skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "potential progress" was already there. It's just been held up by proprietary companies every step of the way. In the case of games, nearly every single game company refuses to provide their games as free (libre) game software. In the case of GPU drivers, the two big players still refuse to provide free drivers. There are plenty in the free software community willing to contribute to graphics drivers and to porting games to GNU/Linux, but these companies won't let them because it conflicts with their goals of exerting strict control over their own users. I haven't seen any evidence that this situation will let up any time soon because it seems that people have fallen for their PR tricks and so don't seem to mind whether or not most drivers and game software are proprietary. And so the cycle of abuse continues.

The whole reason why we use free software like GNU/Linux to begin with is because it doesn't make us subservient to one vendor like nonfree software does. It disturbs me that I see people making statements implying that "we need this particular proprietary company to come along and save us" or "we only need to be patient, slowly but surely they will port their games to GNU/Linux" because this is exactly the kind of thinking that free software discourages. As long as these companies are in the business of publishing nonfree software, you can be guaranteed they will drag their feet every step of the way. People need to stop buying into their lame excuses about why they can't publish free software ("We can't make money that way" is probably the oldest and stupidest one), excusing their abusive behavior and then begging them to do things only makes the situation worse.
I am not experiencing this issue. However I did get whacked when upgrading my iPhone which then decided to use GMails unread count to determine what I had not read. That was very frustrating, I went from a dozen or so unread on my phone to thousands. The easy solution was to flag it all read at Gmail and my phone calmed down.

I am going to assume that is why I am not being hit with this issue he mentions. Both my mail accounts on my iMac are just fine. Still never understood Apple's fascination with requiring three keys just to mark a message as read.
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What a non-issue. If "you're a huge Gmail user on the Mac" then just use the web interface. The only place where the web interface isn't the prime way to interact with gmail is on the phone and google have an app for that.

If you really must use a thick client to use gmail, Thunderbird installs and runs just fine on the mac.
I'm tempted to up sticks from London and see if there re any interesting startups to join there.
But we derive real utility from using antibiotics with animals. First in preventing blights in our food supply (which has been the downfall of many nations of antiquity) and second in controlling diseases that can jump to humans.

If there is no safe use, then what matters is risk vs. reward, right? There is real utility (reward) to using antibiotics on animals, and I don't see how we can simply blanket rule it out.
Open source can mean your customers contribute to product development. Thus, "the value of the software" that people pay for does become diminished: it's just having the commercial license on hand, and not having to build from source yourself.

But we're not just a demanding (less respectful, in your terms) industry, we also are one that's willing to support itself - developers do pay to support each other.
A meta question if you will - I have often come across situations in work where "if only we had that tool". sometimes I have hacked something together, other times taken it further and tidied it up and released it. But this seems to have a large level of polish

so ...

When did you realise the need for surf

Did you work on it as a main project at some point or is it a side project

When and how did you decide to commit to getting this done

and the big one for me - tools are driven by a need, but often the need keeps coming while the time to build it diminishes. What strategies did you use to keep the plates spinning while building surf?

I think we can all mostly answer the questions - I just waant to know how different your answers are from say mine when I don't release two major OSS projects and you do.

cheers
As others have mentioned, in fact the incidence of MRSA has declined significantly over the last few years, down 50%:

http://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/statistics/ (Center for Disease Control)

And the numbers of infections were far lower than you're claiming here - rather than approximately 20,000 in 100,000 as claimed above, the numbers (in 2011) were 4.5 in 100,000.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/09/16/us-hospital-mrsa-id... (Reuters quoting numbers from a JAMA / CDC study).

As for rabies, according to Wikipedia quoting Sherris Medical Microbiology (4th ed.),

"Treatment after exposure is highly successful in preventing the disease if administered promptly, in general within 10 days of infection."

There's more information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies#Treatment (Wikipedia)
Funny how you can see all the xss attack attempts.

Also, I wonder why some people get a gif.
First thing I thought of as well. Rich Hickey talks should be considered required viewing for anyone building non-trivial software.
I'm not so sure that will continue to be true. Maybe if Americans convince me that they can elect a Congress and a new president that is very against these mass surveillance practices, campaigns on that, and has a proven track record regarding that, maybe I'll change my mind.

