skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Android needs two things:

1. Real compatibility instead of compatibility libraries. Compatibility libraries just serve to fragment the community and frustrate developers (try to use Facebook integration fragments in a 4.0+ application if you don't believe me).

2. C#.
I think you are confusing revenue and profit. The profit was down but that was mostly due to the acquisition of Nokia
To give this some context, Dr. Hanson lists a number of ways why firms go not behave as suggested by traditional economic theories. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm
The psychological aspect is definitely a hurdle, and can be viewed as a transaction cost in itself. I wonder if there's any practical ways to reduce it.
Offshore wind farms become magnets for hungry seals
I don't think open source is really about making money for most companies, it's more about improving quality and keeping costs down. At a former employer we did follow the give-it-away-and-charge-for-a-service model, but we also worked on several of the open source libraries and frameworks we built our products on.

We shared all of this work with the upstream projects, as we had no interest whatsoever in maintaining private forks and because better quality infrastructure attracts more users, which again leads to further improvements or at least ensures the project stays maintained.
I disagree with the trowaway line "And without statistics we wouldn’t have modern quality control, so maybe we’d still be driving around in AMC Gremlins and the like. Scary thought, but not a huge deal, I’d think."

In a world without statistics and tools for quality control, it would be immensely expensive to produce the most basic of industrial goods.

How could I order a nut that would fix a specific bolt without them testing each and every nut and bolt they produce? How expensive would those nuts be if each and every one were measured individually? Or how faulty would a package be if not enough were tested and the factory had no way to guess if their manufacturing process was faulty?

How can I even conceive of building a car if I cannot trust (or know how much to trust) each manufactured piece that composes it? Let alone food or medicine? The great value of the industrial revolution was repeatable processes that produced the same quality of material.
And we wouldn't have discovered the Hibbs boson, whatever it is.
"Tri Alpha protects its trade secrets so tightly that it does not even have a website."

It doesn't even have a website?! Top secret indeed!
Feel free to comment, suggest changes and ask for new snapshots!
Found this an interesting side effect of the renewable energy technology.
There might be, but I'm not optimistic.
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

- Martin Niemöller
I have 3 Linux laptops in the house. One with Intel running Ubuntu, another with Broadcom running Fedora and the third with a Prism interface running CentOS 6. All three work flawlessly.

We also have 3 Macbooks, a white one, a Pro 13 and a Retina 13. All three work flawlessly with our Wi-fi.

My wife had a corporate-issued HP laptop running Windows 7. It connected to our wireless once or twice over a year. I had a network cable for her.

My in-laws have a Windows 7 Dell laptop. It's now running Ubuntu, booted off a USB stick. It's doing so because Windows 7 sometimes connects to the network, sometimes doesn't and I never identified a pattern, so I simply gave up. Under Ubuntu, it works flawlessly.

And yet, somehow, it's the sad state of Linux wi-fi... Go figure...
How do you explain an OS kernel to a layperson?
Two things are very noteworthy in this:

Page 9 (concerning the definition of "terrorism"):
>1.14.1 involve Violent acts or acts dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure

Property? Tell me this is not a deliberately broad definition intended to be used against inconvenient persons.

Page 22:
>1.51 In determining whether an individual is a KNOWN or SUSPECTED TERRORIST, NCTC will rely on the designation of "KNOWN TERRORIST" provided by the NOMINATOR as presumptively valid.

Presumptively valid. Let that sink in for a moment. It could not be put in clearer terms that a targeted person will be assumed guilty until proven innocent. This is a basic perversion, no, inversion, of due process and the justice system.

EDIT: The OCR'd version of the document and the original have significant textual differences. Updated.
Announcing Wolfram SystemModeler 4
It's not as complicated as it sounds in practice and can take the form of a simple config block in /etc/network/interfaces

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wireless-essi DE:C0:D1:F1:ED

wireless-mode managed

wpa-ssid "Your SSID"

wpa-psk "YourPassword123"
In that case, you might want to give http://gnomoria.com/ a try, which is similar to dwarf fortress, but significantly less complex, easier to control, and looks decent out-of-the-box.

