skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, that article he was responding to is horrible.

There's not really much point in arguing with people who only take name-brand operating systems and software seriously. They'll always mask their elitism by feigning concern for so-called "ordinary users" or complain about the absence of some specific proprietary software package that they only had access to before by submitting to vendor lock-in.

I don't think there's one magical OS that's for everyone. Or one specific UI implementation or paradigm that is perfect for everyone. Yes, there have been strides in making Linux DEs that are approachable for people familiar with Windows but Linux (and Unix-like OSes as a whole, but particularly Linux) has value beyond being an alternative to any another OS.

When I first started using computers there was no "easy mode".. a large proportion of my early time spent using a computer was spent learning about how that computer worked by exploration. There's still no "easy mode", if you haven't learned how to learn about how systems work.. you won't be able to troubleshoot any problems that may arise nor do anything you haven't already been taught how to do.

"Easy enough for everyone to use." is a slogan about sales volume. I think there are definitely Linux configurations that have those aspirations and are no further away from nor any closer to achieving them than Windows or OSX is. The value of Linux isn't to be a clone or replacement for another OS. The value of Linux is that it is extremely learnable for people who are interested in computing and people who want to make their own choices about their software environment.

The common complaints people make about "I had to use a CLI." or "I didn't want to learn anything." or "There were problems." are pretty irrelevant. In days past you always had to use a CLI, you always had to learn things, and there were always problems.

The cursor in the shell is a question. It's the system asking you what you want it to do. It's not trying to entice you with shiny icons. Every time I read that question, I have to think about it, and sometimes when I'm not working on anything in particular an open terminal window can provide hours of entertainment and education.

Not everyone thinks the same way. (I, for example, cannot keep my computer orderly with a graphical file manager. I just can't. I can reason about a written inventory of what I have but I can't find anything in my closet.) Not everyone is going to do the same things.

I don't know why people would damn a system with a completely different paradigm instead of just saying "It's not for me."

I also don't know why anyone would fire up the most educational operating system that exists (my opinion, but I think it's a big part of the reason that Linux is popular where it's popular.. because at a certain level it is very easy to use (where use overlaps with learning heavily; such as solving hard problems)) if they didn't want to learn anything.
Doing the right think for a fair price is pretty much the definition of maturity.
Personally, I think that moot has done more to further the internet and modern culture than almost anybody out there--and that includes Reddit (and arguably Something Awful, but nobody wants to waste tenbux anyways).

4chan has provided and continues to provide a raw visage of how people behave given total anonymity. It has a wide ecosystem of boards and interests, and in the last six years has certainly left everyone who's lurked there a changed person.

Remember: near all of the bullshit memery, the image macros, the open discussion, the invasions, all started with 4chan.

If anybody else is successful, it's probably because they can point to the awesome parts of 4chan and say "We want to build that, but friendlier, better moderated, and less anonymous". It was a proof-of-concept, and a brilliant one.

It'll probably die off in the next five years, but it's done some amazing things and brought a lot of people together.
This is called confirmation bias. There are plenty of markets where IE retains > 80%. Many of us have chosen to avoid those markets, but they're out there.
Of course you'll be able to connect your phone to a large monitor.

That garbage can size box is dead. Soon to be replaced by some future version of the Surface.
Awesome feedback, this is definitely on our list of things to add, you can be sure to see it soon!
Oh, I took the school's definition as mutually exclusive --- and I assumed the son did as well.

I didn't see how it was not --- and so the line of questioning seemed to be willfully ignorant of that mutual exclusivity.

We have "not ripe" and "ripe" apples.
Is this apple "ripe"?
But see this part of it here isn't ripe!
So it's both ripe and non ripe --- ergo, you were taught wrong to distinguish between ripe and not ripe!

blank stare == (are you really that stupid dad?)
WePay engineer here. We support ACH debits. Checkout the live example with "Pay with Bank Account" option here - https://www.wepay.com/developer/process_payments/iframe-chec...
Happy Super Pi Day
From Wikipedia:

>In the year 2015, Pi Day will have special significance on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53 a.m. and p.m., with the date and time representing the first 10 digits of π. That same second will also contain a precise instant corresponding to all of the digits of π. However, some argue that 9:26:54 a.m. and p.m. on 3/14/15 are more accurate because of the 11th digit of π being 5, which would cause the 10th digit to round up to 4.

&

>A sequential time will occur on 3/14/15 at 9:26:53.58979... following the sequence of pi to all digits.

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I'm celebrating by being a geek at a Code Camp, and of course, having some pie with dinner.

