skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
84% of kickstarter projects are late. That doesn't make it ok, but we asked our backers in January if they wanted a shipment on time or if they wanted us to ship when we are ready, over 90% said to wait. I think people understand that they are backing a long term project and we try to keep them engaged with updates etc.
At one place I worked, in the days of XP, the 'index server'(?) had a problem and un-installed all the application programs. The basic OS was there but MS Office, MSIE, all the doodads just got removed as each machine logged in.

This was a small college, so the IT guys just went round explaining and told us to log out and log in again. Applications re-installed. No data loss and so no shouting.

Stuff happens. We did 'assignment action planning' that morning: mind maps, essay plans and research ideas. Results better than normal anyway
Those stories are already out there. They're just hard to Google.
I reckon sexual competition is at play here. Guys generally fare better in the mating game by associating with other good looking men. Assuming heterosexuality here for simplicity's sake, being a good looking guy in a group of good looking guys increases the chance that one or more good looking women will hang out with the group. Anecdotally men succeed in the mating game when mating as a group to group. Dunno why that is the case. Maybe a larger group communicates presence of a powerful male that females may try to vie for.

For attractive women, there generally is no benefit from being part of a group of attractive women, since it doesn't materially increase propinquity with attractive men as far as I can tell, but it does materially increase competition for the alpha male.

Basically, mating-wise, men win more often when they cooperate and women win more often when they compete. Anyone know of any science to support this observation or am I way out on a limb here?
It's kind of the opposite of what you're talking about, but I'd recommend reading "Permutation City" by Greg Egan (if you haven't already). The main premise is that in the future, human mind uploading is possible, but there's some upper limit on computation that prevents the uploads from running at real time. Instead, they are simulated at something like a ratio of 17 to 1. The story explores concepts of isolation as a growing society of uploads becomes more and more detached from the causality of "reality." The real world isn't a place you can conveniently interact with when you run 17 times slower than everyone in it. Plus there are interesting segments about an uploaded person having himself simulated with greater and greater real time between each simulated timestep, and with "skipped frames" that are imperceptible to the one being simulated (e.g. counting from 1 to 10, where you have the memory of having said "9" and being about to say "10" but the "frame" where you said "9" was never actually simulated and it skipped ahead).
Falling in wouldn't be very pleasant, I suppose. :-)
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It never ceases to amaze me how many americans completely overlook this in their blind patriotism. Baidu today may well be the only company able to challenge Google's strength on the search engine land, and an effective monopoly (i.e. if Google got their way with China and toppled Baidu) would be sad for mankind. Here's hoping instead that a breath of american mindset at Baidu can slowly make it reach out of China and who knows, challenge Google with (non-censored as in China, and non-NSA'd as in Google) english results.
The CVS log of the page: http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/licenses/why-not-...

The only change of substance since at least 2001 (when they started using CVS) is the rename of "Library GPL" to "Lesser GPL" (the 2001 version had a notice that the rename had occurred, but the article had not been updated).

Most of the changes are adding additional translations, and minor markup changes (the most recent is "Remove empty <p> element.")
It took some time for me wrap my brain the restrictions around the EPL while I was picking up clojure, but I don't understand how EPL would be frustrating to other developers or businesses. Could you elaborate?

As I understand it, as long as you use a library according to its stated API, you can do whatever you want with it and license the entire product under any license you choose. [1]

[1] - https://www.eclipse.org/legal/eplfaq.php#EXAMPLE
That's a good idea. Seeking perfection the first time around can kill productivity. I know it has for me.
This happened at one a former workplace too. Only the Solaris and Linux servers was untouched.

It "mildly" amused the *nix operations guys to see all the "point and click" colleagues panic.
Update: Some stats

After about 4000 hits from HN, about 1% of visitors have a browser older than:

* Chrome/Chromium 30

* Safari 7

* Firefox 24

* IE 10
>Now setup of video game 'drone consoles' that for $5/15 minutes you can fly a drone and score points

we already have this at some Nevada Air Force Base and the pay is about the same, around $20/hour.
It's too broad of a problem to describe. Different places have different problems. But you're also phrasing the issue in terms of non-participation. Is it impossible to join the political parties and work for change from within them?

So long as the vote itself is not rigged (something which gets questionable in the US I'd say) then in many cases its very much a matter of playing well with others, and actually having the support of the populace on your side.

There's also more layers of government that are important then just the federal. Local councils have a fair amount of power to influence policy implementation in their areas, states more so and representatives of both have louder voices for broadcasting dissent.

