skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're fine with upgrading only every few years with Windows, you should be fine doing the same with Ubuntu - so just stick with the LTS and you'll have less problems. Also avoid adding third-party repositories, they can really break stuff if they replace key packages.

Considering the UI it's mostly a habit thing, personally I've never used Windows on my own computer for about 15 years and it's really a pain for me to use it each time I have to.
Way to close the conversation, buddy. You're essentially attacking someone, and not their argument, by precluding their points simply due to the fact that they have no relevant experience. Probably a lesser-known form of Ad Hominem.

An argument should be able to stand by itself. Remember, when discussing something, you're discussing the points, logic and facts. Not someone's experience. Now fine, they can present their experience/observations as points/facts, and if they're true, then they become part of the argument they're making.

*Edit. Fixed bad grammar. My bad.
Maybe not in San Fransico, but it's more than enough in nearly every small town in the midwest. I've had rents as low as $225/month w/ all utilities included (newly furnished/redone kitchen, no obvious problems). That's low enough that ~ 1 week of McDonald's work will have paid for your rent, the other 3 weeks of monthly income can go to food ($100-150) and assorted needs like toiletries ($20-50). That still leaves you with ~$500/month after essentials which is honestly more than most people making $30-50k/yr actually put away into savings.

The issue with the homeless isn't that the jobs don't pay enough to keep them off the streets, it's that they lack the mental faculties to hold onto even the most basic of jobs. Alternatively they're just exploiting suckers for easy money- a reality that many feel-good white evangelists like to pretend isn't a significant reality.
> The legitimately dystopian part of Brave New World are often technical in nature—effectively mind control through drugs and a caste system propped up by genetic engineering. These don't just require advances in technology but also a surprising level of social organization. Where 1984 feels like a continuous progression from a Soviet Union that never collapsed, these core parts of Brave New World comes of as discontinuous, a jump both socially and technically.

These seems like crazy steps in our modern society, but keep in mind, Huxley was writing this in 1931. Eugenics were something readily embraced by the upper classes. The Soviet Union gravitated towards the totalitarian state it was, but at that time, it wouldn't have been crazy to imagine a government (imagine a less jingoistic Germany, with all the creativity and efficiency), creating something very much like what Huxley envisions. In fact, had the West not had the ongoing competition with the totalitarian Soviet Union, the capitalist impulses could have merged with a much larger government, and the United States, or Continental European powers could have turned into something like that. Constant conflict both militarily and ideologically may have been the only thing that prevented it.

> It's also a bit grating because I sense some condescending overtones. "Look at all those people who don't care about the world but just distract themselves with popular entertainment. How shallow!" Obviously you, the reader, do not belong to this group.

You may be right, but that's probably not fair to Huxley. In writing his book, he was speaking directly to his readers, trying to convince them that they were not so different from the utopia which he mocks.

> And hey, I don't disagree per se—I think most popular distractions are shallow and have much better alternatives—but I also think there's nothing inherently wrong with enjoying them. I mean, I follow the news, I care about recent events and where does it get me? Nowhere. I guess I could vote² a bit better, but all it's done is sour me on all major candidates. Is this meaningfully better than comfortable ignorance? No, but people tell me it is. And here I am.

But here's the thing. At that stage, you have two choices. Either realize that our societies are flawed and struggle to do something about it, whether you can turn the tide or not, or take the soma, act like the world is okay (in the West, or own small worlds often are perfectly fine), and do nothing. What is disconcerting about our society, and similar to Brave New World, is apathy and consumerism have caused a lot of people (not necessarily you), to fall into the latter column, which could very easily lead to 1984.
Looks good. I imagine it can switch assembly code on the fly based on runtime check.
Interesting, I just tested my device over AT&T LTE, but there was no UIDH header.

