skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Linux community doesn't help either. Some of them want to be inclusive, but the majority of the community think that Linux should be an exclusive club where only those with a high level of knowledge should get treated with any kind of respect or help. Just go Google any Linux topic, and I assure you the first page will contain several forum post where the only response is "RTFM," "if you cannot figure this out you shouldn't be touching it (audio issues)" (paraphrasing), or even "maybe you'd be better off using Windows teehee."

I think Ubuntu has done much to make Linux more consumer friendly and I congratulate them for that. But realistically Android or Chrome OS (Chromebook, etc) are the only two Linux OSs I'd likely use on a daily basis because in both cases they abstract you away from the ugly Linux innards better than any standard distro' is able to do.

The fact that Linux depends so heavily on the terminal/console is just pathetic. It reminds me of Windows 9x. Which is kind of depressing when you consider that the Linux kernel is the most advanced kernel currently in existence, but they get weighed down by the UNIX legacy stuff, users, and GNU side of things.

That's why Android is so wonderful. Instead of it being Linux/GNU, it is Linux/Android. When we get a full desktop OS without the GNU gunk and the associated bad-attitude ("terminal is the bestest, I am so 1337!!!") I'd happily switch to it. Hell I'd switch to a Linux/Android OS if Google and friends made one for the PC desktop (with real windows/multi-tasking).

OS X is also a great UNIX OS because there is no terminal fallback. You can do 90%+ of things you'd ever need to do on OS X via UIs and tools. Plus the community on OS X is better than the toxic Linux community, even if they're a little defensive when people criticize Apple/OS X.
I haven't measured, but it feels faster (some apps seem to load much faster, Wikipedia for example).
Plague Inc. should be up there.
If you haven't already, add

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to your hosts file.
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CT is also simply more available, so it's an option. In the past, not so much.
Before getting alarmed consider doing the math to assign numerical value to level of danger. Wikipedia article on Sievert has the formulas for it, as well as benchmark values to judge the outcome.

If you don't want to do the math, consider this handy chart: http://xkcd.com/radiation/
I'd imagine this works similarly to how a slice of bread in a bag of cookies keeps the cookies chewy, as the sugar attracts and holds the water from the bread, and keeps the cookies from drying out. Something to do with sugar being hygroscopic.
If this was a big elephant in the room, then I would expect there to be some modicum of evidence that this causes any increase in cancer risk. Maybe a shred of evidence that cancer rates have gone up? Anything. We'll wait.
At least Ubuntu 14.04 will have type-ahead find. Thank you for all your work.
Arch, in my experience, tends to not work well if you don't care for it. It rots; the longer you don't keep up to date on everything, the worse the experience of using it gets.

I would rather install a new version every year or two, have the regular updates run when I use the computer, and have everything I need as quickly as possible without too much effort. Ubuntu with PPAs provides this experience. Arch provides the latter, but fails at the former.
He says "Apple showed the world how awesome a central managed application store is". As a developer I feel like the worst thing about iOS and Android are their app stores.
Could Bitcoin, Bittorrent, Napster, Chatroulette, or any new and fun applications or websites exist if they were forced to appear in an app store? No way! Do we want some giant company deciding what new technology developers can come up with in the future? I hope we don't do that to ourselves.
App stores are garbage.
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Unity is already moving from Gtk to Qt, so the move away from user-visible GNOME elements is natural. The question is what they're going to do with the GNOME "plumbing". To fork and maintain a mixed Gtk/Qt legacy codebase, or to reimplement everything from scratch...neither seems attractive.
A handy radiation-exposure chart: http://xkcd.com/radiation/

It's the first thing I check with before looking for any details (which are conveniently linked at the bottom, by the way).
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This just in: The game industry is destroyed.
Why would it destroy PC gaming?
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Why was the title censored?
Agree, and it's not opinion, it's scare-mongering linkbait. Ridiculous to see that along with no actionable data from NYT. I'm giving myself a stroke just thinking about it.
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that whole 10x 50x bullshit is a myth.
In the game I'm developing, although it'd be considerably simpler to write it client-side, I'm writing it server side. No point in building something that will be easy to rip off by a "fast follower".
I actually hope you are right. While I am not exactly happy with Ubuntu's direction myself, I would be more then happy if they succeed at attracting more linux users.
Hacker news is all about censorship.
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Clarity.fm looks great. Sohelpful.me looks promising- I like the call schedule feature it has. Thank you very much.
Microsoft, hire this guy and pay him a lot of money!
>Do not, do not, DO NOT, try... You will fail and you will lose a lot of money.

