skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly! I am using xmonad with Unity (well really only using the universal menu bar). But I have to stay < Ubuntu 10.10 for it to be compatible. I get really nice convenience of a modern, stylish-ish interface with the easy navigation of a custom configured xmonad WM. I would love to not be stuck this far behind in the distro's release cycle. Also, I develop with and really like Qt. That is a big plus for me.
How many times has AWS gone down taking with it half the web? That to me is a bigger issue than not being able to download iOS beta 3 for a few days.
No smartphone?
>You'll be hard pressed to find a mother that hasn't consumed any alcohol whatsoever during pregnancy in Europe. //

Amongst most groups I know of, working class and lower-middle, a female refusing an alcolholic drink [at a party] is a sign that you think you're pregnant.

Total abstinence for the entire pregnancy? Wouldn't expect a huge proportion but as a comparison to normal intake it's going to look a lot more like marked abstemiousness than anything else. I think my wife probably had 1 or 2 glasses across each of her pregnancies.

>This looks like it works as well as the "total abstinence" for sex works. //

What are you trying to say here. That abstinence from sexual interaction doesn't prevent conception or transmission of STIs. Or maybe that abstinence from alcohol in pregnancy doesn't stop fetal alcohol syndrome. ?
How do we know it is caused by crack use and not by other factors that usually correlate with heavy crack use?
I prefer to allow sites to monetise their visits within reason. If they go insane like Forbes then I just avoid them.
Efficiency, Imported From Europe
The Wheelchair Is 2,300 Years Old. There’s Finally A Better Option.
It looks wonderful on my iPad (third gen).
Right - so, the stats say that there are a lot of people using mobile devices to surf the web, many of whom are using mobile almost exclusively. A fraction of the time those users spend on the web is spent on news sites. Does the fact that those mobile web users split their time across different destinations really lead you to believe it's not worth optimizing for them?
Interesting idea! Just filter WordNet's synonym sets of 155,287 words with a list of one-syllable words. (I read there are 9,000+ words, but I can't find a list online at the moment.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordNet
Anyone who tells someone with depression to just "appreciate the world and their existence enough to at least have a good time" doesn't understand what depression is. The very inability to do that is one of the main symptoms.

You don't need a "reason" to be depressed, and judging one as "pathetic" does nothing for anyone, least of all the depressed person.
A headless webkit browser like PhantomJS can scrape pages that render themselves via javascript.
I never spit out when tasting wine, that seems pointless to me :) Then again, I'm not a professional or even in any manner advanced taster, I just do it for fun.
I am convinced they could just feed random numbers into those visualization packages and they'd look just as pretty, but they do look ..err... pretty.
I actually find it much easier to code reliable stuff in C where you have to check error conditions manually. If for no other reason that it serves as a constant reminder that the failures happen, and if you're writing reliable software this forces you into consistent habits to handle them.

I feel like in a language with exceptions, since throwing and catching happens inconsistently and haphazardly all around a code base, people are conned into thinking the exceptions will never happen. Usually one of two things happen:

1. The language is like java and it forces you to declare what exceptions you throw, so lazy people just put in lots of do-nothing catch blocks to silence the compiler.

2. The language doesn't have the "checked exceptions" concept, so people literally think no exceptions can happen. They just wait for the exception to make everything blow up.

Often when exceptions are handled, this lack of explicitness makes sure it's done at totally the wrong stack frame to make the judgement call about what to do about it. Then some people do dumb shit like try to catch things like stack overflow exceptions which should rightfully take down the process, and keep running. Not to mention that an exception is just a wacky concept, it's essentially a goto that crosses stack frames... Everyone criticizes goto, but few people will question exceptions...
God did not make pi, probably.

God could make a book if you went to line 31415

Yer just spreading misinformation. Stop a stopwatch for random numbers. You nigger call it pseudo-random number.
The figure that I was comparing is the initial cost of setting up the exchanges in the first place. From memory it was estimated by the CBO at about 6 billion, but only 1 billion was allocated for it. That is several-fold, though only a drop in the bucket compared to the 10 year figures once it is rolled out.

I can't easily find a citation for it right now though. But http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57589988/smooth-on-time-... confirms that at this point the rollout is facing potential trouble and needs billions more.
Any SIM? Remotely how? through a call or a message?

Just trying to figure out the scope of this problem. Journos seem to care more about sensation than facts.
A million times, no.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome has some very recognizable symptoms that have nothing to do with being born into poverty. A very specific skull shape for the worst cases, for one.

Crack babies not included in this study, the ones that are premature (20 something percent of crack user births fall into this category compared to 3-4% of births in general), also have very characteristic physical problems.

