skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am on 13.10 with xmonad but will try to move to 14.04 LTS with Unity.

This will happen as soon as I finish my Ansible playbook to get all my current Ubuntu tweaks and dev env setup implemented so I have a repeatable setup and can safely do a fresh install of my desktop as needed with zero manual work.

Dotfiles alone didn't cut it and VPS provisioning frameworks like Ansible are great examples how desktops could be built as well :-)

Feel free to track the progress at https://github.com/ahtik/dotdotbox

I'll try to keep it as universal as possible so it can be shared and tweaked in collaboration.
Google Fined $166K In India Antitrust Probe
If the other company values their time more than you do, and makes a more attractive offer, then that's your problem. There is a fairly obvious fix.

Now expecting your friend who owns the company to still be friends afterwards is a completely different question.
They're being defensive because a few fires crushed the stock price (irrationally), evaporating a ton of money. These headlines matter.
Base64 in Java 8 – It's Not Too Late To Join In The Fun
ISPs can be Forced to Block Pirate Sites in the EU
I made a very clear argument as to why an argument against banning interracial marriage says nothing regarding the question of same sex marriage. Instead of addressing my argument head on you respond with the usual emotional non-arguments.

Also note that I never made an argument for or against gay marriage, I simply argued that your argument itself is faulty. People seem to be incapable of distinguishing between the two. Perhaps I'm a rare breed, but I will argue against bad arguments for a conclusion I agree with.

You guys are losing people by attempting to hitch the gay rights wagon onto the civil rights wagon. One does not immediately follow from the other.
(there was much less news coverage about Tesla's best-ever safety rating)

Probably because NHTSA told them to cut it out.[1]

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/23/5135258/nhtsa-tesla-star-...
Tired of Null Pointer Exceptions? Consider Using Java SE 8's Optional
To quote: "Servo passes Acid2 in my branch". It is probably not in default branch yet.
Think of all the time that would be spent in meetings, all the time it would take to re-configure documents and processes to use the new fonts, then all the little stuff down the road like some OCR system doesn't pick the new font up, handling complaints from people that the new font is too hard to see...

Not to say it's not a good idea, there's just potentially a lot of side effects.
The author is using rawgithub.com to serve javascript files, but it seems that they serve 'erroneous' files when used too much.

It's actually kinda funny, they even go up to redefine some Javascript variables such as Infinity[1].

[1] https://github.com/kitcambridge/evil.js/
A social fitness experience
I didn't see the rapid development to be related to Moore's law or something like it. I saw it as a consequence of the learning, which is dependent on interacting with the world going at a material pace.
Unfortunately, in hard sciences, the world disagrees. There are many jobs that can demand a phD, and since there are plenty of phDs it doesn't detrimentally affect their hiring pool.
gcp, I am yet another 2350 Fide player who would take Bishop odds against Magnus any day of the week despite the 500 point difference.

The main point is that Bishop odds are different from 3 pawn odds. It tilts the game too much in the favor of the odds taker taking away most of the advantages(positional considerations, openings, etc) that a 2850 player enjoys over a 2350 player.

What happens playing against a strong computer given a bishop odds, is that computer will slowly succumb to the negative eval.

Instead a better strategy for a computer would be to try something very speculative like in old Tarrasch games with odds against amateurs.

That is computer should be on the lookout for eval -20.00 with perfect play by opponent(me) but possibility of 0.00 or even +10 when I make a wrong move. That is computer would have to try hard to create high volatility situations and hope that the 2350 player would misplay them.

I suppose that Magnus would try something similar(especially given his penchant for grinding).
Nah :) I still preffer something web-based and smart
Because it's simpler to do it one way and the lowest common denominator wins in this case.

