skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The arch wiki is absolutely incredible. I don't know how they've got it so good, but for a reference of all the things that can be layered upon linux it's amazing.
The same questions were once asked about alcohol. Did you get your answers then?
Oil stored in huge salt caverns could come in handy in case of strike on Syria
It took several months, but Amazon did a major update to the Kindle Touch to the Paperwhite-like interface. I think it's likely that the old Paperwhite get the new updates.
Optimistically, the name connotes that Amazon will match, for a de minimis fee, a digital book with your physical purchase.
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This is a picture that shows the life if we don't use internet!
Can vouch for this. My 512MB pi never utilizes more than 80MB RAM when running Raspbmc (XBMC).
In Korean:

체스::리플달기 (캐릭터 * ㅅ, 숫자 ㄴ)
{
면 (ㄴ >= 최고리플번수)
용 (; 최고리플번수 <= ㄴ;)
면 (ㅅ == 무 아니면 문자 길이 (ㅅ) == 0)
도라오기;
면 (리플 [ㄴ]! = 없음)
리플 지우기 [ㄴ];
문자 복사 (리플 [ㄴ], ㅅ);
}
}

What's interesting about Korean alphabet is that you could read and write the code above within a few days of memorizing the Korean alphabet system. Even a non-native Korean speaker can read the above example (you could read about 70% of it as most words are phonetic spellings of english words like Chess = 체스. and write it without speaking a word of Korean if you knew the consonants and alphabets. There's very little Korean word in that example above.

Good luck with writing it in Chinese (memorize all 4000 characters) or Japanese (Kanji, Katakana, Hirakana a clusterfck). If you're gonna build an Asian programming language, Korean alphabet's flexibility makes it easier if not more efficient to express developer intention.

Majority of the english words have been phonetically typed in Korean, there's very little semantic Korean meaning.
None of those things contain enough cocoa to deserve the name "chocolate".
Mathematica is also an inherently interactive programming language, with images, graphs, vector graphics, and GUI elements being first-class values.
My only issue with not having buttons is with links. I don't like to 'watch' where I'm pressing to change the page, but I am often reading a technical book that will link to footnotes and I accidentaly hit a footnote link and the book jumps to god knows where. Now I can't get back to the page I was on (no back button) and spend a bunch of time finding my way back to where I was reading. I've even given up on a book because I couldn't find where I had left off.

Otherwise I find I prefer my paper white to my past kindles.
I'm not sure why my answer merited either a down vote or a sarcastic response, but I regardless, you can work to minimize terrorism without destroying our rights and liberties. I'm not sure where you're drawing the false dichotomy from.
The downside is that the ethernet controller is run over USB. This is what kills performance drastically on the raspberry pi as well. USB is simply not a good protocol to run high speed network traffic over with low latency. The protocol is extremely chatty!
Oh! That's awesome once you figure out what it is!

You should make it clearer that the big feature is the "via" !

It's presented as an after thought on the website's design, while it is in fact the main feature.
I hated this perspective as a 22 year old when my (prior) company practiced it, but I can see the wisdom of it now. Not everyone should be on the bleeding edge, or even leading edge. It's important for both employers and employees to be on top of how close to the edge the firm chooses to be.
I would argue that there's a hand full of countries where being based is more than "notionally" beneficial. The U.S. is definitely among them. I'm not suggesting that the tax should exist but let's not pretend that being based in the U.S. is not dramatically different/better than being based in most other countries you could throw a dart and hit on a map. It's not as if these companies couldn't just move their headquarters off-shore to avoid the issue altogether.
Yes, original tutorial and Emacs configuration is a bit obscure, for historical reasons. That's understandable.

Another thing I struggled with was some hints how to actually write and structure your own configuration files. For example, is it good to use the configuration inside Emacs? Where this section should go into the config? I had issues figuring out how to load packages etc. In what order should configuration be specified? What if I use multiple computers, can I share parts of configuration? Etc.