You seem to be using revolution to describe "getting enough supporters to vote for you". And if you can do that, then you can get yourself elected into office at some level of government (or someone you feel does represent you) and start effecting change.
It's almost like you didn't even read the article...
Note, FWIW, that the article doesn't specify that she's in tech at all, and besides receptionist, there aren't really any roles specified at all. I think the first question everyone should be asking is, "what kind of jobs are we even talking about?"
I am still used to <C-B> as a prefix.
For splitting windows I am using <C-B>“ for the vertical split, and <C-B>_ for the horizontal split.

The lines indicate the splitting direction, and I do not have to move my fingers around that much to reach, e.g <C-B>%
The thought of getting my internet from the City of San Francisco gives me cold sweats.
I think it's a deficit in the sense it starts to sum up for a few weeks and you get progressively tired until it starts to harm you, your brain, whatever. You can revert your tiredness sleeping well for a few days but the damage caused by prolonged periods with insufficient sleep it's done and maybe can't be undone.
if you're planning to stay in Canada afterwards the difference is not that big, UBC should give you a benefit of getting a bachelor's degree in just 2 years.

But if you're planning to go somewhere else (U.S. etc.), go UofT by all means, nobody outside of Canada knows where the heck is UBC. Vancouver is a beautiful place, definitely wins in terms of landscape, but the tech job pool is also super small, you will find out that pretty much everyone has worked at the same couple of places.
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anyone know of any other similar apps? (as this one lacks support for some other major languages)
Interesting -
Regarding an article with a huge subtext of "cherish the past",
you toss out crap from the 60's.

For shame.
100% agree. My initial response was to laugh, but dude, I so feel for the team that has to clean the mess up.
I'm a big believer in testing APIs. As mentioned in the post, these tests can serve a similar purpose as integration tests, and can double as documentation and API health checks.

I've been building a tool that makes it easier to work with HTTP resources. While it's definitely not finished, I've put it online temporarily if anybody wants to check it out:

http://morning-anchorage-3682.herokuapp.com/

It lets you define environments, http resources, and tests to be run against those resources. Custom headers, params, and persistent variables (to be used in subsequent tests) is all in there (although there is no help or handholding right now). There is also a command line tool that lets you connect your local sever to the service, and run the tests against your local environment.

Please excuse the un-styled login/signup screen, I added it just now to put the app online. Also.. this is a very early preview that I did not intend on putting online so early, there will be bugs. I'll be taking it offline this weekend.
Adium connected to Google Talk and AIM. It's possible to connect other chat services but I don't.
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It's not a standard across the board, but I've found academic institutions to be more honest about their technological mistakes (outside of large-scale breaches) than the private sector.
How has no one removed the cap by now? I would be extremely tempted to throw stuff down the hole.
You should be. Emory is the 2nd best school in Georgia! :)
> Are you saying that the "GPL community" don't want software developers that work for a company to use their libraries?

I am not the person you responded to, but that actually sounds about right for the GPL community.

As far as I can tell, GPL predicated upon the idea that nobody should be able to charge money for software. It's not saying that there should be free software, it's saying all software should be free (where "free" in this case also means open source).
I like Watsi, an interesting and downright good company, but this post reminded me a little too much of W1A[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EySLuYWTy0
Propogation of a software mistake is what appears to have caused the Gmail outage of 2011 http://youtu.be/eNliOm9NtCM?t=28m49s
I don't know about you, but I would use it for volume control.
> Had that happened, we'd end up with a situation like DSL

A situation where nobody wants to invest in DSL and everyone is looking to get out of the wireline telephone business?
That is my problem with the debate. While some people DO get up in arms about the U.S. government's activities, it is always phrased in such a way as, "You can't do this to American citizens!" What about non-citizens? What happened to "All [people] are created equal?"
How are you not getting chrome updates from your distro?
Open the link in this page:
Select the "download" option, and pick "ogg"
https://voicerepublic.com/system/audio/2014/05/16/DQxIXPoh2T...

is the URL I get, and that isn't Greg speaking
This is a great idea.

I would love an option to have bigger text size for writing. The current editing text is too small for comfort.

The text on the info page is also far too small for me. Sorry to sound like I'm whining.

I spotted one typo - "Earnest automatically saves you writing every". I gave up reading because my eyesight is so bad and I just couldn't read the smaller text.

I do really freaking like the idea though. I will be using it. Is there any way to send you a (small) amount of money?
Isn't this more the fault of the system architect than the guy who accidentally fired the bad deploys?

It's similar to a database firehose: If you accidentally start deleting all data you should have a quick working backup ready to quickly bring the dead box up to production.
The BOFH sabotaged his systems before departing? Didn't build a backup plan? And they hired him back?
It's Tyranny because the express goal of the GPL is to force all software to be free and open source. It's one thing to just say "my library has restrictions, please obey them", but the GPL is designed to try to infect as much of the software world as it possibly can, forcing via legal measures other software to catch its copyleft virus.
Fitts' Law absolutely does include distance: it's the observation that the time it takes to hit a target increases with increasing distance or decreasing size of target.
I don't understand this viewpoint of supposed "tyranny".

