skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I couldn't agree with Brent more. Performance is absolutely critical to the user experience of an app. It is not premature optimization to ensure an app remains responsive to the user at all times and can handle real-world sized data sets. It is good engineering.
I disagree, and I'm confident sane history will eventually look back in horror at the idiots giving their kids amphetamines willy-nilly.

Perhaps some children need this. The vast majority receiving these drugs would benefit a lot more from realistic parenting and school situations than from a toxic, addictive stimulant pill.
Lots of conspiracy theorists here.

Note that this clip ends prematurely. The program proceeded with Baroness Neville-Jones, a former Security Minister, to whom Wark posed the following questions, among others:

1) Shouldn't we have been told about this anyway?
2) Did you know this was going on?
3) When Neville-Jones said Snowden's revelations were helping terrorists,
Wark said that terrorists obviously already knew that their comms were
being monitored
4) What does it matter what the Brazillians are doing at Petrogas?
5) You might be going after terrorists but there are actually lots of
parties using these channels for business
6) Do you think there is enough control of these systems?
7) There has been a deliberate undermining by the Security Services of
encryption
8) Would you say, because you think there should be a review, that
Greenwald was right?

Neville-Jones also looked like she thought Wark's questions were ridiculous. Wark came from both angles and I didn't think she was very biased either way.
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Those are interesting facts, but I don't think they prove anything about existence of ADHD as an actual disease. Lower-than-average height is also correlated with many diseases but it isn't a disease on its own.
I don't disagree, but the definition of "clearly unfair" floats on the whims of Justice Kennedy.
You are supposed to backup the device before installing a Beta. You can easily restore from the backup.
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You're assuming that advertising is the correct or only business strategy. I wouldn't mind getting tracked, if I felt that I could trust the companies collecting data about me, or perhaps just get access to it.

Honestly I don't see the value of tracking though. I tried running my browser without Ghostery recently. The "tracked" ads are generally pretty poorly targeted. I got a lot of ads for TransIP after browsing their price plans, but that's sort of the wrong time, at this point I'm already aware of them.

Amazons recommendations are pretty good for books, but not much more than that and that's despite them having huge amounts of data.

So why the need to track me, if you can't do anything useful with it?
Sounds a good idea. Is it 12.04 they come with?
Those with speed problems on either Chrome or Firefox should try getting rid of Adblock (Plus). It makes many sites very slow, even though those sites are reasonably fast and fluid without the extension. It's to the point that viewing ads is less irritating.
Yes, and one of my earlier machines "just worked" and no doubt that was in part because it has Linux pre-installed.

And what you say is one of the main reasons that being able to buy a machine with Linux pre-installed is such a big deal, and potentially a milestone. It's a minor miracle that Linux is getting the market penetration it does given the near total lack of pre-installed machines.

But it's chicken and egg. Here I am being driven to use Windows when I need wireless connectivity because I can't get the Ubuntu wireless system to work. It's at the point where I browse on the Windows machine, and putty into an Ubuntu machine to do my real work - not a good solution long term. I need to get the wireless working.

But where do I start? I've already spent 2 hours searching around, reading forum postings, reading blogs, trying to find out what's going on, and it's clear that I need to learn a lot more before I can start to understand the problems. Quite simply, it's not a cost-effective option, because I don't want to become a Linux internals expert. With the money I could make during the time I spend sorting this out I could easily just have bought a Mac. Which is a shame.

In a sense this is not a complaint - this is a fleshing out of the current situation with respect to installing Linux on a laptop. It would be nice to play a small part in helping to get it sorted.
It's true that Ethiopia has had large ancient Christian (and also Jewish and Muslim) populations, but it also has established Folk traditions that exists even today, there are still about 2 million animists in Ethiopia.
In 1995 I worked for a local internet provider that was in the back of a computer store in Kerney Mesa in San Diego. I worked in the back doing phone support and wore sandles. The number of subscribers doubled in the 6 weeks I worked there.

One day a customer shows up in the computer store with an Internet question. I get called out of the back room to go to the sales floor, and I went onto the floor with my birkenstocks on.

The sales floor manager had a complete conniption fit and I was going to have to dress up like a sales guy to keep working there. There was no way I was going to do that, so I resigned.
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Perhaps it made him a "better" programmer but claiming to have made him a better "man" is a bit exaggerated.

I guess he's super excited about how far he's come and how programming helped him attain a certain level of satisfaction and happiness in his professional life.
if you don't mind what is your project? just curious
Wifi issues have been due to kernel/driver problems in the past and have been seen in each of the major distros (depending on the sequence with which a given kernel and driver appear in the distribution).

