skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't mean to hijack the thread, but since you dropped in the shameless plug, I got a question: are you considering allowing repos outside of GitHub? I know it sounds like heresy here on HN, but f.ex. I often don't host my commercial projects there, and both Circle and Travis accept only GitHub. I mean, what's the difference where the git repo is hosted (other than UX)?
>The magazine Economist is part owned by the Rotschild banking family and it's reporters are attending Bilderberg meetings every year. Articles in the news paper are not signed so you do not know who wrote them.

So? Why does it matter if Rothchild's own part of The Economist. Who cares if they attend Bilderberg, many influential people do. If I recall correctly, it is a good mix of politicians, Banks & Insurance and media.

As for the anonymous nature of their pieces: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/ec...
System Operations over Seven Centuries
Where are the points coming from ? I seem to have 24 points while I never used this service. How about you ?
Or to put it another way, the world isn't deterministic. A and not-A aren't the only options; there's also "sometimes A, sometimes not-A, depending on where in the probability distribution each situation falls".

And here's where we need to distinguish knowledge of evidence from evidence itself; if you haven't collected any observations, then not knowing of any evidence doesn't imply that evidence is actually absent. In other words, "I don't know" isn't actually absence of evidence.
The 24 points seem to be the "initial sign-up bonus" and a "daily login bonus". I got my initial bonus in 2011 it seems, so this must be an older Google service that was just renamed and re-launched.
Thanks for starting this.
As a daily Jenkins user, I'm convinced there's a huge room for improvement re: UX.
However, I think the icon removal is misguided. Default Jenkins icons are dated and probably too bold, but we shouldn't get rid of icons entirely.
Menus change a lot in Jenkins (depending on context and rights). Having icons next to links makes it easier to spot the right action or menu item by scanning, instead of having to read it all.
In my opinion, the link you cite does not at all justify removing icons. It says that having only icons (additionally, unclear ones) is an issue, with which I couldn't agree more.

To add more feedback:
- I love the new console output.
- I think the font-size is better.
- I like the more-roomy build history better.
- I think you could replace the dated build-status and build-weather-report icons to something more modern and better-looking
If your airliner's upside down, a shifting tablet is the least of your worries.
This is my life, every single day. In order to maintain a semi-regular sleep pattern, conking out for a full-night's rest is not optional because the following night I -will not- sleep. Case in point - I have to be up in five hours for work. I went to sleep two and a half hours ago and I'm still awake.

Oftentimes, it feels like the worst kind of torture. I am living in two worlds and in one, I am barely better than an observer of my subconscious mind acting out routine. My ex-roommate had this to say after he'd lived with me a year:

"Tif, you wax and you wane..."

This was a years ago. I think about it once a month or so - he was of course referring to my self as alert and present as well as, alternately, a vapid automaton driven by the eerily invisible clockwork of the subconscious.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get my coffee of the stove...
SELinux is preferred: it's in Red Hat.

I've not heard of Tomoyo.
These numbers are from my blog, http://foodconstrued.com

I have one sidebar ad, and usually one ad at the bottom of each entry.

Last month (September) I had 4873 page views and 25 clicks. This resulted in $8.75.

My best month was back in July. That month 4016 page views and 25 clicks resulted in $9.49
Saying that the tests were performed in 2009 and LO team claims to have improved compatibility doesn't prove anything. In fact, if you had dug a little deeper, you would have seen that 3 out of 4 of those 2009 bugs are still open.[1][2][3] The first 2 come directly from the report, the 3rd is a long outstanding bug that goes back to OO 2.0.

I don't know how you can claim that there are no serious problems with compatibility when you can't even import word docs that have charts or diagrams in them. This is stuff I was doing for my lab reports in HS and our marketing documents are full of this kind of material. These are not esoterica features we're talking about.

