skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're a sports betting exchange, i.e. they connect users who want to make bets against eachother. They're headquartered in Dublin, and registered in Gibraltar. Their target audience appears to be the UK and Europe.
Considering that such links are gimmicks and have little staying power otherwise, I would say that it does not help.

It's hard to quickly mentally parse such phrases in URLs too.
You can't have a full-blown Mac OS, true, but you can have a pretty good chunk of it. It's enough to be a good starting point for entirely-FOSS implementations like PureDarwin.

Basically, from the open-source components alone, you have a kernel (XNU), userland (based on FreeBSD), init system (launchd), print server (CUPS), and X11 support, among various other things.

One of the key missing pieces is Cocoa, along with the other miscellaneous pieces accompanying it in the transition from NeXTSTEP/OpenStep to OS X. However, much of it is implemented already by GNUStep, and while GNUStep isn't advertised as being binary-compatible with Cocoa, it is advertised as being source-compatible, and therefore still useful (with XNU and the BSD-based userland, I wouldn't be surprised if binary-compatibility could be achieved, but I don't think the GNU devs are prioritizing that right now).

The other significant missing piece is Aqua/Quartz. Quartz is replaceable with X11 or Wayland, and Aqua can likely be replaced by X11 WMs / Wayland compositors with good theme support. Given the sheer number of Aqua lookalike themes floating around for the major DEs/WMs, that's probably not a big problem (not to mention DEs like Étoilé that are designed specifically to mimic OS X; Étoilé in particular is designed to integrate well with GNUStep).
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Oh really? Good thing I didn't change then ;)
Can you suggest a use-case where the cascading variables is a helpful thing?
It's all one discussion in my mind. There are three ways to get Netflix: boxes, peering, or transit (from cheapest to most expensive). If peering saves the ISP money and the boxes save even more money, why are some ISPs refusing to use them?
To my mind, the device certainly isn't some sort of serious, imminent threat, but I am sceptical because it raises philosophical objections about the direction of travel.
Yup, ndiswrapper was one of the support routine. But even when things work, they don't work optimally, as the author is correctly claiming. But on the flip side, I should also mention that on another newer laptop with embedded wifi chip, I never had any wifi problems. Ultimately, I believe, Linux is probably suffering reputation - in comparison with Win/Mac - due to its multiple flavors and plethora of developmental end points. The lack of manufacturer support is just one of the issue.
Thanks, I assume just searching for Dwarf Fortress videos will lead me to a useful starting point?
I can sympathize with this article. Every time my kernel is upgraded, I must manually recompile my wireless driver. I'm using a patched version of a Broadcom wireless driver that some kind soul on Github has been maintaining. If I was new to linux, there would be no way that I would have been able to get my wireless interface working in the first place. Linux has made vast improvements over the years in how well it works with so much hardware. There just seems to be more of a need for better wireless driver support.
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And as long as our computers don't come with Linux preinstalled it will continue to be this way. This is what happens when your OS is a stranger in a strange land; it doesn't feel like it belongs there.
I think it is unwise of him to generalize his issues to whole of Linux if he has only experience of one vendor and their drivers. Maybe the issues stem from problems in the Linux stack, or maybe they are vendor specific. Problem is that with a single datapoint you can't tell the difference.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_signing

They are likely using a plain-old SSL Cert signed by a plain-old public CA, which is how your computer would know if the executable appears to come from Apple or not.
As the other poster mentioned, the driver and firmware can be closed source. The rest of the Android WiFi stack is very liberally licensed. The Android Java portion is apache and the supplicant is BSD. You can do a lot to tune the stack without sending code upstream.
Yes, you are missing something: the narrative that the kid made a scientific discovery is spreading so far and wide that it could very plausibly become a PR/SEO problem for the grad student who is on the verge of launching his scientific career (the single time that this sort of thing matters most to a scientist).

> there is now a petition online demanding that Arrington’s name be added as an author to Jud’s most recent scientific publication

This goes far beyond "one wierd fact" headlines. Authorship requests and articles published in scientific venues (CFLAS) bring this issue into the scope of things that academics care about.

People who 1: matter and 2: have time will not be fooled. #2 is the sticking point. There are many gatekeepers to prestige in the academic world (journals, conference hosts, departments inviting each other around for guest lectures, people running outreach programs, etc). Many of them don't have the time or the inclination to get to the bottom of PR scandals. The ones that do have the time (e.g. hiring committees) pay attention to metrics representing the opinions of those who don't have time, so ignoring the problem won't make it go away.

He is doing the very minimum required to avoid being hurt by someone else's lie. The way I see it, he has handled the issue with admirable delicacy.
Copy paste, printing and networking. Biggest usability misses of Linux.

I don't consider these technical issues...but usability issues. Things like insisting on keeping the install ISO at 750 mb, leaves seamless driver support out of the todo list because...hey, there are no drivers anyway.