Typical HN top comment :)
What sites have you already looked at?
I am not sure how any of what happened then is Hacker News, however, when I read that article a few days ago, I was impressed with how well written it was and how much misinformation is spread about Woody Allen.

I hope that Malone (Dylan) Farrow can heal and recover.

The whole thing does strike me as false memory syndrome along with a huge dose of parental alienation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory_syndrome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_alienation
Not that we're doing anything to prevent it either... like, for example, exercising.
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The biggest improvement here is subtle, yet important. He made the desktop experience separate from the touch experience, and the touch experience separate from the desktop. Similar to what one would think of with Ubuntu on the desktop versus the touch version that would go on phones. Not providing the unoptimized experience would go a long way.

And the comment on Windows RT being renamed Windows Lite... good idea.
I don't understand Mike White's and Boris Watch's jokes.
By assuming RSA would be invented without patents, you are begging the question. Would R, S and A even be employed by MIT and given free reign to do their research if MIT was not assured of capturing the rewards of their innovation? I think you'll find there are a negligible a number of institutions who will invest in anything without prospects of getting returns on it, much less risky enterprises like research.
There is also http://circular.io/
I totally agree.
Starting from Gnome Shell to removing type-ahead find from Nautilus, GNOME developers' decisions have been more and more deluding.
I think he was advocating optional app stores, not a sole-provider app store like on iOS. Even though OS X and Android have app stores, they also let you install any “unapproved” apps you want and open whatever web apps you want, after changing a one-time setting. The proposed Windows 8.2 would probably be the same.

As long as app stores remain optional, I think they are a good thing. It is a lot simpler for users to browse one place for apps and install all apps in the same simple way. An app store is a reassuringly simple way to install software for those who aren’t very confident with modifying their computers.
Fukushima's shield wall failed.

You mean the seawall that was protecting the switchgear for the backup diesel generators? That didn't fail; it was simply not high enough to keep out the tsunami. Which, as you note, was not the case for other similar reactors:

it's also well known (documented) that this was an identified risk, and that other reactors along the coast did have sufficiently high shield walls.

Agreed. Which shows that reactor designs of that generation can be operated safely. See below.

You've omitted stockpiling reactive waste from your calculus.

Which is a lot easier if you reprocess the spent fuel, as every nuclear-using country except the US does (US policy forbade it from the mid-1970's until about 2000, since then there have been, IIRC, contractual issues getting it started).

Ditto the inadvertent release of contamination.

Which, once again, is much smaller than other major energy sources when evaluated per unit of energy produced.

Treehuggers like me are looking for solutions, not more rhetoric.

And once again, of all the other major energy sources--by "major" I mean "capable of sustaining the required base load capacity for a country the size of the US at first world standards of living"--nuclear is by far the safest. What opposition to nuclear power by treehuggers like yourself has done is to force people to make a choice: either drastically reduce our standard of living, or use energy sources with much greater health and environmental impacts like coal and oil. Guess which choice people picked?

I completely agree that, now that we have safer nuclear reactor designs, we should be building them, and not building any more of the older, less safe designs. (I don't know that traveling wave reactors are at the point where we can build operating plants, btw; but there are other inherently safe designs that are further along.) But given that we have plenty of existing plants that are perfectly capable of being operated safely, we can get cleaner energy from them than we can from coal and oil.
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What's weird about this thread is that the "Modern design language" is considered to be unifying. A design language is just a theme. A skin. It's not meant to unify. Wide lapels this year. Narrow lapels next year.

