to the idiotic statement is preemptively made to sound like some sort of hypersensitive political correctness.
The licensing cost for SQL Server have increased over the years and limiting some of security features to the top tier sucks ass in this environment, but the training, documentation, knowledge sharing and community is better than any other technical community, closed or open sourced that I have found.
I think it's fair to say that Linus can be unprofessional. Just because you've got great accomplishments doesn't mean you're professional. But what people forget is that Linus is essentially a rock star in his field.

Because he's a rock star who continuously proves it with results, Linus can say and do whatever he wants. He's earned it, and most people will not only tolerate his abrasiveness, but they'll accept it.

Many people who might be very good at what they do but are not rock stars think they can act like Linus, Crockford, DHH or [insert grumpy tech icon here]. Personally, I think that's a mistake, because "pretend rock stars" just end up being regarded as overrated tools.
Nope. Everybody has to pay $200.
>>He has led one of the most important human endeavours of the last hundred years.

Seriously?

He did not invent Unix, more like wrote a famous flavor of it.

Someone like Dennis Ritchie would get the credit for that not Linus.
If he wanted to do damage he could, you have to look at the intent of peoples actions.

He was forced by the intent of US government to be where he is now, that is cowardice by the US government to withdraw his passport, force a president on the ground and search his plane, all for giving a few powerpoint presentations to journalists! Had the US governemnt and NSA/CIA cowards not acted like the Stalinists the are, Snowden could still have been in USA, but thats not a place where he can talk freely, thats not a place where he can feel safe and if you believe otherwise you must have your head up in the sand for the last few months. He needs the laptops/the information, thats the only thing keeping him from a good dose of polonium.
T. Rex did hunt
This is an MVP. Just getting started, dealers want to see interest before they will offer a paid test-drive.
> Another way of wording that would have been to say that window manipulation (including scroll and resize) have always existed on the right side of the window and moving some of those controls to the left is not only a flaw in Unity, but in OSX as well.

As GP explained, it plays well with systray icons which have been on the right for a long time. There is only one bar to use(or use extra screen space) and I would rather have systray untouched.
Yes! Now guess the background of the second image :)
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From my experience, managing volunteers is MUCH harder then managing employees. If Linus did what he did, he for sure is able to manage volunteers - which doesn't mean his way is the only way, or even the best way. But for sure it's a way that works.
Using fluxbox is a strong indicator that youre less more interested in the latest bells and whistles and more interested in "do things my way". I include dwm, ratpoison, awesome users in this camp as well.
As an IBM Managing Consultant I would say don't trust those numbers.
Emailed stacktraces to my personal email :D
Yeah, that sounds like a bug. I filed it: https://github.com/haiwen/seafile/issues/299
No one seemed to care about Gnome fragmenting the Linux Desktop back then, because it had 'the right license'.

It was, however, one of the reasons most big-house commercial software was not ported and sold in Linux versions, and sent Linux into a black hole of license fundamentalists until Ubuntu changed that.

Why this point of view? Because I believe that the best possible computing platform from a technical point of view (the most efficient, better designed, etc) is a combination of both an open source foundation and the possibility of open source and closed source applications on top of it.
New Relic is a god sent.
Sounds like the Hybrids in BSG! :D
I've self-published a book about Open Sound Control: http://osc.justthebestparts.com/

It's meant to be something of an adjunct to some other in-the-works books. These other books (one about hacking the XBox Kinect, the other about the Leap Motion) make use of OSC, and I didn't want them to become bloated or sidelined by an explanation of OSC, especially for people who may not need it.

One of my goals is to keep the books short, on-topic, and to the point (hence "just the best parts").

Some advice: Know the limitations of your publishing formats. I started out writing the book on the Web, only to learn that HTML that works nicely in a full-size browser can end up as crap when rendered for epub.

Yesterday I did a giveaway of my book because it was my birthday. I think that did more to get attention for the book than anything else. (I'm leaving the free download in place for a few hours more if folks here want to grab it.)

People often say you need to promote the book with blog posts and stuff. I agree, but what it means is you are, in a way, now writing two books (or something). There's not just the work to create the book, there's the work to create the material to promote the book.

I've made the book available online as well, but even then it's hard to get attention. I've started doing some screencasts of some of my OSC software.

Bottom line is I tend to write because I enjoy it and I want to make certain information available to people. I want to see more artists get comfortable with technology. Ideally, though, I can manage some decent return on my time so I can continue doing it.
Don't forget the millions, perhaps billions of dollars spent by organisations developing complex Excel/VBA based software. Short of copying to Docs every single Excel feature and quirk, there's no way Google can compete in that area. It will probably take a decade after everyone stops developing new software in Excel/VBA before organisations can think of moving away from it. Most large companies haven't stopped yet.
The UK probably already has everyone's DNA anyways, everytime you go to a public hospital and get bloodwork done, where does that blood go? The government already owns the hospital so it would be easy for them just to get the DNA sample at that time.
Thanks for link 0, I'd never seen that before.
If the effect of not censoring yourself in this regard is to work in a much less diverse environment, which side is going to give? Honest question.

