skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's AmigaOS 1.x:

http://www.gregdonner.org/workbench/wb_13.html

(2.x went bevelled, and none of us looked back)
The Obama Brief
Seriously. It's like scaling Mt. Everest to get to the program you want to launch: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/desktop/full/win95....
Errr, right now one vaccine is being tested on humans in Stage I trials: http://www.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2014/Pages/EbolaV...

I can remember seeing pictures of some Malians getting it.
Only the other week I managed to mouse-twitch into existence a file that rm refused to remove.
Earth's magnetic field could flip in our lifetime
That wiki page is not a neutral or even trustworthy source.
NSA approves Samsung Knox devices for government use
When I look at code in a text editor I prefer it to be colored. All white text on black puts me to sleep. It's also easier to see that this is not the same kind of thing as that.
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This.

The emacs keybinding are used a lot of places eg: ^a to begining of line ^e to end of line is used everywhere (even the url bar of firefox/ chrome).
He's not a roboticist or a film producer, he's a technologist
By "poor leadership" did you mean "warlord rulers taking the vast majority of the aid money thrown in their general direction"?
It‘s not just the “tiny minority” (whatever that means — I‘m guessing neither of us have actual figures) of people with any of those technologies disabled that benefit from a progressive approach. I‘m not 100% idealistic on this one, but at least apportion the blame where it‘s due.
How? Throwing money at the problem doesn't yield results (as is typically the case). The issues in Africa seem to be fundamental; they are issues of culture, resources, and structure.
That's kind of my point. Do you like the colours (specifically these ones, or colours like them) because they're an alternative to grey or do you actually like them in and of themselves?
I like colours too. I'm not talking about colours, I'm talking about these colours.
Well, you can only use it on Windows. But I mean come on, "terrified?" Bash scripts are not too useful in Windows either.
Yet the terminal never changes :)
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I came across these two tools recently that seem interesting:
http://www.rfxn.com/projects/linux-malware-detect/
https://github.com/emposha/PHP-Shell-Detector

Not installed either yet (LMD could really use some .deb packages) but could be a useful alternative to Tripwire
2-axis movement with two motors
The git diff and log commands are primarily intended for human consumption. I'm not the one you were relying to, but I think it makes sense that git defaults to make that consumption easier, even if it isn't strictly "Unix". (You can also disable this behavior and get a more Unix-y interface by default via gitconfig or on a case by case basis with --no-pager).
Time to go do some extreme sports.
> Don't just believe the text - check the references.

I've already read almost all of those references. The story told by the wiki article is downright comical in its misrepresentation of those references.
I'm with you. Move advanced options to about:config, or somewhere similar.
I'll assume we're selling fractional chickens. The problem has 5 free parameters and 2 equality constraints, and several inequality constraints, so it's underconstrained, and its solution space is a (5-3) = 2-dimensional surface (manifold with edges). If you parameterize it by the two price parameters, x > y, it's simply a half-rectangle:

x >= 7/2 ($3.50)
0 < y <= 35/26 ($1.35 approx.)

There's a solution for any (x,y) in this region.

Using the notation that the j_th farmer has an inventory of I_j, and sells a_j fractional chickens before lunch with revenue R_j ($35), the problem is a triple of linear equations:

{ a_j*x + (I_j - a_j)*y = R_j }_{j=1..3}

with solution

a_j = (R_j - y*I_j)/(x - y)

Mathematica simplifies the set of inequalities (I count 8?)