APIs are unifying. Too bad they are un-unified in Windows. A security model is unifying. But <sad-tombone/> not in Windows.

So WP and XBOX will be the touch vanguard? Damn but that TV is far away. Makes touch laptop look reasonable.
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Slow in what way? If you think about what it's doing, it can only be so slow. Assuming the browser's engine doesn't do any sort of optimization (bind is a native method, so it might), it is simply creating an anonymous function that calls the original. So it's an extra function call:

var boundFn = function(){ return originalFunction.apply( this, [boundArg1, boundArg2].concat( arguments ) ); }

or something like that.
Ask HN: Previous article where the author AB tested his ending email statement 
I'm trying to track down the article, but for the life of me can't remember what it was titled.<p>The premise was that the author upped his client responses by changing how he ended his initial contact emails. For example, if I recall correctky, he moved from writing "Let me know if there's anything I can do for you," to something much more directed (i.e. "This is the next step we should take").<p>Does anyone recall this article?
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It'll still yell at you for typos, though. You can confuse positional with nominal, but you can't make invalid nominal statements.

Which is not at all to say that Erlang's tuple/record trick is anything but a clever trick. It is kind of neat to see how far you can go with just that, though.
>I would say any strategy game would be just fine with touch controls.

I'd agree that board-game style strategy/war games would work, and also quite a few turn-based strategy games.

Its also possible to make certain types of real-time strategy games. Unfortunately, complex RTS games like Starcraft probably can't be done well without extreme oversimplification.
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http://www.horsesmouth.co.uk/
http://www.score.org/mentors
http://www.mentornet.net/

Mentor net looked the most up to date but doesn't show anything about the platform. Im interested in sites that differentiate themselves technologically.
Summary:

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After a few minutes, the women dropped the pretense. They said they were from Uber and made a mouthwatering offer to switch to UberX: If he signed up for the service, Uber wouldn't skim its usual 15 percent off fares for the rest of the year. Plus, he could land a $500 bonus for picking up 20 passengers, and for simply checking out the company's headquarters he would receive a $50 gas card - and a free lunch.
You're absolutely right. Arch does not like being neglected. That being said, I had no trouble falling into the habit of running pacman -Syu and glancing at the archlinux.org home page every day or two.

Also, it might be possible to set up a cronjob or a systemd service that sees if there are any posts on archlinux.org that you should read, and if not, does an automatic update regularly.
I know some people on the Windows team. My immediate reaction when I tried the beta was, "Oh shit, I have to let them know what someone has done to their work before it's too late! The public is about to see this!". Obviously, after half a second of thought, I realized they already know and use what I was seeing for the first time. But it was so shockingly bad that I instinctively thought it was some kind of mistake that they must not have seen yet.

When I did talk to them next, it was more along the lines of expressing condolences. I thought since it was objectively bad, it goes without saying that they also think it is bad, and some internal politics led to what was released, ruining their hard work. To my surprise, they defended it and claimed to really like it. I found this so baffling that I've since been struggling with several theories; "either they are crazy or I am crazy, I'm not sure which anymore", some kind of Stockholm Syndrome, or something contaminating the water around Redmond.

I ruled out the possibility that it's me who is crazy after a few rounds of a game where I hand my laptop to a coworker, who uses windows exclusively (and one even develops drivers for it), and told them to try and close Internet Explorer and shut down the computer. Invariably the result was trying for 5 or 10 minutes before walking away in frustration, sometimes with colorful language.
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> By that logic there should have been no problems whatsoever before the creation of the rules that generally obtain at schools today

No, not "no problems whatsoever" just "fewer problems than there are now." Which is in fact the case.

The problem is that people looked at the problems that existed before the rules were in place and applied an argument of the form: There is a problem. Something must be done about this problem. This is something. Therefore we must do this.

I hope I don't have to explain the flaw in this reasoning.
Thanks to Anthony Ramine for his hard work on the named `fun' feature, and to the OTP guys as always :^)