skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I've got a couple of things that flaked out on me in the last year or so. This was with Fedora 17, on a Lenovo Thinkpad x230 laptop, and Intel video. At first I put Ubuntu on it, but it wouldn't reliably survive suspend/resume, and sometimes X11 would lock up (this is because the chipset used in this laptop was band new at the time, and driver support was still a bit flaky). So I put Fedora 17 on it, and got a bit better luck.

However, after a few automatic updates, I started to get really weird sound issues. When playing videos with VLC, I would get a buzzing sound (like a broken speaker) for the first minute or so, then it would clear up -- this only happened sometimes, after a suspend / resume. Reverting to an earlier kernel fixed it, but also I couldn't duplicate the issue with any other audio program -- just VLC. Eventually (after a couple months), the various libraries, software components, and kernel versions stabilized on this hardware, and now suspend/resume, audio, etc are all flawless. But I know I'm probably in for some pain next time I upgrade hardware (unless I get last years model).

Second problem -- I picked up a generic 7.1 USB audio device. The center channel and subwoofer are reversed. I can't figure out how to re-assign the audio channels through the driver (I think there is some combination of Alsa and Pulse config file tweaks, but haven't got them to work yet). Ideally I'd like to pass some parameters to the kernel module for the sound device to swap channels. I looked at the source code, saw there was a spot where I can add the chipset in the "quirks" table, but couldn't find the data structures that assign audio output to specific channels. I'll probably end up jumping on one of the kernel dev mailing lists to figure that part out when I get time. Meanwhile, I just made an adapter to swap the channels (both the center speaker and sub-woofer come out of the same audio jack on the sound device).
Having recently started using Windows after years of using Linux exclusively, I'm confident that you can only make this comment with a straight face because you're intimately familiar with one system and not the other.

I feel just like you do, except IMO it's Windows that is baffling and unreliable.
You're doubling your surface for anything unethical, too. It not just the NSA, so it really makes no sense to take additional risk in this regards. You are adding an [or] operator, one that can lead to a complete failure mode. This is the opposite of risk diversification. Unless I'm missing something.
Destructive malware “CryptoLocker” on the loose – here’s what to do
>It's just been held up by proprietary companies every step of the way.

With that kind of angle the FOSS movement might as well fall on its own sword.

Profit driven companies have zero incentive to bother with FOSS & thus they don't bother. One can whine about how unfair that is (see Torvalds vs Nvidia). Write epic arguments about it even...but ultimately that achieves exactly nothing.

Steambox changes the game fundamentally though. There is now a real economic incentive here for nvidia etc to commit real resources...and that has the side effect of benefiting pure FOSS too.

Yes RMS, FOSS, half a percent gain in nix usage, the year of the linux desktop and all that crap...the real world does not care. nix has to take some real world risks to get anywhere...and no moving from gnome 2 to gnome 3 is not a risk...despite all the drama it caused.

>In the case of games, nearly every single game company refuses to provide their games as free (libre) game software.

Obviously. Sinking a couple of million into a game and providing it for free is not exactly a winning strategy. Or worse, devs do so and then introduce microtransactions and similar evils.

The current model suits me perfectly (aside from the DLC bullsht). Once off payment for indefinite access (well until obsolescence anyway).
I think you will struggle to hire good programmers willing to work in VB.NET. (For myself, I wouldn't take a job in anything short of scala or haskell. These aren't "easy" languages; in fact stereotypically they're "hard", but they allow me to write in a few lines something that would be dozens of repetitions of a pattern in a less powerful language. Programming in something else is boring and repetitive by comparison). You said before you were confident in the microsoft platform because of the large, busy websites using it; are any of those built on VB.NET?

>The challenges in writing significant Web site software are outside the language and in the APIs, e.g., the .NET Framework, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, also in the middle ware, e.g., IIS, SQL Server, and in some issues of system and network management, system security, etc.