In a vacuum, LibreOffice / OpenOffice are perfectly usable word processors. In fact I prefer the LO UI over MSO's ribbon interface. The problem is MSO is the industry standard. So until they take compatibility seriously, they are going to be relegated to home users.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65865

[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66058

[3] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58521
Intel integrated graphics are getting astonishingly better, and they're open source friendly, except for the Atoms that have the pathetic PowerVR graphics. At this point, for casual use, I don't think it's worth the hassle dealing with AMD or NVIDIA graphics.

Though, if you are burdened with having to run a video card in Linux, then AMD models have basic performance for less hassle than NVIDIA. You actually can disable the graphics card, but you probably don't want to, because you would have no bitmap graphics at all. Vi, SSH, and GCC don't depend on graphics, but a browser does.
So, minus all the lofty goals, this is Google Answers for Africa.

I'd be interested to know what Q&A services Africans already use.
Note: this URL will be 404 if you're using an "https everywhere" extension. Revert to http:// URLs and it will work.
But in an emergency there are checklists made up of "memory items" which are tested every year at recurrent training.
This may be true, but it does raise some questions:

Did your father have to configure his access to the (probably) Samba based file shares, set up his own account on the network, map all of the printers, configure his own email client etc?

Part of a large enterprise roll-out is pre-configuration. I can't imagine the Gendarmerie IT dept. appreciating all of this extra configuration for "every single guy" with a Win 7 laptop.
There can be multiple use cases. Couple are mentioned below.

1) If you are a Java programmer trying to learn Scala, then you can easily check how a piece of Java code will look in Scala. This can help in learning Scala.

2) In case you want to convert Java application to Scala application this might help.
One of my friends died couple of years ago, sometimes people would like or comment to his photos on facebook and it appears on my timeline, and it reminds all the great times we spent.

We exchanged passwords with my best friend on these social sites, he is being funny and joking guy asked me to update his status something like "hell is hot" if he dies first.
I've been thinking about this a bit, too. It reminds me of an article I read (can't find the link) that described "segmented sleep" [1]; how our ancestors might have had two sleep phases because nights were longer (e.g. no electrical light). Creative people would often have worked in the quiet period between both sleeps.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented_sleep
Shouldn't there be a reusable Ansible-Docker thingy somewhere?
This looks like an attempt to mimic the Quora or StackOverflow format of Q&A, but the structure isn't there. There doesn't seem to be much organizational structure beyond the top-level "Government" or "Computer Software" categories. It appears to have been around since 2010 or so - there are some users that have been contributing for a while (e.g. ivan - http://www.google.com/baraza/en/user?clk=tpct&userid=0708787...).

What is the purpose of recreating English-language Q&A structure in such a poor form?
As somebody who was recently let go, and can relate to much of what the article states, I have to say that I disagree with the premise (at least in my case).

My experience pretty much ends at #5 in the cartoon, I don't really relate to anything beyond that. But I do feel I was in the state of not bringing up issues, running faster and making less progress, and generally not cooperating in the team because I had messed up a few things, and new the boss wasn't happy with my performance, at the same time, neither was I.

I look at this as just a puff piece to make those who have let go feel better about themselves, though maybe some bosses will take it the other way and start to recognize these symptoms and work with their subordinates better. I in no way blame my boss for my performance, or for firing me.
Slow clap from Linux users everywhere. I think we are so jaded that some of us prefer the masses to remain ignorant to the fact of a more powerful, more stable and free OS. Things have become familiar this way.
That probably won't happen unless either he had his FB password written down somewhere in his will (if any), or if FB gives access to accounts of the deceased to relatives - which, I can imagine, would be a big hassle for FB.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to take up instructions for one's online life in one's will; Facebook accounts to make announcements on and close, domain names to transfer or disband, projects to close / reassign, online contacts to inform, etc.

I should get to that actually. If I died, nobody of the close friends I have online would have any way of knowing, and the RL people I know (few as they are) don't know them either.
That clears things up.
They didn't write the code Apple is using, which is what the article is about?
Yep, total misalignment of incentives.
"CI sucks... in big companies it sucks more. The unruly XML configs are a small part of the problem."

