skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KDE 4 has all the benefits of Unity as well as the ability to be customized. For users that like a 'start' menu, you can have it, but you're right that keyboard launchers are just better most of the time. KDE has two built-in, and every other DE works with Synapse, which is much faster than Unity for keyboard-based launching.

The UI is optimized for tablets and phones, but not because of space efficiency. In fact, Unity is less space efficient, because it demands that the launcher be so huge (to afford touch-based interaction). In every DE I've ever used, I actually hide the top/bottom panel, but that's not possible in Unity (the top panel affords no customization whatsoever, AFAICT). So, in practice, Unity is consistently less space-efficient with my vertical space than every other DE, in addition to being less customizable.
Of course, in the fifth century I'm sure they neither knew nor cared that the North star was a few degrees off of actual North.

It's not really relevant if the navigation error only changes by less than a degree over the course of a lifetime. The earliest navigators in Sumer in the 4th millennium BCE wouldn't care if a particular constellation points 5 or 20 degrees away from North.
Author here. What did I do?
Ignorance is indeed bliss. Differences are not just skin deep, like generics where type erasure is used in java for instance. I suggest reading up on this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_C_Sharp_and_Java#...
@Karunamon Sorry for not being clear. My point is that increasing price it's not indicative that more people are getting interested in Bitcoin like many are trying to present it. It's purely speculation and we saw recent polls showing regular people not being interested in alternatives to the dollar.
Taxes have very little to do with the economy.
That's an optimistic world view.

Getting a web app built on .NET/MVC4/IIS running on mono isn't a trivial endeavor, and the open source implementations rightfully tend to lag behind the closed implementations.
5-9%
Cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Otv2U_j...
Added "5-9%" and "1-4%" because I realized 1-10% was too common
There's alot more that can be done with the technology. We wanted to start with a few core partners and drive the quality and relevancy up as we go - so, can we? Sure. It's a matter continuously improving the service

And, agreed, MSR does some cool stuff :)
The old 'diction' command distributed the Writers Workbench on Unix systems of yore had this warning (among many others).
I used it a lot!

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/diction/diction.1.html

I think its available in source but a quick web search didn't find such.
> "I can’t even leave feedback... as we never got to stay there."

I think this is a bigger deal than the cancellation -- the fact that, on a site that's all about reputation, there's no reputation hit for a host canceling someone's rental. Airbnb should create a feedback system that allows feedback to be given for various steps of the process, not just the stay itself.
Have any founders tried recruiting with an equity + salary offer where for the first year, the equity offer is translated into salary? Not like Buffer's offer of equity instead of salary, but as something like "we acknowledge you could be working hard for something that never vests. Your fair value is X. We've offered you .5X + equity. For the first year, we are willing to offer you .8X, which then drops to .5X." Any raises could be translated into a percentage raise, or could just be added to the changing basis.

It's a weird idea to have your salary drop after a year, but it might be an interesting avenue to pursue.

However, successful startups usually don't have the salary issues outside of the beginning, so it may not work just because of that. I'm just really interested in trying to perfectly align incentives, and the founder vs. first employee one is the toughest nut to crack for me.
Second kid since yesterday. Fighting for humanity here.. ;-)
Yet ANOTHER build tool. I've started placing bets on when repositories will flip to NEW-HOTNESS-BUILD-TOOL at the cost of actual product development time.

Engineers will constantly run toward shiny baubles at the expense of everything else.
The student debt angle is talked about way more often than it deserves. For tech people, it should only be a problem if you drop out, failing to get your degree.

I did 5 years at a private university in the US, one in the top 20 most expensive (depending on the year, in the top 10). The starting bonus at my first job out of college completely eliminated all of my student debt, leaving me in the black right off the bat.

