skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 2. After trying out a million "distraction free" writers, I am still on MS Office. It's really worth it for me. I can't stand writing in Libre, or OO, or Ohm, or Monkey (whatever it's called). Scrivener may be the only exception but I usually just port my stuff there.

Just curious: Have you tried AbiWord? Arguably it shares a lot of the good parts of its interface with MS word -- If you have I'd love to hear what you (dis)like about it (and how Word is better or just as bad). No affiliation with AbiWord - just curious.

Personally I write too little at present, but when I do write, I write in vim, either in plain text or in some variation of ReStructuredText. I very much prefer to keep writing and formatting separate, starting with an outline of headings+notes, and expanding section by section. I've never attempted anything beyond essay-length, though.
The tutorials are the best they've ever been and the tutorials suck. Programming real world systems still involves a large amount of "suck it up" pedagogy.

I'm not sure what this has to do with gender/race/sexual preference disproportions...
It is immediately clear that is too addictive for all but the worse cases. What would happen if instead of taking this stuff you were supervised by a physician during withdrawal? Would you be addiction free after 2 weeks?
Yes, per bedroom per month. It's more like $1800-2400 for a 3br though, because those appear to be the most cost-efficient. Off the top of my head, I remember visiting one place that was a 2br for $900/person (including utilities) around 140th which I liked, as it was quite spacious, but it was a bit out of my price range. IMO, if I had $1100/month or so I could have found a place in a great 2br pretty easily though. Quality seems to vastly improve with each additional $200/month.

Oddly, Brooklyn and Queens were not cheaper.
Or the remote-transmission chrome plugin, or setting up transmission to watch a dropbox folder for torrents, etc. -- lots of great ways to interact with the transmission daemon.
I've seen tons of Craigslist ads for roommates that say "females only".

The irritating thing is that they usually say it at the bottom of the advert instead of in the title, so you waste time clicking on the link and reading it.
The main point here, is in your "My parents are NOT technical people".

They do not have pre-juices on stuff.

My mum uses linux since she was 65. It was her _first_ contact with an O.S., she did learn to use most things on her own.

In all that cases, they didn't deal with hardware choices, software stack choices, incompatibilities in those layers... they just did get a working browser, spreadsheet or messenger... and used it.
Rise of the Distorporation
The main point might be that your parents aren't technical people (whatever that means), and the laptop was set from the start (they never had to care about hardware compatibilities).

We did a similar thing with my inlaws, leaving an ipad behind to facetime with their grandson, and recently they called because they couldn't see their new mails anymore (their provider changed the imap servers), they also happened to mainly browse sites on the ipad now, installed a few other apps for learning english and we don't hear about windows problems as much as before (they still need the laptop for standard Word/Excel/Powerpoint work and to print since they don't own a blessed HP model)

As you did we give them an opportunity to switch to linux, but they would need a well supported and preinstalled machine somehow, and that's not trivial to find. DELL seems to have some available on their net store, but it's a hard pill to swallow for people used to buy VAIO laptops in person and in store (not that they cared about the brand, but they look very nice and the sales person is reassuring).

Going the Apple route would bring more or less the same upsides as ubuntu, while skipping all the hardware support parts, giving real exclusive advantages (battery life etc), the bonus being they'd see anouncement in the press they'd understand what the fuss it is about. Linux could be viable, but it seems too late now that the Apple lineup is leaps and bound ahead of everyone else.
Meh, but once you have them right in one document, reproducing that ‘right’ layout is really easy. I also doubt that I’d spend less time in Word to set up a simple letter template than I did in LaTeX to do the same, and now my letters take roughly 2 minutes to write (including typing in addresses and such).
It is hard to believe that the incompetent women managers were the only one left on the market - maybe they just did not try hard enough to find the good managers?
Hey Jack. You'll be surprised how expensive international shipping can be. We've done our research and it comes to a minimum of $25 for most countries.

Since domestic shipping is included in the shirt pricing, we've subsidized the international shipping by $5 to be fair to all customers.
On the contrary I believe Ubuntu installation process is straight forward and fast. But the os may be a bit bloated. At least with the newest additions of Amazon integration.
Just for the fun of it, you should indeed read this using gopher,

gopher://gopher.floodgap.com:70/0/gopher/relevance.txt
Can I just use sett to syndicate my Wordpress blog posts, the way I'm currently doing with DZone, JCG (as an affiliate) or StumbleUpon, GetPrismatic, Tech.Pro (manually)?

Or is sett intended to compete with (hosted) Wordpress directly?
Vmware + linux + unity mode. Vmware Workstation has always been very seamless with things like copy/paste between the guest and host. Havent used Virtualbox for a few years but I'm sure thats ok too.
The sharing feature is legitimate, implying that they can hide it from the sharee is not.
> We require them to work on Linux for the whole duration of their internship.

google-google Awh in Rotterdam, a bit too far away for me. Sounded like an interesting place to intern at!