With[{r=35, is={10,16,26}},
Simplify[(0<y<x) &&
And @@ Table[0 <= (r - i*y)/(x-y) <= i, {i,is}]]]

returns

0 < y <= 35/26 && 2x >= 7 && x > y

(the last one's redundant)
Why were you underwhelmed? What are you looking for exactly?
You can definitely get a 'real ale' in the US. It's a shame you can't get it where you live, though. During the summer, there's a place near me that does 'Mother Firkin Thursdays' with a about 10 experimental ales in firkins, most of them around 4% and at 58 degrees. The rest of the year, they just have a few in casks available for the regulars.
Awesome initiative! Real potential in the long run.
How Citizens United is corrupting America and the open web
I've just realised that the best solution to this (which I've never seen) is for the shell or terminal emulator to capture long output into a pager for you once it exceeds a certain length.
> We should just as soon obsolete the term flip-flop

And replace it with what? Bistable multivibrator?
> And numbers <10 have only one digit?

Not in a phone number.
I doubt what is keeping this from scaling is fear of unknown side-effects. I bet people would be lining up to be a guinea-pig to this if regulation allowed.
This is related to a question I was just pondering. I'm developing a web application that relies heavily on JavaScript for a lot of the interactivity. I was planning on devoting a decent amount of time to implementing JavaScript disabled functionality as well, but realized for my target market (small to medium business), that might not be very important, and could just be a big time waste. Anyone have any experience/insight?
I have three computers on my desk with three trackballs side by side and the keyboard on a KVM switch. Well really just a "K" switch. Works pretty well for me. I use classic wired trackballs instead of your marble. I'm not happy that they're long discontinued but I stockpiled quite a few when production ended. I hate the idea of wireless, last thing I need in my life is one more thing to worry about charging to replacing batteries.

Trackballs are much faster. Given that I might switch from keyboard to trackball thousands of times per day, saving just one second by knowing where the trackball is, saves quite a bit of time. I also find it faster and more accurate for selection work to use my thumb instead of the much larger muscles used for mice.

I don't do much gui work other than clicking links in a web browser but when I do I find the trackball to be superior.
Use this tools to scale your startup sales:
How a software glitch kept thousands from reaching 911
I understand the need to build tools and I would have used this too, if it was a simple enough bash script with a bunch of aliases and some sweet bash_completion love.

However, I don't see why I should replace this ...

$ mv ~/.vimrc{,~}
$ mv ~/.vim{,~}
$ git clone --recursive git@github.com:lonetwin/lonetvim.git ~/.vim
$ ln -sf ~/.vim/dot_vimrc ~/.vimrc
# -- work --

^profiles^ could just as well be branches ...although, I don't think I have use
for them.
I have to agree - I predict that in 3 years, metro will look very dated and design will be focusing on actual information density and nice effects again. It's just sad we have to sit through this wave of crap before that happens.
His conclusion:

"just an area of soft tissues suffering from mild oxygen deprivation."
http://www.rsi.deas.harvard.edu/handout.doc

Couldn't symptoms be treated by increasing blood flow with exercise or stretching, for example? If stress is a cause, wouldn't it be relieved by reducing symptoms?
How Not to Build Phone Apps: A Post-Mortem
That's getting to be an increasingly unreasonable proposition. With the rise of SPAs and so on you're basically asking everyone to create two versions of every Web application for a very small contingent of users (and really in the case of JavaScript it doesn't have to be an a11y barrier).
>but it is certainly not one where creativity happens //

I disagree - I've had a few novel ideas here, they may not have been universally novel but were definitely ideas that came up from threads I read, that I'd not seen or considered previously.

Sure HN isn't structured towards this sort of creativity but it still provokes it on occasions.

Forums are as input or output orientated as one chooses IME.

Edit: this, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8487385, might be an example - I've not seen config undo-history in browsers before?
Randomly Generated CSS Buttons for Web Development
is it a .ko or an user space app?
We weren't quite as experimental, but my high school was built around an "open" plan where there were no walls between classrooms (except the noisy or smelly classes like wood shop or chemistry.) Classes would have a designated space to bunch their desks around the teacher's desk and a free-standing chalkboard. The system was supposed to allow students to overhear lectures from neighboring classes and teachers to team up or answer questions for each other.

