skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and includes a full version of Office 2013 + keyboard dock in the price.

I could not find where they discussed the Office 2013 license. From the article:

> On the software side, in addition to Windows 8.1 you get a pre-installed copy of Office 2013.

Which is to say Office 2013 is installed, but not necessarily licensed. It might be a trial.
That's a very worthy philosophy.
Thanks for hinting at the technical reasons for LLVM vs GCC
New ultra-thin glass is just two atoms thick, earns Guinness World Record
Did anyone mention twitter ? Maybe seing her tweet at some time and looking for tweets happening at the same time in some region lead you to her tweet account. Then from a tweet account to a blog, then to her name ?
Cut him some slack, he did write it while having Lyme disease...
Those stripes are quite uncomfortable for my eyes.
You should consider something more subtle...
No, it's the other way around. Buying second hand denies profit to the publisher, which reduces units sold, which increases the price they have to charge to make any money.
>Except that most developers working on open source are actually getting their bills paid by working on closed-source software.

Do you have references for that statement?

I was under the impression was that most, or at least a very large portion of open-source code was written by people paid by companies to work on that open-source code. Both on the BSD and GPL side of things.
Ask HN: So, how does iPhone 5s fingerprint architecture work?
I believe Apple is closed enough to disclose the details of its fingerprint (or whatever technology) architecture (or maybe I haven't been able to find it, or maybe it is too soon).

So, how do you believe it works?

Do you think iPhone is storing locally your fingerprint hash or maybe it is stored both remotely and locally?
How does it work when it comes to buying in the appStore? Do they add your fingerprint as password hashing or maybe they decrypt your previously stored password with your fingerprint?

I believe, as Schneier said, fingerprint is somewhat secure to use to unlock your iPhone and if you need extra security for any reason you can fallback to the pin, but, how does it really work?

Regards
Apple handles the warranty in a unified way (branded as "AppleCare"): Apple parts & labor warranty for the whole device, but no separate warranties for parts (you aren't even supposed to know what many of the parts are, or get it serviced by anyone except Apple). The default Apple warranty is 1 year, though you can pay extra for a 3-year one.
I created a throwaway account so it's not associated with my normal handle on here. This post brings up something I've been wondering about, and it's something that's really been bothering me the last few years.

I feel like I've become significantly less intelligent over time, and I can't figure out if that's really the case, or if it's a different issue that simply makes me feel less intelligent.

When I was in high school, everything I learned was simple -- everything was a piece of cake. I would program my TI calculator (with a list of assembly opcodes next to me) at the back of the class and basically ignore the lesson and then get the highest grade on every test. Same in chemistry. Every standardized test I took (SAT, ACT, etc.) gave results in the 99th percentile. Same with the AMC and AIME. I graduated 1/200 in my class. I had all kinds of interesting programming projects in my free time from age 12 to 18.

Then I went to college: a STEM school. The first semester went fine; I got all A's. The second semester, I got my first B ever. The third semester, more B's. Eventually a C. My final GPA ended up being 3.5, significantly lower than anything I had been used to. I couldn't stay awake during lessons in class. I was sleepy all the time despite getting good sleep (8-9 hours) every night. I never skipped class, but I may as well have considering how sleepy and groggy as I was. This had never been an issue in high school. I don't ever remember getting sleepy in class then, even if the lecture was boring.

Suddenly, new subjects became incomprehensible. The ease at which I previously absorbed new material was gone. Nothing "clicked" anymore. I'm in graduate school now and still nothing "clicks". I attend department seminars where visiting professors present their research, and it may as well be alien gibberish. I feel like I'm just faking my way through grad school at this point. I can still manage A's and B's in classes without ever understanding the content only because of the way the grading system's designed. Luckily, I seemed to have retained my programming capabilities.