That should not be wildly atypical either. The median student loan debt is only $30k. That might sound like a lot to somebody coming out of highschool, but to somebody getting into tech that is by no means crippling debt. Those $200k+ debt horror stories you hear all about should only happen if you neglect paying off your debt, if you are trying to become a doctor or lawyer, or if you spend ten years dropping out of schools never bothering to look for financial aid.
I know FB is built to create engagement on their site, but I don't have an FB account - the data science team posts are amazing and it's the first content that makes me want to "follow" along. Is there a service to convert FB pages into RSS feeds?

Edit: I found it here: https://www.facebook.com/feeds/notes.php?id=8394258414&viewe... - I didn't realize I'd have to click through the "see more" link on the time-line.
> rolling brownouts

Did you forget the whole "Enron" mess - and the deregulation of the utilities to allow it?

Rolling blackouts were the fault of a private business, trying to extort more profits.
We stopped using Mono after a few months. With .NET's Task Parallel Libraries we saw an enormous performance difference between Mono/Redhat vs. .NET/Windows, with the latter often running many times faster. Tuning the GC and heap size didn't make much of a difference.

.NET seems to be well worth the cost of running Windows, but the consequent platform and vendor lock-in is still a concern for us.
fzf completely replaces z, and is ridiculously fast.

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
Yes, they were, though I think it had more to do with people not wanting the streets to be dug up every week by a different company.

I think most places will support more than one ISP, but it takes time and the right economic environment to shell out the big bucks you need to challenge an incumbent.
"3 beds - a double bed in one room and a single bed in another" ?

At least you weren't stranded without a place all together, or...

I once booked a house via vrbo and found spaghetti in the sheets of one of the beds!
Violent coercion is one of the most basic sorts of free action common to all animals. Why arbitrarily take it off the table?
I've all sorts of crashes when Chrome has to cope with a lot of data. Don't run my Retina MacBook on 1920x1200 HiDPI any more because of it, and also try to avoid 2880x1800. With regular 1920x1200 it doesn't crawl when you have some 50 tabs open or so. In the other resolutions especially the keyboard interaction and overall stability is affected.
1-4%
Funny, this mirrors my first Airbnb experience from a year and a half ago: https://bgentry.io/blog/2012/07/18/my-first-airbnb-experienc...

Sad to hear that the experience hasn't gotten any better when a host cancels on you, especially when it's at the last minute.

I wonder if the issues with hosts' calendars not being up-to-date are still as big of an issue. Airbnb hosts are incentivized to not update their calendars because it gives them an avenue to direct you to their other properties.
- Never had background to foreground stall IDE issue in VS2010 or up

- Nor misclicks stall IDE

- Nor automatic refactoring analysis stall IDE

- Automatic reformatting is a once click option to disable and is not terribly aggressive in VS 2010 up.

- wants you to. Not forces. So, by the way, do JetBrains, NetBeans, Oracle ...
I am actually looking at doing this, but integrating it with the searchcode.com API. At the moment its just a question of long it would take me to build a plugin for IntelliJ/Eclipse/Visual Studio. I did look into oursourcing the work but the price as a little high for me to swallow at the time.
Nooooooooo... But I promise that mine was going to be the best!
Airbnb should have a public % number for hosts for both acceptance rate for "open" dates on their calendar and for cancellations.

I was traveling the world for the last 9 months and we fairly quickly stopped using AirBnB in favor of Booking.com and Agoda (which had hotels, guesthouses, and even hostels if you're so inclined).

Host behavior was the problem. We'd contact a place that supposedly had an opening. Nope. Contact another. Nope. Contact a third. Yes, but they work until 10pm so we need to go find them for a key. AirBnb was an amazing experience when it worked, but time-intensive and frustrating for most transactions.
Well there's the southern cross, which acts like one :)
I had the weird experience that fundamentals classes seemed to assume that I had much, much more experience than I actually had as a beginner. Is there some distinction between different "fundamentals" classes that people should be looking for?
So, we are in agreement then? Taxes are enforced with violence.
Not that much, if any, real-time software written in Haskell, on account of the runtime not being amenable to real-time constraints. And anyway, I suspect it's an industry where "let's rewrite it from scratch" is not something you hear very often.
Only an idiot would think she was suggesting blindly replacing every instance of "very capable" with accomplished. Clearly they are merely suggestions to consider.
Also...