Edit: There is an x-acr header, which contains a curiously large amount of encoded data, far too much to be any reasonably sized id. Anyone know what it is?
41 Shades, by Google design
This is disabled across all of my lines and is still showing.
Arduino-like toolkit addresses ALS challenges with no Ice Buckets
BITalino can aid communication for people with ALS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWweJR3ow7A

On Kickstarter we seek to make devices affordable for everyone:
http://bit.ly/bitalino
I'm not clear why you think it would be illegal. There may be rules against not allowing people to opt out, I don't know. But when you ask "How can they discriminate like that?", there's nothing illegal about discriminating on the basis of credit or willingness to pay for a more expensive product.
While I agree with the conclusion, I disagree with the method:

googling for something and choosing from one of several "agreeing" links doesn't actually protect you from being wrong, if most of those links got their wrong data from the same original source.
Reminds me of three of my favorite words: Nihilartikel, mountweazel, and dord:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nihilartikel

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mountweazel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord

"Nihilartikel" is a German word for "fictitious entry", and it's amazing that a language which makes noun phrases into words has a specific word for this concept we express as a noun phrase. Let me gladwell on about how this tells me deep and profound things about sauerbraten and German psychology. Truly, we have much to learn from this peaceful, gentle, and thoroughly Othered group.

"Mountweazel" is a word which came from the name of a fake person used as a fictitious entry. It's just fun to say.

"Dord" is a genuine accident, which was supposed to mean density when someone misread an annotation about abbreviations: "D or d, density".
Apologies, I have clarified this.

It works, we just do not provide any code templates yet.
Or you could look at Apache Cordova. Support is in CTP now and full release in Visual Studio 2014 hopefully.
Nope.

Looking at the historic turnout and voting patterns, regardless of who I supported there would be no point voting. It won't make a difference.

I'd only turn out if there was a specific local issue on the ballot which had a chance of going one of two ways.

Democracy under FPTP is largely a fiction to keep people inline. It MIGHT be useful to avert a civil war, but anything less than that and it only serves to provide people the illusion of choice.
Wikipedia article on the general case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

Specific example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
Monism can also mean there is only one supreme being so its not as clear cut as one might think.

Furthermore this is getting into some of the areas of theological not philosophical or logical interpretation.

In order for any of what you say to make sense I have to buy the idea of god to begin with which I don't and even if I did it's quite obvious that the attempt to make the distinction isn't grounded in reasoning which is fine since it's religion.
Just shows what CSS can do but won't use it in production.
"Imagine you’re sitting in a football stadium with 10,000 people. One of you will be randomly selected and killed. How much would you pay to make sure you aren’t chosen? Remember, the chance that you’ll be chosen is only 1 in 10,000."

What a completely useless thought experiment. Unless you're actually in this situation, the decision will be heavily distorted. It's one thing to say what you do in a difficult situation, it's another thing to be in one and take the decision then and there.
> What would you have the Red Cross do?

I understand that the US Red Cross is in a difficult position. But the health authorities in the UK (who are presumably "closer" to the situation) don't have the same restrictions. Of course that might be simple expediency, since by the US rules nobody in the UK could donate.
We used to call them meat mincers :)

If you want good quality variable capacitors then your best source is flea markets and thrift stores, look for old tube radios that you can scavenge them out of. And if the radio is nice enough then maybe restore it!
You're being downvoted for being right (correct) and right (not a leftist) at the same time.

Happens often here. Grab a chair.
> Then why not register your disdain by voting blank?

Because then someone somewhere will use the turnout % as a way to legitimise whoever is in charge e.g. "X got voted in with a 80% turnout." Whereas if only 10% of the population turn up, no matter who wins they have no legitimacy or mandate.
Could Database as a Service Be What Saves Microsoft's Bacon?
Again. This example only make sense if you exclude that god created it. So it doesn't help anything at all.
Ask HN: Website for hosting dev interviews?
Mulling over the idea of a website focused on managing coding interview loops. MVP would have live interview features (problem statement, coding whiteboard, maybe compilation and execution) and communication/collaboration features for interviewers (save/review interviewee's solutions, taking/sharing notes, interview topics coordination, history of problems asked).