Logging your issues as a bug and then getting the other people in the forums to join the bug would help people cross reference the issue.

Does anyone else remember the WiFi power management kernel panic bug back in 12.04 development? Got squashed well before release.
I wouldn't call this license free either. In many jurisdictions there is no concept of "public domain", in some you cannot even disclaim copyright at all. In those cases the work would be under copyright still, and in absence of a license permitting you to copy and change and distribute it, you can't (theoretically. no one's going to sue you).
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Looks interesting, but I might be missing something here, what actually is it?

Why does it need the service and a password, isn't it generating a password? And how is it cross-platform, it looks like it's web based?
The point is, with that money you could have bought a PC with preinstalled Linux on it too ;)
> Logging your issues as a bug and then getting
> the other people in the forums to join the bug
> would help people cross reference the issue.

So step-by-step, how and where do I do that?
Using and/or contributing to open-source software also means that you help society use its resources in a more economic and intelligent way:

You can invest the resulting savings in projects which will in turn advance society.

Also in this sense you become "a better man".
Remember the huge controversy that erupted when Intel wanted to put a program-readable unique serial number into its CPUs (in 1999)?

https://www.schneier.com/essay-187.html

http://slashdot.org/story/00/04/27/1021245/Intel-To-Drop-CPU...
You don't have to earn the same thing for it not to be incentive enough, you have to take into consideration that living on government money means you then have week of for being lazy.
Cheese and tomato pizza means, as far I know, pizza with pizza sauce. Which is already in every pizza and is made with tomato.
Keep in mind that with a $30,000/year basic income, a $30,000/year job would make your total income $60,000. There's definitely an incentive to work. Especially when compared to welfare, unemployment benefits etc, because you lose those when you get a job. You don't lose basic income. You always get ahead by working, even if it's something low paid for only a few hours a week.

But more than that, it's quite possible that boring, low paid, unattractive jobs will have to become better paid or more interesting if they're essential jobs, and they might disappear entirely if they're not essential. I think the quality of jobs is likely to increase because of this.
Why should I spread out my labor across 40 years when I could be more efficient and spread it out across only 10? Not all labor is "equal", and the amount of money you receive for it is a* measure for its worth.

*I'm not making a comment on the accuracy of this measure, in the current systems.
Perhaps you can enlighten us a bit?
great! Thx for update. (I don't live in the US, so don't know much about the industry there.)
"again" seems inappropriate, given it's a completely different issue from the DDoS they had a few days ago. Plus, it's only a "small percentage", even though they could provide actual figures.
Novosibirsk, Russia: about $19 for a 1kg (2.2lb) pizza. I prefer a different delivery, which charges $7.3 for a much smaller, 320g (0.7kb) pizza.
It's back up. Hadn't we decided that we should only post actual major outages, and not when GH is down for 5 minutes?
Nice work, specifically not suggesting rather than displaying the two main file layout approaches.
So if the police were to station people in every public space, ie every sidewalk, every park, every public accommodation (cafes, public spaces in hotels, lobbies at convention centers, etc), listening to every conversation happening because they wanted to track behavior of the public, we would find this deeply unsettling and invasive, nevermind a school district doing it for "the good of the children".

Why is it okay on the internet?
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No store anywhere near me has a PC with Linux pre-installed. I don't know how I would go about finding one in which I would have any confidence at all. Without a local store, how would I get potential problems sorted? Without a local store, any problems would land me in the same situation I'm in now.

See the dilemma?

For example, I'm on an Ubuntu machine now, and I've recently tried to upgrade it, but apparently it's too far out of date. I've tried to install some software, but it can't find the necessary site that has the package. So now what? I have nowhere to go apart from the internet, and suddenly I am once again having to learn stuff that I really don't want to have to know.

Again, this isn't a complaint, it's an attempt to help define and clarify the problems faced in getting Ubuntu (and other distros) more widely adopted, something I would love to see.
Sorry, my bad. Can't alter the title.
>Those are features that don't focus on the UX or the design. I think that build is labeled Aurora

Nope, Aurora is something else. It's the build after Nightly. Nightly includes pre-alpha releases, Aurora includes alpha releases.

You are however correct that Nightly and Nightly UX are not the same thing. Although if I'm not mistaken the only difference between two of them is that Nightly UX also gets pre-alpha UI changes as well as under the hood changes that Nightly normally gets (almost daily). It's a bit confusing.