That has nothing to do with CI. CI is a workflow, not an implementation.
A better approach to determining gender from a first name
>vast majority of web developers

That is an amazing thing to write on the internet.
I've never really been owl or lark, but I do tend to have a long adjustment process, and get off schedule fairly easily, I guess because I mainly spend my time indoors and in artificial light, with no real consistent externally-imposed schedule.
I am from an eastern Europe country and most of developers and designers use Mac OS.
Is it just me, or does anyone else think the way CORS works right now is completely bass-ackwards? We have a page served by Host A that wants to access resources on Host B. Why is it that Host B has to allow this and not Host A? If I compromise a script on Host A, of course I'll also add the needed headers in the reply by Host B! Isn't it a lot more sensible that Host A should include a header that says "you are allowed to also download resources from Host B"?
Question for the Baraza team: The framework looks good, and I expect the engineering behind the scenes is impressive. What are your thoughts about content curation and acquiring a critical mass of (for want of a better term) moderators?

See (for example) this question and its answers http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=618ce3dee8dafc67
That's new. /s

(http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2010-11-16-n46.html)
will install this ASAP ..
Not in France. I don't have a car so I take the bus and the regional train a lot. Most people there have either a dumb phone or an old & cheap Android or Blackberry. At my driver's license courses, I was surprised that at least 3 people had a Windows Phone (the cheaper models). iPhones are for rich people.

In countries where people buy their phone without a contract attached, there is a real market for a <100€ device. The cheaper the better.
Not really, it actually comes from long before that.

I remember being a very little kid and buying shareware games with their "PC-Compatible" labels. At the time, that sticker actually meant "DOS Compatible", and being I just about 10 years old, I believed PCs and DOS were the only possible match, the same way my first MSX ran MSX-Basic and my cousin's Amstrad CPC ran CP/M. I didn't know it was even possible for machines to run different OSes. For that matter, I didn't even know what an OS was. I just knew different machines worked differently, the same way different TV sets worked differently.

So it's not just a matter of human language, it's a matter of intentionally confusing terms in favour of the market. Everybody knew there were other "walkmans" around. Not everybody knows there are other OSes.
Hi Eric,

Can I recommend you change the title of your post. Your question isn't about "Moblish" being a good name, you're looking for people to review your project, which is great, and fine on HN, but link-bait titles are not recommended.
> transferring to GendBuntu from a proprietary system means the staff member receives a new computer with a widescreen monitor. (0)

This is a great idea to get staff to accept the change, not "forced" upon them but how about a bigger screen and a faster computer, now your colleague has one and you have a slow old one... it's a no brainer really.

(0) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
OpenXava 4.8.1 released: Fast Development for Enterprise Java
Will Baraza questions and answers be ranked higher than Quora and Stack Overflow in Google search? When Google starts adding more services with content created by users, will it be harder to rely on Google search?
There's an extensive discussion on the subject a few links below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469559
> Historically passports are a very recent thing in the history of travel.

Because border control per se is a rather modern thing.
Excellent alternatives exist for all but maybe one of those apps. This is coming from someone who owns and uses a Lumia 1020 daily.
Lol. I can't think of anything that would have me up and running like that. It often takes several hours after I get up before I properly feel alert and awake.

The only thing that I have found really works is about an hour of exercise, preferably cycling. That was a lot easier when I lived in a warm country.

Also I guess I'm not convinced why I should have discipline... it just seems to work for other people!
Go to https://github.com/getsentry/raven-js/blob/master/dist/1.0.8... and search for jQuery. You will see code that wraps $.event.add(), $.fn.ready(), and $.ajax()

Search for _helper('setTimeout') and _helper('setInterval') to see how it injects exception capture for those functions.

The above cover the vast majority of code entry points if using jQuery.
> Now the only way to increase your profit as a insurance company is to spend more

Or get more customers, or lower costs.