Honestly, I prefer the paper version since it's less likely I'll ignore it.
Maybe Tesla cars are too safe.
I might go as far as saying that MS Paint for Windows Vista is the my favorite program period. It had every feature I could want (excluding transparency) and nothing else. The interface was quick and intuitive. I think it was pretty much perfect
Google yanks two battery-sucking Bitcoin mining Android apps from Play store
You realize there was a value to that pro bono legal help, right? It easily could have been in the millions.
> given how something trivial like a car fire (trivial given the average frequency of them) is turned into a national news event.

This is how media bias works. They take something trivial like a car fire and make it the most important news item of the day. People start to think it's happening everywhere. There are billions of "newsworthy" things happening all the time. The selection of stories and insinuation layered on top of them by the news media can easily drive agendas and influence the public.
The long term contracts with M2M interfaces for OTA updates are generally low bandwidth. Carriers are willing to sell these long term contracts because it consumes very little of their network capacity. If you started pushing out constant multi-gig map updates across them, then the price to operate their OTA infrastructure (their vendor) would massively increase. That's the point we're they'd probably have you download the update online and usb stick it to your car, assuming they were willing to eat the cost of new maps licenses.
Show HN: Gamerific – Challenge gamers you know
I guess this is the distinction between futurism and Science Fiction. I tend to think the sci fi is more insightful.
Unfortunately, no. Currently there are no complete and ready to use open source eNodeB implementations. SDR hardware - UmTRX - should handle LTE. Fabrice Bellard's (closed source) LTE implementation was (preliminary) tested with UmTRX.

As for Parallella - I'm not sure. I don't know enough about it to tell if its ARM core can handle CPU load required by LTE.
That feature was in MacPaint, released in 1984. It used command-option instead of shift, though.

Page 19 of this manual:

http://classiccomputers.info/down/Apple/MacPaint_Manual_-_19...
Agree. Simple tasks I use MS Paint for are more complicated in Paint dot net. Plus it has annoying floating windows that I'm forever dragging out of the way then trying to find again when they get lost. Why do so many paint programs have this inconvenience? Just dock them like Visual Studio.
Its always great to see new e-ink products. I think they are unreasonably overshadowed by the tablets.

[off topic]
Are there any recent product launches which would not feature a cup of coffee on their landing page?
Strangely, me too.
No, % formatting was never deprecated. The Python 3.0 release notes [1] said "The plan is to eventually make this [the .format() method] the only API for string formatting, and to start deprecating the % operator in Python 3.1" but it never happened.

[1] http://docs.python.org/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
I slowly, imperceptibly become "not me" every day. I change and become a different person; so do you.
It's not obvious that it would save a ton more money. TCO for a laser printer and a good copier versus email and a website is not a a simple question, especially when one considers the size of the the organization. New York City public schools can afford to spread the cost of some serious IT, on the other hand a private school of 200 students cannot, and the fixed overhead costs of maintaining a website and archive of documents may outstrip the marginal savings.
Three very useful open source SQL editors
Really? - I'm suggesting we cover up sexist behaviour.

No I'm suggesting if you are going to publicly accuse someone of sexism you should have something to back that up. I'm suggesting as you note yourself that it's unfair to say nothing and then suddenly post accusations on the internet. I'm saying that if her adviser is an asshole he wouldn't be the first - but there is nothing in her post or her circumstances that really indicates this.
Should someone next blog about the Sick, Sad State of Blogs with broken images? ;)
The argument made against Kurzweil could surely be made about anyone who makes claims about the future.

I do find some of Kurzweil's far out predictions kind of fun though, and I have a habit of checking on them every few years to see how he's doing.

Here's a list of some of them:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwei...

