skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KDE mainly has a a lack of decision making by the devs, & a lack of taste: the default theming, icons & panels are all fugly, and it takes a world of configuration work to make it look reasonable.

The appearance options are so complicated and multi-layered that it's hard to replicate simple changes, and even installing a pre-built theme isn't wholesale: Separate types of themes need to be applied in a few different places.

Then you finally have the problem of GTK apps: They look bad in 99% of KDE themes, and most users are using at least some GTK apps (Firefox, Chrome ).
I moved from Django to Rails – and nothing terrible happened
Indeed - right now I'm super excited at how much activity there is in JS-land. It's a lovely time to be a JS hacker. :-)

That being said, I can't help but wonder if a bunch of people who clearly have been working very hard were feeling a bit gutted last week when React Native news hit the street.

Hopefully both offerings will find a following.
It is true that you can fork in Smalltalk. It is not true that such a fork results in multiple cores being used by the same VM concurrently. At least not in any of the "mainstream" Smalltalk implementations I know (which would be Squeak, Pharo and VisualWorks).
Just want to mention a similar project http://touchstonejs.io/ haven't tried it yet
Clearly they will be deployed by the EU against Greeks rioting because the retirement age was raised to 59.
George Dyson (son of Freeman Dyson) speaks about project Orion here: https://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_on_project_orion
first, we verify your phone number by sending you a 4 digit confirmation code. Anyone with your phone number on their phone contacts will be able to exchange loopy with you. WhatsApp also works this way.
Please note: These problems don't crop up in non-rolling distros nearly as much. The transitions are held off, managed and only rolled out for new major versions of a distro.

There are benefits to running Arch, but 'just works without breaking' is not something it's good at.
I dont disagree with you, but I think his main point was that they removed it without telling him why and then did not respond to his enquiries for 20 days.
Oh, you optimist. Do you know about Roko's Basilisk?
> Do you know what alpha means?

Precisely†. This is just to give some credence to the "mature" part of the parent comment, beyond language features and alleged "proven-ness". I'm not complaining in any way, just reporting how things are or can be perceived.

The comparison with Go is purely factual: I just happen to have done exactly this in Go, and recollected an account of my experience when I wanted to explore doing the same thing in Rust. If referencing Go has to do with anything, it's laziness as I extracted that from my shell history.

I am deeply sorry if the above post sounded snarky or whatever. This was not the intent.

† BTW, when I did this originally, Rust was 0.9 (no alpha anywhere), which has the virtue of saying squat about what you should expect without a statement of version semantics (e.g node.js is 0.12 and definitely production-ready)
Agreed, which is why I'm asking what the simplest applications of it might be. It feels like it will be incredibly useful technology, but possibly a long way off any compelling application aside from the military ones that they're pulling out of.

Best I can think of for this is in the area of mobility. Watching it get up stairs and hills makes me think that (with some changes to the form factor) it stands a chance of significantly improving the lives of people who are currently bound to wheelchairs.
Yes, both yellow and red. I remember a few of us went to the community college computer lab and typed Horserace into an Apple II+ and spent the afternoon modifying it.

When we tried to save it we realized the computer hadn't been booted up to recognize the floppy drives so we lost all are mods.

We also had voice synthesizer software (record and upload your voice from cassette tape) and added phrases to Super Star Trek like "Computer ready" and "Torpedoes fired."
...that's the point. Some people have strong emotional reaction when they see this robot being kicked even though this is clearly, obviously, a robot. They haven't, as far as I know, built in any emotional engagement stuff. They could easily build in a few movements - robot pauses, cranes head towards human companion, makes noise, robot continues - which would freak a few people out.

It's a pretty remarkable robot.
You don't want to learn Kanji, there's about 2000 of them for words and they have several different readings depending on context. At least you can guess the reading of some English words when you read them.
Reminds me of http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...

the autonomous robot, 5 feet long and modeled on a stick-
insect, strutted out for a live-fire test and worked
beautifully, he says. Every time it found a mine, blew it
up and lost a limb, it picked itself up and readjusted to
move forward on its remaining legs, continuing to clear a
path through the minefield.

Finally it was down to one leg. Still, it pulled itself
forward. Tilden was ecstatic. The machine was working
splendidly.

