skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you are fair to Ubuntu in this comment.
Change in Fedora or Debian Testing usually means breakage. I hear Arch breaks things now and then too. Even Windows breaks things... in all cases, this is avoided by choosing a stable or LTS variant and upgrading less frequently.

There aren't that many top tier distributions to choose from, the main choice is how much time you want packages tested before using them. If you want more testing and older packages, use Debian Stable, Ubuntu LTS, Redhat/CentOS... but don't stack the deck against Ubuntu by comparing its fresh distro to other people's LTS distros, compare apples to apples.
Never thought I'd see this headline.

So why is gas 48 cents a gallon in Saudi Arabia, and $3.52 average here in the US?
As far as I can tell, the journalist wouldn't be able to identify the source, or even the codename that the source was using in order to interact with them.
I completely agree. I've gone through plenty of good IDE's in the last year. From Dreamweaver, to Text Mate, to Komodo, to Aptana.

I started using VS when I landed in a .Net shop and it made sense to use it. Totally blown away by some of the cooler features you can't find on any other IDE. Even the free VS Express (which I now use at home) is so much better than other IDE's out there.
Last time I checked, it only runs on windows. Which is not free...
IE is gratis, I know, but trying to run it on either my Linux or my Mac did not work properly.
Yeah, their most recent efforts are some really shitty-looking mobile games: http://cyan.com/games/stoneship/ and http://cyan.com/games/bug-chucker/

They've been struggling under the shadow of Myst. Hopefully this will get them back on track.
Why not organize important events such as this one elsewhere, some place more easily accessible for everyone?
Very curious to see how much they've fixed. Last year I bought a brand-new laptop which came with Windows 7. The first two months the laptop was running completely perfectly, until Windows 8 came out and I decided to upgrade.

Since then, the experience has been terrible;

- randomly crashing apps without meaningful error-messages, mostly when one app would crash it would take down all other apps with it (this was fixed with an update about half a year ago),

- the built-in mousepad was not recognized for about 2 months until an update magically fixed it, but to this day Windows won't accept tap-to-click properly and all attempts to fix it are reset with each Windows update,

- the windows 8 installer damaged about 10% of my windows 7 restore partition from the harddisk, at the same time corrupting the MBR and making it impossible to either revert to Windows 7 or to switch OS in general without significantly reworking the entire harddrive,

- and last but not least, just an incredibly confusing user interface which has truly weird functions like "drag mouse from bottom left corner to the right and a mystical menu will pop up.
Each time the survey appears you can elect whether or not to participate. If you are a Linux user currently dropped into Windows to whom this issue of OS identity matters, you can opt out.
I was one of the converted boosters. Windows 8 was good enough out of the box. But the real usability problems came later.

Because the majority of the initial complaints were - "start screen ugly, metro apps unusable" - I was busy answering - start screen not that intrusive if you use shortcuts, metro apps uninstallable.

But the real problems blossomed for me much later - the inability of GFWL to work on windows 8 so I cannot play the legally bought Bulletstorm, Arkham City and Assylum, some software working weirdly (Stroke it), the phantom french keyboard that appears from time to time (don't ask), the general locked-ness of the metro runtime (I was insisting close to a year ago that they cannot be that stupid and will just open the platform), problems with Cisco VPN, and so on.

So for me W8 turned from different to terrible gradually.
If you remember your history, it was backwards before.

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2010/05/20/wh...

http://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parti...

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/197976/explainer-how-democra...

(and completely irrelevant, red vs blue) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/When-Repub...
The first perk board for companies
But we have the internet now. They don't need to all meet in the same room anymore.

Having more of them would also make it more difficult to buy votes.
I've read some useless hiring advice posts here, but this one resets the bar. Have a nontechnical person in your technical interviews so that you can be sure at least one person on your interviewing team is human. If you're hiring for a role and meet someone "great" that doesn't work for the role, fuck it, hire them with no role, because a Jim Collins book talked about that. "Ask real life questions", like they do at an interview for a retail job at Best Buy. Oh and here's the "scoring system" you should use for "soft no hard no".

