skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leveraging your own network may mitigate some of the risks in this article.

<<"Rule #1- It’s much better to say ‘no’ to the right person, than ‘yes’ to the wrong one"

The rule #1 increases the chances of your hire to be a great person, but slows down your hiring, which may mean missed business opportunities.
Their homepage is pretty cool. Imagine if every element box was a website or picture.
After having used Emacs for quite some time I really cannot care less how it looks. It grows on you.

However, I can understand what it must look like to new users compared to f.e. Sublime Text or Visual Studio. Emacs isn't particularly inviting compared to them.
"Additional platforms" is listed as a stretch goal. Linux might be a big bet in a year or two with SteamOS, but right now, wrangling Unreal 4's third-tier PC OS support is probably not the best time investment for a small studio considering that Linux only has 0.93% in the August Steam hardware survey.

Regardless, we can hope!
Oh a Linux/FOSS user already, nice!

> i hope with this good attitude of yours you can convert more people to the open source world

I too hope I can convert people to FOSS over time, the issue is that things still need to work. Things that work, win. If people think iOS works better, they'll just use it. Still, as a coder I can contribute to the alternatives and I'm surely planning on doing so.

Good luck writing that OS you mentioned! Be sure to post it on HN :)
> an open source OS on my mobile phone

You can do that now with Firefox OS, and unlike Ubuntu Touch, it's actually developed openly. Ubuntu for phones is open source in the same sense as Android -- developed behind closed doors by a company that doesn't particularly care about community input.

If you think that Ubuntu for phones is really going to be any more open than Android, I expect you'll be disappointed.
For what it's worth, I got a 50% discount from them from buying R#7 so close to the R#8 release date (uninstalled 7, and mentioned in the "please tell us why" comments that it was just too expensive). May be worth a shot.
http://bellard.org/tcc supports executing C programs "directly". By piping things through clang, for example (a number of C++ compilers can still translate to C), it can be made to execute C++ programs directly in memory, "just like" python or perl or ...

A spectacular use of this ability is in using tcc as a linux bootloader. Instead of loading vmlinuz, it loads the C source for the kernel, compiles it, and boots the result. It doesn't even need an operating system (try that with python).
>I am wondering what's in it for me.

If you're on 13.04 support ends in January.

So Continuing security patches, bug fixes, and updated features are in it for you.
The other really powerful thing with git is the ability to keep a long running branch and continually rebase with something like develop/master. That way you can resolve conflicts outside of the main line and then reduce the chances of a hairy merge.

I've found this to be very useful with large refactorings. It eases the pressure of having to stabilize everything before a release. If the refactoring isn't ready for this release, don't merge it back in.
I was wondering the same thing. 10 k allows to be credited as supporting producer (together with a dinner) but producers get an interest over sales.
The concept of the burden of proof is a legal concept, not a scientific one. Science only cares about what can or cannot be falsified, without making any sort of preliminary value judgments like "extraordinary claims."
First ever comet material found on Earth
> based on customer feedback

Sounds about right to me. Why is this "spin"?
Go read the blog entry and tell me if I'm bitching about change.

I've used every single version of Windows since 3.1. I didn't like Vista because it had huge performance issues. I've never really bitched about Windows because I've always liked it. So, you couldn't be further from the truth.
Notes on how Braintree handles planned maintenance, unplanned failure, and people mistakes to support processing transactions at the rate of $22k/min or $12 billion yearly.

- PostgreSQL was a win for them over MySQL

- Custom built load balancers

- Automation to reduce human errors
More detail available at:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131011-first...

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24381-black-glass-coul...
Coming soon: Braised Stephen Hawking on lightly buttered toast!

Speaking as a vegetarian(!) I found the content of this article to be quite disturbing. Octopii are very special creatures and it is lamentable that this article is essentially what they taste like, how to butcher them and where to go to eat them.
Twitter As The Shared Semiotic Bridge For All Live Experiences
I too live in the UK, and it seems to me you are forgetting two things. Number one is the UK governments complicity in spying on UK citizens; and number two is that once the systems are in place to filter porn (and lets not forget how badly they will probably perform), who knows what else they will start censoring.

[edit: grey-area has said it better than me]
Want a Piece of a Star Athlete? Now, You Really Can Buy One.
That reminds me of a paper published in the journal Operations Research.

The Geo-Graph in Practice: Creating United States Congressional Districts from Census Blocks

http://cho.pol.illinois.edu/wendy/papers/geographs.pdf [pdf file, obviously]

It was a finalist for a best paper award on public service in OR.
I think the Sagan quote replies most adequately:

Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed".

