skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The increasing market share of Linux in the tablet, smartphone, and cloud (server) business signals the year of Linux on the desktop? Well, I've had my laugh for the day.
The number of small spaces between driveways means more motorcycle and scooter parking in a place that they are safe from being backed over by oblivious drivers. Parking a two-wheeled vehicle in a long stretch of uninterrupted street parking is an invitation to destruction - mine was hit twice in 3 weeks on 14th street.
What alternate reality are these guys living in? When my mom, an accountant, buys her next computer, it will almost certainly run Windows, because the accounting software she uses targets that OS. The same will be true for many other categories of software for a long time.
What do you hate about JavaScript? What's so wrong about it?
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Google Announces Calico but Oracle Owns Calico.com
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yeah, looks like they removed the info.

https://secure.rhodecode.org/rhodecode

https://github.com/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/

https://bitbucket.org/marcinkuzminski/rhodecode/
I've had the update downloaded for a few hours now, but it keeps failing on "Verifying update..." After a couple minutes of spinning, it says "Software Update Unavailable".
In addition to a Show HN, consider writing a blog post about your app, with a very intriguing and descriptive title, and post that as a normal HN link.
Soylent should consider sponsoring this film...
I instinctively knew

Why?
Obviously I've never heard of "Candida" before even though I recently linked to a Wikipedia article about it - thanks for the reference!
I've worked as an adjunct professor at a community college. Class sizes appeared to average around 20 students there, rarely above 30 and sometimes around 5. In that environment, $3500/class seemed pretty reasonable.
"catalyze a shift in the world's thought paradigm" is the quote, so it sounds like you're the one who needs to be careful of language.
No, and never did. I am actually working on NetBeans/PHP/Drupal(gah!) on the other monitor, though I am primarily a C# guy.

And even I did work for MS, how does that invalidate any of my points? If I worked for Microsoft, does that suddenly mean it's okay for ZDNet to claim 25% of all computers being sold are Chromebooks? Interesting that no one is questioning SJVN's ulterior motives, if any! I do believe it's just to garner clicks though, Ed Bott will probably reply with an article debunking this one and ZDNet and its "journalists" will laugh all the way to the bank.
Hoax Article Published by Thomson SCI indexed "scientific" journal
A quick google suggests micro hydro can be done for as little as $1k. And once yiu have your own power plant, you won't have monthly electric bills. Here is some info:
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/micro-hydro-power-pr...

Poverty is often very expensive and often involves the cheapest upfront cost but frequently leads to high lifetime costs. So I think your argument is ridiculous. Energy independence is often more about mindset and lifestyle choices than budget. I hsbe never been in a position to pursue it, but I never viewed that as being about dollar cost per se.
Sigh.

Without proper nutrition, they won't develop properly, to say nothing of being able to play. I know it's unrelated, but it seems like everybody wants to ignore the pink elephant in the room that American children aren't getting fed well enough. Plenty of research has shown malnutrition causes a host of issues in children that can affect them the rest of their life[4].

22 Million American children are on food stamps[1]. Keep in mind that 90% of those food stamps are redeemed by the third week of the month (the average meal per person comes out to about $1.50), and more than half of food bank customers (who come back at least 6 months out of the year) are food stamp recipients[2]. So families already can't afford to feed their kids on subsidies alone. On top of that, the cuts this November in SNAP will make that existing shortfall more drastic.[3]

I guess I just wanted to remind people that we're ignoring some bigger picture issues here, probably because they're difficult and uncomfortable. Sorry.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/07/11/th...
[2] http://feedingamerica.org/how-we-fight-hunger/programs-and-s...
[3] http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3899
[4] http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/family_home/family/childcare/C...

(my apologies to the international folks for having to read this rant; your children are probably better off than many of ours)
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The author seems to incorrectly conflate UX and visual design.

Dribbble is purely for showcasing visual design (aka technical implementation). It's the price of admission for being a designer. Dribbble isn't for, nor should it be for, explaining UX decisions.

User experience design and interaction design are different skill sets within the design discipline.

If you are impressed with someone's dribbble, then arrange for a phone interview or an in-person white boarding session.

Design is problem solving just like engineering, just a different type of problem set. Treat it as such.
Windows XP checking in, and I know of at least one other lab still using 2000 (for, IIRC, a thermogravimetric analysis machine). The problem is drivers: Lots of very spendy equipment (test, measurement, fabrication, etc) needs a host PC to run, and often needs a specific OS version because the manufacturer decided to EOL the product.

It is not unusual for a $50 OS upgrade to necessitate hundreds of thousands of dollars of software and hardware upgrades. So we just don't upgrade the OS.
Autistic behavior can sometimes be identified before a baby is a year old. Signs like the avoidance of eye-contact can be big indicators. I suppose babies "play", but not in the same sense that a 5-7 year old would "play".