> Calling something essential

Are you disputing that activities such as "Applying for a job" are not essential? If so, there are quite a few business out there trying to hire people that might take issue with such an opinion.
Zach Will's github public contributions pattern
10 Gbps switches are pretty good and are generally line rate (as long as you avoid ten-year-old chassis).
I've known Chris since undergrad and this is going to be great. Congrats and good luck!
>I think the "within reach" angle makes more sense here because there is often a lack of choice for most Americans when they look at who offers cable/internet in their area (e.g., only Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, etc.).

Then let's measure what really matters - the number (or percentage) of people who are served by Comcast only. My guess is between competing cable companies, FIOS, and DSL it's a pretty small number and wouldn't generate any clicks.

EDIT: Other people are saying 9% don't have other choices. But even then I'll bet they're not include mobile phone companies, and everybody has access to satellite.
Yea, this is complete bollocks. Not a word of it is true. You may have a shitty thing in your corp that forced you to do this, but that has nothing to do with Microsoft.
OK and I forgot to say I might want to deny some traffic... like disable auto updates but still allow it to contact other servers to play video. AFAIK tcpdump doesn't let you do that.

Thanks for the very cool project! I will have to learn more about it.
See that pattern there?
You asked this same question before (68 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884552
Students and businesses can get (and keep) the software for free through DreamSpark and BizSpark.
What part(s) of the world did this happen to you? I've used it at least a dozen times and this hasn't happened to me. I've only used it in the US (SF & DC), a few countries in Western Europe, and in South America. Maybe hosts' behavior is different in different countries?
It's a crummy pattern. broccoli.js FTW!
Is periodically asking wrong? I'd be interested in this being a standing question.
HHVM and Magento
"I'm almost convinced that the EU, as it is today, cannot survive if it is not further integrated."

Small south eu country here. I totally agree with you. And you make good points showing that.

The only thing I disagree, is that I think eu is moving towards a less democratic way (if it survives). Not talking about the eu parliament, but about who it sides with in the economic crisis. It sides with big economic interests, which are at wrong, instead with the "eu idea" and people.
There is a clear owner of a ballpark or a movie theater. Nobody owns the economy in a similar way (not even the government), so your analogy doesn't hold up.
Well, generally hotels overbook their rooms regardless -- they know with 90% confidence that X% of people will no-show on a given day, so they can overbook (airlines do this too). Generally when using the guaranteed room feature, you ARE displacing someone. But you're right, you do have to pay the rack-rate (which is often $500 or more)

Airbnb hosts can't do any of this because they don't have enough rooms, so there are some definite advantages to the traditional hotel model. I like Airbnb and I have used it many times, but I do consider the rooms I get off Airbnb as less "guaranteed" than a hotel room.
Every IPv4 packet needs a source address. If the client is IPv6, what is the IPv4 source address?

You would want to assign an IPv4 address to the client transparently; and, since they're scarce, share it with several clients. That's what NAT64 does.
It's just simply a pity that the market isn't as free as we'd like it to be... But we've known that since day one.
If there is a double bed, single bed, and a couch, that accommodates 4 people.

Remember, Airbnb is a marketplace so it is your responsibility as the guest to clarify the exact sleeping arrangements. If you want a higher level of service, go to a hotel. You'll pay a lot more, but if you require great service then it's probably a better option.
My attempt to book an apartment with AirBNB in Helsinki for Slush.org last year ended up in 3 cancelations (people got better offers) and us staying in a hotel.
No word from AirBNB support.