I think the point of the article isn't that atheism is unscientific; confident, undoubted atheism is unscientific. absolutely certain atheism is unscientific.

atheism is not a fact, it is a belief. The assumption that there is no god is quite similar to the assumption that there is one.
Hard atheism, believing that god definitely doesn't exist, is different to the rational position because it's a belief in the lack of evidence. It's stating that there definitely isn't a god. Rationally, you can't prove a negative. You can't prove there is no god because an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The fact there isn't any evidence of gods might be because we've not found it yet. Rationally, in scientific terms, you should lean towards agnosticism (with a large pinch of skepticism).

However... the politically sensible position to take in these sorts of discussions is ignosticism - the idea that you can't know because you're ignorant of what the terms are. Unless you can define what god is you can't state whether or not there is evidence for his/she/its existence. Most religious people don't like defining their god, so they leave you alone. :)
So do you have to make a "Microsoft account" and log in to their app store just to download something that was for previous versions a Service Pack, reachable from the web?

What happens with the existing local accounts then, anybody tried?

I've found only this:

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2...

"Brandon LeBlanc: We're not releasing the ISO images to folks who don't have MSDN and TechNet subscriptions. Best way for everyone else is to update through the Windows Store."
The problem with that is that any such "sleek standard library" doesn't translate the existing (massive) body of C++ code. Using QT is already much better than the standard library though.
So they put it back and now people are unhappy a company didn't flat out say they made a bad decision? Spin is everywhere, startups seem worse than others. Every day there's something on the HN front page that's going to revolutionize and disrupt the internet...
We still have weekly or monthly reboots to worry about.
I just want to stop by and say I have looked at CozyCloud before, a few times, really appreciating something like OwnCloud with a code base in something other than PHP.

My only disappointment was, a full CozyCloud stack VPS, when I emailed one of you guys, required a significant amount of memory (maybe minimum 1024MB, perhaps IIRC 2048MB?) is expensive for VPS, so I am not sure I want to invest in it.

That being said, CC is very cool and I think the future of nerds running their own clouds, and with a hipster environment like Node.js to boot! :-) The CozyCloud guys do solid work, and I want to compliment you for a job well done so far.
Without question - thats been true for a few years now.
I've never used this, but from the screenshots it looks like a perfect candidate for a curses-type interface. Is there a good reason for using the extra resources required by the GUI?
I'm tempted to address some of the points in the article individually, but, really, the whole thing misses the mark. I'm an atheist in the same way that I try not to make claims about anything without evidence and this is such a common misunderstanding that we have invisible pink unicorns and orbiting teapots on standby to rebut it.
Those are surprisingly good points which I hadn't considered.
Unlike in the past when the elderly lived and were supported by their kids....
If I was a shill, surely I'd be saying "metro is fucking awesome!"

Yeah, that's what you'd do. You won't try and be subtle at all. I agree, you are no shill.

Look, I don't know if you are or not. Your post seemed odd to me, especially coming so quickly after the release of 8.1.
“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you play with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.

After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.

Absolutely useless. We had tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the delight in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.”

― Richard P. Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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"Added support for GNU Hurd"

finally! /s

Humor aside, it's nice to see how OPCache has displaced APC and is under active maintenance in step with the core.
Looks nice, upvoting without logging in does have a small mistake though: "You must logged in."
i think this is still a half way house.

code is documentation. bad source code is hard to read, or in practical terms - slow to read. good source code has minimal comments and documentation.

writing documentation before you actually need it is often a waste of time as well. at this point surely you have a design to follow, or something other than a brainless application of 'documentation' to store that valuable information into?

as many commenters already point out what you almost always want is very high level documentation, and I think this should be present as a design (assuming you have one), if you don't have one then you need a wiki or something. Something that doesn't pollute your code with garbage...
Wow, a long article but still relevant. As I was reading this I realised how closely it matches even the latest metro ui fiasco (for developers). Indeed "MSDN Camp" has won. Thanks for the link!
I'm not the parent, but that has been my experience. Linux works better out of the box on my machine than Windows 7.
How does Ubuntu with LXDE compare with Xubuntu (another lightweight desktop environment)?
This line of argument wasn't very interesting 50 years ago and it certainly isn't of interest today. Frankly, I have no idea why this link is on the front page of HN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot
I think the point was that it frequently has a simpler install experience, which is true. It doesn't have better driver support for ATI video cards or Broadcom wifi cards.
I let that out months ago. I'm surprised you didn't notice.
Absolutely agree! Rebase is a great alternative to standard merges: it keeps your line of development clean and avoids having tons of "merge knots" in your commit graph.
There are a few animals I'd really like to have as pets, because of their intelligence. Obviously a dog, but also there are a couple of breeds of cat (aby, burmese, bengal,) plus grey parrots and an octopus. If I could get away with them, I'd also be up for dolphins. I wouldn't have space for a whale.

