skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You aren't allowed to use any phone. So, your made up answer can't be right.
But profit is what tells you that what you are doing is valuable, i.e., that it is not a waste (no scare-quotes) of money, or more importantly, of the time and effort of the people involved. So the fact that Ovishinsky's company made a profit while he was running it is not an accident: it is a consequence of the fact that his inventions were valuable, so that spending his time and effort, and that of his employees, on them was worth doing.

Your definition of "waste" appears to be something that you think is worth doing, but which does not make a profit. But if it is worth doing, why is it not making a profit? And if it is not worth doing, why put "waste" in quotes? People's time and effort would be better spent on something else.

Finally, if you want to spend your own time and effort (and money) on something that others might consider to be not worth doing, that's your choice. But when you talk about convincing others to "waste" money, you are no longer just committing your own time and effort (and money); you are committing theirs. The track record of this method of organizing human activity when not constrained by the need to make a profit (in order for the activity to stay in business) is not good.
I think that the choice boils down to one of these three:

Ubuntu LTS
CentOS
OpenSUSE

Some people swear by Mint or Debian but for most people, there is little to no difference from Ubuntu. Even for servers, using the Ubuntu server install to build a headless server is quick and simple. After that, install something like Docker to install any other services that you require.

I happen to run Ubuntu LTS on the desktop with the GUI reverted to Gnome Classic. There is a package to add that option. But I run CentOS on servers most recently.

I used to run OpenSUSE and only really switched because I needed to get a more balanced experience with other distros. My last OpenSUSE server was a XEN vm host and OpenSUSE made that much easier to set up than plain XEN on OpenSolaris which is what I had used before.

One note about a GUI environment. If you can, leave it off the base server and install it with Docker or KVM or Virtualbox. This may mean that you have to manage two servers in one, and use the CLI a lot, but this is a good learning experience. Modern computers are so fat and fast, that we forget how Linux was in the early days, filling a T1 line using a 486 with 128M of RAM and a 512M hard drive.
Just like thousands of other words that are not words in the english language, they become a word through use.
it is only one character, but I agree with you, it makes a big difference. maybe Microsoft should not have saved Apple...
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"God damn it, you're a programmer. Start using an editor you can damn well program." -Magnar Sveen

Isn't that the truth
thankfully they will soon be able to disable all cellphone cameras in a x mile radius... someone has a patent already
How does that invalidate his answer? Any phone can record audio.
>But profit is what tells you that what you are doing is valuable

wow. are you a fan of "Atlas Shrugged" by any chance?
I will give you just one obvious counter example (though I could rattle off a huge list), which, if you are not sociopathic, should immediately make you see your mistake:

The Red Cross

Profit is a very poor metric for value to humanity. In fact it is a horrifyingly inhumane metric, and I would hope you feel shame for writing such rubbish publically.

But if that doesn't do it for you, I could also point out that you have just insulted everyone here who happens to work on open source software, by telling them their work has no value, and is a waste without scare quotes.

That's not to mention the day traders and bankers who make huge amounts of profits and contribute nothing of value to society.
If you find this article interesting, it's also worth finding and flipping through D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's classic "On Growth and Form". A copy is available at the Internet Archive: http://archive.org/details/ongrowthform00thom
Not sure if you're sarcastic. Poe's law strikes again.
Anecdotal, but someone might find it interesting:

I've been traveling around with a dosimeter on my wrist (Polimaster PM1208M) for fun since 2007 & I've traveled to Tokyo a few times since the '11 Tohoku earthquake. I've seen the radiation levels as high as .10 uSv/hr (same as a rainy day in Eastern Oregon) and as low as .03 uSV/hr (lower than I've ever seen it in San Francisco). The most radioactive spot I've been was Rome @ .5 uSv/hr (higher than the areas in the article) & everywhere pales in comparison to levels at airplane cruising altitude -- as high as 6 uSv/hr.

Anyhow, the radiation level supposedly seen at the Tokyo facility in the article is nothing compared to Ramsar, Iran and folks are fine there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Mazandaran#Radioactivit...
That is a pretty disappointing article from reuters that reads more as an advertisement.
Must be a Gen Y thing (or whatever you call 20 somethings these days). I'm afraid to me, it seems exceedingly childish to need something like a chain of Red X's in order to get something as simple as "workout" or "clean" or "do job" or "work" done on a consistent basis. It's called SELF DISCIPLINE and it's really not rocket science. Now get off my lawn.
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I used to think I had a procrastination problem, but my problem has never been getting started. For example, if I come up with a new personal programming project I dig right into it, and I also keep it up for a long time. But I still can't manage to follow trough. It's like I settle for such great perfectionism that everything ends up taking an unreasonable amount of time, and in the end I give up because it's not practical anymore.