You might also be interested in https://www.factorio.com/ which is a game about building factories (free world, 2d isometric). Aside from being addictive, it is also performant, looks good, has a decent soundtrack and comes with all of it's ingame-stats conveniently embedded in Lua-sourcefiles (which you don't even have to parse-- just run them through the interpreter if you want to start modding/theorycrafting).

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with those games in any way, just promoting them because they're awesome (best entertainment/price ratio of anything I ever paid for).
Don't forget the SMS spam :-)

It is also a market where dual SIM phones are useful. Carriers are running promotions all the time, so consumers pick which SIM is offering the better deal on a call by call basis.

Incoming call charges do make sense in the US and aren't as evil as everyone believes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8075829
There's an exhaustively detailed exploration of the standards for inclusion from page 33-49 which seems to me to be a set of lists (of activities, memberships in proscribed organizations, relationships with publicly sanctioned individuals etc. etc.) that trigger inclusion of the sort you are asking for.

There's also extensive guidance over who should not be included and when people should be removed from such lists. I can't help feeling tat most of the commenters here are stating their assumptions about the document's content without giving it even a cursory reading.

Then the watchlist can be public, those on the watchlist can be public, their reason for being on the watchlist can be public and we can decide - together- who should and should not be on a watchlist.
We already do it with criminals. Why is this process any different?

We don't publish lists of suspected criminals. For many offenses requiring procedural steps prior to arrest and charge (eg presentment to a grand jury which returns an indictment), the process is not public, mainly to preserve individuals' rights.
The HN software originally killed this article because the submitting account had been flagged for posting HN-inappropriate articles in the past (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7847688 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6535840).

This had nothing to do either with the present post or with the site, which is not banned: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=modelviewculture#!/story/sort_by_d....
If the ISPs are reclassified as common carriers, will they still be allowed to let Netflix install those boxes?

Presumably there is limited space in the ISP data center, so they cannot let everyone who wants to stick a box in there do so, so I'm wondering what methods a common carrier can use to decide which content providers can have access, and how this fundamentally differs from the "fast lanes" that common carrier status is supposed to prevent.
Why does my Intel card consistently pick 2.4 GHz over 5 GHz?

http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/24246/~/what-i...

"Overall the 5GHz has shorter range compared to the 2.4GHz. It is recommended to select the 2.4 GHz if you using computers and wireless devices to access the Internet for simple browsing and email. These applications do not take too much bandwidth and work fine at a greater distance.

However, if you are in a place which is crowded with more wireless signals, it is advisable to use the 5GHz network to avoid interferences. Furthermore, the 5GHz is most suited for devices which require uninterrupted wider bandwidth for video/audio streaming or multimedia content."

I can sit literally right next to an AP and get a connection on the lowest basic rate

It's possible that Linux is more likely to reduce your rate in the face of increasing errors and noise, whereas other OSes/drivers might ignore the noise/errors and keep the rate the same, regardless of literally not having the advertised throughput.

In any case, even the WPA2 setup is slow for some reason, it's not just DHCP.

Both your DHCP client and your WPA client are not optimized for speed on Linux, they are optimized for reliability.

it's not unusual at all to be stuck at some low-speed AP when a higher-speed one is available

Yeah; your wireless client isn't going to change APs until it loses signal.

