skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying to cast an argument as a strawman with a strawman is pretty weak.

You've also admitted that it's an incomplete solution. But What's worse is that people are going to buy this and quickly they'll have to scrap it when it gets out of sync, deadlocks or can't handle more than 8 boxes.
If it worked in a 1.5.x version of Wine, it's probable that it works in the stable 1.6 version of Wine. Most Wine releases (like the one in the article link) are basically snapshots of the beta tree, and while we do have extensive test-driven-development there are still regressions. Stable releases, however, pretty much have a no-regression policy.

As far as Wine "catching up" to the newest stuff Microsoft releases being an ongoing game, the news is a bit better for Wine than for Libre Office. Wine only needs to implement the crazy new APIs Microsoft creates when they're actually being used by applications. At the very least this gives us considerable time leeway -- not having a Direct3D 10 implementation didn't hurt Wine much when every game kept having a Direct3D 9 fallback for a few years.
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That's not 100% fraudulent, that's like 80% fraudulent.
This is why top-down, single-source of truth is mostly the best way for core infrastructure. No pun intended. It's important for some parts to not be infinitely reconfigurable or dynamic because it would create chaos and service dependency deadlock/DoS. Most people not running bare metal don't know the lessons of how and why things underneath are they way they are and the sensible limits what's possible.

It's also more secure because if it's possible to dictate all of the service details, it's much easier to run a lean and locked-down infrastructure.

CoreOS by itself looks great. More JEOS distros need to happen. Trying to bundle more unproven things just looks marketing led the product.
That was a lot of text to say:

"Today, we’re introducing Firefox Accounts as a safe and easy way for you to create an account. With Firefox Account can integrate services, like Firefox Sync.

Firefox Sync enables syncing of passwords, bookmarks, history, and open tabs across devices, now even easier to setup the service and add multiple devices"
I've been kicking around a similar idea for some time now, only that it would be a standalone iOS/Android app. On iOS, it'd output a .ovpn file that could be directly loaded into the OpenVPN app and started up. I'm sure Android would have a similar process, though I admit to not being as familiar with it.
More to the point, evolutionary psychology fails the standard litmus tests for science:

1. Skepticism toward ideas not supported by empirical evidence, specifically the assumption that an idea not supported by evidence is assumed to be false (the "null hypothesis") -- the opposite of the normal attitude toward ideas shared by psychologists, who famously assume an idea to be true until it's been proven false.

2. A basis for falsification of theories based on empirical evidence. Not to say all ideas are false, but any of them must be falsifiable in principle by empirical evidence, by reality tests.

3. The idea that all theories are temporary and open to replacement by newer theories supported by better empirical evidence, in other words, nothing ever becomes true and beyond challenge.

Psychology in general, and evolutionary psychology in particular, certainly fails one or more of these tests.
Has anyone checked out serf http://www.serfdom.io/ if yes what are the pros and cons of etcd and serf?
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Tim Ferriss' Meta-Learning..compressed into 1 page
Easy read though
Just tried Krita out on Win7 x64 with 16-bit colors. It works fine with default white background.

But if I set the background color to 0% opacity (aka transparent) the drawing becomes ultra-slow like 1 pixel per second :/
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Yes, they should have this feature but I don't know what is holding them from it
> Second, evolution can only work with a high growth rate and a high rate of natural selection.

This is false, quite false. Even a flat growth rate, a population that doesn't change in size at all, supports the mechanisms of natural selection. Examples abound in which one or more species that are pushing against the carrying capacity of their environments continue to evolve, both within and between species.
Pfft. A sports shoe company? How could that ever be a big enough market to support a public company?[1][2]

A company like Garmin has made an art of growing revenues in markets that are supposed to be eaten by mobile phones. For example, their fitness division (which is basically GPS Cycling Computers and Watches) made $83 million in Q2 2013[3]. Everything Garmin bike computers do you can get an iPhone app to do instead. But people (including me) buy them because they are SO MUCH BETTER than using a phone.

Incidentally, Garmin introduced their GoPro competitor at the end of 2013.

Also worth noting there is no reason GoPro has to stay limited to cameras.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike,_Inc.

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_boom_of_the_1970s

[3] http://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2013/10/30/garm...
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This is a nice idea in theory, but after all the NSA revelations, we should all be very weary of cloud based data storage. Mozilla is based in the US, so what is stopping the NSA issuing them demands to hand over the user accounts? Browser data is just too detailed and sensitive, I would rather run Firefox portable off a flash drive and carry it with me.
"We don't really need the advertising anymore, we get enough traffic as it is." What a ridiculous thing to say!
well it gives the advantage that (used to?) keep desktop-Linux clear of most viruses: it's too little a fish for blackhats to go after.

until that's different it's harder to answer your actual question. my guess, it'll be better but inevitably still have some holes.
I'd have to say that TD bank has the worst password reset I've ever seen. You just need the persons access card number, and be able to answer one of 3 question(what's my favorite book ect) and you get to change the password. Doesn't even notify the person.
> For the time being, we don't have the infrastructure to support solely public transportation, so in the meantime it is reasonable to use electric vehicles.