Is anything like this already out there? Opinions on usefulness for you/your company?
Man’s Genome from 45,000 Years Ago Is Reconstructed
Uh, yeah how about NSA's access to TEMPORA.

Your post is a classic example of shifting the burden of proof. You are the one with the belief that contradicts documents, leakers, whistleblowers, journalistic reporting, senatorial reports, US history, partner documents, and on.

Or if you need more direct links look through the other branches of this thread. Plenty of evidence, much of it directly from the Congressional oversight committee itself.

The nonsense comes from trying to reinterpret a small number of slides and to then broaden that interpretation to a expansive umbrella.

It is simply truly the case that the NSA and partnered agencies have broad access to sweeping untargetted collection of data.
This. God transcends His creations as well as time (also a creation).
> Postpaid is significantly more expensive than prepaid and not available to people with bad credit. How can they discriminate like that?

I agree this is terrible, but I should point out that T-mobile's prepaid and postpaid plans are priced the same (and neither requires a contract - only difference is that the latter requires a credit check).

If T-mobile is an option for you, I would recommend their prepaid options.

Also, if your credit is bad, you may be able to pay a ~ $500 deposit (steep, I know) for a postpaid account on Verizon/AT&T. IIRC, the deposit is only needed for the first year, after which you get it back.
Programmers

A room to talk about your recent projects, upcoming hackathons/events, or to simply ask for help!

Let's kick this thing off!

http://i.imgur.com/FIRg6zl.jpg
Are you a shill or just stupid?
Might as well use inline styling to accomplish the same (without adding tons of CSS):

<div class="bar-chart">
<ul>
<li style="height:99%">99%</li>
<li style="height:50%">50%</li>
<li style="height:30%">30%</li>
<li style="height:90%">90%</li>
<li style="height:10%">10%</li>
<li style="height:70%">70%</li>
<li style="height:30%">30%</li>
<li style="height:90%">90%</li>
</ul>
</div>
Sales didn't really soar 25%, they were up 11% without Nokia.

Little question the cloud story is the story for Microsoft going forward. Office and Azure seem to be doing very well. Their success there is going to decide whether they get left behind to languish and erode in the old world or not.
Without remarking on the relative rightness of the moral stands in question, the difference between being vegan and switching to a new social network is that the latter affects people beyond the person making the moral stand. It's perfectly possible to switch by oneself to a free-as-in-freedom social network, but what's the point if no one else does?

And in any case, I'm not saying we shouldn't try. I'm saying we should be respectful of what our audience actually wants as we do. The uphill battle is the social aspect of convincing users that the change is worthwhile, not the technical aspect of building it (which is easy).
You are hitting so many stereotypes on the "kids these days" wagon you might as well be shaking your cane. You're whining, plain and simple.

I might as well complete the circle; "Shut up, gramps, you don't understand me!" Now the conversation is truly tiresome.
Good! Unity is in a desperate need for competition. How old is their Mono version again?
I used to trade on Metatrader back in 2007~2009.

There was a huge scandal because it was revealed that MetaQuotes implemented a function to forcefully cause disruption in the orders that were coming in. This function would be used by brokers to forcefully widen the spread at any given time. I remembered a lot of traders, myself included, just completely lost trust in retail forex. It was nothing but a sham.
actually seed is one of confirmed sources of fakes :)
someone had one of these
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/UartSBee-V5-p-1752.html?cPa...

go pid 0

Seed is a small shenzhen company, I woulndt expect them to have legit parts to begin with anyway.
> However, for usual business with short time to market, taking into consideration "time spent on feature" X "hourly rate" per developer time, the prices are quite cheap.

I fully agree, for a business that say makes 100k per year, paying about 2k for a Xamarin Business license is affordable.

An interesting pricing strategy would be:

* Free - for hobbyists, give them complete features and make the resulting executable expire in a few days. This will let them try and play with the tool. After they are comfortable with using C# and Xamarin, they will chose a paid license if they want to make money from their work.