Most of these complaints are industry issues that have different proprietary fixes intended to appease consumers, but none of them are recommended or required by the industry.
With the election cycle, I feel like politicians spend more time campaigning than working.
Since Bing is only 5 years old, I would consider losses 2 years ago to still be early. Also, reported numbers were usually on Microsoft Online Services Division as a whole which included other money losing businesses like MSN
Only for Java, AFAIK.
Business Intelligence is Useless without Trust in the Data
2000 lines of C++ and 2000 lines of Haskell code are definitely not the same things
Sure. Just shoot me an email and we can discuss.
This Hoverbike Is Basically a Giant Quadcopter Drone
That was supposed to be a one-time repricing and Google put in place some policies for pre-announcing future price changes or deprecations. http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2012/04/app-engine-and-g...
Mac OS X is still not supported for running the server due to unicode issues -
http://doc.owncloud.org/server/7.0/admin_manual/installation...
Most App Developers Stick With One Store
You Shouldn’t Use Git Blame to Blame on People
> Igniting this p–11B fuel would require temperatures of about a billion kelvin,

It's also _impossible_ to reach break-even with p-11B in _any_ reactor design based on known concepts (with one exception [1]). This result, among other no-go results regarding non-Maxwellian fusion, was a major point in Todd Rider's PhD thesis:

"Fundamental limitations on fusion systems not in equilibrium", PhD Dissertation (MIT), Todd Rider, 1995.

http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/11412/1/33227017.pdf

(When it comes to reducing neutron flux in fusion reactors, the smart money is on d-3He. Everything else has too small of a cross-section.)

[1]: Ultradense matter represents one of the few loopholes identified by Rider which might actually be achievable. However, Rider did not attempt to confirm its feasibility; it simply wasn't relevant to that particular paper, and there is a very good argument that fusion in ultradense matter is nothing like "known" physics.
Yeah, I haven't even so much as bothered to look at the wifi chipsets in computers that I purchase since like... 2007? Since then I just assume that it works, and so far it always has.

The only trouble I have is with this corporate T420 with Windows 7, on my home wifi network. Sometimes it takes 5+ minutes to connect (2.4ghz or 5ghz wireless-n, I have both available and it has trouble with both.)

I've also never had a single problem with NetworkManager, despite what others are saying. Then again, I've also never had problems with the infamous PulseAudio... I bought a cheap-as-hell USB audio card off the internet the other day and it Just Worked™. That didn't even surprise me.
He also missed the entire industries that work on statistics (insurance, finance), which seems a bit like writing an article about "the world without computers" and not referencing the internet.

The Incas ran a sophisticated and extensive civilization based on statistics (they had a tax system and central planning functions like grain redistribution policies) and maintained meticulous records of quantitative data without bothering to devise a way of writing words or managing to invent the wheel
Debate: Should all applications be native?
15,000 views on The State of Venture Capital
>Her music is ultimately popular because people like it.

I don't think that this is actually true - most of these songs are purchased from agencies, produced to within an inch of their lives, and marketed aggressively in every possible medium. People may like the songs (and they should, because every part of the process has been managed by the most talented and successful people in the music industry), but that's not specifically the reason for Miley Cyrus's success.

Biley Papyrus could have the same songs in the same order on the same records with a sound produced to be indistinguishable to the versions you're familiar with, and if Biley didn't have the brand that has been created around Miley (or Rhianna, or any major corporate pop artist), Biley's success with that same set likely wouldn't be what Miley's success has been.

edit: Also - Smiley Papyrus (Biley's sister) could have the exact brand as Miley, and an entirely different set of songs, and the expectation would be that she would be successful. Hell, when Miley puts out her next album, she pretty much is Smiley.
That's the irony here. If they put you on the terrorist list, it's decisively because you are not actually a terrorist; the various travel restrictions would just instantly alert you to the fact that they found out about you.

So the real terrorists don't end up on the list.
> These days we take for granted that the CPU will provide some sort of stack pointer that gets automatically managed by a CALL/RET instruction pair.

Not really; most risc architectures still manage the stack via the compiler rather than instruction. About the closest you get is a jump-and-store-link-register instruction.
I find it very hard to work with just a laptop. At minimum I need it connected to a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse - which means I obviously need a desk at minimum as well.