Now, go forth and build an awesome company.
"Avoiding centralized power" is a bit too simplistic. The Constitution was the result of people realizing the Articles of Confederation had too little central power in many ways.

I'd say that "checks and balances" were more important to them than the inability for the government to do things in the first place. Unfortunately, the forces described in the OP have compromised many congressional districts to the point where they have to be unthinking, uncompromising ideologues in order to stay in office.
It's amazing that just about every single one of these "how to hire" articles presumes that the perfect employee is wandering around out there waiting to be discovered. Very, very few seem to consider that great employees are developed.
Zynga co-founder is leaving the company
"India, China, Pakistan and Nigeria have highest numbers"

That part isn't that surprising as they are #1, #2, #6, and #7 on the population count scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population)

#3, #4, and #5 are the USA, Indonesia, and Brazil.

The USA and Brazil is way richer in GDP per capita than Pakistan and Nigeria, Indonesia about 40% richer.

I guesstimate that explains why they rank lower on the absolute numbers slavery scale.
This is incredible, I'm running 8.1 preview and actually can't find a way to download the release. Just keep getting redirected around to dead links. Another Microsoft stereotype proven right.

*Edit: Switched to IE from Chrome and one of the links opens the native Store app. lol
Galaxy Nexus generic IMEI (004999010640000) fix
Link to the original paper: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00426903

"New" apparently now means "35 years old" ;)
Speaking as a omnivore I found the content of this article to be quite useful. That said, Octopii are indeed very special creatures for many reasons one of which is they do in fact serve well as the main ingredient in multiple dishes.
If you always slump in a chair, I can think of two things you could do to help mitigate the risks:

(1) Exercise more. Many people have reported feeling a lot better once they just started exercising and strengthening up their muscles (back muscles in particular).

(2) Get a height-adjustable desk and spend part of the day standing.

I watched my dad suffer through severe back pain when I was younger. He had to have surgery twice. His was caused by football most likely, but still, what I can tell you is you don't want to let this grow into a legitimate back problem. I've witnessed the impact it can have. It's not something to be trifled with.
Depending on what are you using, C++11 complete support is more that enough reason for upgrade to me. :)
Here's the original source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/10/prweb11233767.htm
I've read a bit about cases where even if you renounce your US citizenship to the foreign government to become a new nationality, you can still tell the US Govt 'I was just kidding to those foreigners', and you're fine. It's only really an issue if you renounce it to the US Govt directly.
VirtulBox offers a repo for Ubuntu.

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian raring contrib non-free

$ VirtualBox --help
Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager 4.2.18

It also carries virtualbox-4.3 if you're feeling adventurous.
I used to believe in "self-documenting code," but it takes far longer to read through code than it does to read a comment on the code, and you're far more likely to come away with an intuitive and correct understanding, and with far less effort, by reading a comment than code. When reading actual code, your understanding of how the piece of code might be incorrect, which could domino to bigger errors down the line. Also, it might be easy to overlook some critical line in the function which significantly affects its behavior.

Perhaps most importantly, most of the time you don't need to know how something works, only what it does. Unless you have a reason to doubt that the function does, in fact, do what it says it does, it's much nicer to have a few lines of comments -- written in human language -- to describe the inputs and outputs of some function, or the reason we're invoking some function here, than to have to actually go and read through the code of a function. In fact, reading through the actual code can sometimes impede understanding, because of the reasons I stated above. Now with some functions, this purpose can be entirely expressed in the function signature, but with more complicated functions, that's unlikely.
I enjoyed reading some of his status updates on Facebook, especially about his date with a Muslim Chinese woman. https://www.facebook.com/mike.s.bown
I'm slightly sad about the return of the start button too, I'd have been happy with an option to disable it.
Kernel bypass is also common. Having the OS manage your networking stack adds too much latency.
That shortcut is why, for thousands of years, humans believed in things like the 4 elements, a flat earth, geocentricism, and so on. Taking the path that "feels right" despite a lack of evidence is wholly unscientific, and, occasionally, will prove wrong. So beware of that monster. :)

