skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the kind of comment I wish I could downvote:

"You're presenting facts, {position X} people don't like that."

"I find it funny how {position X} people come up with such amount of unproven facts, such as {exaggerated position X straw man}. You'll be hard pressed to find {an anecdote that supposedly confirms position X}."

"This looks like it works as well as {position Y}."
I would wager more money is made via Linux than iOS by a fairly large margin.
Is it a graphical interface? There aren't any screenshots. Or do you mean the library would be useful in building the tool?
What rubbish.

Any specifics, or are you just trolling?

The company I work for develops high-end desktop software for Linux, Mac and Windows, and Linux generally causes us the least trouble and OS X (thanks mostly to atrocious graphics drivers and OpenGL support in addition to really bad memory allocation/paging issues that have only just been fixed in Mountain Lion) the most trouble. And this is on limited numbers of hardware and software variations for OS X.
He said it was 5% for mothers that have 14 drinks per week or more. It will be much less (if not zero) for someone who has 2-3 drinks a week, which is his point.
Yes, it's the same. Any "gifted children" can see also the "problems" in the belief system that they were raised, it's part of the conflict.
I assume it meant zoning that limits the number of hotels that can be built in a particular municipality. I also assume he meant to suggest that established players attempt to limit the growth of competition by being in favor of regulation (permits, zoning restrictions, business licenses) that makes it difficult to enter their market.
The "making" sections on Tested are really interesting. Adam Savage is a prop-maker, and so items tend to be cosmetically interesting, rather than having interesting tech. He takes a nice big wooden box, paints it, applies decals, then distresses it. It's nice, it looks (to my uninformed eye) genuine (it has big NASA logos on it), but it's entirely fake.

It reminds me of "pretty face" - a fake shirt collar attached to a jacket so poor people in communist China could maintain decorum. (http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/hsc/evrev/mao_suit.htm)

There's a movie gun replica (hellboy?) where a bunch of glass tubes and valves are sourced to get "accurate" versions of what was used for the movie. And he knows, because he used to work in the industry, that it could be tricky to source the parts because prop-makers just use whatever is available that looks "right". So a prop maker could buy some stuff from a junkstore and rip it apart, which makes it hard for people years later to reproduce it.

EDIT: And this article is full of interesting domain-specific knowledge about what casts what and why.
What an odd interpretation of this story—projecting a Yugoslavian problem onto the US. Sounds like "blame the US" diversion to me. McDonald's is a company of US origin but the Yugoslavian work ethic is a thing that would exist even if Ray Kroc had never been born.

Also: I think US citizens are a lot more well-travelled than you assume. Sure, they work hard and don't get much holiday time, but they do travel quite a lot in their free time.
And yet, that regulation was probably created for a good reason, to protect consumers from car companies selling cars that they had no way of servicing effectively if something went wrong with the car or if there was a recall.

Maybe Tesla has found a way of profitably selling cars and servicing them without a dealer network and the law should be changed. Or, maybe Tesla just isn't big enough to have had that problem yet.
You do realize that the majority of the smartphones in the world run Linux?
Your management hasn't really changed. I grew up with MS in the 80s and 90s -- I'm not quick to forgive a monopoly that set the whole industry back by 10 years.
Use something like python and qt and you are well set by any standards.
Hah, I was just typing non-parented comment of my own when I glanced down and noticed the parting words of yours. It was to be somewhere along the lines of "Despite Mitnick, Jolie and all the computer-centric epitomes of the term 'hacker', McGyver who we never even saw use a computer, was indeed, the ubiquitous ultimate 'hacker' of 1980's mainstream culture.
Hotels are a 'meh'-style business.
They are either expensive or shabby. And they don't match modern lifestyle that much.
Hotels are lame.
Why should one back hotels' profits?
It's been progressively updated (faster speeds, more reliable, more secure[1]) and in recent years, standardised (I think we're on the second version of the standard now) to enable interop/less interference between gear from different manufacturers.