As long as that setup can be carried outdoors feasibly, I would not mind working outdoors if that was an option - weather permitting of course.
I propose a revolutionary solution: a lens cap.

I'm assuming that they only need the video from when they get close to landing so the lens cap can be ejected once the rocket is low enough in the atmosphere that icing is not a problem.
Would love to hear from any any app developers that publish on the Amazon Appstore exclusively about their decision to not cross-publish on Google Play.
To counter your downsides:

* Wordpress now auto-updates, so you don't have to worry about patches.

* WPSuperCache is a Wordpress plugin that serves up static content. Only logged in users see a dynamic page.
Hear, hear. T-Mobile calls it what it is - a 0% rate equipment loan. That's what shows up on my statement.
I think you misunderstood. The test is brand new. As in, you find a problem that nobody has identified before and want to see how/when it was introduced.

Easy way to do this is put your test external to the tree. Then, bisect as normal for git, and run your test.

This is probably not uncommon for kernel tests, as you often have a test which could be "does this random laptop resume from sleep correctly?" Not really easy to automate that. And doesn't live in your tree.
That's Brett Glass, though, who is … opinionated. It's a good idea to read the entire thread for responses from a number of other network operators as well as some Netflix technical staff:

http://seclists.org/nanog/2014/Jul/index.html#265
Yes, but people can't so it doesn't.
You're usually better off with manual recursion, if you're concerned about running out of space, for the simple reason that it's far easier in practice to back out of an out-of-memory situation than from a stack overflow.
I think this just depends on the make and model. I did a bit of homework before purchase a few years ago (to ensure good compatibility with GNU/Linux), and my Dell Inspiron N7010 has been serving me faithfully for years. No major wifi issues, no battery life issues.
I hope Fig or something like it makes it's way into official Docker tools.

After wrestling with "Makefile orchestration" for Docker containers then discovering Fig, it's clearly a useful tool.
This is the kind of stuff that always trips me up:

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/40d:Controls#Building...

Several different sets of keys to use depending on what you're manipulating, even though they all have to do with direction. I can never remember and always have to use the in-game help.

Whereas, when I play nethack or DCSS or brogue, 99% of the things my fingers do, they do without needing to consult their external memory (my brain).

The interface is so simple (okay, nethack's is not, but I started playing it at an early age, so it's baked in to my fingers now) that it's a joy to operate the game.

Once your brain doesn't have to drive your fingers, the interface becomes an extension of you and you achieve a kind of flow where you're interacting with the (game) world without thinking about it. Anybody who has learned to drive stick shift (especially if you already knew how to drive an automatic) knows this feeling.
Setting Up the Following/Follower Relationship in ActiveRecord + Sinatra
The Coming Wave of Venture Capital and What It Means for Your Startup
An Easy Way for Mobile Developers to See How Users Engage with an App
Watch 130 Simpsons episodes. All at once
one major inefficiency hinted at but not directly named is the coordination problem (a la mythical man month). the tech startup ecosystem addresses that by having each startup "do one thing well" and having a simple way to coordinate efficiently (monetary payments in exchange for products/services).

there are a number of business school case studies that talk about addressing coordination inefficiencies in large firms -- toyota (TPS/kanban) and haier (OEC/SST - http://zaipul.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Haier%27s+Tao+of+...) come to mind.
Nice. However I was disappointed that I wasn't able to click on a datapoint and be taken to the comment / story it represents.
Video: impact of NSA surveillance on U.S. commercial interests and credibility
BeatsImporter gets your playlists into BeatsMusic
A, ok! Missed that nuance!
That's another problem with Linux. "Linux" is a kit of 50,000 mostly-compatible little parts. If your hobby is assembling systems out of these parts, that's great; but it's less useful to you if you want to do higher-order work on top of an assembled computer system.