It is not poverty or malnutrition or stress that comes from poverty causing these very specific families of disorders. The crack kids are not coming from poor rural areas. They are coming from the inner city from crack using mothers.
It'd be nice if there was a machineable way to test UI in varying browsers. Litmus.com gets close, but it's only for emails, and "all" it does is render the emails in like 40 different clients (which is actually amazing).

But it'd be nice to be able to say, "Yes, this version in chrome is what I want it to look like," and you get back scores that determine how "close" the other versions are to the version you selected as your reference (0-100%?).

Seems like one could achieve this with some sort of pixel diff algorithm.
I hate being forced into consuming content in a specific way, but this page was very well done.
» the greatest non-human character in film.

"Those are not aliens, but just humans in funny costumes" Marc Miller, author and guru of Traveller™ SciFi RPG.
Why should we be forced to download third party applications/plugins in order to read a news post without any unnecessary interruptions?
By that definition you can only count applications that rely on proprietary OS features, which you generally don't have with an open source OS (that's sort of the point).

I don't think it's invalid to describe a web app deployed to Linux or an embedded system running Linux as a "Linux app" but I guess that is really semantics.
I think those manufactuers' broken promises are why Google is pushing the Google "Play Services" library (released at Google I/O 2013) that adds new APIs that are compatible from Froyo and above. An old device many have an outdated OS, but Google can still push new Play Services APIs from the Play Store (and Google has to deal with the backwards compatibility).
Indeed oO
I meant cncool, clark-kent and seunosewa.
Must have looked at the wrong section of the page or the wrong page or I don't know.
This is a legitimate concern.

As part of the licensing agreement to be called a "Firefox OS phone" I believe carriers must provide updates for a certain amount of time. For how long, I do not know. If the duration is public knowledge, I do not know. If partners will actually follow through, well... the articles you linked to paint a bleak picture. Of course, since our entire OS is open source, they can just use it on their own, and never release a single update, as long as they don't brand it a "Firefox OS phone."

I'm prototyping an add on right now that would detect a connected device, download updated pre-compiled images of the layers (gonk, gecko, gaia) and allow you to update them (if I verified that the update worked on your device beforehand, to make sure you wouldn't end up bricking your phone). Just trying to raise awareness within the org right now to get a green light to work on this more.
Ah, I wish I'd be that clever.
Looks like a problem with your graphics card driver.
You can practice self improvement, but there is not really anything to tie people together in ordinary living in the absence of religion. Self improvement groups do not create the kind of bonds in a community that will cause people to make real sacrifices for their neighbors. As an atheist married to a practicing Christian I am acutely aware of the fact that my wife's church offers a level of community, tied together by common beliefs and practices, that I've never found outside a religious context. Book clubs don't give you a shared way of life, and political organizations are linked by a common fight not a common way of living ordinary life. I can't think of anything in my secular urban world that is quite like the barn raisings my wife tells me about from the small, Christian, town in Iowa where she grew up. The closest thing I guess would be some sort of Habitat for Humanity project, but that's very different: focused outward rather than inward; charity rather than reciprocity.
The actually appointed a 'Snowfaller in Chief'

http://www.bizjournals.com/newyork/news/2013/07/12/new-york-...
And Safari on iOS has had a "no third-party cookie" policy forever. Has the IAB not heard of the iPhone?
Crack can trigger premature labor, as noted in the study. The hypothesis here is that more crack increases the risk of premature labor. It's a hypothesis that might be worth investigating, and I would be surprised if there was no effect observed. As to the extent obviously I cannot say.
First of all, the stats don't say that many of them are using mobile almost exclusively. As I previously said, the way it is written leads me to believe that "mostly" to them is "more than 50%". Almost exclusively implies a much higher percentage of use.

And in any case, if people are only going to spend 5% on news in general while on mobile, then I would most definitely not optimize my site for them unless it were incredibly simple to do so. The 5% is then further split across many venues, and, as the source says, it includes in-app usage. That even further fractions the amount of time spent. With that much fractioning of the time, the chance that a user will even see this piece is pretty low.
Addictions
If he thinks 10% of an audience the size of Facebook's will sign up for $10 a month, he's crazy. They would be lucky to see a fraction of a percent.

Of course, that number goes way up if premium features are useful.
From the UK drinkaware campaign website (government campaign), http://www.drinkaware.co.uk/check-the-facts/health-effects-o...:

>"The government advises that people should not regularly drink more than the daily unit guidelines of [...] and 2-3 units of alcohol for women (equivalent to a 13% ABV 175 ml glass of wine). ‘Regularly’ means drinking every day or most days of the week."

