skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although it's a fun read, it's a classic example of diving into coding without giving a project it's due diligence.

The formation of this sentence seems odd to me. Why can't we say it's a fun read because it's a classic example etc.?
not the best help book imo
Various APIs are being added at the kernel layer (kdbus). Only for cgroups there is a change coming up where they just want 1 process to manage the cgroups. At the moment that is only implemented by systemd. This resulted in logind relying on systemd. A lot of bits (kdbus) are on the kernel layer. This is on purpose, we the kernel should track and take care of the sandboxing as much as possible.

So for sandboxing you could do without systemd, but using systemd would automatically give you cgroups. So by (probably) duplicating the systemd code (or maybe using Upstart Session bit), you could do without systemd. But that is not what GNOME is doing.
Remark: The download results in an extension-less format. Which format is it?
I've had to learn this lesson on multiple failed projects, which is why I finally took the time to write the post.

Personally, focusing on distribution is not as fun as hacking all day, which I think is how much other technical types feel. I think a 70%/30% split is probably the right way to go. Spend 70% of your day building, and the last 30% writing blog posts. I find the act of writing very cathartic, with it usually clearing my head and allowing me to remain focused on the grander vision.
You are correct on both points. But you have to keep in mind that these projects were conceived more than 5 years ago, when everyone was hesitant to build a $2b salt plant. When you combine big money with old engineers, you get very conservative (with respect to technology).

For comparison, Solar Reserve has a salt plant under construction: http://www.solarreserve.com/what-we-do/csp-projects/crescent...
An Indian startup here looking to register a C corp soon. How have you setup the two entities? Does the US corp get all the revenues, and pay the Indian company a development fee for the product? Which company pays the salary, US or Indian? Anything else to keep in mind while going down this route?
no.

Anyone hiring? [python programmer, plenty of backend experience, infrastructure experience, willing to learn ruby, willing to do windows shudder. The only people hiring in my city are after PHP or .Net :-( ]
Please send an email to bugmaster@gnome.org with your IP address, browser, etc. Could be that you're in a netblock that was used by spammers/bots.
Gadget for plant geeks
Yeah, MVC. WebForms look a little painful, but most of the pluses of Visual Studio still apply IMO.
It's very similar to the old Uru, but it may have new content, depending on when you last played.

(this version contains most-to-all of the original release, and also contains extra content from the GameTap revival)
PHP Application Server based on pthreads
Controlling Google Glass with Siri
Since 3D content is relatively difficult to make, Andrew Plotkin is making a platform called Seltani that lets people write their multiplayer Myst-universe puzzles in text format. http://dev.seltani.net/ Edit: perhaps more informative wiki page http://seltani.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
Here's an extreme solution: a completely empty new tab page.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
Thanks!
By default the base64 string of the canvas image is stored in session storage to make the canvas persistent.
Good question: Currently it doesn't, but we want to add that to the next version of the sw.
Ask a doctor about that. Preferably, not the one who performed the surgery.

As far as I know, there are no halos if you really have perfect vision. Cataracts and minor vision problems (such as a small amount of astimatism) will cause halos, even if the subject claims to see fine otherwise.

If you are doing such a poll, it would be helpful to ask, along with the presence of halos, when it was their last visit to an optometrist. If you believe you have perfect vision, you are not going to see one (even though periodic visits to an eye doctor are indicated, for checkups).
Your analytics aren't as important as my user experience. :)
The full quote does not support your position. The limitation on public authority is included in the right, but it is not the limit of the right.

Article 10 – Freedom of expression

1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises.

2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.
Your story cards are limiting your agility
I disagree. Ubuntu hosed our central devops MySQL completely on a 10.04 LTS update...

As with everything in IT, YMMV.
Luckily it is a Linux only world, where we don't have to build cross platform solutions, none of that considering those nasty BSDs or Minix or anything else really. Just Linux. Oh wait....
Don't usually expect to see Brother Ali lyrics on HN! It is a great song. If you're not a big hip hop head but wish to find more similar stuff, hit me up on twitter (@WickyNilliams), happy to recommend!
The linked Wikipiedia article has some shortcuts further down: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#Rendering_dashes_on_comput...
Find a business you want to work with.

Analyze their marketing.

Talk to them about their problems.

Offer to help by providing potential solutions.
Looks like the code for the site is also open source: http://www.openuru.org/pages/Development.php
Also related to the ads, does anyone have some marketing distillation of why they always use the words "weird trick"? Weird trick for weight loss, weird trick for language learning, etc.
Snake + Game of Life in one game
I wasn't aware we were building these solar towers in the US. How does this compare to the solar updraft ones being built in Australia? It seems like the solar chimney design is more simple, however there are obvious efficiency concerns (kW/acre).
Not really - none of that part of my family are Linux users, yet the grandsons and nephews have no issue googling for her issues - as the issues she had were with the apps: "how do I do this on the internet thing" is not very OS-specific, when you know that internet thing is Firefox ;)
The Intricate Makeshift Money Germans Relied On Between World Wars
Oh noes! I kept my Kozmo receipts and delivery bags in pristine condition. I hope this relaunch doesn't kill their eBay value!
TL;DR Install an extension.

