skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how 'meant to work' would sound strange, especially since we normally talk about sex as something that should be based solely on our individual physical urges - whatever they may be.

I would say that marriage and sex get their value and purpose from God. That he created man and woman to come together in marriage and have sex. That he made sex pleasurable, and good, and that one of the benefits of sex is often that children are produced.

I think we must either get our understanding of sex and marriage from a source outside ourselves (the transcendent God) or we just make things up to suit our individual drives - and the second option opens us up as individuals, and as a society, to a lot of harm.

I understand this is not a popular viewpoint, especially on HN, but I think it's valuable to offer some pushback in a civil way every now and then.
What a terrible advert. I couldn't focus on the features being demoed because they were on screen so fleetingly and the background scenes were so distracting.

They're trying to imitate Apple's adverts but completely blow it by showing overcomplicated interactions.
Very true...I should note that in the documentation. Thanks!
This is amazing! I would love to see the rover just operate autonomously, allowing the human to stay FAR away. It could seek out the tags and stamp the data while not bumping into penguins or generally not annoying them!
I think you're vastly over estimating the impact of tech news sites. A decent front page article on techcrunch will get you a couple of thousand visitors, the vast majority of which won't be in your core customer group.

The main advantage of tech news sites is that they're read by potential investors, partners, employees, etc. rather than because they get you users.

You really need to get your early users through graft, tech news coverage won't really help you except in exceptional circumstances.
Agreed. I'd really like to just be able to look at part of two consecutive months at the same time. Seems silly to have the same visualization constraints as a real calendar that crossing from the 31st of current month to 12th of next month means going back and forth a few times.

Love google calendar for the cloud, sharing and ability to email myself custom reminders but the UI on the web is pretty minimal. I tried a couple different calendar apps and found fantastical by flexbits.com to have the best UI/functionality for me on iPhone.
> But the binary-vs-text change is actually pretty minor: a well-crafted binary protocol permits simple tools that can be used to debug it.

I think the fundamental change is that, given a classic Internet protocol, I can look at it and learn how it works without having to already have a tool to understand it. I can look at a stream of POP, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, IRC, NNTP, IMAP... the list really does go on and on... and even if I've never seen the protocol before, even if I don't know what the protocol is called, I can sort of figure out how to speak it.

The downside, of course, being that people then think they can speak these protocols, and build horrible "almost sort of" clients for them that fail to interoperate correctly :/. BUT, there is still this interesting egalitarian concept that these protocols are designed for people in some very real way. I love network protocols. I've implemented a ton of them over the years. I got into them at a very young age. Part of the reason why I got into them is because they were just so darned accessible. It makes me a little sad to see this aspect go away.
Sorry for the late reply... At the moment the service is just about the goals and the (live) score. But if it works out, I could imagine to offer more information like cards, scorers etc.
Hi acdha,
1. You can go to http://feedback.azure.com/forums/247748-azure-remoteapp and share your feedback with the Remote App team. They really want to make it as useful as possible and it is still on Preview so now is the moment to influence the team
3. Yes, we are working on it and should be fixed soon.
Regarding the older versions of IE, unfortunately we are running on top of Server 2012 so we are locked to IE11+. At this moment you can use the dev tools and change the compat mode and we are thinking about adding Enterprise Mode to the service so you can test on "IE8".
Adventures in Analyzing the Stuxnet Malware [Bruce Dang, Microsoft]
Would be cool to add some geographic features? Maybe the Mississippi and the Rockies?
RIP. They were so entertaining. I never knew shit about cars but always felt a bit of excitement when I was in the car and heard that we'd be listening to them instead of some of my parents' music.

Also this is pretty great:

> Tom and Ray Magliozzi did open that do-it-yourself repair shop in the early '70s. They called it Hackers Heaven.
Thanks a lot for the link, time for me to do some research on this since I'm very tempted to do this at home.
Agreed. My first thought when I saw this is that I hope people don't use it. I know that many people developing sites for a living can't afford to ignore IE, but I really think that IE incompatibility is MS's problem that they've foisted on everyone else. I wish more people would design sites to standards and when they get complaints about "bad design", kindly point IE users to MS tech support.