Sounds like you think you don't really need much actual programming. Maybe the problem you're solving isn't really a technical one, and that's fine - in which case maybe you'll be fine with mediocre programmers and it would be a waste of money to hire top ones.

Well, best of luck either way.
Thank you for actually answering my question.
>We have disinfectant sprays, chlorhexidine, bleach, UV radiation shot by Cylon looking robots, and surfaces made of copper and patterned after shark skin.

And the bacteria which survives all of this, i think it should look something like this:

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm617979392/tt0088944?ref_=ttmi_mi...
No, I was responding to you with an observation about the comment above yours. There's nothing about your post that indicates adherence to libertarianism.
Forbes has been hit and miss lately. For every good article they do about tech, they do some short, sensationalist 'China is taking over' piece like this.
Thank you everyone who just joined in my side-to-side game :)
..Why?
Code from NASA here, http://sourceforge.net/projects/ion-dtn/
30% is great! Font Awesome is sooo sick.

Btw, is there a cheatsheet for those of us using FA3 still? Or are all the old icons interchangeable with "fa-" and "icon-"?
Yes there is: http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/
Jeez, it would sure be helpful if you would explain it to me, then. How worthless is this comment?
I habitually hover over links before clicking them to see the url in the status bar.

It deeply unsettles me when I see a button for which this tactic doesn't work. Rationally, I know there's no difference; you could have an href="example.com" and just capture clicks to do whatever you want. Nevertheless, it still spooked me enough to stop me from clicking the button.
While I may agree with you sentiment, would you expound on it?
The biggest problem with phages is they can be quite specific. Antibiotics put phage research out to pasture because a single, easy to mass produce small molecules were capable of wiping out enormous varieties of bacteria.

With phages you'd need a large library to counter different bacteria, you'd have to successfully identify the bacteria which is causing the problem which may require culturing. If you wanted to maintain phage effectiveness in a heavily selected environment you'd also need to design phage "reactors" where the phages can be continually evolved against current bacterial populations.
I think it's important to draw the distinction between freedom in terms of the freedom of speech on the internet and freedom from surveillance on the internet.

The US is the largest monitor of the internet because most of the traffic passes through points it can monitor. Changing this would restrict US spying, but it would make it easier for other countries to do it (consider, given the announced Olympic surveillance plans) if all the traffic went through Russia). So you'd have to simply hope traffic doesn't get routed through countries who want to spy on each-other(remember, few if any countries have legal restrictions on foreign surveillance). It seems the only real solution to prevent surveillance is end to end cryptography.

The part where it gets dicier is that many of the countries trying to get control of the internet have much poorer legal protections for freedom of speech or social acceptance of it than the US (e.g. China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Brazil).
I always [1] use a virtual credit card [2]. It's only possible for the merchant to charge a specified amount during a specified time.

I create a new card for every purchase, but long standing relationships (ie my VPS provider) gets a longer lasting card so I don't have to update it every month.

[1] The only time I ever enter my true CC is when bying something that requires a physical card (some airlines, certain tickets).

[2] similar to http://www.visaeurope.com/en/cardholders/virtual_cards.aspx but branded by my bank
You could build something like this on Serf, but it would take a little creativity. You might do something like this:

1) Send a "pre-deploy" event. Handler scripts use random number generator to decide which group they are in ("flip a coin" basically)

2) Half the nodes should transition to the "left" state, do the deploy and rejoin the cluster.

3) Once this is done, trigger the migration.

4) Flip the LB to the nodes that did the Join/Leave (you can potentially distinguish them using different role names, or by tracking who left and joined)

5) Run the "post-deploy". The other half of the nodes should now deploy

6) Update the LB to include everybody as the nodes leave/join

This is of course a rough sketch, it is certainly possible if tricky to build something like this.
Given their response several parents up, it's being stored on disk permanently.
> There's more value to a crowd of investors than easy dumb money

I disagree with this. I'll take advice from 2 people that I trust and admire before I'll poll 10,000 people. In my opinion, it's a distraction. That's why I believe it to be more valuable to have a couple of very smart & helpful investors rather than a lot of people with individual opinions and voices.

