skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fear that you have misunderstood my example.

The roommate in fact wrote out their message and sent it as text. There need not be an actual door and nobody needs to own a scrunchie. In fact, the message "scrunchie on door" may communicate "whoohoo!" and not "Do not disturb" - i.e. the receiver might be out of the country or the sender at a hotel with a lover. It could even mean, "I found your scrunchie here, and have placed it on the door." Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

That's the expressiveness of a general purpose tool. The days when icons were needed to sell computers to men because typing was women's work, are gone. Our human interfaces need to catch up.
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And USB ports?
It's clear that Linus, having spent his career working from home in his bathrobe, has absolutely no clue what professionalism means. It's less about the neckties and watercooler politics he imagines and more about treating your peers with basic respect and human dignity.

He appears to have the social skills of someone recently released from maximum security prison. He's like a homeschooled kid who bites the other children at birthday parties.
There are places where it'd be useful, no doubt about that. Mainly it will be really useful in the cases where you want to ask a client something "synchronously". For example it'll make doing things like asking a language client where function boundaries are much nicer than the way I was going to have to do it before (waiting for events to be triggered async-style).
I'm self-publishing two in-progress JavaScript books with Leanpub, and have had a fantastic experience so far.

They basically share a Dropbox folder with you and let you edit your book in Markdown. For me this means that I'm easily able to work with my normal text editing tools rather than learning something completely new. When I want to publish/preview a new version, I just log into their site and hit the appropriate button, which will autogenerate the PDF, epub and mobi files, putting them in the shared Dropbox folder.

The other nice thing about them is that they will let you start selling your book while it is still in progress, so you can get feedback from real customers about what they would like to see in the book.

A Drip of JavaScript: https://leanpub.com/a-drip-of-javascript-book

Jasmine Testing: A Cloak & Dagger Guide: https://leanpub.com/jasmine-testing
A brand new car is going to depreciate rapidly in value and start to accumulate wear and tear whether Tesla disrupts the market or not.
Was this posted by Hal Finney? He's unfortunately a quadriplegic now but still programs.
That's just punting. How does he login to the secure VM?
I think it's hyperbole she's missing. "You may need to learn how to shout at people" is not literal, but it's not the opposite of what is meant. It's just exaggerated.
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Hi HN,

I'm here for a few days, and I wanted to check out the NYC scene. Are there any companies that might be interested in a future App Academy graduate (class of Dec 2013)? Or if there are any seminars, meetups, or classes? I'll happily bring you cupcakes and/or ice cream (with the recent heatwaves and all). Thanks!
Tech Freedom and the Progress and Freedom Foundation are think tanks, not lobbying outfits. Latham & Watkins's communications group does regulatory filings and advises companies on regulatory aspects of mergers and things like that, not lobbying work. I can't think of a background that qualifies someone more to talk about the hurdles created by municipal regulation than someone who actually has to deal with those regulations on behalf of his clients.

As for Henke, just because he's a Republican doesn't mean he's wrong...
I've been waiting for a long while for a lobste.rs account invite thread. Email in profile if I can have one too, please. Thanks.
When I messed with army radios - these being the made-by-the-lowest-bidder-and-not-secret analogue variety - they were throat-operated. You spoke silently, and the microphone - pressed to your throat - sent speech over the radio.

It took practice to talk perfectly clearly, but it could be mastered.

Google "throat microphone".
"Ferris, get off of the float!"
This is awesome! Looking forward to using it!
You know, I hadn't actually considered that! That certainly could solve quite a lot of the security problems, but as you say it adds a layer of complexity to an already complex method of using my computer. Excellent idea though :-)
I'm in Alabama, and I didn't know this despite the huge summer mosquito problem we have in the deep south. But I'm also lucky enough to have A+ blood.
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Very nice, just keep Glass in the privacy of your home away from the non-consenting public. Thanks.
Google's goal isn't to replace Office. They just have to force Microsoft to reduce their margins, to refocus on Office as a product - if Google is lucky, Microsoft will pull a Win8/Surface (ie, total freak out) and abandon their main market to squash the "cloud" competition. If they're not, then customers win, at not that much cost to Google.

