skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting up Linux namespaces using the raw syscalls is actually not very hard. Sandstorm does this in a few dozen lines of code. Adding Docker as a dependency would add a whole lot of complication without actually buying us much.

There is a big difference is use case here: Docker aims to be configurable enough that you can take arbitrary off-the-shelf Linux apps -- or even entire distros -- and make them run in a container. Sandstorm, on the other hand, requires apps to be ported to a very specific environment. The porting isn't usually very hard, but it means Sandstorm doesn't need so much configurability and can make stronger assumptions about how an app behaves which lets us do more interesting things with it. For example, Sandstorm can implement unified login and sharing across all apps, it can enforce security between apps, it can transparently update an app without potentially disrupting its storage, and it can selectively give apps access to each other's semantic APIs rather than just low-level ports.

All that said, using Docker as a tool to assist in building app packages may make sense; we actually build some of our apps this way. This -- and the general difference between Docker and Sandstorm -- was discussed a bit in this blog post:

https://blog.sandstorm.io/news/2014-05-12-easy-port.html
It does sound really cool. I just don't get why the shorthand part is important. Why not jot "grandma" and "poodle" and then tap the pen there for when the interviewee starts talking about his grandma and his poodle.
What is there to learn about the terminal? You learn the shell, coreutils, shell scripting, sed, awk, editor...Learning these isn't a measure of competency. If you just want name dropping, John Carmack works in Visual Studio, Notch works in Eclipse.
The incorporated woman
They care because ideas propagate.
My favorite article these days on the differences between Vim and its composability and Emacs-style editors is "Why Atom Can’t Replace Vim”: https://medium.com/@mkozlows/why-atom-cant-replace-vim-43385....
Suddenly, I imagine "venture capital" takes on a humorous glint in Denmark.
You know why I think they are doing this? Because there have been studies showing that people are miserable on facebook (see below) and I think people are starting to pick up on it. So FB feels some pressure to lighten the mood a bit. But as usual they do it with the subtlety of a drunken fool.

Also, the comparison to an A/B test is a false one. This is specifically to alter the moods of the user and test the results in a study, not to improve the users experience or determine which app version works better.

Regarding the study mentioned above:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/elements/2013/09/the-r...
What problems are you facing? Setting up evil mode takes just what the emacs wiki says.

1. Install emacs. Start emacs. "Alt-x package-install" press enter "evil" press enter.

2. Open your .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el.

(require 'evil)
(evil-mode 1)

Done.
OwnCloud is primarily a DropBox clone which also provides the ability to install "apps" on top. Those "apps" are perhaps better described as "plugins" -- they augment the OwnCloud interface using code which (as I understand it) runs inside the OwnCloud server. Apps must be written in PHP and there is no sandboxing or access control to prevent a bad app from doing bad things.

In contrast, Sandstorm apps are isolated by default and can be written in any language. Sandstorm does not provide a shared "filesystem" but rather gives some private storage space to each app and then expects them to talk to each other via RPC if they want to share data.

We (the Sandstorm team) are actually thinking of porting OwnCloud to Sandstorm as an app. :)
The point is that if you write in Dart you still have a very large target audience without the VM.

Sure, Dart's designed to have even more benefit when run in it's own VM, but that doesn't affect its reach.
Here are some other places to look for UI bugs that people likely aren't paying attention to:

- Look at your help pages. Chances are nobody has been keeping them up to date and they're a mess.

- Look at the international versions of your product. German is usually a good candidate since the long words can introduce wrapping issues.
I can reset the password with the other email but once I've done the resetting I still can't log in and I get asked for the phone number.
fanboy heart?

Throwing that term around on this forum says more about yourself than anyone else, beyond that, I think most reasonable individuals recognize that desktop operating system technology progresses at relatively similar paces, there is nothing special about Apple's software or hardware that should require it to become obsolete within five years of purchase.

Win XP

Released 14 years ago. If you can't understand why comparing the usability of operating system software written a decade apart is fallacious, then I have to say that you're a bit ignorant on the topic.
Like this? https://www.paperlater.com/
There's a part of that idea that works, but I think the execution is flawed. I work in this industry day in and day out. We have a serious inventory issue.

There are far more buyers than sellers of quality businesses between $50K and $2MM. The result is that prices (multiples at least) are steadily rising and have been for the last three years. Currently, the average (what defines average is another discussion in itself) is around 2.83 annual net for an Ecommerce business and slightly less, ironically, for a SaaS one.

I know that significantly more inventory could be created from a middleman being proactive about letting an owner know that there's interest. Many of the sellers I speak to are only selling now because of a cold call or email from broker. Until that point, they didn't realize how fluid the market was for selling internet businesses of their size.

The idea of a reverse auction possibly needs some work, but the problem you're deliberately or perhaps unwittingly trying to solve is certainly one with a lot of reward if you can solve it.