I am sadly not going to use AirBNB agin to big events.
I'm in that 30 percent. As much as I hated Time Warner, Windstream is far worse. Its okay during the day, but in the evenings speed and reliability just goes to crap.
Stop using your phone, give clean water to children in need
The url to the original sample is visible on the bottom right. That said, continuing the optimizations and smarts around the code metrics and semantic understanding will be an ongoing effort around the service.
But yeah, we still have stuff to improve
Same idea as CDOs, I guess. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateralized_debt_obligation)
Yes, I do mind the quotes too.
Most dental procedures are "painless"
according to what my dentist says about it before the procedure at least.
VS lock in is a very real thing. At my current employer, there is no way they could ever come off of VS and .Net because of the lack of polyglots in the office. There is one of us that does Java, 3 that do PHP (only in the last 6 months), and 6 that are set up for .Net MVC. Management just can't spare the costs to retrain, and none of these guys go home and code on non MS platforms.
That little sub-thread was...ok. Informative, but a bit low on the drama.

Still no dark clouds over that Visual Studio icon. Microsoft might be "dead", but the "Developers Developers Developers" warcry echoes on, and the cushy jobs and well-paid freelancing gigs will be there for many years to come!
Basic Jade server – ideal for building local prototypes
Heh, thanks. I'm a hardware guy for a reason ;-) Trying to recover the site.
I've been using it regularly for a few weeks now. Granted I'm a novice a Python, but so far I've found it to be outstanding. It offers almost all of the VS functionality that you would expect if you were developing in .NET, and it's quite stable.
Bindable.js: Flexible, fast, bidirectional data-binding library
Not running into those issues must be really great for you, but does very little to make the experience better for me. I tend to run VS under virtualization with TFS, which is far from a pleasant experience, even on modern hardware.
That covers ipv6 hosts sending a packet to ipv4 hosts. How do you propose they answer though? They can't put a ipv6 address in the ipv4 header.

The full solution is NAT64.
You're going to have to ask how much time are you spending on side projects as well. 4 hours? 4 days? 2 weeks?
Where I live we have Comcast and another cable provider, plus at least two DSL companies, plus some kind of wireless company I haven't checked into, plus the mobile phone companies (at least three).

I'm guessing you're rural.
I had the same reaction, I just hated it... but it turns out that the people who really like the book ignore the fake-science explanations and just do the exercises (which are quite good), and the people who hate the book delve into the text hoping that they'll get some understanding that's more important than just doing the work, and -of course- there is no such understanding to be found.
They're the gradient in the system that drives economic activity. If you must acquire a particular currency to pay taxes to avoid jail, then you will offer your output in that currency.
Ehehe nice one.
Not much to comment on. See Scott Aaronson's "Eight Signs A Claimed P≠NP Proof Is Wrong". [0]

[0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=458
You are right. I was confused because the satellites in orbit need a different speed at different height, and in that case the when the special relativity effect increase the general relativity effect decrees. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_P...
"Germans build roads to have road. The French build roads as an expression of some confusingly abstract political idea."

The common theme is always who is to be f*ed and pay the bill, the taxpayers, and who is to get the profit and benefits, the big, connected, private interests.
Even if Windows had been using X11/Tk or whatever back then, it wouldn't have made a difference.
Blogger to Ghost
To partially make up for it, I put the 2x3TB of rusty metal storage we get with each of those tiny 600 boxes to good use, by moving us off S3 (which'll save another $100K/year, and a lot more as we continue to grow), so it's not been a total waste. Maybe I should look into Bitcoin mining next? :)

Not necessary if you can displace your own purchases, but my first thought was that maybe you could do something like "Amazon Glacier", offering distributed but rarely used storage for a fee. I presume that Amazon offers this because they have a similar surplus of live empty disk space.

I know you are joking about the Bitcoin mining, but my second thought was that maybe there is a parallel 'proof of storage' idea. There could be a public market for backup storage, where instead of being paid for 'proof of work' one is randomly tested for 'proof of backup'. You say you'll store something, and you are paid based on your ability to answer random 'challenge' requests in a timely manner.

