skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From some of the replies below me, it looks like there are some horrible UEFI implementations. Your other option is to shove GRUB (or similar) on a FAT32 drive and boot from that when you want to boot Windows.

FWIW, my key/activation is stored in firmware on my Lenovo X1 and I had no trouble when I disabled Secure Boot.
I single boot Linux on my 13" MBP retina. I use xmonad+xfce and it can be tuned to work reasonably well with Hi-DPI. There are still some things that don't work great (chrome), but it certainly can be done.

My big problem is that there is no support for different DPI settings for multiple monitors. This is quite unfortunate and keeps me from using the full resolution on the laptop's display. Right now I run the laptop display at 1680x1050 (still quite a bit higher than the non-retina 13"), which plays nicely with my 27" monitor at 2560x1440.

Besides the display issues, Linux runs great on the MBP retina (late 2013 MacBookPro11,1). Things run more smoothly than my last Macbook (a mid 2010 13" MacBookPro7,1) which had occasional wifi and suspend/resume nvidia issues. The only thing that I can think of that doesn't work is the builtin webcam, which was switched from USB to PCI-E and doesn't have a linux driver yet.
Somebody, give that scrollbar a sandwich.
Can someone then explain to a layman, why Google shares even have any value? What good is a share, if it's voting power in controlling the company is practically void? Google has never paid any dividend either. Are all the stock investors just speculating that GOOG will pay dividend in the future? Or is it possible that Class B shares will loose their special voting rights at some point so that Class A become instrumental in controlling the company?
As the rest have said, this is old news. Mass indexing is a simple hack in search. Especially for nonsensical content abusing non-standard terms.

If you want to impress us, rank a few 100k pages for competitive terms with garbage content.
I made this tool to get a quick overview of relevant parameters of multiple disk or network devices. It uses ethtool, hdparm, fdisk and smartctl under the hood.

I hope somebody likes it.
Nonsense by people who don't understand free market economics and therefore choose to ridicule it.

Calling themselves artists (as another pointed out) shields them from the criticism they would receive if they clearly stated their point of view.
They're relatively straightforward procedural object-oriented languages. They're not amazing. They won't make you say "Wow, that's awesome!" when you use them.

They do have a few practical advantages over C++. For one, they don't allow dangerous things like pointer manipulation. They both support garbage collection. Go has some nice built-in support for multithreading. Both have some nice iteration features. Useful syntactic sugar. Stuff like that.

Where C++ is basically just C with random features shoddily spot-welded on in different places, Go and Rust were designed from the ground up to be relatively very simple and straightforward. Like I said, they're not amazing; they're just better than C++.
Popcorn Time is back and ready to download
A modified version of Popcorn Time, Popcorn Fun, is working and ready to download. Have fun with a new Popcorn!
Since the article cite it, I guess I can make a comment too and raise awareness regarding EMET.

EMET is a free application published by Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3927...) that enable advanced protections for many applications, such as DEP and ASRL. It comes out of the box with rules that cover many popular applications, so it's an "install and forget" solution for many users.

If anyone is interested, this is the article that made me aware of EMET: http://rationallyparanoid.com/articles/microsoft-emet-3.html (slightly outdates as Microsoft has released EMET 4, but it's still an interesting read, especially the "Does EMET make a difference?" part), and there is also an interesting user guide here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/E/9/4E9A5137-F73D-4...

I suggest to everyone to gave it a try, it's very lightweight and it has yet to cause a single problem on my system.
It's so much easier to capture an organization when you can simply buy it.
By the way, I've always thought ActoTracker had potential but I haven't locked into it yet: http://freecode.com/projects/actotracker
What has been happening?
Thanks, corrected it
I think that's a developer unconscious talking. "We have a bug here in AirBnB, here's a reproduction scenario". - "Oh, you see this small print in this manual? It says you couldn't do that. Therefore, not a developer's problem, ticket closed, PBKAC".