You put everything upside down. You do not have the efficient infrastructure _because of automobiles_ and, by representing automobiles as something recycled, your perpetuate this wasteful infrastructure.
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Thanks! Glad you liked it! I plan to do a proper brown-bag Air-Mozilla presentation of it soon, so we'll have a video recording available online (and not just the slides).

FYI, I showed three different designs in that presentation, to compare/contrast 1: original J-PAKE, 2: intermediate not-used SRP thing, 3: final non-SRP "onepw" design. More than one audience member was left confused about which one we're using for Sync. Tell your friends: we're deploying the last one, nicknamed "onepw", from page 20 of that slide deck:

http://people.mozilla.org/~bwarner/warner-rwc2014/#/20

cheers,
-Brian (member of Mozilla FxA/Sync team)
what is the value in communicating with it? it sounds as if it has very little propellant left. is there any meaningful science that it can do that we otherwise could not?
> I'm really surprised this didn't come up more as the idea that "science is attacking my religion" tends to be one of the main reasons that people seemed to be adverse to science. It places a false dichotomy in choosing between their faith & science.

There's a dichotomy between science and religion, but it's not false by any means. In the most fundamental sense, and not to oversimplify, the scientific mind assumes ideas to be false until there is evidence to support them (scientists call this the "null hypothesis"), and the religious mind assumes an idea to be true until evidence proves it false -- exactly the opposite outlook.

Why is it a mistake to assume claims are true unless proven false? Easily explained — let's say I'm a True Believer who believes in Bigfoot. According to the True Believer's way of picturing reality, Bigfoot exists unless someone can prove he doesn't exist. But think about this — Bigfoot cannot possibly be proven not to exist somewhere in the universe, hiding under some rock. In formal logic, a disproof would require "proof of a negative", an impossible evidentiary burden. Therefore a skeptical, scientific outlook is essential to avoid wasting time on childish fantasies. Need I add that religious people just don't understand this?

Remember this when you see endless phony TV documentaries about Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and ghost hunters. These shows are popular because most people don't have the slightest idea how to process ideas. And only some of them have religious beliefs -- others are simply out in the ozone.

The above is the "big secret", the divide that separates science and religion. And it's not a puddle, it's bigger than the Grand Canyon.
How you mount it is the biggest influence on shake. I think it's pretty decent, especially if you head mount it. [1] is a good sample.

I've never heard of the Gear Pro. Some of the Go Pro alternative are pretty decent, though. The Garmin Vibe has some nice features, but the form factor might not be great for running (no chest mount). Take a look at [2] for some things to think about (read the comments, too)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_iU8rRGBQE

[2] http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/12/garmin-depth-review.html
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Isn't setting up a ssh tunnel easier?
> Even smart people believe dumb things because they have a greater ability to rationalize their choice of beliefs.

This is quite true -- many very smart people hold onto embarrassing beliefs only because they can (and do) out-argue anyone in their immediate environment. There's a name for this that I have unfortunately forgotten.
It's clever branding and nice.

If it could use Heroku as backends for repos, now that would probably break HK's freemium model.

The other point is that bitbucket has unlimited private repos for free and github has unlimited public ones for free. In a business setting, I can't see the time and cost of maintaining code services except as a backup, or if you are Goldman Sachs imprisoning your ex-employees or a defense contractor working on missiles. (Setting up giolite + active directory + Crowd + JIRA + FishEye was a chore I'd rather not repeat.)

It looks a little nicer than gitlab, but has anyone had recent experience with gitlab, redmine or github enterprise?

Ultimately though, github could threaten C&D against the authors if it were to take off because it's such a design ripoff. Although it has almost no commercial viability it's neat for its own sake.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494478
I expect those of us that host their own Sync server will have to deploy this[0] one instead. This is the general idea I got reading [1].

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-auth-server

[1]: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/02/07/a-better-firefo...
Was the snark really necessary? Clones rarely are exact copies.
Time to flat, when recoding, from [1]:

Garmin VIRB Elite #1: 2:21 (Marketed: 3:00)

Garmin VIRB Elite #2: 2:24 (Marketed: 3:00)

Garmin VIRB Regular: 2:36 (Marketed: 2:36)

JVC GC-XA2: 1hr 51m (Marketed: 1:48)

GoPro Hero3 Black: 1:29 (Marketed: 1:30)

Sony AS-30: 2:11 (Marketed: 2:40)

Pyle HD PSCHD60WT: 2:54 (Marketed: “More than 2 hours”)

My Hero3 Black lasts well under an hour with WiFi enabled. I believe the Hero3+ is better - they claim 30% better because of software optimisation and a bigger battery.