But that will never happen. The sad fact is that you have to cater to your audience, and almost all people will just click back and look for another site if your site doesn't render perfectly in their browser of choice (or in the case of IE, the only browser they've ever known, even though they didn't choose it). So much time and effort wasted due to MS's anti-competive practices and incompetence.
Show HN: Csvlint.go, command line tool for validating CSV files against RFC 4180
>> "I'm not confident many startups would be able to solve this problem effectively."

Take a look at Sunrise. They're doing a pretty good job I think.
MongoDB, too, which also requests disabling NUMA since MongoDB has no idea what NUMA is.
Actually I didn't see the next segment button, so thanks for letting me know.

But Total Access isn't the 800 lbs Gorilla that the author believes it to be. I actually subscribed to total access. It is certainly a cool feature, but I'm not sure it was very profitable. For essentially the same price as netflix, I could also get 2-3 instore rentals a month. All for what blockbuster used to charge for 3-4 rentals total.

But blockbuster could have survived Netflix. What it couldn't survive was netflix, redbox, and instant streams. Netflix took away the heavy movie fans. Redbox took aware the family movie night segment. Blockbuster couldn't survive on 1-1.50 a night, but Redbox could.
Linux should adapt this work.
"Nearly everyone wants to get rich but they’re willing to wait to do so.

...
A focus on making a lot of money in the long term at the expense of short-term opportunities is essential to building companies that have a huge impact – they take a long time."

Sounds like a good advice for CEOs and politicians in DC. Focusing on the long term goals...
Why TED Is a Massive, Money-Soaked Orgy of Self-Congratulatory Futurism
Aww man. I love Click and Clack. I know nothing about cars, I don't even have an interest in them, but I loved listening to these two talk about cars.

My favorite episode was the one where he talked in depth about his time in the Army and how he didn't fit in, but every episode was a good listen.
I understand how sending an SMS text is 2-step verification, however this article then tries to expand this to include smartphone apps like Google Authenticator, which is just wrong.

The argument they use is that Google Authenticator is something-you-know auth because you "know" the token, however from my understanding this isn't any different from any other Synchronous 2FA.

2FA, whether Sync, Async or Challenge response require your device to store a password, OTP or Key Pair.

Bad sales pitch is bad.
Cool, but why not buy a tall stool or drafting chair that matches the height of the desk instead of figuring out all these convoluted ways to lower the entire desk? The whole idea is to sit less, so it shouldn't matter very much how comfortable your chair is.

I use an $85 stool with my standing desk (the bare-bones kind you'd see in high school science classrooms), and I prefer it over any of the $300+ office chairs my employers have provided in the past.

(edited for clarification)
I would assume its meant for people familiar with the city, city planners etc.

When I read the first paragraph of the article and looked at the very first image I hated it, but the further I scrolled the better I understood what they tried to do and the more I liked it.
> Doesn't it also has to be valid JS with the same semantics?

That's correct, yes.

> That has to be a pretty significant constraint surely.

I don't think it's a terribly problematic constraint. Anything that can be done in C can be done in JS.

> Even leaving that aside, there's the added constraint that asm.js has to be architecture-independent, so it can't map all that closely to the native code for any particular processor. That would put it on about the same level as PNaCL, which is (or at least was) supposed to be the slower fall-back version of NaCl, rather than "native Native Client".

This is true. It's not quite native code or assembly, but it's very close. I suppose asm.js is better compared to C than it is to assembly.
I usually just use an Amazon EC2 instance for Windows browser testing. I've got an essentially bare Win machine image (just the common browsers). I fire it up and then use Remote Desktop to connect to it. Works pretty well (other than, as you say, being limited to Remote Desktop/VNC-like speeds).
urandom does not produce insecure output for userland applications once the system is booted up. A very annoying quirk in Linux random(4) means that distributions need to be careful about services at boot, but Linux applications should virtually always use urandom.

http://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-random...