[175ml is about ¾ cup (USA) and the units above are about equivalent to a single pint of 4% beer]

FWIW If I have 2 glasses of wine I'll be "buzzed" because I don't drink every day. Take a month off from drinking, try two normal glasses (ie not pub measures) and you'll notice.
Can someone confirm the patent part? From what I heard an idea is unpatentable as soon as it has been described in public even, from what I heard, if it was in a comic.
I don't really like it.

What irks is that it tells you "scroll down to proceed" but then you can't scroll back up and control what's going on. Why not keep the page fixed and have the content within in scrolling? You know, like in a video?
Actually, they're just really nice high quality animated gifs (someone below analyzing the source states that they are actually video, which is possible). A cinemagraph is a still photo that has one (or few) moving parts of the image, typically in a near seamless loop. A cinemagraph is a bit more involved to create than a gif, requiring at least some basic compositing.
Huh? I'm just asking a question.
A beautiful, although not really accurate, explanation of a buffer overflow:

> The way this works is somewhat complex, but Nohl’s virus essentially gave the infected Java software a command it could not understand or complete – eg. asking for the 12th item in a 10-item list, leading the software to forgo basic security checks and granting the virus full memory access, or “root,” in cyber security parlance.
What was the background of the two great project managers you worked with? Had they always been project managers or did they transition from some other discipline?
> why would we not share a common set of beliefs/practices/language?

Religions are big things with many purposes. One of those purposes is self-improvement, and it would be useful for religious people and secular people to be able to communicate about the same set of routines using the same set of vocabulary and so on. However, this seems to introduce one of two strange situations.

A religious person adopting purely secular sets of beliefs and practices may find some of this to conflict with their religion. They're moving from one intellectual/psychological/social context to another. While a secular person might be able to point at how rather non-optimal a set of mental machinery might be, it is also quite likely that a religious person and a secular one have decidedly different understandings of the utility function for 'optimal' (and at very deep psychological levels).

On the other side of that coin, and probably more obviously, a secular person begin asked to acquire religious contexts and practices so as to communicate about this mental machinery would probably find these new shared beliefs/practices/language a bit "crufty". This would be totally understandable because all a secular person here would be after is 'self-improvement' whereas from above 'Religions are big things'. All of these mechanics are suddenly attempting to function outside of the context in which they developed.

Diff'rent Strokes and all, ya' know
I think it's sort of a lesser of two evils that's chosen for the sake of increasing the overall success rate of startups.

Imagine 3 people creating 3 different startups: one's humble, another's an ego-maniac, and the third's balanced between humility and ego. The humble one's probably going to go the route of "over-testing," to some degree (though you could argue that confirming an assumption is right is just as valuable as discovering it's wrong). The ego-driven person thinks they know what customers want, but is likely wrong about some things. For the sake of simplicity, let's say the humble one will succeed as a result & the ego-driven one will fail. Obviously, that's not realistic, but if you consider each person as representing the average success of all startups that operate within their range of the "humility spectrum," it sort of makes sense.

Now imagine that the person in the middle doesn't know whether they should trust themselves or to question everything and will operate based on what you tell them. If you give them permission to trust themselves, they'll go the way of the ego-maniac. If you tell them to question everything, they'll go the route of the humble one. If you tell them "test what you need to and trust yourself on the rest," they stay right where they are because they don't have any metrics for gauging themselves.

People will easily detect wasted time/effort spent on testing & adapt to avoid it. It's much harder to detect false understanding before wasting time on development.
7 mics and 7 cameras.. in my bed room :(
I was looking for an option to dump x/wamp setup. This is encouraging me to do that right now.
I cant believe that this was an article posted by such a successful entrepreneur. This is the type of amateur idea and discussion you would expect from a grade 10 student. He has lost all credibility due to him actually saying (and believes) that 10% of users would pay for this feature.
The Humble Launch Day
A mathematical model of the London riots and their policing
Lucius Fox
6174 - interesting number
I will never say "blessed" because it heavily implies a religious point of view. I do not want to associate with that.
vaguely related question ... is it safe to insert an arbitrary sim card in a phone ?

i want to try out some of the gsm mvnos in the states (eg airvoice, ptel and h2o). an at&t or comcast or microsoft has a reputation that's worth billions, so i "trust" them to only be semi-evil and at least semi-responsible. i don't know much of these mvno companies, but assume they're living on the margins and don't have too much to risk. could they, or an enterprising engineer working for them, mess with the sim card to take something of value from me ?
Rooting SIM cards
It is false. I and my coworkers make plenty of money developing for Linux.

Also, we're hiring: http://aws.amazon.com/sdejobs/
Nice. Wildly extrapolating from this GNOME and KDE should join forces to create one Qt-based desktop; GNOME-Qt. ;-)
This seems out of place here and on Github as well - unless I'm missing something.
I have been quite interested in using fibres. I have concerns about compatibility with existing libraries, stability etc.

