skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well that's exactly what happens every couple years and is called "president/parliament elections". and then people are locked up with shitty options for years and can do nothing about it.
Every time I read a report about the weak PC market, I am left stunned by the lack of innovation we've seen in desktop computing for the past ~10 years. I routinely reference my blog rants on the subject, and I'll do so again [1]. The desktop in 2013 needs to differentiate itself from portable devices--to stand out as providing something that simply cannot be achieved with a small screen. Desktops should be evolving toward immersion. The clearest path toward immersion is to make displays much larger and higher quality.

Microsoft and all of the desktop PC hardware manufacturers should be investing heavily in larger form-factor, high-density displays. I believe that combining an immersive display format with the ongoing developments toward gesture and touch input would give desktop computing a necessary renaissance.

These companies should feel ashamed that it took ~8 years to progress past the 30" 2560x1600 form factor to a $3,500 ASUS "4k" monitor. In 2013, a "4k" monitor on the desktop should be entry-level technology. After all, entry-level phones pull off still higher density. (Yes, I know that manufacturing a high-density large screen is expensive and that's the point; it's expensive because hardly any R&D is going into that channel and these companies have no idea how to stir up demand for something new and innovative on the desktop.)

A 4k LCD monitor should be entry level. Had desktop displays progressed steadily rather than regressing (thanks to the taint of "HD") after the T220, an enthusiast desktop today should be ~8k OLED or better.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/displays-are-the-key
You are quite right on most of the points. But hopefully not "all calendars suck". You seem to refer calendars that are made for appointments, personal calendars shared for others to read and write more appointments on as corporate practice dictates. That is not the case with Teamup Calendar (http://www.teamup.com). Teamup is a shared calendar app, starting with no personal account attached to it. Writing on a shared Teamup calendar is not "subtracting an hour" from anyone's life, but can well be setting a goal for the group, or just inform the group (or public if it is on a public website) what's going on, which helps group transparency. If two out of the ten events on a shared Teamup calendar impact your personal goals, export the two but not all ten to your own calendar.

The goal-oriented calendar model is very interesting. Outside of the appointment context, calendar apps with color-coded multiple sub-calendars, easy drag-drop functions, and multiple viewing options may serve the needs well. Why not using the calendar grids just like table cells with given date structure?
Fun fact: In Vermont, billboards are illegal.
The "Linux is Linus' baby, he can do what ever he wants"-argument is getting really old. For a very long time it has been a collaboration project where people work together. When collaborating you have to have respect for your peers or, at least, act in a respectful manner. If you can't do that then you are both childish and unprofessional. Name calling and personal attacks are only bad for morale and hinders collaboration.
For the time being, my wife and I use Straight Talk ($45 mo = unlimited talk/text + around 1-1.5GB of data [it's unclear]) It's an AT&T MVNO, and no 4G, but it works for us, and is the cheapest option I could find. (We both have unlocked iPhones.)
> Why?

Because belief isn't all-or-nothing.

> That's not what you're saying, however.

Yes, it is exactly what I'm saying.
They still have some good articles, but they have a lot more noise to filter through than they used to. Their coverage of linux and free software, something The H excelled at, is basically nonexistent.
The problem with rating a candidate on the basis of his personal/home projects is that it excludes potentially-excellent candidates who are __unable__ to work on anything at home due to, e.g., having several young children and half-dead parents to care for.

(Also, don't try to retort with "so ask them about the personal/home projects they did before having kids", as that wouldn't be sufficient to cover the people who have had children at a young age; e.g., before turning 20 years-old.)
Most people on HN & Reddit.
I love the denial...

“Along with not having drones we definitely do not have any drones that would fire any type of weaponry.”

Somehow I think the second class is already covered by the first class. A conspiracy nut would have a field day with how this parses ;-)
Content Marketing's True ROI - Relationships
If you think this submission is off-topic, and you've flagged other submissions like it, you may have lost your flagging rights.

I dislike the way that people say actions are done "in retaliation" or as "retribution" - as I understand it they're largely automated.
The book "Excellent Cadavers" which documents this tragedy and the preceding events is incredible. These two judges were the first to take an entirely systematic approach to rooting out corruption and they were very successful in doing so before they were killed. As an engineer I found their methods precise, but as ween entrepreneur I found their methods cunning and clever and yet within the laws. And, you get a tour into the world of Italian politics which is just as corrupt as that of the US.
Deduplication. 753785 people watching the same video. The video can be stored once, or even not at all. Storing 753785 requests for the video is easy and takes 0 analysts.

In fact, by storing only what users send rather than what they receive you get everything that really matters.
> In fact, people who swear tend to be more honest than those who don't

[citation needed]

There's a whole lot of context involved here. Yes, there are very honest people who curse like sailors (fishermen especially [1]), likewise there are honest people who wouldn't throw about farthing filth about fornication willy-nilly[2].