The system call interface Linux is pursuing is better than random(4) on any platform; random generation should be a system call and not a device.
I agree completely. If you warn about self-signed certificates (or worse, reject them) you should do the same thing for http. In my opinion browsers should never warn users about certificates. They should block access if an attempt at identity fraud is determined, grant access in all other cases, and show the green ui if identity can be confirmed (ca-signed certificate). Presenting the user with any kind of choice is counterproductive because 99+% of users don't understand the choice.
Also major issues off the top of my head:

Azure VM instances that run in a VPN have major network issues that are caused by the MS infrastructure.

Depending on the latency you won't get the 'feel' for many websites, important nowadays with CSS transitions and WebGL.

MSIE is circling the train in terms of marketshare. The VMs MS provided for testing were a godsend, but forcing devs to give up their work flow would likely result in them just dropping MSIE support.
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The Next Generation of Microsoft .NET (RyuJIT and Native)
No, same problems. 32-bit, memory protection.
So this whole thing reads as if it was written from the perspective of the founders of Fixed, and is a story about how great their service is. Lot of talk about Submarines[1] lately, over under on this being one?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Even better would be a way to set a meta attribute that defines this (visible-width) or something like that, so that browsers could handle it. This would be easier for developers, avoid breaking things in JS, and could keep any browser animations that happen on scroll, etc.
Larger jumps in page-scroll-position could possibly be less distracting on our vision systems. I just don't want to be unsure about what will happen when I trigger the scrolling behavior.
Step 1.d.i.a:

If the system has implemented the utility as a regular built-in or as a shell function, it shall be invoked at this point in the path search.
Given that it is now more than 2 years since Gmail cards were released for Google Now, and there's still no sign of them arriving for Apps accounts... I'd say no.
Where the cost comes in is if you want to support multiple monitors (which, as someone who plays keyboard, I wouldn't trust to a cheap keyboard stand even if they could fit) and especially if you want to do it at a height that is comfortable for a tall person. At 6'3", most of the cheap options just don't go high enough for me.
I keep thinking I should be able to set up my FPV goggles that have head tracking to connect to my computer to use as rift type goggles.. Every time I start poking around to see what it would take though, it seems all the similar projects are overseas which makes acquiring some of the components a huge hassle for me.
I wrote my counter response to this article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8552989
But Wind River is only guilty of exporting the same already public information which I may be and it's quite possible that anyone on that "BIS export blacklist" could feel free to obtain my code.
Yes! I am super excited about this. I currently use the mobile website as an app on the home screen and the experience is not great.
Yes, I'm saying that's not what happened. The banks were forced by the government to make bad loans, to such an extent the government had to buy up 90% of the paper.
That painted Keyes as a latter-day Howard Hughes, never leaving his airplane hangar and letting his toenails grow out. Surely no one was surprised when the executives quit? Those toenails are gross! b^)

Seriously though, there seem to be some psychological irregularities in Keyes's behavior. He spends 21 years at 7-11, working his way up to President and CEO, and then he can't enjoy retiring with his millions? Well that's OK, lots of dudes in that position find it interesting to serve on boards or as high-priced consultants. Instead, he bribes a meddlesome private equity guy like Icahn into leadership of a company that was largely built by a former rival exec at 7-11? Jealous much? Usually private equity has to pay a premium to execs, because they're such a pain to work for. (Alternatively, because they disrupt much of the back-scratching pretense at corporate governance seen at publicly traded firms.) This guy must have had the mother of all mid-life crises.
Ran the Mac OS version on Yosemite with 0.4.2 version of the Oculus SDK on a DK2.

Loved it. Awesome job. Feels like a haunted house that moves around you instead of you moving through it. Very immersive. Will show this off to other people.