I can understand why one would publish under MIT/BSD because they think that a developer is entitled to close source their software even if it builds onto free software.

But then if you support such freedom for the developer why isn't a developer entitled to publish under GPL because its their software and they can do whatever they want with it.

It seems like this viewpoint is implicitly saying that close sourcing the code is totally fine, but publishing the code under GPL isn't. That does not make sense to me.
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The problem is that eliminates the incentive for companies to build faster, better internet. We'd be stuck with what we have now for a very long time.

I do think it's fair to blame municipalities. Look at something that is much easier to build out: wireless networks. Cell coverage has dramatically improved over the past 10 years. In part, that's because multiple carriers are competing for customers and municipalities have largely stayed out of their way.

One could even argue that we're reliant on cable providers because there were no incentives for the highly regulated phone line providers to improve their networks.
You can be nice and have problems.
You can do that in iTerm too. Preferences -> Profiles -> General -> Working Directory -> Reuse previous session's directory
Happens to me too. Multiple browsers (Firefox 29 and Chrome 34)

The talk at the URL is about something at CERN for me in both browsers. Its an interesting talk, but I don't think its what I'm supposed to be listening too... although maybe thats the joke and this is how they stay sane developing the kernel.
I just saw the same problem. I just clicked through to https://voicerepublic.com/venues/223/talks/982 and the recording is for OpenStack at CERN (the text etc refer to Kernel development). The talk starts out "We have a few hundred thousand lines of perl code..." That was a nice little start for a talk about Kernel development!
Blame both. The cable companies asked for the local monopoly in the first place...
If it is that hot down at the bottom - ~200 degrees C depending on where the bottom is, is there no way to economically generate power with some type of steam turbine dropped down the hole? If you could get the steam turbine to power the drill then you could make it all the way to 'China' by teatime...
Where free in this case means free as in beer, not free to use as you please.
Imagine what it would be like if the FSF had been helping instead of fighting this type of open source development?
A web page shouldn't act like it has exclusive ownership of system resources like audio; there may be other pages or applications running, and it's often useful to be able to control them independently.

For instance, if I have Gmail open in the background, there's no reason that adjusting the volume of whatever's in the foreground should also force me to change the volume of incoming chat notifications.
It is a real pain in the ass on the Mac in my living room. The mini is hooked up to the stereo via SPDIF and for some reason that I have never bothered figuring out there is no volume control for digital out. For every other application vlc/itunes/etc I can manage the volume. I had to dig the remote out of the coffee table for this talk. Granted it would have been less of an issue without the nasty mic feedback/buzzing from the recording.
Are you on Opera?

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7753129
Skype and iMessage
"When companies stop treating devs as juveniles"

The problem, of course, is that most devs are juveniles. At least in startupland.
The difference between "other countries" and the US is that the US puts up a show of "human rights", "scrutiny", and "court battles" in order to show that they "care", whereas the other ones just do not bother.

Where are the results? Better yet, public scrutiny? Everything's a fucking national secret.
I guess they couldn't back-fill it? Which makes you wonder, what did they do with all the drill cuttings?
I heard something about 20 states doing this recently.
Isn't that because of dwindling demand rather than companies finding DSL onerous?
Looks good! Lots of polish. I made this a few months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7206952

...using the same stack.
Another cool promising product being absorbed by Google. I guess congratulations are in order to the Word Lens authors for the presumably large amount of money they just received. But otherwise, I can't see how this is good for their users.
Hey, OP here. Glad you liked Earnest, I wrote it for myself a while back and have been using it for almost all my writing, does make a hell of a difference for me - seeing as I found it so useful I decided to tidy it up and release it.
FYI: Exxon recently surpassed the depth of this hole while drilling in the Chayvo oil fields.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakhalin-I
I've been downvoted into oblivion in this thread, so the forum system might hide this post from you. But, I was just going to chime in that I agree with you.

Also, I think more people need to look at what the prestigious Mayo clinic has to say about the positive benefits of fish oil as well:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/omega-3-fatty-ac...
A space and a dash and it would have been perfect!
Gchat/Telegram for personal

Hipchat for work
Dear FFC,
Adam Coates has done many more impressive things than that. The "cat detector" was an uninteresting piece of research and not very impressive at all. The image net results were bad and nets trained on one or two gpus were doing much more interesting things.
Development is creative, but answering the questions "does my program work?" and "why is my program not working?" always feels like science.
It is not about spying or not spying, it is about spying on legitimate targets. All countries (should) have obligations to basic human rights. If I were a head of state, I would expect the U.S. to attempt to spy on me (and I would expect my country to stop them). As an private individual, I very much have the same rights under the U.S. constitution as do U.S. citizens. It is not OK to violate my right to to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. They should have to get a warrant to spy on me, just as they (should) have to do for an American.
I had the same problem. All I did was follow the link, then I fumbled trying to click on the white "play" triangle in the lower-left corner of the video-rectangle, until I realized that the teal-blue octagon was the way to start the playing...and, after a while, I realized I was listening to the Openstack audio, even though the title displays as "The Linux Kernel..."
Not really, most proprietary software licenses don't interfere with the ways in which I prefer to release software to clients.