I don't find recoding resolution makes a big difference.

[1] http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/12/garmin-depth-review.html
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Only $60 at Amazon. Yes, more than Raspberry Pi but then it is more computer than a Raspberry Pi.

Final form factor: https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/do-it-yourself/e...
Not really. The temporal addressing is quite simple for a compiler to generate. Plus, Mill was designed by a compiler writer in the first place.

What challenges would you think a back-end developer would face?
The new(ish) version of the free GoPro Mac/Windows editing software is pretty decent[1]. It has templates & music and transitions, and my 7 year old made some pretty decent videos.

I agree the whole process needs improvement though.

[1] http://gopro.com/software-app/gopro-studio-edit-software
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How is Options>Sync>Pair a Device and follow the directions difficult?

I mean, it was definitely too many steps, and it wasn't labelled clearly enough which device was the master and which was the slave, but those are more like "users won't bother to find it" troubles, rather than it actually being difficult if you want to turn it on.
Yep, you can still hardcode a list of peers via flag or config file. I think you can even use both a peer list and a discovery token at the same time.
You have made your bedrock, now lie in it.
Android is basically the same, you have a .ovpn file that gets put into the OpenVPN app. I think you have to put it in /sdcard/openvpn/ or something, but im not 100% sure
That's not quite accurate; Firefox Accounts uses the BrowserID Protocol, of which Persona is an implementation. That is to say, it authenticates using BrowserID assertions, but does not directly tie in to Persona accounts. Yet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/Persona/Glossary
> Last year, we created a new team at Mozilla to explore one specific area of the Web that’s grown with the explosion of mobile devices — the cloud (sometimes called Internet servers).

Hey Mozilla, you are too honest about the cloud thing. :)
That's a very nice project, but I'm surprised he sets a remote couchdb instance as his repository. The point of couchdb is that you do all your actions locally, and have a background replication do all the synchronization.

Still, it seems to work very well.
Hushmail is NOT secure or private [1] . The sentence "even an employee with access to their servers can’t get the actual data of the email" is false. Do not use.

Edit: Adblock Plus allows certain "acceptable ads" (read: companies pay Adblock Plus to get whitelisted) and this feature is turn on by default. Use the fork Adblock Edge [2]

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
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> Question: What alternative method is there to reach them?

Oh, that's easy. Instead of confronting their belief system, present them with evidence from the modern world, and carefully guide them from an observation to a scientific conclusion -- but without calling it that.

Instead of saying "science opposes religion, and science is right", instead tell the modern story of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Explain that penicillin used to work, but a handful of bacteria were able to resist the penicillin, and those few bacteria, by surviving and procreating, eventually became all the bacteria. Then explain that we tried a different antibiotic which wiped out nearly all the bacteria again -- but not all of them. Again, the few survivors became the new species, and this entire drama played out over a period of years, not millennia, and we observed it happening with microscopes, not fossils, meaning there were no gaps in the fossil record to argue about.

Wait until your True Believer has grasped the basic idea, then let him visit a clinic filled with dying children. Then say, "To solve this problem, to save these children, we need to understand and accept evolution, because these bacteria prove that evolution by natural selection is real."

There are as many similar examples as there are branches of modern science. Each of the stories can be told in an engaging, narrative way, with real people, in modern times, and it's not even necessary to say "science".
I'm just curious, but isn't that design/look copyrighted to GitHub, or it doesn't matter because GitBucket isn't commercial meaning that they don't make any profits out of the copy?
I was wondering the same thing. Might a finer mesh/grid work? Or bars with some dimensional shading themselves? Or slight transparency?

Could the bars/layer even be animated, along some consistent plane, so that there's no static background part of the scene that's always obscured. (That might allow even thicker bars, if that's otherwise helpful for the plane-of-reference establishing effect, but which aren't as distracting, since the mind's persistence will 'see around' them.)

Combining these, maybe there could be more than one synthetic depth plane active at once, distinguished by color, translucence, or direction-of-motion? There'd be some perceptual dimming with all that layered-in non-native 'depth chrome', a little like looking through lenses or filters... but hey, other stereo 3D tech has similar tradeoffs.
Keep in mind that Google's Chubby paper describes a nested series of clusters. You basically have one global cluster that stores the location of the cluster running in each DC. If you're on the west coast and need to read info from the east coast, you can travel up the chain and back down again. At some point you have a single source of truth. This method is basically adding another feature to the global cluster, offering a bootstrapping mechanism for other regional clusters.
I've had some SLA annoyances from them and setup fees have been expensive, but overall their dedicated servers have provided me with pretty fantastic value when I was running them.

I'm a Canadian and I've been considering grabbing a box here from them, www.soyoustart.com/ca/en/offers.xml the pricing is ridiculously low.