Are you celebrating this Super Pi Day? If so, how?
Mashable has some more interesting facts about Pi day - http://mashable.com/2015/03/13/perfect-pi-day/

Edit to add:

I'm not sure how I missed mentioning - http://www.piday.org/

It looks like the most entertaining way to celebrate it will be at the National Museum of Mathematics, in NYC, which is doing a glow-in-the-dark demonstration of Pi - http://www.wtrf.com/story/28282610/national-museum-of-mathem...
This shifty handmade USB drive is rigged to fry your computer
Previous discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9176195
I've had Franklin's, but it was a couple hours old by the time I had any. Let's say I don't have memory of it being good or bad. Stiles Switch on the other hand, left a really good impression on me with their brisket.
Obviously we disagree about what exactly that entails (at a glance, the article you cited seems to describe multiple modes of moral relativism, not all as logically muddled as the one you describe).

I'd be curious to know what grounds you would argue against a topic you find morally objectionable. What would you say are the proper foundations for moral axioms?

Update: and to answer your question, I'm not sure I have good reasons beyond "I feel they are bad", I do aim for coherence and consistency even when I'm not confident that I have a solid logical foundation, but it's hard to feel committed to any particular consensus. For background, I was raised in two different countries with two different cultures and languages, my politics were diametrically opposite those of one of my grandfathers who I still loved, I never met the other because he was an abusive alcoholic that thankfully abandoned the family. I am a bit of a Camusian outsider I guess.
You'll never stop jerks being jerks. But you can clue in the clueless
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There are things we can do with flies that we simply cannot do with humans. Doing the research in flies is often a way for us to get an idea of how things may work in humans and others. Also, while we are physiologically different, we have quite a bit in common at the cellular level.
I'd rather remain in ignorance, then. Lots of things are hard to go without once you've tried them, like heroin or scraping the inside of your ear canal with q-tips, but that doesn't mean those things enhance your life any.
Ooo, Amazing, turn.
Thankfully I'm at the point in my career where, if such a thing happens, I can respond calmly and without anger that this will reset the clock on development, and that doing so is a management decision that does not reflect poorly on me or my team. If they want to do that, I can do that, but I won't take the blame for that failure.

I recognize some organizations will not accept that answer and will try to make me take the blame. Such organizations will tend to have a very poor tech department.
A History of Pi by Petr Beckmann
To be clear, in humans that's a 5-10% shift in probability, and no evidence to suggest that the effect is determined post-conception (an extraordinary conjecture) and not statistical miscarriage pressure.
Our appetite for beef is causing the destruction of forests. If we could tone down our meat consumption, we stand a chance to save tue environment.
Do you work for Google? I don't know how you can actually argue that sending all of your traffic through Google's servers won't give them more chances to look at the traffic you are sending them.

"The one provided pre-installed by Samsung and Verizon. Right."

For the average user, yes. Developers can go deeper and install a version that's not just binary blob installed on your phone.
Happy Pi day! This is a wonderful book, which is really a story of the development of modern civilization and the enlightenment, all told through the lens of the best understanding of pi.
I had my gallbladder removed at the end of 06. TP became less effective. I switched to wetwipes in 09, and got a bidet two years ago. Dear lord my life is genuinely SO much better now. It was an inexpensive $100 stainless steel addon for a regular toilet, and so incredibly worth it.
How to make money on a travel blog
That's normally perfectly fine, except when banks fuck it up.
I've lived in three different countries in Asia. Have always had a mini-shower or at least a piped jet of water beside the toilet to help clean up. North America has the most bass-ackwards wiping convention I've ever seen.
The less you are made of, the less ways there are to break an important part of you. Complex organisms have many weaknesses.
It's a simple example, but it's showing a lot of nice things.

The "people" instance is using anonymous syntax for a Map type. Haxe's Map types are actually abstract types: http://haxe.org/manual/types-abstract.html. I doubt many developers are familiar with this type of feature.

For instance, here's a "packed array" implementation that lets me store an array of integers in a fraction of the space usually needed for a standard array type:
https://github.com/jdonaldson/packhx
Abstract types let me use the same api that standard arrays use (including array accessors), even if the underlying runtime implementation is completely different.

The other nice things going on in the example is the simple for loop using an iterator, and the nice string interpolation. Granted, this is nothing super sophisticated, but it's great to have these same features across all the targets that Haxe supports.
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I have to disagree with you. The root problem is not that people are undisciplined, but that the problem is undefined. Take the time and effort to do things in a verifiable and provable way is useless if the solution is the wrong thing. The biggest risk in a startup is to take some investment money and build something which doesn't lead to any kind of user traction or revenue stream. That is such a big risk that it's worth writing shoddy code to chase that. If and when you find a real business idea then you can rewrite the code with the knowledge of what it needs to be genuinely useful.