Either way, Microsoft will see their unit margins drop. This is good business strategy for Google given their rivalry.
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If I had to guess, he would "use [his] other apps to dictate the password to the ubuntu OS for login".
He has a lot of experience doing what works for his particular project. His style works for his most active contributors and lieutenants. I don't think you can say he has under-developed social skills, but they are probably "over-fitted" to a specific social structure.
As a Swede, it seems to me he's just acting Swedish.
This article is partially correct. The mayor of my town was censured in an ethics committee hearing in part due to his shady dealings with a broadband provider. As a result, Comcast is STILL the only game in town. Did lobbyist have something to do with this? Undoubtedly. But clearly "big cable" is not the only part of the problem.
This is a great example of how patents help humanity.
I started doing it only because I've already gotten bitten by two ticks this year and have found another half dozen on me. I'm only outside a few hours a week collecting mushrooms though, I'm not lying with it pressed against my skin for ten hours straight in a hunting blind or doing anything that would cause me to sweat excessively. But yeah, at least in the Northeast it's gotten to the point where going out into the woods wearing shorts is probably far more dangerous than having unprotected sex with random people, at least as far as we can tell based on the limited tick infection statistics.
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I compiled this list from the California Department of Insurance website. There are 13 discounts and credits for California drivers.
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Or really anyone who can't acquire alcohol (such as those too young).
I am talking about WfW 3.11 only.
Personally, I feel whats really important is that we focus on the Elephant in the room, namely the things which were released by him.

It feels like we are focusing on perception and if he will be labeled a 'traitor' or not.
Speaking words isn't a form of behavior?
Thanks for informing me about this approach, sounds interesting.

However I think it's fairly obvious when reading your post that you're fundamentaly opposed to a "leaderless" workplace rather than actually evaluating the effectiveness/viability of "Programming Anarchy", let alone judge its future sucess.
He can type things using dictation and that would presumably let him log into the VM, his problem is that the dictation won't work for the OSX lock screen.

The idea probably has some other practical problems though.
This is the Q.js I thought they were talking about at first too. I second a name change.
Logic is one of the cheapest (if not the cheapest) of the higher end DAWs out there. Combine that with the amount of plugins and sounds it ships with at that price tag and I think its one of the best options out there.
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Reaper also has the excellent discounted license for $60 which covers a lot of musicians who would otherwise be forced by the singular license of Reason / Logic Pro / Ableton Live.
"Fred George’s experience of Programmer Anarchy was probably so positive because he was working in a team of high performance programmers."

This pretty much sums up the validity of programmer anarchy for any given work climate. Much like a society of good citizens may (theoretically) be self governing, high-performance programmers work best when they are given a task and all red tape is removed. Unfortunately, anyone who has worked in the tech field knows this isn't always the case. Some people/companies need guidance and lack of personal autonomy, however unfortunate that may be.
Is it a good policy that will benefit the citizenry, or is it a policy that is the extension of a political ideology that believes that government should not regulate anything?
"However, a few times a year I drive my car on longer trips (Portland, Reno, LA) so I would probably need wait for Tesla's supercharger/battery replacement network to expand before I can get rid of my gas guzzler."

If it is only a few times a year, why not just rent a car? Seems like an obvious solution. If it was once a month then I could see the hesitation but once every 3 or 4 months that you need a rental shouldn't be a big deal.
Sorry to break it to you, but he was born in Helsinki. Edit: OK I guess this is more complicated than I thought :)
* Get a copy editor

A copy editor will challenge your sentence structures, paragraphs, overall flow, and much more.

Compare what you wrote before the copy editor did their work, versus after - you'll see a big difference.

Note that copy editing is often an iterative process - so you'll work with the editor as you complete your revisions.

Yet in the end it is your book, so you don't have to follow the copy editor's suggestions if you think you're right/know your topic more than he or she does/etc.
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Face recognition is the best answer I can come up with to unlock the computer. Setup a usb-wrist band that when you computer gets pulled away from will auto lock.
Tomato tomahto. We're saying the same thing. Blunt, terse can easily be aggressive. Further, when immediate reaction is needed, an open critic to either behaviour or results(code) may be needed. This may be aggressive, but it gets the job done. If there is no Ill intention towards the other, if the aggression is objectively to get the job done, there's no harm. It leaves a sour taste, but no long lasting effects. Again, full circle, frontal aggressiveness with no grudges. No grudges is really important.
That's a good question. It might be.

When I started my first job (in the US) out of grad school, I worked for Sun Micro. We got 2 weeks (10 days) of paid vacation leave. Total time off was greater because of holidays.

Sun shut down over the summer to save money - that was 4 days (they used the 4th of july). So now you're down to 6 days. Go to a wedding, maybe take a couple of days off between christmas and new year's? That's it. No more time off.

This isn't a good way to live. As a young person, I was able to last for a while, but after a few years I was so burned out that I quit.

Now, 3 extra weeks of vacation for $14,000, take it or leave it, would have been tough. But I would happily have purchased an extra week of vacation for one third of that amount.

This is one of those utility curves. In my current job, I get a little over 4 weeks vacation leave (still in the US). Extra time off would be nice, but I'd pay far less for it.