IPD was kind of weird though. I felt like a giant in the dungeon. What kind of camera setup did you use to film this, and how far apart were the cameras?

Also, I did not feel the 3D sound, though the issue may have been with my ears or me not paying attention to it. I will retry again later tonight and report on the results.
Are you referring to inbox? Or the Gmail app redesign?

All the Android and Web apps are being updated at the moment for Material Design, with the higher priority being on the Android ones it seems to get them ready in time for the imminent 5.0 launch. They're just updating the app for everyone (the new ones are backwards compatible with less flashy animations). Inbox is a separate app though.
"No matter where you live" ?

The 80th percentile for household income in 2012 was $160,000. This does really crazy things to a relatively static housing supply:

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/In-growth-of-wealth-ga...

This isn't just about "keeping up with the Joneses." Most families want a) a decent home, and b) a good education for their children. I had to pay an obscene amount for a) in SF, and I was holding my breath while figuring out how to pull off b). My quality of life otherwise was relatively ordinary: I drove a Toyota and didn't go out all that much due to the newborn.

I made a princely sum compared to the average American. Had I lived in average America, I would have lived like a prince (you could literally buy a mansion for the price of my 3BR home in most places in the US). But since I lived in SF, I could only barely afford the basics. This has nothing to do with skewed expectations on quality of life — it's about the skewed economics of the city.
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No, no they are not.*

Several times in my career I have looked at moving to SF, and when it's gotten to the point of talking about salary and upscaling that to what I made at the time, that's not true.

The numbers discussed were about 20% more, but that did not cover the huge delta in housing costs.
How fast does the Grim Reaper walk?
Spaced Repetition and Mnemonics Enable Recall of Multiple Strong Passwords
Actually Server 2012 R1 uses IE10.
Enterprise astronaut architects never stop to surprise me.
Now when you send an object into a library function you don't have the slightest idea what the function will do to your object

There are more languages then C# which tend to have these problems, and for all of them these problems can be avoided in a number of ways merely by applying the typical good practices and well known design patterns. For instance just giving your functions proper names (examples 1. GetLongestString 2. StoreReferencesToAllStrings (still hacky, not sure if there are proper usecases for that?) 3. RemoveDuplicates 4. InstallList or so) and making sure functions do One Thing only will get you a long way in preventing problems. Not saying it is easy, but I've been using C# for at least 5 years and don't really recall problems with it. Did have problems with weak event handlers disappearing due to gc but after learning it it didn't happen again.
Here's a pretty inexpensive option in this realm if you don't want to take the time: http://www.ergoprise.com/s2s-height-adjustable-standing-desk...

I don't have this particular brand but a feature I appreciate on my adjustable desk is the ability to save height presets.
It's easy to mock Dell's comment about AAPL now, but in 1997 what Mr. Dell said wasn't a bad idea. And if what you said about Dell the company were actually true, just because Michael was wrong (against strong odds of being right) once doesn't mean it wouldn't be a good idea for his own company now.

But as another commenter pointed out, you're wrong about what actually happened with Dell recently.
Quoting from your post:

"If the command name matches the name of a special built-in utility, that special built-in utility shall be invoked."

Let echo be a "special built-in utility", and sh is compliant.
To reinforce this point, here's a 2BD in the up-and-coming (e.g. highest crime-rate) Mission neighborhood priced at $1030/sf: https://www.openlistings.co/p/2558MISSIONST94110-2

Anecdotally, I know a gainfully employed senior engineer who was literally couch surfing with his wife and daughter for a month after losing their house. The excessive price of living caused by the housing shortage in the bay cannot be understated.
> assuming it could take the weight

One would hope... 88-key keyboards are 45lbs (about twice a normal 27" monitor) and the older ones are significantly heavier... a non-POS stand should take >120lbs without a hitch.