I can't figure out what caused this. One option is physical: perhaps something chemically changed within my brain. Virus, physical trauma, getting older? No idea really. The other option is environmental. In high school I only had dial-up internet access, so anything I wanted to download, I had to really want. It was an all-day ordeal to get a 3 MB file. It was almost impossible to goof off online. Nowadays I get on the internet and just get distracted. I can't get into side-projects like I used to be able to. I still have the strong desire that I used to, but not the motivation. I don't know where it went; why would my personality just change for the worse like that? I almost wonder if skimming huge amounts of information online has somehow re-trained my brain to not absorb knowledge anymore.

Has this happened to anyone else? Have you figured out a way to reverse the process? I would love more than anything to have the incredible clarity with which I used to understand new subjects rather than this fuzzy, muddy feeling with everything I try to learn.
Being from Brazil, I didn't even knew such illness existed. Wikipedia says it's endemic to US, Europe and south of Argentina.

The symptoms sound pretty bad if untreated. Good to know more about it to pay attention while traveling, these endemic diseases are often hard to diagnose.
Seemes kind of odd to fixate on a self-contained copyright license (The license of GCC doesn't impact the code compiled with it) while at the same time the LLVM/Clang contributors are not required to release their patents for use, and some (many?) of them are filing patents on techniques they use in LLVM.

To me it seems that they are ignoring an important practical concern (usage of LLVM/Clang may be unlawful in the US and Europe without going out and obtaining patent licenses) in order to address a purely philosophical issue with no practical impact.

It's sort of amusing how the tables have turned over the last twenty years. Twenty years ago it was the FSF/GNU crowd who was making impractical decisions for philosophical/political reasons. ... and as time has gone on the practical importance of strongly free software has become greater and greater.
Arduino Yún includes a processor that runs Linux
Really? LogicalIncrements says that kind of money only gets you Intel HD 4000 power with no peripherals. How is that in any way a gaming PC?
I get the feeling someone has been listening to the Elm language talk?

http://elm-lang.org/
> They really don't know what causes anxiety, or clinical depression.

True in spirit, but untrue definitionally. The thing is, the psychiatric profession still basically subscribes to a Behaviorist theory of mind when it comes to treating neurological problems. There's no consideration of what's going on in your head when you have a neurological malady; your head is a black box, where drugs go in, and altered behaviors sometimes come out. "Clinical depression" isn't the name of a specific thing that we know goes on in the brain (in fact, it seems to be a whole cluster of things); rather, clinical depression is "the thing which taking an SSRI usually makes lessen." When a psychiatrist says you may be clinically depressed, what they're really saying is, "you have symptoms that may be manageable by the effects of this or that drug." They have no idea whether they're treating the root cause, or just masking it, and a lot of them don't care. They just want to see your behavior alter, like a rat given a swim test.

And really, thinking of things like SSRIs as "medicine" is part of the problem. SSRIs and the like are crutches--given to you to lessen the symptoms of a problem enough for it to stop being overwhelming, so that you can actually manage to make it to the CBT-practicing therapist every day, have the energy to find the the better job to get away from your horrible boss, etc. I wrote more on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6347620

(P.S.: In this case, though, if I might be a bit more pedantic: I didn't say that all those maladies in my post were caused by those imbalances. I said that inducing those imbalances, in the way that Lyme disease does, will mimic the symptoms of those maladies. Clinical depression may not be "just" a serotonin imbalance--but inducing "just" a serotonin imbalance tends to produce the symptoms of clinical depression. ;)

(P.P.S.: note that I never used the word "disease" or "illness" once. See my link above--these words don't apply to things like nearsightedness, so they don't really apply to the kind of problems neurological imbalances manifest as, either.)
Disclosure - had their name been at the top somewhere, and said "we" instead of "Zapier" it would boost the credibility of the project.
Repeating his comment. If he was banned because of this comments, then ban me too.

