skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes it is. Just because it doesn't rush the newest cancer treatment to market or that it doesn't work the way you think it should doesn't change that.

I saw an old advertizement the other day declaring the health benefits of donuts. The other day we had a link here with Mickey Mouse hawking amphetamines as, again, a healthy way to perk up.

You can't sell food or drugs in the US that make false health claims because of the oversight of the FDA. You can't bring a drug to market without extensive testing for the same reason. Your food has to be clearly labeled with it's contents and a real breakdown of its nutritional facts because of FDA regulations.

The FDA is a consumer rights agency.
I like the idea, but the article has very little detail. How bright is it? Does the brightness fade during the night?

Also, I guess leaves, dirt and snow would be a bit of a problem...
The legislation you gave shows Turkish alphabet and Q, W, X is not included in this alphabet. AFAIK, generally country laws only accepts people/company names in their alphabet.

Think that legislation like USA's alphabet. They didn't have Ğ, Ş, İ etc. in their alphabet so people/company names doesn't have these letters. Is that means Ğ, Ş, İ is forbidden? News like this for dramatize the status of kurds in Turkey :)
/Ironic/ use of the streisand effect == the Banksy effect

There ya go...
I remember from years ago writing Win32 programs, that it mostly consisted of an eventloop and you have a giant switch reacting to WM_* messages. On a deep level, does OSX apps work the same way?
The story as gateway to knowledge (and revenue)
Might it be that the Win7/Vista drivers for the MBA are worse that the OSX drivers?

We see the comparisons:
Surface <-> iPad, OSX MBA <-> Win7/Vista MBA

Surface has different architecture than the iPad, so the battery difference is easily explained, and maybe driver support is just less than stellar, meaning HW isn't as efficient and/or doesn't scale back quickly enough?

I had an Asus laptop some years ago that would last 3 hours under Vista, and would be dead in the water in 1 hour under Ubuntu. I think it was either GPU or CPU scaling or both that wasn't supported in the linux drivers I was using
Aren't all the andorid devices mentioned inherently run on linux ?
I was entirely wrong when I thought that I understood DDoS attacks fairly well. There's actually at least three different types of attacks:

"Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks are types of volumetric DDoS attacks on a network infrastructure. Layer 3 (network layer) and 4 (transport layer) DDoS attacks rely on extremely high volumes (floods) of data to slow down web server performance, consume bandwidth and eventually degrade access for legitimate users. These attack types typically include ICMP, SYN, and UDP floods."

"A Layer 7 DDoS attack is an attack structured to overload specific elements of an application server infrastructure. Layer 7 attacks are especially complex, stealthy, and difficult to detect because they resemble legitimate website traffic. Even simple Layer 7 attacks – for example those targeting login pages with random user IDs and passwords, or repetitive random searches on dynamic websites – can critically overload CPUs and databases. Also, DDoS attackers can randomize or repeatedly change the signatures of a Layer 7 attack, making it more difficult to detect and mitigate."

This glossary proved to be quite useful:
http://www.prolexic.com/knowledge-center-dos-and-ddos-glossa...
Google Nexus 7 does run on Linux.
That depends - is the unpolished and jury-rigged software bringing in money to keep the business alive and pay my salary?

(NB: might depend on how pragmatic you are about programming)
Can I run Rails over Mir to get double drama?
I'm sorry, but that really is not an answer at all. It's just a fairly obvious GUESS.
I guess one problem is comparing apples with oranges. Meaning we can't compare Windows to OSX on the exact same hardware. The closest we get is running Windows via Bootcamp on a Macbook which seems to have its own issues (I don't have a Macbook but have read that multiple times.)
Maybe all that legacy support that historically helped Microsoft to get marketshare dominance now is paying its hefty price. TANSTAAFL.
Then if it were the case why isn't the FDA paying way more attention the quality of clinical trials before approving new drugs? Why do they only require a single successful clinical trial to register anything? Why don't they audit the clinical trial sites to confirm that the results reported by the drug companies are reliable and not falsified?
You argued no-one was punished by losing their job. That's exactly what happened. Whether that is an appropriate punishment is a different discussion.
Go is to C as plan 9 is to unix.