Edit: No way to escape asterisks it seems, they'll be italic ifnot surrounded by whitespace no matter what :/
In my experience only people who think they know something about computer have problem with Linux. My wife and my mother are Linux users without even knowing what it is and they have exactly zero issue with it.
For iOS there is the free gopherbrowse
"A small pittance is requested to defray the Apple developer tax".
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gopherbrowse/id478840815

For Elinks gopher support one needs to compile from source with the gopher option (it's not on by default).
brew on osx doesn't download and compile the last 0.12 beta version (which includes gopher support). after: "brew upgrade elinks" it says: "elinks-0.11.7 already installed"

In the latest Ubuntu does install 0.12pre6 but it doesn't open gopher urls.
Elinks documentation says:
"It is still very experimental and the CSO phone-book protocol is not implemented. Default: disabled"
http://chals.sdf.org/gopher.cgi/phlog/2012/10-14-12/

Lynx works out of the box though, but I prefer elinks as it is the last (to my knowledge) updated console browser and it has features like ipv6, scripting and some javascript support.

One can always use OverbiteFF plugin or use the gopher proxies.
I use the headless transmission daemon on a 25$ Seagate Dockstar (hacked to Debian) and command it via

-Chrome plugin on my main computer + webUI on other computers (or for additional commands)

-Transdroid Android client on my Nexus phone and tablet

Almost perfect (almost because sometimes there are some minor glitches)
Great explanation, but I don't think this business model is incompatible with "flipping the switch" partially as Amazon already did. Examples: raising the minimum amount for free delivery from 25 to 35, or removing free delivery from Amazon UK to certain countries like Spain to avoid cannibalizing it's own business in those countries.
281M of stock-based compensation ... ended the quarter with about $100 million more cash than they started with.

This looks like a loss to me. They could have sold $281M of stock and gotten $281M in cash; instead they ended up $181M short of that.
Mum is in her 60s and I installed debian for her some years ago when I replaced her Win2k machine that I got second hand for her.

She has been mostly happy, I found running printers to be less fun than it could be and the linux photo management apps aren't always that great. Recently gave her a thinkpad with Mint and she is still happy.
It started in 2002, Merkel was elected as Chancellor in 2005, that implies they are watching for up and coming politicians (she was CDU leader in 2002). I did find it interesting that the NSA admitted also collecting information from Washington DC in 2008 (an election year), the assurances that this was an accident are sounding more and more hollow, and the implications are frightening for a functioning democracy.

This, along with the Airbus, Petrobras and Belgacom revelations, makes it clear that surveillance is not targeting terrorists or part of the war on terror - it is engaged in for economic and political advantage, even against allies. That's quite a serious breach of trust.

"President Barack Obama promised Mrs Merkel he knew nothing of the alleged phone monitoring"

I can't decide which is more damning, that he know about it, and didn't stop it, or that he knew nothing about it, and the NSA takes it upon themselves to monitor the communications of allied politicians and interfere in other nations. Either way his reputation and his promises are meaningless now.

Along with being used by the US, raw intercept information is also shared with other allies of the US like Isreal and the UK, potentially damaging its European allies by giving out secret information to third parties, and I find it hard to believe given the lack of security the Snowden and Manning leaks highlighted, that Russia and China also don't have access to much of this intel through the many private contractors with security clearance.

While it is somewhat hypocritical of Merkel to be outraged by this and not by the widespread surveillance of her citizens, I'm pleased that this story has at last triggered such a virulent reaction in European politicians. The best thing she could do now in response is to offer Snowden asylum in Germany, and allow him to speak openly about the US security state - I do believe that would be in the interests of all the citizens of the world, if not of their leaders.

The blowback from this affair is just starting to pick up pace - it's already taken US relations with South America to a new low, and is about to do the same in Europe. Hopefully it will lead to meaningful change.
It uses libtorrent which is excellent
There is a list of libtorrent based projects here: http://www.libtorrent.org/projects.html

It's not clear form the site how this is different from any of the other gui based liborrent software such as qtorrent or halite. Does anyone know if this has any unique features?
I know. I understand. The reason for the success of PHP is that it runs on cheap shared hosting. If you want to replace PHP you need to fill that gap first, or, make it at least as "convenient" as PHP.
> Actually, removing RSS streams is what makes twitter a business. They hold the keys to the data and can charge customers for access to the firehose.

Following on the analogy: to me they replaced a very good firehose (RSS) with a less efficient one.

> Your assumption is that the news consumption pattern ultimately dictates where the producers flock [...]

What ? No, my consumption pattern dictates where I (a user) go. And it turns out Twitter as a news media don't work for me (not twitter's fault though).