The human in command of the exercise, however -- an Army
colonel -- blew a fuse.
[...]
This test, he charged, was inhumane.
This is why techniques like kernel bypass are used in high throughout or low latency systems like finance. Things like http://www.openonload.org/

This does tie you in to a specific network vendor but I can see the argument for moving more commodity networking hardware in this direction too.
I've recently compromised and started using a hyphen in my domains. Any ideas on the potential downsides for this? It certainly helps with finding reasonable .coms without resorting to dropping vowels or weird spelling combinations.
What kinds of applications in those industries?
That's because Indo-European languages are very similar to each other. You wouldn't be able to learn Finnish as quickly as you could learn Norwegian. The grammar is just too different for an English speaker.
Duopoly? Worldwide, Android's market share has increased from under 60% in 2011 to around 85% by the end of 2013. Likewise, over the same period the iOS market share has gone from around 20% to just over 10%, while all other platforms have dwindled down to the remaining <5%.

http://www.idc.com/prodserv/smartphone-os-market-share.jsp

The only sense in which this is still a duopoly is that the iOS platform, while a relatively tiny share of the total market, is still a significant share of paid apps.
Medusa seems like a better approach, since it doesn't require detonating as close to the spacecraft and can forgo the big heavy pusher plate: http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=23754
You might want to check out Echonest's API - http://developer.echonest.com/
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All of these robot videos make me feel very apprehensive.
Hoe kies je de beste tuinverlichting?
This is the first ubuntu phone, from Bq. Flash Sale 8:00~17:00 UTC for Europe
Programmer proverbs
Don't forget lots of socializing and a tight-knit community. And a lack of access to commercial processed foods. Temptation is a powerful thing!
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If this can be used to open up more platforms, without crazy licensing fees as with Mono and mobile devices, I think it is a very positive step forward.
(1) That it's a website specifically engineered around bringing you into the attention of anyone you've ever known

(2) That there are other ways of staying in touch with friends

(3) That given the situation, if everything is in fact true, it seems the wrong compromise has been made. Maintaining the safety of your family should trump being able to always have someone/something to chit chat with.
Which would require libc to be GPL, something not even glibc does.
Only Arduino with ARM, which is the more expensive one with the least traction.
Don't use the brains of criminals in your computer. Problem solved.
It's just the reviews on such low cost phones runing FFoS are pretty bad, and once you climb to $65 or $100 , windows phone and android offer much better alternatives.
Are you sure they are caused by GC? I'm asking because GC is an easy "culprit" and when a Java app pauses / jitters, many people immediately blame it on GC without any hard evidence. While in fact pauses / unresponsiveness can be caused by many other reasons, not specific to JVM (e.g. improper thread locking, improper use of dynamic data structures, doing hard work on the GUI thread, etc.). Actually, a well coded game should not use dynamic memory allocation in the game loop, neither in Java nor in C++.
It's surprising to see that the Messaging bot actually worked out pretty well (according to the author) given the fact that StanfordNLP's sentiment analysis really sucks sometime. Probably because the initial chat messages are very similar and generic.
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Remote: no

Willing to relocate: yes

Technologies: C/C++/Java/C#/Obj-C/Bash, Linux kernel/drivers, embedded software, networking, distributed systems, backend

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eugene-leviant/23/41/929

Email: evgeny.leviant (bow-wow) gmail.com

Working as lead software engineer in Motorola Solutions.
Overall 13 years of experience

Here is a link to some freelance projects done in the past

https://www.odesk.com/o/profiles/users/_~015a549a3f5599f35e/
I'm a native English speaker (Australian) and I find myself looking at a dictionary on average 5 times a day. Probably because of this, and an amateur passion for linguistics, I have a broader depth of knowledge on word definitions and pronunciations than most people I communicate with.

It's certainly not uncommon for native English speakers to have no idea how to pronounce a whole bunch of English words because they don't use them, so you're not alone there.

I always tell people: read with a dictionary and understand the pronunciation key! Or use an app or web dictionary that has a 'play' button.

Having said all of that, I don't know if it's a huge problem - most people get by fine with the words they know, and domain-specific words tend to be ones you learn in the field.
Do We Have Free Will?
To be fair, if you ask people in Yemen, 'scared and running' is probably exactly to the point.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/10/drones-dream-ye...
related video : http://www.xiph.org/video/vid2.shtml
In term of spelling French is much worse than English. I wonder how they compare in term of education level. My anecdotal experience living and going to school in both England and France as a kid leads me to believe that the level of British primary school is not very high and that basic knowledge in math and reading is introduced slower there.
How do you solve a problem like cybercrime?
Authenticated TLS 'constraints' in ntpd(8)
XMonad is nice, but the haskell stuff makes it a chore. There is a great tiling WM called SpectrWM https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/spectrwm that is a re-implementation of Xmonad in C, with a sane text config file.