Could you point to some documentation/discussion/blogs/anything that addresses these concerns and provides decent examples of use?
Will Canadian knowledge workers experience economic growth as individuals in the long term because of the natural resource industries? Will that growth be comparable to the US?
NJ Senate Primary Could Become a Referendum on NSA Surveillance
I have an old headphone that is plugging to the microphone socket of my laptop. So, one down, many more to go. Have not figure out a way to deal with microphone in mobile devices. Suggestions?
3 mics and 3 cameras...
I feel that's unfair. It's a demo.

It's like complaining that someone built a proof-of-concept app and only made it work on a Mac.

Now if it had been a production website that only worked in one browser, then you'd be right.
Digital Ocean was down on the West Coast
Absolutely true. Too late to fix now though.
The article, and all the comments here are missing the main reason for this behavior. I'm 36 now, and I live in Serbia. When Socialism was ruling, all the companies were owned and run by the state. The wages were determined by the company you work for. Difference in wage for same position in some non-profitable company and a profitable one, would easily be 20x. So, the only thing that mattered was not your knowledge, but whether you could get a job at shoe company or oil refinery. Getting one in oil refinery was much better. The other thing is that people got fired really, really rarely. So, you get the job and you're settled for life. Even pensions are much higher and provided by the state.

Now, when a foreign company enters, esp. one with reputation of being a big, profitable business, people would assume that getting a job there is the same, or even better than working at a big domestic company.

Sadly, this is still true for many people today. We have a lot of foreign companies here now, and many people have got the job, just to quit days or weeks later. Main complaint being: there's too much work. People only stick and work in companies where wages are 40-50% above the average wage in domestic companies. We still suffer from low productivity.

This is slowly changing, and I assume it will be much better in 5-10 years. 7-13 year old kids who are in school now are growing up in a different kind of system, and their parent are also young enough to have sane perspective on state of things. They enter the workforce in 5-10 years from now.

Our main problem now is current youth, who were raised during the war, whose parents could not teach them good value system, because all they could see on television was that criminals and people waging wars are idols for boys, and folk singers for girls. Also, many criminals earned a lot of money during the war and seeing them go unpunished was really a bad message to all children. Those children are 15-25 years old now, and a lot of them simply have no goals in life, see no perspective and either want to become criminals themselves or leave the country.
Now if we could only tackle the certificate authorities...
still md5 w/ salt as of latest vb5
Why is this getting down-voted?

It's simply a Dark Knight reference to Batman's microphone-array self-destruct password.
I see mentions of security, but from pictures it is just few men without any (visible) weapon most of the time. Even given these men, i believe on a so long distance, there are many desert places, where nobody is present.

Question - how such a valuable shipments protected against someone, who will try to disconnect few cars, crack open 'em and steal all these laptops on trucks?
No one is forcing you, just don't visit the site, then..
I agreed with you about Gladwell and deference. I agreed with you about the Japanese having better training. I'm not sure what you want out of this. It seems like the idea that culture influences behavior is deeply offensive to you. How come?
Things in SQL Server which don't work as expected
Who is Marco Polo?
There was an article posted here yesterday [1] about how companies have two hiring pools: fresh grads and experienced workers. Those caught in the middle (graduated in recent years but have no to little industry experience) had it tough.

I was wondering how many years one should put in at a company right after school, in order to have an experience safety net should they want to work at a traditional company once more, if their startup fails.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/20/business/recent-graduates-...
This is so frustrating. Linode charges 4 times more, but at least they're not down every few days.
I think it depends on the person and the industry. Some ideas require a lot of insight, research and connections to execute well, and some don't.

I started my own company two years after graduating (paid off all my student loans first) and probably got more "experience" in the first 2 months running my own thing than 2 years of working for someone else.

I did get some experience working a job, but to be honest, most of the learning I did was on my own time and not on the job. Coworkers generally do not have that much time to mentor you or guide you no matter what they say in the recruitment process -- they want you to fill a pretty specific role and probably aren't going to make a special job just for you.

I don't know you, so it's hard to say, but if are concerned about things looking bad to employers on a resume I don't know if you should be focused on building your own company right now.
I thought the app icons were pretty good.
This is not good enough.
3D printing will explode in 2014 thanks to the expiration of key patents
Uh, wouldn't this be more likely to get a signal? An (analog) headphone is a sort-of, piss-poor microphone in reverse, whereas a naked port doesn't magically pick up sounds from the ether...
One I keep noodling on is the one 'Ethical Me' which, on its face works well for ethics but it works for other things as well. Like documenting things you bought because they were 'more secure' or 'higher quality' etc. Understanding the meta-data of what is security 'worth' or quality 'worth' would really help inform product managers about whether or not investing resources there makes sense from a product desirability standpoint.