For example, tailing /proc files and compiling new kernel drivers shouldn't be a part of getting wifi to work anymore in 2014. It should just work. Of course, if you want to tinker it's great that you _can_ tail the /proc files, but you shouldn't have to. You should be able to turn your computer on and just have wifi, out of the box.
What do you mean "flawlessly"? What are your criteria for success? I suspect they're different from the person who wrote the submission.
There is not such a thing as a perfect company.

There are companies that are more efficient than others.

Not that big companies for example are "more efficient" because they are big enough.

For example, Apple or Google pay very low taxes, because they could move, leaving lots of highly qualified people and technology behind. No state wants that, so they have negotiation power with gobertment, and they could pay lower taxes.
I've used exclusively linux at home, for the last 6 years (except at work), and I did find that some of the nano wi-fi USB things (necessary for rPi) don't work.
I'm in the process of making the move from PHP to Clojure as well. FYI, deploying to Amazon Elastic Beanstalk with the beanstalk leiningen plugin is a breeze.
Gnomoria is one of the few "early access" games on Steam that seem to be working out well, despite the effort being a one-man operation. If Dwarf Fortress seems too intimidating, Gnomoria is a good place to start. It doesn't have anywhere near the depth of DF, but many of the core concepts are the same.

And it won't make your eyes bleed.
The Southwest gate agent only knew about the tweet because the passenger told her while boarding. She probably then searched for it and then had him deplane to remove it.
I read that page top to bottom, and was not motivated to switch from my current provider (Freshbooks), with which I am quite satisfied. I consider slowness of payment due to my clients, not my time tracking / invoicing tool.
a) Your personal anecdotes may not broadly apply.

b) Just because Windows is worse doesn't mean Linux isn't frustrating.

c) The post complains more about performance (rate, connect time, etc) and complexity (numerous overlapping components) than "Does it work at all".
By "get screwed" I meant the total charges for a call - ie adding together what the callers and recipients pay. The callers can't avoid the charges, and aren't a customer of the recipient's carrier. This means there is little competitive pressure to lower the termination rates, and ultimately regulators have stepped in. It is far preferable that rates automatically dropped as a result of competition.
LeBron James' greatest weapon is his brain
A lot of the time spent mucking around with QEMU can be avoided by using a tool like virtme:

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/kernel/virtme/virtme.git
Reminds me of this Dropbox critique when it first got featured on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Maybe they can come up with a rule like the box must save 2 Gbps of peak hour bandwidth per U.

From the ISP's perspective they are hosting these boxes to save money, not improve performance. If performance happens to improve (ahem) that's a convenient side effect.
Man Kicked Off Flight After Tweeting About 'Rude' Gate Agent
http://i.imgur.com/0pfEwKs.png
Your voltage on the USB port might be too low.
There are specifications that I'm sure will be submitted to IETF as RFCs (when they're ready). You can seem them on Namecoin's wiki (scroll to the bottom):

https://wiki.namecoin.info/index.php?title=Welcome
Former employee. Unsurprised by this data it seems across all the top tech companies they hire by a "type" whether they care to admit it or not.
I came into the article prepared to agree, as I've seen articles that have more filler images than content, but in this case ... they only had two that weren't direct content. To me they didn't really detract from it.
I've been using NetworkManager for years with few complaints. I love its VPN support and have used it consistently at a couple jobs.

The moral: Anecdotes aren't very useful.
> Exactly. If a drive dies, the capacity of that box is just reduced.

So not even redundancy? Just cope with losing whatever media happened to be on the dead drive?
Many things (and not just in a corporate world) seem to be inefficient until you understand the undercurrents, hidden factors and incentive structure.

Take for example hiring consultants. Why would you want to hire someone to get the watch off of your hand and tell you the time, as the joke goes? One factor is that consultants are used as the way to spread responsibility for important decisions. Consulting firms know that they may take (part of the) fall for someone and everyone plays this game. Another thing is that department or division may need to spend the budget, lest next year they are allocated less money.