Works great for me.

The devs are all current/former OpenBSD guys, including Marco Peereboom (Who forked OpenBSD recently).
>20? Maybe. but How about being in the body of a 30- or 40-year old again? I can't imagine any 70-year olds not wanting to have a more "hassle-free" body, all other things being equal.

Nobody is going to pay for your pension forever. Do you really want to spend your entire life working?
That's exactly what my wife said! Wildly exciting to watch either way though.
Still better than other desktops, which do not even allow changing background color.

> GTK apps: They look bad in 99% of KDE themes

???
There is GTK engine which uses QT to render widgets. I really do not see any difference.

I use Chrome and only problem I have is new window placement, which is not really KDE problem. Chrome uses KDE dialogs and even KDE password manager.
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Does noone but me look at Elementary and see it as an obvious aping of OS X, circa Snow Leopard?
Crashes for me too, for example on this page too:

https://www.youtab.me/music/zWSgCcy_Q_8/acdc/rock-or-bust

Looks like it happens right after the YouTube player is loaded.
How does it handle in the snow?
You need users doing what most of them are not comfortable with. Photosharing is ok for everyone i guess. But if you will make app in which everyone draw on phone like Picasso it would be different story :)
What is Data Engineering?
Xcode 6's additions to Interface Builder allow for similar tools to be built now. Here's a great NSHipster article that details a modern take on the Calculator Construction Set:

http://nshipster.com/ibinspectable-ibdesignable/
I think my comment came across as saying something other than what I intended (-4 at the moment). What I mean by "shitty gender stereotypes" is that, as you say, everyone is expected to conform to this model (guys and women alike). Under this stereotypical model, the pace is dictated by the women, which is why I singled this out - but of course it's a two-way evolution of behavior.

"Kind-of-works as long as you subscribe to it" would be a good interpretation, but I think everyone's opportunities are diminished by this. One thing is finding someone to have sex with or have a relationship of the type that society expects (which probably works well enough on a societal level with stereotypical dating), but finding someone you are really compatible with on a deep level is a different question. My strong suspicion is that there are many lost opportunities in the latter category.

At this point I am incredibly happy with my life partner, but I've previously had many bad experiences with the traditional dating model. Since everyone is complaining and gender norms are the one fixed variable, it stands to reason that this is where the problem is. The LGBT community does not have this problem, which I think is caused by a greater awareness of the roles each person takes. Heteronormative gender roles are problematic, which is evidenced both in complaints about dating and divorce statistics.
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I have the red one in a box somewhere. It was my introduction to programming as well: when I was seven years old, my dad had me enter the code into ZBASIC running on our Tandy 1000.

I remember entering the "Bible Quiz" game, but transcribing something wrong, causing it to print the answers rather than the questions. I called it "Bible Jeopardy".
Is that available in the US only?
Well I did not try to use bluetooth from a container yet, but did you run those containers with '--privileged' as part of the docker run command?

This article looks at the different aspects of using '--privileged': http://developerblog.redhat.com/2014/11/06/introducing-a-sup...
US and India
Because one for each branch of the military, the DOD, the CIA, the DHS, the NSA, the Office of the DNI, the DOJ, the DOE, the State Department, and the Department of the Treasury all having there own cyber efforts just isn't enough.

I guess this one is going to put a bird on it, or something.
Show HN: Screensize
Well, it wouldn't be without precedent exactly. "Operation Match" dates back to the sixties. [1][2]

[1]: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/boy-girl-computer/

[2]: http://thecomputerboys.com/?p=654
The military interests in these machines seem to go in the direction of what you could call drones on the ground.

Invading an area on the ground is still necessary to occupy and maintain control. Air-based drones are used more for targeted attacks and assasinations, with documented collateral damage, or killing and terrorizing of civilian populations put less eloquently.

With drones on the ground, the situation changes completely, and you can have much more control over areas without putting any soldiers lives at risk.

This would make occupations much more cost effective, probably mostly in the PR sense, any government getting lots of their youth killed will sooner or later have a problem at home. Not so much with drones.

I find this a very frightening development.
I'm running XFCE and haven't found any issues with retina support ... though it's a bit tiny. I'd be happy to run a few experiments if you're interested. Do you mean you were haven't problems with Google Chrome (I generally use Firefox) ... care to describe the problems?

As an aside, I think this is the Linux community in a nutshell - this offer of help is similar to many I've received in the past.

