skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually did this experiment. I had the chance to be alone for 3 months so I accepted the challenge.

It actually worked. I used only and only water to wash. In the beginning hot, then slowly working to a quite cold shower. That helped out too.

The effect? My hair is since then never better. I have no more dandruff, no rash or other headskin condition.

The body took it very well. Using only water and a turkish rubbing cloth. I didn't smell. I even asked a few colleagues ( female too ) to tell me if they noticed something about me, and there was nothing out of the ordinary. My armpits were sweating but no unpleasant smell would be produced. Some women found me even more attractive ;), but this might be subjective.

Reason for the lack of smell is most probably the natural bacteria that eat all of my body output ( sweat, dead skin, etc ). The cold shower was keeping this bacteria alive, since hot water has some effect ( dilutuing fat and killing some of them ).

In the end, was a positive experiment. I stopp it after this 3 months, due to home arrival of my significant other :).
- https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-indesign/?platform=...

- http://www.opensourcealternative.org/alternatives/graphic-ed...
Experts pledge to rein in AI research
Although a better way to deal with this perhaps is for the "Your download is complete, thanks etc" page you see after clicking download to include recommendations from MS with their seal of approval. I would consider that a welcome gesture from MS, bundle-ware not so much.
I think Apple's focus up until this point has been to make the devices thinner. That's meant that as the SoC has been getting smaller and more efficient, the battery has also been getting smaller due to the reduced phone size.

Now in the case of the iPhone 6 it can't get any smaller as its only slightly thicker than the headphone jack. Removing the headphone jack only gets you an extra few millimeters before you hit the Lightning port. So without a major redesign it's as thin as it can get for the moment.

So from this point onwards I would expect so see battery life increase as extra space in the case grabbed from size reductions from the SoC goes to battery. The 6 plus seems to follow this design pattern.

(Assuming there isn't a major advance in battery technology)
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> spend weeks at a time just trying to install Linux, get it to boot, and get a development environment working

I think we found the problem. It's between chair and keyboard.
"Anywhere near London" would be the wrong place for me personally.
How to create a handheld Linux terminal
Who is showing Charlie Hebdo's new cover? CNN, NYT, WP no, WSJ yes
Google has also bundled Picasa in the past.
InDesign is the industry standard.

There may be loads of OS alternatives, but unfortunately for people who can only just use a mouse and have invested years into learning that one package they just aren't going to be willing to invest a lot of time into exploring the alternatives.
That's also what I feel. You either has iPad battery life or has kindle battery life. Anything in-between does not worth the effort.
I installed crapware on a brand new laptop a few weeks ago. I searched for "chrome" in IE, clicked the top paid link on bing.com - malware. Unbelievable.

System restore worked well to fix that screw-up.
GSM networks ping all devices on regular intervals (besides the handoffs between cells when traveling and when there is data to transmit). This interval is a setting of your network, from minutes to hours.
and bingo: the phone is charged.

Isn't it more like "Bingo: now I have a battery pack dangling from my phone for the next few hours"?
It should depend (mostly) on the charger and battery size.

Try to charge the S5 with the same charger you use for the iPhone and my guess is that they will take more or less the same time.

Never use third party chargers of dubious origin, apart from being not safe they tend to be slow.
West Virginia Revisits Science Standards
I was expecting something like what https://www.debuggex.com offers when they said visual support. This seems to simply be highlighting like most other tools do.
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State terrorism, anyone?

Sure not, it is not terrorism if you get the right do define it!
It is that 5% that refuse to go away and then reinstall themselves when you finally work out how to get rid of them that takes up 95% of the time.
Maybe it is because the more people switch to cloud services the less hardware they need to buy. And then if the hardware manufactures can't do economy of scale, the cost of production will rise.
How many of them have to use overpriced banking and telephony services because some monopoly needs to make a profit?
That is REALLY useful, thank you!
No Time for Bats to Rest Easy
I found that babies needs routine and pattern of 'rituals'. That works miracles (1 year running to bed for a sleep or demanding lunch). Not sure how it translates to adults.
Parents Challenge President to Dig Deeper on Ed Tech
"The chosen cartoon shows Mohammed holding up a sign that says "Je Suis Charlie," the now-famous slogan that became a rallying cry after 12 people were killed at the magazine's offices on January 7. The cover illustration also includes the words "All is Forgiven" -- a message that is open to interpretation." A picture is worth a thousand words...
This does in no way explain the debate unbiased. Most of this is just the typical ISPs-are-bad rant.
Cool article talking about dating tips you can take from Genghis Khan
I've always considered the assertion that quality content is only created if there is financial reward to be a flagrant lie.