I would add that ideas, in addition to actions, are fair game.

[1] Deadliest Catch
[2] Ex-Mormon colleague
Shorter version of your argument: "How dare you tell your parents to change the way they treat you, you're alive because of them!"

Living beings have pressured each other to change for one reason or another since the beginning of time. Linus is an effective leader and an asshole. Could he be more effective if he's less of an asshole? That's an open question. It's not any more rude to suggest it than him calling people stupid, idiotic, retarded for introducing kernel regressions.

Ps. She didn't go to the press. The tech press has a tendency to come to you. Sometimes it's better to clarify than stay silent.
Calca - Humane Symbolic Calculator for OS X and iOS
That would be the case I suppose if John's entire contribution was poor. I was thinking perhaps there might be some part of John's contribution that was actually quality and to say "hey, you know you're doing good work, it's just this part that isn't working well".

Obviously we're dealing in hypotheticals here and I guess if it is the case that none of John's code works well then your approach is probably the only decent approach. If there is some code of John's that does work well than I find a lot of times it's easier to give a little compliment prior to your criticism just so they know that yes, we do appreciate your work and contributions, but in order to be more effective here is what you have to do.
The Evolution of Spam
I agree. The claim should still be checked, IMHO. You didn't reach my bubble yet..
Actually looking at a map, the island is a mere 20km from a much larger island, which in turn is a few hundred km from mainland. The larger island is situated such that anything floating out to sea from the mainland has a 25% chance of hitting the larger island. From there, someone would find their way to the smaller island.

Quite possible that some people floated out to North Sentinel Island in a confluence of events. Once there, if you don't have oars odds are you're not coming back if you leave (floating or swimming).
Objective-C Generics
In most interviews, William Binney estimates Utah will have one zettabyte of storage. I may come back with a source later. He worked very closely with these systems in their infancy, and estimates they can store 500 years of current data at maximum... but will most likely not use one large volume, and in actuality they can store 100 years of data written numerous times so they can parallel process for cryptocracking.
You live in a dream world, my friend.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/what-happen...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024011/Uncontacted-...
Huawei Spies for China, Ex-CIA Chief Says
Are Intel and other corporations the ones saying he should watch his manners? It seems more that it's developers or maintainers, not corporations.

I just don't recall seeing corporations telling Linus to essentially be nicer, just developers. If you have links to the corporations doing it, please share.
Or it could be a good way of desensitizing the public...
When is your company moving to the cloud? :)
For the ultimate "fuck you", this should be written to use SOAP.
This is a shame. The H was a great way to keep up with open source software news, and they had great feature articles. LWN also has great articles, but I don't know of anywhere else with similar quality news.

http://www.h-online.com/open/
I would love to have this with Python syntax (possibly with support of numpy and scipy).
Thanks.

Last time I used SunPro was in Solaris 2.6 / 7 around 1999-2001, hence my question.
Ask HN : What is best alternative to aws t1 micro instance?
I am doing a course from coursera and they ask me to use aws EC2 t1 micro instance but i dont have a credit card nor i can pay money for it what is the best alternative i can use for a short period of time and for free
Scary still and somewhat related is: instead of banning books, just change the content to fit your needs. Like Nineteen eighty-four.

Oh, and like this: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/t...
Web-based PGP is a bad idea from a security standpoint.

Why would you want GMail to handle your PGP encryption, when it's basically known that they hand over email content to the USG? You think your PGP keys would be safe there?

If people want to encrypt their web-mail using a web client they might as well just run the email message through a shift cipher because that's about the upper bound on security you can expect.
Hackers are not licensing zealots. At least not all of them.

Some of us are more awed by technical prowess than by anything else, and OSX has done some amazing stuff.

Quartz compositing, the migration from IBM to Intel processors using Rosetta, Time Machine, etc.

All of that is great from a technical point of view, and you should at the very least acknowledge it as an inspiration. If you write code, that's it.

However, if you mean the iPod/iPad/iPhone locked stuff, yes, by all means fuck Apple.
I hope they didn't give them genetically modified coconuts.
International Movement for Monetary Reform
Application Mimetypes and Encodings
The "failure" of MOOCs and the ecological fallacy
Alibaba Turns To Travel As Profit Zooms
Hum... How about her gender colors her perspective but is not the issue ?

Gender affect a lot of your environment and your education so you can't escape it's influence. But in this case gender is not a significative parameter in one's perception of Linus and his strong-mouthness.
I'm not bashing the USA in general, I'm sorry if it sounds like it (it's quite hard to write a catchy comment in this vein and get the tone right, perhaps I got the balance wrong this time.)