I don't generally comment on the whole systemd controversy but I'll make an exception. I have two points:

1) I think we probably do need something better than init.d scripts. Consistency would be a good thing and better sandboxing couldn't hurt.

2) I've had more issues with pulseaudio than any other piece of software on Linux ... asking for a new piece of software from the guy that wrote pulseaudio is like asking Ross Ulbricht to be in charge of OpSec for BofA.

(Yup ... I'm probably going to get spanked for this comment since he's a far better marketer and politician than he is software engineer)
Actually in Japanese the kanji makes it much easier to guess meanings, especially with place names which look bland and empty in romanji.

It's pronunciation that's hard to guess from kanji.
It's a great question but a terribly sexist way of asking it.
With automated cleaning systems.

Haven't seen any comparable offerings from Boston Dynamics, yet.
> without crazy licensing fees as with Mono

Are you confusing Mono for Xamarin?
Isn't that just a technical challenge? In this world view, you are your own central server and everyone else is their own. Let's take your example and run with it (bear in mind I'm ignoring some rough edges here). You share your instagram-style pics into an app on your personal server to begin with and then from there they get federated out to people who've decided to 'follow' you (or those you have allowed to). Practically speaking, the pic (or rather access to it) is given to the app on the personal servers of those followers. Their server then constructs a newsfeed of all the incoming pics and presents it to their user (via an app or web-interface or whatever). This doesn't happen on the mobile device itself but on the 'personal cloud' of the user. There are many things I've glossed over but there doesn't have to be a central server in this scenario and everything can be encrypted end-to-end.

That's why this is really a distributed systems problem. In order for an app-developer to build such an app, the deeper problems around deployment, sync, and identity/connectivity need to be resolved. Developers just need something to target that provides the appropriate components. That's what the toolstack I previously linked is trying to solve. Without that, we're stuck with requiring someone else to provide the central system/aggregator. Clearly this is a non-trivial problem but if it can be cracked then it'll be as impactful as the opening up of the Web was.
As easily as you and I:-

Snow: http://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww?t=1m12s

Ice: http://youtu.be/W1czBcnX1Ww?t=1m24s
Easy Secure Home IP Camera Access with Your Own VPN
>> "My understanding is that FaceTime was not opened up more due to the VirnetX lawsuit"

First I've heard of this. Glad there was actually reasoning behind not making it open as promising that and then going back on it without telling anyone why was very strange.
I have the feeling that it's that way because the usecases today have changed while the fundamental parts of the system haven't. Unix was designed in the 60s and 70s and everything that came later was bolted on what was already existing. This includes stuff that's standard unix behaviour. For instance abusing the user system to gain better isolation of daemons.

This all has to be done to stay compatible with previous systems and raises complexity.
Will they be releasing the source anytime soon?

It's a great idea, and one that we've long needed a solution for. However, could this possibly be done as a JS snippet that uses a central server by default, to make it easier to integrate into static sites? As-is, it isn't much use for my blog, or many others who use popular blogging platforms (which allow you to embed whatever JS you want, but you sure as hell can't install a server plugin)

This is the article that first made me aware of the problem:
http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
How many of you folks have found a long lasting, good quality date via Tinder? Serious question, no pun intended.
For me, albeit using it for only cca 6 months, it was useless. Same for people around me.

Yes, I got tons of likes, many conversations, a few dates that could be more if wanted, but women available via this were mostly... uninteresting. I am a bit picky (I am quite sporty type, and silicone beauties whose idea of perfect sunday is basically doing nothing while showered in luxury repulse me). Never been looking for one night stands or similar, that's for poor folks with daddy (and other) issues. Those kind of "relationships" tend to take more from person than give, and after some time, meeting such a person is rather sad story (or, more blatantly who wants to seriously date slutty used opposite sex).

Well, once you've got things to offer to women that they want, you can, and will be picky.
I kept telling myself, it's just another way of meeting people, like all others. But for me, tinder crowd ain't doing the "game" seriously enough. Maybe location didn't help (Geneva, on border with France, and to be polite general French mentality towards relationships ain't compatible with mine).

So I found amazing girl via other ways (climbing), dropped whole tinder app into oblivion. Nice idea, and kudos to this guy for really getting max out of concept, but not for me. And seeing success rate around me, just going to a stupid bar, dressing nicely and just be a man women want gives you way more reward for any effort. But it cannot be done from couch, can it :)
Xamarin For Android and iOS only have "crazy" licensing fees IF you want the professional editions... The Starter edition is free, and their Indie edition is $25 per month: https://store.xamarin.com/.
Glad enums now work correctly with Objective-c.