I occasionally daydream about hacking up an electronic waterproof octopus toy, kind of like an underwater "bop it" that I can customise as they learn new features on it.

It makes me sad to read about any of these animals being hunted. They're too cool, leave them alone.
"What the article is getting at is the idea that documentation for the sake of documentation never results in any quality."

X for its own sake is rarely good.
Startup Stock Options Are Not Reliable Compensation
There's also Classic shell, which is free software. While I prefer Start8 I think that Windows 8 with either is in no way worse than Windows 7.
I will say strongly that I do not believe there is an invisible, 70-foot-tall, green monster standing right behind me right now. I can't prove a negative, you're right about that, but since I have exactly zero evidence for this thing's existence, I'm going to take a shortcut and say it doesn't exist.

One can be forgiven for not having stumbled across these arguments before. We all had to read them for the first time at some point. But I'll just say that this is well-travelled territory.
You're being somewhat curmudgeonly here, I believe. There is no self-congratulation, rather an exhortation to us all to remember how it's still crucial to be spreading the love and teaching of basic principles of maths. The fact that this even got close to legislation is remarkable, and wouldn't have happened with a numerate and educated legislature (even I dare say the current US Congress, though that may be debatable).

It's a good fable for us, and it can only be constructive to encourage action upon its lesson, in realising that there are many still who'd rather believe in magic rather than engage in thought and play with numbers.
I work for dotCloud (the company which started Docker), and I was at YaC (Yandex tech conference; the equivalent of Google I/O in Eastern Europe, if you will), and had the opportunity to discuss this with the Yandex team. Here are some extra info (that can easily be found on the web, so nothing sensitive here)

- They released the Docker plugin shortly before the conference [1]
- Yandex uses a distributed storage system called Elliptics [2] in many places, and they implemented an Elliptics backend for the Docker registry (the code is out there somewhere. They contributed the Elliptics backend to the Docker registry repo a couple of days ago [3].
- Cocaine is used to power various things inside Yandex, like the Yandex.Browser backend. This backend can sustain very high loads (10-100k req/s). I discussed with their Ops team, since they had specific questions about how to identify (and remove) potential performance bottlenecks in Docker networking stack. (Good news: you can achieve native network performance within containers with zero overhead!)

I'm considering writing Dockerfiles for Elliptics and Cocaine (as soon as I can find some spare time to do so...) but I would also be happy to help if other people want to do that (I'm actively monitoring the docker-user mailing list [4] so don't hesitate to get in touch through here).

[1] https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-plugins/tree/master/docke...
[2] https://github.com/reverbrain/elliptics
[3] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker-registry/pull/101
[4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/docker-user
There's a bit of a selection bias using the steam hardware survey - I'd bet that a greater proportion of windows gamers than linux gamers are using steam.
Your missing the point it's not a question of size it's a question of profitability.

There is a popular idea that reducing taxes on profits would spurn significant job growth. However doing so in no way changes the math on how many job's maximize profits. Further, profitable company's that higher people temporarily reduce there profitability which directly reduces their tax burden and has the same effect cheaply and automatically. Also, profitable company's can borrow money to assist growth so if you look at things from an accounting perspective removing all taxes on profits has a tiny impact on how fast a company can grow.

Note, there are ways to change the tax structure to actually promote job growth in the short term. Such as a reduction in payroll taxes for company's that employ more people now than they did at any time in the last 5 years. However, none of them change the long term math on what the ideal number of employees for a stable company is.
That kind of code doesn't explain all the different ways of accomplishing the piece's goal you tried and why they were lacking.

Some random developer comes at a later time, thinks this code is more complicated than required, refactors it and only then sees why you didn't do it that way. This happened to me many times (both in the "original dev" role and the "random future dev" one).

Comments can easily clarify why this particular piece of work is implemented in this manner and not the others you tried, saving a lot of time to the future devs.
People who like Windows 8 were comfortable using it in new ways, people who didn't want to change didn't like it.

