skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I applaud this, and other similar efforts (OwnCloud et al) but for me the win with Dropbox is not system to system syncing (for which Unison or rsync works Well Enough for me) but rather as a synchronization service for my mobile devices. This is sadly enough an area where roll-your-own is not going to be able to compete.
Who're you going to believe, a randomized controlled trial or your own lying eyes?

Hint: if you believe your own eyes, your sample size is one, confirmation bias and the availability heuristic are dancing the cha-cha all over your results, and you fail at science.
"This is a population who is in need of early identification and support services. Consistent with previous research, our data suggest that children who grow up in low income households and who have experienced neglect are at risk for difficulties with cognitive and academic achievement. The importance of these findings cannot be overstated given that appropriate early assessments and interventions may help change developmental trajectories and long-term outcomes."

http://www.apa.org/pi/families/resources/newsletter/2012/07/...
I wore flip-flops and skate gear in my role in IT for many years. Some of the most brilliant developers I know wore pajamas (because they slept over at work many nights) and Batman t-shirts with cargo shorts to meetings. I fully support creative minds having the freedom to be comfortable. My own company changed their policy a while back and we went from jeans and Linux Ts to Dockers and ties. It shouldn't matter, but I know my creativity dropped after that :)
Why do people do that? Quick is so much tastier.

I fail to understand why many people choose a place to eat as if it was a first one in their life.
Pretty good :) But it feels a little sluggish. I'm used to my regex tools displaying feedback with seemingly no delay.
> As long as the basic income is priced below the average wage of skilled labor, people will still have incentives to find employment...

I don't see how those two are related in this way. Unless you lose your basic income when you work.
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I don't find this result unexpected at all. In fact, ever since I had my two PLC adapters I've taken the speed as granted.

I can agree with OP about the superiority of Powerline. I've stretched them as much as running it in my old house to a cottage circa 25 meters from the router. In the cottage I've had 6 computers linked to Internet trough 3 switches, which all come down to the single PLC adapter. Latency and overall bandwidth is almost the same, whilst WiFi struggles to even reach some devices, such as phones.

For OP I would suggest trying different wall sockets as well; I've noticed that different wall sockets provide different speeds, whilst some don't even work for me.

The adapters I'am using are low tier D-Link adapters.
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Maybe. Or maybe the broad constituency is not on a mobile device. Perhaps this is a tool for someone who is coding. Presumably, someone who is not on a mobile device.
Making Beer smarter isn't actually that surprising. Guinness did a huge amount of work in statistics for quality control, in particular:

"The breweries pioneered several quality control efforts. The brewery hired the statistician William Sealy Gosset in 1899, who achieved lasting fame under the pseudonym "Student" for techniques developed for Guinness, particularly Student's t-distribution and the even more commonly known Student's t-test."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness
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You need the official repositories to install new software?
He lives in a house.

I base this on two things.

(1) Apartments usually only have one floor. The article says he was having trouble with wifi between floors. That is not proof, but it is suggestive enough to warrant looking harder.

(2) He links to his Google+ stuff, and one of the things there is a photo of a house with Christmas decorations, which he describes as "Christmas lights near our house", and he links to Google maps for that lighted house. That house is in the middle of a vast sea of houses, with no apartments within a kilometer. All the apartment buildings with 6 km only offer units with one floor of living space (some do have a second floor, but it is a garage).
Exactly.

Of course, there are some details that might cause problems. A landlord might expect more headaches and confusion from someone subletting the place, and may want to raise the rent to compensate.

Also, just because it's inefficient doesn't mean that it's easy to solve. Copyright is obviously inefficient, but not easy to solve.
The fact that you have to sign a contributor agreement is cause enough to leave it alone or fork it. I read through your commit comments, read "Please sign this agreement" and thought to myself "this is why Microsoft is dying. They just can't join the rest of us here in the present."
I've been using TP-Link powerline for the last year at home or so, I can warmly recommend them:

http://www.tp-link.com/en/products/?categoryid=206

Compared to wifi (which was stopped by stone walls in my old countryside house), the connection is more snappy and faster.

Since my garage is ~100m away but on the same circuit, I can also get good internet access over there :-)
how their money ought to be spent for their own good!

It's not for their own good. It's for the greater good.

I fear for the world if everybody starts modeling their world view based on SF-visionary "me me me only me me me no taxes ever me me me" attitudes espoused around here.