I'm really surprised there is not a paid version of Linux with these features baked in. I would GLADLY pay for all these (as well as the royalties for mp3,flash, etc)

EDIT: does anyone know if systemd-networkd would make things better [1]

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-networkd
Snapchat seems to run on app engine just fine.
Thanks for linking me to the Wikipedia article on hyperbole. I have 100% never heard of that concept. Also I wanted to thank you for something, because you already said "you're welcome" and I don't want to leave you hanging.
I pay $60/month for 3gb of LTE with T-Mobile and get unlimited texting and calling on top of that. I don't particularly care about the texting or calling so I consider it free. I'd pay the $60 just for the internet.
Well yeah, if you can make a procedure less than O(n) in space by using tail recursion, you should. But in the case of map, you might as well use the stack, since you have to reverse the list in the tail recursive version anyway.
I guess that's how the corporates argue. Maybe if it was crowdsourced...
> is the common additional implication the titles and links intentionally broke guidelines, were malicious, or ill-concieved

I'm not sure what you mean, but if you think the comments I've been posting when changing urls or titles are unfair, I'd appreciate suggestions for rewording them. The more specific the better.
What I wanted to highlight is that the "big picture" of security with Apple is one of taking things seriously, not ignoring or brushing things off.
Less conspiratorially, if they can maximize profit by holding out for payment I guess that's what they'll do.
Ouch! 3 weeks was hard! Believe me I'm much happier now at 13 weeks than I was at 3.

They tell you it gets easier but it really does, honest!

I work from home so it's a constant thing. We also have a Golden Retriever who likes to run in and jump around and see what's going on when the screaming gets going just to add a little extra stress to the situation :)

Wouldn't change it, though. I know that's a cliche but it is true.
My favorite cartoon on the subject:

http://i.imgur.com/HrO4R.gif
This just sounds like typical "America is the best".

Yes, in every other country, the person making the call has to pay (unless its specifically a free call service).

How does it make sense that someone can call/text you and it costs YOU money?

The supposed "difficulty" in understanding call rates to me sounds like the same "difficulty" that keeps you lot off the metric system.

But sure, keep telling us how the rest of the world is wrong - it doesn't make you look self obsessed at all.
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I think some kind of disposable multi-layered lens cover that peels off automatically would work well. Pretty cheap, and easily replaceable. Effective against more than just ice.
I don't know if she's thinking of it this way, but one could look at her antics as a marketing strategy (cough cough growth hacking? cough cough). This is an old strategy that many others in the entertainment industry have tried with varying levels of success.
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I'm just saying that SF and NY were where I had GREAT experiences. In suburbs of big cities or smaller towns (Seattle, Redmond, Toronto, Waterloo, suburbs of Toronto), I wouldn't categorize the experience as a "delight" in the same way that SF/NY were.

I mean, do I really have to give a full report in order for me to be satisfied with the product?
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I began developing an adtech product about 6 months ago after checking the USPTO and finding nothing that I was infringing on. Recently I discovered a patent granted to Yahoo in the beginning of June that describes my product exactly. I am not sure what to do now. Any recommendations on a course of action would be appreciated.
There's an entire subgenre of games trying to make less ambitious, prettier versions of Dwarf Fortress. Banished, for instance. You could argue that even Minecraft attempts to be a 3d dwarf fortress, where you control your one dwarf.

The extra effort in the UI tends to leave far worse games than Dwarf Fortress though.
Sounds like it does! I haven't used the Yelp app in a long time. Glad they added tips.
Another thing to consider is long term versus short term behavior. In my experience, some people have spurts of negative activity that are important to account for in small time spans but which may smooth out over time, that is, you may want to steer clear of someone for a month but the next month they are fine. This can coincide with financial issues, mental health as well as general stress.
Sound isn't too great either. The BlueZ developers for example decided to drop HSF/HSP support in BlueZ 5.x [1], which means there is no way to get a bluetooth headset (with a microphone) working on Linux anymore; there's just no way.

Although it's not like sound is great on Windows either.

[1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5....
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I completely agree, but I think that it feels a lot more like an investment than a purchase. When I buy something it is because I want it more than I want my money. When I kickstart something it is because I want something that is not real to become real. I'm willing to risk wasting my money because I want cool people to do a cool thing. If they try hard and fail, I don't feel like they owe me anything else.
I bet half those problems would go away if Rasbian Wheezy, with its ancient 3.2-based kernel, wasn't the default for many R-Pi users.
I recently helped a relative move an old Win XP machine to Ubuntu. I was going to move them to Lubuntu; however, the USB WiFi dongle they are using refused to cooperate -- or rather, the Lubuntu live disk I was testing refused to cooperate with it.