> In a model where individual users contribute, the key factor is which platform gives users an easy way to speak (and I would argue that twitter has done a decent job at reducing the tweet friction)

I don't see how removing the RSS feeds makes it less easy for a user to contribute. (shouldn't users who contribute be named producers in that context ?)
Developers oriented project management ebook ( http://blog.arkency.com/developers-oriented-project-manageme... ). It's cool because it teaches you practices that can be applied to your current IT project to make it more developers friendly. The goal is to make the work on a project more smooth and everybody more happy, as well as help the developers team to transition into remote work. The content of the book is similar in form to http://blog.arkency.com/2013/09/story-of-size-1/ and other blog posts linked inside. I hope some of you might find it interesting.
Axioms are not beliefs. Axioms are a priori and you formally derive stuff from them using particular logic rules.

Generally speaking, nobody claims that the axioms of set theory are true in any ordinary sense of the word true. Does it makes sense in the real world to assert the existence of an infinite set, and have different sizes of infinities as a consequence? It is irrelevant, you assert the existence of an infinite set because it is practical from a pure mathematical point of view, because you want to model infinite sets like the natural numbers (an abstraction, do they exist? it doesn't matter to mathematicians generally speaking).

Mathematics no longer pretends to describe what is true, what holds in our reality. That idea was abandoned some time ago. A canonical example were non-euclidean geometries, that were studied in the XIXth century for the sake of it. They had applications later, but the motivation for their study and changing Euclid's axioms was formal.
Meanwhile, the iPhone has slowly but steadily been losing mindshare to its amazing competition.
It's not the point of the article, but 4 hours wouldn't be that bad per se. I would hate to be on an airport every day and being with ryan air every day (I rather pay a lot more than fly ryan air personally; I am almost 2 meters in length and quite bulky in width due to food and daily gym; ryan air is cruel punishment, no matter the cost), but when I still worked in an office in the Netherlands (granted, that's over 10 years ago), I would spend 2.5-3 hours at least in traffic jams. At least in a plane you can read a book or do some work. Sitting in a car, usually in the rain/cold, foot on the break ready to move yet another 30 cm I might even consider worse than ryan air...
Yeah I thought you meant that. I did too :) But I just hoped you had some divine insight everyone missed here. Shame :)
My little theory is that this can help Europe to become a player in the Internet. The point is that individual European countries cannot create their own internet - they are too small and too much interconnected (especially if they are in the European Union) - but on the other hand they are separate countries. The effect I would like to see is that they develop ways how to be trustworthy and also how to check if your partner is reliable. First between themselves - then their solutions will be attractive to the whole world. Which router would you trust - one from China, one from the USA or one from Germany - when you know that Germany also exports the routers to France and UK and they check them?
It's intended to compete directly with hosted Wordpress. You can import directly from Wordpress XML, too.
If they never make a profit, how do they obtain the cash to spend on buying back shares?
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Ask HN: Learning C and Using Libraries
So, I'm a web developer who has lately decided to get into "desktop" programming, and to suck it up and finally learn C.

I'm coming from the web world, Ruby, PHP, Python. Each of these languages has an excellent repository for libraries -- these repos let me search for what I'm looking for, check out the matches, and decide what I should use; either through a web interface or the command-line tool of choice.

C is fun to learn, but I'm basically just searching for "<functionality> C library" in Google, and hoping for the best. Surely there is a better way?

I'm developing on Linux and Mac (I use homebrew). I know that a lot of libraries can be pulled in through apt or similar, but they don't seem to have the same breadth or focus that the other languages have.

What am I missing? Or is it merely a case of myself having the wrong mindset perhaps?
"their provider changed the imap server"

"learning english"

Funny, I had to fix a very similar issue with my french in-laws IMAP just yesterday. Just for science, are your in-laws French and using Free.fr as an ISP?
even a dead cat has a better user interface than windows 8.x
I can recommend gatling by passing firewalls on port 443. It waits 2 seconds for a HTTPS request before it starts OpenSSHd in inetd mode.
People see America as a protector of human rights? Really?

Many Americans and the American media certainly do.
Axioms are building blocks. Beliefs are the idols you make with or without building blocks.
After reading most off the coments.
It feels that we are going in the right and healthy direction. People will be able to chose what OS they want without losing the benefits of actualy doing useful work.

Some will want Windows 8, some will go for Linux and some for Mac OS. We are not yet there, but having a healty market distribution of the major OSes will benefit the end-user.
What's a character? A codepoint, or a grapheme?

As the correct answer is "that depends", neither answer gets to qualify as "length", especially given that traditionally, a string is a sequence of bytes, which gives a third thing that 'length' could mean.
We'll have to wait and see.

