skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The trouble is, most of the people who're "promoting a more feminist, egalitarian, diverse culture" are not in fact capable of grasping "the inherent equality and humanity of men and women (along with all other marginalized groups)". In fact, I've never met anyone who can full stop.

Turns out that everyone's very good at understanding the inherent equality and dignity of people who're exactly like them and hates it when people claim to respect them without putting the work in. They also want to be seen to respect others but only so long as they don't have to put the work in. The history of feminism, for example, is rather enlightening...
That's my experience on my two Macs.

In fact, to the contrary, it seems to have finally fixed my issue where Mail would randomly stop fetching new messages from Gmail until restarted. At least I haven't seen the symptoms of that in a while.

It going to take me months/years to trust Mail again. Such a horrible bug for them to release with.
This fits perfect with what PG said in a Tech Crunch Interview in 2013 http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/18/the-evolution-of-hacker-new...

● "[Paul Graham] wanted to make Hacker News a place to recreate the way Reddit felt in the good old days"

● "He explains that [Hacker News] was community of insiders in the hacker world, and it has gradually been getting diluted."

● “That is what I spend all my time thinking about,” he says.

● He worries that Hacker News will become what he calls “an old crumbling building.”

● “The community has been in a perpetual but slow decline because the site is growing,” he says.
The reprap ormerod is using an infra-red sensor for bed levelling, so no contact force. http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/3d-printers/7952333/

There was a nice bed levelling project I saw on hackaday a couple of years ago that was cool as well, I think their method isn't covered by this patent either - http://hackaday.com/2012/04/23/automated-bed-leveling-with-o...

Also, the idea of bed leveling using contact force and other methods was discussed in the reprap forums at least as far back as January 2008 - http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,8028
US to give up control of DNS root zone
Google Punished eBay for Bad SEO Practices, but It Wasn’t Part of “Panda” Update
Isn't that rayiner's point, though? rayiner argues that Microsoft should have shipped without a feature at all, rather than shipping with a broken feature (e.g. shipping Surface RT without Office rather than with broken Office), which is what Apple did with the copy/paste feature on the iPhone.
systemd only runs on Linux, and that will never change. I'd love to see a mostly-systemd-compatible init for other UNIX OSes, but moving from Hurd's previous pile of custom scripts to sysvinit is a useful incremental step.
It's quite possible to use a phone without copy & paste (even if it's not optimal), and at the time most people were coming from feature phones that didn't have the feature.

On the other hand Office was basically the reason to buy an MS tablet; and they didn't have it ready.
Try to equate being crawled with the /. effect. The site can server web pages, but not at scale. So if the googlebot comes along to index your site, the webserver may fail under load. Perhaps you're on co-hosting plan and your provider suspends your site because the crawling has put you over one of the limits on your plan.
It's a fair question.

I think a fanboy would have called out (listed) every single criticism in the thread, not just the ones I called out as not adding to the conversation, as defined by me somewhere else in this thread.

I am looking into whether a Surface could extend my Mac, iMac, iPad, Windows Server and Windows 7 (no Android yet :( collection.
Maybe it's just a lot simpler: size and success attracts douchebags and morons. It's not limited to online communities. Cities, sports teams, rock bands, movies, you name it, you see it happen again and again. Success attracts the kind of people who act like a-holes in any context.

And yes, I'm aware of the great irony of posting this rather superficial comment in this thread. But I'm not sure if I'm actually wrong...
The thing is, this stuff has been hashed out in the open source community before Makerbot filed their provisional, hence it was already obvious to anyone acquainted with the art.

Here's this from 2008, for instance - http://forums.reprap.org/read.php?1,8028
He says that the reduction in sensitivity on the digitizer "scared the hell out of [him]."