Best of luck.
URLs without www look uglier to me. The www gives you a visual filler space between the cryptic http:// and the domain, but, again, who cares about URLs nowadays? Also, www makes easy to parse out URLs in text. In addition, people will always try www even if your canonical domain is without it resulting possibly in a redundant redirect and/or dual versions of URL being in existence. Lastly, just like www, .com is here to stay. After so much investment in www and .com from advertising, education, etc., don't expect billions to switch away so easily.
A better solution instead of www would be:

web.example.com

The way it should have been since day one.
You're likely being down voted for not adding to the conversation, and simply trying to cheerlead.
I'd have to agree, I can run most of the source engine games at max quality 60fps on my laptop running Windows. When I switch to my linux install on the same box it's much slower and a much less polished experience.
Wait, this year? Are you sure? I thought the year of the linux desktop was like 20 years ago? And then 19 years ago, then 18, then 17...
Yes:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/wiki/Porting-Guide

Though, that guide uses a toy example. We should probably write docs covering more realistic cases.
> it genuinely interests me how Vi users put up with the constant need to strain their pinky to switch to command mode.

Is it any different from how emacs users put up with Ctrl/Alt?

You aren't looking to switch, but if anybody is, install this https://github.com/tpope/vim-rsi for basic keybinding in insert mode. This is quite a short file. If you want, you can simply copy it to your .vimrc. For non-basic movement/editing, switch to normal mode and edit.
> Both my Aunt and stepmother have good drug plans that refund their expenses. However, their treatments still cost thousands of dollars out of pocket.

Why is it structured this way? Why don't they just directly bill the insurance without requiring large outlays upfront from the patient?
Data on the Consumer Drone Market
Could be, but my point was to show the irony of the subject. Netflix deserves to be viewed as a threat, though for different reasons from what the subject suggests.

And what is a criteria of "adding to the conversation" in this context? I see downvotes here as a nervous reaction of those who are blind to DRM (a valid reason to view it as a threat), but suddenly feel offended when Netflix is pictured as a threat for invalid reasons.
The announcements says the discontinuation is because of “the integration of Quickoffice into the Google Docs, Sheets and Slides apps”. But I don’t see any sign of this integration. With the latest Docs app, I can’t open a .docx file from my Google Drive; only Document Viewer and Quickoffice can open it.

Not that I’m too fussed; I never edit documents on mobile anyway. I use styles often, and neither Quickoffice nor Docs on Android support styles (e.g. header styles).
I know a few people who maintain eye contact while typing, for instance, while I'm running a meeting. Man, it always feels creepy to me.

Am I the only one that gets that feeling?
Did you use an (investment) LLC to condense the angel round? That seems to make the paperwork easier for future rounds, I'm told...
I was thinking about this. The pen sounded like a great way to create a fluid index of there conversation in a really simple outline form. No if it's setup to work like that at all

I'd actually really like something similar with a computer while I type and record.
That is exactly the reason. "Netflix deserves to be seen as a threat" is just nonsense.
Note that there is also Soundcloud support for mopidy, among other extensions:

http://docs.mopidy.com/en/latest/ext/external/#mopidy-soundc...
Thanks, these are great suggestions! Added two issues:

1. https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/40

2. https://github.com/divad12/vim-awesome/issues/39
If you ship an entire crate over, you'll most certainly trigger any import duties there are.
> Netflix deserves to be seen as a threat" is just nonsense.

No, any DRM deserves such treatment. It's not more nonsense than DRM treating all its users as potential criminals by default. It's a symmetrical response.

And, all sensible security experts agree that DRM never makes security better - on the contrary, it always makes it worse.
I think you are confusing the study of economics with the talking heads discussing economics in the mainstream media.

But even if you were right, and "economic" was just a code word for "political", it would be even more true (though for a different reason) that all issues of government policy boil down to economic impact.
Why only 70 years? Does the dam actually crumble to pieces, or is 70 years how long it takes for maintenance costs to equal construction costs?
As Flies to Wanton Boys
In that case, I'd suggest the following:

1) The Android UI designers need to get on it and figure out how to make the contact picker more acceptable to developers. This could involve adding some flags that adjust the look and feel. But keep in mind that Android apps are all supposed to be following common design guidelines anyway, so apps shouldn't be excessively customizing common elements.

2) Don't let apps request access to all contacts in the first place. Don't give them any choice except to use the picker. Obviously it's far too late for this now, but if it had been done this way in the beginning, then there would actually be pressure to make the system picker work acceptably.
While this is FUD..."making information less available" as a crime is a ridiculously broad brush to paint with. :/
Facebook admits manipulating users' emotions by modifying news feeds
Rap Genius for one certainly did (may still do for all I know).