<quote>

> Putin is the head of a "virtual mafia state"

And what was Russia the year before Putin became head of it? It's not like corruption came in with Putin. Most Russians I know think Putin has lowered the amount of corruption, and I agree. Russia was so corrupt it was barely functioning under Yeltsin. You're correct there is significant corruption in the government, but amazingly there was even more corruption before Putin came in.

> eternal dream of Russia as a global hegemon on par with the United States

Russia's GDP is one eighth of the US's. It's ratio was even lower back in 1917. Who thinks this? Not even Zhirinovsky thinks this is realistic.

> The Russian state has assassinated journalists

Then you link to a list of journalists killed by persons in Russia. Where's the link?

Who killed Chauncey Bailey in the US in 2007? Who killed Dona St. Plite? Who killed Manuel de Dios Unanue? Scores of journalists in the US have been killed who did not agree with the government foreign policy on Haiti, on Vietnam etc.

> and jailed political opponents with impunity

How about Manning? They want to extradite Snowden. Lynne Stewart is in jail. American jails are filled with political opponents. Oh, they broke the law? Well that's what they say in Russia too.

</quote>
Java scales well as long as memory is not the issue. Java's problem is memory usage and above all a deeply ingrained culture of complexity.
As someone who works in a coporate-ish environment and has had to get Java running on 10.7 and 10.8 with Safari, I am surprised someone who does not have a background in systems administration could get it working.

Unless the bulk of the population knows what symlinking is, but I doubt it.
It has a certain ring of Vogon poetry to it...
Replace "Putin" with "Obama" is this sentence and there you have it, a perfect description of the United States. Waxing about freedom and human rights while manipulating and coercing the whole world according to their manifest destiny.
Good advice. I was bitten by a tick three summers ago and received my antibiotics a little too late. As a result I am still suffering from lingering after effects, the most prominent of which would be persistent "brain fog" and a general feeling of mental fatigue. And I am one of the lucky ones as it could've ended a lot worse than that.
By dynamic I think he just means that annotations are a really hacky way to do things. You use annotations in place of java code, and while you can tweak java code you can't tweak what an annotation does or how it does it.
Why won't Israel ratify? Does Israel have chemical weapons?

Maybe there should be a UN resolution requiring all countries in the Middle East to declare and destroy their chemical weapons under UN supervision.
Coke Engineers its Orange Juice with an Algorithm
Je dirais qu'il y a quand même une petite différence entre les deux...
Vim is the worst editor, except all the other editors
Putin is badass enough not to need speechwriters.
According to their own claims, U.S. military do accidentally bomb the wrong coordinates:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._bombing_of_the_Chinese_emb...

The victims of such bombings are called in U.S. newspeak the "collateral damage." That would be the language if they'd hit the chemical weapons storages.
Can someone please tell me if it's possible to get permanently sick from Lyme disease? (e.g. assume the initial systems are just a flu, get past those, and never realize you have other problems.) Because if so, I might have it. But that's impossible, right?

EDIT: Yes, I should ask a doctor, but given the medical situation where I live, it is quite hard to get good advice.
Russia's stance on gays does not invalidate the argument. Syria is an unrelated topic.
How Apple hides new functionality in iOS: isYoMamaWearsCombatBootsActive
How I just unsubscribed every Digg employee from their own service
When you want to unsubscribe from the Daily Digg, you can simply go to this URL: http://link.digg.com/manage/optout?email=my@email.com

And manage the subscription for this email. So why not pull a prank and unsubscribe all Digg employees this way.

Let's assume that everyone on the About page of Digg (http://digg.com/about) has an official Digg account such as kevin@digg.com. We load the page and bam, unsubscribe. Hopefully we can raise some confusion at HQ. Funny enough, not every employee is subscribed to the Daily Digg, these guys were not: Jon & Jake, Shivram, Justin, David
This is going to give me an aneurysm. For the love of freedom, people, please own your content online – host it on your own domain.
Do other people feel their cognitive abilities diminishing as they age?