Why do people say stuff like this? You know what scares the hell out of me? Getting mauled by a bear.
They do this on reddit too..
First of all, Matt, you guys are killing it with Meteor; it's an awesome framework. Angular is awesome, too. Echoing another commenter on this thread, "X vs Y" comparisons, which encourage religious tensions, are not super productive. These framework decisions come down to case-by-case technical requirements (and personal preference + experience)

All of that said, my favorite thing about Angular is that it's a framework for building frameworks, and the sky's the limit on how you want to handle just about every piece of your app. You can set up your own reactive data models in Angular, for example--but not as easily and immediately (from what I can tell from this docs link) as you can with Deps.

Would you rather use Heroku or EC2? Write an application in C or Python? Buy pasta from the store or make it from scratch? Depends on expertise and requirements.

Sometimes low-level flexibility (e.g. with Angular) is invaluable, since each project comes with unique requirements that can't always be addressed with more abstracted, batteries-included solutions. More specifically, sometimes you end up fighting against batteries-included frameworks when abstractions prove too leaky.

Sometimes, though, batteries-included tools (e.g. Meteor) make all the difference between needing to staff one engineer or four, or being able to write and deploy an app in a few hours instead of a few days.
There is a bit of survivorship bias at play. People who complain and don't see things improve leave. The only ones left are the ones who didn't have a problem.
This is an interesting lecture [1] at Linuxwochen Wien 2013 that focuses on the usage of football.db. More data should be put into public domain.

https://cfp.linuxwochen.at/en/lww2013/public/events/61
Pixelmator 3.2 released with magical content-aware fill
> It kind of seems like the least interesting possible thing to do with Hurd, given its major architectural differences from Linux, is to make it as much like Linux as possible. I'm just not sure who the target users are for "Debian GNU/Hurd" or why they'd ever be better served by it than by Debian Linux?

Right now, the target audience are Hurd developers, who need a useful userspace to work with. Making that userspace as much like Linux as possible reduces the incremental maintenance effort, which is critically important given the limited number of developers.

(You could reasonably ask the value of developing Hurd at all, but given a set of people wanting to develop it, it makes sense for them to do so using a Debian userspace.)
There was a post a few years ago that detailed many of the archaic and somewhat obscure requirements that boarding passes must have: http://blog.timoni.org/post/318322031/a-practical-boarding-p...

It seems as though Virgin America can bypass many of these because there are no (?) international flights.

The original boarding pass redesign post, to which the above was a rebuttal: http://passfail.squarespace.com/

Edit: wrong links.
Forth might have been easier.
Funny how patents are supposed to encourage innovation and they're doing exactly the opposite.
Siblings have plausible explanations. Another reason, however, is that we have so many lawyers, and they must be employed somehow, otherwise one of them might take the judge's job. Why not employ the teeming masses in litigation and/or the prevention of litigation?
He says it shouldn't have shipped with a buggy Office. It may not be correct to infer from that it should have shipped with no Office, it is just as consistent with a preference that the Surface line shipped without Surface RT. Or at least that, given a commitment to Surface RT, making Office work properly on it was treated as a prerequisite for launch.

Its also worth noting, with regard to the Apple comparison, that "copy/paste" wasn't a central selling feature of iPhone, whereas "it runs Office" was a central selling feature of Surface, including RT.
systemd is becoming the standard free-Unix init.

Hardly, systemd is a blatant Linuxism. Unless your definition of "Unix" includes nothing but Linux, in which case, you're right at home with it.
Well we're seeing it more often in UI/UX because "forced creative vision" aka "design dictatorship" is more popular and acceptable for designers these days. Especially new designers who don't want to stick to the tried and true rules of design (nor learn them), nor base their designs off of some kind of metrics or best practices statistics. Steve Jobs culminated this attitude through his "I'll tell the user what they want" philosophy.
As a counter-anecdote, I've been running 10.9.x on my laptop since the first beta and haven't had a grey screen since beta 2 came out. On the other hand, my 1 year old Windows desktop running Windows 7 has had 4 BSODs this year.
Logically speaking, since folks with your attitude are a large part of the reason people like me don't bother, wouldn't that also make you, and your actions here, a part of the problem?