As Retric mentioned, all of this airbnb money transfer is completely cheating local taxes. You pay airbnb fee tax instead of local travel taxes, thereby turning airbnb into some sort of defacto municipal overlay around the entire world.
The French philosophy of the last century said nothing about children.) In some sense a realization of absurd and meaninglessness require some experiences of ageing adult which children simply cannot have. They cannot realize the attractiveness of youth and meaninglessness of that attraction. Time to reread Age of reason or something.
I believe his point about 'meh' style business is that there is a wide range of prices, but that hotels are largely similar at every given price range. They lack real differentiation that might make any of them particularly compelling for a particular type of consumer at a given price level (hence don't match modern lifestyle).
> All with the same binary installers.

So you integrate with the user's desktop environment, using standard local widgets, theming, integration with UX guidelines, local library dependencies, etc?

Or are you shipping a Qt app with your own dependencies included? If so, Qt is pretty notoriously buggy on OS X (and rightfully disliked by most users as it stands outside all platform conventions), perhaps explaining some of your complaints.
Perhaps they're also trying to pull together all the disparate things running on the dev servers?

nwh's comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078854 ) says they've got a lot of different systems running, maybe they're trying to unify them to be on one system, making upgrading/changing easier in the future?
My understanding of the reason for total abstinence is while there may be a shoulder in the graph (eg. more than 5 drinks a week) beyond which FAS begins to take effect, nobody knows where that point is. It's not exactly the sort of thing you want to run a controlled test for.

It would be great if we could tell expecting mothers: "have two drinks a week, you'll be fine." We don't know, so "don't drink at all" is a reasonable statement.
Two months living in total isolation in a subterranean cave
I started using BitSync[1] few days ago to sync and backup some folders in my Android to my PC and Mac.

Unfortunately it is not opensource, but is is still better than dropbox, because it does not store my files in cloud and it has better setting - i can choose which folders on my device i want to backup or synchronize.

[1] http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
It is not only the text size. It is also the low contrast. Add to that the fixed size layout, the orchids in the titles, the images replacing the titles (albeit with a proper fallback), the unmotivated plus-icon in the list…

Those old designs were great in the past to show what is possible, but now they are a reminder of the long way web design has behind.
Well, it doesn't help that most parents want to see their child as "gifted". We as a society put a lot of emphasis on inborn qualities ("being smart"), rather than growth and hard work.

It's not surprising when the dream of many is to have it easy. Being smart is easy. Working hard is hard. I remember there being a study where successful kids who were told they worked hard ended up working harder (and over time getting better results) than kids who were told they are smart.

I guess what I'm saying is everyone has impressive abilities, but the authority figures' guidance may be what will differentiate a lazy "smart" person from a hard working (successful) one.
I take it your software is cross-platform. What language (C++, Mono?) and GUI library (GTK 2/3, QT?) are you using? Thanks.
I'm not sure I completely follow you.
I would calculate on the basis of developers building software that runs on top of Linux, so that would include a large proportion of all web applications as well as various embedded applications. You could probably include android in there also.

Now it's true that this isn't quite apples to apples since Linux is more fungible than iOS in most regards, mostly thanks to it's open source nature. For example moving your web application from Linux to FreeBSD is likely to make less of a revenue difference than say moving from iOS to Windows Phone 8.

The biggest point is probably that the existence of an Open Source/Free operating system has probably enabled more profitable businesses to exist than iOS.
> Helps imprison the right sort of person.

While I agree with the general sentiment, it is worth noting that the original law that created the sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine, the anti-druge abuse act of 1986, was supported by the congressional black caucus [1] because crack was such a serious problem in the black community at the time. So it was not a case of white people conspiring to put black people in prison, it was black people trying to impose prohibition on themselves, which of course backfired badly as prohibition always does.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_War_on_Drugs
Nobody on OS X wants a Qt app. If you have any solid competition in the market from a company willing to produce a native app, you'll lose to them.

No wonder you're having issues on OS X.
Real businesses are affected by this. Please keep your trolling elsewhere. I came to the comments looking for what people are doing, not for snarky and ill-informed comments.

> It'd be nearly impossible to write Linux software, or download Linux development tools, or generate a Linux binary that a device was allowed to run. It'd be awful.

You clearly don't understand how the Apple Dev center works.
Sadly the PGI compilers are (at least in my experience with codes I use) buggy, slow, and difficult to use. Why pay when I can get comparable performance using GNU compilers?
That's funny, a few days ago i received several too.
> See Eric S. Raymond

If you put this in the beginning you no longer have to write an article about what a hacker is.
Definitely.

http://www.zdnet.com/amid-extended-apple-developer-site-down...
Existentialism, could be viewed as modern, Western Buddhism. They have arrived to almost the same conclusions, rejecting any "religions" first. (absurd, lack of any meaning, life as a projection of ones mind, etc. One more step - and there is Eastern notion of Emptiness, void).
Good points. In terms of lifetime prevalence, that study says that, "Similarly, 3.5 percent of 2- to 5-year-olds had witnessed a shooting during their lifetimes, whereas more than one in five 14- to 17-year-olds (22.2 percent) had witnessed a shooting."