I'm skeptical of pointing the finger at television and video games for the spike in autism rates. Video games and television have been around quite a bit longer than the increase in diagnoses of autism-spectrum disorders.
Unfortunately, the ones who would remove parking spaces are the same ones that would need to build alternative forms of transportation (I'm talking about government). It's extremely limiting to not own a car (or have access to a car, e.g. through car share programs or rentals), even in San Francisco, unless you really just don't ever leave the city (and I mean even remotely leave the boundaries of the city).

According to Google Maps, a 14 minute drive from Powell Station to Oyster Point Park, just south of the city, is a 1 hour 11 minute bus ride, including 1.4 miles (28 minutes) of walking. A 5x difference.

Powell Station to Beach Park in Foster City is a 29 minute drive, or a 1 hour 39 minute Caltrain and bus trip (this time with minimal walking). A 3.4x difference.

Sure, these public transit trips are technically doable if you're not carrying anything or with anyone that precludes walking, but it's hard for me to imagine it being much worse than that for short trips in a densely populated area like the Bay Area.

I live in the city, don't own a car, and it sucks. Those two routes aren't pathological cases I searched for to make my point. They're just two recent places I wanted to go on weekends. I despise car culture too, but I also despise spending 20+% of my weekend waking hours on public transit if I actually want to go somewhere. It's either that or spend at least $40 a day on a Zipcar (which carries many of the same problems of car ownership, namely traffic and parking), or only go places serviced directly by MUNI or BART.
> What alternate reality are these guys living in?

One where accountants aren't the only people buying computers.
LoopBack is open source. The repos are public and the node modules have been published to NPM registry. As a Node developer, you can definitely use/hack it as usual.

LoopBack is part of the StrongLoop suite distribution too. That's where you will get an integrated solution (with StrongNode & StrongOps) and commercial supports.
Do what tobacco companies do: go after them when they are young. Companies are having a difficult time finding developers, supply is lower than demand. This is especially true in the midwest. The company I work for is involved in a lot of programs for recruiting including this one http://www.ucmo.edu/about/mic/. Paid referral programs are huge too.

I personally think remote working is going to gain traction if demand keeps going up, which my guess is that it will.

Specific to Glass development: Android development is a prerequisite for Google Glass development. So instead of going after Glass developers, which has to be a super small amount go after Android developers. If you have trouble finding Android developers, find Java developers.
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The next medevac helicopter won’t need a pilot
I guess obvious thing to ask here would be, why can't OP just borrow the money from parents and pay them back afterwards?

>>If someone ever said to me, "you've already waived your ability to become a rockstar, paid for two decades of my life and spent four years caring more about my high school grades than I did and despite this I am going to ask you for another three grand," I would laugh him out of my office. Or my portable toilet.

How is e-begging random strangers more of a right thing to do here then?
it's the same waffle we've been hearing for years. I am running Ubuntu 13.10, but leaving OSX aside, there's no way in hell Linux is going to make a dent in the desktop market. It wont be linx, it will be some future OS, possible Android that replaces Windows. I know Android is linux underneath, but in much the same way OSX is BSD underneath - to the point that to the user, it doesn't matter much.
You are definitely right that this sentiment is strong throughout the tech industry, so it's just by coincidence that it is strong on HN, however, it does define a strong position in voting behavior on HN. Even when there are reasonable arguments in support of non-open models (and I'm not saying this is one of them), downvotes fly and little discussion is had, it creates a feedback loop that reinforces an entrenched ideology and shuns opposing view points. I'm not making a value judgement about one or the other view, but it does affect how interactions on HN take place.
Well, I guess that depends on what sort of job you are applying for. If you want to focus on how it works, apply for UX/IxD positions and bring a portfolio that demonstrates you can think in those terms. If you're more interested in working on the visual aspects of design, e.g. how it looks, you need to demonstrate polish. I got hired just fine without a single pixel-perfect design in my portfolio. Personally, I wouldn't want to work for someone who only cares about what it looks like anyway.
I always thought the point of Dribble was to have someplace to show off your greenfield pie-in-the-sky work to other designers, not to impress clients with how well you can work with their organization.
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I agree with this article, but who is to say the goal of Dribbble isn't to just showcase visual design? To join Dribbble, you must get an invite from a Dribbble user. Dribbble users invite people who have similar taste and design state-of-mind as they do. So in the end you get a gated community of designers who think and work alike.

