skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> An analogy is not an equivalence. Please learn the difference.

It's an appeal to emotion by comparing it with something so different it barely makes sense, if you prefer to argue from emotion instead of reason, then by all means. Preventing you from emailing a .pdf or .mp3 is nothing like taking away all your basic human rights, treating you like you are subhuman, and forcing you to labor in the fields.

What rights should an author have with their work, then? When have you wanted to, but were unable to, share information that wasn't just "I want it for free"?

EDIT: Reflecting on it, this sounds confrontational, but I genuinely wish to know how copyright is impacting you. I hate all the patent trolls, I hate the patent system, I hate copyright trolls, so maybe I hate the copyright system as well, and just don't know yet.
Is it? I live in Australia, granted but it's not so different here and for the most part everyone's lives are pretty awesome. I think the biggest mistake idealists make is assuming that there is necessarily a better way of doing things that we are capable of as a society right now. That's not to say I disagree there are better ways of doing things per se, and that given another 5,000 years many of these issues will have been resolved but I think it's a mistake to look at a system that's basically working and focus on all the bits that don't work because all the bits that do work have become so commonplace that you take them for granted.
Thinking Mathematically
That same species is just now invading Silicon Valley:

http://belmont-ca.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/deadly-as...
While it's eye candy, it doesn't really add any value over GA custom dashboards, and shows mostly vanity metrics.
I don't really see how you are proposing we live without timeouts.

You send a request to a server and no response comes back for a while. What do you do now? Wait forever?
I quite like the system Hong Kong has:

http://www.gov.hk/en/about/govdirectory/govstructure.htm

"The Legislative Council is the law-making body of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. It comprises 70 members, with 35 elected directly by geographical constituencies and 35 elected by functional, occupation-based constituencies. Apart from its law-making function, the Legislative Council debates issues of public interest, examines and approves budgets, receives and debates the Chief Executive's policy addresses, and endorses the appointment and removal of the judges of the Court of Final Appeal and the Chief Judge of the High Court."

So their legislature is 50% industry experts. The Executive Council can be made up of experts as well, but it doesn't have to be.

Take education as an example. The Secretary for Education is a businessman, however there is an educator in the legislature, the Voluntary Chief Executive (Development), Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union.
I 100% agree, I want a couple of local backups and an offsite emergency only if they fail. In fact I hope this kickstarter can deliver that (no affiliation with this, just a backer):

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brai...
I agree with the table design. I had the lucky hunch to buy a desk with keyboard on an embedded shelf.

Another important thing is to buy a mechanical keyboard (I have a DAS Keyboard). If you are using it all day, the $150 bucks are really not all that much and the typing experience is worlds apart to the cheap rubber crap found all over the place.

I also moved to Dvorak layout and vim, but that takes time and determination to do. The hardware part is where you should start.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5729564

Discussion is closed there as it's so old, but if you think HN contributers might have something interesting to say, then it might be worth reading that thread.

Also here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5763702

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5775505
Could you elaborate as to how this happened?
I came across Yon years ago by way of his "Gates Of Fire" blog entry. His account of combat (which he was personally drawn into in this case) is the most gripping I've ever read.

Well worth a read to get a sense of the chaos and terror of urban combat. How fast it goes and how little time there is to make any kind of decision. You can see why training matters so much.

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/gates-of-fire.htm
Not fast enough apparently: https://developers.google.com/native-client/
They also changed the title of the post. It was:
"Intel Labs Haskell Compiler: Automated..."
It's the facts that bother me. Long term unemployment being at almost a 20 year high, violent crime rates are the worst in Europe are two of the primary issues that indicate failure in my opinion.

I'm very much an apathetic observer though. I really can't claim to know enough about the politics in this country to pose a very solid argument but the glaring issues above are too apparent to ignore.
This is really great! There are quite possibly many better ways to spend 180 days if you wanted to make money (#1 would probably be completing every Rails tutorial available) but I don't think that is important here. Rather, I find her approach inspiring and it's something that can be applied to any endeavour.

One nice thing that she will have, even if she doesn't make it through the full 180 is a record of her earliest creations through to her latest. Like when keeping a journal she'll be able to refer to it when she's feeling low and see the progress she's made, and she'll have a record of what she's done that transcends her memory.

At my first job I was lucky enough to report directly to the Technical Director of the company who took the time to mentor me on what it means to be a good software engineer. The first thing he had me do is to keep an engineer's journal. The benefits of this would only become clear a few weeks down the line but clear it was: I would encounter a problem I knew I had solved before but couldn't quite recall the solution to; I would flip back to find my notes and there it would be. Fast forward a few months, then a year and the value received from this simple act of keeping an organised journal far exceeded my expectations.