So the population in question is definitely no where near average, my was just that strictly in terms of the amount of violence witnessed, the differences probably aren't as great as one would otherwise assume.
This is categorically racist. Think about what you are saying. You are saying that just because a person is Italian, they have a tendency to be superior; they are christian.
"People with money aren't viewed as investors, but crooks."

Well, 90% of them are crooks.
What about the redirect responses in the 3xx series?
Why would it be? 1/72 of an inch has no corresponding value on a monitor.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3557279/2508518 says it in a good way.
Singh's code book is an awesome intro to classical crypto. Highly recommend reading it if you have any interest in crypto (which we all should)
I can see how music scene can be an example of the locust economy:

There is more and more bands, each of those have smaller and smaller listener base to the point that most listeners are musicians. Therefore musicians consume each other ("eat each other") and not much money is involved. This leads to proliferation of musical styles (I particularly like something loosely described as female frontend fantasy rock, a tiny niche obviously), which is a good thing; but we don't get universally recognized good hits from good bands anymore, which is a bad thing.

Anyway, locust economy is a call for Basic Income.
Are you the creator? FYI, http://mock.isssues.com/timeout gives me an application error instead of returning successfully after 30s.

Result of

curl -i http://mock.isssues.com/timeout

here: http://pastebin.com/nM1VTYwg
True. But the reality is far more complicated than that. In order to compare the two objectively (this is from the perspective of a developer, but many of the same factors also apply for end users), you also have to take into account things like the number of users that buy apps, app store fragmentation, how your software will fare in each store, and a whole host of other technical and market factors that are frequently discussed here.

I realize this might not be what you're saying, so I'll slay a misinterpretation for those that might hold it: going only by the sheer number of users on a platform alone does not mean that it is going to be a good idea for you to develop for it.
Or simply because 3d printed is a huge buzzword right now. Technically, 3d printing these offers no benefit over more conventional technologies like injection molding.
I just run stuff along the ceiling or baseboard. It's ugly, but I'm single so I'm allowed to do ugly things in my house. Here's my ethernet cable on the way from the living room to the cable modem which is on the opposite side of my house, joined by the speaker cable for the right rear surround channel [1].

[1] http://imgur.com/nBqo2n7
If the developer will never be customer-facing, who cares? But if there will be customer interaction, the important question is "Will our customers trust a software developer in shorts?".
How do you know that you've implemented 402 correctly?
Maybe they deleted all the copies of the both new and old developer centres so are having to rebuild it all from scratch.
As a gifted child, I had a lot of this. It was finally in my 30s when I realized that existentialism for me was really the only way forward. I really wish I had been exposed to these ideas earlier (However I'm not sure I could have absorbed them as a young adult)

Over the years I've become somewhat of a shill for the Teaching Company, which offers college-level courses on CD and DVD. Robert Soloman's "No Excuses: Existentialism and the Meaning of Life" is an excellent introduction to existentialism. Highly recommended. http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.asp...

In my mind, if we are going to encourage and nurture kids at both ends of the spectrum -- highly functioning and less functioning -- we should provide some kind of intellectual bedrock to allow the gifted an anchor to succeed.
Specifically which one, and how? I've investigated this a lot, and can't find too many people doing this.
In general, firefighters are very well paid, so there is that consolation price. Yes, it does suck, but the result is the rest of us pick up the tab. I was just in the news today that unfunded state pensions are at the $1T mark.

Also, there's the issue of how we got here. When the police and firefighters say "we need this, or else" it's a little hard to turn them down. I don't think they are completely without blame.
Not sure how Sutherland Global Services' Activision Department, the original one in Rochester Tech Park- not Canada, is doing- but around AT&T and other customer service providers we were the only ones who were able to wear anything. It ran as a startup when it first launched. It made us look less professional and things were more informal, but people were themselves and got the job done. Not sure if this relates but you get the idea.
Web Workers are slower and that’s OK.
Hmm, the explanation part does part of what you're asking. However, I don't know of any straight forward documentation that I can link to that will explain each and every one of these tokens. I have just read through pcre.txt many times and implemented stuff from there. If you know a source I can use I will look into it.
Of the 110 "crack babies" followed for 25 years, only 12 finished college or were on track to finish college, while 2 were shot dead. So it's only 6 times more likely for inner city kids to graduate from college than to get shot to death?
The Play Store along with all the other Google Experience apps like gMail and Maps is not in AOSP. Google has no obligation to open-source those, nor do they want to.
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The studies have not proven that there is a level of alcohol consumption below which there are no negative effects, but they fail to demonstrate long-term negative effects from low levels of alcohol consumption.

