skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons rpm packaging is so much easier may be the way the .spec files specify the patches you need to apply against the pristine source.

You have a number of PatchXX definitions, and then in %prep stage you do %patchXX -p N.

Compare with debian: you have debian/source/format which tells which patch format is expected. The old (and ugly) dpatch? Quilt? Native? Change the source format from one version to another and you need to respin the patch set too.

Whereas for rpm you simply do a "git format-patch -o $patchdir ..." and then copy-paste the patch sequence into the specfile. I've done both. I can also see the different benefits between the two systems. Debian's requirement to have debian/changelog name to match the upstream source name is a recurring hurdle. I still occasionally forget to get it right on the first go.

Then there's the split between build rules and package descriptions (debian/control vs. debian/rules). For rpm all of these are in the same file.

But then you get into packaging maintainability... After all the overengineering that you feel in debian packaging, updating it evevn across bigger upstream jumps is actually easier. When upstream changes things in a big way, catching up in the specfile takes quite a bit more work.

I learned this the hard way with Qt5.
Which isp?
He knows the language of love.
It is weird how traditional journalism has not caught up with internet mentality.

What about linking to the study (http://www.mercer.es/articles/quality-of-living-survey-repor...), hell, even their official press release contains more information than Reuters "article".

Also what about giving us the complete list. I suppose the 499$ you need to pay to get the report give you more meat than simply the list, so why not give it for free ?

Past years result can be found on good old wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey
This is really cool, but is there a reason why the authorization permissions requires r/w access to: Private email addresses, and SSH keys?
MetaWatch: a platform-based wearable display
It is pretty much fictional, or rather arbitrary because you can draw the line between low and high end wherever you want. I actually got it from here:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/11/12/idc-data-shows-66-...

And it turns out I misrepresented the fictional statistic. The "real" number is 66%. Though I suppose if you count older mid tier models (this counts sales) still in use, 80% might be pretty close.

IMO you still need to design dow a bit, especially for data poor users. Also smaller screens. In some cases I think craigslist is the thing to emulate.
SJCL has been audited.

You should ping me via email if you're serious about arranging for OSS crypto to get reviewed, not because I want to sell you audit services, but because someone already beat you to the punch in a big way, and you should talk to them. :)
Trillian! Seriously...ok, I get that these apps like WhatsApp, Viper got tons of users, but please don't give me no BS about them innovating. Trillian solved that problem a long long long long time ago.
I don't think anyone is denying the role of luck, but there is something to be said about not falling in love with 'making the start up scene' so to speak. For many people it is a colossal waste of time.

I am trying to reign in a co-founder right now (not surprisingly the only non-technical co-founder) that is just a goo-goo eyed about the scene and not our product and not what I think his main goal should be which is selling. I get breathless phone calls describing some lunch meeting with some formerly successful founder or wealthy investor who now wants to partner/might know someone to invest/just wants to chat about common goals or whatever. I don't care. We don't need funding. He is wasting time or worse. I've tolerated it because it keeps him enthusiastic (he really does beat the pavement fairly well and this obsession is fairly new) but it is starting to get a little overboard.

I think that is what avenger123 is saying: keep your feet on the ground, focus on the product, and ignore the scene bullshit. That takes some foresight and discipline.
I always assumed "gliding well" is a fundamental principle of an airplane.
Carmack: Take Nvidia’s Tegra K1 claims with a ‘grain of salt’
there is no "visa hassle" if you come from Europe, and there are no trip cost since the company pays for everything.

While the sessions are available as video streams, the sessions and discussions in between the sessions are not. I was at I/O last year and I not only had a good time, I also learned a lot during the three days.
I do not enjoy the "targeted" advertising.
If I visit finance.yahoo.com, I'm okay with an advertisement that appears from the same IP address for a brokerage.
I am not okay with the 500 advertising companies contacting each other (and slowing down the internet) to track me.

Sorry, it sucks.
Why Facebook Will Die In 3/4 Years Even With These Acquisitions?
Partial DNSimple outage for European clients
I respect your position, though please also consider that not everyone views money as the end, but rather a means.

I don't care about money; I care about living an enjoyable life.

I do work hard and desire success; which means to have the liquidity to support the activities and lifestyle that I prefer. This requires money.
Ionic Security picks up $25.5M to find sensitive corporate data in any app
I live in Vienna and I see these surveys all the time. I moved in Vienna 2.5 years ago. Vienna is a good place to live (otherwise I would have left) provided you don't care about things that are simply not available, for example no real IT sector, no startup scene etc. It's okay, but it's nothing spectacular. I don't understand what these people find so fascinating about the city. My friends share my opinion too.