I have since kept the habit going but I feel that more can be done here. On one level you can keep notes for yourself and improve your own productivity. A level up would be to write those notes up on an internal wiki. One level up further and you've polished them into material you can publish to a wider community. One level up again you can inspire others to do the same through your efforts. One such effort that I have seen (outside of Jennifer's) that I think is completely worth anyone's time to explore is Journey of an Absolute Rookie: Paintings and Sketches (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=870), 10 full years of recorded progress of a beginning artist that blew my mind. Warning: you may lose a lot of time to that forum thread!

There is something beautiful and powerful in things that have been worked on and tended to for years, things that cannot be rushed no matter what: the only way to have 10 years of recorded progress today is to have started 10 years ago and to have kept it up for the duration. What a present to give to yourself!
If you have to configure it in such way that it can't be done through sane defaults and install questions, then there are no normal operation. Any configuration is going to be unique to that installation.

As such, there is no sane configuration that contradicts its "regular" operation, if there is no regular operation to begin with.

Apache is a typical example here, as default installation provide no personal website, no web frame work, no kind of web site to speak of. Default here, is to do basically nothing and wait for the user to configure and install.
"of".

Are you not aware of what a troll is? Because you are plainly one.
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Im sure it was a frustrating experience but they already worked around your schedule and got a ticket (although only one way) for your wife. If you emailed the conference or talked to someone a head of time and they said it would be ok to bring her in then you deserve to be mad. If you just showed up with her, I'm not sure why you expected her to just enter with no problems.
From their own FAQ:

Does Kite provide 100% protection against mosquito bites?
Kite provides a steady stream of our patent-pending spatial (airborne) compounds that block mosquitoes’ ability to track us for up to 48 hours, but it does not guarantee mosquitoes will not bite us. It is being designed to be a replacement for spray-on, fan-powered, or lotion applications, but does not take the place of bed nets at night and/or appropriate clothing in mosquito-impacted areas

So, they have put some compounds, that have been proven to repel mosquitoes in laboratory conditions, on a patch. The "minor" problem is that this patch can't possibly exude enough of those compounds to protect a human in real life conditions. I'm only refraining from calling this a scam because it seems to be a real company with scientists and all. But I won't be spending any money on this patch, that's for sure.
http://xkcd.com/1217/
"Take education as an example."

Graham Stuart and the cross party Education Committee have managed to head off some of Gove's more ridiculous proposals.

Could we not find some MPs who have some idea of how the Web works to sit on an appropriate cross-party committee?

Your proposals, while interesting, have absolutely no chance of happening on any timescale that is relevant.
So this is obviously way over my head, but is it a coincedence the Daala predictors produce results that look very similar to the high pass filters in Photoshop?
That's as may be, but forcing registration goes against the spirit of the open web. I, for one, consciously avoid any sites which require registration for read-only access.
int a() { return sizeof(void *); }

Obviously a trivial example, but it's illustrative: the front-end compiler knows a bunch of things about your target and bakes that information into the IL. If you took IL generated by the compiler with "-arch i386" and then compiled the IL using "-arch x86_64" it's quite possible to get a non-working executable.

It's possible to carefully write IL that will work on multiple platforms as done in this blog post, but I'm not sure how useful that really is. You're still giving up the exact control that assembly gives you, so I don't know how much better you'd get than clang-produced IR. In other words, if you want "portable assembly language" use C.

Still, its an interesting blog post. It's good to show people how the compiler works behind the curtain.
Vala is an incredible project. With a relatively small number of contributors, it's turned into an easy language to work with, that can compile into shared libraries with automatic bindings for Python, Ruby, Lua, etc., and get near C performance. GTK bindings are pretty complete. With some effort (I hear -- never tried it), it can even run on Windows and OSX. Vala may be one of the most underrated Linux projects around.

What's wrong with Vala?
The article talks about two issues. One is that debian has policy to default run daemons after installation. The second issue the article brought it up is the issues with puppet.

Regarding the first issue, sane defaults and usable packages directly after installation came as a result of the config, make, and make-install process. Users should get a useful package directly without needing to spend days adding all the default settings to start a simple mail or web daemon.

The second issue has nothing to do with config, make, and make-install. It has to do with non-standard hacks. If nagios3 had simply started up like apache, this would have been a non-issue.
Excellent, just what I wanted :)
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New Course: The Design of Everyday Things
Yup. It is definitely our fault (the fault of the electorate, that is). We get what we vote for.
Unity and XNA are very different.

XNA is a very basic library to roll your own game engine.

Unity is a game engine that handles scenes, game objects, physics, animations, complex 3d animations and very sophisticated graphics effects all blended together in a powerful IDE.