Maybe a little off-topic, but in some ways, this is what I admire about Steve Jobs, is seeing what people wanted before they realized they wanted it. I don't know if it's real or not, but the quote attributed to Henry Ford, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses" does hold a grain of truth. He could cut past the noise of the crowd to see the potential of an idea. Ask someone in 2004 what they wanted in a phone, and "bigger" probably wasn't on the list.
i'm pretty sure this will work.

Weren't most of us old school nerds programming with 'real tools' when we were 9-13, after all?

Of course, the 'real tools' were a lot simpler then. But the motivation of actually building something real should not be underestimated.
> If you're not ready to pay, then why the hell are you trying my service?

To find out if I like your service enough to pay for it?
someone strlen() that pi numbers guy:/
Why tuberculosis is India's biggest public health problem
Windows 8.1 Japanese Distribution (3000 floppies)
And darknets live on thin air ? Who writes the software of the darknets ?
I think so, Apple has been successful with slow release cylces and making their stuff desirable. For lower cost consumer stuff it probably doesn't matter but these Chinese phones supposedly cost $300+ so I could see holding off a purchase to wait for improvements. Then again, I've had a Tracfone with a buggy LCD for years so I'm always waiting anyway.
What can be wrong is someone's selfish interest affecting negatively everyone else. I.e. acting not for the sake of making a useful law for the public, but acting for the sake of making a useful law for someone's particular pocket at the expense of the public. It's very clearly wrong, but how exactly this can be prevented is a good question.
Make a love heart with LaTeX
Wow, I thought your name was familiar. I just finished archive-trawling Decrypting Rita. Small world!
How I learned to code and quit my day job (in that order)
I highly, HIGHLY recommend Airmail[0] as basically the best gmail, perhaps general email client for Mavericks.

It is incredibly actively developed (betas are free, stable on MAS), immensely feature rich, has out of the box excellent gmail-specific integration, and even great Mavericks support including in-line notification bubble replying as of today.

I have no affiliation with the app at all, but I too was incredibly dismayed by how awful Gmail + Mail.app works these days.

[0]: http://airmailapp.com
That's a very good point. I think we can do that by setting up a href on the <a> will still return false on the onlick. right?
My implication was that sitting through and reading all 24 pages of this review did not seem like a reasonable use of time for a non-fanboy.

Taking casual cheap shots at strangers from behind a meaningless alias reflects on you as well.
The previous hackathon was near Zurich https://whispersystems.org/blog/hackathon-zurich/, so it's certainly not out of the question it will be outside of the US again, some time in the future.
Unless they are PCI compliant [1] they really (really) shouldn't, and would deserve any (and all) kind of hurt that's coming to them.

[1] https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
Here's an interesting question to me: has anyone, instead of switching away from Mail.app to use Gmail, tried switching to purely using an Apple (iCloud) mail account to get Apple's "intended" Mail.app experience? How is it, relative to, say, the Gmail-launched-from-the-Chrome-app-launcher experience?
I still don't see the trouble. I use imap for work email, because our corporate web mail looks like yahoo circa 2004, but gmail I use chrome, a far better user experience.
Why Flash Cannot Die
Those are our dimes you're talking about – get back to work! :)