And wouldn't that imply the solution is to stop doing what you're doing?

So in essence, didn't you just admonish yourself?
When I saw this chart, the one mitigating thing I thought of was company provided health insurance. Surely that makes up for some of the lost salary? Alas, when I checked wikipedia, employer provided health insurance expanded dramatically soon after WWII due to price controls on salaries. (benefits were exempt). [1]

A counter factor is pensions; as we know pensions are quite rare these days.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_...
The air is very very thin. It could not dig or brush or use a microscope or put the samples in an oven or chemical analyzers. Also we already have good overhead images from satellites. Planes have been proposed nevertheless.
Only $30. Perpetual license. That's nice.
I've kept this same mbp up to date for 2 years and... It hasn't crashed once in that time.
2013 MBA - zero issues. And this is on a corporate machine with Meraki, Sophos and Symantec Encryption Desktop running on it...
Ruby will no longer ship with a testing library
What you said is really, really depressing. "Jobs are shit and useless, and you have to have one."

I do hope you are wrong.
I don't know about other people but Ioway saw the built-in Wacom tablet as one the best features of the Surface. I know that having a great digitizers one of the few things that I wish my iPad had, and my brother seriously looked at buying a Surface because the built-in digitizer.

In fact some of the best reviews I've seen of the Surface, such as Penny Arcade's, we're so happy with the precisely because of the ability to draw.

Given that that's one of their standout features, it seems odd that they would make such a big mistake with it. From the description it sounds like something that anyone who used the Surface for drawing for more than a short amount of time would've run into. It also sounds frustrating enough that it might ruin the usefulness of the tablet for precisely the kind of people who might of bought it.

That makes the regression seem very strange.
Cmon. There's no such thing as a 'false positive' in code crashes. Its a binary thing - correct code doesn't do it. So something is wrong with an OS that crashes for somebody. Its got nothing to do with selection bias.

And if it crashes for certain people chronically, then there's a syndrome that's reproducible. Meaning it is likely to affect a lot of people in similar circumstances.
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yes it is, but they get their own filing date.

Source: I have a few patents, and have done this.
Reasons Developers Hate an API
I like how you got downvoted for having a different opinion.
> somebody wants to treat 3D printing as a traditional business instead of altruistically open sourcing all the things.

Open sourcing needs have nothing to do with altruism, and it's certainly not mutually exclusive with running a business.
Where did you find these people?
I don't think it's that hard to understand why they might have done it this way, is it? Privacy immediately comes to mind.
Followup article: Darpa weaponises computers.
They are probably using HSTS to keep users from accepting unsafe certs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security
That's black/white thinking. Folks do a lot of things in a lot of spheres. Not doing one terrible thing doesn't imply they're doing nothing else at all.

Take off the blinders - there're a lot more issues in the world than this one. Lots of people just don't have the emotional energy to invest in all of them, or even in very many of them.
Ask HN: What do you look for in an open source project?
I've been looking to get into open source development for a while as a way to learn and gain a deeper knowledge of working on real projects.
However I have no experience of what to look for in a project before I dive into it, what should I look for?
To be fair though, apple has its own schizo nature compromise going on with the iOS / OS X divide. iOS's inability to multi-task or scale up to bigger screens makes it unsuitable for productivity, and OS X's lack of touch support makes it unsuitable for light-weight entertainment and real on-the-go usage.

In fact, now that W8 has made me used to combining productivity and touch in a single device I've found that I dislike using all non-touch PC's, including apple's.
The fact that the article is old doesn't meant we should ignore it, but on the other hand, you have to consider the possibility that things change over the course of a decade, and the article may be out-dated. You can't use 10-year-old evidence as 'proof' of anything currently happening at Microsoft, though you can use it as evidence to weigh probabilities.
No, there is plenty of criticism internally. It's just not criticism about the same sort of thing. It's more political than technical/product.