No, thanks. For the very same reasons I don't want all that junk on my new tabs, I don't want extensions.

Google can make the default whatever they want and I wouldn't complain if they'd just let me change it to what I want and if it would keep those settings across machines. Everytime I start Chrome and evertime I open a new tab in an existing window I want a blank page and an empty, focused omnibar. I'd also like to be able to remove the back, forward, refresh, bookmark star, and the '3 lines' button that no one has a good name for.
It's a PNG
MAS.S63: How to Build a Tricorder
wow! I am jealous. If that is the shittiest project he ever worked on, he really has not too much to complain about.

Add to this that this was back in 1995. Companies had no clue what the internet was nor what they wanted to do with it, so this kind of clueless behaviour what the customer wanted was pretty much standard for most companies up to at least 1998 - 1999.

The guy has either been tremendously lucky, or he has not worked in too many different projects / companies for the last 18 years....
In fact - opening a new tab BREAKS the back button. I've seen my father baffled when a new tab opened and he can't work out how to get back. (his tab bar has 300 open tabs as he never closes them).

So - opening in a new tab is a disaster for non-technical users and an annoyance for technical ones.

There might be some middle-ground where it's a good idea but I wouldn't bank on it.
This is one of the countless known bugs in the English language. You're welcome to try to fix it (the core developers died centuries ago), but the large userbase is unlikely to accept fixes.
Thanks for suggesting noscript.

I got "scriptsafe" from chrome store and it had the option to disable <video> element.

I also checked chrome://flags but there was no option to disable html5 video there.

Thanks
If Excel can't open it...
Another notch on the belt for anonymous speech online.
First thing I thought of with this was creating a mobile app that would be a cloud based instant note taking tool. Preferably used with a stylus.
The Second Coming of Java
Ayn Rand producers beg for help from others on Kickstarter
Not too many pieces of software out there that can say their software is so well-documented, it almost takes up 3000 pages.
If you could diffuse the spectrum, you could reflect the IR but absorb the UV.

Not being a physicist, I don't know what that would entail.
The Biggest Stars In The Universe
Does anyone know how/why Helvetica wound up the most appealing font?

It's not the most appealing, but it is quite a neutral font which I'd argue is the base of its appeal - there are no serifs, no whimsical curves, and it is associated with Modernism so it gives an impression of quiet authority going back to fonts like Univers and the International Style. That makes it appropriate for content that wants to be taken seriously, while not seeming too stuffy or traditional, so it has become popular for business use as well as in setting adverts, and of course it lends itself well to computer screens. Doubtless it will fall out of favour at some point, I have no doubt it will remain popular, but it's unlikely to maintain its hegemony.

It seems to be a primal reaction rather than a learned behavior. Helvetica looks the best to me because it looks the best, not because someone else said so.

What an incredible assertion. Without your culture, all the books you have seen, the adverts you have seen, the computers you use, your appreciation of helvetica would be entirely different. I'm sure there are cases where nature overcomes nurture, but in this case context is almost everything. You wouldn't even know what these squiggles represented without picking up a huge amount of cultural baggage associated with them, without listening to what other people say. Our opinion on fonts and matters of style is based almost entirely on cultural baggage.
Haha, that host is blocked by Great Russian Firewall.
$50 monthly minimum at fastly means it's not a great plug-and-play replacement for smallish sites.
I like the IDE (a lot). I'm not reinventing anything, just doing web development. Visual Studio gives you every tool you need to get the job done in one package that's frequently updated and runs stably and consistently (on my machine). The individual tools may not be better than their OSS equivalents, but as an overall ecosystem they are fairly well-tested and work together extremely well in my experience. NuGet is very cool and easy to use.

The end result for me has been that I spend significantly less time wondering why things aren't working (almost none, really) and more time actually writing and improving my code.

If you are doing something groundbreaking or way-out-of-the-box, Visual Studio is probably not a great choice. But for workaday web developers like me it's reliable, easy, and has objectively made me more productive compared to Node/Express/Backbone.
So from a bank's perspective, a loan is an asset and a deposit is a liability.

Say someone deposits $100 cash (federal reserve notes) into Bank A. Let's say the reserve ratio is 20%. It takes $80 and loans it to someone, who deposits in the same bank. It then takes $64 of that and loans it to someone who deposits in the same bank. It then takes $51 of that and loans it to someone who takes out cash and holds it.