The other part of "blame the victim" is "the victim did X, and bad thing happened. I would never do X, therefore bad thing would never happen to me". Of course, nobody thinks it explicitly, but it's how the mind works - bad thing happens, the mind automatically thinks "omg, this is terrible, it could happen to me, I should worry" and then another part of the mind thinks "no, the bad thing happened because lease said don't do it, and she did it, so if I never do what lease says to not do, it won't happen to me, so I should not worry". And the mind is happy again.

>>> Ebay doesn't let me sell drugs or other illegal items.

Drugs yes, but you probably can sell tons of illegal (in some places) items on Ebay. Ebay has no possibility of tracking the local law in every locality, and a lot of things can be made illegal. For example, selling medals and order signs are illegal in many countries, still ebay has a lot of them for sale.
Ukraine War Already in Full Swing in Cyberspace
A condo under construction succumbed to high winds in Raleigh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSjrOiGIxh4
It would be if they also invested in the residential real estate around it. If you only focus on commercial properties, you're ignoring the value you are adding to other real estate investments in the area.
Another London centric view of "Britain". Roll on Scottish independence.
There are some terrible implementations of UEFI, and Microsoft is copping the blame for a lot of it.
For all the Linux people who rule out a laptop because of wifi drivers - please get a Linux supported USB wifi dongle for $10.
This is turning into the funniest thread I've ever started on HN because of a typo. Not very PC, but amusing nevertheless.
> Imagine walking up to a computer in a shared space (hotel lobby, library, etc.) and it's been configured to send out accept-language: <something you don't understand>.

If web browsers could somehow figure out they were running either under a guest/public-use account, or in a kiosk mode, they could avoid sending an Accept-Language header at all. Then,

1. in cases where the header is sent, it would mean a lot more (and hopefully override both online-profile-stored and IP-detection-based answers);

and 2. in cases where the header isn't sent, using an answer from an online profile setting or IP-detection would no longer be against-standard.
<!--Fireworks 8 Dreamweaver 8 target. Created Sun Dec 11 16:07:50 GMT+0100 ( ) 2005-->
Well in this particular case it was pretty much all politics. Had it been about the code it would have had a different outcome.

The person making the threat felt they were immune from backlash, but they were threatened by where I was working in the code base because they lacked the expertise to compete on a technical level. What I found even more interesting was that our mutual manager felt that his position was an even more tenuous political position so he wasn't going to do anything he wasn't told to do by someone above him in the chain of command.

If someone working for me threatens to quit, I first ask them if their issue can be resolved rationally, and if it can't I ask them when will their last day be. But that is because even if my boss then comes to me and says "You told this guy who is friends with <important person> to quit? Your fired!" I am totally ok with that. Not everyone is.

To look at the flip side though as to whether I screwed up or not, I'm reasonably self aware enough to know when I do. And prior to this incident going 'nuclear', as it did, I had come at it from several different directions to try to eliminate bias. Every third party consulted felt my reasoning was pretty sound. But we all know that being "right" doesn't mean you get what you want in a politicized environment. Just ask the Ukrainians living in Crimea, life is what it is. We move past it.
I've been tracking my work for over a year now with a tool similar to this and now I would not live without (I should finally package it up and ship it...)

Some ideas, you can do very nice things through bash autocompletion, for example:

- immediate jumping between timelines (I have hundreds, by topic-project-task and so on)

$ tau jump proj tau<TAB><TAB>
/projects/taulog
/projects/taulog/android
/projects/taulog/appengine
..and so on..

- autosuggest for todo lists:

$ tau done<TAB><TAB>
[ 1] setup JTAG probes
[ 2] write script to control probe
..and so on..

And after you use this for a while you realize it can do more than manage log messages and todo lists, the same interaction can be used to quickly access bookmarks, reference material and local paths you often have to `cd` into :)
Homebrew always builds from source.