At least now that he's head of engineering at Google he might have a chance of making his predictions about robot servants and intelligent glasses come true.
Big images/movies. No way around it. Also, it was a fairly cheap upgrade :P
I don't know about that particular feature, but after looking around I found that Kolourpaint (4?) has essentially the functionality of MS Paint, with better usability and without its annoying bugs.
Creating Forensic Sketches from DNA
Tweeting astronaut reveals Space tech secrets
Distimo's Latest Report Shatters What You Think You Know About The App Stores
Indeed. He identified an approach that seemed off the beaten path, took a systematic and consistent approach, quantified the savings and wrote it up. I'm impressed. We should be encouraging this sort of exploration and rigour in school kids. It doesn't even matter if we 'grown-ups' think there's a 'better' solution.
He is one heck of a car salesman.
>And if society needs 5 new highly knowledgeable scientists a year, then producing 100 new PhD holders a year is over-producing them.

The other way to look at it is that failing to employ 95 qualified scientists means society's leaving a free lunch on the table.
Tesla Declares Victory In Ohio, But The Map Tells A Different Story
Plane goes missing and it's the top story of every news cast. It's sad but there are so many other issues in the world right now that outweigh a missing plane. The news can sell that plane though.
This is a very interesting article about differences between the sexes causing differences in 3D perception and the implications for making technology that works well for men and women.

Unfortunately, the title and last paragraph are horrible. There's just no good reason (other than link bait) to use the word 'sexist' in this context.
Blackberry Reports $5.9bn Annual Loss
"is more expensive than it is valuable" does not makes sense, since the value of something is what people are willing to pay for it. If it is expensive then it has a high value.
I was there, then. I remember the eco modes, however I think there was a speed benefit too so 'NLQ' really was just for posh letters to people, code printouts were in eco mode just because of the time required to print at NLQ.

I also remember the paper with tractor wheels and the possibilities for wasting paper. To print one page tended to need three sheets as the print head was some inches below the tractor wheels. To print that one page would require a form feed to get to the start of a page, another to get to the end of the printed page and a third form feed to make sure some paper was in the rollers. Brilliant printers though, I would prefer one for occasional printing rather than a dried out inkjet.
Now its more like the Sick, Sad State of Blogs getting the HN hug of death.
Right. I'd think long and hard before using a Sony product after that.
I think that's how he feels. And yet they've decided to add the titanium plate. Which is why maybe someone else should (help) write these.
Stupid idea. This works for YOU but not other parents.

My husband is still living in the stoneage and doesn't use email. He actually has an email address, but doesn't check it, ever, not once in the last several years. He doesn't even know what's in his inbox. He pays his bills over the phone. My mother also doesn't use email, she never even got an email address until 2 years ago, and never uses it. She still pays all her bills with a paper check and snailmail. A growing number of children are being raised by their grandparents[1][2], thus an older generation.

Some people don't have internet access, nor do they even care to have internet access.

How should one know that the website is updated? Email? Well, you aren't going to get everyone to read their email. Text message? Many people don't have cellphones (especially old people), and if they did, I know several people who don't have a texting plan, so they'd be paying extra for those messages. Some people don't have cell service at home. My mother still can't figure out how to text, or if she's got a message. I know it seems simple, but she just doesn't get it. Phone calls? Well now you got a big infrastructure to build, test, and maintain for automatic phonecall system.

"Johnny has been doing inappropriate things in class" is somewhat sensitive information. If you want to put it on the web, you're going to have to create logins, passwords, make sure that it is up to security standards, and deal with parents who can't reset their password.

When I was going to primary school (over a decade ago!) the "IT facilities" were beyond outdated, poorly maintained, and just not up to par in any respect. We were still using floppy disks, which were an old technology even then. Are we going to update every school with the latest equipment? At taxpayers cost. Train the staff and teachers to use a new system? Maintain the infrastructure?

Not everyone lives their life online. Get out of your own worldview for a second.

Paper is easy, simple, and solves problems. If it isn't broken why fix it?

[1] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2012/US-children-gr...

[2] In an interesting twist, not that it has ever come up, but my mother once said she would love to raise her grandchildren. She gave her reasons as she is now older, thus much wiser. She has way way more money now then my siblings and I ever had growing up, so money issues wouldn't be a problem like it was when we were growing up. She is now retired, so she would have all the time needed.
I've put my mind to this question for a few hours over the past couple of years and, yes, I do think the administrative effort is "too much" [for Primary School children, 4-11). There would need to be some further incentive for schools to try it.