We're lucky to have you.
Research and Concept Design can work too, who else has some good buzzwords?
The problem is that most people do not really want an Internet controlled by its users, because what most people want is a ton of somewhat-reliable throughput. An Internet run by volunteers out of their homes, cooperatively, could work -- Fidonet works -- but would likely have much lower throughput than today's Internet. Overlay networks (darknets included) cannot work if the ISPs that run the Internet do not allow people to run them or connect to them.
I think Apple, Inc. is Jobs's great creation. If I'm right, Over the next decades you – and the stock market – will be convinced of this.
can you please make it so people can post issues? It is a big part of community. even if you do not personally fix any issues it will allow contributors to collaborate about them.
Karmi's Tire has been ReTired
Ruby on Rails' favourite elasticsearch library has been ReTired...
Apparently, the author is an Indian writing in an Indian publication, not a "sheltered American".
I've been hearing good stuff about this for a while - it's awesome to see it open sourced! Setting up a local haproxy to handle service failover / discovery is a really clever solution, and is an awesome approach to encapsulating a bunch of really messy logic.
I'm also wondering how you get regulatory approval. It doesn't take a lot of change to trigger a recertification with the FCC.
The most full featured Gmail client is the website.
SEC Proposed rules for crowdfunding
"Some services don't send invoices (which really, really bothers me."

Would like to point out that separate from the fact that it bothers you and/or might not be right or ethical or whatever there is no doubt that in general in business you don't want to make it to easy for someone to think and cancel.

I don't think everyone feels that they are "ripped off" just because they didn't get notified that they were still paying for something that they agreed to.

An example is, say, with cable and a premium channel.

We decided to get showtime so we could watch Dexter. We forgot to cancel. The cable company didn't ask us each month "by the way we are still charging you for Showtime, ok?". By some of the comments in this thread it's as if people would expect that would be the "right" thing to do.

Forgetting personal responsibility for a moment if, as a business, you constantly give people a chance to bail many of them will bail (even for the wrong reason) and you will make less money.

The credit card companies by the way will approve charges even on expired credit cards. (Under a certain dollar amount you just have to put in the current month to get an authorization). Apparently they haven't found that practice to be a problem with consumers (although I'm sure they do get complaints.)
That sort of marketing-speak made up word just makes my skin crawl. I don't see how it's any more expressive than "signing up new users". At least he calls them "users" and not "consumers"...

It didn't really stop me from reading the article, I kept going after I finished cringing.
Yes, MRSA has declined, but not because of improved treatments. Now that we can no longer kill these bugs after they invade the body, hospitals have significantly ramped up their efforts to kill them before they invade.

Hurray for these protocols, but that won't do all that we need. It won't be possible to scrub the whole world with poisons the way we have begun scrubbing hospital rooms. We need ways to stop infections that we can't prevent.
Thx, but it is also available http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/
Seems kind of redundant [1].

[1] http://fontawesome.io/3.2.1/
Airmail: Lightning fast mail client for OSX
For example numbers are open, but very huge primaries calculate not so easy.
At $work, we use Google Apps. What happens to people in my situation, who were using Mail.app instead of the web interface?
I can understand the hacker community disagreeing with the author but to do him justice, the article needs to be read in the following light

1. Other countries like China, Iran, Russia etc. will use Snowden's revelations (and likes) to lobby for a system where these countries get an "equal" say in how internet is being run.

2. If at all any government wants to "control" internet it better be US alone than some other nation of mixture of others nations.
This is written by an Indian so I don't think he is sheltered. America is the only superpower and gets a lot of flack because they have no credible peer. Some people can't stand it and will be disappointed for a long time.
I insist on credit cards upfront on moustachecoffeeclub.com I am sending people a free physical bag of coffee though that costs me around $12 so it's very important that I convert people. But yes, lots of advantages to this approach not least getting rid of time wasters, who always seem to be the most annoying "customers" on the planet :)

I think I might do a post sometime about all the fun ways I've sacked my annoying customers. Keeps me interested anyway :)
In a comment on a thread about SVG libraries recently, here on HN, I opined that the world was long in need of a library that takes pre-made, artist created SVG and manipulates it: a jQuery for SVG.

And here it is and I am very grateful. Thank you, Dmitry. Thank you, Adobe.

We also need a world where once again Adobe create great open technologies and fund their development by building superb commercial tools for them.

I eagerly await new tools that work with Snap!
One more thought that relates to what I said below "chance to bail".