Nobody else who can relate to that?
Arch, I enjoy the level of control that comes with and being able to have nearly the latest versions of everything (without distro-specific changes like many others have) (also AUR is pretty useful).
I would recommend 'Concepts of Modern Mathematics' [1], by Ian Stewart. It has some very nice illustrations and humor, and reminds me of 'Learn You A Haskell For Great Good' (though I believe CoMM came out before LYaH). It's a wonderful preview of a variety of topics, and is intended to introduce someone with a poor math background to some of the different fields of math.

From the Amazon description:

In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts underlying "new math": groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other subjects. No advanced mathematical background is needed to follow thought-provoking discussions of such topics as functions, symmetry, axiomatics, counting, topology, hyperspace, linear algebra, and more. 200 illustrations.

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[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Modern-Mathematics-Dover-Book...
> Speculators can do lots of curious things, as can those who might benefit from perpetuating the idea that Bitcoin is stable.

"Speculators" are the ones determining exchange rates. There is no other "true value of Bitcoin in USD" that "speculators" are trying to conceal.
This is me x1000. Everything I write has to be shipped almost immediately, because the next day it looks like shit to me.

Random question- did you do really well in school when you were young? If yes, did you then get progressively worse as it required more prep?
Elon Musk's Grasshopper 744m Test
Observations on Technology Use by Dementia / Alzheimer's Patients
A recent personal experience has proven to me that there is an underserved market for people who develop dementia, Alzheimer's, and other related neurological disorders. These diseases can strike people in a broad range of ages and seemingly wipe out the ability to use more modern technologies. Someone who previously had the ability to use cell phones, computers, etc. can rapidly degrade to the point where extraneous buttons and touchscreens (for example) make a device overwhelming and completely useless. As we struggled with my mother-in-law this afternoon because she was overwhelmed by too many buttons on her cordless phone and TV remote, it seems to me that there is still room for simple devices that can assist a struggling user.

Does anyone have any similar experiences or thoughts on this subject?
Banksy is relevant because most gallery art is crap. Take that as your starting point. If you don't understand that, without having to research it, you won't get Banksy.

Banksy is not relevant to 'pop' culture, he was famous as an underground artist. Pop culture consumes anything (like the internet) that has social currency, regardless of whether or not it is relevant to pop culture per se.
I expected a story of being made to wait for hours on end and maybe receiving an unreasonable interrogation. Not just a story of being sent to secondary and made to wait 30 minutes before someone would see you (and a 7 month old story at that).

That just seems par for the course for a busy airport, and maybe you should turn up more than an hour before your flight time if you're traveling internationally and have to go through the preclearance process like they do in Canadian airports.
Yes, there is free UMTS/HSPA/EDGE roaming on AT&T for post-paid plans (aka not the $30 100 minute/5gb plan) and there is a data limit. For my plan, its 50 megabytes, which doesn't seem like much, but AT&T throttles you to 128kbit/s, so you really have to work hard to get to that 50 megs.
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History shows that most emigrants identify more closely with their new country than with the ethnic group from which they originated, when it comes to politics. Especially in such a multi-ethnic country as Russia. The children of these immigrants will learn Russian, play with Russian kids and absorb a whole lot of Russian culture. When they visit the old country, it will seem rather quaint, and remind them of their parents. In other words, China will seem old-fashioned and Russia will seem more modern.

This suggests that there is at least as much of a risk that Siberia/Russia will incorporate Northern China. In a fight, there is no telling who will win, because it is very hard to predict how an ethnic group will divide. A detailled study of World War II will show you that the Nazis had the support of an English SS regiment (in other words English citizens who went to sign up with the 3rd Reich rather than the British Army) and similar splits in every single ethnic group in Eastern Europe in the area where the battles were fought.

In addition, a similar emigration is happening to North America. Vancouver BC now has 30% Chinese speaking population and the concept of Chinatown has become laughable. There are shops and restaurants with Chinese signs in every neighborhood of the city and Caucasians like myself often find ourselves in a visible minority. And we are learning Mandarin as well, just in case.
Because freedom means it's the restrictions, not the privileges, the government enumerates. I don't know if there's a reason cell phones shouldn't be allowed there, but if there isn't then they should be.
The rich "ethnic" foreigners also send their kids to these schools, so it's not exactly an escape from non-white children.
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I find the "iPhone killed Microsoft" story to be unconvincing, despite its popularity. Yes, the iPhone is wildly successful beyond anything Microsoft has invented in the 21st century, but its a smartphone- whereas, as this article itself states, Microsoft was in the business of peddling a Windows/Office bundle. So its not as if Apple and Microsoft are competing on that front; no one buys an iPhone to replace their computer (or at least, I've yet to see a single example of such), much less their word processor.