That being said, there's certainly nothing wrong with a product better tailored for its purpose.
look at this map: 2 bedrooms under $3500/mo in sf

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/apa?sort=priceasc&max...

know that competition is tight enough that if the apartments are decent, they will be rented on the spot during the showings, and often for much more than the asking price. An acquaintance was looking for months and finally got an apartment because he and his roommate offered $250/mo over asking.
Fortuna as option, and slated for being made the default later.

That's great.
> If that were the case, the increasing access to health care should make them healthier. It didn't. http://www.nber.org/oregon/*

What evidence for your position do you see in that article? It seems to say the opposite of what you think it does. I'm looking at "Medicaid increased the probability that people report themselves in good to excellent health (compared with fair or poor health) by 25 percent" and "Medicaid reduced observed rates of depression by 30%."

> Do you have evidence for childhood malnutrition?*

The WHO doesn't seem to have much data on actual malnutrition rates for many nations, including the US, after a few minutes of searching, but "Some 13 million American children live in homes with limited access to food, and an average one in three children receive food assistance via the food stamp program..." (http://www.livestrong.com/article/487412-malnutrition-in-ame...)

It is absolutely true that poverty in India is deeper and more widespread than in America. That doesn't remotely mean that American poverty isn't real or that people aren't suffering. By your logic, a man with a broken finger isn't allowed to complain if a man with a broken leg exists, and that man isn't allowed to complain if a paraplegic exists, and so on down the oneupsmanship scale of wretchedness. Where, exactly, is the cutoff point beyond which we're no longer allowed to care about human misery?

If you want to argue that poverty in India and worldwide is a huge problem, and that the Western world could and should do more to address it, I'll agree heartily. But what you said was that poverty in America is not a problem and that poor Americans aren't suffering, and that's bullshit.
Sometimes we work with really large CSV, anyway to make it bail on first error?
Ask HN: Should I learn Angular or Ember?
Hi!! After gaining some competence at Django, I've decided to learn one of the frontend frameworks. Seems like Angular vs Ember is the choice.

Angular is more popular, but I don't care about that, I am looking for what is more powerful, elegant, and future-proof. Not for a particular project, but for the sake of learning the core key concepts.

So I want to ask - which one should I learn?
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I compare it to the Klondike gold rush: most of the people who got rich did so by taking money from suckers.
Taco Bell is edible if you use their "Fire" sauce (which is still pretty bland). Chipotle's sauce, at least in this area, might as well be Gerber's baby food.

But then I'm an El Yucateco green kind of guy. YMMV.
I hope Melissa "the Twerp" Peterson (http://www.wnyc.org/story/1421-my-dog-hates-you-too/) does a eulogy for him.

(Girl who wrote a letter complaining that the show sucked and that she had to listen because her parents did in the car... they had her on and she'd periodically call in for years)

My all-time favorite was the episode where someone called in and said that their vehicle would run pretty well but with lots of vibration for 8 minutes, then the engine would cut and refuse to start up again. It turned out to be someone onboard the Space Shuttle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moAqzM4ptm8
Which really only furthers the point of discussion IMO.
Bloomberg open-sources ISO C++ N3980 implementation
That sounds great. Is this the episode?

http://podtail.com/podcast/npr-car-talk-podcast/1430-the-and...
as a followup, I don't see large latency with huge pages, but I have kernel samepage merging disabled.

I would be interested if this also decreases latency for you:

echo 2 > /sys/kernel/mm/ksm/run

Also check stats here:
/sys/kernel/mm/ksm/*

And some documentation here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/ksm.txt
Hi Aaron, you're right - clarification is necessary here. This is not a resource for ducking financial responsibility, but rather for capitalizing on existing assistance programs. Many people are not aware that their job, community service efforts, or income level (just a few examples) qualifies them for much needed aid. The same way we should be educated on tax deductions, I believe everyone should understand their options for easing the burden of student loan debt.

Big Dave Ramsey fan, thanks for the comment!