I have different machines running different linux distros, so I'm familiar with all the popular package managers (apt-get, yum, pacman), and I must say, Homebrew is really my favorite.
I maintain web crawlers for a large internet portal and this stuff is a pain enough to deal with when people unintentionally make their websites recursive, much less INTENTIONALLY. facepalm At least google crawler had issues as well. Thanks a lot, troll. ;P
oh god i just tried to nose-fork a Jelly Belly... ouch!
Only one side speaking. I would wait for both parties to speak before drawing my conclusions.
Really? You think people hate Monsanto now because of stuff that happened 50 years ago? Everything bad I've heard about Monsanto has been from the past 5-10 years.

Also:

1) I don't think "GM food" per se is bad, however if I had a choice, and knew ahead of time what I'm eating, I probably wouldn't choose GM food, whether from Monsanto or others, because I see GM food as "beta food", and I don't want to be the beta tester. Come back to me after 30-50 years of research for that type of GM product.

2) I do think Monsanto is bad as a company

3) I do think patenting lifeforms, like others have said is bad.
I'm experimenting with xrandr's --scale option for this problem. For my external monitor with a native resolution of 2560x1600, I can run "xrandr --output DP3 --panning 5120x3200 --scale 2.0x2.0" to have it act as a 5120x3200 pixel display which is then downscaled to fit the screen. This makes the hidpi-rendered stuff appear at normal sizes on that screen.
I can't find how these are executed. Are they sites that have malicious code on them? Are they required to have a certain plugin install (e.g. flash)?
How about a translation?
It'd be nice to see some detailed photos of the rover. I assume the laptop is part of the rover, but it would be great to see beneath the laptop.
> You don't know if the person is male, female, or a raptor butterfly from Venus.

Sure, but everyone just assumes you're a white male 20-something. And god forbid you correct anyone's assumptions, or you'll meet the endless refrain of kitchen jokes or racial epithets or whatever else they can think of. Remember, "there are no women on the internet." Disgusting.
Water bowls
Get faucer now
My refurbished Dell XPS 15Z worked fine with Ubuntu however I do have to memorize a few commands for restarting the mouse driver, the network manager and the wifi. Which is fine to a point. At least I don't have to reboot when the mouse stops responding or when I cannot get online. However, if I used the Windows 7 I doubt I would have to do such things.

In my recent experience I think the complaints about driver issues are fairly historical.

There is also a hardware compatibility list thing on an Ubuntu somewhere that someone could theoretically check in advance. However, by the time you get to search and get to that list you are likely to be typing something like 'nvidia bumblebee dell xps 15z' into the Bing! search engine.
The tokens coming in are the tokens from the user's ("Him") input. The outer interpreter is what translates those tokens into actions to perform. The inner interpreter performs those actions.

In a Forth, both the inner and the outer interpreter are extremely simple. The story describes them in detail.

Outer interpreter: look up token in dictionary/dictionaries. If found, instruct inner interpreter to execute it by giving it the address of the function that the token describes. If not found, try interpreting the word as a number in the current base. If that succeeds, push the number on the stack. If it fails, signal an error and clear some state.

Inner interpreter: start reading at the address supplied. Recursively interpret every word read as address of another function until encountering a 'end of function' marker.

Leo Brodie's variant of this story doesn't use the terms inner and outer interpreter because it was written before the names were invented, but it may be instructive, anyways: http://www.forth.com/starting-forth/sf1/sf1.html
We certainly need a better system than patents on genes to allow people to pursue genetic engineering for the sake of money.

This is not about "societal benefit". Nobody but Monsanto benefits from Roundup Ready products: in fact they are a net detriment to society since the continual use of glyphosate will select for Roundup resistant weeds. Then there's the issue of residual glyphosate in our food supply.

You can put away your pom-poms and the "all Monstanto haters are liars" cheer line, and come join the rational debate.

If GMOs cause my non-GM crops to be contaminated with GM genes, who owns my crops? More importantly, who pays for the cleanup when the value I offer to my customers is crops free of GMOs?