If they start charging more, then unless there is collusion or price fixing, wouldn't people move to a cheaper plan?
As mentioned by many people, open source gives you peer review as an advantages, and bugs (both in-good-faith and intentional) get more easily spotted.

This however doesn't prevents bug from be there, and the question is: will those guys be keeping their custom systems up to date?

Also, as you point out, a lot of the work is now moved on this [gorram] cloud, and unfortunately the simple fact you're running GNU/Linux hardly prevents information from leaking. I wonder if they will also be using strong cryptography or custom online services!

EDIT: the distro is likely being a spin-off of something existing -- indeed, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu as somebody linked -- so yes, that will be up to date.
License has been a major turn off, just like Plan 9. Did they fix that yet?
I don't think that would suit me either. When I'm awake I stay awake. Sleep likewise. It doesn't (and can't!) address the not-enough-hours-in-the-day thing.
Indeed. BTW, I think Obamacare has largely been an exercise for how to take a broken system and "fix it" if by "fix it" one means stack everything against the individual and for big pharma/medical device manufacturers.

The problem is we have used health insurance to chain people to jobs for a long time now, and the result is that it is very hard to be self-employed in the US (much harder than in any other country in the world). This needs to be decoupled whether it is "buy your own insurance," or whether it is something like Canada's province-by-province single payer approach.
This is a good question.

At one point is google "impartial" search engine or when does it become a funnel to their own services?

You can see it started to happen with the ITA flight software acquisition a few years back (http://www.google.com/press/ita/) - now google flights now beat out every booking engine for any flight query.
Project Grizzly
I do agree here.
I do develop in India, and rarely i meet people with Mac. Most devs use linux and most html and UI guys go with windows.
Are any of these Africa-specific pieces?

Just a few of the questions I picked off:

> What is the meaning of stonehenge?

> What is public enlightenment?

> Is politics vicious?

Are these answers necessarily local to Africa?
I'm in the same situation as yours, except that I quit finance to work in data science, and I taught myself some basic javascript/html.
Double rainbow exposure WOW Today
Also that Java is compiled and JS is "all in text".
Did I just get Dark patterned by Paypal?
In a dispute with a Paypal Seller, Paypal's Resolution Center only provided a standard webform with 2 options after ruling in my favour, to provide proof shipping to Seller (in China) at my own cost to get refund or cancel the claim. As I was unhappy (understatement) with such options, I query Paypal's customer service who revealed the additional options to ship to local Paypal office or third party which are not on the webform.

It appears to be designed to penalize or deter Buyers seeking refund from Sellers even if Sellers are at fault. Glad I read about the JustFab.com article on HN. Now I am waiting for Paypal's response how (and who pays) to move the hazardous material as result of Seller's product defect.
As far as indications of life go, we're looking for substances that might have been freshly produced by a biological organism. That's not as easy as it sounds, since we're always discovering new abiogenic processes that make even complex hydrocarbons.

Methane is abundant in the universe at large. You can find it in huge quantities in gas giants. There is evidence for seasonal methane deposits on Mars, but so far none of the observations suggest that it has been put there by a life form.

Chemistry in space is interesting, because it sheds some light on the early conditions on Earth and other habitable worlds. It was first thought that planets start with only simple elements and more complex molecules would have to be generated by the environment. Now we see increasingly that more complex chemistry is indeed going on in space as well and this in turn means planets do get seeded with more higher-order stuff than previously thought.

Spectroscopy suggests that compounds as complex as linked amino acids can and do form in deep space! This is also interesting for biologists since a non-biological origin for these molecules drastically improves the likelihood and timeframe for the formation of carbon-based lifeforms. It also means we're likely to find more amino acid-based life out there, which is nice.

Propene in itself is not that surprising of a find, it's more like another piece of the puzzle falling into place.