Hosting anything serious on Heroku seems like craziness to me, but perhaps some people have identified uniquely good reasons to do it...
Me as well.

The really big argument for me was: laypeople just expect the "www". Losing it means having to repeat and explain things. It's just not worth it.
Exactly - if you have a combination of trusted and untrusted subdomains, like

www.mysite.com
support.mysite.com
wordpress.mysite.com

Then it's impossible to give only certain ones access to your session cookie.

You could use *.secure.mysite.com for all internal apps, but that seems ugly. You could also not use subdomains for any internal apps, like Google, but that's limiting in other ways - notably, it makes it impossible to have any security isolation between internal apps.
Is this a one and done thing, or a subscription? Personally I'm interesting in trying craft / small batch bitters, unusual secondary ingredient liquor / liqueurs, as well as different non alcoholic mixers. You may run into legal problems if you mail alcohol in some states. Including recipes of drinks that can be made with shipped ingredients would also be useful.

If this is more a seasonal / gift item, I would suggest including any specialized bar tools needed for the cocktail or specialty glassware.
I agree that this alternative might be valid. I was merely responding to what you actually said - which was not that you were putting your resources elsewhere, but that you simply didn't want to donate to the individual.
I don't really know of any spaces like that (and as a CS PhD student I would enjoy something like HN for grad students), but just to latch onto this general post -- does anyone have links to good Hacker-News-like sites for various topics? There's a lot I like about HN but the whole startup scene and "yet-another-web-framework.js" is less relevant to me.
Nature's Dying Migrant Worker
You and Knuth (and most others here) are operating under the same misunderstandings, the main one being a false equivalence between a patentable invention and the non-patentable underlying principles or elements that enable it. Let me just point to a previous comment that addresses this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7923894

Applying that to your example, note that a patent on "random ads" would not preempt anyone else from using shuffling algorithms, and hence it is not the algorithm being patented.
Use oauth tokens or a similar mechanism to clone session tokens between (sub)domains without leaking them. This is also a great way to provide subdomain permission and expiry scope.

Issue a master session cookie at login.mydomain or account.mydomain. If your user hits a subdomain and is not logged in, forward them there (in the background) and see if you can grant them a redeemable token for the round trip. If so, they can get a cookie issued by the subdomain in exchange for the token when they return.
This is a potently stupid article.

Surprisingly though, the primary source it tried to work from is quite good:

https://d1ovv0c9tw0h0c.cloudfront.net/files/2014/06/CISA-Let...

The shorter story here is: the Senate is introducing a new version of CISPA, called CISA, and CISA is broader than CISPA. It also (ludicrously) introduces into federal law a privilege for private entities to conduct "countermeasures" against threats.

Communications from collaborative efforts to squelch regulation are often misleading, superficial, and hyperbolic. But after reading the new CISA bill, and having read both CISPA and its amendments 2 years ago, I find all the points here compelling (none of them are that CISA would class Netflix as a "threat").

It would be sad if all the deception used in the effort to kill CISPA created space for a much worse bill to pass instead.
Material Design, Explained by the Principal Designer of Google Search and Maps
I have a feeling a lot of college courses on research methods are going to use this as an example of a grave ethics breach for years to come. With an experiment group as large as they used, statistically it's almost inevitable that someone in that group will commit suicide in the near future. If that person is in the group that was targeted for negative messages, even a rookie lawyer could make a sound case before a jury that Facebook's researchers have blood on their hands.
it's maybe BMW is a german car company and people didn't hear it from english speakers first?
I agree, and so does the Senate. Two things:

The bill defines a "cybersecurity threat" as:

(7) CYBERSECURITY THREAT.—The term ‘‘cybersecurity threat’’
means an action, not protected

1 by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the
2 United States, on or through an information system
3 that may result in an unauthorized effort to ad-
4 versely impact the security, availability, confiden-
5 tiality, or integrity of an information system or in-
6 formation that is stored on, processed by, or
7 transiting an information system.

Second, this bill doesn't create any new criminal statutes.
California bill legalizes alternative currencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin
Increasingly important. A continuation of the 'Attention Economy' movement circa 2005-7 championed by Attention Trust* back then and Locker Project ( http://lockerproject.org ) more recently working toward the same objectives.

* http://www.quora.com/What-happened-to-AttentionTrust

also see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_economy
California governor signs bill to bring Bitcoin and other currency into fold
Surprise NSA's first ever 'transparency' 'report' is anything but
WordPress New Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution through TimThumb plugin
This site has a lot of promise: http://www.datatau.com/ Unfortunately, the community is not yet large enough or active enough to have a ton of new posts everyday. That said, there are many quality links
NSA Sexter: Too Late To 'Pologize
We're all searching, brother.
Yes you are right, there are always workarounds! But why not make your life easier by just accepting...the "www" as the default? It is a convention well understood by most people in the Interweb. Honestly, I cannot see any technical reason to support removing "www" except someone's personal preferences.