* Indie - same as above for small business (less than 100k per year).

* Pro - same as above plus (paid) support.
Still doable. It doesn't seem to get absolutely more busy, because they will also be in school for many hours a week four years from now. And they still sleep more than adults.
Published October 2006, a little over 2 years after Facebook was founded and there are zero mentions of Facebook here.
I think it is very fair if Unity will be in the same boat as e.g. MonoGame.
US Tech Firm Fined for Underpaying Indian Workers
Bill Murray gets his own digital currency
The savings are key. It took us a concerted 3 years to save up enough, and we were frugal. It took a great deal of luck for that three years' worth of savings to be enough.
Are you seriously comparing JavaScript to F#/C#? Really?
It's called "key escrow" and there are tons of ways to do it.

Look up US patents under 380/286 classification.
I came away from this article without understanding what the "Western Model" is. Does anyone have an accurate and concise definition of the model this article is attacking?

Is the "Western Model" Christianity or atheism? Does it involve capitalism or social democracy? Does it involve interventionism or isolationism? Should the government tarriff imports, or subsidize national industry? Does the "West" nationalize industry, or privatize it? Is constantly raising taxes and expanding the government "Western" or "Eastern"?
Of course it matters, yesterday "includes fake, but cheap ftdi" was the desired feature.
Well, in Uruguay, if you get to Facebook or Google or Apple, you literally make the news:

http://www.elpais.com.uy/vida-actual/felipe-primer-uruguayo-...

That's the biggest newspaper in the country, which incorrectly identified the first Uruguayan who worked for Facebook.

Interestingly, there are quite a few Uruguayans at Microsoft, and I think there are a couple at Google.
They write bad checksum, fake doesnt care.
Jesus christ man - all of this sacrifice for a time sheet application? Is it really worth it?
Simplest way to create the future? Send a pendilly. Sign up www.pendilly.com
One of the features I heavily use from fig is controlling the runtime docker parameters in fig.yml, i.e the VOLUME, ENTRYPOINT, EXPOSE, WORKDIR sort of stuff. I see you guys made the decision to maintain the runtime commands in your Dockerfile, requiring a rebuild to change it. Everything except Environment.

I guess my question is, why did you guys choose to do that?
If I may take a guess.

Converting the rest of the world who haven't yet been liberalized and democratzied into countries that are.
Yes, for goods and services - with my money.
Cloud in 2015: When the Walls Come Down
Well, Slack has per-channel notification settings, and HipChat does not. So with HipChat I have to choose between more notification spam, insufficient notifications, or not being in as many channels as I'd like.

I'm starting to forget what it is I preferred about the github integration in slack as opposed to HipChat...it's been awhile now. But there are also just so many URLs that do something useful in Slack but don't in HipChat (for example, rdio).

Another annoying thing about the HipChat desktop client is modal dialogs where there shouldn't be. If somebody pings me in a room I'm not in, a modal pops up, which can be activated accidentally while I'm typing a message in another room, causing me to lose the notification, or get immediately (well, with annoying lag) sent to the channel that pinged me, interrupting the message I was typing and destroying my flow.
Hack the Used Cell Phone Market
No. I'm pro-union, but I also know how slow unions can be. I enjoy the speed at which technology is moving and I think that adding in unions, although it would add a host of great qualities, would also bring about undesirable problems.

I can't reconcile a Bar-like association or a trade union with the wonderful stories of things like Apple starting in a garage or Facebook by a student, or the super coders like RMS programming a new gigantic feature to Emacs in a 10-hour sprint.
i fail to see the point in using hadoop if your universe is limited to foreign exchange... you can probably fit all ticks of all pairs in existence since the 70s in less than a TB
Perhaps encouraging narcissism would be a better way to phrase that. Our society seems to be increasingly encouraging this type of behaviour...
Yep! It's in the works and not pushed yet, but depending on the architecture you're running on, you should be able to execute different blocks of assembly (or fall back to a Java-implemented method if nothing matches your architecture).
Governments built on the ideals of the secular enlightenment, self-rule, representative democracy, property rights, and human rights.