I've been diagnosed with major depressive disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, ADHD-Inattentive type, and probably other things that I can't remember right now. I think most of these diagnoses (panic disorder being the only viscerally clear one) are to explain the disparity between my IQ scores throughout the years and my lack of performance in school and life in general. Which, by the way, I know is the dead-horse of tropes for internet comments...

As a result of these diagnoses I've taken several classes of medications and several instances within each class.

SSRI/(S)NRIs: Prozac, Cymbalta, Lexapro, Wellbutrin, Strattera, probably others

Stimulants: Adderall (XR), Ritalin

Benzodiazepines: Klonopin, Xanax, Ativan

Weird hypnotic sleep drugs: Ambien, Lunesta

I feel like there is a very complex matrix of factors that have contributed to the way I am now (I used to be a pretty normal, social, outgoing, intelligent, excited kid who got bad grades, now I'm kind of a weird dude) and I can't determine the cause. If the cause is depression, I'd like to take the right medication to help with that. If the cause is medication, I'd like to stop taking medication. If this 'slowing down' feeling is something other people my age (25) feel, then maybe I don't need to make a big deal about it. The way the author described his neurotypical self reminds me of who I was 13 years ago before that first diagnosis and that first prescription. I want to feel that clarity again.

Right now I feel like I'm brute-forcing through life. And it's working. But I feel about 1/10th the joy/passion I had when I was a kid. Which is a symptom of depression. So I take drugs. That make me feel slow, and prevent me from being deeply depressed. Which might not even happen. I am stuck in a strange loop, but slowly mining my way out.
It seems like it would be trivial to arrange nearly any non-whitespace-significant language into arbitrary ASCII art.
I lived in West End, Brisbane for a while and due to the closing of the local ADSL exchange (to build a new childrens' hospital) Telstra upgraded the whole area to FTTP.

Getting it set up was a nightmare but this was entirely the fault of our ISP (DoDo are the worst.) After it was installed I had 3 months of perfect internet access until moving out of the area! Shame I could only order 30mbit at the time.
* indolence.com - hire people to go to work for you, while you catch up on DVD box set

* inflight.com - bored of the usual movies? hire us to mime the latest blockbuster in the aisle seat next to you

* inkling.com - stuck on a crossword clue? we shall mail you hints for the answer to NYT's brain bogglers

* incert.com - want to pass that exam and get the CERTificate? we connect you with best local tutors

oh boy I am sooooo going to be in the next round :-)
So in high school you were smart enough that you didn't have to work hard to understand and do well. So you never learnt good study skills or self discipline which, once things got beyond your ability to just understand, became a problem. This seems to be a common problem for smart kids.
I would use Java for GWT, if nothing else. Being able to write a huge and complex application for the web, using Java both for the client and server code is something I would not want to live without (links in my profile for examples).

But besides that, Java is extremely mature, has great tooling, huge community and of course an enormous ecosystem with all the third party tools and libraries that come with it. The language is a bit primitive (but improving with each release), and the 'enterprise consultant' mindset of complexity for its own sake can be a turn-off, but overall, yeah, I like using Java.
I'm really excited to see Balaji (BSS) on the list. I didn't really know what "scary smart" meant until I joined Counsyl and talked with him.

Fun anecdote: One of my first interactions with BSS was when I was driving him and a friend shortly after I joined Counsyl. He was talking about future plans for Counsyl and other great startup ideas with such enthusiasm, speed, and depth that it took most of my mental energy just to listen to him talk. As soon as I started to think of a response or a question, he had already brought up and thoroughly explored a new idea. Twenty minutes later and my gas light had been on for 10 miles without realizing it because I was so engrossed in listening to him talk.
12-Year-Old Developer Is a Robot-Building Genius
It would be one thing if it felt like EA had decided they wanted to do a charity event out of the goodness of their heart or at least like the charity was the point of it. As was, it felt more like EA didn't think they could get away with positive PR by actually making money directly from the Humble Bundle but they didn't particularly care since their point was getting buy-in.