As a business you might give someone a 100% money back guarantee. But the same business would never go to someone and say "by the way you haven't complained are you sure you are 100% satisfied? If not let me know and I'll give you your money back!" What do you think would happen then?

(The above is a bit of an extreme example to make a point.)
For VIM n00bs, care to explain what these do/why you use them?
Just to provide numbers: I pay about $650 for a two-room apartment about 15min by subway from Mitte, where I study, and I sublet the smaller room.

I end up paying a bit less than what my classmates pay for rent on average. This is still considered expensive by people who have been living in Berlin for just few years more. The rents are still rising since many people are coming to Berlin at the moment; and have been quite high in hip districts like Prenzlauer Berg for a while, but there is definitely no comparison to many other large cities in Europe like London (and none to the Bay Area at all, where you can literally end up paying $700 for a room shared with a stranger, next to the gap in general living expenses).
Nerd outrage hyperbole much? This is an OPT IN service. You know, only for people who WANT to use it? If it causes you this degree of apoplexy, you are in luck: you don't have to use it.
Sebbo Programmable Wristband $10 000 away from goal on kickstarter
You've confused a figure of speech with a point of argument.

cf. "Information wants to be free."
"why a Parisienne? Why not the English word, which has the advantage of being gender-neutral, "Parisian"?" I believe I did use the term Parisian....
I could have used the even more offensive (joke) term "parisite".
An easy hack for them to collect their users phone numbers too.
Would be amazing if you broke it down into channels/niches/rooms/categories.
I'm guessing you don't count chromebooks/ boxes as "Linux desktops"?
You are mistaken. No one gives a sh to US spying on Indians, Brazilians or Iranians. Most of the outrage you see on internet, on HN and everywhere else is only because US is spying on American citizens. (Control is not same as spying but I would assume spying to be a subset of it)

That is why as a non-american I don't sign any of those petitions condemning NSA for spying on Americans.
You know, I thought it was really great and ethical until you mentioned that. It would be really annoying to constantly have to perform a task. I deal with that every few years when my credit card expires and it's an absolute hassle, albeit that's definitely more of a hassle than logging in and clicking "execute payment."
"Signing up" implies creating a few database records and logging someone in. When I say "onboarding", I mean a deliberate attempt to transition somebody into the workflows and uses of the product.
It is an insane value.

Over a year ago I was looking for a more lightweight image editor that could replace photoshop. After trying a few different options I downloaded Pixelmator and was blown away at how accessible yet powerful and featured it was. Just rock solid and as you said, and they keep developing.

If any hobbyist, amateur, or semi-pro editors out there needs a great editor that isn't as robust as photoshop, this is certainly worth checking out. Money well spent.
My youngest has a fairly strong intolerance to soy. And we've just gotten to a stage where he can eat eggs that are cooked into stuff (muffins, pancakes, etc) but not just by themselves (fried, scrambled, etc). We haven't even tried nuts with him yet. When people think of food allergies they think nuts because that is the more common one and more likely to cause anaphylaxis. Less attention is given to intolerances (maybe because they are not typically fatal). That is starting to change though. When I tell people he's intolerant to soy they don't really grasp what that means. It is probably 100 times easier to avoid nuts than it is to avoid soy. Soy is in practically everything. Particularly the things kids like to eat. My kid is too young to really benefit from this app since he can't really tell me his mood. All I could do is notice if he starts throwing up or has nasty diapers. But I can totally see this helping people who need to track their reactions to foods.
I was curious if there had been any discussion about this. I suppose not. Recommended in the "Mavericks ruins Mail.app" thread[0], I was surprised to find it only costs $2. Given the lessons of Sparrow[1] (which sold for $3!), this doesn't seem sustainable.

What's their business model? Is it entirely based on $2 upfront sales with no sustained support? Because I cannot imagine that lasting long.

[0]. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6601202

[1]. http://davidbarnard.com/post/58970496119/the-sparrow-problem
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Synthesizing DNA cheaply with a DNA laser printer