I guess the people doing the surveys simply care about completely different things in life compared to myself. I read their impressions, and I either don't care about those things at all, or I find them completely wrong. The reviewer simply has different expectations than myself. For example, a couple of week ago I've seen another article like this. Among other things, the author liked the huge variety of beers and cheese found in Vienna. I don't know exactly why this matters for such a survey but whatever. Anyway, I happen to be somewhat of a beer and cheese aficionado and in my opinion Austrian beer is terrible, bland, and all the same. Go to Belgium to find good beer. There are not too many types of beer. And don't get me started on the cheese.

Of course these things are subjective things, but because they are subjective things they have no place in such an article.

Other issues are more subtle, for example, nice people. Every article claims Vienna has nice people but doesn't divulge either the nationality and cultural background of the reviewer, nor the way said reviewer interacted with viennese people. For example I don't find anything nice about viennese people because I grew in a country where attributes associated with nice people are different than Austrian attributes about nice people. These people may be nice, I'm sure they are, but I don't see it. Similarly, I'm sure they see me as a misanthropic, asocial, arrogant individual.

It's the same like with restaurants, an american will complain that european restaurant service is precarious, I will complain that the western-european restaurant service is annoying and offensive. The cultural background is different, expectations in social settings are different. Articles like this skip over all this stuff.

Anyway, there are some really nice things in Vienna but no article I've seen mentioned them. They are subjective things, but most of what these article say is subjective.
I'm another happy DDG user a few years now. They sent me a bunch of stickers, and I've been putting them up in my university, work places & friend's laptops.
It is apparently a limitation in the GitHub access levels:

https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...

Which is unfortunate, because I'd like to try gitter but I'm not willing to mess around with my github account like that.
Why not? If something is worth doing, it's worth doing right.
Nice story. Only think I think they are missing out on are the tablets. We (social circle) use hangouts more and more, because it's available to the few that use dumb phones in combination with an iPad.
Assuming you are American, some segments of your society cover their mouths when saying "shit". That's more curious.
KC Internet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCOM_Group)
I've been toying with the idea of getting my pilot's license (eventually) partially for the sake of avoiding the TSA when I actually have to travel. What I'm curious about is how difficult/expensive it is to rent a plane that can fly further than stated in the article? (say, TX to CA, for instance) I imagine it wouldn't make much sense to buy a huge cross-country jet for the occasional long trips, although I am kind of surprised it's only ~$30k for a smaller one!
I'm an avid craft beer drinker that is involved in home brewing as well as trading. I've had word class beers in my fridge sitting next to a 30 pack of Beer 30. Beer is beer is beer. People drink what they like, and not everyone likes Heddy Topper/Westy 12/KBS/etc.

Cheers!
>And yes, when you call something "vulgar and utterly clueless", you're definitely making moral judgments.

I know! My point is merely that I wasn't lecturing.

>You have enough consideration to feel like posting a comment about how much you feel about it.

I suppose I enjoy throwing the moral imperative into sharp relief; making it clear just how much I disdain your vulgar acceptance of the love of wanting money.

That moral imperative alone is enough to carry weight in this thread. It has wandered in as mere sentiment without ever presenting an argument.

...Now, of course, I have strayed into lecturing you about the mechanics of this whole thing--but note I still have not lectured you with the moral judgment itself. I don't care about convincing you that money is vulgar. Sanctimony is enough for me.

You are quite right, though; I have spent enough time here.
Five unusual ways in which Indians use mobile phones
The double dots refer to the parent directory; I'm not sure that there is other associated terminology or if there is an easier way to express what you wrote.
I agree, but that seems not to be the NSA's concern when going over the Snowden files http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/30/nsa_smile...
QFT

> Hysterical articles about sticking our heads in the stand honestly don't really help at this stage, they just perpetuate the sense of controversy without contributing positively to the debate.

... also I like to think that when this becomes a /real/ problem with consequences everyone can immediately feel then we will solve it. We have the power to solve this with (large amounts of) effort and technology - and we have done for a very long time... nobody cares enough to do anything because the effects aren't immediate and tangible yet. This is human nature...
Do you think a 3-D image could enhance the 'feel'? Could a flight sim feel significantly more real w/ Oculus Rift?
Pretty cool but I can't see having another chat client on top of Hipchat. Wish there was some way to bake this into Hipchat since the features look awesome. Great work!
Just checked it out. Has numpy, matplotlib, and a few other packages too. Nice!
Windows 8 is significantly better than Windows 7. Since it's almost exactly superset of Windows 7, this shouldn't be surprising.

That Windows 9 looks likely as an October release - that's MicroSoft's Q1/2015 - it appears MicroSoft is tick-tocking Windows releases...Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9.

