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>I haven't had wifi issues with Ubuntu for over 5 years.

No surprise there. Some wifi hardware is supported out of the box and will just work. That is not the problem. The pain starts when something does not just work.

>What computer did you have these problems with, where you needed to install a new kernel module?

Given that I am a major nerd I have multiple ones and admin even more ones. I think that particular episode happened with an Asus Eee Box B202 and an older version of Ubuntu.

> but OSX/iOS use a package manager.

I do not use anything Apple but if I recall correctly OS X uses self-contained .app bundles i.e. the apps usually include all their dependencies except those present on a particular OS X version by default. It is the "dependency management" done by Linux package managers which I hate. Namely that every app becomes a tangled web of dependencies with unlimited potential for pain. Apps should be self-contained, the OS should be a stable, well-defined platform to run them. I.e. "requires Window XP or newer" or "requires Mac OS X 10.6 or newer" is okay, "requires [long list of packages]" is not. That model will cause problems sooner or later. "I updated X and suddenly Y no longer works" etc.

As a programmer I find the concept of simply automatically updating libfoo 2.1.x to libfoo 2.1.y because "the developers say it does not break compatibility" scary. Software is written by people, developers accidentally break compatibility all the time, or write software which depends on buggy behavior, behavior which later gets fixed by other developers, thus breaking said software. Thus all common Linux package managers are themselves broken by design. They are only acceptable if you accept that occasionally some things will just stop working after a system update.

>Do you enjoy manually updating software one app at a time?

I do not often have to update any software and when I do it I can usually try the new version without uninstalling the old one easily and I know that its installation will not affect any other apps on my system. Yes, I enjoy that.

>the times a regular user needs to do that are becoming few and very far between.

No disagreement there, but as I said, personally I am not willing to put up with an OS where this happens, no matter how rarely it happens - unless I have to.
I've been using linux for literally 20 years now. The first ten I did all my own sysadminning, the next ten I used it exclusively in organizations with professional administrators to complain to, and now in my current job I'm back to having to do things myself, and I can assure you it's just as much of a pain to do things in 2014 as it was back in 2002.

They gave me a new monitor at work and it took me literally six hours to figure out the right magic to get the resolution in a mode that wouldn't cause instant headaches, and I still can't run KDE applications without the X server segfaulting.
Apparently loads of dentists lost fingers and hands to cancer and bone degeneration before they figured out not to hold the x-ray film themselves. Now they have the patient hold it. It just drives home that the stuff is not harmless.
Right. That drives the distribution of "free" newpapers and publications of various stripes.

The real meat is in producing results -- a reason I've found CPM or clickthroughs or readership, or other forms of measurement to be somewhere between irrelevant and misleading. It's why promo codes (including branded URLs such as http://product.example.com/npr , say) are used (they track responses). Similarly coupons or other special deals.

Don Marti's long argued that highly-targeted advertising actually has strongly negative. That it's the very wastefulness of mass advertising that's a powerful part of the signal:

http://zgp.org/targeted-advertising-considered-harmful/#targ...

Quoting Evan Davis et al: “It is not so much the claims made by advertisers that are helpful, but the fact that they are willing to spend extravagant amounts of money on a product that is informative.”

Of course, this can backfire: if I'm aware that a specific advertiser (or industry) has a long history of deceptive advertising or trade practices, I may read their ads as a negative signal (as, in fact, I do for many mass-market consumer goods: if you've got to spend that much money convincing me this is something worth buying, it's quite possibly not).
Corporations are many. Government is one. Corporations don't have police force or armies because they would be paying for them out of their own pocket. Instead, they lobby the government to use violence/regulation/wars where it is required for profits, and then taxpayers pay for it.