But if you start with the idea that you're going to write solid code on principle then you're just throwing good money after bad.
If you mean what languages have a near Flash equivalent API, then Dart has StageXL

http://www.stagexl.org
I totally don't understand this, I would presume each line is processing people at 100% (of their capability) - how does controlling what line a person gets into going to shorten aggregate processing time unless some processors are sitting entirely idle, which we all know would never happen.
"If moral sentiments were mere opinion, then there'd be no point to arguing over whether some action is right or wrong."

...who says there is? Whether that makes you uncomfortable or not has no bearing on whether it is the case.
They're on my list for sure.
Good News. I hope we are use it immediately. Thank you for sharing this news.
> If you travel every once in a while, or need to use bathrooms at work, there's that factor too.

If I catch someone traipsing to the restroom with a box of wet wipes under their arm, they're not going to make it without being made fun of. Sorry, princess, but your anus isn't really all that special.
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I believe that's actually their third location. The one on Riverside has been open for a couple months as well -- and even (surprisingly?) annoying neighbors with BBQ smoke[0].

Took a coworker from out of town there back in December, did not disappoint.
[0] http://kut.org/post/council-member-wants-limits-barbecue-smo...
I don't know, it takes a certain amount of hubris to write any software at all.
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Hi! Just wondering what the timeframe was on building this, and what your team size is!
Can you share the specifics of your experience (the cluster size/use case/etc.)

I am partly asking this because you clearly feel strongly about this topic (your account was created an hour ago, most likely to comment on this).
Tried Wine? Some have success with that, though getting audio set up can be tricky.

There's a web version under development right now - it should work with Chrome and Firefox.
TL;DR - you want to hire people who can adopt and who respect both sides (business, developers)

I work as devops and my boss always says that good operation/support people are hard to find. One can be a super hero in programming, but really bad at customer service or supporting production. Similarly some ops are very horrible at coding, but they are great system administrators.

With that, I have had product owners and product managers who are really excellent at managing team and able to cope the lack of technical skill by absorbing the technical knowledge from daily standup and eventually able to work with the team to prioritize technical challenge. For example this one product owner works in big data and he couldn't ssh without me showing him, but he could go over the pipelines just enough to make me feel embarrass. Of course, if you are on a project long enough you should know how things work in general.

On the contrary I have had really senior technical people leading teams and eventually got fired for their inability to lead.
Those statistics are easily available for US ports.[1][2] Ship tracking data is available as well.[3]

Counting containers in ports is more of a measure of port congestion than traffic. Also, a lot of them are empties, which you can't see from orbit.

[1] http://www.portoflosangeles.org/maritime/stats.asp
[2] http://www.portofoakland.com/maritime/containerstats.aspx
[3] http://www.marinetraffic.com/
Budget as an excuse for poor software seems like a bad argument. There are as many people talking about how much more expensive it is to fix bugs late in the game as there are people pressuring teams to deliver shit code on tight timelines. It costs less to write better software. Invest upfront and rejoice that you did later or rush it out the door now and pay to maintain it forever.
There's a similar one, possibly apocryphal. When Michael Foot led a nuclear disarmament organization, a newspaper ran with

"Foot Heads Arms Body"

My personal favourite: A while back, tight-rope walkers crossed the Han river in Korea. The Washington Post chose to run with

"Skywalkers in Korea Crossed Han Solo"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...
Interesting product for deafblind persons. I'd really be interested in reports from deafblind users.
Russia’s ‘Breakthrough’ enables a future without radioactive waste. (2014)
Don't be such a jerk. First, contact Stripe support which is typically very responsive. Second, if you're going to post here, best to assume positive intent.
> That's still only $72 a year, man.

You didn't include the regular TP. With a bidet or washlet, you'll need a lot less of that, too.

> $500 on toilet seats?

There are much cheaper options available. As another commenter mentioned, you can get a non-electrical attachment for as little as $30.

For example:

http://www.amazon.com/Luxe-Bidet-Neo-110-Non-Electric/dp/B00...

Edit: Also, you were comparing the price for upgrading two toilets with the wet wipes expenses for a single person.
I was thinking via API.
The difference between hard and soft speculative fiction (science vs fantasy is really more about the setting than the universe structure) is how big the plot holes are in the fabric of the universe.

Why does only one special person have the magical powers? Why do people use their incredible powers only for rather mundane tasks? How is it possible to create that space fortress that has more steel than the all conjectured quantities within 100 light years? The more questions you can ask and file to get good answers for, the softer the fiction is.
I am unreasonably bummed about this. Balanced was outrageously wonderful to Gittip/Gratipay, which is near and dear to my heart... I would say more, but I'm on mobile and quasi-drunkenly eating a Subway sandwich :/
'Going Clear' Documentary Is an Audit of Scientology
The funny part of this, is that often the "budget" of time / effort is low-balled, and you end up with something that's more expensive to fix. The Hubble telescope from the essay is a great example of this. And we've all seen the project where the decision was to just put in a hacky work around for a mis-design because the project deadline is in less than a month... and it continues that way for over a year.

