skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the article suggests using it to log in, not reboot. The use of ctrl-alt-del for reboots was not a microsoft innovation.
Git's learning curve feels similar to the learning curve of a programming language like Python.

Once you understand you're not going to pick it all up in an afternoon (just like a language) and that there will be lots more to learn down the road (like a language), git feels great.
The Link for 2013 is actually pointing to 2011 - AM missing somethign here ? :-)
See, your unidiomatic usage of the word makes me worry that you don't even have a solid grasp on what evidence even is. I've already told you where you can read scientific literature about evolution, if you have any specific concerns I'm happy to discuss them; I often learn from those sort of conversations.

This site has a very gentle introduction to evolution, you can start here if you like: http://evolution.berkeley.edu/
I honestly thought this was a troll comment intended to show how ridiculous this sort of thing would be if region locking applied to printers. I was not pleased to find out that this is, actually, a thing.
Thank you. Because these two issues - life's beginnings and the account of the observed diversity of life - are conflated in (at least some) religious traditions, it's too often assumed by the ignorant that they're inextricably linked in all cases.
18-23* :) Use what you have available to you. Took me 6 months and now I'm ready to go. It would have been a significantly harder position to be in otherwise. Before I am even leaving I'm saving up around 20-30k or ensuring a minimum of 4k coming in per month though. A stable income is definitely a must.

Edit: I suck at english apparently.
Why restrict ourselves to the purely scientific?
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Show HN:This is how I want to play my media 
Play anything ON anything FROM any device !
I've been grabbing the nightly builds and installing them on my phone for a while now.

http://nightlies.videolan.org/
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Thank you for including the model number.

I haven't turned it into a business model nor personal public initiative, yet, but I think we are to the point of needing to name and shame. And then conduct, or withhold, our business accordingly.
Wow! Did people forget what sarcasm looks like ?
Everything Hakim makes is gold.
> The need has really been driven by the VCs

Do you really need VC money? I mean really need it. Most projects I've come across can be bootstrapped.

> they all insist on it

Did you counter them with "I have 3 contractors at my disposal on-call, round-the-clock"?

> I can't afford to hire someone on good money

£30k is a lot of money. Nearly $50,000 USD. How much do you have left? How much are you paying your Russian developer? (too much, I'd bet). $50,000 is 5 developers salaries, full-time, from India, for a year.

> I'd rather find someone who is passionate about the idea and with whom I could work well.

If that's the direction you want to take it, I wish you all the best of luck. I personally would go a different route.

> I am working with a great contractor.

It's entirely plausible that a business run by 1 technical contractor will fall apart (life happens... I've had contractors break contract several times due to personal issues that arose). It is, however, much less likely that a business run by 5, competent, well managed developers will fall apart.

Just sharing what's worked for me. Best of luck whichever direction you go.
The biolite weights 33oz. My MSR pocket rocket weighs 3oz, + 2-8 oz for the fuel. (I generally take 4oz for short trips). Even with an external battery pack I could still be almost 1lb lighter than the biolite.

Biolite is totally cool, but 2lbs is a LOT for backpacking, you can get tents lighter than that.
About $20k, in a mutual fund. Didn't plan to spend it all but I did, quickly. I was working at a grocery store though, so little "risk". :)

As others have said - you need to learn to live cheaply. Savings dwindles amazingly fast when you have no income.

Personally, I dropped my cell phone & cable TV, and got rid of my car. It took about 3 years to get back to "normal" - would never have made it without slashing expenses.
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According to Samsung only S4s made after July 2013 will be impacted. It has been well confirmed that it isn't just a threat, if you insert the wrong SIM you get an error.
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Tight coupling is the whole point.

The Unix Philosophy is based on building well-factored parts that fit together with small, knowable interfaces (e.g., simple text protocols communicating over pipes or sockets). Yet, the success of Mac OS X as the only relevant Unix on the desktop goes to show that whole, well-integrated systems are much more valuable than well-factored parts.