But in the early days, with 2 weeks only that was largely accounted for, that extra week would have made the difference between a tiny bit of discretionary time off and nothing.

Honestly, this is probably a big part of why I left Sun, though I didn't realize it at the time. I didn't understand how brutally burned out I was. Looking back - difficult commute, long hours, and 2 weeks of "vacation" largely eaten up by mandatory closures and family obligations... well, it's pretty clear in retrospect.

It seems the better US employers are far wiser now, and realize that very stingy vacation policies are harmful not only to retention but to actual productivity, in the long run.
This took forever... I'm impressed by the many updates but think I might just stick to Pro Tools. Switching DAWs is a bit like switching programming languages, in a sense, huge time cost.

The built-in iPad remote control is cool though. Neyrinck makes a good one for Pro Tools, however: http://www.neyrinck.com/v-control-pro
The worst case of a tick bite is far more serious than itching.
http://qbix.com/contact doesn't point to anything.

Maybe this http://qbix.com/about#contact
As a common human being, yes. Though I imagine as a web developer, it might be difficult.

I've gone a month without any kind of technology whatsoever, and I felt fine (though I was in the outdoors and kept myself occupied). I've gone two months without Internet (just had computers to watch movies) on two separate occasions, and I was fine. In fact, before I started watching movies, I felt a creative boost. I think the lack of distractions allowed my subconscious to focus on coming up with ideas rather than processing all the background information one is normally exposed to (I also had no TV, radio, etc, just computer capable of e-mail).
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> What they mean is they want to run fiber down streets with high incomes

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If you want cheap prices and high quality service, then you have to deregulate the industry, and a deregulated telecom industry will focus on the high-end consumers, just like every company does. Apple doesn't focus on making computers for poor people, and all those companies peddling their wares on Facebook aren't selling basic essentials affordable by poor people and people in rural areas. Someone in the tech industry should understand better than most that in nearly any industry, companies will chase premium, up-market consumers because that's where the money happens to be.

If you want poor people and people in rural areas to have high-quality internet service (or really, any internet service), you have to be willing to pay for that. The way municipalities have chosen to pay for that is granting utility monopolies. That decision isn't something that comes for free. It comes at the cost of worse service for the wealthier urban people who would get better and cheaper service in a free market.

Also, as a practical matter, municipal and state governments destroy everything they touch. I'm not a small government drum-beater, and I'm a proponent of regulation in many contexts, but the lack of transparency and scrutiny makes municipal government regulation the worst kind of regulation.
It should be possible to make an OSX app that disables the hardware keyboard and touchpad, that can be toggled by voice password.

The laptop only being accessible via voice recognition and one button should be enough to render the entire system unusable to casual snoops.

edit: Looks like you can disable/reenable the builtin keyboad/touchpad with terminal commands, so it'd just be a matter of scripting them to voice shortcuts: http://superuser.com/questions/214221/how-can-i-lock-the-mou...

ps: be sure to have a plan B to reboot your laptop while experimenting with this in case it locks out your controls somehow.
True, though Linus was a part of the Swedish speaking minority in Finland.
I have 2 windows in my room... and i open them both which makes some wind.

The mosquito's don't get up.

I seriously hope, when you try something in Alaska, it helps to, otherwhise you'll have a big problem :P

(PS. We don't have a mosquito problem here, i have seen thee the last month... It was worse last year)
I see that I should check my posts for repeating figures-of-speech... .But let me try a second (and last time) to persuade you of my arguments! :-)

But I can assure you that it's ok to have a timing GPS connected to a USB serial port, as long as you feed the timing signal to an input that supports proper PPS timestamping. Here's a graph of a Trimble Thunderbolt PPS connected to a PC's parallel port. The serial port the device connects to is a USB dongle, but that's completely irrelevant for the PPS precision.

http://vogelchr.blogspot.de/2011/10/thunderbolt-gpsdo-pps-si... (it's a pretty busy old Pentium)

So, up to this point, there's no speculation about using a USB serial device, while the actual timing signal is connected elsewhere, and here's where I speculate only a little:

I have no reason to assume that the generic PPS on GPIO support would be any worse than the parport- solution, because the implementation is pretty much identical (recording a timestamp in a minimal interrupt routine), especially as it's been shown to work for a conceptually similar CPU.
This is something I've heard repeatedly about Linus; that his communication style is really pretty typical for a Scandinavian.
"But I guess the real problem with Programmer Anarchy is that it takes away the central “leader” figure."

This is a common misunderstanding with any sort of anarchy. The formal hierarchy is removed but you will still see leaders. When someone gets excited about a project, they are more likely to step forward and get other people excited about the project. They can take the reins and envision a final product, and encourage other people to work towards the final product. This makes them the informal leader.