Expectations of ads fully supporting websites are relatively new even to the world wide web, let alone the internet. 10 years ago, you might at best hope that your ads would offset a bit of the websites hosting costs.

The really good content is put up by people who are in it because they care about the content, not the money. The same is true of software.

My experience is that if you are offering quality, you either give it away for free, or insist on up front payment.

Pay by ad, pay by data and in app purchase are all business models of people who want money and don't care about the content, but know their product isn't good enough to sell.
Non-technological people are very bad at distinguishing bad sources from legitimate ones. I see it all the time - "well, the address bar said freemp3converter.com - it looked legit to me..."

Now imagine a site or software that tries to look just remotely serious. Normal people often just don't see the difference. Plus, it's pretty normal in Windows world to have all kinds of crap installed - Dell, nVidia & Co. install and autostart their little, unnecessary helpers left and right. I think for many people it's hard to tell if that checkbox from the XYZ App is worse than Dell's.
Charlie Hebdo: first cover since terror attack depicts prophet Muhammad
I was running Steam in Big Picture mode on my Linux laptop only minutes before reading your comment. It's not a true Steam Machine, but neither is it that far off. :)
He sounds like the perfect user for Chrome OS.
I'm a bit late to the party, but isn't development of new LuaJIT features pretty much halted? The notice on [1] saying that Mike Pall cannot accept new sponsorships for the project was added one month after the last LuaJIT release. Since then, he's still made many commits [2], but they're all bugfixes (along with a couple of contributed enhancements).

[1] http://wiki.luajit.org/Open-Sponsorships

[2] http://repo.or.cz/w/luajit-2.0.git/shortlog
David Cameron’s plan to ban end-to-end encryption
From a consumer point of view, everything above the Linux Kernel is a mess. A mess means actually choice where the consumer doesn't need one. I had hopes that Steam Machines may leverage Linux to consumers but trying to configure my father's Linux machine to his needs brought me back to reality.

I even think that the consumer perspective is the one that hinders Linux. Want to develop something for Linux? What's the display server? Proprietary or free drivers? What Desktop Environment? QT or GTK Application? All those things are fine to develop for, but what do you develop for when you don't have time to test and support every existing configuration.
Makes me wonder which distro he's trying to use. My recent install of Mint Linux (on my primary dev box) was a breeze.
That makes me wonder why anti virus software does not have crapware detection. That would actually be a good task for them.
So your parents use inDesign who needs hours of training and they can't avoid install crapware? Yeah, sure.
Functional View Controllers
Good job Apple! Keep it coming guys!
I think those are prisons which are build next to abandoned airports. Airports are mostly build outside of populated areas (good for prisons), and there is an airport where a plane could land and bring prisoners. Although, I don't know whether planes are allowed to land on abandoned airports.
Download.com is just the beginning of this crap. At least a lot of people now realise that download.com is shady. Google is just as bad as download.com, but people still think of Google as a reputable site. Even in this discussion people are recommending just googling the product name to find a download. Please don't tell people to do that. It's dangerous.

If you type terms like 'firefox' into google search much of the time the top result (which is actually an ad) takes you to a site offering a version of firefox bundled with toolbars and god knows what other malware. The story is similar for other popular windows downloads. I've even seen these ads crop up for things like Chrome in the past.

For example, here is a search I did just now for the term 'download firefox'. The top result is an ad leading to malware: http://i.imgur.com/Ote9c2k.png

Imagine having to explain to an inexperienced computer user how find to firefox or other common software, without clicking on any of these landmines google carefully disguises right at the top of the results.

I've been bringing this up on HN for a while now and nothing has changed. Many of the sites are the same as they were a year ago. Google does manual review of adwords sites. The domains of these sites have been the same for at least a year. Google knows exactly what is going on, making them just as bad as donwload.com in my view.

Google search ads are probably one of the biggest vectors for malware these days, along side the kinds of big download button ads you see on software sites (many of which are also google ads).

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7971201

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7089727
This was always going happen, and unfortunately some members of the Ind.ie seem to focus their scorn on the people who questioned whether they could achieve goals rather than on their over promising.

The use of the events in Paris in the post is just bad taste.
I think the reason this really is a surprise* is because they claim these are the top downloaded apps.

*edit: Wish it were a surprise.
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Honestly is still the best policy! Call it cliche but it remains true to this age. Dishonesty simply backfires you know.
He referred to #VATMESS - the new VAT rules across the EU that place a large administrative burden on smaller businesses like his (and mine) - more info here: http://rachelandrew.co.uk/archives/2014/11/25/how-small-comp... . Paddle seem to take care of this burden for him. I've looked into it and Stripe does not do this.
Ooh, that's right. Stupid Ask toolbar in the Java updates.
23andMe opens database to researchers
nope, it's hard to search for free for open source services
it's really not invented anywhere
The reason why you bundle installers like this is to catch the 'press yes to everything' group of users. In this case it's done for the greater good (mostly), most users don't care about security updates or upgrading outdated software - a bit like hiding medicine in your food, they won't eat it if they know it's there.