Now, absence of proof is not proof of absence, but in what other contexts do we tell people: the studies don't show harmful effects at low levels, but you shouldn't do it anyway because the studies haven't proven there aren't harmful effects at low levels? That's not how we generally do things. We only say "no" when we have actual evidence that some activity is harmful.

The reason we do it is not because science demonstrates there is a danger. We do it because we as a society love to control women, their behavior and their bodies, and pregnancy offers a great opportunity to exert that control.
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From my understanding (as told to me by a senior HR professional) is that the UK and CA are similar if your IP is "related" to your work your employer owns it.

Trying to claim that as an IT professional your new cat food belongs to them would not work but if it was anything to do with IT you might be in trouble both in the USA and UK (employment law is descended from the same roots in both countrys)
Not a solution for the thousands that don't have the skills and the time to install and maintain it.
Forget your password?
Not all customers are design snobs. Some buy things because it does the task well.
That's tricky too, isn't it? You're writing a public review with your name attached directly about another person, in public, with their name attached. I'm not comfortable doing that at all.

Hell, I'm not comfortable reviewing an air mattress I bought on amazon.
> E.g. 1 in 20 kids see someone get shot every year, so you would expect that by age seven that 7 in 20 would have, which is in fact exactly 35%.

This is insane logic. Think about your 20 closest friends. Do you think that 7 of them saw somebody get shot by the time they were 7? I don't know where you grew up but that is definitely not my experience! Continuing the same reasoning, 60% of all 18 year olds should have seen someone be shot. Again, not where I come from.
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I don't think the problem is the click event sending you to the top of the page, its the fact that the textarea is out of sight and its being modified. The browser will then focus it for you, which scrolls you up. Only way I can think of to solve this would be to make sure the textarea is always visible (even if not for the user), which is more work than its worth I'm afraid.
> Having little to eat and poor schools do not keep a child from learning from others. There is ready access to the internet through libraries in the U.S. with a wealth of information online, and a lot of books on the shelves there also. If you take away all genetic factors (tendency towards aggression, lower intellectual capacity, etc.) and environmental factors (is the child worried about being shot, peer pressure to join a gang or get into drugs or alcohol, etc.), then in the end it is more about parenting and community, not about poverty.

I appreciate that you are trying really hard to make an argument, but you literally have no idea what you are talking about.
Your [excellent] post was essentially written over 2000 years ago in the short old testament book of Ecclesisates. "Everything is meaningless, there is nothing new under the sun, nobody is completely righteous, etc." It is the height of folly to think that people a hundred generations ago didn't have the same frustrations.
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You're right, that's the recommendation

But about this I'm not so sure: "most women also stop drinking alcohol when they discover that they are pregnant."
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Mathematica on OS X uses Qt, I've never seen a complaint about it vs. using Cocoa.
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Explanation is easy, but understandably it's very hard for an American to grasp such a concept of life. People in
Yugoslavia didn't work a lot, it's true, but not because of some lazy Sloven mentality, but because they simply didn't have to. And it even didn't make much sense to work hard in socialism, because you could work a little or you could work a lot, at the end of the month you would still earn the same salary as everyone else. But it was OK for the majority. You had a decent living, no stress, health care was good. Country wasn't rich, but society was much more non-consumeristic back then and generally people had a lower expectations, so none of us who grew up there felt that we are missing something big. We were mostly part of the middle class and had our jeans and TVs and VCRs and music systems and ZX Spectrums and Commodores, watched MTV and listened to r'n'r, had long vacations and a chance to travel the world or spend summers in our parents' holiday houses on the Adriatic seaside. Social differences were not big, everyone was more or less equally poor (or equally rich). I know it sounds unreal from the todays world, but it was a really nice country to live in. Of course, such system was not competitive enough to be sustainable without external financing, so it all started to collapse in 90s, and then it progressed into wars and nationalism and now life is not like that anymore. Now people are happy with their 8hx7 work at MacDonald's, because there are other even worse ones...
See that's the 1% vampire behaviour. Relying on HN readers to comment on an article before deciding to read it. So those of us who read the article would be the 90%. Aha who's the 9% then, mods?
Yes, I said it wrong.

What I should have said is this: It's trivial to find a woman that has consumed alcohol during pregnancy

Especially in the cases of older woman (whose sons and daughters are adults now)
A better user interface _is_ "doing the task well". Functionality and design are not exclusive from each other.
If it were a design overhaul, it would be instant. Just do a `git pull` and restart the internet-facing servers. It also wouldn't take days.