skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, enough with this shit already.

Stop spamming Hacker News with your insane activism, which is nothing more than bigotry under the guise of anti-bigotry.

Take this shit back to the SJW ghettoes of tumblr, where it belongs.
I for one (no pun intended) actually liked Ubuntu One. In the age where the DropBox installer for Ubuntu was funky and running it headless involved downloading a Python script and running it in a screen session Ubuntu One provided a much better experience.

That said, I was never one to pay for DropBox or Ubuntu One because their pricing was just a little too expensive. The free tier got me enough space to share a few random files, and if I needed more than a few GB's, I've got my own infrastructure for that.
I mostly agree with your point, I just want to remark that Russians are very keen at circumventing what they consider to be stupid (alas, this includes laws and rules). I suspect that an average Chinese respects the authority, whereas in Russia it's a kind of a national sport to cheat the system. We can hope that such system of safety "valves" will be unstable in Russia.
Why it is not possible to regulate robots
Awesome, now even more sites will try and force me to download their shitty app when all I want is to read a fucking article! No wonder no one uses the mobile web when every other site does stuff like that.
popcorn-team/popcorn-time is dead, long live luxifer/popcorn-app!
No, the Apache SVN project is not to migrate to git. The prank was that the Apache SVN project was to migrate to git; it is now not.
I would suggest that if it works for Salesforce then it probably does scale...
Show HN: A simple grocery shopping tool that learns from your habits.
standalone (node-webkit) is in development.
UK education.
Do-Gooder Drones to the Rescue
It's worth mentioning that Emacs operates on files the exact way you want Zed to work (on your philosophy page). I'm not trying to be one of those "Emacs already does this" guys, but you seem to legitimately think it's a new concept, when most people using Emacs use it like that.

"Like that" being that we don't care if a file is open or closed. If I'm swapping between 2 files a lot, I will just swap buffers, but usually I just navigate straight to whatever file I need and open it. If it's already open, the buffer will come up; otherwise a buffer will be created. ido-mode makes it trivial to query files/buffers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsgPNVIMkIE

(edit: inversely, ido-mode actually saves a history of opened files so if you try to switch to a buffer of a file that isn't open, but you've opened before, it will transparently open it for you and it feels like it was never closed)

Also, same thing with file creation. I'll just navigate to the file I want to create and hit enter.
Wow, that's a hell of a testimonial. :)
A nice clean presentation. You might consider a different shade of green on the header bar? Feels a little harsh to look at to me.
The many worlds interpretation of wavefunction NON-collapse, I think you mean :). And it is a guarantee that if it is not physically impossible for it to have happened, there is a branch of the universal wavefunction as you describe.
The standard Ubuntu install includes Deja Dup, which does encrypted backups to Ubuntu One. I don't remember ever seeing much marketing of this feature from Canonical, though.
The Well-Rounded Technologist
Right. It doesn't state "death to all gays".
One of the more well known VCs in SV gave a talk two weeks ago and told a story about when he met the founders of SnapChat two years ago. He asked them "So, tell me honestly, are people using this app for anything but sexting?" One of the founder replied "No, there are loads of cats too!" The VC asked "Wait, how do you know there are cats too? Isn't everything deleted?" Needless to say he passed on the investment.
Reading some of the ideas made me update my .vimrc a bit. The point that buffers versus files is mostly useless now is on point. The rest of the points about minimal UI I already use. Create files same way you find them, sure!
Windows 8.1 Update 1 doesn't sound like a very big update to me. It should certainly be a smaller update than 8.1, if they didn't name it 8.2, and there was nothing major about the 8.1 update to begin with, unless you consider the adding of a Start Screen shortcut button a "major upgrade".

Windows is a behemoth that needs to support a ton of different hardware configurations, and it can't come out until it works very well on almost all of them. That means a year of development is a very short amount of time for Windows, and they can't add too much to it. Look at Windows 7 vs Vista. It took 3 years just to improve its performance a bit.
That's what I was taught in high school, too. Basically just dazzle camoflage

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage)
This is their developer conf. Any announcements will be strictly dev related, and limited to the keynote.