It was a fairly miserable failure. Unless your teacher was really loud it was too hard to hear lectures. It was too hard to concentrate during tests and too easy for one disruptive class to ruin six other classes. (On a minor note, most teachers really hated only having one chalkboard instead of a whole wall.) By the time I got there (twenty years after the school opened), there were temporary walls everywhere and the school had mostly switched back to a traditional layout.
I'd say AR with limited functionality is still AR. This pool tables is also rightly called AR even though it doesn't even feature a screen.
Brain Training Presentation -Association for Contextual Behavioral Science
They have an app on the App Store called Hour Blue, which they had run as a demo at Comic Con a few years back, in conjunction with string labs. It doesn't seem to work for me in the iPhone 6 though. You watch a video of the demo if you search on YouTube however. The demo was a basic augmented reality example. I'm assuming, with an investment of this size, they have achieved something far more substantial.
Tentative summary of the amendments of the Debian init system coupling GR
1. There's some fault with the airlines too in the fact that tickets are cheaper from a third party

2. Many airline web shops are a bad experience with unclear and very high erratic pricing that changes between logins etc
Couldn't agree more. It's just designers trying to justify their own salary.

I like interfaces that have nice 3D effects, especially on a window manager. I like high information density. I like being in control and having a customisable experience. Metro flies in the face of all of those.
Four years ago it was around 1% of users worldwide; I doubt that number has gone up: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9478737/browser-statistic...
Think about what happens when you lay down any domino on that chessboard.
The best argument I've heard made for fallback functionality is accessibility (disabled users: namely blind, and Search Bots which struggle with JS sometimes).

In some countries (in Europe mostly) there are certain legal requirements to make your sites accessible. And while these laws are infrequently enforced, you can be civilly sued if you upset enough people (governments have been sued for badly performing websites).
This sounds like a Melvyn Bragg radio show on BBC Radio 4 ...
September Home Sales Higher Than 2013
Userspace, it mmaps that PCI space itself.
I wrote a simple python irc bot that connects to Twitch.tv irc servers
> the answer eliminates twins

I don't believe so, because regardless of which child has blue eyes, it doesn't eliminate the possibility that either or both of the other children also have blue eyes. If the statement was qualified with an "only", then you could eliminate twins.
> Which is why the targets are overwhelmingly women, I'm sure.

Its primary targets are Gamasutra, Polygon (Vox), Kotaku(Gawker), and Rock Paper Shotgun.

> People tend not to be interested overmuch in hearing what the side brandishing the rape and death threats thinks.

If I said you are brandishing rape and death threats right now, because of what someone else on twitter said two weeks ago, what would you think? That is the logic you are using and it's stupid.

> [citation needed]

http://yiannopoulos.net/2014/09/19/gamejournopros-zoe-quinn-...

> Well, except for how the death threats keep landing on people who are at the top of GG's list of targets. What an incredible coincidence.

Yeah, how incredible... except that threats are going both ways and it's only one side trying to turn it into a narrative about harassment.
International schools are good, I hear. I mean, they're conventional, but they usually attract smarter student/parents. International baccalaureate is more high school, but I wish I had taken it.
If you want Lua running on bare metal with a network stack you can use the rump kernel[1].

[1] http://rumpkernel.org/
It's pretty much the same with applications and websites. The "trendy" ones seem to have fancy interfaces that are useless (I'm thinking of this trend in web page design to have vertically scrolling pages where each page is a different color background and has about 3 words of actual content on).

Real applications pretty much ignore all that and look like they always have
is this the result of the partnership with yubikey?
Can anyone explain to me the problem? They basically created an OPTION, i.e., optional, that breaks when people who don't get it use it.

Now I've got plenty of tech illiterate friends, and they've asked me many questions over the years, but never did it have anything to do with browser settings not loading pictures or javascript.

In fact, it's the one thing people tend not to mess with. They'll do tons of weird software, they'll even do regedits from a misinformed guide, but touching browser settings? I don't know about you, but none of my friends ever did.