You wouldn't get 10TB, but if you mirror the disks for 50$ a month you have a reliable 2TB of disk space in a datacenter much closer (for most) and 4 cores on 32GB of ram would give you a nice gaming server or a pretty powerful database.

Their VPS product (if they still do that anymore) would most likely be oversold. They are a massive operation that competes aggressively on price.
One extremist person's view that Gimp should not support MDI (mulitple document interface) persisted for 15 years, then they relented and added MDI, after the person who was against MDI violently criticized Gimpshop (I think the homepage for gimpshop has been hijacked, don't use it). That person got others to start a lengthy and patronizing "UI ideas process" that was a smokescreen for going back on the MDI idea - when in reality the problem was the code to allow the UIs to dock properly - and to this day when I use GIMP the way they dock and tab the UIs goes against any learning model in my mind, and takes me forever to realize that what I am trying to find it hidden away somewhere.

There's no good model to the UI (and the problem isn't even a difficult one) because it's trying to straddle one person's personal ideas with a common and clear mental model of how certain actions should be grouped.
the article is decent from the perspective of an "english major" but it unfortunately embodies many falsehoods perpetuated by wealthy people (VC's) and believing these unquestioningly will fuck you.

stock options are not a lot of money. they're just not. unless you're employee #5 at dropbox or something, you really aren't going to become super wealthy off of your start-up options, and you most certainly will make more money working for a bigger company.

this isn't to say "don't work at a startup" - it's more like, "don't work at a startup because you think you'll become wealthy." work at a startup because you believe in what the company does and you want to just get things done without red tape and excessive meetings and other crap. just don't think you'll get rich working for someone else; it's possible, but very unlikely.
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I surprised to hear that you had so much trouble. I think my GoPro is at least as easy to use and navigate menus as my Canon point and shoot camera, which has a bunch of buttons and a full color LCD.
Yeah, after reading this I can imagine myself translating "we have a cloud" to "WE GOT SERVERS LOL" and the like...
I have used my GoPro Hero3 with my iPhone over wifi several times and I have never heard of or encountered these multiple wifi modes you speak of.
This alone makes me want to give Krita a shot.
In the context of last week's creationism vs evolution, this is an interesting collection. I was particularly intrigued by 'Oxcytocin' being the primary trigger for 'Tribal' or 'Factional' behavior in us.
> The statement you quote is not on point, since there is no "module B" here. What they are trying to describe in that is the situation where someone takes a GPL piece of code, and writes a wrapper module (module B) that adds some kind of interface that their proprietary module (module C) knows how to interface with, and then they distribute this whole mess.

Other than flipping C and A around, what you describe exactly matches the situation from the GPL FAQ.

Apart from that, I'm not going to argue GPL, derived works, and linking here; suffice it to say that the interpretation of the GPL authors is that code calling into GPLed code (directly or indirectly) is a derived work and subject to the GPL, and thus may not be proprietary. That's the interpretation and intention of the FSF in writing the license, and it's the standard interpretation in the broader FOSS community.
I don't think something like Photoshop can be killed so easily. If Photoshop is Facebook, then this doesn't look like the successor, but like G+. Might have better features, but doesn't have the community.

And PS also has a huge set of commercially created plugins, filters, etc.

It's a pity, though. I really wish some FOSS project would make an end to PS!
Congratulations! Wine's existence continues to be superior to its nonexistence. I can't say it's ever been convenient to use, but switching operating systems has always been at least slightly worse.
WTF is up with Firefox and Chrome not fixing their /// bug.
They're prioritising neither user security nor standards-compliance.
> That he's never met anyone in 10 years to tell him drag & dropping is not programming is one thing.

It's not drag and dropping, it's using a 'visual programming' tool that the environment encourages.

> The problem is not that he's using an IDE, the problem is he's not a programmer.

I wouldn't disagree, I like IDEs myself. I even use automatic completion in my word processor. The problem is that he never learned the basics.

> Bloody luddites clinging to their consoles.

It's funny how things always come full circle - search is the big thing now, everyone has an interface based on search. Windows 8, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, everyone.

We enter http addresses into our browser, and search for things using (gasp) text, but using the command line makes one a luddite. Great logic that...
Or, as mobile phones become more advanced, more ubiquitous, and more "general use," the niche markets might get larger.
> running Windows on VirtualBox was cheaper in the end

"cheaper"? Wine is free software, whereas to run Windows you need a Windows license.
I think it's a fair question to ask, Gimp is the one app I've heard being called a "Photoshop killer". In fact I'd only ever heard of Gimp before reading this, and the first thing I did was to google "Gimp vs Krita".

That said, Krita looks pretty good. I'm mostly using Gimp for drawing and I'd be interested in trying an alternative.
Photoshop killer? This is for 1/10 of the COMMON use cases for Photoshop.