Similar for keybindings. What keybinding can I use for my private stuff that are unlikely to conflict with other things?
Nokia was massively larger than Motorola. (Look at historical market cap data. In year 2000: Nokia > $200B vs Motorola ~$80B).

Nokia was the market leader in smartphones before they went WP. They were larger than Apple and Samsung combined and then some more. Motorola wasn't a big factor in the smartphone business. Google bought them for their patents, certainly not for their mismanaged smartphone strategy. So, Motorola went from 0% smartphone market share to roughly 3% with Android. (Nothing to write home about, but you can't blame this on Android.)

Nokia on the other side was at 34% when they decided to go all in on WP, and look where they are now: 3%. Nokia's fall is of historic proportions. Motorola's fall doesn't even come close.
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All of those things, except "stimulant" technically, can be said of pot too. Hell, caffeine is physically addictive (not to even get into the lifestyles you can build around it that lead to less 'medical' forms of addiction...) while pot is not.

You ever caffeine withdrawal? Yeah, during that week-long vacation last year when you stopped going to Starbucks every morning. Most of us have gone through that; it is a bitch and lasts longer than most hangovers.

You ever get pot withdrawal? Yeah, me neither.

Whatever, lets say for the sake of argument that pot and caffeine are on par with each other despite the obvious discrepancies. It is undeniable that pot prohibition is harmful to society; why would caffeine prohibition not be?
Would you be interested in blogging about any changes you made, or particularly interesting/tricky things you found in the sources, while creating this?

I haven't looked closely at ARC, so perhaps this is a foolish question, but was this as turn-key as unpacking the distribution, changing some names and colors, and running it on some server, or did you need to make substantial changes in order to make it your own, or even to get it to run?
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Not really good enough. It's unacceptable to ask your customers to expose themselves to unlimited billing liability. This is one thing that Google gets right and yourselves and Amazon don't: the ability to set a budget.

I bet if I didn't pay my bill on time you'd cut me off pretty quick. Why not let me tell you how much I've got to spend ahead of time so there's no nasty surprises when I get back from vacation while some bot has been rampaging through my site?

Of think of it this way: today's offer is designed to get people using Rackspace by lowering barriers. You're hoping people will like it and stay, or be too lazy to move. Don't you think the potential of an unlimited bill is another significant barrier in people's minds? I bet you're losing sign-ups.
Progressive enhancement is a luxury, and not everyone can afford it. It vastly increases your test surfaces, and requires multiple designs for every page/feature.

Only if you're doing it wrong. (I.e. if you re-implement planned JS functionality in HTML, which sounds like what you're describing.)

Progressive enhancement done right starts with a fully functional prototype of the application done in HTML. Then you enhance your workflow and performance with JavaScript. Enhance, not re-implement.

One big advantage of PE is that it encourages semantic use of HTML, which allows for declarative and reusable JS libraries.

Every single person I've met who said it's "impossible" or "too expensive" never really tried. You don't sound like you've ever really tried it either.
IME there is some kind of resistance mechanism that prevents me from seeing truth, specially if it is unfavourable, but not only. The ability to overcome that resistance counts as a sixth sense for me.
Ask HN: Freelance developers, what would make you more successful?
Interesting indeed. Not that I would care if someone gets some money out of posting it on HN. Hell, that's the best kind of advertisement anybody could want.
With Amazon's cloud storage for books, not just ones purchased through them, the storage should really be considered ephemeral. I don't think that having enough space to store a large library of books should be considered a showstopper, when you can download books you've sent to your kindle via email at any time.

I do agree with the mechanical buttons. I love my PW, but miss the buttons.
"Decentralisable" is a good word to use, because Persona already is that. Whether a particular application is actually decentralised is up to the relying party (RP). They can post a quick query to Mozilla, or they can do slightly more work and do the verification themselves.
Why Microsoft Had No Choice But To Purchase Nokia’s Handset Business
Robots Are Not Destroying Jobs
>Even if you think your developers are supermen who can work all the time, (personally, I believe that is true in the short term, false in the long term.) in this market, why would a good developer stay with you, when they can get more reasonable treatment (often for the same total salary) elsewhere?