The problem with this I see is that non-design people who wants to hire designers think that Dribbble is the "go to" standard of design, without thinking of usability problems their product[s] have that needs solving.
You'd think with everything Google already knows about most people they could just solve for x.
If so, dribbble is like letting you post only the first 5 lines of a README.md without commit history. Not quite the same.
It's definitely not 11 AM in UTC right now, I can see that out my window :)
In Passbook's sophomore year, it became friends with Bluetooth and QR Codes.
Before anyone starts drawing conclusions and making claims about OS superiority based on this comment, it's an absurd comparison to make. iOS 7 adoption rates are measured across eight devices manufactured by one company. Android adoption rates are measured across thousands of Android devices made by countless manufacturers. The continuous return to the fact that Apple can get its latest OS onto a majority of its own devices faster than other manufactures can get another company's OS onto their devices completely ignores the fact that the Android and iOS ecosystem is fundamentally different.
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I wish I'd stayed on iOS6, the animations can't be turned off and make me nauseous. Thankfully the floaty parallax nonsense can be turned off.

This mixpanal page never got passed the loading data display, but I also saw a bunch of errors in the dwev console too.
So I can't have the opinion that their price for something is exorbitant just because they're a business that has costs? What world do you live in?
When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’
He just wrote an article as a response to this:

http://ideas.time.com/2013/09/18/finally-the-war-on-aging-ha...
> I feel very bad for my nephew's effective lack of childhood, even more so because it seems that doing something differently is a big social taboo.

I don't quite understand this, could you expand it? I have a daughter and we go to the park a lot and don't own a TV and haven't noticed anyone bothered by either. In fact they are generally pleasantly surprised.
Yes, and 'kyro' made comments talking about a trend that could have only been experienced during the beta. Having this many data points on battery life in a few hours would be a pretty neat trick, and a much more damning situation.
Huh? You are making it sound that EE answer ranking highly in Google is EE's fault and not the Google search algorithm. I would argue that almost any useful programming question I search for has SO as the first link which is then "closed as not constructive". It is behavior even worse than EE - at least for EE, I knew that their pay-wall would block me.
That is some sexy javascript.
Will the peer-to-peer market phenomenon survive?
That would be no wose than living in a world where all the positions of power are permanently occupied by people from my generation.

Your comment is the epitome of ageism.
supply. Banks theoretically would provide debt to a company with 1mm in revenue, as long as they show the ability to cover the debt payments. But those companies typically can raise more money based on equity than debt.
"No-one"? I don't represent "the whole planet other than jmcintyre", so don't worry about it.

I've found that Microsoft shills won't answer that question directly, which is why I honestly believe you. I wanted to ask you: why is it that you spend time defending a multi-billion dollar corporation, for free, when they actually pay people to do this?

I can understand volunteering time to a community effort like Linux, but I don't understand why you'd exert the same effort for a company that pays people to do the exact same job?

Can you explain your motivations to me?
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Where does Social Security Medicare and Medicaid fit into this? She was 83 and well below the poverty line shouldn't she have been getting help from a t least one if not all three of those program?
Also free C compiler for Linux which costs 400$ (or w/e it is now) on Windows :(
It was major pain untile recently when gcc port caught up with visual studio compiler as there was nothing else with decent performance and C99+ support.
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So true. You get an up vote for me.
I've actually been having trouble recommending people upgrade to (or purchase new) iOS7 (devices) for this exact reason, even I sometimes don't understand how to use it anymore, so I can't tell my Luddite F&F to use something that costs more and has become as hard to use, as say android.

I can only hope that Apple will learn the error of their ways and turn back to function over form.
> in much the same way OSX is BSD underneath

The difference is that Linux isn't, and doesn't claim to be a whole system. For example, Android isn't Ubuntu, but Android and Ubuntu are equally Linux.

EDIT: I am not trying to make the "Linux is just a kernel" point here. Android is by no means a "traditional" distribution of Linux, but I just don't see why that makes it "not Linux". Busybox is available for it (Android is designed for embedded systems, after all) so what's the difference?
The reason why fragmentation occurs is irrelevant. The negative effects of fragmentation on developers and their user bases will still exist even if your platform is fragmented for "good" reasons.
A lot of the features for Trello are worked on by interns actually, if you read the blog. Pretty good work so far!
Code from recent car hack on 2010 Toyota Prius & 2010 Ford Escape
It's worth considering that extended lifespans could have very well result in you not living at all - the Earth can only sustain a limited number of people, and extended lifespans would result in a necessary decrease in new lives brought into this world.
My friend, I do not intentionally twist words. I'm just trying to wrap my head around how you can be upset that:

- EE isn't paying people money for the answers they provide

when

- those persons answering questions are doing so with no expectation of being paid in anything but points.