It doesn't always work out this way, but any project that has enough people motivated behind it will also have leaders, it's part of natural human interaction.
Since you are here , a few questions (not related to the current subject):
you might be surfing on the web , given your condition , what are the annoying stuff you encounter that makes your surfing harder and that could be ,easily fixed if web developpers actually cared about accessibilty.

Do you have exemples of websites that use technology to facilitate surfing for disabled people , that could be shown as an exemple of good accessibility practice ?

thanks and take care.
Both are really not the response you want to give, but the one you gave probably would be less problematic and, if said coder was paying attention, might get the right response. Code reviews with folks who cannot take a hint were always the least fun experience. I was a TA during college, so at least I had some training. I often think seniors should have to do a formal code review with freshman just to get the vibe.
I'm not sure they would care. I don't know thta much about Macs, but my assumption is that you can do a format/reinstall just like any other computer.

Or, you know, just fence it.
If I had one of them, I would totally be able to pretend I'm in the SAS on some secret mission!:D Obviously a mission that didn't involve any stairs, and nothing above 6 miles an hour (top speed of my chair!) With lots of ramps and extrawide doors :-)

Seriously though, I'm connected to this computer with a ton of cables and if that could be made to play nice with Dragon, and it wasn't too tight across where the break is in my neck it would be brilliant!
And? What makes something right? Or that there is only one right approach? That's Linus's point; having everyone agree and hug it out is a waste of his time. You don't have to report directly to him to make things happen.
So in short, this is basically a specialized transpiler (transpiling your bytecodes into high level Lua code) + a call to eval to evaluate the transpiled code using LuaJIT's JIT facility.

This seems like a fairly useful technique, provided the given bytecode file isn't terribly big (since you're uh...converting it into string representation), and that the bytecode isn't some run-once-throw-away code, otherwise you spend more time converting it into Lua code and JIT-ing it.

Having said that, I wonder if it'd be even less of a hassle by skipping the bytecode part. Just transpile the source written in your custom language straight into Lua code, and have that code JIT'ed instead. Many high level structures/information would be preserved, allowing JIT to do an even better job perhaps?
If I am not mistaken, this one does[0].

[0] https://github.com/rileytestut/GBA4iOS/blob/master/gba_bios....
Maybe use your current system with a rolling password, so that the previous password no longer works?

Obviously that would take a little feat of memory, or at least some kind of prompt, but you could memorize a poem or something and use that - it would prevent replay attacks.

Or, use an algorithmic password, perhaps one where you do a sum based on the time of day.

All these solutions require some level of coding sadly, but I would have thought it would be something a freelancer could knock up relatively cheaply.
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Yeah, go up to Link #4 on the front page.
I was referring to ebay prices.

If you plan on buying do a little research on the best performing one.

http://fortysomethinggeek.blogspot.com/2013/03/pogoplug-seri...
Rollbar here as well and TestFlight for iOS. We'd love to use Rollbar for iOS as well, but the support isn't great right now. That said, their support team has been great.
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But does his project work despite his abrasive style or because of it? We have to avoid confusing correlation and causation.
>Tech Freedom and the Progress and Freedom Foundation are think tanks, not lobbying outfits

Think tanks develop policy proposals and other types of information, that is then used by political parties. The Cato Institute and the Heritage Foundation are think tanks, that heavily influence policy proposals by Republicans.

>As for Henke, just because he's a Republican doesn't mean he's wrong...

I absolutely agree. I don't think he's wrong. I just think it's useful to know someone's background. It provides context.
The parts about Kroah-Hartman being able to ‘squish’ you were quite obviously sarcasm/banter and not actually meant literally.
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Well, at least he's not stuck in an airport for the rest of his life. Stay in one long enough and even jail begins to look good.

But the problem remains -- what are we going to do about PRISM, or even more to the core of the problem, about the cult of secrecy in our government?

Senators Graham, McCain, and Pelosi would have you believe the cult is for our own good, because we're not informed enough to know what's good for us.

Of course, we don't have access to the information that would help us make up our own minds, so the circular argument closes itself and we have to resort to Plan B -- which is, "If you don't know national security, know those who do."

And I'd nominate the aforementioned senators, but they seem to know just a little more than I do -- by their own design, the executive branch's reluctance to be honest in hearings, and the judicial branch's own complicity in rubber-stamping requests.

By analogy, if a major US corporation hired whites 99.99% of the time over non-whites, the AG would be all over them.

Given the state we're in today, why did the founders even bother revolting? If you took what some of our senators are saying, replace "national security" with "monarchy", you'd probably have a speech uttered by some Tory back in 1770.