Of course, this all has nothing to do with plastic. That's just bad copy writing in a weak attempt to draw public interest.
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This discussion takes place about once a day. The HN guidelines state "don't editorialize titles". This is one of the guidelines that is most visibly and aggressively enforced by the moderators. For better of for worse, it's what we're stuck with.
>That crisis—in which Swedish authorities swiftly wrote down bad assets, moved them into a “bad bank” and recapitalised the remaining “good bank”—informed many of the bail-outs in the 2008 financial crisis.

I don't know where this came from. The swedish example was brought up many times during the crisis but always to argue that we should be doing what they did (wipe out the equity) and not what was effectively done (prop up the banks).
Oh how I can feel this.

After 3+ years of dealing with banker types when I first started (1991ish), I wanted to leap off the building and land on their fancy cars. :)

Without a doubt, the tightest fisted, greediest and most short sighted people I've ever dealt with. Save 15 minutes here and waste months in the future when you've forgotten how this hack works. Get it out now.

Then I had a few dream jobs. It seems to go in cycles.
Get used to it or change professions.
If using jQuery, it is a few lines of code to add try/catch around the majority of your code entry points.

Go to https://github.com/getsentry/raven-js/blob/master/dist/1.0.8... and you will see code that wraps $.event.add(), $.fn.ready(), $.ajax(), window.setTimeout() and window.setInterval() (search _helper).
I've not yet figured out where I want to live. I also fear losing connections with my few friends/social circle and relatives.
No, high-deductible plans are not "illegal" under the ACA. The ACA marketplaces offer high-deductible plans. If all you want to do is pay for catastrophic coverage, you can do that.

What's happening is that some existing catastrophic plans don't meet the requirements of the ACA with regards to coverage, cost-sharing, annual spending caps, and other metrics. Some of these plans are closing rather than conform to the law. But there is no blanket provision against high-deductible plans.

There are some suspiciously similar stories floating around the conserv-o-sphere involving vaguely specified elderly couples who are just spitting mad about having to give up their cheap, crappy, high-deductible plan because of the ACA. These stories smell very much like astro-turf propaganda, and should be treated with high levels of skepticism.
Saudi cleric says driving risks damaging women's ovaries
Why should Africans use this instead of existing Q/A sites like Quora?
China threatens closure of mobile news apps amid Internet crackdown
SELinux... do not turn it off!
And when people tell you to do so are too lazy to understand it.

Never heard of Tomoyo... maybe AppArmor
How come Google releases new software that is not using https, and still I'm logged in with my account.

I'm surprised google can still make that mistake, making my account vulerable after going to so much trouble of protecting it with 2factor auth.
I started learning APL (it was a cut down APL\360 with 32K workspaces) in the mid 1970s. My first language was Fortran. When I started with APL shortly afterwards, at first I thought it was a sort of continuation of array studies.

What's good about it?

- APL lends itself well to a kind of incremental learning. You don't need to know that much to get started solving problems. Learn as you go, the learning curve is as steep as you want it to be. No hurdles, just a consistent slope.

- APL abstracts away a lot of the mindless tedium of conventional programming. Having said that, there are rewards (like execution speed) for programming in something like C. Speed is sometimes less important these days than it was in the mainframe days

- APL is an excellent prototyping environment. You can concentrate on getting the right answer and understanding what you are doing, then later, moving the solution to the standard, approved language of your choice.

- APL lends itself to the construction of simple DSLs (Domain-Specific Languages). What is lost in flexibility is made up in ease.

- APL itself is an excellent learning tool for quickly learning the domain area you are working in. As it encourages interactive, exploratory programming (as does J, K, Q, R, S, Matlab, and so on) learning the domain area (i.e. Physics, Finance, linear algebra, writing a parser, etc.) can be much easier and fun.

I had a passion for APL which continues even today - I could not muster any such passion for say Java.
Sweden has mortgage free bank loans (at <=75%). Most countries don't got this, not saying it will last, but as of now, you have it.