They are already on a yearly cycle with many of their non-OS products.
We have an internal framework sitting on top of appcelerator's titanium that makes our app look at exactly the same on iOS and android. I mean exactly the same. The app specific code does not need to think about what platform it is on. We do this because titanium does some of the leg work but -rightfully- not all the leg work in achieving that. We get close to native code performance (better performance than Phonegap - tried that first - because its native controls). We have a large data layer and phonegap performance just degraded way too far with the amount of data in play that we needed.
The state of LTE – USA 2nd slowest globally
Immediately, by definition. By causality sphere he means light cone [0]. If you want to simulate an entity, you only need to simulate the entity and the contents of its light cone. Anything outside the cone could not have a causal impact on the entity without FTL travel.

Of course, an entity's light cone is still likely to be quite large, especially if your simulated universe is old.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_cone
You came off as snobbish.
Asi te deja la vida.
Introversion and Extroversion aren't about what you like or how you act in certain situations. It's what energizes and drains you.

After being in a crowd and around people are you energized (extroverted) or drained (introverted)? After being alone for a while are you energized (introverted) or drained (extroverted)?

And just about everyone will say "Depends, sometimes this sometimes that." because it's a sliding scale and varies throughout our lives.

ADDED: Many introverts are thought of as extroverts because they act outgoing, are public speakers, etc. We all act and adjust our outward appearance and actions based on our developed soft social skills. (Psst, you can be extroverted or introverted AND have good or bad social skills!)
This is hilarious - I thought it was a joke article at first like the Daily Mash. I can't imagine what the author would think of the UK or Europe. The Russian article linked at the end of this one is even more ridiculous.
This is common in many industries as well. Practically every car model gets awarded "Best XYZ 2014!". I have definitely noticed the trend with companies in my area, of which 5 seem to all hold the title of "Best Place to Work".
Subreddits have a "language" setting, although the data is probably dirty since the value is unused AFAIK - for all we know /r/pics is currently set on "Klingon". The Reddit admins would probably have to do some manual dirty-work, but iirc the "default subs/front page" reddit listing is somewhat manually curated anyways.
Mobile syncing with Couchbase
+1

i've started using it as my main engine a while back but i absolutely have to go back to google fairly often. i'm using pentadactyl so i never noticed the !g !gi etc. commands. thanks!
Good question. Google is better at guessing your focus. I'm not sure how they do it. Sometimes duckduck is pretty lost and scattershot. I have the opportunity of rephrasing the query or just hitting !g . If I don't mind google tracking the query, then I'll do a !g and often what I want is in the top 3. Sometimes, I don't want google tracking me (e.g. to check out a health issue) , then I'll work out a better query on duck duck.
It was a click-jacked link; Mods switch the links for the actual source occasionally if one is available.
In general it's quite nice. As a viennese native living abroad, i especially miss the public transport system and some of the theaters. Vienna also has far less social segregation than other cities of it's size (~2M), looks extremely clean is quite safe. Do you have any more specific questions? You can post them here or contact me per jabber/email (in my profile) if you want.
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Nice to see the internals of other companies like us.
We love tiny team sizes at Coinkite.com.

It's incredible how much you can accomplish with very very few focussed makers.

We created our own rack mounted HSM, our own Hardware POS payment terminals, and all the payment web structure. Answer to support and automated the supply chain.

Stop hiring!
Social Media: Content Marketing with Google Plus
Eh? What? Is that for real?

While it is true that GREAT developers can also be young, they are not magically getting dumber when they age. Also it may be easier to be disruptive if you're young (meaning you are naïve enough to think you can change stuff, most of the times you'll be wrong, though) but smarter? Really?

I find this a quite stupid statement, to be honest...
The interesting thing about whatsapp is that it works on feature phones too. It's not targeting smartphones vs. ipad users, but getting smartphones (all platforms), and features phones on a single messaging system for just $1 a year.

Sure I would kill for an ipad or a desktop version but does iMessage work when your friend uses Android or Windows? What about Grandpa using an old Nokia? How about those old friends who moved away to another country? Moving from the US to another country isn't very common, but it's fairly common for the rest of the world - born in Dubai, Schooled at Cairo, works in France is very likely.
It's worth pointing out as an aside that you actually can't rewind the (Conway) game of life: the current state does not contain enough information to recreate the previous state. The reason is that many states can arise as a result of multiple possible precursor states.

Diane's simulation is perhaps similar: a gigantically complex system of cellular automata.
I think in the past, aircraft engines were relatively unreliable and would often quit midair for reasons other than fuel starvation so there'd be some chance of the other engine saving you. Now, however, almost all engine failures are the result of fuel starvation and two engines will die just as quick sans fuel as one so the added complexity isn't quite worth it, from a safety perspective for piston powered aircraft. The only real advantage now is that you get to go a faster (though not 2x) in a twin usually and get to earn lots of miles on your credit card since you'll be doubling your fuel bill.