I don't mean to say anybody should feel bad about buying it--I don't think they should feel bad even if EA had gotten all the profits--but backing EA's attempt to get market share does feel like a major shift for Humble Bundle.
Can someone explain how this is different from Docker? As someone who hasn't used either, I'd really appreciate an explanation of the nuanced differences/how they relate.
I'm really still trying to come to terms with the opener:
"It’s not like I deserve any credit for being smart. I didn’t do anything to make that happen. I’m also tall, but nobody compliments me on that. (Good job being tall!) Intelligence is an immutable characteristic that I have at times capitalized on and at other times let go to waste."

To my layman understanding of psychology, and especially what intelligence research has been uncovering over the last few decades, the exact opposite is the case:
- intelligence is far from an immutable trait
- we do a lot to influence our own intelligence (perhaps far more than we realize, since much of what we do is due to implicit socialization/upbringing)

If you're going to use an analogy to a physical characteristic, than I'd suggest using weight not height: yes there are relevant genetic traits, but they're only a fraction of the story.
Since you mention kexec and TFTP+NFS, are you currently using Perceus? Or is there another system out there with that combo?
Because an Ethernet PHY is actually somewhat expensive and Apple already successfully tested the waters.

Consider the following tuples: (Apple, loved by all) (Apple, no Ethernet port) (Microsoft, not loved by many) (Microsoft, Ethernet port). Correlation is causation, right?
Your experience mirrors mine. I chalk it up to your second option-- the power of distraction is strong. I haven't tried anything to confirm, it though.

You're not alone.
> By dynamic I think he just means that annotations are a really hacky way to do things.

Why?

> You use annotations in place of java code, and while you can tweak java code you can't tweak what an annotation does or how it does it.

Why can't you tweak an annotation? Annotations are built into the language, the entire point of them is to allow code to detect their presence in the bytecode and thus react at runtime. e.g. wrap a method marked as @Transactional in a database transaction.
Piden limitar la exposición wifi en los transbordadores de Cánada
I used to think the same way. But, propagation of your content is a lot more important than just feeling good that it's hosted on your own blog.
How Apple Ships Millions of iPhones for Simultaneous Delivery
Eh, use a static site generator in tandem with something like s3+cloudfront and you can have a lightning fast and practically infinitely scalable personal site for pennies a month.

My site's not particularly complex, but it comes out ahead speed wise on pingdom when compared to medium.

http://i.imgur.com/O2xVK7t.jpg
$20 'toy' deactivates cheap home alarms, opens doors
We did. Not tying it to raises but rather the opposite, as a move to get away from more knowledge=more pay. Raises are based on contribution to the business, the gamification puts some fun stuff around self-improvement without tying it to money. Seems ok so far.
> The moment you start to market these things as real computers at a low price point somebody's grandmother buys one and starts calling support because they can't run Office

Why are they even providing a support line? I'm not sure why a laptop should qualify for support when a tablet doesn't.

When you buy a new car there isn't a Hyundai Support Line to call.
When I said issues I meant the bugs which Oracle isn't fixing, not the issue that Oracle isn't fixing the issues.

But I feel like you already knew that.
"It works for me.

I’m not sure what the lesson is here."

The lesson is: he needs to get sued. :-)
This is fun as a "what don't I know" test. I think we all know of some professional software developers who wouldn't pass the advanced database talent. I might be one!
You might have sleep Apnea. 8-9 hours a night seems high for a non-teenager and might be compensation for disrupted sleep which can kill your learning ability. I am not a doc, don't play one on tv, ymmv, etc. Do a Google search and then talk to your doc.
I didn't find Colemak all that comfortable, but I experimented with carpalX and I found it very pleasant. Even if you are not curious about trying new keyboard layouts, the website is packed with very interesting theory and research: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/carpalx/