[1] Yes, secure. Much like wifi, power lines do leave your house :), and despite claims to the contrary, the signal can be strong enough on the other side of circuit breakers/RCDs for it to be picked up by attackers (or neighbours). Hence encryption of the whole system.
The kernel. Everything else from libc on up was rewritten, and under Google's control. The Play store is hardly in AOSP, much less their new IntelliJ-based development stack.
The email metadata idea looks a little like this: https://github.com/priestc/LibraryDSS
1 in 20 kids see someone get shot every year, so you would expect that by age seven that 7 in 20 would have

No I wouldn't, because:

a) I doubt the age distribution for "kids who see people get shot in a year" is constant. The linked article doesn't include age distributions, but they surveyed children up to age 17, and I would expect many more 15 year-olds to see people get shot than 7 year-olds.

b) I doubt the system is stochastic. It's probably more likely for the 1 in 20 from year 1 to see another few of the 7 shots in those 7 years (due to geographic and socio-economic factors) than it is for the other 19.

In other words, even for a country where gun violence is rampant, a study population where 35% of children below 7 have seen someone get shot is far from average.
It's because I'm not really precise (but neither is Lennart). Technically, libdbus is a part of dbus. It allows two applications to communicate with each other using the dbus serialisation and abstracts the transport layer. You can use it over a Unix socket and then it's just a serialisation format like any application using IPC would need. Then, using dbus is no more stupid than anything else. Actually, it's pretty clever as there already is quite a lot of tools understanding this format.

However, libdus is not what people usually talk about when they talk of dbus. The core part of dbus and what could bother server administrator is the message bus daemon which allows any applications to expose their functionalities and talk to any others. Now, systemd can use the message bus to allow applications to ask for service activation. But, it's not required and you can run the init system without it.
No 451 response?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tbray-http-legally-restric...
What versions of Linux do you target?
Akademy 2013 videos
That is not totally true. The reason most people stay with Windows is because the hardware ships with it. In my experience Linux usage has about 50% retention rate among those I installed the OS for.

If you'd install OSX or Windows on a non techie who grew up using just Linux, I'd think the retention rates would be much lower.
OP here - Yes, I am aware that ac should take care of the interference issue. Of course if you run 5Ghz n that should as well, but distance is a real PITA for 5GHz. I've read that the 5GHz on ac uses beam forming to increase distance/throughput. But that would be just as much an experiment at this point as the Powerline adapters were. And ac routers and adapters are rather expensive right now, particularly compared to the Powerline equivalents.
Some forms of this are way older - X10 was developed in 1975!
I'm a Turducken aficionado. In my home town of Lafayette, LA, deep in the heart of Cajun Country, it has become something of masterpiece of both engineering and culinary art.

I have endeavored on a few occasions to prepare one from scratch, but these days I find it much easier to head over to www.cajungrocer.com to have a fully deboned and stuffed Turducken delivered ready for cooking.

Traditionally my family cooks a fried Turkey for our Thanksgiving meal, but we occasionally opt for the Turducken instead. Either way, it's a pretty simple way way to feed an entire extended family on a single dish.

The Turkduckens you get from www.cajungrocer.com are actually prepared by Hebert's Meats (from Maurice, LA) and unlike the Wikipedia article, have intermediary layers if stuffing consisting of Jambalaya and Shrimp and Crawfish étouffée.

You don't have to be born and raised a Cajun to appreciate them, but it may help to have some Cajuns on hand if you want to finish one of these delights. That or an NFL football team (one fact the Wikipedia article gets correct is that these are gargantuan preparations, usually starting in at 40-50 lbs).

Bon Appetit!
Hacking the word repeat counter for 4chan /b/
I think that comment is Quickmeme-worthy.
http://www.quickmeme.com/Captain-Hindsight/
Say 'C u l8r' to obsessively checking Massachusetts RMV Wait Times
I guess it's time for a War on Poverty.