So, for example, maybe Azure upgrades/SDK changes. Visual Studio updates, .net framework, etc... All the other sessions are deep dives into the tech and how to use it
Hah my first thought seeing screenshots was "oh, looks like windows 95" :D but the page was more about "joining a revolution" than giving me actual information
1 June through 31 July is two months?
I think the notion of thought-police posited by meddlepal is just as scary as that of an oppressive government. Governments, at least, can be overthrown.
Here it is, enjoy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515793
We use Wave ( http://www.waveapps.com/ ) and are pretty happy with. Also, one bonus is that it's free, including if you have multiple companies. It also has bank feeds and pretty good multi-currency support.
I like Zed author's choices. I don't think there's anything new in them per se, but a different combination of small existing principles may breed an interesting culture. Good luck.
Supreme Court strikes down aggregate campaign giving limits
Deja-Dup however was rather buggy... for my machines it corrupted all backups I had and I had to restore data from duplicitys broken indexes for at least two more people.

A rather bad track record for software that is there to prevent you from losing data :/
Supreme Court Strikes Down Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions
this is sad. I used ubuntu one services for a while and also cloned the music app code to understand android development once.
"people use credit cards because they do not have the extra money"

So you think it's better for people to be able to spend money that they don't have and pay usurious interest rates and fees, decreasing the utility of their future income and locking them into perpetual debt?

Maybe it would be better if credit were a bit more difficult to access so that people think about it more before utilizing it.
Whether or not they happened is a yes/no though. It's not "I believe this is 60% likely to happen" "Why yes! It was exactly 60%!", it is instead "This person said it was 60% likely to happen, and it happened. That means this person was right, for a certain degree of right"; we don't actually know what that means.

It may be that they're weighting it based on confidence level (so saying 0% chance on something that happens counts against them, but 49% chance on something that happens counts against them less), but it still counts as a yes/no in that given enough people, and a random distribution of answers, you would expect a subset of people to always be right (though the 'amount' of right changes, this person said 51% chance of it happening, this person said 100% chance of it happening; they both got it right).
Synology offers a Dropbox substitute–meet the personal cloud
John Cook has a recent post that gets to the point:

http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2014/03/21/independent-decisio...

Crowds (as in mobs) aren’t wise; large groups of independent decision makers are wise.
Quickbooks online.

We use an accountant, and occasionally a bookkeeper. We’re based in New Mexico, and all of the local accountants said it was Quickbooks or Quickbooks online :-) And it’s proven to make getting help with the books pretty easy. Of course I hate it (but with some automation and help) I never have to touch it either.
windowsondevices.com was live for a bit earlier today, now gone. Speculation is this is a play to get in on the 'internet of things' areas with Windows devs.
Where can i get my high school diploma
It so occurs often that individuals missing their higher education diploma and as luck occurs that missing degree required instantly. How could easily escape out of this terrible scenario? I would recommend that you simply create for fast fake high school diploma it will require just a couple of dozen moments and it could possibly fix your issues.
Curious, how do you browse code in Sublime that you can't in emacs? I've seen coworkers using Sublime navigate code much the same as I do in emacs which is mostly just by using incremental search.
IME, it's only really en-us speakers that pronounce "#" as "pound".

It is especially confusing to British people when people reference # as "pound", as we have completely different notion of what a pound sign is, namely £.
I think it all made sense and looks good. I signed up for a private invite. Congrats on the tool. I definitely see value in it!
> but the stock I bought from them was turned into wastepaper through some mechanism that I don't understand.

Sounds complicated. Most likely they hired an expert to make it happen.
"People don't use credit cards because they are convenient, people use credit cards because they do not have the extra money, which drives compounded economic growth."