If you had it at the end you'll get very low participation rates. If you're installing DirectX it's because you are trying to play a game, so an additional screen to the effect of 'would you like to play your game now or in 5 minutes' will result in everyone picking the 'play game now' option and nothing being installed.
No definition of success in the article, which I take to be a very personal thing.

Personally I view "being happy and content with life" as more of a success than the materialistic or academic view of success that this article seems to imply.
Snowden rejected offer to join Russian intelligence agency, says WikiLeaks
It is true and not just for the music industry. In fact in every aspect of our lives, technology has presented both opportunities and threats.
Thanks PanMan,

I suspected something like this.
Very cool! Also I love the design of your blog
You could put the jacks on the center (or end) of the sides of the phone and make the back side sloping, giving the phone a much thinner feel even if its maximum thickness doesn't change. This is exactly what Apple did on the MacBook Air, and it worked.
Stay the Fuck Away from CloudFlare: company gives personal info to 8chan
Reading this makes me well up with empathy for the unfortunate person who installs one of these bundles.

Sites like download.com are fraud sites, which install programs that are essentially viruses. I'm surprised Google doesn't crack down more heavily on them the way it does on warez sites.
Sooo, how about taking up the flag?
Someone to read my twitter or RSS feed to me just while I wake up…too early for a podcast or music. And I could be like "fave that. save that one. unfollow that bitch"

really though that could be automated with a decent text-to-speech and voice recognition but I'd still pay for it
This article is written and presented in a rather odd way. But still good.
Zeroing memory is certainly not free, and if you're doing some types of real-time applications, can have a significant cost.

http://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/12/10/hidden-costs-of-...
Yeah, pg even defended a YC-backed company that had built a business model around exactly this kind of bundling, saying that it wasn't a big deal because their installers always asked for permission before installing the bundled crap. (Which they did in exactly the same way as these download.com installers - by making the prompts look like EULA acceptance screens.)
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Combine the two of these and you'll get roughly a 100x cost saving over dumping a JS function into Amazon Lambda.

And then move it off EC2 onto dedicated hardware and you'll see another ~30x cost savings.

Running a permanent transcode cluster on EC2 would be rather insane.
Hetzner rents you i7's for $50 per month, the EC2 equivalent (c3.8xlarge) costs $40 per day.

Yes you can cut EC2 cost with spot-instances, but at least in our case that would still have been significantly more expensive than just renting some scrap metal.

If you need cheap, disposable compute for semi-predictable loads then the Hetzner flea market (yes, they really have one!) is hard to beat on bogomips per dollar.
The higher level of trust I place in free software is one of the motivations for my increasing use of Linux. Even Java comes with crapware on Windows, the app store has the standard creepy more permissions than needed business model.

I remember when download.com was a resource and there was good stuff to be had for free. But bad drove out good a long time ago. The official Windows ecosystem is permalogin appStores and what lives outside the walls is a massive web of bad actors who thrive on Google's self-serving disinterest...Why do download.com and Cnet show up in results? They are less benevolent than content farms.

It's not that I hate Windows or experience viruses. It's that I've tired of being paranoid on the one hand and updated by apps on the other. Psychic weight and distraction are two things of which I want less.

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Clarification: Windows has a great ecosystem for commercial software and in a business context often has the best options for solving domain specific problems.
Oh cool, so you go ahead and trust a corporation to tell you what you can and can't install on your operating systems, I'm sure that will go well. They have your best interests at heart.

Atleast Macs allow you to not use the AppStore (for now).
Does Rust's (future) HKT implementation have an RFC or a PR available?
@paulhauggis I definitely agree with you. There are a lot of other languages out there, some incredibly smoother than others. But whatever pays the bills at the moment is what we focus on. This is reality.
Does anyone have similar experiences with Google?
Sorry to break it to you, but there are a few similar sites already like weworkremotely.com etc.

Also your site is blank in a mobil Browser without JavaScript and plugins.
My most recent phone, a Note 3, can go through fairly heavy all-day usage and end a late day at work at around 50%, which I think is pretty good. By the time I go to bed, and my long commute home listening to music on it, or podcasts or whatever, it's hit 30%. But I don't have battery anxiety with it for the first time since I last used a Blackberry (about 5 years ago).

If I use it sparingly, I can get it through a day and a half to 2 days. It sips power when in standby.