I mean, yes, Apple also handily outmanoeuvred Microsoft in those areas where they do compete, and has beaten back Microsoft's forays into mobile. But Microsoft's problems are much more mundane- office software became a commodity, and they've failed to produce a new OS that's a clear-cut improvement over Windows 95. One could imagine a Microsoft that found a way to meaningfully innovate purely on the good old PC platform and be successful without any of this mobile devices tomfoolery.
Like it or not, iPhone is synonymous with "modern smartphone".
> Polarizing and derailing in this manner makes you sound like a complete jackass.

And what does calling someone a jackass do?
I didn't downvote you, but I think you deserve a point-for-point

>First of all, "good ideas, theory and philosophy" only go so far when we're talking thousands of more developers and billions of dollars. Excel, is pretty awesome but it's not perfect. I often find myself using Open Office because of some UTF8 issues when importing data into Excel. I own Excel but I use Open Office just as often.

True, it's not perfect, but it's OO is simply not comparable. I'm not saying OO is bad either, just that Excel really is fantastic as far as software goes. The more important question is why haven't the thousands of developers and billions of development time spent on open source software not only built comparable software, but better software?

> Visio, Access, and PowerPoint were purchased by Microsoft. Sure they continued to develop them, but at one point I used Access for 5-6 years and it hardly got any major features when Microsoft upgraded Office. So, these great innovations didn't originate with Microsoft.

So? When was PowerPoint purchased? 1987? I'd be willing to wager one entire American dollar that there aren't more than 100 lines of original "Presenter" code in today's PowerPoint. More importantly, in all that time they've managed not to drive it into the ground, but keep it at the pinnacle of presentation software. Keynote is probably the closest thing PowerPoint has to a reasonable competitor after almost 3 decades.

>The major reason that you don't see much competition with Office is because of their proprietary formats have basically won. People don't want 99% compatibility, they need 100%, so other vendors have fallen out of the game because they can't make the same level of investment.

Again so? OO has had it's own format for many years now thank you and still isn't as good of a piece of software. The format the tool uses is orthogonal to the quality of the software. And OO simply isn't as good. It's not bad, it's good even, but not as good.

> As for being easy to learn, I think if you Google "Microsoft Office classes", you'll find that lots of people still require training. Just switching to the Ribbon Bar caused problems for many users.

There are <insert topic> classes for just about everything Google "how to use a mouse" and you'll find a few million helpful sites on them. Fact is, a computer illiterate person can learn how to write a reasonable document, or do basic spreadsheety things with a little prompting. To fully invalidate your point, believe it or not, there are actually Open Office classes and even iWorks classes.

No software is so easy to use that somebody who's never seen it before can walk up to it and start using it and it's a delusion that software can be that's a continuous problem with many tech communities. It's an issue that goes back to the late '70s, and if somebody hasn't learned to use a computer decently in the last 40 years I'd submit that no amount of work in software interfaces will ever overcome that barrier.
You don't know what you're talking about.

All I know comes from trying to help via the internet a cousin find a place to live around that area.

Bullshit. I have friends that lived in Surreal Estate (a Bushwick artists' loft) five years go for 150/_month_.

Apparently Surreal Estate is some sort of experimental commune so I don't see how this makes my argument invalid. Oh, and it's in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. And apparently it was five years ago.
Fat vs. Thin does not apply to a specific topic. Fat vs. Thin can apply to controllers and models, but that's an exhausted argument, in models code is more reusable, fat controllers are, in my experience, the most obvious symptom of not understanding DRY principles and of not having good conventions and architecture. In the client-server realm, fat vs. thin is about how much code to run on the client side, i.e. how much javascript to deliver, how much of the UI is handled by the client before the server is bothered.

You can have a thin server with fat controller methods, or vice-versa. The point is the fat vs. thin battle happens in a lot of different areas, not just controllers.
some of these "Red X's" help people develop their self discipline
Other problem is when I read, I will often skip backwards and forwards and backwards again, re-digesting sentences that didn't quite make sense and cross-referencing especially within paragraphs. When I'm listening, I have to depend on my auditory buffer, which is only a couple seconds (or) one sentence long.
The behavior of US CBP seems reasonable to me. The traveller gave an incorrect address and so they sent him to the secondary inspection to clarify things. Better than slowing down the whole queue of people waiting for primary inspection. And the 30 minutes waiting time for secondary inspection also doesn't sound bad. If a 30 minute delay makes you miss your flight, you've been late already anyway.
elementary OS
Yeah it's more about people interacting in a voluntary manner. The first and probably last rule of libertarian philosophy is that it's not OK to initiate aggression against others. So two individuals entering into a contract is OK but one person threatening another with violence is not.