For the school the costs are probably greater in producing the letter - if any printing is required then the personnel costs are going to be approximately equal up to the point of direct distribution. Instead of sending 32 letters to each class (all classes are <32 in my kids school) then they will need to count the letters in to bundles and label for the class they are to be received by. The teacher/assistant will then need to consult a list to ensure the right students receive the letter, a potentially changing list, rather than simply give all students a letter to take.

Initially up take is likely to be low IMO. There will also be a lot of issues with parents not reading all letters or having technical problems. The letter-in-bag is very hard not to deliver for primary-age children and the school can look in the bag to see if it's gone - getting notice of email letters having been seen is possible but less robust IMO.

Currently my kid's school don't de-duplicate for siblings. They could do that and, I estimate, save may be ~10% of material costs immediately. I think the administration of that is similar to how you'd have to administer who isn't receiving letters by email.

Schools face another option - allow advertising on letters (which I generally disprove of FWIW). That way income is likely to dwarf the theoretical savings via reduced toner use.
If you've seen the kinds of Content Management Systems that schools tend to procure under e-Rate, you'd send home paper too.
I hope you will understand if I don't tell his name.

My wife is still in the lab. And she's already facing enough shit, + the retaliations because I've betrayed the PI by leaving. We don't need any legal crap added to the mix.

However, I can tell you that there are many investigations ongoing, ranging from sexual to misconduct to stealing research money, and that he's in hiring freeze since few months.

There's a chance he will be fired. The university seems, for once, on our side. Then, it will be my pleasure to tell the world all the details.
The 'right-to-work' doublespeak wins again. Horowitz is right (I think) that this behavior may violate California labor laws but he used the wrong term. The article you linked to explains what I mean but the gist is that right-to-work laws are laws that restrict union organizing in various ways.

Edit: It's not actually very relevant to this discussion but to the extent that it is, the fact that California does NOT have such a law means that workers have more rights than states that do.
What for you need it?
I think $100M per year makes up for those side effects.

There will always be people whose workflows are interrupted by a new change, and legacy systems that don't like it for their own reasons. There are already systems in place to handle their complaints, because this is an expected part of any change in a large organisation, and is barely worth mentioning.
MSPaint does actually have transparency (at least the XP version has)! The "secondary color" desides which color is to be transparent, if you move stuff and have transparency enabled (in the "selection" options).
So it's even sort of possible to emulate layers by having multiple MSPaints open.
As posted elsewhere it is a plastic snap fastener. Likely a secondary attachment for fit and vibration. No way is it structural or it's absence compromise the structural integrity. Do you honestly think they might have overlooked it if it was critical?
Why letter size? Isn't that a little bit obscure?

Unless you're in the USA, where it's the standard paper size.

Nearly everyone else standardised on ISO 216 paper sizes decades ago, but the USA insists on doing its own thing as usual.
it's just a shame there's no SDK

I noticed that the battery life is 3 weeks. Given the size of the product (not large), it's safe to say that they get that battery life by doing as little as possible. It may be that they don't have enough processing power to run any sort of apps, or if they did, it would drain the battery so much that it would ruin the device.

With that said, it would still be cool to try. It should at least be able to support a calculator.
Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier Reacts to Facebook's Oculus Deal
CUPID: A drone with a 80,000 volt taser
Beautiful 'hand-drawn' style map render from Openstreetmap data – zoom
This is pretty neat. We've had one[1] in Czech Rep. for a while but the UI is a little busy (and the adverts are a pain) so this TfL one is much nicer

[1] - http://idos.cz
kolourpaint from KDE. It's basically a clone with more features.

https://vidd.me/kAU

I did a quick check: It also does resizing with several choosable smoothing algorithms and the "perfect shape" thingy too..
Instead of paying people for typesetting new forms and letters you could instead pay people to typeset these in a digital format. Of course it would be smart to use less ink in case someone wants to print these. That's what I meant.
LOL! Thanks HN for killing my server? :-)
These take many, many years. The trick is to not throw your hands up and say "it's impossible", but to dig in for the long haul and support leadership that has vision.