There are lots of people (mostly young men) who really enjoy the work and are willing to put in those kinds of hours because they live and breath the stuff. That's the way I was in my 20s. It's not "Mistreatment" if you know the score going in and you're getting paid for it.

Of course you can't keep that pace up as you get older, particularly if you have a family.

>My other observation is that the more you increase pressure to keep people at work, the more personal business is conducted at work.

Very few companies increase pressure to keep people at work. They just structure deadlines such that nobody can finish their work in a forty hour week. Usually unintentionally, of course, but not always. When I worked in finance they were pretty up front about it - they expected more than a forty hour week and we were compensated accordingly.
From the author: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2012/10/a-modern-space-cadet/ (See the first part about hardware)
Rumor: Microsoft can buy Oculus Rift and change gaming forever
I think that's going to be right around the corner.
I was really hoping this was a "Breaking Bad" reference (Walter "Heisenberg" White and his fedora).
The issue in this branch of the conversation is the stigmatizing of people who legitimately need services but have actual hardships in maintaining them in the face of beauracratic rigidity and "discrimination by fiat".

My mother is legally blind and needs assistance for almost any trip out of her residence, and all paperwork. How many classes/subjects will fix that?
I dont understand who are the PEOPLE WHO DONT NEED MONEY. Should maybe be rephrased: YOUNG PEOPLE WHO DONT THINK THEY WILL NEED MONEY.
I haven't seen such a site, but the two sites I follow for these type of devices are:

http://www.cnx-software.com/
http://liliputing.com/tag/mini-pc

They do reviews on most of these devices. I have two mk802s that I'm trying to setup as a sort of custom monitoring devices. This probably sounds like a form of pen testing (and it is similar) but I'm working on having one of these power up, search out open wifi networks, connect, then vpn into my server and start posting stats.

Among other things I do managed wifi. In the past, I've had to setup some sort of pre-configured desktop or laptop on site to do something like this. I'd like to improve on that (and a < $50 price point is nice) by dropping one of these off and letting it do the work automatically. I can do some access point monitoring remotely (ping, ssh, https, number of clients), but doing a speedtest and signal strength pretty much needs a device on premise.
I've never actually interviewed at a company that interviewed like this. Is this the usual way in the US?
This is brilliant. Just such a useful idea. But I would say that this should have been 'mobile first', and would strongly suggest expending effort on mobile experience. This is large and by far something I'd be more likely to use on my phone than anywhere else and its very hard to use on the phone right now
Yeah, we ran this all the way up to the executive level. We hear you and will address it as soon as possible.
If your website genuinely has a good reason for requiring js then that's fine. If your buggy js gratuitously stops me from being able to access textual content, you're going on my list of people whose fingers need breaking with a polo mallet before they do any more damage. You'll be next after the blogspot.com guys.
What a loaded comment. Guilt by association is almost always rubbish.
Strange -- was that for a US-based location? I just tested it in windows based firefox & debian based iceweasel and it seemed to work ok. I don't have a Ubuntu system handy at the moment.
300,000 Parliamentary attempts to access online pornography
▶ NEWS FLASH THEY WANT WORLD WAR 3
Giving up in the mobile space isn't an option. In these situations, Microsoft had to take action. If they just give the mobile sector to apple and google, they also potentially weaken the windows ecosystem itself.

Microsoft may be slow, but they have enough momentum to make a small dent in the market and grow from there.

Taking risks is a necessity.
"Get the e-book along with the physical book for a small fee"
DEAT&T would have dominated the FTC RoboCall Challenge http://robocall.challenge.gov/ if they would have entered. $50K to boot.

When a phone spammer uses fake Caller IDs, the FTC would subpoena the records through DEAT&T to find out the real caller, then $fine$ them into oblivion.