It's no different than Stack Overflow, but you seem to think otherwise. Just trying to figure out what you're getting at.
It just means free speech. IANAL but I would imagine that this ruling could be cited in future cases concerning free speech on social networks, etc.
Curing aging wouldn't prevent you from dying if you desire to die. It would simply give an option for those of us who don't believe dying is necessary or desirable.
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We published this hoax article in Metalurgia International no. 6 2013. in June 2013. The journal was indexed by Thomson-Reuters SCIe index. As a result of the hoax, the journal was dropped by TR in late August.
BTW. This journal caused major problems in Serbian and Romanian scientific community by publishing thousands articles of "dubious" quality.
The servers are down. It could be a few hours before the problems are fixed.
YouTube Will Enable Offline Viewing On Its Mobile Apps
To add more to the mix - all license proceeds go to scouting organizations in the US. Why do you want to take money away from the girl scouts? ;)

(See http://edition.cnn.com/2011/12/11/opinion/greene-berlin/inde... )

There's no freedom of religion issue here. Your religious principles don't require you to sing that song, do they?

If they do, I'm curious how the text of a Jewish songwriter, concerning Armistice Day, became a part of your religion. Did your religion start after 1938, or change its tenets?

FWIW, there is a religious exception in copyright law. Sect. 110[3] says "(3) performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work or of a dramatico-musical work of a religious nature, or display of a work, in the course of services at a place of worship or other religious assembly;" is not an infringement of copyright.

What you described does not fit that category.

Since the words are on Wikipedia, you can probably not worry about it.
In that environment, $3500/class seemed pretty reasonable.

OK, but how are the professors expected to live on that ? Independently rich or retired cannot account for any size-able number. CC are subsidized by the state and county, or at least should be.
Is there a page listing all the features that Cyanogenmod provides over Android?

The page with the section "So what is the difference between Android and CyanogenMod" talks about how Cyanogenmod comes to be created after each Android release but doesn't describe the actual features.
As a Google Voice user who gets to experience life without MMS support, I can tell you that MMS is very alive. I've missed several social engagements that people coordinated via group texts, and a couple of sensitive images that had to be resent over email after the sender was perplexed by my silence...
Just like the internet, right? A great philantropic endeavour planned for all. Get real, real research doesn't happen in a vacuum, it happens for profit or some advantage. And then it trickles down not because the research funders pass it on, but because market dynamics eventually make it inevitable. So you'd rather the internet hadn't happened? The industrial revolution too? Well let's just head right back to stone age where everyone gets a chance at cracking each other's skull, that's where it's at.

Sorry if I'm being harsh, but seriously, "make it for everyone"? Who is that even directed at, god? It's not like post-scarcity and immortality will be the work of Larry Page or anyone in isolation who could take it upon themselves to do it altruistically.
Empathy for military robots could affect outcomes on the battlefield
Looks like the same thing can be said if you are a student...
A tenured professor though can get $20k per class or more, assuming that he/she is only teaching and not involved in any research (most start with 3 courses per year). Of course many tenured professors also bring money to the university through grants and whatnot, but that is not always the case. I know of some that get more than $250k a year just to provide prestige to the department and maybe teach a course now and then.

In any case, it doesn't matter if the class size is 10 or 50. You still need to prepare the same material, you still need to be there for the same amount of time. $3500/class sounds like a bargain to me. A TA earns more.
You're not just grumpy. I think this is a good practice in general. Or maybe it's just you and I; when someone does not do this, I go cross-eyed.

It does introduce the null reference problem, but that's what it's there for and if you're not going to invent a nil-object, let's not try to paper it over. IMHO it's better to make it explicit.

I think this graph is awesome, BTW; I just liked your comment. I sympathize with folks putting something together quickly, for fun, and of course we've all written bugs into our programs. I also enjoy discussing programming philosophy.
Duquesne has claimed that the unionization of adjuncts like Margaret Mary would somehow interfere with its mission to inculcate Catholic values among its students.

I see. So treating old people in this way and leaving them in trouble after you squeeze them out is a part of those "Catholic values"?
Probably not below the poverty line, if she was single. Medicaid etc have a trick where you may lose your house and savings to ask for help.
Disgusting. Disgusting and disgraceful.
Taken further, if this can be induce and cured there's a great product to be had. Might end up with super-yeast though.
One is free, and one isn't.
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This is a very common practice - even followed by Oreilly Safari and Linkedin for example. Anyone complaining about this is clearly biased without a reason.
IIRC colleges also often milk the fee income from talk-and-chalk courses to support science, engineering and medical courses with expensive lab requirements. As well as collegiate athletics, climbing walls, landmark building projects and so on, of course.
The one where Linux shipped more than any other OS. Mainly thanks to Android, but yeah it happened in this reality figures are out its true.