But as long as US keeps giving itself "freebies" with every foreigner's data, I'm not trusting it. I want some well established rules for how US can access my data, and only with the agreement my government.
Why Googling is the most important skill a hacker must have
I do think LinkedIn has ill intentions. In my opinion, their intentions are to collect, analyze, and ultimately profit from their user's email data. All under the guise of offering some marginal benefit.
That one links to this: http://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
which devolves into a hilarious analysis of 'how to get 7 billion people out of Rhode Island'.
Because we hit "Allow" when it asks you for webcam.
I feel sorry for the poor folks who had to engineer this 'product'. What a sad thing to have on your resume.
I like how many of the comments are people trying to find xss vulns
Except it isn't required to have the font installed on _your_ system this time around.
Isn't it still undemocratic? Since anyone with bigger pockets can buy more influence. If not bribery, it still looks like corruption.
The big answer is: no.
That title definitely seems sensationalist. Because that would apply to every software developer... ever. That's the nature of what gets developers involved in projects. So that might as well say "get caught developing software in Idaho and we'll take away your computer." Probably best to go back to growing potatoes then...
You can't even generate any problems unless you're a Pro member.
I've been talking to a number of startups whose products hinge on access to a user's email inbox. Now here is LinkedIn doing this too. This trend is kind of disturbing to me, I can't really imagine a future where most of the services I use require access to all of my personal e-mail. It's quite scary.
thanks. I already read his book "Trust me, I'm Lying". Highly recommended.
Not that we should trust anybody, but let's not forget that LinkedIn already has a history of losing user credentials: http://www.pcworld.com/article/257045/6_5m_linkedin_password...
I am a little disturbed that Apple Mail supports iframes. Seems like an obvious way to bypass spam filtering.
I'm pretty sure you mean "loosely coupled," but I like the neologism.
Considering how often the solution to a hard problem will suddenly appear after a good night's sleep, I wish I could bill clients for those eight hours! Or for time in the shower. . . . :-)
Presumably you track user visits/logins/sessions.

What fraction of paying customers have never visited/logged in since you started charging them?
If you pay $600/month for a room in Berlin you are doing something wrong.
I love that Microsoft built an interesting device that nobody bought, and is defending it like it's a bestseller.
I can't say that I agree with the author's view on this. The American organizations that 'control' the Internet (ICANN, W3C, WHATWG, and even the IEEE, who were involved in the 802.11 standard design) would all more likely create better, more free standards and specifications if they worked as committees from countries which

1. Have no bad blood (so there's no reason to sabotage specs), and

2. Aren't too closely related, either; collaboration can result in a return to the current state of the web.
You can find it at http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/
>A simple, open and hackable OS..

lets hope that like 20+ years ago, somewhere some young Linus is making it right now ...
Show HN: Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?
If Microsoft had gotten Office on the iPad[1] then it wouldn't matter what Apple does with iWorks. Now, Apple is very close to good enough that Office might never be able to get a foothold.

1) and gotten experience they could bring to their own offerings, oh, like the did with Excel back in the day - that seemed to work out fine
You can also access it there: http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/
Or Postbox, which also still works just fine under Mavericks.
There's always the option of switching to Fastmail. If you're using Apple Mail instead of Gmail's web client, as I was, it was because Apple Mail caught up by growing an "archive" button and Gmail regressed. This made Gmail the more replaceable part, to me.
The problem as I understand it is not with human immunity, but rather that we will not be able to kill or control the bacteria when it's bad enough to warrant treatment. I'm not a biologist, but I'd wager the answer is that they are not any better off.
>What a ridiculous thing to say. [...] This number is significantly higher than a few years ago.

Significantly higher yes...off a low base. We're talking 1..2..3...maybe a (naive)5 percent of progress on total market share over literally decades in the desktop market. Compare that to the androids absolutely crushing the entire mobile market in a few short years. So yes in the bigger scheme of things "nix hasn't really moved an inch on the desktop front".

>And by your statement you reduce the whole range of possible computer uses to gaming.

You're kidding, right? I focused on gaming, because we are discussing a post about Valve. The effects will extend to every corner of GUI driven nix given that nvidia has already made real world changes based purely on this announcement. The nix world can fight another 10 years of a losing war against an unmotivated nvidia & linux or they can grab something like this by the balls.

>gamez

Really?
Doesn't scroll very well.
Excellent, you are most welcome.

I need to write a shorter version, to make the data more broadly accessible.
Out of curiosity, what can you eat?
In case you want to put a name to this act, this is known as Rubber Ducking [1].

[1] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RubberDucking
The big one would be the immunity from court action. Look at all the crap going on with the Lyme Disease Vaccine and flu shots.
This is awesome, but my camera isn't working?
Interesting, I find sometimes I have to dictate into a recorder app to get the ideas out best, I suppose those end up being said in a lecture style a lot of the time, but that had never occurred to me.

So you aren't alone in that habit. I find listening to those notes something I don't do quickly enough but the number of times I've listened to an old one and heard myself say "... Have to watch out for X I suppose, anyway..." where X is a problem/bug that showed up later and was hard to track down has convinced me this can be a really useful exercise.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6595993
Nice catch! We accidentally had it private. It's up now here: https://github.com/assemblymade/support-foo
what would be your ideal scenario? What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?
I'm curious what they change but web searches just return the same three sound bites.