The situation on turbine powered engines is completely different. The above only applies to piston engines.
Just because a system is chaotic doesn't mean nothing about it can be predicted.
>> Agreed, pretty much anyone in the United States above the poverty level seems willing to spend $20 a month for unlimited texting.

Even if you are at poverty level and qualify for a free phone (through the Lifelink program, or 'Obamaphone') you still get something like 250 texts included with that
I'm not specifying an amount or a correctness, and I do not disagree that there is a line between means and end.

I'm saying that HN's attention span is dominated by dollar signs.
By the way ... for anybody interested in !g and !b it's literally "!g" or "!b" in the actual query. Use spaces on both sides if you need to separate it. Easiest thing is just append it to your query you typed in. It works in the duckduck default search on your browser, too.

It is not !g typed when you are not focused on the query box.
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On these "most livable" city indexes, I wish they would take into account how much it costs to live there compared to wages. San Fransisco is high on their list, but from what I'm hearing, it's really not the panacea that these lists often make it out to be. High wages, but higher cost of living and horrible living conditions compared to the Midwest, for example. I have a friend who just bought a two-story, four bedroom house with two acres of land in a nice area of Beer City, USA (Grand Rapids, Michigan) for $90,000, and has a 10 mile, 10 minute commute to a downtown office where he's making $70,000/yr. He can drive his own car and find a place to park in a nicely cultural city of ~200,000.

I don't live in Grand Rapids, but if I were moving somewhere I'd be looking for a city like that. That is what I would consider highly livable. Can you find a two-story house with an acre or more of land in SF for not much more than your yearly salary? I want a list of cities where salary and cost of living are taken into account along with culture and safety.
American Lagers are a fine style of beer. And many of the most popular ones are fine examples of that style.
You are probably right. However, presumably we tend to underestimate how horrible most places in the world really are. Compared to the average city, perhaps Vienna really is quite good.
Or there's always the best of both worlds: http://www.duckduckgoog.com/
Game of Life isn't reversible. Take any oscillator, say a blinker http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Blinker , trying to reverse that you don't know if it was the opposite state the step before or some other pattern that became a blinker.
AWS Now Supports Perfect Forward Secrecy and Other Security Enhancements
NOOOOOOO. Me and my friends switched away from WhatsApp just because Facebook bought it!
Is anyone going to see the demo at Columbia University on Wednesday?
I am passionate about....
On a price per active user, is Zukerberg a genius or a fool?
Hey, I own your plane's sister (N8550W).

I'm surprised you didn't mention "Can you fly at night?" That's one I always get.
I've honestly never seen anyone do that..
It's not particularly surprising given that, in a region without stable electricity for 10+ hours/day for 60% of the population, you're not going to rely on electronics to do the work for you.

Take for instance the numerous stories of people hovering around and sharing power strips when they are available just to charge whatever devices they do have. It's a scarce resource.
I love flying, but I can understand that perspective. It's the same perspective that non-gamers tend to have about games. It's just fiddling around with a controller in front of a screen, what's fun about that? The same could be said of plenty of other hobbies (what's fun about fishing, for example?).

But for the people that do enjoy it, it's obviously much more than that. It's about the challenge, the scenery along the way, and the places that you can easily reach with an aircraft that aren't necessarily so easy with just driving.

Of course, people are wired differently. Maybe none of those things appeal to you personally. I think that is true for a lot of people, actually, and that is one of the reasons that flying is such a small niche hobby (obviously there are a lot of other reasons as well).
I don't quite have it, but I think there's an Internet Law in here somewhere.

For every political discussion, there is always a guy who A) drags the US into it, and B) tries to draw the conclusion that the US is actually worse than whatever is being discussed.
I liked Nate Silver's chapter on climate modeling predictions in his book The Signal and the Noise. He wasn't impressed. Maybe somebody needs to start a fantasy weather league.
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2% of pilots _dying_ is still pretty high -- higher than I expected. Someone mentioned it being akin to motorcycling riding, but I can't imagine that 2% of motorcyclists die from it.
Brazil is a bet
The attitudes about FB & Google were very different in 2007 compared to what they are now.
CIA admits using MSM News to Manipulate the Minds of American citizens
and usually 30 min to drive to the airport.
Elon Musk: We Spoke To Apple
They can only keep that sort of deep data for so long due to storage requirements - I think in the uk at present it is 30 days. If your chosen search provider keeps a handy list of your searches forever associated with your account though, it makes life much easier for agencies to access it at any point in the future and replay your life. For someone with mail at gmail and web history on, that anyone would have that much data stored on you is a scary prospect.

There are other much better reasons not to prefer google as your search company though, foremost among them that they sell advertising and are no longer in the growth stage but the monopoly stage of the corporate lifecycle, so their incentives are not really aligned with free search customers. Their dominance of web search is starting to seriously distort the web.