The dongle's chipset was Linux friendly and had apparently worked without major problems up to about Ubuntu 10.10 or so. Google revealed the eruption of numerous reports of problems at that time.

Problems that apparently persisted through several releases, for a good couple of years.

The solution that people found worked was to download driver source code from the chipset manufacturer (RA) and build it, with custom settings, on one's own machine. Some also found success with banning one or more apparently concurrently competing drivers from being loaded on their system. Per some descriptions, multiple compatible drivers would wrestle for control of the device, evincing symptoms matching what I'd experienced.

I was getting ready start a custom build and/or perhaps whacking driver loads -- after installing Lubuntu to get past the fixed Live CD configuration, when I thought to try the plain Ubuntu live disk as opposed to Lubuntu. Problem gone.

Working stuff breaks. Breaks persist for months if not years. Ostensibly compatible/comparable systems aren't.

I'm not going to complain; it is what we make of it. But still, today, we don't always do such a good job of making -- or maintaining.

Separately, the Ubuntu screen image on my relative's truly mass produced, 17" Dell LCD is shifted slightly to the right -- just enough to hide the rightmost few pixels. An old 17" LCD I have plugged into an old T42, has a similar shifting. Useable, but slightly annoying, particularly with respect to today's anorexic scroll bars.

I did a little research into the problem, months ago, but did not find a ready solution. Not WiFi, but still slightly to moderately awkward.
I would choose a phased approach for a brand new player.

Learn about tiles, z levels, and investigating what an object/unit is (navigation and inspection).

Learn about designations (how to mine, gather plants, chop down trees)

Learn about rooms and workshops (mason, carpenter, bedrooms, dining rooms, offices, walls, doors, grates, stairs, ramps)

Learn about farming (underground preferred)

Learn about trading (crafts, trading depot)

Learn about nobles (bookkeeper and manager to start, followed by broker)

Learn about mechanisms (mechanisms and levers, let power come later)

Learn about military (squads, commanders, fighting, training, equipment)

Explore the rest of the game!

If you want any help, comment or email me in my profile, I would be glad to help!
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Hi David, first of all, thank you very much for creating sleepyti.me - I use it almost every night when setting an alarm.

Have you ever considered a responsive view of it so you can select your parameters more easily on a phone without having to zoom in?
This would be a really useful plugin for Microsoft Outlook. I would shell out the $4.99 for that. However, if I have to fire up a separate app to use this I might as well just use the free web app.
It's mostly that it was someone 12 years old. If a 30 year old had discovered something about fish no one would care.

Chalk it up to a slow news day, this story is upworthy gold, nothing more, nothing less.
And, of course, no love for BlackBerry OS 10. Foursquare had a great native integration and now just dumps all BB-Users. Why do companies do that?
If data isn't coming from service providers, does that mean it's all coming from user reviews? ISTM that e.g. Yelp (there are others too) has been working through the inherent difficulties for some time, and they haven't exactly got it figured out yet. What if one of the first million reviews/ratings leads to a lawsuit? Does this all just go away?
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For one, it means that you don't need to have a precompiler step in the development process. You can more easily edit the value inline in your browser's developer tools. You can more easily put together simple static sites.

Another is that you can use it in conjunction with calc(), which you can't do in a preprocessor. Take a look at some example use cases for calc, which can't be done in a preprocessor: http://css-tricks.com/a-couple-of-use-cases-for-calc/ Now instead of just using constant values in those, you can use variables. This can be even more powerful for responsive designs, because you can set the variable to different values based on a media query.
There's fairly little spam, because the providers are happy to disconnect people for any sort of automation. So most companies are a bit skittish about taking on people that might be doing that, as they don't want to lose their connection.

In fact, it's a bit surprising Twilio's still able to offer such things. They routinely violate the rules that apply to the rest of us in the industry. Usually you've got to keep a 1:3 in:out ratio per number. Not sure what position Plivo's in. In light of the ratio requirements, maybe free inbound SMS is a way to help out on that.
Can you please post a link? This sounds very interesting...
Another article on bisecting which I bookmarked last year, but with physical hardware [1].

1: http://rtg.in.ua/blog/kernel-bisect-pxe/
That is a cool product, but on reflection I think you're right with the monitoring. I'm not a huge fan of the monitoring system we have now, but my wife won't live without it. We even have her room only two meters away from our bedroom, but we still have an audio monitor on and turned up.

Like, 'cos when she starts crying I need to hear it in stereo ;)
regarding energy storage/consumption and the potential movement to fossil fueled drones: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_disk_engine

I can't find the original article I saw this on but it seems like one of those things where even though the big market is probably smaller hybrid cars, might have application in commercial drones since it can potantially save a lot of weight vs more conventional engines.
Haha such a good call. Personally, I'm looking forward to building a farnsworth fusor with my daughter when it comes science fair time.
Yes, there are plugins for fixing [some of] the UI. There's a few plugins that add brand new UI, too.