The bank has the following assets: $20 + $16 + $13 in reserve, plus loans of $80 + $64 + $51 = $244.

It has the following liabilities: $100 + $80 + $64 = $244.

Now, if those loans don't get repaid, the bank might not remain solvent, but that has nothing to do with fractional reserve banking. Any entity that is solvent on the books can be rendered insolvent by loans going bad.
The Most Undervalued Skill to Become More Persuasive
If you billed those 900 hours for doing RFP for the customer, it doesn't sound too bad.
I can't stress how much I disagree with your comment, in my humble opinion, you have it all wrong.

> 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what. - A quote by Stephen Fry

In my viewing, it's the airline that got "offended" and is acting about, so that quote would apply more to the airline than to the reporter, as a company, you have to expect criticism, specially in this days.

> Free speech is one thing, but abuse of free speech is another. When you perform an action that negatively affects the sales of a company and if you expect to benefit from it, in return for which the company doesn't allow you, I think it's fair.

You can't abuse free speech, there are some things that are not guaranteed by free speech (you yell bomb on a plane, you can't accuse free speech afterwards), that said, I think this has little to do with free speech, that would be if there is a legal consequence but that is out of the question. Of course you know that your words can have consequences, but that in any way justifies the company's reaction, more on that next.

> You can't say Mcdonald's sucks and eat a burger from them (that would be hypocrisy).

How come not?? I don't like the service later, IMO the quality has gone down and I know that it is quite unhealthy, even so, every now and then, I want a burger from them, hypocrite would be to say I will never touch and mcdonalds again, boast about it and secretly eat it once a week.

> Stop thinking of the airlines as someone else and imagine if it was YOUR company. Imagine if you ran a cloud services company and this guy wrote a blogpost about why your company sucks (which negatively affects your sales) and then bought a dozen cloud servers from you. I would have no problem in refunding his money and revoking his service with a polite smile and a "Sorry", if it was my company.

So, that's you advice? Whenever you get criticized, you react by pushing back and "attacking" your (potential) customer and possible leader of opinion? Does this also apply when the criticism is true??

You are a public company, you are going to be criticized, probably the worst thing you can do is start fighting them back, if you screwed something up, you apologize and you try to make up for it, if it's unfunded criticism, the you try to explain that this is not the case, whatever you do, you do not confront and be aggressive.

>Imagine if you ran a cloud services company and this guy wrote a blogpost about why your company sucks (which negatively affects your sales) and then bought a dozen cloud servers from you.

I would try to give him so go and service that he would eventually write good things about me if he has any intellectual honesty, or to at least stop writing bad things about me, I can't see how childishly fighting back to help to achieve any of this?

Note: This comment may sound a little pedant, but it was not the intention, cordial discussion was the intended tone.
FlightAware's Karl Lehenbauer keynotes Tcl 2013 conference
I love this concept of jets and how it allows a "completely isolated" VM to magically grow connections to the real world.
Twitter handling 140K+ tweets/sec spike with fewer servers o_O
It's already available in the AUR:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pycharm-community/

Someone is working on Debian packages for it?
What's the most unorthodox customer acquisition strategy you've seen?
For early stage companies.
1) Yes there is, that is why it is called fractional reserve, they are allowed to expand the money supply based on a fraction of the reserve deposits they take in. This number is set by the FED in the case of the US.

2) Yes you can with the proper licensing and certifications. It's not as easy as hoping on down to the division of banking and picking up your license, there are some pretty stringent requirements, it's not cheap to start a bank.
Cool, very cool, but the whole IE11+ thing just makes me not wanting to use this. Let's hope for a js shim, because it feels very nice and clean.
I was bothered by the support list at the end of the page... as jimmcslim also points out, it should be supported by IE10, and perhaps IE8 and 9 with heavy tweeking (I haven't looked at it). For a new site which would be OK to not support the older versions of the current desktop browsers, flexbox is usable.

http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox
Coding The Matrix: Linear Algebra Though Computer Science Applications
http://isup.me/medium.com
OPPO N1 to launch with the CyanogenMod Android Operating system
You mean Samsung. Google has more or less failed on all of those fronts too.
I like the simplicity and configurability. Excellent job.
I have a noob bitcoin question. Even after all the bitcoins are mined there will still be a need for "mining" for all the active transactions, correct? How does that work?
Yes, because competition from easyJet forced BA to lower their prices.
That's funny, because for the last several days I've been listening to people complain about various issues brought on by the iOS 7 update. One guy said his alarm clock app stopped working, causing him to miss an important meeting.
How to keep your Kids Safe on Google
The first thing to fix is the economic incentive: when you lose a trial due to invalid or non-infringed patent, you have to be the one footing the bill.