To sum it up, the release cycle goes like this:

Nightly (pre-alpha) > Aurora (alpha) > Firefox Beta (beta) > Firefox (stable)
Iceland;
Dominos 1999 ISK / ~ 17 USD
A much better local pizzeria 1800 ISK / ~15 USD
Good grief. Lienhard's "Engines of Our Ingenuity" is a series of short (<5 min) radio monologues that are played every weekday morning and afternoon on KUHF public radio in Houston, (and other places I'm told). I would imagine that Lienhard simplified the bit to get it in the allotted time, and to make it understandable and interesting to a radio audience. I've met Lienhard several times and I can tell you that he is a quite personable guy for an old engineer. It is pretty funny to imagine Lienhard, or much else of KUHF as if it were some enclave of PC progressive liberal influence. And, if you'd ever been to the UH campus, especially the College of Engineering buildings, you probably wouldn't be stricken by the grandeur of the place.
Probably didn't make it clear enough, it's repeatable so you'd use Twitter as the service and whatever password you usually use (master password), it'd come back with a hash and you use that as your Twitter password. Whenever you need your Twitter password, you repeat the process.

https://github.com/simontabor/pw - it's got node-webkit so there's a mac app in that repo and should also work on Windows + Linux nicely (this is simply to take it out of the browser where it's easy to lose tabs and put it in a clean, small window)
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don't think there are any (but if you know a good one, do post!)
And this one is based of Rev-Share so it`s pretty simple business model even for indie-games.
"We put the Pro in procrastination!"
You might want to know, that the situation isn't unique. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
I love UDP for sketchy business because nobody is looking for it.
Does this help? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Btw, reporting bugs is contributing to open-source. It's a way of giving back, for getting the resulting product of billions of man hours (and woman hours) of work, for free.
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And here's another game: http://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=6854805
And it's getting better and better. Recommendation for books is much easier in that context since you have a hard sale and can compare to other hard sales.. and not assumptions based on visits.
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We dive into the reasons this startup is doomed to fail in the highest form and will likely go into the domain wasteland of the internet.
It was dead from day 1.
Are there PCs for which it is impossible to turn Secure Boot off?

The only thing I found difficult with Win 8 and UEFI is to install Linux and retain Windows for dual-booting. After turning off Secure Boot, installing Ubuntu was trouble-free.
government is therefore not the taker of all things, but the giver of all things

It is dangerous to view it literally this way. To think that government and/or society is giving you things, assumes that they owned them to begin with. Government owns your rights, and then "graciously" allow you to exercise them? No.

Government exists to protect your rights. It's an important distinction. You rights to life, liberty, property, etc. are innate to you as a human being (the fact that others in the past have not had this view does not disprove this philosophy), and we created government and the notion of a rule of law to protect those rights.

Of course not all systems of government work this way, we call those that view themselves as the arbitrary "giver of all things" tyrannies.
If you are building a guided missle or the destroyer it launches from, you are doing so because you believe it to be good and not evil to have a strong military defense. And the best defense is a good offense or something like that, I don't really follow sports.
I am bootstraping startup which will turn my long time hobby OS project into full-time job. I am almost always tired, cranky and my social life sucks. I think it is safe to say, I would be better man with normal hobby and 9-5 job.
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Would you bet your life on the answer?
Windows has monthly security updates that need to be taken seriously. This is probably more of an issue on the desktop than servers, but it's still the reason we meet on Patch Tuesdays to discuss testing and rollouts.

PowerShell is awesome for Windows/Exchange admins and SQL Server DBAs. But as a developer/admin/analyst, I still bump into it's limitations and have to either turn to C# or Python to accomplish my tasks. And PoSh is not cross platform.

Increasing the problem we have with Microsoft isn't the core technology, but the stupid management decisions over the last decade. For our small clients, licensing costs become a issue and the lack of trust in Azure means that there is plenty of opportunities for OSS.
It's an annoyance. Canonical made a mistake entering into that deal. It takes more away from the image of Ubuntu as a no-crapware alternative than it gives them in monetization.

It took about 30 seconds to turn that off.
No mortgages = Detroit. The end result of this idea is not pretty.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. The process has been somewhat unclear to me for a while now.
That was my first thought reading this as well, and I agree that the author couldn't have missed the point about journalism more. As you said, the goal of journalism should be to publish the truth...and journalists should absolutely not be free from criticism by other journalists in the pursuit of that goal.

The article's reaction to the interview, which I did watch, seems to mainly take issue with the idea that anyone would dare question Gleen Greenwald about his coverage. There were some things wrong with the interview, the anchor questions were overall not all that good (particularly follow-ups), but objecting to the very idea of an adversarial interview of someone covering an important story seems exactly the opposite of what journalism should be about.