In these cases, some sort of unwillingness or inability to pause and be thoughtful, driven by a rush to meet a budget or deadline, cost a lot of money and time. Perhaps, as you suggest, it's the great difficulty of the lay-person or the manager judging the quality of software (or engineering I guess), and naturally selecting for the "cheapest" quality that seems to work, and very often hitting "too cheap".
> But what about .NET framework? Flash player? Antivirus? Office Suite? DirectX? New browser? (Since you won’t be using IE, that’s for sure.) Mailing client? Pdf reader? Some image editor? WinRAR? Even after you paid for your operating system, you’ll probably end up paying a couple of hundred bucks additionally just to make your system usable.

I personally don't want all of that stuff pre-installed, because I won't use most of it. I have no need for flash anymore. I rarely need an office suite, but when I do, I just use Google Docs. The same goes for a mail client: Gmail.com is fine. I do install Chrome (which handles PDFs, so no need to install Adobe Reader), but Internet Explorer isn't that bad anymore. Also, all of that stuff is free (or has free alternatives), so I don't know where the author came up with the "couple of hundred bucks" figure.

> Even if you are tech-savvy, careful what you install kind of person that doesn’t just blindly install new software (by clicking next->next), you’ll end up with some crap like a new toolbar in your Firefox/Chrome from time to time and you’ll have to scan your system with some antivirus software from time to time. But, keep in mind that installing antiviruses might get you some crapware too, (AVG toolbar, I’m talking about you!) so what will you do then?

Really? Because I consider myself quite tech-savy and have never had a single toolbar installed without my knowledge. As for antivirus software, Microsoft Security Essentials is very good and doesn't install any extra crapware. It's even built-in on Windows 8 and later, so there's another thing you don't have to install yourself.

> You want to play something really old like DOS games? Well, too fucking bad.

DOSBox, which you would also have to install on Linux if you wanted to play old DOS games.

> All I have to do is to download Visual Studio Community edition. After all, it is free and it requires “only” additional 20 fucking gigabytes of disk space! Yay!

You also get what many consider to be the best IDE available. For free. Yay!
So of course, it's actually just a bunch of emails where, in context, it's some people speculating in the exact same way, with the exact same information, as people here on HN (i.e. none).

So not actually at all like what the original poster implied.
reading this on hackernews feels ironic
I guess it's inherently a hard problem serving two sided markets as the Russian criminal types are straight away going to set up a shell companies pretending to be something respectable on one side and feed in stolen credit card numbers on the other. Still you'd think they could do something transparent like delaying sending the funds for a couple of weeks while they contact say 10 credit card owners to see if the transactions are legit.
where does someone gain the knowledge and skills to use tools for machine learning and gaining data insights?

TIL /r/neckbeards harbor bigotry.

/r/canada has zero bigotry! YES!
Please start a YouTube channel of your exploits.
Maybe realize you have two options here, and someone taking appropriate hygiene measures is definitely more of a benefit for you in the short term than them.
You know you can put a bit of water on toilet paper to make it wet, right?
If the result of this study is A, toxicity function is T(/r/foo), will the answers on /r/Askreddit follow A = T(/r/Askreddit)?

Edit:I'm sorry. They won't. But it will affect the value.
The purposes of the Communications Act of 1934 were "regulating interstate and foreign commerce in communication by wire and radio so as to make available, so far as possible, to all the people of the United States a rapid, efficient, nationwide, and worldwide wire and radio communication service with adequate facilities at reasonable charges, for the purpose of the national defense, and for the purpose of securing a more effective execution of this policy by centralizing authority theretofore granted by law to several agencies and by granting additional authority with respect to interstate and foreign commerce in wire and radio communication, there is hereby created a commission to be known as the 'Federal Communications Commission', which shall be constituted as hereinafter provided, and which shall execute and enforce the provisions of this Act."[1] In other words, it was preventing, or rather, dismantling, a telephone monopoly.

The Communications Act 1996 expanded it to support “a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition..."[2] In other words, it was expanding it to cover more than radio and phones.

I wonder if the cellphone lock-in policies mentioned in the article (e.g. Carlene, who can't afford the early termination fee) are considered anti-competitive, and therefore could potentially fall under the scope of the 1996 Communications Act?

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[1] http://www.criminalgovernment.com/docs/61StatL101/ComAct34.h...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934#cit...
>Once you have a product, free or not, which is used and relied upon by a large group of people, you do owe them something.

No, you really don't. The fact is: they owe you something, but it's OK, since you give it away for free.

>If you don't want that responsibility then don't release your code or get out when things become serious.

Or else?

>That's not a reasonable mentality to have if you want adoption.

What if you DON'T want adoption? Or you want just the smart kids that can contribute back to adopt your code?