So, what you really want, is remove opportunities for corporations to use free money. Then everything they do, they'd have to pay for out of their own pocket. And that would be a game changer.
Sounds like the US! Or really any power today -- capable of inflicting great damage on a foreign power, but not capable of occupation and pacification.
Facebook's bootcamp: do people get cut?
I saw some stat that ~10% of facebook new hires don't get through the six-week bootcamp. Is this true?
How I found a million style and grammar errors in the English Wikipedia: by browsing it.
Also, there is $.proxy in jQuery that is very similar to bind but its not attached to the function.
Where was it posted originally?
Here you go, the paid games only: http://honestandroidgames.com/tagged/paid
Spread toolkit 4.4.0-RC1 released
Compulsive, QbQbQb, and LYNE are some of the best minimalist games with calming soundtracks.
As you would, really.
It looks like they're one and the same, so the karma is going to the right place :)
I can understand him saying that if he used, say, Arch. But distros like Mint are arguably easier to use than Windows.

And then they have the advantage that they don't have to be 'fixed' like Windows 8, which destroys the point of the post.
His one is the cause.
A bit more comprehensive article can be found here:

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2014/01/23/understanding-...
Sauce Labs - San Francisco, Remote - https://saucelabs.com

SF startup providing cloud based selenium testing. We've got our own cloud, and spin up VM's running any OS and Browser. Pipe selenium commands using the JSONWire protocol through our API to run your tests in parallel on our infrastructure.

~50 employees now and growing quickly. Ideal SF startup culture where everyone is incredible, unique, and places a strong emphasis on living a healthy and full life.

Hiring:

- Core Developer: working on VM architecture, Python, heavy duty networking...

- Full-stack web devs

- Mobile developers (for our iOS and Android images/emulators)
Hitchhiker's Guide to Clojure
Must be this:

http://www.cancer.gov/newscenter/newsfromnci/2012/CTpediatri...

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

Note the large difference in presentation. NCI:

"...a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors..."

"...The researchers emphasize... the benefits of clinically appropriate CT scans should outweigh future cancer risks"

NY Times:

"...three times more likely to develop leukemia and brain cancer"

"...distressingly little evidence of better health outcomes"

It's some sort of golden rule of sensationalism: if the risk is minuscule, report it as a large multiplier over a tiny baseline.

(Or possibly, an absolute incidence count out of a gigantically large population. NYT, thoughtfully, did both).
Basically the first two pages I found after Googling for about a minute:

The average annual cosmic radiation dose for flight personnel was 2.19 mSv (ie, less than one CT scan)
http://www.hps.org/publicinformation/ate/faqs/commercialflig...

Flight attendants 2x-5x higher cancer rates
http://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/news/20031021/flight-crew...
It completely depends on the way the ads are implemented. Some games have deceptive ads that trick you into clicking them, and some could best be described as "naggy".

Personally, even with honestly-implemented ads, I'd prefer to have the option of purchasing an ad-free version. Though I wouldn't call apps without such option "dishonest". So, I agree with you that ad-supported games can indeed by honest. If you're going to have a site named honestandroidgames.com, it seems unfair to disregard all ad-supported games.

That being said, I think this site is great!
Yes, it can, and often is. Consider Albert Stevens. [1] He was (without his knowledge or consent) injected with a dose of 131 kBq of Pu, yielding a lifetime exposure of around 64 Sv. (An acute dose of >= 5 Sv is usually fatal.)

He died of heart disease 20 years later.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens
Maybe it's just an MVP to validate interest before building a proper site.
http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_belie...

There. Whole bunch of drama, as you can read about if you enable subredit CSS.
While your comment as a whole is thoughtful and well written, I'm surprised to hear you say, "Medical imaging is not done very often..."

Medical imaging is commonly overused, and its overuse is recognized as being one of the leading causes of certain types of cancer. For example, the original story explains...

"In a 2011 report sponsored by Susan G. Komen, the Institute of Medicine concluded that radiation from medical imaging, and hormone therapy, the use of which has substantially declined in the last decade, were the leading environmental causes of breast cancer, and advised that women reduce their exposure to unnecessary CT scans." (The substantial decline refers to hormonal therapy, not imaging.)
Orbeus, a computer-vision company, created a facial-recognition service, called Rekognition, which promises to identify faces, detect emotion, and determine whether or not the subject is attractive.