However, I am pointing out something that a lot of non-US citizens on HN have been saying lots over the past few weeks; setting up an email service that is outside the US (for the purpose of trying to avoid PRISM surveillance) is nontrivial, and while it would be great if this app were the answer to that, it sadly isn't.

I'm all for the US justice system doing what it's supposed to and having the supreme court rule on the constitutionality of PRISM! Then it will no longer be valid to generalise that all US-hosted services are bad news for privacy.
I certainly believe that I have!
Right, I misread your post. My mistake, sorry.
I closed my google account today after spending a few weeks migrating. Try fruux for calendar and contact sync, it's hosted in Germany and I'm happy with it
That's one of my favorite things about the famous Earthrise photo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

The frame contains every living human, and every human who has ever lived - except for three of them.
Can you please tell me where you think a server needs to be located were you would consider to be "safe." Please note that every European country also falls into the will be happy to spy on someone camp.
I thought we were talking about compressing swap space? That's not really DDR-anything, it's slow-as-a-dog, last resort type stuff. Depending on the compression algorithm, compression level, and a number of other factors, this could be worse for some usage cases.

I'm skeptical that this is a big win in the case of Linux OR Mac OS, given that you want to avoid heavy swap usage to begin with. Especially as cheap as RAM is...
Not much unrest? That claim seems dubious. What are your standards for not much unrest?

I never said it is a like a lake. I meant an actual lake. Lake was example how inequalities lead to richest people making policies that don't impact them. That is the biggest threat income inequality may present to any society.

Money is like gravity/mass. The more money you have the more money you attract. You may create wealth, but if you don't distribute it, some points may gather too much like their matter counterparts, turn into a black holes and consume the reality around them. It's like that man that asked Ford "If you don't give money to your workers, who's gonna buy your cars?"

> Countries with growing economies tend to be more stable and peaceful Revolutions occur when people get poorer and lose hope for a better future.

Wait, what about Brazil and Turkey? Aren't they growing economies? Why are their in state of unrest?
Heads up that the second link will make your phone talk rather loudly.
Hi, Mary here. I wrote Isla.

Just FYI, the Clojure version of the language is deprecated. For the last year, I have just been working on the JavaScript version:

https://github.com/maryrosecook/isla

My latest work has been on a programming environment and programming demos:

http://islalanguage.org/
Exactly, that is the best time to make a teaser page.

And frankly, most pages built that early in the process are awful considering all the unknowns.
Formal Sweatpants fixed that saying for you:

http://formalsweatpants.com/stick-n-stones/

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will cut to the core of my beliefs and form the foundation of my existence".

IOW, Many people wind up using fists, knives, etc. in part because of the destructive words in their life. (And lead poisoning, apparently).
No, you are wrong, and Linus is wrong and you are both worthless assholes who should just fuck off and die. Oh, you don't like my tone? Yeah, just like a loser to play the victim card. Learn to accept my different style of communication already!

The disgusting things here are Linus' behaviour and your rationalizing of it.
It is wrong in so many levels. Couple of years back we were talking google may send you an email advertising cremation services based on your email history. It is becoming a reality. The worrying part is upright, honest googlers are supporting it whole heartedly.
It's almost like you didn't read the words the parent wrote, he never advocated sailing on over and starting tours...

These people want to be left alone and should be left alone. They've survived for 65000 years on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. I'd say the rest of the "developed" world has something to learn from the way these people sustain themselves without, looking from the outside in, destroying a beautiful tropical island.

For 65000 years
Their is no 'RT' strategy to speak of. Microsoft decided to use a desktop operating system in tablet devices instead of using a mobile os like everyone else.

So instead of having to make a single adjustment for applications(larger screen) microsoft built an entirely new interface and APIs to support that interface. New applications built for that interface are designed to replace traditional desktop applications and work well a variety of screensizes and both with and without touch input. The motivation behind this decision was to leverage windows' market penetration to build momentum for their mobile strategy. This isn't so much a strategy as an overwhelming desire to always leverage windows when entering a new market segment. It is a crutch that makes true innovation impossible.

The problem is that this 'strategy' is impossible. There is no such thing as a magical toolkit that can do what Microsoft wants. Instead, you have massive consumer confusion and applications that don't work well on non-touchscreen devices. Now Microsoft has to support new 'Modern/Metro' applications going forward on Windows for the foreseeable future. It takes resources away from the traditional desktop experience.

Imagine if Microsoft had simply taken Windows Phone and adapted it to a larger screen size. It would have used the same API and provided a considerably better experience for consumers(without any confusion) at virtually new development cost or adoption of a new toolkit/application experience for the desktop. The only thing microsoft would have lost was the ability to run mobile applications on the desktop. A dubious benefit to say the least.