The Guardian has its head so far up its, apparently, profitable anti-US/anti-NATO biases, that its more or less become a subtle mascot for authoritarian and autocratic single-party regimes.

There's little to be gained from feeding troll articles.
Cordova still has performance problems on Android and even on iOS. Maybe in the future.
Then it should be easy to argue the point instead of offering feigned surprise that someone might think that way.
Bloggers Nook, Ebook and Kindle
>don't need to fall back on that sort of philosophical crutch.

I am not suggesting that one needs a philosophical crutch like my pithy platitude above to justify laziness.

I am merely suggesting that constant internal battle with yourself is not very productive.
I wouldn't say it was pure, since a lot of the commands have side effects. Probably more accurate to say that it's a powerful flow-based language with a graphical representation.
Eventually once browser support is there we can reduce this to about 70 lines. By using

.scatterplot ul li[data-cp-y] {
bottom: attr(data-cp-y %);
}
Surface Pro 3 momentum drove Surface revenue of $908 million.

How many SP3's is that?
You can still install Ubuntu on a RAID0 or 1 mdadm device (I did so on a couple SSDs). You just have to use the Ubuntu Server iso instead of the Desktop one, and follow a few more steps:

http://www.ubuntulinuxguide.com/software-raid-ubuntu-14-04-s...
A high percentage of Kindle Voyages are defective
It's hard to tell with only 20 downloads. Some people will just download it and not use it, it just happens sometimes. Is it a free app or paid for? If it's free then this will happen more often. I'd suggest finding out where they stop, is there a signup screen that stops them or is it something to do with the setup? I imagine you don't have any information for them if no one has started playing it, but if you do, contact them and ask why they stopped. Be friendly to them about it, people will help you out.

Good luck. It's hard, but it can be a rolling ball, getting a few people playing can help things take off slowly.
Articles like this make me wish Hacker News had a downvote option.
No problem. Good luck. I'm going to sign up at some point soon and will keep my eye on it.
My favorite perk, from any job I've had, was being allowed to insert a POI[0] into the USGEO[1] dataset before MapPoint 2000 shipped. The tradition lived on for a couple releases before it got canned.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_interest

[1] USGEO owned the data underneath two shipping products, MapPoint and Streets and Trips, as well as several online products.
The "Deep Focus" playlist on Spotify
That makes a lot of sense, yes. We can profile cases like that and get info/help from people working on the relevant components. It happens fairly frequently that we move perf bugs from the JS component into GFX or DOM bindings or something else entirely. So really, just file a bug in one of these components, maybe CC a person you already interacted with or send an email, and we'll do the triage.
Hmm, is there no facebook login option or requirement? Not that it's a bad thing.
Sorry to see that the older TestFlight seems to be losing functionality. Sessions show up as anonymous and remote logging doesn't work for me anymore. I'm thinking of switching to http://hockeyapp.net/
We also migrated a while back (opbeat.com).
While we run a smaller setup, I imagine that might be the case for most readers. We run a pretty standard setup with ELB, Postgres (master/replica), webservers and job processing servers.

This recipe details what we did (as i recall it):

1) Prerequisites: Running at least two of everything in
separate AZs and expertise (or courage) to fail over
to a replica DB.
2) Boot up instances of everything in the VPC
3) Set up a new ELB inside the VPC, add the web servers inside to the ELB
4) Make sure your instances inside the VPC can talk to
which ever service they need outside (replica database
and web servers needs to reach master outside +
memcached). Use `telnet` to make absolutely sure :)
5) Make sure web and job servers can reach the
replica db and memcached inside
6) Test out the new VPC ELB from outside
7) Switch DNS over to the new VPC ELB, wait for it to
propagate.
8) Do a failover from your master to the replica inside.
9) Same for memcached
10) Shutdown everything in EC2 classic.
11) Drinks

EDIT: formatting
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