The fact that the state/government has a monopoly on violence means that your interactions with them aren't necessarily voluntary. Many people don't have a problem with paying for roads, or some semblance of a military, or schools or whatnot.

But the very nature of a state is that if you don't do what it tells you to, you have no recourse. Someone might not put a gun to your head but you have to know that there's no negotiation.
A little surprising that this article does not mention HBase which uses timestamps as part of the persisted key, while using an entirely different concept of a "WriteNumber" as an internal ID to resolve conflicting updates (MVCC).

This presentation might provide a helpful overview: http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/3-learning-h-base-interna...

The relevant discussion starts at Slide 16
>It's called SELF DISCIPLINE and it's really not rocket science.

Do you think self discipline is inherent or learned? If it's inherent, then you can't fault an individual without it.

If it's learned, how does one acquire it? It seems like programs like this are the "Gen Y" approach to learning self discipline.

Perhaps the baby-boomers learned it from their families, whereas Gen Y did not. Which (if anything) speaks volumes about the parenting quality of your generation ;)
So it seems a few people did get lucky - http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/kiwi-unwittingly-buys-80k-worth...
Brains are really good at association. Really bad at cause and effect.

If you want to prove this to yourself, take a date out on a roller coaster or bungee jumping. When your hearts are racing and you feel alive, look at each other. The association you form pretty much guarantees a positive date, even though the person you were with had nothing to do with the adrenaline rush.
Offtopic: A great word/ phrase for describing this situation, which I'd like to see become more popular. "You two are in violent agreement."
Can someone point me at the law that enables them to do this?
I became obsessed with "the chain" and it made me absolutely miserable [0]. I imagine it works for some people, though, and I'm glad I tried it out.

[0]: https://medium.com/lessons-learned/ab219377be93
The egocentrism of the title is remarkable.

Surely Brad means:

"Why is one forbidden from using a mobile phone in US Immigration areas?"

(Unless, of course, you specifically are forbidden to use a specific device -- an iPhone.)
Agreed. This is really weak and just a selfy moanfest.
Much better story: http://dasmag.nl/why-i-will-never-return-to-the-usa/ (also on HN 2 days ago or so)
The nerd in me says "cool" but the practical guy in me says, "is this useful for anything?" all I can think of is how hard this will be to fit in...just about anything.
I agree with your observation.
I will add that habits formed before Dementia struck are more or less intact (for instance, the patient can log into their hotmail with the password already stored).
The inability to learn new things just means that no new passwords can be learned, and no new environments can be learned.
It would be great to develop habits before the dementia gets full blown. Like the habit of going to a particular location each day and updating one's life every morning (like 50 first dates).
Another pic, via Wikipedia (2,215 × 2,215 pixels): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sounds_of_Earth_Record...
Last time I had to wait in immigration line for 4 hours, I missed my connecting flight. My wife waited at my destination for a real long time, got intensely worried and basically was clueless up until I was able to get through immigration and call her. Not exactly a minor inconvenience.
So last time the leap second issue came up, I learned that it's an "issue" because (as this article mentions) POSIX defines one day as exactly 86400 seconds. That's clearly incorrect; why do we still want to keep that definition around?
Because one time when I returned back to US from a vacation the U.S. immigration officer asked me too many personal questions and when I asked why she needs to know my employer and it's location she yelled at me that she has this right. I didn't know at the moment that they do not have this right.

Next time I just wanted to make sure I am recording my conversation with the officer I saw the "no cellphone" sign.

So yes, you should be allowed to record any conversation with government officer to protect your privacy better
> you have no recourse ... you have to know that there's no negotiation

Bullshit.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/20/civil-d...
I've used mocking for this purpose. Not in the same way you would for unit testing, of course. But if you want to integration test the (entire) workings of a consumer of a service, then your test starts with its entry point (whether a form submission, an API request, or whatever). Then if part of your consumer's business logic relies on a call to an external SOA service, you mock that service. In other words you say, "Given this particular form of request that would be sent to the SOA service, respond with this particular service response". Then your consumer will continue on with its business logic, all the way up until it returns its response to your original request, and you can apply your assertions then.

It's not a true end-to-end test, which would require all your services to be up, but it is an integration test since it tests the entire workings of the consumer. The assumption is that other test suites would test each of the services, and maybe a ping test to test the availability of the services themselves.
No need to require a text editor to create SVG icons, just use Inkscape http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/inkscape-0-48-revie... and then add your work to openclipart.org

No doubt Illustrator is capable of exporting to SVG, and that is really an essential for any sort of web icons in the HTML5 age.