So what's the problem here? Don't see one. What's the solution if there was a problem? Create a 'dev-mode' button, give the user a warning they shouldn't use it unless they're software developers, and put your tricky settings behind that wall.

The solution doesn't seem to me to require people to install add-ons for what is basic functionality to a decent amount of people, especially not in an addon store with lots of third-party crap that might work now, but doesn't work in combo with another add-on, or stops working after the browser updates and the add-on dev moved on to other things.
"Warlord" implies a military bent. Many of the worst culprits are bureaucrats - spending most of their time wearing $10,000 suits while being wined and dined by Western leaders and skimming millions into the accounts of their inner circle. Power is not always held by physical force.
Venteo V2 out – The events camera app. What are your thoughts?
+1 but old.
Unfortunately the answer isn't that easy.

On one hand you have hundreds of millions of Internet users, including many from developing countries who have never used a PC in their lives. On the other you have Internet services that pile on endless 3rd party tech and scripts into their sites, most of which doesn't degrade properly.

The result is pretty much what the author highlighted. Sites will break. Users will be flummoxed.

I don't think we can wish away this problem by having users figure it out. I'm not saying Apple's shiny-button-abstraction is the answer, but there has to be a way for both users and websites to figure out non-standard browser config settings and pop up alerts.
thanks guys. happy to answer any questions you guys may have.
Please just call Fstat and check Stat_t.Mode & S_IFCHR
I knew i came accross this somewhere : http://codepen.io/noahblon/pen/EGbCs

But who was first?
I wrote one of these ages ago that was very useful (regain interactive control of an otherwise batch program) but broke all sorts of 'rules', including doing blocking IO in the signal handler.
Apple's culture and ecosystem is restrictive. I think when they created iOS it was a natural fit to lock that shit down. However I will say that OS X remains fairly open, likely because it was created before Apple's culture shifted into playing parent (which is arguably a response to Windows XP's continual security problems).

Now, yes, people will point out that OS X only runs on Apple's hardware and that is restrictive. However as a counterpoint I will say that OS X is free and it would be uneconomical without that tie-in. That's their business model effectively.
> It's because flat UI looks good on retina / 5k.

I can't tell if you're being serious. But if you are, could you explain why?

Otherwise, this is one of many reasons I don't like flat design. It doesn't take advantage of all those pixels. It's just a flat wash of color.
> One might suggest that a movement that refuses to police itself is deliberately courting such plausible deniability.

Perhaps you didn't hear about the time when someone created a new board on 8chan specifically to harass Brianna Wu, and the Leaders of Gamergate from the /gg/ board went and flooded the new board with nonsense until mods woke up and took care of the problem.

Or when they tracked twitter attacks on Anita Sarkeesian to a journalist in Brazil...

Seriously, the standards you are trying to hold GamerGate to are completely and utterly ridiculous.
Made with Flash! are you kidding me?
We have a similar school in Portland, http://villagefreeschool.org/ -- I hope to check it out when my kids are a little older. However, I would prefer to find a free-style school specifically for gifted children.
3,3,4 isn't a valid solution because then B would not reply "that's not enough information." There's exactly one triplet that adds up to eleven, so if B's phone number ended in 11, she would have immediately deduced the solution instead of asking for more information. Same with 1,4,9: that's the only triplet adding to 14. The only valid triplets are ones that share a sum with another triplet. Only two triplets multiplying to 36 share a sum: 1,6,6 and 2,2,9 both add up to 13. Once B learns that A has an "oldest kid", B can rule out 1,6,6, because A would have said "one of my oldest kids has blue eyes" in that case. That leaves 2,2,9 as the only valid triplet.
Is this serious? I feel like I've missed something here.
I've become partial to the "trello style" clipboard solution where on hover, a hidden input's text is selected and all you need to do it command-c and you've selected the text.

It's a pretty good intermediary until — one mythic day — we can access the clipboard via js.