Not better enough - and no new platform to carry it unlike JS, Perl, Ruby, Python, PHP, Java (web); Objective-C, Java (mobile); Java, Ruby, Python (cloud).

The problem is that people don't like to switch. They'd prefer their present tool to improve, and they'll support that. So the only way a language can achieve ascendency is when users don't switch. That is, new users. During rapid adoption of a platform, a significant majority can be new users. And that is the only time a new language can take over.

NOTE: it may appear there's an exception with flavour-of-the-month frameworks etc, but this is a combination of rapid turnover of developers/projects in specific areas, plus the enthusiast/techie kind of developers who love to switch (the ones always excited about the newest tech for its own sake, not for its long-term practical benefits: think inventor, not investor). These developers cannot form the basis of language's future, because they will quickly switch to the next new thing.
I think he meant a full OS comparable to Windows 7 and OS X, let's say Ubuntu or Fedora for that matter.
What I took from this story was a first hand account of resistance to change. This does not bode well for the ability of specific academic departments to maintain relevance in the years ahead.

Experimentation in the best ways to educate has been embraced by the private sector. It will be interesting to watch the level of competition that universities can provide.
He'd likely just say it was never fully free to begin with, because of the license. Not to mention, all the Google apps in question connect to SaaS backends which are closed anyway.

Personally, I don't see the problem with what Google is doing, I would prefer 100% open software myself, but Google would never open-source their services' code, so the fact the apps are closed-source doesn't really make a difference.
I would say that you should keep at it. There are strong parallels between math and programming, but interviewers should definitely be asking you to write pseudo-code on a whiteboard and do a paired programming session. That would probably be a good way to relieve the awkwardness later when they realize that your programming skills aren't as strong as you'd like them to be. Definitely keep at it, soon you'll be able to think of a Markov chain as a for loop multiplying two arrays and not only as a matrix multiplication.
I also didn't know. I first voted for "Western Europe". And then I saw the "Southern/Mediterranean Europe" possibility and felt that it fits better so I voted for that one too.
I wouldn't dismiss it that quickly.

The thing is, what criminal money laundering "is" can change drastically when new opportunities present themselves. It does need to scale, but if it can be reasonably automated (or delegated to low- or unpaid grunts, like the work-from-home scams), individual transaction size can be quite small, and that may even be preferable.
Anecdotal, but on an older 11" MacBook Air I have a dual-boot with elementary OS (Ubuntu derivative) and I get around 20-30% better battery life with Linux than OS X (using laptop-mode-tools etc). I think this is probably due to all the iCloud crap going on with OS X these days, but I have no proof of that.
Can we stop calling Android Linux just because it shares the Linux kernel? Obviously the author was referring to a GNU/Linux distro.
Depending on the window manager, there are reports[1] of Linux achieving better battery life than OSX. That's not surprising though, as a lightweight WM like i3 is going to use much less resource than OSX's shiny interface.

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1jjdi8/ultrabook_with...
Brains flush toxic waste in sleep
There are probably no benchmarks yet, but from my experience (I use both 10.8 and 10.9 regularly) Mavericks does a better job on battery than Mountain Lion, with about 1 hour of usage added. This is on 2012, 13" Air. The 2013 model will probably see even better gains.
I get a 404. :/
Strangely enough, my Windows 8.1 managed to suspend everything yesterday. Not only the Metro apps that I didn't use, but also Explorer and every other desktop application I used. Wonder how that happened (although I used to suspend applications manually before if I wanted to pause them somehow, e.g. CPU- or I/O-intense long-running things).
Is this really the case? I read this a lot, but have a hard time imagining that there exists a wealth of people who have such a hard time with such a simple task, and yet I am having a hard time finding an entry-level job when they are (presumably a substantial part of) my competition.
Ask HN: How would you fix the healthcare.gov website?
According to the Washington Post, "The Obama administration said Sunday that it has enlisted additional computer experts from across the government and from private companies to help rewrite computer code and make other improvements to the online health insurance marketplace, which has been plagued by technical defects that have stymied many consumers since it opened nearly three weeks ago."