Actually, AT&T should offer a service "WhoReallyJustCalledMe" so I can track down and sue the spammers myself. I'd even pay a % of my winnings.
Incubators are Bullshit
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7 Things That Make Google F1 and FoundationDB SQL Layer So Strikingly Similar
I really can't imagine violence going up if drug prohibition was ended, even if you don't count the violence committed by public officers enforcing drug laws.
People hold down professional, successful, white-collar careers for YEARS while doing cocaine. If it was legal why would anyone do crack?
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or Lemon Sherbet, because Dumbledore :)
Oh nothing really, I'm not that enthusiastic about any of them :)
You can listen to the song directly on soundclound: https://soundcloud.com/dutoncmusic/du-tonc-surging-memories
How about nicotine? Granted, there have probably been people who steal cigarettes are steal other things to buy cigarettes, but I think it's a much smaller problem than with illegal drugs.
I would use this with cookbooks. I like to refer to the printed copy in the kitchen but while shopping I could check ingredient lists from a reader.
ChromeView is unfinished business; the author has stated that he doesn't have time to commit to it right now. Certain things are broken in it like native scrolling. I started using it, and the more I got into the Chromium source, I realized that Content Shell is a better starting point (he started with AndroidWebView). Mine uses Chromium Content Shell -- native scrolling works great. The browser seems to be fully functional and performs quite well. What is left for you, or anyone interested, is to write your own Java/C++/JavaScript glue to make it into what you want it to be.
haha, I had to read it 2-3 times before I understood, let alone get inspired by it. Sounds like it was written by a lawyer.
Actions frequently illustrate behavioral intent. Especially given he's a developer, there's nothing wrong with him being concerned a form is doing something unexpected with his data. While I agree with you on saving a form, I'm not sure pestering you via email is the best experience.
No SATA though...
I've run Android on an i.MX6 with 512MB of SDRAM. It's tight but you get a little more headroom with a lot of stuff disabled (phone, email, mms, calendar) and only a single app running at a time.
Sure, that gives a platform a certain level of inertia, but I don't know how much it matters. Developers will go where the users are. It's not like in the PC space where Windows managed to really entrench itself based on compatibility with mission critical apps. Who cares if closed-source means you have to get a new Twitter client?
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Agreed. I'd love to be able to restart where I left off. Maybe the high score could reset, but the music could continue. The music's great, and coupled with the color change at the drop, it could be really cool.
After ~5yrs on here, I've seen at least a hundred attempts at creating a second HN strictly for politics, but none of them have been successful.
USGS Releases More than 400 Updated Topographic Maps of Alaska (Free)
I really hope we see something like this for apps and not having to re-purchase stuff just because your new phone or tablet isn't the same as your old one.
I'm fully in the vim camp. I think vim is a way better text editor and non-modal editing is terrible, but vim is must less extensible and vimscript is trash. Emacs + evil would be perfect if it didn't mean having to rewrite all the bindings for all the plugins to be more vim-like.
Huge downvote to this. Saying that a hacker community shouldn't be interested in the Snowden revelations is ridiculous, and listing him alongside New World Order conspiracy theories is just insulting.
You're making a big assumption: that the war on drugs, even if it cost no money and ruined no lives on its own, in any way lowers the number of people addicted to hard drugs and the amount of violence related to hard drugs. While I don't have any specific data, it seems pretty obvious to me that it only increases both.
Well then, management is acting totally rationally and are being good stewards of capital. Hopefully they will be as diligent with share buybacks if the situation ever reverses itself.
I was actually hoping to see it called "Santa Claus" :))
I'm curious how popular (possible?) it is to use calibre for library management on the kobo.
Would you be okay with a war on drugs funded only by the people who, like yourself, desire a war on drugs?
"Chinese characters (and similar writing systems) do have certain advantages versus alphabetic systems though."

You end up with much lower population literacy rate than countries with alphabetic systems. ex) China at 92% vs Korea at 99%.