That's not true everywhere. I'm not sure if it's US-only behaviour, but in other countries, the majority don't use credit cards for debt - just as a convenient payment mechanism.
Bleem language: perfect speed and concurrency
Was the project shut down? (the website is not working, sorry if I haven't missed that in the article)
clone to cloud saas of course
In which universe would that be plausible. It's not in the one that I live in. The SVN developers were always fairly candid and open about the fact that they think, that SVN is the tool they want to build, but that their priorities do not align with every other project under this sun. That is, unlike Linux, who promotes git as the superior and end-of-it-all VCS, the SVN people publicly state that they're building a system that adopted certain tradeoffs that may make it unsuitable for some kind of project - especially for the linux kernel. [1] Even though I dropped SVN and adopted git for the large majority of my projects, I still see the occasional project that would be served much better by using a stupid, centralized VCS such as SVN and I'm happy that SVN exists and continues to thrive.

[1] http://subversion.tigris.org/subversion-linus.html
Supreme Court Strikes Down Aggregate Limits on Federal Campaign Contributions
Intuitors.
I don't know what to say. Sabotage Mozilla over an unrelated political cause? That's just horrible.
There are a couple of SCCS projects which are just barely outside of your epistemological discussion. ;)

CSSC, which is the GNU project's implementation of SCCS. It uses git: http://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/ . CSSC is meant as a stepping stone to migrate existing SCCS projects to some other version control system.

Sun released SCCS in 2006. A couple of forks exist. One is the Heirloom project. If I read http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/devtools.html correctly, they maintain their version of SCCS using CVS.

These are unlikely to affect your vote.
From my experience, all of their events are advertisements.
You're not missing anything.
It really is awesome being in NYC. I have lived here my whole life, from when every neighborhood was dangerous to now when even harlem is hoarding hipsters.

I have no basis of comparison, but this city really kicks ass. The restaurants, the activities, the opportunities for work. If something is holding you or your startup back, that something is not NYC.
No, neither of you get it. All you have is the right to speech free from governmental impedance; you do not have any sort of right to speech free from civil consequences.

Boycotts are a form of free speech too, you know. How come you're not so antsy to defend those rights, I wonder?
>People don't use credit cards because they are convenient, people use credit cards because they do not have the extra money

I use my credit cards because they don't cost me any more than using cash (I pay off the full amount each month) and I get a lot of various perks in return, like cashback, airmiles and insurance. They are convenient and I use them whenever I can.
Short Names Kill Productivity (CODING)
Me too. I'm guessing that 80m is for more altitude and better wind. There are plenty of safe 4-line systems, you can always flag the kite on a single front line. Maybe they're Cabrinha fans?
I wonder how this would do with a 25m foil kite instead of an LEI. 11m is my go-to most of the summer here in Boston
Next paragraph:

> The stand-alone version will be built on top of node-webkit and be available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Once the initial work there is done, both version should continue working from the same code base, so I should be able to support two versions (Chrome App and standalone) without much effort.
Thanks for the tip! I will give this a try. We are also looking for something.
61 days inclusive. I imagine the sync client will be producing a countdown in notification area and generally nagging the user each day.

Disclaimer: not an Ubuntu One user.
Wouldn't it be better if they partnered with someone like DropBox to provide a migration path? Possibly a transparent migration path? Then convert Ubuntu One to a relabeled version of DropBox.
NoSQL master master write performance
We are rewriting an application which is write heavy (wont go into exact numbers but +00's of writes per second currently).

The original application was using a postgresql back-end (now severely struggling) but we are wanting to move to NoSQL due to changing schemas etc.

To give an idea of our setup.

We have two application server sets. One in the UK the other in the US, but only one database which is in the UK.

We want to have a setup where by as the company expands we can create more application server sets in different locations each with an application server and datastore.

Because write speed is more important than read we need a solution which will offer us the ability to add extra datastore nodes in order to increase write performance with the data being replicated across other locations.