It probably means that you have to escrow a provision to start such a litigation, to avoid organized bankruptcies of empty shells. If you don't have this money and nobody's willing to lend it to you, it probably means that your case has little merit.
The halos and similar issues would bug and distract me no end, especially considering that I personally can get the same effect (improved site) by wearing glasses.

I just bought a new set of glasses with progressive lenses. I hated them. Oh nos! Oh, wait, I took them back and they replaced the lenses with single prescription. Free. Problem solved.

Not at all to discourage anyone from getting lasik, but this is how I look at the risk from that procedure, for me and my prescription. Possible permanent issues vs just changing my lenses. People with worse prescription than mine might think differently.
> The average number of infected PCs across the globe stands at 31.13 percent.[1]

Even if exaggerated a bit for effect, those are some scary stats.

[1] http://press.pandasecurity.com/news/pandalabs-q1-report-troj...
It has both a "printed" TOC starting at the end of the first page, and a PDF TOC which should be visible to iBooks.
Show HN: Nightcode, the Clojure IDE, just hit 0.1.0
Chrome's poor performance with HTML5 Server Sent Events
'sudo make me a sandwich'
What is that 42.fr website like? I mean there are tones of useful resource online for wannabe developer. So I don't really get what this one has to be so special. Is it because it is all in French?
>Don't use one of your existing ones!

Well you never should.
To reiterate: I'm not saying that Linux is the silver bullet, or problem-free; just that switching _a specific set of users_ to Linux has, so far, ensured the least problematic operation for them.

How does your anecdote fit into that, apart from "it both says Linux, so a single user desktop and a MySQL server is totally the same situation"?
Delaware C Corp wholly owning 100% of the Indian subsidiary private ltd (Cucumbertown Inc, owning Cucumbertown Software Labs Pvt. Ltd)

C Corp gets the revenue(dependent on where you get your cash from) usually.

Transfer cash to Indian accounts and pay salaries, operations etc. You need to pay tax on that (Indian firm pays that). Pay Indian employee in Rupees and US in Dollar.
Thank you, Nathan! This is going straight onto the e-book reader.
Inspiration from Robert Heinlein's Characters
Possibly true, but what exactly are the Silicon valley companies on the receiving end of patent litigation if not big business?
Having now read their small print there's actually nothing in there that would allow it.
All 3 PDF files have a TOC - at least Evince is able to show me one in its sidebar.
R as a command-line tool for data science
It's never going to beat those usb midi controllers. They have physical buttons. The best thing it will do is be cheap.
Joel will have a word with you now
You can be interested in open source and not know about it. (Especially if you're thinking, "Wait, _this_ is one of the most in-demand skills?! Maybe I should find out about it!")
You'd be surprised then. I'm not sure why, but I know lots of developers who should know about Solr but haven't a clue. Hopefully they will now.
Hah, I guess the old saying of "if you think of an idea, chances are someone else in the world is already working on it", is true. I've been mulling over a concept which is 99% similar that I'm hoping to validate. Please get in touch if interested.
As wolfgke points out, there are a lot of games that were inspired by Myst and Riven, but unfortunately I've never found one that got it right the way Riven did.

The thing about Riven, for me, that made it so compelling was that the puzzles were mostly integrated seamlessly into the world. Even Myst didn't really accomplish this to the same extent Riven did. In Riven, exploration was not distinct from puzzle solving. Rather, the two terms were nearly synonymous. Some of the hardest puzzles could only be figured out by wandering around the world and soaking everything in; staring at the marble puzzle without realizing what anything on it represented about the world around you wouldn't get you anywhere.

Myst IV came closer to replicating this, and by God it was and is gorgeous. But I personally found some of the puzzles in Myst IV to simply be too brutal, and the world overall was broken into pieces like in the original Myst rather than one more seamless environment.
I have used MS's Keyboard Layout Creator to add those — and many others — to my keyboard. Right-alt-minus for en–dash and shift-right-alt-minus for em—dash.

What I really want is for my keyboard to act like my mobile phone keyboard — a long press to see similar characters. Anybody care to code it?
SteamOS, “The Model” and Why Everyone Wants to be Apple
In the early days, leading up to the founding of Intel, one of Silicon Valley's main features was that it was dirt cheap. In fact it was dirt; it was farmland. This made it a reasonable base to set up chip manufacturing, which needed lots of workers at minimum cost.
Another game that I feel doesn't get nearly enough credit is Douglas Adams' "Starship Titanic", which was built on the backstory of the book and came on a five-CD collection.
-bash: sudo make me a sandwich: command not found
Fewer Harder Steps
I think this is a case of the employees acting out and not a corporate policy or corporate retaliating. Nevertheless, EasyJet will be taking most of the brunt of the bad PR
It's helpful, and also a clever pun: there is not a lot of software that can claim a help document of a approx. 2600 pages. very correlated to the steep learning curve of vim.

I fucking like it :)