XNA is a hammer and nails, Unity is a house.
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People really need to stop referring to their own work as "beautiful". Show, don't tell. If you make something truly beautiful, other people will say it for you. You can even quote them if you want. But you don't need to say it yourself.
What? I'm pretty sure it's non confirmed. It's basically just nerdy banter (like Dracula vs Hulk).

They base their assumption on the fact that movies contain models from other movies, when those are merely Easter eggs. It's like saying MSFT wanted to turn accountants into pilots for 9/11 by including a flight simulator into it. It breaks down under scrutiny.
Germany lobbies for UN online privacy charter
When you click the chrome logo on this page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/#chr... you can see G+ pics being displayed on the TV so I guess you could use it to show pics
Report a bug then, or check if this is really possible to restart the service after installation. In some cases that may be the only reasonable way to do it. For example services based on scripts/libraries which get dynamically reloaded on each request cannot be updated while they're running, because it would cause mismatch between the components. Killing them, updating all files and starting again is the only way to do it.

As you said - it's not a debian-specific thing. Some packages may do it if they explicitly require it (and I haven't seen one doing this in the official repos so far).
Finding time for pet projects
In London, a "no reservations" system seems to be happening more and more with popular trendy/hip establishments.

And it seems to work.

Places like Burger & Lobster or Meat Liquor usually have very long queues at prime times.
also see: be a regular and a good tipper.

(only works in places where you are a regular and a good tipper)
When do you use the Action Bar? Never seen an app with it.
The question here, I imagine, is not primarily one of the validity of the various viewpoints. Rather, it is commentary that someone solving the problem of malaria has to accept the reality of the sub-Saharan African viewpoint as a starting point for their approach.

Foundationally, the local populations aren't clamouring for a solution, so they are much less likely to accept inconvenience as a by-product of a solution.

We know rhinovirus and flu kill scores of elderly people in nursing homes, but continue to avoid the minor inconvenience of meticulous hygiene before visiting our geriatric loved ones.

In risk communication, we might say "the audience will be hostile toward our rhetoric". Put another way, the target population will require careful encouragement to changing their viewpoint, while being presented with a solution that does not operate from a confrontational approach.

Any solution that does not consider the local populations' viewpoints will likely fail.
The lack of labels on the axes of graphs actually makes it harder for me to read them, not easier.
So it's going to be throttled on AMD CPUs?
It would be really good to see a comparison between this, and re-using the Ubuntu Cloud images, which also provide easier initialization.

http://ubuntu-smoser.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/using-ubuntu-clo...
Like It or Not, Facebook Is Stronger Than Ever Before
Devs: Make Capistrano Your New Friend
Usually, the keys are entirely symmetrical. You just name one public and the other private. It's difficult to generate one from the other. The easy task is generating both at the same time.
The rise of ‘art house’ gaming
I think the vision for HTML5 or the future web is actually pretty close to what you envision. You just mark up your information and the browser represents it in the "right" way (e.g. native implementations). The HTML5 form field types are a step in that direction. However, don't know if all developers/designers like that vision. Stifles creativity...
Do you use such app? Could you point me to it?
Webinar Recording: Debugging PHP with PhpStorm
The author is spot on.

This has been a long-standing bug in Debian which, due to their glacial processes, will probably prevail eternally.

In theory it is possible to disable the post installation auto-start with a specially crafted 'policy-rc.d'. In practice you don't want to go there, as it tends to break in unexpected ways.
Spain train crash footage [video]
If a (software) FAQ is well-written, I like to read them. They answer the problems I'm likely to find when I use the software, while providing interesting information on corner-cases.

Here are a few examples of good software FAQs which are entertaining to read in themselves:

http://ffmpeg.org/faq.html

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/SELinux_...

http://libguestfs.org/guestfs-faq.1.html (NB: I wrote this one)
The Most Common OpenSSL Commands
Despite the inevitable issues, I would still like to see people with relevant experience running these departments.
Does anybody but the establishment really prefer such a system though? Setting aside time in my evening itinerary for queueing is not my idea of ideal.

Probably only a matter of time until a side-business of people who are willing to wait in lines for you emerges.
Make It Count
Ministers are appointed, aren't they?

What prevents voted-for politicians from approving ministers with working and practical knowledge?
Hulk obviously.
Looking at recent referendum topics, it seems to me that the right-wing Swiss People's Party have a lot of power and skill in choosing referenda that appeal to a mob majority against vulnerable minorities.

e.g. the June 2013 referendum also has an astounding result, on Asylum law changes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_referendum%2C_2013#Asylu...
The difficulty of accessing GCC's IR is partially deliberate - Stallman didn't want any convenient way for non-free software to take advantage of GCCs internals.
MD (but not an endocrinologist) here.