And a good one, too. The honest answer is: I don't know. I think this is highly contextual. At least I can't make a generalized decision for that. If the "less diversity" bit for instance means incorporating a 'No Nazis'-rule then the choice might be clear while in other cases it might be much more nuanced. As a rule of thumb I am against limiting someone's freedom until there is no other way around it. I would for instance only vote for a 'No Nazis'-rule if there would be a real problem with Nazis without that particular rule.

If, however, we are still talking about the case of censoring out profanity, you know my opinion.
The people who are filtered out (or constitute the "less diversity") are the sort of people who get offended by me making use of a basic freedom (the one of speech). I am not interested in meeting people like that - frankly I hope they stay as far away from me as fucking possible.

This is similar to the reason of why I am against anti-discrimination rules at hacker cons; They are liable to be abused at some point while not providing anything of worth.

The sort of abuse they are supposed to prevent are reason enough to throw someone out even without those rules. Any major abuse is reason enough to get thrown out of a hacker event, or really any event.

The argument I have heard a few times for anti-discrimination rules is that girls get hit on all the time. I was kind of flabbergasted when I first heard this. I mean I can understand that it gets on ones nerves, but kicking someone out of an event because they hit on somebody really is not the right thing to do. If you don't want to get hit on there's a plethora of ways to communicate that in a non-verbal fashion, like wearing a wedding ring or - less subtle - wearing a shirt that says "I don't want to get hit on" or something, you get the idea…

I can use profanity in a peaceful manner to set emphasis and if someone feels attacked, denounced or otherwise mistreated they can just talk to me. Seriously, I don't bite and if I see your point I will act accordingly. Even if you are offended by someones actions that doesn't mean that they are unyielding dogmatic assholes - Just give them the benefit of the doubt and try to reason with them. And if it works you might've just broadened your personal horizon, maybe even made a new friend.

You'd think a community consisting of some of the most intelligent people on this planet would manage to have a proper communication culture, but in many aspects we are clearly lacking. I hope for this to change and of course discussions like this are a great first step towards doing so.
I was also thinking about how cool open source albums would be! Your 'band' could now be 100 different people all spread out around the world. Then perhaps instead of an album being 'done' we'll just release v1.0.
I don't know. It's great that you wrote it and I can completely understand what sort of undertaking it was, but the problem with any mentoring book is that it should come from a recognized and credible source. If this were an auto-biography book, written from the "what worked for me" angle, it would certainly have an audience. But if it just dispenses advice, then it begs the question what makes you think you are in a position to do that.

I am also not sure who it is written for - pretty much every developer above summer intern thinks of himself as a senior :) Over-inflated self-assessment is a norm.
Yeah then you need real instruments which aren't cheap either. Along with that you need a way to record your instruments to a digital or analog format. Unless your a street performer that's playing drums on old buckets and trash cans and not recording anything, it's going to cost more than the $200 for a DAW. My point is that making music is not as cheap as people think it is.
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You say "IT" but then programmer, which is typically a job in R&D, not IT.

Are your data sets comparing apples to oranges? If you're looking at IT salaries in one place (network admins, db admins, help desk) and R&D salaries in another (software engineers, QA, product managers) you could easily get different results.

I'm aware that the UK tends to use "IT" for all things computer related, so it seems very easy to get mixed data when crossing the atlantic.

(Most likely the differences are due to the many differences in taxes, holiday/vacation, ability to hire & fire, etc between countries).
Interesting.

As far as I remember, for the past 3 years, every app put into those stores by Apple themselves received unlimited upgrades.

Everybody wanted to do paid upgrade, pressuring Apple into adding some paid upgrade feature into the store. Apple always declined, saying "do as we do, support unlimited upgrades, you'll earn enough because the market is growing".

Some devs did paid upgrades by creating a new app with a new name, creating some issues along the way (people that just bought the old version a day ago have no upgrade path etc.) Not idea.

People guessed that Apple would add some "paid upgrade" feature once they needed it themselves.

Now Apple decided for the first time to create a paid upgrade, and apparently they - just created a new app...

Apple could have done better here.
> The stories on media will focus more on, "Spy or whistleblower" instead of domestic spying by NSA. Future whistleblowers are discouraged and the nature of spying is off the front page. Mission accomplished!

That's already happened. I haven't heard much more than a peep about NSA spying since the Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego story took over.