That seems like the sort of determination that ought to be made by the wearer...
In more general terms: concentration of wealth is the root cause of all evil in the world.
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At least tablet PC was its own edition, not something forced on everyone.
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Why of course -- a certain percent get "counseled out of the organization", according to widespread reports.

That's part of the reason why they call it "bootcamp."
SEEKING WORK: Remote preferred. Based in Malaysia.

Backend software engineer, specializing in Python/Django development. If you have the design, I can turn it into a working website. Looking for part-time gigs (10 hours/week, I currently hold a full-time job). Willing to offer discount to build my portfolio.

Contact details in my profile.

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Server-side: Python - Django.

Database: Postgresql

OS: Ubuntu, OSX

Infrastructure: AWS, Linode, Vagrant, Git.

Devops: Ansible

Others: I have experience building reporting systems, web crawlers and APIs.

Front-end: Basic HTML/CSS/Javascript/jQuery - I don't do much design work.
I've been heavily playing Counterstrike: Global Offensive lately, and I've found that it has truly honest, unbiased IAP. You can buy skins for weapons that make them look cooler, and high-end skins will also add StatTrak, which let's you see how many kills you managed with a given weapon. That's it.

You can get the same items via play, but there's a thriving real-money market around them, with items ranging from cents to hundreds of dollars.

IAP isn't the enemy; shitty games that exist solely to make money are the enemy.
> It seems like a simple solution to me would be to make the game free, but with most features blocked behind a SINGLE in-app purchase.

This is pretty much what id Software did in the 90s with Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake and most people in the industry thought they were nuts and it would never work. Obviously it worked extremely well (the difference being it was levels that were gated instead of features, but same concept).
Love it. An iOS version pls?
As someone now in Hong Kong about to fly back home to SF, I have always tried to schedule my flights so that I minimize my exposure to day time radiation. I guess I'm in the minority, but it's something to consider when taking international flights.
Awesome. Now, if we could only get the BBB to put out a scam warning on itself.
I'm not a doctor, but the way I understand it cumulative exposure is what really matters.

Ionizing radiation, such as X-Rays, tends to pass through matter with less interaction than lower energy EMR, such as light. Obviously, there is some interaction or it wouldn't be good for imaging! When ionizing radiation is absorbed it (as the name suggests) ionizes an atom by knocking an electron free. That ion will then probably form a bond almost immediately, altering the molecule it's a part of. If that molecule is a cell-wall, piece of enamel on your teeth, etc. the change will be harmless. There's a small chance it could be change to the DNA of one of your cells though. Most changes are probably harmless, but some can cause the cell to replicate out of control. i.e. Cancer.

Basically, getting cancer is like winning the lottery, and radiation gives you tickets. It doesn't matter if you get them all at once or spread them out. You might think radiation sickness is evidence that acute exposure behaves differently, but it actually takes several centuries worth of background radiation exposure to induce mild radiation sickness, so you're already operating in a whole new ballpark.
Yes, it works well. But mobile gaming companies have discovered that selling drugs is far more lucrative.
You can configure the priority of the sections in /etc/man.conf or similar.
So what! Grammatical and style errors are only important when it impacts the meaning. The majority of pages I read that contain poor grammar are still perfectly understandable. I correct many that I see, but you don't have to look far to find more.

I'll take a wikipedia that has these kinds of errors over a time before wikipedia. As a boy going to the library and immersing myself in encyclopedias and world maps I am gobsmacked at how wonderful great resources like wikipedia, freebase and google maps are.
NullCrew claims to have hacked Bell Canada
Rothschild ‘Prayer Book’ sold for $13.6million In Auction
This. Don't use your zone apex name as your main site. You will regret it. If visitors come to the non-www version of the site send them a 301 redirect.
I want one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
GitHub and BitBucket (2011)
typical for !Microsoft management, why I am not surprised?
There is not a complete Quantum Gravity Theory, so all what I will say are only educated guess, supposing that the final theory will mix gracefully with the current theories for the other forces.