Make poverty illegal
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Jail anybody caught poor.
No. 36 Reminds me of Knuth's literate programming, which I attribute as the major reason for the continuing success of TeX/LaTeX. It needs a major rethink/revamp to move it on to the full spectrum of computer languages (what is available in python or haskell) is not fully satisfactory and has not really caught on.
Actually looked into this. While the family machine is directly downstairs from where the cable modem comes into the house, my computer is on the far other side. Cost to get Cat-6 run there was going to be expensive, and I have no desire to go up in my attic and work a couple hours in South Texas heat this time of year :-)
I loved this comment and went through a serious critical study of those domains as well.

I have a clarifying question:
Isn't human consciousness and troublesome curiosity -- things you seem to be minimalizing and attempting to tone down -- just as real as everything else? Could your view that questioning your place in the universe as futile not be seen as escapist/defeatist? Why do you trust the biological system for consciousness but not how that consciousness operates?
> Could you imagine if people could make the kind of money developing things for Linux that they do developing things for iOS? It would make comments like yours kind of funny and relevant.

Yeah, one has to admit that Mac users are a more receptive audience for the high-brow humor of sophisticated fart apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Former_Yugoslavia_2008.PN...
For borrowing there's this:

http://neighborgoods.net/
I'm not informed on this topic but I'd like to point out that "14 drinks per week" is "two glasses of wine per day", which sounds like a lot less. You're not getting smashed or even buzzed on a couple of glasses of wine with dinner.
License to Kill: hunting poachers with the latest drone technology
What? I don't understand what you mean. What do you mean by "vitamins"?

That little bit of meat and vegetables will contain vitamins.

Those vitamins are a crucial part of a normal diet.
What's even worse is that we, the developers, their customers, will never get to know what happened. Because that's the Apple way.

I'd really love that Apple proves me wrong on this one and comes clean on the problem, the cause and prevention measures being put in place so this won't happen again, whatever it is.
>On a side note, I have many ideas that I've not released, not because I'm worried about someone stealing them, but because they're so far outside any mainstream convention that I'd be seen as a raving lunatic by many if I published them.

This is a very good reason for why your idea should be put up for everyone to see. No, I don't mean that they should think you're a lunatic, but because of how awesome it would be if someone just picks up the tiniest bit and develops it.
FYI, the information starts at paragraph 18.
As a native german speaker, I still think it's mindly confusing the Swedes would name one of their universities that.
This isn't in fact news, it has long been known that there is no scentific/medical 'crack baby' phenomenon, as documented in the wikipedia article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenatal_cocaine_exposure

What's perhaps more important to talk about is the demonstrated harm of poverty and violence on children.
I don't see how this fits with leaked information. Are you supposed to tell a judge that it's privileged information, but you printed it in your newspaper?
Probably something about being special, yes. But it's not the same thing. The OP is referring to a kind of critical thinking.

If you don't believe in qualitative differences in thought, then we might as well just abandon education as a whole.
SASS, LESS, Stylus or pure CSS?
We "officially support" RHEL 5.4 and RHEL 6.0 (and thus corresponding CentOSes).

But we've got customers running everything from RHEL 4.5 to the latest and greatest Ubuntus, Mints and Arch.

All with the same binary installers.

The only linux-related weirdness I can recall in the last two years distro-wise was Scientific Linux, which seemed to have some weird XOrg config issues.
Hacking academia better together - mining PLOS to analyze author contributions
It was in my employment contract the last time I switched jobs. I got it taken out.
I tried powerline for quite some time and thought it was useful. But once I became a homeowner, I decided it was time to wire my house for ethernet. To be honest -- it's one of the smarter things I've done when it comes to networking. Not only am I getting the full bandwidth out of my cable modem subscription, but I also walked away knowing more about how my house fits together.

Since I've done that, I've been able to diagnose other problems in the house that don't have anything to do with networking. It's not that hard, and if you're not-a-renter, it's a great little project that'll give you knowledge over your house should other things go wrong.

Don't get me wrong -- powerline's great. But cat6 is greater, cheaper, easier, not mutually-exclusive, and, unlike powerline, adds value onto the house.
Huh? Odd interpretations all around then - I thought I was blaming the media?