If a GM wind- or bee-pollinated crop is planted within a few kilometres of my crop without my permission, who owns the genes that get transferred to my crops due to cross-pollination?

Don't trot out the canard of "societal benefit" when the only people who actually benefit from GMOs are the companies who own the patents and manufacture the herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers that the GMO crops depend on.
JsCache
jsCache is a javascript library that enables caching of javascripts, css-stylesheets and images using CORS AJAX and a localStorage polyfill. This is especially useful when serving your website for mobiles, which has limited HTTP caching available, but also speeds up your site in an ordinary webbrowser as it saves HTTP requests and loads all files asynchronously.
Direct Browser Upload to Amazon S3 with Node.js and Express
Use Node and Express to create a browser-direct upload to Amazon S3
What ?! This isn't about robotron? Ah. I thought 2048 was a typo.
ChromeOS/Pwnium 4:

https://plus.google.com/+GoogleChromeDevelopers/posts/QbtZ7A...

Looks like one full-blown exploit (of an unknown nature but serious enough to get the $150,000 award), but maybe specific to a single device (HP Chromebook 11), and one partial exploit on the same device. Unclear from the blog post if the issue is something very specific to that one HP device or if it is ARM-platform related and impacts the Samsung ARM Chromebook as well since AFAIK Pwnium was just focusing specifically on a couple of newer ChromeOS devices.
This post is about open source rather than github the company. It just so happens that a lot of open source can be found on github and the site makes it easy to search across projects.
Yeah, but what about Lynx? Nothing? DIDN'T THINK SO! HA!
No.

It won't tell you if the fabric is too itchy/uncomfortable, just one example.
> Okay, that’s great and all, but who decides what is right and what is wrong?

> We the people.

No, it's the brigade that decides.

So, a GitHub Ethical Brigade who will harass repos because an individual in the brigade decided to take offense?
As long as people perceive value then there is value. I think it is as simple as that. Maybe people are waiting on dividends. Snigger...
Let's not pander to the radical "politically correct" folk.

"people publicly posting code with comments that could make so many people feel awful, unwanted, and excluded"

Really? REALLY?

Let's call this for what it really is shall we?

A group of vigilantes being dicks to people who they feel are being dicks, because of something as intangible as "hurt feelings".

Oh please, are they feeling privileged enough? In my day bullies left bruises and broke bones, not offended and hurt feelings.

I'm offended at your offence to being offended by the word "fuck" in a comment someone else wrote. If you really want to do something, write some code. Make some art. Build something. Don't bully some other guy/girl/furry/etc into sanitising their code for the newspeak of the day.

Will Wheatons law applies here - "DON'T BE A DICK"
What constraints? Adequate public funding for fundamental science so that brilliant minds and productive labs can pursue their chosen field of inquiry rather than abandoning it to chase grant money reserved for sexier topics.
> I don't believe a contract of employment entitles any company to tell someone who they can or cannot date.

Shame that companies believe that just fine. They can and will fire an employee if "no dating coworkers" is a policy that said employee violated. You are welcome to avoid working for these companies, but that's your only recourse unless you have an overwhelmingly string case that discrimination was involved.
Resonance with potential customers, co-founders, and employees. It's fine if many people don't get it, but if nobody gets it, I'm probably fooling myself.
The part that bothers me about this is that we're talking about a one-sided account of events where the terminology being used, "ogling," is entirely subjective.

At my work, there is a woman who brings hula hoops to company events. When there's music, she likes to dance and do tricks with them and she obviously practices a lot. When she's doing it, people (including me) stare. But, at least for me, it has nothing to do with any sexual aspect of what she's doing...I'm watching it because I like appreciating the skill and practice that's gone into her performance. And similar things happen at other company functions. For example, we have an employee who majored in music and is an amazing pianist. There's a bar we go to with a piano that he's played a few times. Guess what...everyone stares at him while he's playing. Hell, we've even got a couple of people who are amazing beer pong players that gather a crowd whenever the ping pong balls come out at events with a keg.