Basically, if we value journalism at all, we should support the idea of other journalists looking at Greenwald's (or any other journalist's) coverage with a critical eye.
Sounds really vague to me. What does "passion" even mean? It's a word that is overused, not unlike "leadership" or "vision".
There is no "I" in coding
What makes you think that Mozilla are obliged to cooperate with the NSA any less than Google are?
> "Use $resource instead of $http when possible. Highther level of abstraction saves you from redundency."

Last time I used angular, $resource was removing trailing slashes [1]. This makes it hard to work with a Django backend and I had to fall back to $http.

Also, there's a typo in "redundency" – should be "redundancy".

[1] https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/992
Which one would you recommend I get? Am currently using Chrome and wouldn't mind switching to FF.
"I'm a guy who created a profile minutes ago and by pure happenstance chose to make an enthusiastic but vague comment about a new product!"
Slightly off topic:

> (As an aside, pi is an example of a normal number: one where all the digits will appear in equal quantities).

From the linked Wikipwdia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

> For example, it is widely believed that the numbers √2, π, and e are normal, but a proof remains elusive.
This comment was so shrill ("betrayal"?) that I wanted to see if it was representative of the user in general. And what I found was that on almost every page of their comment history there are similarly venomous anti-Google comments.

I guess if a blogger like John Gruber can inspire totally random two-minute-hates on HN, I shouldn't be at all surprised that Google can too.
Give Lienhard a break. IIRC He's a mechanical engineer; so, prior to learning of Ethiopian Multiplication, he probably used hammers to count with.
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I would agree, but the "someone else" Orwell was talking about could also be another journalist or the public at large.
In my particular case I watched a movie late one night and didn't know the name of it. Typed the following into google: "movie where a guy plays a vampire and house sits and (spoiler)" and the first result in my case, Body Double, is correct.
How exactly is this more evil than a tracking cookie? To me it sounds pretty much the same.
Making all the passwords the same length makes this essentially pointless.
A little common sense trumps all of these other elaborate comments.

Why are mugshots publicized? To intimidate people. It means the police can coerce someone in to doing something with the threat of an arrest.

The NYTimes seems to be blaming private site owners who have added a little SEO juice, whereas county and government websites usually are written so poorly as to barely be crawl-able. The police are the ones publishing these mugshots online, the other sites are just re-organizing them to be a little more Google bot friendly.
>OSS probably made me a humbler developer, too. I know what it means patching even small portions of code and I’m less harsh when posting bugs on others’ repositories.

That's definitely going to spill over into his day-to-day life, looking at my own experience. And such behavior does make you a better person.
It's a repeatable SHA1 hash, what more do you want?
Sure. And that's a sign to me that we don't really understand what's going on yet.

Those are interesting to mention in this context. It's a commonplace among hackers that a little OCD or a little Asperger can be beneficial in some circumstances. Indeed, Temple Grandin, perhaps the world's best-known high-functioning autistic, recommends computer programming as a career for people like her. Among artists, the same is true about Bipolar (the book Touched with Fire is an interesting study of why and how that's true).

I think it's relevant that Asperger was a valid diagnosis for a few decades, but it no longer is. (As of DSM-5, people are just placed somewhere on a spectrum of autism.) That's a great sign that we still have a lot to learn.

I'm sure you get this, but I worry that others will misunderstand me, so let me be clear here: I'm not saying that any of these things aren't a problem for people in today's society.

With attention span, for example, high-end classroom-style education and many high-end jobs require a great deal of focus. But that doesn't imply that people with lower-than-average levels of focus are diseased. Indeed, more than half of Americans consume stimulants daily, and many workplaces provide their staff with free stimulants (coffee, Coke) so they can keep up. Many unarguably normal students consume ADHD meds as study aids. If stimulants improve performance for everybody, they can't be considered diagnostic for a problem.

My concern here isn't that people are choosing that. We're half-evolved monkeys; it's great that we can choose who we want to be. My concern is that we're taking natural human variation and medicalizing it mainly because our current educational system finds some of that variation inconvenient.
It depends on your down payment and your salary. Does your wife work? Are you open to sending your kids to a mediocre school or do you want them to attend a private a school?

All areas with good schools will run you over 1M for a house. A place that isn't ghetto with mediocre to bad schools will run you about 750k.
Actually they fucked it up when they started messing with the perfectly working +,- operands.
Now, does anyone know of a similar guide, but for Seattle area?
This is what you get when you let Google track you with ads - less privacy for all:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57606178-83/nsa-tracks-goog...
I don't want everyone to know the length of my password that's for sure.
For now:

a) The fact that they didn't appear in Snowden's documents like the other companies,

b) the fact that companies like Google (and Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc.) have it as their mission to build as precise user profiles as possible ("data hoover"), for example because the rely on advertising revenue. (Google is a 1-trick-pony, advertising being its trick.)