In my ignorance I must have interpreted the article like this: 1. Communism = bad, 2. all Communist people lazy = Communism doomed to fail, 3. big Western company comes bringing enlightenment but people no want jobs (couldn't possible have anything to do with lousy pay = must mean communists be lazy), 4. everybody knows in capitalism people work incredibly productively 8 hours per day - except those crazy Yugoslavs

Blame it on the communism still goes hand in hand with the era when the article was published, but today...? Really - "a Yugoslavian problem"?

EDIT (after your edit): Also - where do I say or assume that a lot of US citizens are not well-travelled? Please read again...
"However, usually this is not at issue, because the reporter republishing the material isn't a crime, so their testimony wouldn't implicate them in a crime."

Unless they are being charged with conspiracy:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-rare-peek-into-a-justi...
Would you trust a software developer in shorts?
Our company's new policy allows us to come to work in shorts and t-shirt. Whats your opinion on dress code for the IT professionals?
Counterpoint: http://travel.state.gov/passport/ppi/stats/stats_890.html

The US citizens you hang out with, sure. And certainly, a lot of US citizens I know now are well-traveled as well. But I moved away from an area in central Pennsylvania where there were families who had lived in the same county since the 1600s. Friends who had, by their mid-twenties, never gone so far as New York, let alone across a national border.

It's certainly a mistake to think that all Americans are ignorant and sheltered, and it's great to see that more and more Americans have passports, but it's still very accurate to say that Americans are mostly untraveled.
> mothers who don't smoke enough weed

I don't see any part where the talk about the "amount" of drugs consumed?

There were rougly 1600+ babies who were used as control and ~338 who tested positive for "weed". Some of the things that aren't broken down is the distribution for infant mortality. Perhaps there were outliers in the control group such as premature babies, which, if taken into account might explain some of the differences in mortality rates.

Very funny though, with actual data to back up some part of your claim, made me think... :)
This would be the coolest god damn phone. If Apple made the smaller form factor again with a slightly bigger screen, I'd be on that. I hate the wonky rectangle of the 5.

Thanks, Johnny. This stuff is fun to think about.
I remember thinking these 'existential' thoughts that cause depression my first day of pre-school. I am not as intelligent as a lot of people, but I know that I'm not unintelligent. I began failing my classes in school when I was 9, and my depression was beginning to really develop. I would walk around the playground, by myself, thinking. By 15, I had renounced my belief in God and refused to be brainwashed by anyone who wanted to tell me otherwise.

I'm 25 now and after a lot of drugs and alcohol, I believe in God, again. I read the Bible, not as often as I should, but at least I read it. It makes me feel better.

For those of you who are 'former Christians', I recommend you try to bring it back into your life. It does help, I promise.
Pass SSL Labs Test on Apache2 (Mitigate CRIME & BEAST, -SSLv2, +Forward Secrecy)
There is money to be made making software for Linux. Mostly in engineering / Scientific software. Making money of utility software ? Not so much. If you are a company like PGI you are probably making a ton of money selling fortran compilers to people running Linux on their clusters.
Thank you. Like others, I had no idea that Linux was that stable in the practical levels above its ABI.
I would wager more money is made via Linux than iOS by a fairly large margin.

As an aggregate measure, spread across several million people? Perhaps. Resolving that is just a matter of looking up the data.

But that's not the question that matters for an actual developer. What actually matters is: How much money are you making on one platform, and how much could you make on the other? That question has a lot more to do with whether or not a developer makes his or her rent next month than the aggregate measure above.

I'm not saying it's useless to look at the long-term picture. I'm just trying to show that it's a big mistake to focus on that to the exclusion of more pressing things first.
Computer System Automatically Generates TCP Congestion-Control Algorithms
I've been using the older Powerline technology for a couple of years now, I think the adapter is rated 200Mb/s, but I only get about 26Mb/s on the other machine.

Anyway, the latest generation of Powerline is called G.hn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn
As you can see, it's targeting 1Gb/s rates, which is pretty cool!
So I would guess a huge overhaul, and typical Apple, is taking care of that vs. arguing or commenting on theories.