I would argue, IMO, when you need to expand you subdomains in the future, mixing naked domain and subdomains is even more uglier, and cause the inconsistencies, e.g.

example.com
api.example.com
admin.example.com

When we are talking about the default, it should be safe to use, and "www" is the safe choice here for people who NEVER heard about the CNAME and the cookie issues. Advertising something (like http://no-www.org) for the matter of taste without mentioning the potential drawbacks (even there are workarounds), is irresponsible IMO.
http://yost.com/misc/nix-on-www.html

"W" is a letter that is not one syllable, for that would be too few, a letter that is not two syllables, for that too would be too few, but a letter, in fact the one letter of all twenty-six that insists upon blathering on and on in its attempt to twist the tongue and overtax the ear, extending to the full three, yes three--three syllables, the legal alphabetical maximum. But wait, my friend. That is only the beginning. We go on to treble the damages by repeating this freak letter, this monstrosity that is one thing, claims to be two other things, but is really three things, not once, not twice, but a full three times, in a nonometric rhapsody fleshed out to the nines, a compound triplicate triumphant cat-o'-nine-tails tongue-lashing, a nonotuple witches' syllabic brew of treble, treble, toil and trouble.
It is enough I say! Nine times enough, in fact.
:-)
I know the answer is no, but would it also be possible to add solutions, in a hashed format? So that one wouldn't need the website to check the answers?
This story has been submitted 9 times.

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=politico.com#!/story/forever/0/pit...

Submission with all the comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7953608
The subtext I read from your life-decision making is "I'm lonely, and money = women, so I'm going to get money."

Money doesn't really equal women as much as A) If you're destitute, dating can be more difficult (but not impossible, lots of homeless people get married.) and B) If you have a lot of money you can pay other people a lot of money to have sex with you.

If this sounds like you, I would start descalating your career, your yuppie lifestyle and start escalating your pursuit of things that really interest you and finding connection with other people.
Man, this is some terrible reporting.

Here's the bill: http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve...

It's actually called the "Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act", not the "Cybersecurity Information Protection Act" (the latter makes googling sufficiently hard). The definition in question states:

> (7) CYBERSECURITY THREAT - The term cybersecurity threat means an action, not protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, on or through an information system that may result in an unauthorized effort to adversely impact the security, availability, confidentiality, or integrity of an information system or information that is stored on, processed by, or transiting an information system.

That is quite a far cry from "anything that makes information unavailable or less available".

The First Amendment qualifier itself offers extremely broad protections, since the only qualifying actions would be things which the government could already legally forbid (that is, any communication which would already be protected from censorship or government reprisal under the First Amendment would not qualify as a threat under this bill).

Do journalists even read these bills they're reporting on?

All that said, it's Feinstein, so it's a pretty good bet that she's serving a corporate interest with this bill and has absol-friggin-lutely no idea about the technology she's proposing to regulate.

All that said, can someone make a cogent (hah) argument as to why network engineers should not be able to benevolently police their networks to minimize the degradation of flow of information? That's the side of net neutrality that nobody ever really seems to talk about - we all want to keep business interests from extorting companies through traffic shaping (which is legitimate), but then we all want high-priority routing for all our latency-sensitive traffic, even if our neighbor is torrenting a copy of all the porn on the internet. Net neutrality is a two-edged sword, one which would prevent monopolistic abuses at the expense of exposing the network to failure by tragedy of the commons, and I constantly wonder why we fail to talk about the flipside of the dumb pipes coin.
Google works the same way for password recovery and blocking. There's basically zero support for any free product. And barely any (if any) support for their paid products.
surely people have committed sucide after using facebook even without this study. is facebook guilty of that, too?

you may argue that facebook was "trying to make people depressed" but that simply isn't true. what if showing more of my friends negative status updates actually _helps_ them? depressed people are shunned in our society; facebook gave a voice to the voiceless. that's wonderful!
We did a syndicate on AL that condensed a $500k round into a single LLC. That was nice. The rest are individuals.
Just want to add that there are other shorthands which are pretty solid (and more easily available). For example, Pitmans: http://www.long-live-pitmans-shorthand.org.uk/
The physics measurements are interesting for different reasons. Those are measuring very objective things, even if measurements vary, they vary for ways we can conceivably calculate. Some physicists even raise the idea that certain constants aren't that constant.

But it's still vastly different to appreciate statistical data coming from those kinds of experiments and those that touch on psychology and social effects. Your height/nutrition example is convenient because we all can appreciate an effect expressed in objective units such as cm that we can see with our eyes. It's much harder to weight the effect that, say emotional states, have in pure numbers.

I could continue this discussion endlessly, probably not going to get anywhere with it.