And then I noticed another front page article on HN from someone writing software that could do something very similar:
http://hypered.io/blog/2014-02-17-building-reesd/
Perhaps you could be his backend.
Please elaborate on the safety mechanisms/services, I'm not aware of them.
But if I was poor, there would be nothing to stop me from going to a gas station and spending my last $20 bill on lottery tickets, instead of food.
Advice for trading crypto currencies for profit
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"it was actually easier than typing in my credit card information"

What about if you amortize over the time it takes to set up your bitcoin wallet, etcetcetc. (and to be fair, it takes time to set up a credit card, but there's also a much larger set of purchases to amortize over).
Roslyn can solve the halting problem and tell me if my program will do what it is supposed to do?
I had to look up spider pooping. People can't possibly be doing that. Wow.
> Even if the contact sync was in place, it would be unlikely that the other party would have used my 5 year old YouTube avatar and populated it with both my email and phone number and full name.If my contact on his google side was populated from my gmail; as I have emailed the other party before, it shouldn't contain my phone number either - unless google matched it and shared.

I'll repeat my alternate explanation more concretely: the name and the Youtube pic was auto-synced via @GMail, and your friend just manually added your phone number to it. It's now permanently in his Gmail account as part of Google Contacts, independent of anything done on Google's part.

Get your friend to delete his contact of you from the address book ("People") and see if it occurs again.
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We try and avoid those cases, but it's possible yes. The semantic and contextual approach help you find relevant samples and discussions that are highly relevant to your code, you still have to vet whether the sample makes sense. (Visiting the original sample page is likely to shed more light on those cases where we mis-label)
I'd like to echo this sentiment. Thanks Randall!
I think the point was that time in the center of the star is more affected by gravity than at the surface. Whereas someone on the surface (if that were possible) would experience greater time dilation relative to the center due to his high relative velocity. So for those two points (surface vs center), the two time dilation effects are working opposite each other.

Edit: I may have been reading too much into it. The effects you see will depend on which positions you're comparing, and people in this thread haven't really specified.
You know, I'll let your ad hominem stand with no comment, but I will point out that I removed my initial "vulgarism" before you responded, leaving only an edit trail for the benefit of other commenters.

And I understand better now, you're emotionally involved in the issue. I'm sorry your relatives have this problem, but they'd have the same issue with the state lottery in every state I've ever lived, since none of them require an ID (so no way to prevent people from spending their last dollar).

And no, gambling doesn't make many people rich. I think most of us know that, at least from a rational perspective.

By the way, alcohol very near ruined my life permanently, before I stopped drinking 10 years ago. Should I call for peoples' enjoyable evening glass of wine to be banned, and for them to be "severely prosecuted"?

And good luck with your "all gambling will be prohibited". More and more states are legalizing gambling, since it's a nice revenue stream.
They can and do have franchise agreements where one provider gets the vast majority of the region, leaving only the less desirable scraps for someone else.

As an example, see the cable franchise map link (in bold) here https://www.seattle.gov/cable/franchises.htm --thankfully it's not a perpetual contract.
This is satire. Calm down.
I've been playing the ukulele at home during times when normally I would be refreshing Hacker News. It definitely fills that need to take a break from deductive thought, and after only a couple months suddenly I have a skill that I never had before. I recommend it.
I believe you have an install issue.
This is sort of the ultimate demonstration of the spinning ice skater who seems to be in every eighth grade science book.
That's not what people call lock-in. Then there's Javascript+Sublime lock-in, OCAML lock-in, Emacs lock-in...
> Are you disputing that activities such as "Applying for a job" are not essential?

No, just that you have to be precise about what is essential and what isn't, and tailor the solution to the actual problem. It's essential to be able to apply for jobs online. It's not essential to be able to watch the latest episodes of Sherlock on Netflix. If the concern is really about making sure the poor have adequate access to the internet for things like job applications, the way to go is to subsidize wireless service with data access. Alternatively, cheap, broadly available broadband already exists in the form of DSL service.