A design overhaul wouldn't require the dev centre to go down at all - they could just prepare all the assets etc on testing servers and switch them over when they are ready.

Given the normal warning given on any maintenance, and the obvious negative consequences for Apple's business of any extended outage (extended in this case being over a day or so), this is unintended, and most likely caused by a security breach. I think we can safely rule out a design overhaul unless Apple are incredibly incompetent.

NB itunesconnect is still up (the bit which deals with app upload, itunes store metadata etc), only the dev center - dealing with certs/device registration/distribution etc - is down.
> As the name implies, .bashrc is for bash configs. Environment variables or other configuration settings should typically be written to .profile on Ubuntu and .bash_profile on OS X.

I don't understand this. If I set PATH in .profile or .bash_profile, then on Ubuntu I won't see that setting when I log in via a non-login shell. This is common for non-interactive SSH sessions.

So consider the following example:

* I install MPI to /usr/local/openmpi-X.Y.Z
* I add /usr/local/openmpi-X.Y.Z/bin to PATH, inside my .profile

Now MPI is broken, because MPI executes out of a non-login shell when running on remote nodes via SSH.

I think I'll keep my PATH settings in .bashrc, thank you very much.
Interesting how Russia Today is doing to the US what Radio Liberty and Voice of America did to the USSR thirty years ago.
"Crack baby" ALWAYS was simply a synonym for "poor and black".

It turns out that racism harms its victims. Who knew?
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So are they going to email their user base to warn them to change their passwords? I thought I had an account at some point and I didn't get an email.
Same with smoking. If someone sees a pregnant woman smoking, they lose their mind. I don't know the stats, but I know a lot of people walking around today were born to smoking mothers. Prior to 1980 or so, whenever the media campaign began, massive numbers of people smoked, including pregnant women who didn't know any better.
We live in a terraced house in the UK, and using the new Virgin SuperHub 2 and its 5.0GHz connection I can get full speed of our Internet - 125Mbps, even on my phone(HTC One). Powerline(using TP-Link 200Mbps adapters) maxes out at 80Mbps in every room of the house.
I have received 6 "How to reset your Apple ID password" Email from Apple during the last couple of days, none of which was triggered by me. Could this be related?
Android (Linux) has surpassed iOS in number of users worldwide.
That's the capacity of the entire network,so if you had multiple adapters data between them might travel at 500Mbps even if each individual computer is capped at 100Mbps.
You could replace "in Europe" with "40 years ago", perhaps. Maybe not "hard pressed", but alcohol consumption certainly was pretty common.
An introduction to the UTF encodings
Visual web-based SQL modelling tool
See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FriendsRentContro...
More like science as hysterical racism. The "crack baby" mark was created by a bunch of terrible studies in the 80s, and seized on as convenient by a lot of terrible people. This is simply the last of a large number of studies that have found no relationship, all of which occurred well after the time when the term was useful to those terrible people.

This is science correcting itself after power has ceased to care what position science takes on the existence of the crack baby.
Encryption Flaw Makes Phones Possible Accomplices in Theft
Depends on the company. Where I work you'd stick out like a sore thumb if you came in wearing anything but t-shirts and jeans (or shorts).
That's a wide mischaracterization. There's a very continuous spectrum from eight room highway roach motels to $8,000+/night vegas penthouse suites. It's not either dirt or gold. Most middle-ground hotels end up being okay (Best Western, La Quinta, Holiday Inn, Red Roof Inn: http://www.theonion.com/articles/red-roof-inn-announces-new-... ).

Why should one back SF over-indulgent startupwankers' profits by participating in their closed marketplace (instead of paying for a service employing local workers who are happy to have a job to support their family/drug habit/whatnot)?
Make sure you have a kick-ass cover.
Just use Qt. Works brilliantly, great API and documentation, and gets you 95% of the way to Windows versions and 85% of the way on OS X too. On OS X you'll have issues with native painting within OpenGL drawing and maybe event throttling / reordering for mouse / pen tablet events that you have to install a manual event filter for to fix, as OS X doesn't always send input mouse/keyboard events in the correct order.