The fact is there is no reason to state god does or doesn't exist. There are more important things to think about. Things that actually make a difference.
I'd pay for someone to find me well-paid freelance gigs. But not for someone to find me a full-time position.
Yeah, I was hoping this was a recent validation of that study. If anything ever needed a mod re-titling...
Just now saw this comment. I have also been discovering the beauty of individual thinkers blogs, in addition to HN (for example, Bruce Schneier's blog is one of my favorites). I'm a fairly recent daily HN reader who has moved from reddit, and am continually thinking about how communication on the net still has a lot of room to improve quality, but am enjoying the atmosphere here quite a lot.
> Ubuntu is developed in the open

Though mostly "open", but not developed entirely in the right free software / open source spirit of community involvement and upstream contributions.
Are you actually installing the Intel driver or just using the Microsoft Windows 8.1 preloaded one?
When the site is based on and praised for it's "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" process, you can't complain too much when certain nasty things tend to be fairly sticky.
5 Tricks to Finally Achieve Inbox Zero
This misses the biggest thing that made me initially switch to git: local commits.

I can do with only a single branch if necessary, but how the f*ck are you supposed to develop anything locally and roll back changes in subversion if you are never allowed to commit because it might break someone else's stuff?

I think there are other svn-alikes that might solve this problem (svk?), but with pure subversion it is the biggest roadblock for me (and I bet, a lot of other new coders).
How I made it from Sailor to Hacker
Agree. Article is at best a waste of time.
As if border control cares.
> Me- “Tell me about the last time you got involved in a
> debate on HackerNews.”
>
> Candidate- “Hmm, I don’t really talk to people online. I
> don’t see the value in talking to people I don’t know.’
>
> She didn’t get the job.

It seems that they were interviewing for a "Technical Community Manager", in which case I can see the logic behind not hiring them.

But if they weren't, I wouldn't suggest that was a "hard no". A lot of people don't get involved on social news sites, for a variety of reasons (maybe they have done in the past and don't like being attacked by a bunch of strangers for their opinions). If they had never heard of HN, I might have to think twice, but I certainly wouldn't rule someone out for not getting involved in "debates" (all too often flamewars) on social news sites.
Anders is in charge of TypeScript. That alone should have been enough.
lol Saucy Salamander
> People who like Windows 8 were comfortable using it in new ways, people who didn't want to change didn't like it.

I'm fully comfortable changing how my desktop works. I've used Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 7, and even Windows Vista on other computers. I've administrated Windows Server editions from 2000 to 2012. I've also used several Linux distros with varying desktop environments. I'm now using Debian Wheezy, after primarily using Windows environments my entire life.

I still say Windows 8 doesn't solve any problems that I have, and introduces several. That is why I don't use it and don't recommend it. The split-brain nature of the operating system makes it close to unusable, for both myself and a number of non-technical people I know.
>Microsoft developer tools are becoming more and more oriented towards "wizard-and-designer-clickety-clickery" type development.

Weird, I have the exact opposite impression. It seems like forever ago that VS was touting things like drag and drop design or wizardy stuff.
Absolutely not.

Anything that weakens the parties strengthens the money. "Nonpartisan" is anything but.

In Washington State, there are now fewer choices and the cost of races have sky rocketed. The Top Two primary has become another form of incumbency protection.

If you had proposed actual election reform, like approval voting or proportional representation, sign me up. Ditto campaign finance reform, like restoring the Fairness Doctrine or public financing of campaigns.
Or Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/)
> If we're not getting any equity for the money, at least the product should be freely released upon completion.