So when does staring and admiring a skill cross the line to ogling? That depends entirely on the person making the determination and often says more about them and their perspective/past experiences than it does about the people doing the staring.

The bottom line is that for those of us who weren't there, nothing in the account we've been provided gives us any information to judge the appropriateness of what went on. We have only one fact: the author of the account, who, rightly or wrongly, has an axe to grind with the company, felt that it crossed some line. It's bad PR, but it's not proof that anything untoward happened.
I'm sorry, do Scots spell colour as 'color'? If so it's the first I've heard of it. Or, lighten up.
Definitely true. I've actually only been with this company five weeks as their Ops guy, so these are questions I need to get answers too - the founder freely admits Rackspace was his first choice due to good history. But AWS is probably a better fit for us, so I'm doing due diligence on all that. Dedicated is probably not going to work for us at least initially. But definitely worth investigation too.
http://grugq.github.io/
MultiPlayer Logistics
Doesn't the repo owner still have to accept the change? And what if the owner ignores it?
To name a few: Joint filing of tax returns, Medicare, Social Security, immigration and residency for partners from other countries, sick leave to care for partner.

You can find more here:

http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/wedding/f/MarriageBenefit.ht...
"click here english translation": http://gwei.org/pages/google/legalletter_e.html
Seems down, here is a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DA5Tih3...
Ok, you win. You're holier than me. I must confess, I never thought of searching people's repos for crimethink comments and variable names. Take me to the inquisitor. I'd take it as a mark of pride to be assaulted by this group of idiots.
My interruption-resistant workflow
Well, first, I don't have a CS degree. Second, I don't see myself as servile, and I don't see how pointing out the logical and statistical fallacy in your comment indicates that I'm somehow "servile". I mean, maybe I am, but your comment is still just anecdotal evidence from which no conclusions may be reasonably drawn.
You keep back treading in your own argument. You can't argue that CS isn't vocational training and then say:

>I don't think an adventure game degree would make you very marketable

If the goal of further education is to gain a degree that shows specific marketable skills then it is by its nature vocational training(even if you feel like you got more theory than practice). Just because you go to a school with "University" in the title doesn't change that.
When I bought a house just outside route 495, I had to plan grocery shopping carefully or I'd be stuck with no pizza delivery and a can of beans in the pantry. Now I have a new shopping center with a BJs, a supermarket, and soon a Cabelas so I can shoot all the food I won't be able to buy after Immanent Collapse (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7404923) about 12 minutes away, door to door.

Clearly there was demand. The supermarket is often packed, even though it isn't as big or nice as the Wegmans that opened a bit farther away. There are malls even farther out that appear to be prospering, including some old ones that are less seedy than they used to be.

Curiously, there is still a lot of empty office space off 495. The newly built then mostly evacuated Sun campus off Route 3 is still very slack. So people out here are making and spending money, but not filling up the old Digital and HP buildings.
As someone who learned british english all the way until high school, I appreciate this. It would've been nice if there was an audio off button though.
I bought a Kudu recently. Very nice machine, with a great keyboard for a laptop. Only complaint is the trackpad's pretty fiddly. From what I've seen online, trackpad drivers tend to be problematic on Linux in general.
Interesting. I'll have to give that a try.

Wayland is supposed actually to fix this but its a little depressing how long we'll have to wait for that.
Always start by talking to customers.
I understand the concept of a signal, my point is just that there is more to college than creating signals (or even "education", however you define it) for the individual students. There are social issues involved that, in my opinion, carry a much greater weight than most people seem to assign them when discussing higher education.
GOOG shares have value because the company has value. They represent a fraction of that value but not an equivalent fraction of management control. Class B shares will eventually all be class A, Eric has converted a tremendous number of his already (they convert when you sell them, its possible they convert on change of ownership which would change them when they were inherited). So fractional ownership represents the fraction of what someone might have to pay to have full ownership.