Amazon is on its way to fulfilling all my needs and wants. Why wouldn't I give it all my money?
This is why we have looked at services like https://www.meldium.com/ but unfortunately (because of the way it works) it doesn't work for arbitrary services, only for ones they have done an integration with.
> Sadly, it has one feature I hate from PHP (the ability to interweave PHP and HTML

Which is arguably the one reason for PHP's popularity.
Proposal to support single inheritance in Rust
Please don't try and pass off your personal preferences as fact. Beauty is just a matter of preference.

Personally I've never cared for Microsoft's design. XP always looked chunky and gaudy to me - I hated it. Aero looks unfinished compared to Compiz (but part of that might be down to the fact that Linux has been doing desktop compositing for years before Windows finally caught up). And Windows 8 just looks like Microsoft forgot the last 2 decades of OS design and reverted back to the 320x200 days of square windows, square widgets, etc.

So I'm happy you find Microsoft's design to be your particular eye candy, but don't patronise us by arguing that this preference is fact.
I love LastPass and like sharing access to my accounts this way, but I don't even know why they have this option and it's turned on by default. This option is trivial and they should just get rid of it.
The user doesn't care whose fault it is. If the WiFi doesn't work in Linux, but it worked fine under Windows, then Linux is worse.
That logo makes me so uncomfortable the more I look at it.

I think Odesk is probably decent for certain businesses, but I can't imagine using it for a startup. You get tacky, inconsistent results.
We are also using lastpass at it is simply comfortable for sharing accounts. I fully agree that there will always be a way to sniff the details if you are using such a centralized password manager for web-login.
As of when? I've helped three people relocate here over the past three month, as well as hunted around for my own apartment, and we've found nothing in that price range in Mitte.
How does this compare to the way that sharing is implemented in PassPack?
I moved to consoleZ: https://github.com/cbucher/console

Its a fork of console2.

+ Adds Splitting Tabs into views

Console2 development seems to have slowed down.
> the goal was always to get to free. Remember all the stuff from a few years ago, when the iPhone first came out, and Apple used “subscription-based accounting” for iPhone sales, because it was the only way it saw to comply with U.S. accounting regulations and also provide free software updates?

> Apple’s not trying to milk money from those customers ineligible for the free versions of these apps (although, of course, they will happily keep the money). It’s simply the fallout from Apple’s accounting guidelines that they cannot simply offer these apps free of charge to everyone.

Can anyone who knows more about accounting than myself confirm this? I find it very hard to believe that accountants dictate your pricing strategy. Accountants are there to manage your money and keep the books straight. They might advise you that offering free updates foregoes a large source of revenue, but there is no way that the way they define your products ties your hands, and stops you from legally giving away certain products.

But, I only say this because I know nothing about accounting.
Aw, jeez - I knew my little weekend project wasn't such a big deal, but absolutely dwarfed by the other ideas here.

But since I'd love to chat about it:

http://tweetstart.me/

Simple little tool to let "unknown" but talented bloggers work together to publicize their offerings.

Why's it cool?

- aim to is help counteract the "Justin Beiber Affect" (gets 100,000 RTs for saying, "Live life!")

- try to encourage a more personal, hands-on sharing rather than today's mindless "click to retweet" approach to life.

- you can't earn any badges or rep points

That's it... best go finish it :-) It's at @tweetstartme if you are interesting in knowing when it's done
Really cool! I can see how even we would use it with our startup. Signed up to know more!
The CEO of Facebook goes as far as saying he wants it to be a utility:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/facebook-the-social-web-utilit...
You should have a look into these devices here:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/20/helios-handlebars/

http://www.engadget.com/2013/09/12/hammerhead-navigation/
RVM 2.0
http://moviegalaxies.com

We're working on visualizing the social network within movies. :)
There's an infinite variety of axiomatic systems, most of them not much different from, say, a set of beliefs in Santa Claus and magical elves living at the North Pole.

However the axiomatic systems we happen to use most have one important property: they are useful for acquiring new knowledge via scientific method. I.e. they serve as a foundation for theories that make correct predictions as verified by experiment.

That's the main difference.
You're right, why don't I have a paper published in every possible field of academic inquiry?

Seriously, just because you had too much free time doesn't mean I do. I appreciate your nonsensical condescension.
Translation rights for books in human languages are a well established thing.

I wonder if there's any analogue for technical books using a particular computing language, ie the base explanatory text is kept the same (as much as possible) but the code samples are "translated" to another computer language ?

For example, if I didn't know Python, it would be great to be able to pick up a "translation" of your book with the code written in a similar language such as Ruby.

Obviously, only a subset of tech books could be treated in this fashion, but a way for authors to license their existing content for uses like this would be interesting.
Were you trying to be anything other than condescending?
There are too many MBAs on Hacker News now adays
It's a great idea. Even ability to render different views and inspect them quickly by eye is really valuable when you have huge configuration space (charts for example). Adding automatic diff testing on top of that is a good idea especially when the UI style stabilizes.