Whoa, what? You've just described every single Kickstarter. Sounds like you have a problem with Kickstarter, not this campaign.

Isn't WeFunder your target?
I'm wondering if someone here can explain to me the value in HFT for anyone other than the people doing the trading. I went to Wharton and some old friends are in HFT and the one thing they all say, and I hear repeated everywhere, is that they provide liquidity to the market. Something about it just doesn't ring true to me. If it is in fact true I'd love to hear an explanation.
That's interesting. Cannot say I can reproduce. I have a Windows 8 machine here with an SSD, and much like Windows 7 & Vista it is highly responsive ("instant").

However I do have 8 GB of RAM so maybe that has a lot to do with it? Anything Vista or later really requires 4 GB minimum (I don't care what Microsoft's official minimum requirements are).

Any less than 4 GB and even with an SSD Windows struggles a little. Particularly with a 64 bit installation which requires more RAM anyway. XP definitely consumed less RAM.

So how much RAM does your PC have?
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9wcxw5pU81rrf1eeo1_500.jp...

JAVAWORLD!!!!! lol.
Where's the conflict?

By "obscure incantations" I mean having _three_ different syntaxes for string interpolation/variable substitution, providing _six_ command line arguments for the tool so that it does the one reasonable thing, having illogical rules in comparison operators, having to use a frickin' _bootstrapper_ to install prerequisites and not being able to chain MSIs, not being able to have a single installer for x86 and x64, not having a _simple_ way to define logic for "Back" button, yet having to write heavily nested XML to do simplest thing.
Yeah, but I've absolutely no wish to hand my DNA over to the NSA, so until I can sequence at home, it's out of the question!
This market segment has always been neglected. Silver is the new black is the new beige.
Myrrix - Recommender system
I hope "amazed" is just poor wording.
OpenStack 2013.2 ("Havana") is released
Throwback Thursday Cartoon
It's not clear to me that conservatives want strong state power in general.

Conservatives don't in general, only for some minor social issues like abortion. But Republicans generally do. There is no classically conservative party in American politics now. Hasn't been since the Bush administration's response to 9/11. Both major parties now stand for expanding state power as much as they possibly can.

edit: child comment is correct, I misread "state" as any government. As for actual states, my perception is that neither party cares about state power vs federal power. Republicans occasionally make noise about it, but only because they're not in power federally at the moment. The next time the presidency goes Republican, the GOP will be fully on the federal side.
Who considers defaulting to be fiscally responsible?
5 unspoken rules of Agile / SDLC
5 unspoken rules of Agile / SDLC

(some bullets taken from the agile manifesto)

Never EVER ask for a scope increase.

- Increased scope can introduce errors to regressed software.
Commit to a topic or feature branch if you have spare time instead.

- Remember, working software is the principal measure of progress

- Keep it simple - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done
is essential.

An app to the consumer, is only as good as the stories given to the developer

- therefore an app is only as good as the product team behind it.

When asked if you are optimistic about the release of a project, NEVER say yes.

- If something can go wrong with the initial release,
it probably will.

- Provide a humbling response instead.

Leave room for error with regard to intitial release dates

- Working software is delivered frequently (weeks rather than months).
An extra week or two to sharpen the saw should be expected and welcomed.

Avoid repetetive meetings

- some companies have a bad habit of taking something agile
and making it the complete opposite. as a developer, I
hate repetition.

- attending the same meetings with the same conversations will
suck the motivation lifeblood from me, when I could be working
instead. speak up and change things before they change you.
Is there a good reason for using the extra resources required by the GUI?

Do you mean extra resources required by the GUI while capturing data? I've never captured traffic on a server using Ethereal/Wireshark. It's easier to use tcpdump to do that, save the captured data to a file, and then view that in Wireshark.