Agreed. The article didn't exactly go into how they go about this.

On a different note, would this cause buyers to be less happy, knowing that there will be a better product in a week? Along the same lines as The Paradox of Choice[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...
Surface -- For whenever you want a tablet so you can type word documents
No. When I submitted the article I copy-pasted the title from CNN into HN. CNN must have updated the article's title since then.
Indeed. There are going to be four kinds of people:

Miss both e-mails.

See both e-mails.

See the reminder, miss the receipt.

Miss the reminder, see the receipt.

All four kinds of people exist, no doubt, but you'll only hear from the last kind.
I'm having no problems with Gmail on Apple's Mail on Mavericks... perhaps I'm just not a big enough e-mail user? I only have about 10000 messages on that account.
Even if you've never taken antibiotics, you're in the same boat as everyone else. The resistant bacteria are in the environment.

If your immune system works fine, there's less to worry about. The most urgent danger is to the very young, old, or immunocompromised because of illness or therapy. (That said, MRSA infections do happen in otherwise healthy people from time to time)

If you've been avoiding meat raised with antibiotics, you're part of the solution, because you're pushing the market away from the cheap short-term fix (antibiotics) towards more sustainable solutions without the societal consequences.
Maybe consumption patterns are extremely different in that market, but it seems that continuously changing hardware of a phone is not really that consumer friendly.

My current Android phone (Galaxy Nexus) is almost two years old and my current iPhone is a 4S (running iOS 7). I will soon be upgrading both, but I can't really see myself changing devices more of then than that. It's a convenience and cost issue. Even if you make the data transition seamless and remove the cost barrier, you are still left with limit of how often people will want to change their routine.

Needless to say, the comparisons like this are meaningless, because Apple is much more than a fancy set of hardware. iOS 7 update made my iPhone 4S camera feel like a brand new piece of hardware, when all I did was update the software...
Amazon's KDP pricing is like this: between $3 and $10, you get 70%. Otherwise, you get %35.

I'll also add: Nathan seems like a good guy. I met him at MicroConf Europe, and he came across as knowing his stuff. I'd probably buy a book from him.

But what if everyone sells their own books on their own site? Things could get chaotic really quickly.

I guess time will tell...
Pay wall - for a problem generator?
I'm trying to figure out what this kind of funding would be good for. Could you use it to open a restaurant or bar for example?
More information about this can be found here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112482032780181267192/posts/XBhg...

and here:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/112482032780181267192/posts/YeoU...
>nix hasn't really moved an inch on the desktop front anyway

My copy of Mavericks begs to differ.
That's the point, RaphaelJs is to allow SVG use on IE by converting it to VML.
Why Python uses 0-based indexing. It's because of slices
I really wanted to like this. But getting started, I felt installing a thrid-party profile on my iPhone means I am giving them more control that I should. ( Can they do more than what they want to do ? Risks ?). Also, I am already worried that Google reading all my email for ads, why introduce another service that again reads my email for just showing LinkedIn contact cards / network info.

I wish LinkedIn improved their existing Messaging application.
Doesn't the research show that it's most effective to have people reflect, come up with ideas independently and then compare ideas, followed obviously by more reflection?

No one is saying collaboration is bad, just stressing that the reflection part can't be skipped. And in my experience it often is.
In the UK both Amoxicillin and BACITRACIN will cost £0 for a child, the over 60s and pregnant women, or £7.85 for everyone else.

You do need to get a prescription though, which doctors don't dole out with a smile. Companies don't have to pay to advertise drugs though.
That may not be as impossible as it seemed when this all first came to light. Assuming that businesses in other countries put any real financial pressure on American interests by avoiding entanglements with US IT firms or networks, and that there's political traction to be had running against NSA surveillance (at least as long as Obama is President) then there could be pressure to amend, repeal or alter the existing surveillance apparatus on the right as well as the left.

That there are, at least, cogent arguments on both sides against it suggests to me that someone's campaign somewhere is considering it.
Then it's just a cannabis retailer, and the question is much less interesting.
Ha! There's a very simple answer to that: because your service might be shit. And I'm not handing over anything until I've proven to my satisfaction that it is not.

Of course, your business is not there to make me happy, so it's up to you what you do. Just surprised that this question even gets posed when it has such an obvious answer ;)
AWS does this -- you need to create an account, with a credit card, even before using their 'free' tier.

I thought I remmebered this, and just confirmed it. Go to http://aws.amazon.com/free/ in an incognito window. Click on 'get started for free'. Pretend you don't have an Amazon account and create a new one -- you have to create a new account with a credit card, before finishing up and going on to 'get started for free.'