I would like to know what people suggest as a nosql datastore which will offer us the ability to have master:x:master replication and a high write rate.
Well... this is sad. I used to store my config files like .vimrc, vim/, .screenrc etc. in Ubuntu One.
Meet The Reversible USB Cable, Coming This Summer
You're right, thanks. I misread the blog post.
That's exactly it, which is why I was so confused about the "team" of "superpredictors". While you might learn something by comparing their methods with everybody else, you still have to do the same amount of scrutiny on everyone in the crowd to learn anything useful.

With enough data, you can apply an automatic adjustment to even the most horrible predictors, to make their contribution to the final result more useful. If, for instance, someone always predicts exactly 10% more favorable results for Israel, independently of the facts, you can just reverse that for that one person on every question mentioning Israel, to produce a bias-adjusted result. That is tremenddously difficult, though, and not nearly as useful as just increasing the size of the crowd.

Which is the whole point. With a big enough crowd, you don't need to do that at all, because the stupid little biases unrelated to the facts tend to be noise, not signal.
You pointed out a couple additional things I missed, but you also put words in my mouth. I did not say there is "no merit left in Subversion" and indeed explicitly stated that it does have important use cases.

However I stand by my statement on the technical underpinnings. The fact that svn does not distinguish between a repo, a directory, a branch and a tag means that it is ill-defined and is an evolutionary dead-end. Incidentally there are some benefits for things that git does poorly, but that doesn't make it a good architecture.
Why does PulseAudio have anything to do with Ubuntu? AFAIK, there is no relation between the two, other than the fact that Ubuntu offers PulseAudio (along with almost every other distro).
That graph shows 68% of the time in games, facebook, chat, and music/video.

The remaining 32% is split between 14% in the browser and 18% in apps. That's not the same thing as the mobile browser being dead.
If you're looking for a UI mockup tool with support for back-of-the-napkin style drawings, I'd recommend the Pencil Project [0]. It's easy to use, open source and available on every platform and as a Firefox extension.

[0]: http://pencil.evolus.vn/
Thanks, I should probably turn F.lux off every once in a while...
It was just a wrapper for 7digital, I think; you can still buy from there.
I'm not in SD, but I'd highly recommend seeing if she's interested in FIRST and also definitely get her hooked on Sylvia's Super-Awesome Maker Show: http://sylviashow.com/

She presented at the first RobotsConf and it was really compelling and could inspire other kids to start building things: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/robotsconf-2013/super-aweso...
They use Launchpad.net to host their code. It's here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntuone
This is an interesting article, but it doesn't actually prove its thesis.

The idea that robots are unregulated is untrue. In many industries, they're already regulated. I think it boils down to a great quote from one of the guys at 3DR (paraphrased): "It's a robot until it works perfectly every time, and then it's a tractor or a washing machine or an oven."

All of these things are regulated. General purpose robotics is as far away as general purpose AI; these have more in common and share a regulatory regime (which is to say, none at all).
Ask HN: Where do you get High Res Hero images for your homepage?
I've currently been getting them through http://littlevisuals.co/. Do you guys have any other resources or sites I can look into?
As to the researchers probably know what they're doing, see my original comment and the very first thing I said, "I need to know more". It's not charming cute naiveté, I simply really think that the article tells me nothing about the methodology.

See response here as to why they're still yes/no questions (TLDR; the outcomes are yes/no) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515824
I can't find the reference to the giant marshmallow hypothesis, stating that it perfectly probable (although possibly scarcely) that there exists a giant marshmallow that formed somewhere in space out of sheer luck. Probably Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams.
The Expert Paradox
I believe it has been open source for quite some time. Check the link I provided in the comment below for their repo page.
I believe his math forgets that we pay 40+% taxes out here in SV :)

Nice job all around. Will check it out
Why New Packages Managers
Very nice. Thanks for finding that.
I got tired of hearing friends saying that they'd rewritten their frontend in [trendy language of choice] because their backend was slow.