What advice would you give President Obama in regards to addressing the technical issues with HealthCare.gov?
> The issue has to be engineering.

Did... did you just invent the technology version of Fr Jack's "That would be an ecumenical matter."
When Windows 7 launched, I had a netbook with XP on it, on which I got about 5 hours on Wi-Fi with just browsing. I put Windows 7 on it, the battery life dropped to 3.5 hours, which is a huge 30 percent decrease. So it's incredible that Windows 8 has become even worse at battery life since then, instead of becoming better.
FTA:

>I had a brief Twitter conversation with Anand Shimpi of Anandtech about this, and he was as perplexed as I was. Nobody could explain the technical basis for this vast difference in idle power management on the same hardware. None of the PC vendors he spoke to could justify it, or produce a Windows box that managed similar battery life to OS X. And that battery life gap is worse today – even when using Microsoft's own hardware, designed in Microsoft's labs, running Microsoft's latest operating system released this week. Microsoft can no longer hand wave this vast difference away based on vague references to "poorly optimized third party drivers".
I've considered it, but I find Effective Go (1) a more than adequate introduction. It's never been clear to me what I'd add on top of it. The Little GoLang Book? Meh.

(1) - http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html
France too, depending on which part. If you live in Lille you may not feel like it, but if you live in Marseille you totally want to vote Southern Europe.
> For example, I've paid cash for the last 5 cars our family has purchased over the last 6 years. Why doesn't my ability to do that apply to my credit-worthiness?

Because paying cash once for something is the opposite of proving credit-worthiness. You haven't proven an ability to uphold your end of a long-term agreement.

If you want to improve your credit, finance those cars. Make payments for about 6 months and then pay them off. You pay a little extra in interest, but you get another credit entry which is in good standing.

On an unrelated note, you can almost always negotiate a better price on your car (in the US) if you finance and then pay the loan off.
Link to Washington Post article, http://wapo.st/19kTpEP
The battery life of the Nexus 7 is almost the same using Desktop Ubuntu compared to Android.
But Surface 2 Pro runs on a Haswell, its much more powerful than any Android tablet
127 comments and nobody wants to talk about how this phenomenon throws a wrench into the 'free riders' problem? Maybe this is an opportunity for Americans to finally appreciate their countrymen aren't a bunch of lazy, selfish, individualistic... nah...
Please familiarise yourself with the command/control + minus shortcut.
Microsoft turned Windows 95 into a full-fledged multi-user operating system. Segmented user space? Unix had done that for years. All users where admin and it was horrible, but lot's of apps ran on it, so people bought it and used it. Then they merged Win95 into WinNT and gave us Windows 2000.

Now they are turning a full-fledged multi-user OS into a tablet OS. Let's make this tank into a bicycle. History tells us there will be a few painful years.
There's a very, very simple problem with your argument:

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers#razor
Windows does not have a terrible battery life. That's so simple. The difference between OSX and Windows are related to drivers.

The charts are quite ridiculous in the article - comparing an Ivy Bridge, actively cooled laptop-tablet to a Nexus 7? Why?

BTW, the biggest difference is maybe CPU core hotplugging, this exists in Android and iOS but does not in Windows RT.
Which Linux? I'm sure something based on LXDE will outlast everything, while Ubuntu or other Gnome 3-based systems probably won't fare too well.

I expect great performance and battery life improvements with Mir and Unity 8, though, but that won't happen at least until 14.10, and won't be stable until 16.04. By then the Linux drivers should be a lot better and more efficient, too.
Right now it's a fad. It will be proven or not over the course of time. But realize that unless you write in something REALLY established like C or Java you have a certain risk with any language will fall by the wayside in 5 or 10 years time.