GNU/Linux needs to become a whole, integrated system. A platform for applications, not a framework for parts. Systemd is an essential part of that vision.

In short, everybody needs to suck it up because this is how things are done in Linux now.
You expect billions of people to walk inland a little bit over the course of a mere 1,000 years?
This is probably about pricing in different markets. They can't sell cheaply in China if those devices end up on ebay being shipped to the US.
Because a monopoly leads to zero competitive pressure - no matter how much we believe in Bezos' ethos.
Whether the connection between you and Cloudflare is encrypted is up to you. It's right in the same box as the option to turn on encryption in the first place.
But only after the requisite outrage fest on here and other sites. The fact that it takes a front page article on a site read by a lot of industry people to get them to do the right thing is... disheartening, to say the least.
I just created an account to say that it's actually 2048 levels of pressure (instead of 1024), or at least it is according to the Cintiq Companion website. My cintiq 21UX is also 2048. I'm looking to nab a companion later this year so that I can work and be location-agnostic, so I've been watching the details of it as they've been coming out. on a side note, My only hope is that the battery life is good enough :P People have been decrying the lack of a haswell (the win8 version, not the android hybrid) which I guess makes for a less solid battery life? I'm not up on my cpu tech, so I can't say.

Wow, that was a longer comment than I'd originally intended. Sorry.
You're going to kill someome
Absolutely. Carriers are Apple's biggest customers, not end users.

Possibly the funniest part of the "you are the product" meme many Apple fans are fond of is how many of them fail to notice that they are the product that Apple has sold to a carrier.
Google Glass competitor 'Recon Jet' ships 50K units, takes Intel investment.
How does this compare to the existing s3cmd [1] tool? One issue I've had with s3cmd is it tends to use a lot of memory when syncing two large buckets. I'd love to see a tool that was faster / more memory efficient than s3cmd. Would be awesome to see some benchmarks and feature comparison in the README!

[1] http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
See here:

http://talkorigins.org

The site has extensive information about evolution, as well as a section that addresses claims and assertions made by creationists/ID proponents about evolution. Even if you don't wind up accepting that evolution is the best currently available explanation for the diversity of life on earth, it'd be worth your while to have a look, if only to gain a better (and more accurate) understanding of the theory of evolution.
Branches are fundamentally little more than text files in .git/refs/heads that contain the sha of a commit object. Don't let the idea of a branch frighten you, there isn't much complexity behind the idea.
The ironic thing is that the only people spreading fear are AGW-theory proponents. If anything, climate change deniers are reducing fear, making your accusation they are spreading Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt a ridiculously easy claim to falsify.
Moreover, if you integrate gitolite with redmine (easy to do with a plugin [1]), you get a great corporate-leve, self-hosted, easy-to-use team management tool for programmers and alike.

[1]https://github.com/ivyl/redmine-gitolite
+1
I wonder if anyone has a branch of what the "refined" activesupport would look like.
A blog from the founder and CEO of Braintree Bill Ready explains that they will continue to work independently whilst adding value to PayPal's weak points; customer service and the younger consumer generation of customers. https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/braintree-teaming-up-...
> Is our obsession with these gizmos a temporary aberration caused by their newness and the fact that we haven't yet adapted to having them in our lives?

(emphasis mine)

Newness is certainly part of it, but not in the way I think you meant. It's not that the devices are new, but that the devices promise to deliver a never-ending stream of newness. There was a study done on the effects of always-available, always-fresh material right at our fingertips; newness as a drug. I don't have the citation for that off-hand, but maybe someone else will chime in with it.

The consequence of this is that I don't think it's temporary. Even as the devices become old hat, the content will keep coming. The rate at which new, hot memes appear is startling.