Frankly, I don't think my friends who work on Windows Phone realize that it's a failure. When I last talked to former coworkers from Windows 8, they didn't think it was a failure.
I agree with the author's thesis but I think other reasons apply to other communities.

Ideally, you would like to ensure the "greatest good for the greatest number" in a community. Consequently, good or happiness in a community is measured according to the preferences of the majority sometimes to the detriment of the minority. That is why, relative to the number of more intellectually engaging posts, you will see more LOLCats and animated gifs on the front page of Reddit. As somebody on here mentioned many people go on the internet for leisure, and intelligent/civilized discourse for them does not fall under that header.

As far as I know, HN was started to foster startups-tech community and I am optimistic because HN's subject matter is specific enough and the community concerned with this subject matter is small enough, for it not to devolve into another Reddit (meaning no offense to Reddit, I still visit there).
Well, that just concentrates on the good parts of USENET. The spammers had a field day with it and pretty much destroyed it. Maybe there is an opportunity here in the form of something halfway between a moderated forum and USENET.

You could piggyback this onto bitcoin, make a client that listens to specific messages to identify channels embedded in the blockchain? Every message would have to be a payment to a specific address to get a message onto the channel, the moderator(s) of the channel would be the recipient(s) of the bitcoins in reward for moderating the channel.

If a moderator decided to 'kill' a post they'd have to make another message to the same channel so for them (minus transaction costs) it would be a '0' affair.
Why empires fall: from ancient Rome to Putin's Russia
If that was the case, I'd worry about the buckets becoming like German universities - the best minds can't get together, so we all lose out.
Same here. I'm running 10.9.3 on a 2012 Retina MBP, a 2013 Macbook Air, a 2011 iMac, and a few others with no problems.

In fact, it seems to have finally fixed the sleep wake failures I was occasionally having on the Macbook Air since Mavericks came out.
Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe Settle for $324.5 Million In Wage-Fixing Case
It looks like he posted it AND answered it at the same time though, which is really weird.
Apple Fanboy and MS basher here.

Seriously, the Surface is a great move. Aside from the whole Pro / RT naming thing, of course (confusing customers is not good).

The Surface is, AFAIK, the only good tablet PC out there - it's a real flagship product for Wintel tablets. The OEMs will eventually beat MS on value, but I suspect Microsoft will be OK with that. Microsoft can afford to take a loss creating the market for Windows 8 tablets, and won't be upset if other OEMs start competing in the space - they'll then make money on software sales.

MS needs tablet PCs to be a thing. Tablets are a thing - people love tablets. People will either choose between a laptop and a tablet, or just a tablet that can also run Office. If there's good Windows tablets, people will tend to go with that. As Intel improves mobile x86 chips, the choice will be even easier.

Microsoft does not want everyone using Android / iOS tablet, because then the software ecosystem will move to iOS / Android apps (as it is already doing).

Whether Microsoft should have made the hardware itself, or let OEMs do it is a good question, but I think they were right to do it themselves. Just look at what the competition has been like - every other Windows tablet I've seen (not a huge sample) has been pitiful - ugly and either not portable enough, or grossly underpowered.

Also, making Surface probably gives them the institutional knowledge to make Windows better for tablets.
Sure, the chance to straighten out the claims later is a big part of provisionals. In fact provisionals don't even need claims, but for certain international patents to get the filing date you need to include at least one claim to make it a "patent filing" for those countries. Provisional patents are a US specific thing.

The way to think of a provisional is that it's a way to get a description on file by a certain date. Then if you subsequently file a patent application within that time you can refer to the provisional to get the benefit of the earlier filing date. The claims in the actual patent are the ones that matter and they refer to the description in the actual patent. In fact I'm not sure the examiner really looks at the provisional at all, since the claims and description of the patent application itself are what matter in regards to granting the patent.