However, with Amazon, I'm pretty sure that they won't charge you if you don't cancel in X days. They'll only charge you if you later opt in to a non-free service. (But am I wrong there?)

Nobody thinks it's shady, but then, it's a large company everyone's heard of.

I assumed the reason in part was to lower any barriers to later signing up for a paid component of the API, wit one click.

I understand why OP is doing it, but I still totally think it's shady to have you sign up for a free trial, and then start charging you at a certain calendar date unless you explicitly and manually opt out. At least, if you're doing this, you better be very very clear that's what you're doing when you get the initial sign up -- but the clearer you are, the more harm you're probably going to do to your conversions.

This is why most services these days, seem try to give a trial limited on resources of some kind rather than calendar. You get up to 4 Widgets on the free plan, you have to upgrade to the paid plan for 5. Get ads on the free plan, upgrade to paid to not have em. Get 4k page views a month on the free plan, etc. You get public repos on the free plan, need to upgrade to paid for private. Etc.

Note that the services that offer that kind of free trial seem especially beloved.

Can you think of popular and beloved cloud services that offer a time-limited free trial after which they will automatically start charging you unless you explicitly opt out? I can't think of any.

Even the new york times, when they give you an initial X month subscription at 25 cents a day or whatever, and then when it's time to renew it's gone up like 500% -- you still have to actually opt in and choose to renew your subscription at full price, they don't just charge your credit card.
Education?

Why would you remember anything if you can just look it up on Google? :) - Google effects on the brain.

Why do you need to know spelling, if you have auto-correct on your device?

What did they do with the Khan Academy videos? Did they have a pen and paper with them? Or a pc to do things with it? Note stuff on it. Then they used their tablet to consume things and something else to produce things :)

Yeah, you can watch videos (consuming) to produce on something else :). You can learn by consuming, yes. I have never said otherwise.

PS. Reading is still consuming, watching videos (educational or not) is still consuming.

PS II. I know people get easier access to digital media with a tablet. In that way, it can be enriching.

But severly disabled people can (indeed) enrich their lives with a tablet. But it's still through consuming and not producing.

Heck, here was an article i read some years ago from someone who explains it better then me: http://impossiblehq.com/an-unexpected-ass-kicking
Room sublet in SF with cool entrepreneurs 
Renting out my room in SF for $2,000 in november, or $70 a day for shorter term leases.

Live with cool thiel fellows pursuing interesting projects, awesome house.

https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/1479931
Thanks, it's under:
Preferences -> Text Editor -> Source Analysis
The intention doesn't matter, the effect does. We are talking about risks of doing business with developers (which reimplementation is), not about some abstract morals.
KWin Has Closed The Gaming Performance Gap With the 4.11 Compositor
Nokia isn't a part of Microsoft, even if that could happen in the future. My wife was working for Nokia before recent events.
Tried v2 and didn't like it and actually got a refund from MAS for it. They are so good at marketing but Acorn is a better product.
What exactly were you expecting? I think it's a neat hack using some clever tricks.
And Ken Thompson?

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
SMIL is the SVG animation markup. Sadly very few people have every used it. SvgWow.com has a bunch of great examples like:
http://svg-wow.org/camera/camera.xhtml
How are they handling attachments? Are my attachments going through their proxy? Can they see them? What if their servers are down? What if their servers are hacked more easily than some other allowing for all mail passing to be slurped?
I sure hope there are no hoops I need to jump through to get easy LTE...
This is way more web 2.0 than a spreadsheet and is just as hard to take to your doctor.

Sounds like a winner.
Obviously "healthy, high-caliber" means different things to different people.

As for how the market is behaving: I have personally heard several attorneys state that they're advising their clients to be very cautious about Rule 506(c) and according to media reports[1], this is the advice of many attorneys.

I am aware that companies are relying on Rule 506(c) for offerings on AngelList and services like yours, but in terms of the overall market for Regulation D offerings, this is a still a small number.

> I disagree with your interpretation of the intention of the JOBS Act.

You cited the $1 million cap as an example of a rule that is of concern to you. To my knowledge, this cap was an explicit part of the bill that Congress passed. As such, I don't see how the SEC could eliminate that restriction.

[1] http://www.crowdsourcing.org/editorial/ban-on-general-solici...
LinkedIn is a public company whose product is actually very simple and whose maintenance and improvement does not really require the number of employees they have. Initiatives like this spawn from boredom in that kind of environment, because the product slack goes all the way up the chain.

The Iron Law[1] says that the programmers are going to be bored, the product managers and creatives with input will approve and shepherd the product out of boredom, and the management who launches it will do so out of boredom, all in their own interests.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
The day we're ready for that virus to mutate in the wild and target RNA it wasn't designed for?
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