Go read the blog entry and tell me that's about change. You can't look at that large list of problems and tell me it's my problem.
I had a look in IE9. All I found were a couple of video demos. I was left to reflect on what it is to reinvent something.
I've done plenty of dynamic language work where some documentation would go a long way. In Javascript, every library function should explain what all optional (i.e. undeclared or reinterpreted) parameters do, what gets returned, and likewise for all callbacks, plus `this` points to. It's very stylish for some insane reason not to do this, and it drives me insane.
I feel like I've seen this somewhere before...

http://xkcd.com/900/
Free Cocaine giveaway from Russian search engine Yandex
Agreed and done :)
And on the plus side, to escape any awkward conversations you can simply start vacuuming!
> Some facilities such as the Mahwah, New Jersey, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) data center have rolls of fiber so that every cage has exactly the same length of fiber running to the exchange cages.3

I remember the first time someone told me that. I thought they were kidding. Then I actually got to see the data center.

The exchanges, and HFT firms, take this very seriously. The speed at which they execute is just unbelievable.

The amount of technology and networking stack knowledge is just mind blowing.

I remember tuning my linux distribution's networking stack to gain an advantage only to find out that everyone had moved onto using asic's and infiniband hardware.

I continue to be amazed at the sheer talent and brain power that goes into this field:)
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No, I'm unhappy that they kept the capitals in menus(!) like "FILE" "EDIT" "VIEW" "PROJECT" "BUILD" even though there were enough complaints about these too. I'm also unhappy there's no real Start menu back in W8.1.
At this point they may need to use RFK stadium for floor votes, if we were for example to return to the population density per rep that existed before the growth stopped. Using Wikipedia's numbers, we'd have just over 1,050 reps if we used the same density as 1929 when it was capped.
This entire article is an argument to moderation, which is a well-known fallacy. The truth must always be in the middle ground, right? No.

"Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration."

-- Stan Kelly-Bootle

Second: "belief in a higher power" is a very vague statement and in no way implies worship of a creator deity, and even less: religion. Lumping in religion with theism (a mere component of religion, not even a necessary one) is grossly wrong. We are all subject to higher powers every day that we exercise little control over, be they forces of nature or what have you. That does not mean they are divine, sapient or anything of the sort.

Thirdly, atheism comes in various degrees: strong/weak, explicit/implicit, gnostic/agnostic. The article presents a false trinity: "There's only two extremes and a middle ground!" No.

Finally, I despise when theists try to incorporate Einstein as one of their own. The Einsteinian God has absolutely nothing to do with theistic notions of a creator God. Rather, Einstein was a pantheist whose God was a metaphor for nature, reality and knowledge. He was not a believer in creation or divinity. This article tries to equivocate his statements, as many other religious demagogues have done before.

Sharpen your arguments.
It's useful to follow a proper branching model.

Where I work we use master as the release-production-ready code. We branch of version branches from there. So a 2.5 release will be based off of master.

We work off of develop, and branch out topical branches from there, once complete merge to develop, test, once approved merge develop towards master.

And so on and so forth. It's very clean and makes it easy to test out other developer's feature as everything is encapsulated in a branch.
See also, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax, especially the latter half of the "Public Efforts Involving DHMO section".
It's not always convenient (or even possible) for your everyday transportation to also be exercise. Electric assist extends biking range (and makes biking possible) for people who would otherwise need to use another mode of transport -- because you have an important meeting today and don't want to be sweaty, because you are sore from weekend exercise, because the office is a bit far, because you have to pick up groceries, because you're 70 years old, because you're 8 months pregnant, because you have a cargo bike, because you have a serious bike race later in the day....

Electric assist is fairly common in the Netherlands (I have family there), where a pretty big percentage of the population uses bikes as the basic mode of transport. It's really sensible to have the option to ride somewhere without it being a workout.
Lubuntu is more lightweight, which will be important for older and lower powered machines (or if speed is a huge deal for you), but certain things might be a bit less polished. You would have to try it to see if it works for you. Xubuntu is a bit more full-featured and can feel somewhat like Gnome 2 did back in the day. But there's no reason you can't install both and try them on any Ubuntu machine, these are really just packages and defaults rather than completely different distros.
Your arguing semantics. "Customer Feedback" is all thats needed. Stop hating and go download it!
i finally switched to xmonad 6 months ago, tamed few apps and tiling windows manager. It really changed the way I worked in positive direction.
PI IS EXACTLY 3! -Prof. Frink Glavin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-Y-ua3WBi4