If the conclusion reached by the aforementioned study is true, our addiction to these devices will not wane as we acclimate to them. We will need to accept that overuse is a problem. Some people will struggle with it, just like some people struggle with other addictions.
I'm almost playing the chord with my left hand. Left ring finger, left index finger and right index finger.
But strangely the Asian models (e.g. Hong Kong) you'd think Samsung would worry most about in the grey market don't seem to have this restriction: http://ausdroid.net/2013/09/26/galaxy-note-3-sim-restriction...
> the success of Mac OS X as the only relevant Unix on the desktop goes to show that whole, well-integrated systems are much more valuable than well-factored parts.

Certainly not as clearly as the success of Linux in the server world shows the opposite.

> Linux needs to become a whole, integrated system.

If the priority for Linux is to capture a bigger share of the dying desktop market at the expense of the server market, sure.

On the server side, the whole "framework for parts assembled ad hoc by a recipe for a task" model is becoming more, not less viable.
In some sense, we already do remember those days, the failed assassination attempt on Hitler for example.
Just another misallocation of the crucial resource to military power. When there is little resource, end game comes.
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Documentation. Tests show the reader what the code is intended to do, and how to work with said code – information that is not always conveyed with the canonical source. The benefit over other forms of documentation is that it comes with automatic verification that the code works exactly as the documentation describes.
JAPAN ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE,WTF ABOUT FUCKUSHIMA?
Thanks for comments.

No I don't really need VC money. I need more money, but I'm pretty sure I can crowd-source it again via Seedrs.

£30k is a lot but not that much... I had to pay for non-tech stuff too. My Russian dev is very good value compared to hiring in Europe. I'd really rather have one top-notch guy than 5 ok guys. The quality of dev so far has been 1st class.
off the grid, yet with a powered robot?
http://www.netweather.tv/index.cgi?action=winter-history;ses...
IPhone, iPad owners complain of motion sickness due to iOS 7 | Apple - CNET News
Alternative to Google Apps
Now that google apps is not free anymore...is there a free/cheaper alternative to google apps? I am primarily looking for email (custom domain), doc sharing and chat.
Credit Card Processing is a Hard Business
Simply horrible noise.

I would love HN provided a way for one to click "forever more ignore the votes of everyone who voted this nonsense up" for such prattle.

This particular article (not by Forbes, it should be mentioned. This is yet another contributor article, which is effectively the everyman blog platform that Forbes uses to piss all of their credibility away, yet it is surprisingly effective at getting to the front page of HN) is a sea of link farming, and is one of the most egregious example I've yet seen (many of the seeming citations go to absolutely nothing of the sort. It is just dozens of links to Hipmob).

Oh but iOS users buy more tea, so there's that. What?
I was just talking about Google. Sorry if my comment was vague and off on a weird tangent ;-)
High Performance Rails (slides)
On a tangentially related note, it took me a while to make the connection that HALT on x86 is 0xF4 -> Alt+F4 = close in Windows.
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I wonder if they're old enough -- of prescient enough -- yet to realize they should probably have a staff historian.
Should be renamed "iOS Is For Rich People, Android Is For The Poor."
15 years just isn't long enough: http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/double-standard/

Since 1975, global average surface air temperature has increased at a rate of 0.17 deg.C/decade (estimated by linear regression using either the NASA GISS or HadCRUT4 data sets). But the rate of increase hasn’t been perfectly constant over that entire time span.

As a matter of fact, there’s a 15-year time span during which the rate is notably different. Fifteen whole years!!! By at least one calculation, the difference is “statistically significant.”

That 15-year time span covers the years 1992 through 2006, during which the rate of warming was 0.28 deg.C/decade. That’s a lot faster than the warming rate from 1975 to now.

What was your position in 2006, given that 15 year trend? Is your argument that when the 15 year trend is above the longer term trend it's due to natural variability and doesn't indicate a long term change but when it's below then it's due to a real shift and that global temperatures are about to start going down?
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So many developers use Macs now that I would be surprised if Apple went this direction. I'm sure they want to go this direction--I'm just not sure they feel like they can without angering developers.