My last phone, one the other hand, a Nexus, barely got me to lunch before I had to charge, with a ridiculously extended battery in it. It was aggravating and made the phone adversarial, or like an infant that constantly needed attention and feeding.

Still, I'd welcome a 2-3 day battery life under normal usage. I'd be willing to have a phone twice as thick if that's what it took. The thinness doesn't mean much to me. My phone is already ridiculously thin. I have a flip-open case on it, and people mistake it for a moleskine notebook, but those are usually twice as thick as my phone and nobody really seems to mind carrying those around.
You've described the problem that a lot of developers I know have. Linux just isn't easy to understand, even for programmers, if they don't have a *NIX background to start with.
Nope. iPhones tend to charge most of the battery in about an hour with a decent charger, so you sit down for a presentation or two, while still tweeting/etc, and by the time the presentations are done your phone is charged again.
This is interesting, do you have any resource on this topic?

I wonder how a phone with dual sim can handle battery life? Thats totally an interesting problem to solve. I use micromax which is a dual sim and the battery life is pretty good, last for a day.
At least the actual, genuine result is visible without scrolling. A few years Google were paying computer manufacturers to set a special version of Google with more prominent ads as their default search engine. The net result was that if you got a new computer and searched for Firefox using their default, Google-supplied search the genuine result was actually below the fold in some cases.
This is why I moved my mom to a Mac and then to Ubuntu in, IIRC, 2007. The last time I had to clean up her Windows machine, everything was so completely contaminated with all kinds of malware that I simply gave up. I backed up her most important data (customer data, proposals), cleaned it thoroughly (Office documents can be infected - thank you, Microsoft) and just moved her to a Mac I no longer used. When she started complaining the Mac was slow (it was no longer up to the task of running a modern browser with Gmail in it) I moved her to an IBM desktop with Ubuntu she uses to this day.

She even updates the machine herself through the package manager GUI.

And she's 79.
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There are currently many 3rd party cases that provide exactly what you're asking for.
Hmm... That should be every company's goal right? Experience has more value.
As John said, having Paddle deal with VAT saves us lots of time and boring administrative work.

In EU accounting rules are quite strict, so you have to enter every single transaction into your accounting books. A lot of this work is still done manually. Having one lump sum frees us from that as well.

The last time I checked Stripe is not available to merchants in Slovenia.

And Paddle works with PayPal also. Many people prefer to use PayPal instead of credit cards.
Let me quote from today's article by Cory Doctorow: ( http://boingboing.net/2015/01/13/what-david-cameron-just-pro... )

> If your Whatsapp or Google Hangouts has a deliberately introduced flaw in it, then foreign spies, criminals, crooked police (like those who fed sensitive information to the tabloids who were implicated in the hacking scandal -- and like the high-level police who secretly worked for organised crime for years), and criminals will eventually discover this vulnerability.

The police, the NSA, etc, cannot be trusted not to misuse information which they obtain. In fact, you can quite reliably trust them to misuse that information, if history is any guide (and it is).

Whether the misuse will include actually boldly grabbing some private information that's currently valuable and selling it on Evolution or Silkroute 3 or whatever, is a purely academic question. If the information is on NSA servers, and is valuable, and someone at the NSA knows about it, it probably will be misused in some way.
That strikes me as oddly pointless. All the limiters I've used did what DangerousPie talks about, beyond the threshold they'd restrict/ignore gas input, unless the accelerator is floored which overrides the limiter.
Uncle Sam's $2.5B/year Startup Fund
I have to admit, thats pretty cool.
Oddly enough, I had a lot of trouble getting my new laptop to boot, work and sleep properly. Not for lack of experience: I first installed linux in the summer of 1992 using hlu's floppies and have used linux for daily work for about 20 of the 22½ years since then.

I can easily believe that someone used to windows with its mishmash of installers might have an unpleasant experience. Apt-get works wonderfully on a pristine system, but not so well if the system is halfway upgefucked with tarballs and rm -rf.

And particularly if systemd on ubuntu 14.04 supports his hardware as poorly as it supports my new laptop.
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Great article. I'll keep this in mind. It may come handy someday when I'll need another apartment.
The worst band in that mashup - Florida/Georgia Line. (diatribe about my upbringing in Georgia redacted)
The US Government has a $2.5 billion per year set-aside fund for U. S. small business and yet many startups do not participate. We, as taxpayers, need more talented and ambitious companies competing in this and similar programs.
Windows has an app store too and because there is a vibrant market for paid third party applications [particularly B2B] it is not so onerous on developers. It's not the primary channel to reach users.

Apple has a gatekeeper model because many years ago it shifted to the view that money users spent on third party software was coming out of their bottom line.