Also... there's nothing that Eminent Domain can't fix. Ask the people whose homes were demolished to build the supergiant highways that LA is so fond of.
The Luigi Board (Angularjs-Based Game)
I'll second that extensions bit.

The difference between Gnome and Unity is that if there's something you don't like about the former, you can install an extension to fix it. If there isn't an extension, you can write one - at least theoretically.

Anecdotally, that sort of shifts the blame for missing functionality around. It's no longer "my wm is missing x" it's "I haven't written x for my wm yet."
It's a shame Paint.NET is no longer open source. I tried out Pinta on GNU/Linux, but it's very buggy and not quite as nice. I just use Gimp these days.
If they really wanted to go after the note-taking market hard, they should have created a way to have the "eraser" in the opposite end of the stylus rather than have to go through a menu system to modify notes.

For me then, it would go from "yeah, its kinda neat" to "I really ought to consider giving them my money for this"
e-ink?
The biggest take away from that article for me is that they are offering the fix for free to current owners. How many other car companies would do that? Unless they where required to by law which is clearly not the case here.
Practical experience outweights credientials by literally infinity, but if your goal is to get hired ( his step 4 ) credentials is more important than skill. Source: I'm a senior dev who's worked ~15 jobs and this was my experience. I will agree that a case study and/or metrics/numbers might outweigh credentials.

My current theory is employer name recognition>culture fit>skill>credientials in the interview process. Maybe an unrelated topic, sorry If I'm off topic.

tl;dr: thanks for the idea of using a case study in an interview... /me steals the idea
GIMP is great for editing photos, but a poor choice for creating bitmap (non vector) graphics. It's a big hassle even just to draw a straight line in GIMP. MS Paint is the reverse - easy for graphics, ill-suited for photos.

As I noted elsewhere on this page, Kolourpaint4 is the Linux equivalent of MS Paint. There are others which aim for the same niche, one called (MTPaint? or similar?) for example, but I found them harder to use.
Yoga worked for me, it cured my porn addiction in two ways: the girls that went there helped me have a normal interaction with women, and I had a more relaxed spine which, I don't know why, helps copping with addiction.
Which is still running a funding campaign right now: free software is the future, just let it happen, donate!

http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html
We're happy to finally announce our newest product: "Like Doubler"
Good. Work smarter not harder. Don't cultivate a culture of competing for more hours.
" the shields prevented any damage that could cause a fire or penetrate the existing quarter inch of ballistic grade aluminum armor plate that already protects the battery pack"

Ballistic grade aluminum armor plate... If there is one thing Tesla does well it is publicity. I know there are high strength steels but it seems like they want something that is strong and light. If it sounds like something impenetrable to the average customer that's even better for Tesla.
Spotify Could Be Planning An IPO For Later This Year
is it a trolling thread ?
If this is real it may finally be the dream of anyone who's ever wanted an electronic notebook!

I will go back to school just to use this!
> This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard.

Do you mean ridiculous as in you believe that he is exaggerating, or ridiculous as in it is amazing that the car held up so well? I doubt that he would simply make up verifiable facts concerning a specific, well publicized accident to make his company look better. That said, it is quite clear from these facts that this driver is lucky to be breathing today regardless of what kind of car he was driving. If the guy had died, Elon would be talking about how such an extreme accident wouldn't be survivable in any car.

This being an edge case, it doesn't really sway me either way, but it is undeniable that Tesla automobiles are very safe relative to others. He is justifiably incensed at the negative media attention surrounding a very small number of incidents.