So what does the provisional do? Example: let's assume bicycle cranks didn't exist and I filed a provisional 1 Feb 2013 for a crank with an odd number of teeth. I just wrote it up in relatively casual style ("a wheel with an odd number of protrusions around its circumference sized such that links of a chain could fit between them, and pedals attached to radial posts").

Then on the 15th of January 2014 I file a patent application for a bicycle crank with odd and even numbers of teeth. My description now takes up several pages and includes drawings done in the crazy style required by the patent office. My provisional just included a hand drawing or two and a couple of sentences of description.

If I tried to sue you over this patent for making bike cranks with an even number of teeth, and you had begun in July 2013, I'd be out of luck. But if you used an odds number of teeth my protection for my granted patent would extend back to Feb 2013.

I could still lose because the casual description might be ambiguous enough that you could convince the jury that it didn't really describe the actual, patented invention. Because of this patent attorneys try to make provisionals as close to real patents as possible, and often urge you to simply skip the provisional step.

(BTW there are domains where patents make sense. Where most NH readers are, in software, I consider patents an abomination).
I recall one project where we were allocated "refactoring" time, which turned almost immediately into performance profiling, you know, something you could see. It's like management gets itchy when they can't see change for more than 48 hours.
The solution (in so far as there is a solution) is to cultivate a culture. Large communities remain civil through culture.

Last week I wrote a post called "How to Cultivate Culture" that received a good amount of attention (outside of Hacker News) about this: http://www.sitebuilderreport.com/blog/6-ways-to-cultivate-cu...
You need to view the actual application to see the provisional filing date.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20140117575.pdf

As for my tone, it may sound aggressive, but I also feel that the aggressiveness is justified. This person is (successfully) attempting to leverage an already patent-weary community to force Stratasys into unnecessary legal drama based on nothing. It doesn't really matter if it's misinformation or intentional disinformation, because it is completely inexcusable to make such claims as absolute truth without doing any reasonable amount of research.

Witch-hunt (noun): An intensive effort to discover and expose disloyalty, subversion, dishonesty, or the like, usually based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant evidence.

This situation is the definition of a witch-hunt. A mistake would be to just raise the question of patent illegitimacy based on misinformation. It becomes a witch-hunt when he encourages people to submit prior art to invalidate the patent, thereby wasting everyone's time and money.
If we're going to collect anecdotes then I'll note my 2013 MBP has been running continually for over a year without a panic. I have a 2006 MB and 2008 MB (both still running) each having panicked 2-3 times over their lifetime. I'm a developer, my son is a musician and my wife is a graphics design artist so there's been lots of software thrown at these machines.
Try the keyboard navigation
Everything looks great, until the "Get Booking" link didn't work on the final slide (in Chrome on iPad)
Free idea: Build a social site that, even when it has many many users, breaks people into smaller groups in such a way that it remains enjoyable to all. You could analyze user behaviors and interests to do this. I've considered doing this myself.
Ask HN: Can someone explain the console for me?
Just some quick questions google hasn't been able to answer.
i'm in doubt as to which language does the console use. I've heard it's Bash. Sometimes Shell. Sometimes Unix. Is it one of them? All three?

Also, does Mac and Windows and Linux use the same console language? That is to say, if you input the same commands in the console of the three OS, will they output the same?
By console i mean the console.app in Mac, and the little black screen in Windows that lets you type (cd, ls, etc)
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> You know what scares the hell out of me? Getting mauled by a bear.

Why do people say stuff like this? You know what scares the hell out of me? Getting mauled by two bears.
I seem to recall the "don't claim hn is turning into reddit" already when I signed up 3 years ago.
Sure enough, a little manual "webarchive blame", shows that that text appeared in 2009 already. [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20090712034454/http://ycombinato...
Probably because 99% of people had not seen a single BSOD since Win7.