EDIT. Link to relevant stack overflow answer describing the flow: http://stackoverflow.com/a/17528590/2236561
> [lack of] high information density

This is one of the biggest crimes of flat design. Let's throw away all the opportunities for high information density and replace them with flat blocks of color!
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I'm drawing a blank on the specifics but some things will work in the PowerShell prompt that won't work in the ISE.
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Can You Uber a Burger? Surge Pricing Comes to the Restaurant Industry
The main problem here is that a change that should have been done as part of an individual's customization was made to a shared configuration file.
The "load images" argument uses images from an alternate domain that is blocked where I am (porn hosting) ... so I can't see his screenshots arguing for not allowing images to show ... oh, the irony.
Are you sure? I thought GSM was encrypted by definition. I know it's been used as a NATO backup communications channel. Once the signal hits the base station, though, it's usually sent unencrypted down the wire.
What Is the 'Oxford Comma'? – Oxford Dictionaries
What source you want? You seriously don't expect me to public my identity here, do you?

I was about to give you my case number of anticipatory bail. But seriously, what source you want?

EDIT: On more thought, if you really want to know the ground reality you can call anyone in http://www.saveindianfamily.org/ . Their Bangalore chapter know my case.
This is very interesting. Is this Yubikey-compatible?

http://www.amazon.com/Plug-up-International-U2F-SK-01-FIDO-S...

Can I buy one of these to use with SSH auth/password programs/Chrome?
High fashion is mostly outlandish and completely impractical, because it is about concepts and abstract ideas more than about wearability. High-end fashion (not high fashion) on the other hand distils the concepts into wearable products that the every-day brands emulate.

The gap from high-end fashion to everyday brands is not so big - take a look at e.g. GQ and look around you to see what people actually wear, and you will quickly start seeing the same patterns and cuts and colours a few months offset (because the fashion magazines tends to report on the upcoming season), just in cheaper imitations - for the most part. And you'll see them spreading as they filter down the cost ladder.

And by the time "everyone" is wearing the cheap imitations, you'll see people in the designer brands wearing different styles and the cycle starts again.

It's the same with UI's: There's a continuous cycle of trying to look modern, refined and exclusive, and so it needs to be regularly reinvented, or it will look old-fashioned, drab and cheap.

It's not about wanting "flashy" (mostly; there are certainly sub-cultures that value flashy above following mainstream fashion). It's about wanting "modern" and "high value".
Stopped clicking with a mouse completely and never looked back. Dwell clicking apps are a godsend for anyone with mouse-related injuries.

http://code.google.com/p/windows-dwell-clicker/
A friend of mine commented on Facebook using the word "merely" as in merely transplanted some cells. I've got the feeling a lot more complex science and medicine went into this, can anyone provide some more detail in layman's terms?
This attitude is extraordinarily hostile towards users, and even if it wasn't including checkboxes in preferences (especially when you have things like about:config) that disable the entire functionality of the app for 99% of use cases is ridiculous.
For extra credit, a forth chicken trader came to the market that day with no chickens and came home with $90 in profits. How did he do it?
According to my observation Qihoo Browser was more frequently used by a tech noob than tech savvy. And this alone poses great risk of the general public regardless to the underlying ethnics and interests.
Because it's more readable? It tells you at the top that any failure will fail the whole thing, and you can avoid the prefix `&&` which reduces the effective indentation level and noise.
If the farmers sold a, b and c chickens before lunch, and the price decreased by d then it's easy to write down the equations and arrive at the following equivalency:

(a + b - c) * d = 3500 cents

Since those are all integers, (a + b - c) must be a divisor of 3500. It must also be positive and <= 26. So it can possibly be 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 14, 20, 25. For each of these choices just solve a system of 2 linear equations to get the solution.

For example if a + b - c = 1 then d = 3500 and the price after lunchtime has to be 0. So they each sold exactly 1 chicken before lunchtime for $35 and gave away all the other chickens for free. It adds up!

Checking of the other solutions is left as an excercise to the reader.
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