Bleem is a placeholder for these conversations. If replacing everything in an infinitely fast, no-resource-using language won't fix your performance issues, then maybe you need to take another look at your architecture.

Example application:

"Our API servers that make 1,000 concurrent requests to MySQL are slow. We're thinking of replacing them."
"Would Bleem fix that?"
"I guess not."
And surprise! I did not argue that. I wish people would read my comment a bit more carefully.
> Passwords that don't accept spaces are pretty rare

Oh how I wish that was the case. Twitter is one such example which don't allow spaces (Last time I checked anyway)
I'm one of the heavy users of this. It integrates with all my devices better than other options. Google Still hasn't released a Linux client and the dropbox app has been very flakey for me in Ubuntu.

I've set my phone camera pics auto sync to all my devices. All my music and photos are backed up with Ubuntu One. When I upgrade my OS version, I sync all important files here. When I switched jobs late last year, my music was instantly available at my new office. When I'm working and I need a file on my Windows machine, I just throw it in Ubuntu One and switch keyboards.

I'm disappointed by this, but not surprised. They haven't been doing anything with the product in a long time.

I had hoped that just meant it was a stable product.
Yep. I use org-mode every day. I think it's because most emacs users have gotten tired of typing "Yeah, emacs does that. Has done for a few decades now. And if it isn't precisely what you're looking for, here are a dozen ways you can customize the behaviour before you even get into hacking elisp." Most of us are in "whatever, if they haven't gotten it by now, I'm not going to try to make them" mode. I just wish there was a config setting in HN to filter out the "look! yet another new editor for programmers" spam on the front page.
So Facebook, Messaging, and Gaming apps make up 58% of mobile usage statistics and suddenly the mobile browser is "dead"? Mobile browsers have never been a strong target for gaming and won't be until Apple allows WebGL to run in Mobile Safari. What I take from this is that Facebook still dominates people's online activities and that most people spend most of their time playing Candy Crush Saga on their phones. This article is link-bait, nothing more.
I have heard that most of the trouble everyone had with PulseAudio had less to do with PulseAudio itself and more to do with terrible audio drivers that did all sorts of awful things when commanded to do relatively basic tasks by anything more complicated than Alsa.
Browser Support in jQuery 1.12 and Beyond
link http://www.fityap.com
Judging from the comments most people here still think Cucumber is a testing tool.

Why is it so hard for people to realise that Cucumber's main value proposition is not testing, but to establish a shared understanding between various roles on a software project?
I still don't really understand the advantage of ReactOS in any particular situation, although I suppose if you really liked NT-era Windows (and people do) it's a re-enactment society for that.
At first glance, it appeared to be a Zed Shaw thing to me.
The study was just release today, so it is about as new as it gets - if you're talking about the study results.
The more damning thing is the web is rapidly becoming poor people and geekland, with apps becoming where the middle and upper classes are consuming, so the value is moving heavily towards appland.

It's been clear for a while that monetising apps is easier than the web, though the discovery problem is intense.

What I've not seen, and would be interesting, is how different this is for iOS and Android users. i.e. do iOS users spend more time on apps vs in browser than Android users?
Forbes, as usual, churning out horrendously written and poorly thought through articles.

Time spent is a poor way for anyone to evaluate a market or even a single product. It could mean anything from "wow this product is amazing, let me stay on it all day" to "wow this product sucks, and I can't find anything but I need to so I'm going to spend 3 hours on it finding what I need".

Its an even worse choice to then extrapolate that metric into high level prognostications about what does/doesn't matter in the space.

Mobile Web has a role for consumers and companies. Mobile apps, like packaged software of the past, also have a role for consumers and companies. The value is in understanding why they have different use cases and building software that delivers value to users for what they need right now.

But hey, if this poorly written article resonates with you, feel free to listen. And the rest of us will laugh at you all the way to the bank.