Of note, falconne has released a suite of helpful UI tools for dfhack [0] like mousequery, various search/sort tools, etc.

[0] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=119575.0
I'm with the parent commenter. I actually deleted my Facebook, but would love to utilize this service to create a public trust profile. I just can't involve social media accounts.
Type classes are syntactic sugar for explicit dictionary (record) passing.
Oh, you made sleepyti.me? Thank you, it's a very useful website!
This isn't our experience when focusing the application logic towards the client-side whenever possible and I don't agree GAE is only for prototyping/small apps. We started on EC2, two instances over a load balancer. We had to go for 2 medium instances as smalls couldn't scale fast enough when the traffic spiked.

We had to create the logic to deploy the application simultaneously to all running instances and writing monitoring code to ensure everything was scaling properly (the load balancer triggers just weren't up to it). Daily traffic 2k users, cost 200USD a month. About 4 non-trivial outages in the 5 months we were on AWS.

With GAE we push to git, deploy done. No setting up deployment, no complex monitoring for scaling. Daily traffic 15k users, costs 30USD a month. 1 non-trivial outage in around 20 months now, with 100% uptime during 2013.

We have run a reasonable scale, reasonable traffic production grade application for at least 5 months on both, long enough to make an extensive comparison for our application. GAE isn't perfect, but the cost savings in terms of our developer time make the charge-for cost savings (200 vs 30) look like very small fry.
The title understates the drinking; he was getting so drunk he was hungover (or still drunk!) every Saturday and Sunday into the afternoon. A bit of moderation, and a couple beers once a week would still give him the majority of these benefits.

But hey, it seems to make him happy, so props.
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This is very useful data if you are doing payment aggregation. Per association rules, you cannot discriminate against different card types.
I think you missed a big opportunity not calling this hndcite.com
One tip for the module configuration: kbuild has "make localyesconfig" which looks at your currently-loaded modules and converts them to CONFIG_FOO=Y builtins.

See also "make help" for more available targets.
Are you planning on retaining fig in its current form or probably merging it into Chef/Ansible?

In the long term, do you believe that having a very specific CM tools is going to be better than supporting something having a lit of mind share?
I've never dug in to it before, but some googling just suggested

/sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy*/

e.g.

# cat /sys/kernel/debug/ieee80211/phy*/netdev:*/stations/*/rc_stats

rate throughput ewma prob this prob this succ/attempt success attempts
1 0.6 68.0 100.0 0( 0) 9 12
...
> Although it's not like sound is great on Windows either.

Pre-Vista I might have agreed with you but now? I think Windows has quite good audio stack.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_features_new_to_Wind...
I drink socially (read: 3-4 beers a week) and run 5km a day. I've never felt better. Extremism is not healthy in either direction.
I value my free time more than my money. I can always make more money; I will never have more time than I do now. So up to a point, I will gladly trade money for time.

In any case, unless your work is very low-skilled, it doesn't make any sense for your income to be tightly coupled with the number of hours you work.

What if having all your stuff required working 50 hours a week? 80? 100? At what point does it stop being worthwhile?
Could someone explain to me (it's been a long day, and I'm no storage expert!) how these are useful, wouldn't you need a whole bunch of these at each location they are to be installed?

Just basing this on my own experience I have 12 drives in RAID which have a fairly substantial sequential throughput. Start multiple streams of high bandwidth videos and the maximum throughput from the drives drops sharply due to the random reads.

I would have assumed that having even 100 people streaming from a single box would be an interesting challenge.
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"The idea that you need just another tool to solve a problem, that is what is flawed. Skill and balance and a set of powerful, basic tools, that is what solves the problem."
If we were using your 'idea' on programming, we wouldn't have moved on from the power, basic tools such as C and Assembler.

"The Zen of Unix and the Tao of Testing are my companions. Nothing disturbs my chi."

Good, then keep doing your chee. The rest of us are going to use the right tool for the job, instead of some mythical pain-modifier that you think is the "One True Way".
In addition, Netflix has multiple copies of the same content at different quality levels. So, there might be the 1080p, 720p, and SD quality levels of the popular content, each of them taking up space from other movies/shows.
Think most startups collect BINs. Its easily to have javascript grab the first 6 digits. You already have code that validates the card with luhn check and also determine card type, grab the first 6 characters and stick it in a hidden field.
Ask at http://patents.stackexchange.com/ ?
I would extend it out to laptops and Linux in general. I've tried a few times over the last 10 years or so to use Linux on normal consumer laptops (Dells, Thinkpads, etc.) and it's always a really bad experience. Wifi issues, battery life, etc. have major problems. In the end I just gave up trying and use a MacBook with virtualization for running Linux.