Freedom is all about what you want to do, the problem is that GPL developers and developers who sell things to clients have different objectives for what they want to do. Likewise users of paid for software and users of GPL software have very different expectations of the software, GPL users tend to want to modify the code, and paid for software users want the software to work, but don't want to modify it.

So for a GPL developer GPL code is very free, for a non-GPL developer it's not very free.
I honestly don't understand why we don't just consider them utilities and incorporate them into the municipal government. Including internet.

These are essentially utilities (excepting Cable TV, but I'm pretty sure there's not a meaningful infrastructure difference there).
Would this not work better as a plugin 'editor' for a CMS such as Wordpress?

Imagine you log in to Wordpress as 'contributor' and write with the 'Earnest' plugin, no edits possible, but still in the knowledge that you are writing for the blog and surrounded by the WP interface you know well. The autosaved article would only be 'draft'.

Then, you log in as 'editor' to do the editing, with the regular WP editor.

For me I could see the attraction of such a work flow and it would not be like I was having to learn a new tool, as is the case here.
Entirely incorrect. It's based on the idea that everyone should be able to read and modify everything. Free as in speech, not free as in beer.
for me too, talk is about CERN and openstack for about 21min.
btw. that has already been the case for me on wednesday evening ...
Yes - were it not for municipalities' ability to enforce monopoly rights we would often have multiple landline, cable, garbage, electric and other providers competing on quality and cost. Some say these are "natural monopolies" but there are cities around the world where consumers have a choice of providers for these services. True natural monopolies are very, very rare but are almost always created by government action. Patents are another example.
Hey Dan, OP here.

Thanks for the kind words, glad you liked it. Are you viewing Earnest on a table or phone? Think I need to tidy my CSS up a bit for smaller screens.
You can also do it for window-splits:

unbind '%'
bind '_' split-window -c "#{pane_current_path}"
bind '"' split-window -h -c "#{pane_current_path}“

Here, I am using <C-B>“ or <C-B>_ for a vertical and horizontal splits.
I've never done anything resembling professional writing, but I've always found myself creatively paralyzed when sitting in front of a keyboard. Not quite sure why, but it's so much easier to let it all flow out with a pencil and paper.
From the same process? Is there better documentation for this issue somewhere?
Page claims it's on Linux kernel, actual player plays something about CERN.
Agreed, plus those that say that fish oil is completely useless should take a hard look at what the prestigious Mayo Clinic has to say about it:

http://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/omega-3-fatty-ac...
This is the standard for digital representation, check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_symbols_in_Unicode
BBM, IRC and rarely Google Talk. I love BBM, it has a bunch of bugs (especially on non-BlackBerry devices) but it's fun and addictive.
Because using coercion in the interest of "freedom" always works out so well.
Ray Kurzweil is a laughingstock in the machine learning community and he hasn't been a legitimate researcher for many years. Putting him in the same sentence as Andrew Ng is a bit insulting.
Good idea, and it looks nice too.

Here's a similar, though uglier, idea[0] for the console, the console because less opportunity for hn, facebook, distractionware, etc. Backspace deletes the whole word.

[0] https://github.com/hagna/prolix
GPL community definitely wants commercial software companies to use their software since they get even more GPL code as a result.

However, most commercial software companies don't want to use GPL code because they don't want to GPL their entire codebase.

So if by want you mean the idea then yes, but if by want you mean, will actually entice to use, then no.
Exxon's borehole is longer, but not deeper: Kola is 12.6km deep, and Sakhalin-I is 12.3km.
PS. You should escape the chat messages. I was able to inject javascript.
That's a good idea, that could definitely work. I created Earnest as a standalone page for myself mainly so that I could do away with almost all controls and clutter on the page and just have the textarea - keeping distractions to a minimum.
It is like magic, but Adobe demoed (and, I think, shipped) it in Photoshop over four years ago: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/cs5-web-premium-feature-tour/conte..., so the technology does exist.
If you truly don't trust me in your example, you would be a fool to buy my recipe: you may have people you trust to replicate it, but it turns out that my recipe tastes horrible. You fundamentally cannot get away from having to trust the people whose first-hand accounts you are verifying.