Hangul was created 600 years ago to counter the difficulties faced by ordinary citizens attempting to memorize the Chinese alphabets. Hangul also by far one of the more exotic alphabet system. This video sums it up nicely:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUr9t0bqmc0
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Justin,

As co-founder of matchist, and more importantly, a past freelance web developer of many years, your comment makes me pretty sad. The fact that we're not helping you the way you need to be helped is a problem.

First, I encourage you to please email me (tim at matchist) and share any/all feedback you have regarding us sourcing you clients. Specifically, I'd love to learn more about how/why you feel the projects we're sending your way have nothing to do with your advertised skills.

Second, I know we're not perfect in the "finding the absolute perfect clients" department yet. Every day, we work on ways to get better in that area. Feedback from developers like yourself helps immensely.

- Tim (CTO/Co-Founder matchist)
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gl = canvas.getContext("webgl") || canvas.getContext("experimental-webgl");

That'll fix it!
I'm not the site creator so you'd have to ask him.
Extremely off-topic, but did the missing advertisement on the right really catch your eye? More than an actual advertisement would?

"Companies serving the Embedded Linux Market are invited to advertise here"

It was the first thing I read on the page. Am I the only one?
If it was legal, it would probably be vastly safer to acquire and use recreationally, so even if the amount of use stayed the same, the actual negative effects would probably decrease.
An improvement over "Beefy Miracle".
Apples to oranges, since unlike meth and crack users, the vast majority of those who drink alcohol can hold down a job to pay for it, instead of resort to theft or worse.
Kit Kat's homepage is currently a parody of Android announcement page
The market of these kinds of devices is booming... I'm constantly surprised that no major Android company (or Google itself) has invested in this kind of device.
> The human gets replaced by a robot doing the menial task, win for everyone (as long as the pie expands and he gets another more meaningful job).

Your parenthetical aside is not a minor point.
Wow this super cool. The restarting makes it challenging and a challenge is fun.
I do something similar but only because of some Windows only educrapware that was foisted upon me. Well, and LabView.
Microsoft's strategic rationale for buying Nokia
No, it would be pedantic to point out that Android uses a Linux kernel. So it really says "supports Linux and Linux", good to know it supports Linux besides supporting Linux. Don't even think of running anything other than Linux!
He means something different. Normal middle class people always want more money so they can buy a bigger TV or car, or go on better vacations. The author's talking about people who mainly enjoy things that aren't expensive: the Internet, conversation, libraries, art galleries, thrift shop fashions. So with a professional income, their happiness isn't limited by money.
We used to live with "exceedingly inefficient" full page reloads when we had dial-up, single-core computers and slow servers. And it worked. Now we have multicore computers, mufti-megabit DSL connections, cloud-based hosting and yet you present it as if a difference of couple kilobytes (which can be reduced to nearly zero by proper design) makes a life-or-death difference in website performance.
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Really, anxiety? Use a native/local mail client and I'm sure it will solve your problems.
Justin,

To reiterate, I encourage you to shoot me an email (tim at matchist) to address you getting irrelevant or uninteresting work from us.

We have the type of work you're looking for (the Pivotal Labs work in your analogy) and we have the integration type work that you seem to not want a part of (which is fine). If you don't want a ton of Zapier work and you're getting a ton of Zapier work, that's not how our service is designed to work.

This sounds like a case of your preferences not being represented properly in our system.

- Tim
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I remember read last week about someone suggesting to grab HN code and putting it on an EC2 instance. It was for a business news site if I recall correctly. It seems somebody took the idea, this is actually hosted in AWS.
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Prohibition does more than just raise price. It also increases the incentive for dealers to get people addicted to drugs. It also immediately makes anyone involved a criminal, so there can be little conflict resolution outside of direct violence. It also prevents enterprises which desire to stay legal from getting involved in the production and distribution of drugs, which leads to more dangerous (and probably less enjoyable) drugs.
Good luck. How do you boycott a backbone network provider thatmay ultimately service your chosen ISP anyway?

Sure, you harm their consumer and residential retail operations, but that won't cripple their business to business operations, which is where all the real money is anyway.
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