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked/AppToolstcpd...
I'm not sure you understand what 'airgapped' means... (Hint: WiFi doesn't count)
This project does seem to play to their strengths more - during the Uru era, they got hugely involved in the technical side of things (running an MMO game, creating their engine in house, stuff like that) - and their major successes were almost entirely graphics and story, with only the minimum tech needed to pull that off.
linux mint is best if you need features and power saving.
Is the spelling bee necessary?
If you were building specifically for mobile, how would it do?

Do iOS/Android handle CSS matrix well? Because if you could punt on FF/IE support, it seems like you could do some interesting mobile interaction stuff.
That's such a horrible practice I don't even.

You're forcing yourself to stay on an older, potentially less maintained version of the OS so you don't "jinx it"?
Good to know.
I will stick with 4.2 branch for now. :) Need to wait for at least 4.3.1. Too many things changed in 4.3.
Then prepare to be surprised, it is nothing like that here in 99.999% of cases. The average american construction worker lives in a house or apartment comparable to any other working class / middle class person, owns a vehicle, etc.
Republicans only pay lip service to those ideals, once in office they're far bigger and more irresponsible spenders than democrats. Democrats reduce deficits, republicans increase them, that's the reality.
The true question is: Is this going to help the american citizens on a daily basis?
Woah, as you've said elsewhere there are plenty of people who do disagree about the utility of the start screen for use with kb+mouse. Personally I've found it just as, and indeed more, efficient than the start menu.
> I'm open to be convinced otherwise ... by facts.

Well, as you might understand I cannot publish the internal backlog of any Fortune 500 company my employer does consulting for.

Either you believe me that security issues get the same priority as any other bug/feature on the backlog, or you don't.
I'm surprised nobody is offended by the fact that an Israeli needs a visa for the US in the first place.
Why did he apply for a J-1 visa? I've been on a J-1 a couple of times for research stints in the US, but my understanding is that for conferences, you can also make use of the B-1 visa [1], as stated on the State department's website. The B-1 is generally processed much more quickly, with the J-1 requiring a lot more documentation.

[1] http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_2665.html#...
I think you should reconsider Python. If it's fast enough for Instagram and Pinterest, it's probably fast enough for you :) Try Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/).

If you go with Go after all, try Revel (http://robfig.github.io/revel/).
This article has an interesting meta about the conflict between the gourmet and environmental protection approaches to exotic wildlife, that itself is half food article and half human interest story about octopus punching.

Worth the read.
Liquidity has certainly gone up.

Also, it is hard to prove a causal relationship, but with the rise of electronic trading and HFT, price spreads and fees have come down.

I can't prove it, but I believe that insider trading is also much less rampant in modern electronic systems than it was in the older pit based markets.
I definitely have a problem with UK spying - and I didn't forget about it. I was responding to the parents idea that local government censorship is much more serious than the extreme surveillance we've recently been made aware of. I'm more worried about the surveillance than the censorship. Obviously with the censorship we have the problem you've mentioned ("who knows what else they will start censoring") but I think that's something citizens actually have a chance fighting against. The internet isn't the only way of distributing information. If the government wants to censor something it's going to be very, very hard. As we've seen with the surveillance there is little we can do - the governments aren't listening to their citizens and doing something as extreme as stopping using the internet isn't enough to stop yourself being surveilled.
PHP 5.5.5 has been released
Nope. In the US, we don't vote for parties, we vote for individual people. Political parties are not the solution. The FPTP system we have is a reflection of the framers' desire to avoid parties. Unfortunately, in the 200+ years since, parties are now the norm.
Haha! You're welcome. Working alongside your guys is a real pleasure! Keep it up, Web 3.0 is coming!
This argument is based on a logic error. If a miracle implies God exists, it does not follow that the lack of a miracle implies that God does not exist. (The proper converse of logical implication is the nonexistence of God implies the lack of a miracle.)

So a careful scientists concludes merely that he has no basis for an opinion about the existence of God.

P.S. I believe in God because the neutrino helicity problem is a miracle. :-)
This is great. Thanks for putting this together!
That's a lot of people to filibuster.