I personally think that Python is starting to go the way of perl. It's becoming more and more of a mess (perl was a mess to start with, but that was actually touted as a benefit). The last python project I worked on had over 60 separate "pip" requirements, many with specific versions, and deploying on anything but one specific version of one specific linux distro was an exercise in pain. I realize that's just an anecdote but if python wasn't starting to get uncomfortable there would not be so much buzz around Go.
Oh really? Hope it's not the Azure cloud over Sweden! try again, let me know.
Antitrust laws exist to enable greater competition by stopping businesses behaving in an anticompetative manner. They don't necessarily exist for "policing monoploies" anywhere in the world.

>"and it is such legislation which I consider bunk"

Why? Don't you think that Microsoft should have been reprimanded over their abuse of the OS market to gain control of the browser market?

Or is it because it's being held over $favorite_faceless_corp like the proverbial sword of Damocles?
> I suspect that Go's popular successor

You mean a Go++, designed by committee with all language features known to man thrown together, ranging from meta-programming to dependent types, trying to please everyone, and as a result pleasing no one, and everybody will wish for a simpler language?
> The web is fundamentally a semantic medium.

I think this premise is outdated. The web is more and more hosting apps rather than documents.
On the other hand, if France isn't "Western Europe", who is?

By the way, a maybe simpler, and for sure more objective division could have been between "EU" and "Non-EU Europe"
No, I don't see a future in Go. It's not going to replace C or C++ for anything, and it's not going to displace Java. It's not fast enough to be a systems language, and it's not as easy to use as a scripting language.

I personally see much more of a future with Rust, since it actually has a chance of replacing C++.
No, you're seeing comparison with the Surface Pro 2, which has same battery size as MBA, and hardware made by Microsoft themselves.
If you mean the British Isles (Ireland and the UK) then say the British Isles. UK is not shorthand for British Isles. Clue is in the name: United _Kingdom_ = monarchy, Ireland is a republic.
I had mixed feeling until I saw “USE IDS, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD”, then I stopped worrying and stopped reading.
ASIDE: I've been using learn you a haskell for great good! http://learnyouahaskell.com/, and found it helpful, insightful and the examples nicely paced so you can treat them as exercises as you go.... up until the module chapter, which is more like a reference, very long, detailed, tedious. I got up to here
http://learnyouahaskell.com/modules#data-char (check out how small the scroll bar slider is on the right - this is a big chapter).

Did this stop you or how did get past it?

How does Learn Haskell Fast and Hard compare?
Well, how about this: because MS doesn't care. It's too late, the code is too large and too old, the developers are too new, no one knows what's going on and this whole thing is a giant rolling monster with parts flying out every second, killing innocent batteries.
The kind whose interviewing tactics don't hire staff with the skillset they need.
Decypting Crypto
I wonder if any hackers are smart enough or good enough to decrypt the new crypto viruses coming out?
[Might not be that wild of a guess](http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/windows-timer-re...)
... because allowing every minority or every individual to use their own alphabet would soon require the full unicode support everywhere, which is not a big deal, as well as that everyone else knows how to read/write it, which is a big deal.

Btw, I am also not allowed to use Cyrillic alphabet or latin "ć" here in Germany when filling out official forms, but I don't consider that my rights are somehow jeopardized because of that.
Suspended Disbelief
It's true that most people don't care about most things since they operate inside a small, simple world without being concerned with the things outside of their immediate experience. Not that it's necessarily a bad thing; many individuals have gone insane trying to solve the problems of the world. I myself only want a quiet life without hassle.

Societal and technological change are the result of the work of a small minority, which may very roughly correspond to the 20/80 Pareto principle. You can't expect everyone to be involved in complex conundrums. So it doesn't matter if the majority don't care about an issue. That doesn't mean we shouldn't do something about it.
Here's a writeup about a recent study that showed interviewers couldn't predict GPA any better when the interviewees answers were accurate versus random: http://www.danielwillingham.com/1/post/2013/10/why-job-inter...