To be fair, all OS companies (Apple, Google, and Microsoft) want to go this direction. It would probably be enough to push me back onto Linux.
I have, and right now it seems to have a very journalistic slant to it. It might work.
MEMS (or stirling engines) don't help you there either -- as long as it's all in the fire, you have trouble extracting energy.

All heat engines run off of a temperature gradient, which is limited by Carnot's theorem to a maximum efficiency of (1 - Hot/Cold). If your heat source temperature is the same as your heat sink temperature, you get zero energy out of it.

The bigger the difference between the heat source and heat sink in your engine, the more energy you can extract.
This impacts unlocked Samsung phones.
don't forget, it is actually a Secure Attention Key (SAK) - really awesome - I'll miss it when it's gone for good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key
I remember several years ago back in canada, the plan prices were the same if you brought your own phone or if you got one on contract. They wouldn't even give you decent promo plans unless you got the contract anyway. So when pricing is the same, the rational thing to do is to buy a subsidized phone.
If humans like Elon Musk and the rest are serious about becoming a spacefaring nation that can actually travel to Mars, this wealth of experimental data would be invaluable when the time comes, if the time comes. Let's not presume that it would never be useful (and besides that, who knows if there ever could be use applied down on earth too).
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Do you have a contract? That maybe why price you pay is cheaper.
Seems like parent was only in US for a short period of time, so he probably didn't wanted to sign a, say 12 months, contract.
See also Git for Computer Scientists at http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
I'm sure that was done on purpose.
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Because anything else is offtopic. For some reason people always see fit to bring up their personal religious beliefs when the topic is biology, but it doesn't often get brought up when the discussion is, say, the formation of stars and planets. I don't know why that is, but I know that one tangent is not more appropriate than the other.
If this were true given the ratio of drivers of cars to cyclists there shouldn't be any cyclists left. So "you're going to kill someone" is simply not true.

I'm both a driver and a cyclist. If there is anything that will help cyclists then it's not a bunch of yelling and baseless scaremongering but a requirement that drivers put some time in on a bicylce as part of their driving examination, in traffic. That way they get to appreciate from a first person perspective what it is like to be totally unprotected while tons of steel are zooming around you.

As for cycling in the United States: Don't. The country just simply does not have the infrastructure to deal with the very few cyclists there are and the general mindset of drivers there places cyclists somewhere along the line of a target to hit (or a deer to avoid but which it is fine to squash otherwise).

One thing that would help America instantly would be to have a nationwide law that states that if you hit/injure/kill a cyclist you are automatically in the wrong, no matter what the situation. That would have the same effect on drivers as kryptonite has on superman.
Really? You're just gonna give up that easily, huh?

I don't mean to poke fun at you, but the competitive spirit was what made it possible for America to be where it is now, technologically. That, and a lot of money, of course
I think the good thing about making it three buttons is that you have to learn something kind of complex and arcane to gain a bit of power over the machine. It tells you something about the machine in order to interrupt it this way.
Thank you, mr. Petrov!
I loved signing up to slid.es - for some reason it's just never that smooth, but my brain was completely on autopilot and before I knew it, I could start building slides.

As for the app itself, I'll have to play around a bit more, but initial impressions are that it's very responsive and something I wish was available years ago.
Sure. But what do you do about the tons of legacy hardware in the world?
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"3-4 times to get someone's attention for every person, or did it happen once? Could have easily happened if they were reading their Arthur C. Clarke novels as well."