> [...] thereby producing a propulsive force thereon without having to expel propellant from the object. [...] Local momentum conservation is preserved by the flux of momentum in the gravity field that is chiefly exchanged with the distant matter in the universe.

The gravity field should be quantized, and the associated particles are the gravitons. So in this effect they are using a jet of gravitons instead of a jet of photons (like in my example) or a jet of atoms/ions (like in a conventional rocket).

The exact quote can be used to describe how the “laser motor” works:

(modified quote) [...] thereby producing a propulsive force thereon “without” having to expel “propellant” from the object. [...] Local momentum conservation is preserved by the flux of momentum in the electromagnetic field that is chiefly exchanged with the distant matter in the universe.

The correctness of this phrase depends on if you count the photons/gravitons as propellant or not.

The graviton shold be massless, because the gravity force has unlimited range. The relation of the energy-momentum in a graviton should be a cuadrivector, or in more simple terms, the formula in my other comment should be valid, with a “rest mass” m = 0.

So the formula can be simplified and you get the same p = E/c relation of the photons, with is very small as throwaway_yy2Di noted.
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Detroit went from the best big city school system in 1950 to the worst today.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/michigan/d...

Anyone who doesn't think excelling in that environment isn't a highly significant achievement is sadly mistaken.
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Tell HN: I made $11.21 on a single Hacker News Comment and so can you
6 days ago I commented on a thread about 37% chocolate. In my response I linked to some dark godiva chocolate on Amazon and included my affiliate tag in the link.

When I was called out on including the affiliate tag I promised to follow up in a week. Well I'm a day early, but I'm calling it close enough.

If you didn't know, Amazon will pay you for referrals to their site that result in sales. Not just for the product you linked to, but for all products purchased in that visit. This can pay off pretty well.

301 of you clicked on the link in my comment. That's more than I anticipated. 3 things of chocolate sold. Commission on that doesn't add up to much. 7% on $63 is about $4. I made almost triple that because of other things people purchased.

The largest and strangest of those purchases being a Shimano RD-M591 Deore SGS Rear Derailleur
(for a bike) ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003OWPRLI?tag=itemsid-20 )

So here are the results:

Items Shipped	Revenue	Advertising Fees

Amazon.com Items Shipped	6 $98.97	$6.16

Third Party Items Shipped	5 $109.25	$5.05

Items Shipped	11 $208.22	$11.21

I don't think I'm going to get rich by this method. The turn out was way better than I expected. I though 40 people would click and 1 would buy an HDMI cable for $4 and I'd make 28 cents.

Probably I violated a Hacker News Rule somewhere, and I apologize for that. I don't think this is much different than linking to your own site that has ads in it so I don't feel too bad. In truth I really just wanted the click through stats, all the other numbers were just incidental.

Here is the thread I commented on:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7125646
Depends on the interviewer, company and job.

Say I saved a million dollars a year by adjusting a configuration setting, no coding required. That might go over well with a business type, but if the interviewer is all about the programming, it doesn't demonstrate technical mastery. There will be no scope for talking about the technical challenges, the languages and databases I used, what I learned from the experience, or how much I enjoyed it and grew as a person and a professional.

Say I introduced source control and automated testing at a medium sized company. Again, the technical work is limited - you can install Jenkins with apt-get, the real challenges are political and educational, changing 'official' workflows and 'supported' software and convincing people to sink time into using the tools for long enough that they can see the benefits which are not immediately apparent. If I'm being interviewed by a young guy at a startup they might think they have no politics so my skills will be useless - or worse that I'll introduce politics. Or it just won't seem like much of an achievement, after all the six of us at this startup switched from bzr to git in an afternoon.

Needless to say, if the original job description says "wanted: someone to teach us source control and automated testing" that would be a different matter :)
OpenSSH 6.5p1 unofficially ported to osx
For me, the Win7 start menu was the best. Primarily because of the built-in search, which, while not perfect, makes Win8 search seem broken by comparison. Also I'm probably not a typical user in that don't hunt for the app I want to launch: it's either pinned to the taskbar, something I can quickly search for, or in my PATH to launch from the Run prompt.