Anyone who supports math puzzles (or whatever else) in an interview would have to argue that their perception of the candidates performance offers a clear enough data point that it doesn't dilute other information available to them. Given Google's study finding data otherwise, they certainly have the burden of proof.
But once you are 100 miles out, everyone speaks mandarin in a similar way. (i.e. the problem is Beijinghua != Putonghua ;-)
A Guide to Running Unit Test using PHPUnit on Yii Framework
I've seen this "ancient systems" idea go by a few times. Honest question: If these platforms are so old, they likely aren't terribly complex, from the perspective of what's now computationally cheap. So, how hard would it be to drop a computer on their local network and just dumb-clone the whole thing?
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"The charts are quite ridiculous in the article - comparing an Ivy Bridge, actively cooled laptop-tablet to a Nexus 7? Why?"

The relevant comparison was the surface pro 2, (a joke of a tablet), has a 42 Wh battery and runs a mere 6.6 hours, but the macbook 11 inch has a smaller 38 Wh battery yet runs longer at 11.1 hours very nearly twice as long.
The Streisand effect in this case would be Mayor Bloomberg's reaction, threatening to destroy any of Banksy's artwork found and arrest him if possible.

Honestly, he couldn't pay for that kind of publicity, and unless the good Mayor is actually in on it, Banksy must be grinning from ear to ear at the irony.
Anectotical counter point:

I have a old netbook that I've had running win7 starter, win7 ultimate running from the old SSD i had in my desktop, and a bunch of linux distros. So far, the win7 ultimate configured for a desktop pc has been the most energy efficient.
The original ZFS paper references WAFL wrt its similarity a number of times. It seems like the biggest distinction that the paper claimed was that ZFS had pooled storage and WAFL was network oriented.

WAFL's biggest idea of the day was "write-anywhere" (the WA in WAFL). Write-anywhere is another way of phrasing copy-on-write which is a fancy way of saying _never overwrite_.

The idea, while simple, can be built upon to yield features like cheap snapshots and reasonable data integrity.

Perhaps "clone" is a bit too much but the similarity is definitely there.

FWIW, the NetApp folks sued Oracle because they also thought it looked similar [2]

[1] http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~scott/courses/Fall04/221/zfs_over...

[2] http://www.netapp.com/us/company/news/press-releases/news-re...
That seems like a natural progression, technologically speaking. Millions of microscopic camera drones everywhere.

The only thing to hope for in that case is that the footage is available to everyone, and that the powerful are filmed as much as anyone else.
What's it really like inside Harvard Business School?
No, because it is Linux. The correct solution is to refer to a particular distribution, as many of them make significantly different decisions.
Greetings from Barcelona!
Ask HN: Any cool ways to record TV?
I recently got cable because I have no other way to watch certain shows but I didn't feel like paying an extra $13/month to be able to record shows was worth it. Does anyone know any cheap ways to record your shows to watch later?
isn't the SonService.goAndGetWeatherForecast() supposed to be getWeather() like you defined in SonService?
Why Now Is The Best Time To Develop A Mobile App
Almost all UI frameworks work this way including Android, iOS and Cocoa. They receive events from the OS or window manager (mouse moved, keyboard button pressed, touches moved) and dispatch it to the app. The only difference is how the events are dispatched.
The causal relationship is with "success", i.e. exam results and college acceptance rather than "intelligence" per se.
why not? besides having a LINUX kernel, it runs a lot of GNU linux programs such as GNU coreutils...
Obligatory Kate Beaton comics:
http://www.harkavagrant.com/history/lovelacesm.png
Think out of the box: you most certainly WANT personalised result. What you don't want is biased news
> When someone like Github does this (make some parts of their code open-source, but others closed-source), journalists don't write critical pieces about them, do they?

Github don't constantly go on about how 'open' Github is, though.
> surface pro 2, (a joke of a tablet)

mind sharing why you think it is a joke of a tablet?