RT was an interesting strategy and most people in Steve Ballmer's shoes would have taken the same bet.
I strongly disagree as I know many other people did as well.
So the bad news is that Big Macs kill more Americans than drones, and the bad news is that we're closing the gap.
We the people are not authorized to know the results.
I would bet that any experts on this matter would advise the same thing: leave them alone. Why do you think there are strict laws banning travel to the island?

The people themselves have made it very clear that they want to be left alone. Your mentality is the same one that missionaries and conquistadors use to justify imperialistic domination. If they want to be left alone what gives you the right to impose your way of life?

And if you actually read the article and do some basic research you would notice that the entire reason the island didn't become a mini zoo is because the Sentinelese people themselves have resisted intervention and subsequently there are laws banning intervention.

You have such a western centric world police attitude it is pretty gross and pompous. You're basically suggesting destroying a culture we know nothing about because of some false sense of moral obligation. Rash, illogical decision making is what is wrong with this world, and that is exactly what you're advocating.
Don't usually turn to this guy for advice but I 100% agree with this. I am going through the same old interview template right now that everyone has copied from google/facebook and I think while it applies some places, for early startups, its ridiculous to use that as a marker.

You should hire for a developers ability to execute, not their ability to solve problem about bowling balls and skyscrapers, and not their ability to reverse() a string without using reverse(). I get that they are testing your overall data structure knowledge and your algorithmic thinking, but those are also things that one can find on google, things that one can educate one's self on when they need to. Early stage companies want to look for those people who will do that, people who encounter a problem and then just go out and solve it.

(.....now I will stop ranting and go back to memorizing stupid puzzle/data structure interview questions, for my next phone screen in a few hours)
They always could put what they wanted on parts of the screen. Now they want wastly bigger or more expensive parts of tjat screen.
International Movement for Monetary Reform in US
No, everything is not new on the internet. Historically, this has always been the Media business model (newspaper, radio, TV, magazines, etc). Editors have balanced users and customers for a 100+ years.
I use Google Apps as my server, which collects into "Sent Items" any email I sent from the POP client (and makes them available over IMAP should I need them).

For mail sent from my IMAP clients, I use "automatically BCC myself" thus ensuring a copy ends up at the POP client.
Trademark symbols in URLs
So is it problematic for you that others are themselves and behave like real people instead of behaving like corporate puppets or politicians? Based on my experience, you can keep your politeness to yourself.

I've been doing stupid things a lot. I've heard both political "concerns" and "stop doing that faggot" sort of criticism. The latter has always actually worked. The former has made things worse, because I have not always understood polite talk which uses too many nouns. It has made people think I behave like an ass just to annoy them, whereas I actually always try to be nice to others.

Politeness is censorship at worst -- you can still abuse people yet you can't clearly tell that something was harmful.
I agree.

There are genuinely intelligent people out there who look up to Linus and people like him. And the problem is that they look up to these people and identify with their behaviour because they want to be seen as uncompromising geniuses. They identify with a contrarian attitude and view conventional social idioms (for a lack of a better word at the moment) as ineffective in technical discussions. And so telling these people that the way they are behaving is not appropriate is essentially viewed by them as a personal insult. It all ends in a very divisive, two-sided argument.

The problem with Linus isn't Linus; it's that people want to be like Linus. They want to be seen as strong, assertive, and uncompromising technical leaders. They don't want peoples' feelings to interfere with their work. They view themselves as contrarians and will seek to identify with leaders in their community which reinforce their world-view. And the problem with that is one of misplaced attribution.

It's not wrong to use wit and a little strong language in a debate. Christopher Hitchens, a famous contrarian, employed such tactics from time to time with great effect. The difference however between someone like Hitchens and someone moderating a contributions to an open source project is that Hitchens was trained in rhetoric, elocution, and debate. He knew how to use insults and jabs in appropriate situations with practiced intent. Someone who views themselves as a contrarian and identifies with someone like Hitchens or Linus is prone to believe they understand these things when in fact they do not.

Very few schools teach such subjects today and I suspect even fewer programmers have ever bothered to take them.

However articles like OP's don't serve to forward the discussion. If we attempt to tell people who consider themselves to be intelligent contrarians that they are behaving inappropriately then they will immediately appeal to their heroes' success. This only starts the discussion off as a personal attack and devolves it into a polarized argument. Hardly useful.

Instead there must be a way to convince ourselves that losing your temper on a mailing list and denigrating the efforts and skills of other contributors is not the proper way to behave. There are other, more effective ways of being assertive and uncompromising that won't insult people and cause so many needless flame wars.
I'm 99.9% certain that the Supreme Court would rule such programs Constitutional.
The other possibility is that someone creates a malicious service that harvests and tries connecting using those keys. Scary indeed.