I've seen many signs in restaurants asking patrons not to use the phone while they are waiting. So, I'm guessing it's often enough to be a problem.
For quick and dirty presentations, I created http://glebbahmutov.com/slides-now/ - just drag and drop .md file. Supports themes, timers, etc. Even does very nice jobs with code blocks, because I need to show code a lot.
With the iPhone, the difference is $450, so it's usually cheaper. If you keep it for a while, the ETF goes down.
EBay recognized there are two types of people who pay online, those that like PayPal and those that don't. Now they can serve both.
The Khronos group has OpenGL and OpenGL ES conformance tests. Unfortunately, they are not public and you have to be a member to access them.[1] The only public OpenGl test that I know of is the piglit suite.[2]

[1] http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/showthread.php/16354...

[2] http://people.freedesktop.org/~nh/piglit/
This is a great business model from the standpoint of making profits (less so from the standpoint of ethics or consumer satisfaction).

Most people don't travel internationally very frequently, and region locking is not something that's marketed, so they only discover it when they actually travel, and then they're forced to buy another phone!

Forget region locking, can't they inflate their profits further at their customers' expense if they just use GPS or tower location to deactivate the phone when the user gets 200 miles from home? That would increase your market from international travelers to domestic travelers...
I budgeted about $30k for 3 years off (my wife continued to work), made between $10k and $20k/year from my FemCal app, then went back to work when the $30k ran out.

No regrets.
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Bill Gates: 'Control+Alt+Delete' Was a Mistake
Damn I just read about Braintree in Choose Yourself...now its being acquired for 800 Million...
Well, I'm not sure how I'd do it starting in your situation. When I got out of school I lived in a cheap apartment and took public transit to work, which let me save about half of what I made. I didn't start retirement saving until I had a 1 year buffer saved. Since then I've made sure to always have that much saved when moving to a more expensive place though I haven't upgraded that much.

Currently I put 1/6 of my pre-tax income away for retirement, then put 1/5 of the remaining into savings, and another 1/5 into my emergency/charity account. I donate 1/4 of that account to charity at the end of the year, and I also dipped into it when my apartment caught fire.

I'm probably not going to be able to keep all of this up when I have kids, but I'll be doing it until then.
Ever think that they do this so they don't have to talk to you? While on bus or waiting, I've used the book/phone/etc as an excuse to ignore someone that I KNEW was waiting for conversation with ANYONE. My mindset- "I don't know you, I don't care what your selling, I don't care if you think I'm pretty- your not getting a date, I'm not here to entertain you"
You're forgetting the worst offender: the old Gchat let you tab through the input boxes of the different chats. On Hangouts, tab just cycles you through every UI element on the page.
The idea was to celebrate the day he prevented a nuclear holocaust.

Talking about st. Peter and Paul, it's not only celebrated by the orthodox churches, but also in the west:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Saints_Peter_and_Paul
A competitor that's raised $50 million caught lying on quora
Fuck brand, it's a middle finger to users.
Unlike ACQQ[1], I'm not going to assert that these are climate change denialists, they may well be, but it's irrelevant. You're using news/op-ed citations as evidence for basic questions of fact.

Science news almost universally overstates the effects of particular findings. These sources are more or less fine for announcing a new finding, but when you start to get into debating particular facts, they are utterly inappropriate sources.

In a forum such as Hacker News, you can expect most participants to be capable of reading the relevant portion of a peer reviewed study, and so that is the sort of citation that should be offered. News/op-ed articles bring nothing to the discussion.

And just to be clear, the ancestors our posts made unsubstantiated assertions based on their interpretation of the evidence, so in a sense, they are citing themselves, which in this sort of discussion, I think is fine. It's the appeal to low quality scientific authorities that is the issue.

[1]No offense intended by this at all, just giving a different perspective. ACQQ's comment was a catalyst for my own comment.
Nope, its a very first world problem. If you bring this "phone everywhere" behavior to third world countries, you'll be jacked on your first day here, no lie.
So according to the wiki article:

-$30,000 from the Dresden Prize

-$1,000 from SF's World Citizen Award (does that even cover airfare from Russia?!)

Preventing nuclear disaster, it seems, is an undervalued skill. Mr. Petrov needs to fire his publicist.