My family and I have been on a low carb diet for years now. I frequently do literature searches on the topic, and the scientific evidence remains less than perfect for just about anything nutrition related.

In talking to metabolism people over the years, the bad artificial sweeteners theories go something like this. When you taste something sweet, your body prepares itself for true sugar. When you don't input the sugar to the body, you become hungry faster. Additionally, when you repeatedly use artificial sugars, you may decrease your sensitivity to the actual sweet taste. Thus, once again, subconsciously you end up eating more sweet things (and thus more calories) to make things taste better.

Anecdotally, I believe I see this. When I drink a diet beverage, I end up getting very hungry soon afterwards. Additionally, when I drop all diet beverages for a while, I notice that things such as veggies taste sweeter. But you asked for empirical evidence. Here are the latest articles that I've noticed...

Diet beverages increased risk of diabetes in middle-aged men. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23575771

fMRI shows the process of taste is altered in chronic diet soda drinkers. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22583859

Sugar and diet sodas associated with stroke. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22492378
"Is that really an achievement?"

If you have ever worked in an environment where you are unable to get to Google, or where half of the search results you'd want to read are blocked by your corporate firewall, you would conclude that the answer is, indeed, "yes".

It is a desirable achievement to be capable of executing those different programming styles without having to fumble around Google to actually write the code. I would imagine the two together, _knowing_ a few languages and _knowing_ those styles, should be the real goal.

(While always learning more, of course.)
FAQs are a poor man's search engine. Once search technology becomes cheap and simple enough to be successfully included in every website, nobody will need them. In this sense, Richards' position is absolutely spot-on.
Do I smell (Open)Solaris?
SEO 101 For newpages
It does prevent the vast majority of attacks. The only attacks it doesn't prevent when your CA signs the MITM's certificate, or when your browser trusts it itself (which is what happened in Nokia's case).
Lifehacker Extensions Pack for Firefox
Oh please, it's just marketing copy. If someone puts the time and hard work in to launch a product, there's nothing wrong with talking it up a bit to draw attention. Your comment is pointlessly negative.
do you really hate to say it?
Page is blank owing to it trying to load socket.io (!) from http://localhost:3000/socket.io/socket.io.js.js

And http://cmj.io/posts/devs-make-capistrano-your-new-friend just doesn't work.

This just seems like a really poorly put-together custom blog. #-only routes, websockets for loading content, hostile error pages, etc. :(
This is not exactly mind-blowing or credible. Compare and contrast with this Scientific Fact:

E.T. and Star Wars are set in the same universe:

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/6555/are-e-t-and-st...

That factoid truly astounds people (try it)...
Seems like a great way to get access to a lot of Google Analytics accounts. I'd be a wanting something more substantial than "beauty" to give away that info.
I don't see how you got "Assuming we all agree with you" out of "I hope."
JQuery is not a framework but I avoid using it too
If they only had one restaurant because they were incapable of scaling, then perhaps people would get reservations there.... ...but that is not the sort of restaurant they are. They are a restaurant that can scale, and if they only had a single location despite that, they would not have a waitlist.

Or to put it more crudely: If your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle.
I think you might be confusing it with something else. It's pretty much in every app http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/actionbar.html
"Wind and solar aren't the answer either, or you wouldn't be having this discussion because it would already have been deployed."

I accept that these aren't 'solutions' for those who control the old energy industries and related power structures that are still dominant, but the logic on display here is fundamentally broken.

Various forms of Solar, and bi-gas, are already deployed where I live. Tidal, geothermal and Wind are all well underway. These renewable energies already emerging around us are our inevitable future.

I'm pretty familiar with hearing the nuclear industry over-promise, then watching them under-deliver, so feel free to bump that 99 to 99.9%. Continue fantasizing about radically different forms of nuclear power: I'm gonna remain focussed on the real detriments of the reactors being built (and up for license renewal) right now.
Dear Jennifer, something tells me this will be the most difficult of the 180 days. If all this buzz does not distruct you, nothing will.
Then again, you're MSFT employee.
Kind of a shame that "using cheap, high-quality equipment" is now evidence of criminal activity. As if I wasn't inadvertently on enough government watch lists already :(

(See also: encryption, tor; next up, using any OS that isn't certified NSA-backdoor-compatible?)
So what should you use instead?
"We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster." - Carl Sagan.

It seems he had several different versions of this quote from different publications, but they're all equally applicable.

I am reminded of the fact though that we voted for this! I wonder if any of the other parties, the fringe parties like the Greens or the Pirate Party could do any better?
I'd recommend Mindset by Carol Dweck. It discusses growth mindset vs. fixed mindset. It sounds quite pertinent for your fear of not doing as well again.