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> I have to admit I'm surprised to find that anyone is still trying to make desktop Linux work for normal people, i.e. non-programmers who aren't free-software fanatics.

As far as day to day use goes, modern desktop Linux environments are just as usable by end users as Windows.

The main impediments to adoption tend to be:

1. Software that they need that only runs on Windows or OS X

2. Syncing to devices like iPods or iPhones

3. Lack of easily accessible support infrastructure for when things go wrong, major version upgrades, etc. You can generally take a Windows machine to Best Buy or some other local computer store, or a Mac to an Apple Store, and they can deal with it, but there's little accessible support for the complicated cases on Linux unless you have a friend or relative who's into Linux.

4. Lack of support by IT departments.

So if you have a situation like in the original story, where someone is willing to provide that support voluntarily, and you just need a home computer with internet access and no specialized software, a modern Linux desktop will do just fine.

> My guess is that GNOME 3 and Unity require roughly as much CPU power and RAM as Windows 7.

Lightweight desktops like LXDE and XFCE can run fine on older hardware, and are much lighter weight than Windows 7. If you read the article, you would see that it was running LXDE, not Gnome or Unity.
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And they aren't directly competing with the original, they are creating a local-friendly variant, which users appreciate.
Very interesting, never heard of this before. More background at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Dinosaurs:_An_Alternati...

I suppose this has something to do with the new Pixar movie? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Dinosaur

Also reminds me of Dinotopia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinotopia
Just think the impact that would have had if it had been divided up and given directly to each Haitian adult. The adult population of Haiti is roughly 6 million, so we're talking about almost $100 per adult Haitian. Roughly, it's about 1/8 of the per capita GDP of Haiti.

Imagine what you could if you were a poor American and received 1/8 of the American per capita GDP after a disaster (~6000 USD). That's a new roof, or a replacement vehicle, etc.

It's not life changing, but it would have been very significant, and massive in scale.
If you're doing the whole thing every time, that would be your biggest problem, regardless of tools. It sounds like Brunch does incremental builds out of the box, which would definitely help you, but you can setup Grunt or gulp to do the same thing. It just takes a little work.

We do that with gulp, and after the initial file runs (~8-10 seconds), updates are instant every time.
Running and cycling are significantly different sports. A runner’s stride is very important, but cycling is almost pure power output by comparison.

However, if you’re tracing a single athlete over time then skill tends to stay fairly constant and overall heath becomes the main focus of training.
I do this almost exact process with the symlink swapping, it's amazing. I use bamboo however, so we're literally in a state of 'Commit code, push button to deploy to one of three environments', no other steps are needed or involved.
~95% of the developers I know in the Bay Area use MacBook Pros. The underlying Unix base Apple runs on is nothing to scoff at and the majority of things someone learns about the command line on a linux machine will be the same on a OSX machine. I'm surprised you point out iDevices, what we should be worried about is keeping them away from the Windows ecosystem.
I think #24 was my favorite.
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Identifying conflicts of interest when evaluating systems is mentioned in the ACM Code of Ethics. It's possible to do this in a neutral/professional way.

Section 2.5: http://www.acm.org/about/code-of-ethics
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The fact that AMD has released specifications and actually pays people to work on the open source drivers probably has more to do with it.
Just up voted you.

If anything, Android and ChromeOS are good examples common users don't care about GNU/Linux userland, rather a packaged experience. Which none of the distributions has been able to provide so far.
But not sufficiently to have significant genetic variation. So while technically true in some sense, not pertinent right?
Has that been your perception? How do you measure that?
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Use whatever you use for scrolling, I'm on a mac trackpad and it worked for me.
Are you also a minority in the US? Did you live in different areas in the US? Were you physically attacked because of your race or sexual orientation in Japan?

Because if you're going by "casual daily encounters" that seem racist to you, do you ever wonder if a minority in 21st century america experiences the same?
Maybe not as much as you'd think. Haiti doesn't have goods for ready cash. Most of the relief issue was shipping goods into the country where needed.
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Can we vote on which ones accurately assess their failings and which ones still harbor serious delusions about them?
I found no number to say Yes or No but the past plans was naïve at least on this topic. A big reason for this it is that the constituency of all parties play with tax fraud.
That's actually not really how it works[0].

It's more that a ring 0 can manipulate an alternate context, but only for contexts that it can create. So guests can themselves be hypervisors for contexts that they themselves create. There's nothing stopping a guest from executing virtualization instructions[1].

That being said there is a sort of ring -1 called SMM mode.

[0] And this is why you shouldn't rely on wiki. Particularly since it looks like the deletionists are winning their war. It's source is informationweek in this case...

[1] Well, that's not totally true. When setting up the context for a guest you can signal that you as the hypervisor want to get trapped on lots of different types of privileged operations. ie. you can optionally, explicitly disallow the guest to use virtualization extensions. But it's opt in, not policy set by AMD/Intel.
came across this quote once, and got stuck to my mind for life. Hope this quote inspire you.

if you have courage to end your life, what else you are afraid of?
why not you continue to live on to see where's tomorrow got for you?
- [1] anthong wong

original quote 你连死都想了那还怕什么，敢死不敢活啊？你就活下去看看明天是怎么样

[1] [chinese][video] http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/UVCLmDVwT_A/
The CAME to the U.S., they weren't BORN here, so they don't have that ingrained elitist entitled attitude.
I was upset to hear that nearly $30 million of the tsunami relief money ended up subsidizing the Japanese whaling fleet. (Heard that on Whale Wars, so I'm not 100% sure it's true.)
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> We found cassandra to be too finicky and flakey and ended up using mongodb

Oh my. I look forward to your next "X is not a panacea" article on MongoDB.

Turns out commercial db vendors lie. A lot. Never use a feature until it's been in a couple point releases (y in x.y.z versioning). Upgrade slowly.

Also, Cassandra - and MongoDB when used with clustering - requires writing your data to best fit your queries. This often leads to wildly different schemas than you'd create in a traditional relational database.

You should probably read Kyle Kingsbury's article on MongoDB to have some idea of what you're really getting into: https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-read...
I was never a part of a group that believed in hell (hope that doesn't give me away...), so I can't speak for that.

But, if you relax the rigor and you're willing to settle for what you personally qualify as overwhelming circumstantial evidence, it's not too hard to meet that level of confidence (the Anthropic Principle is very powerful). These people are often True Believers.

It's a whole different mindset, and worth spending the effort to wrap your head around. I'd bet it's a sufficiently different frame of mind that you'll have a hard time relating. It's easy to just gloss it over as a fool's thinking, but it really can be quite complex and deep (after all, without that moral vacuum, there's a lot of core axioms to keep straight). And that's not bad; just be warned that it can be a bit of a memetic virus, but it's certainly not too hard to quarantine. Usually at a very low level there's an assumption made about the way things are, and enough evidence is brought in to make that assumption feel reasonable; that's not science but rather more of a judicial argument. If it feels a bit boot-strappy, you're a bit on track. Typically once the mindset is settled, that rationalizes the initial bootstrap; I think often those who preach worry that many will not be exposed to the needed bootstrap, and feel a moral imperative to help others through that process. And that's how you get the evangelism. (Clearly there's a gross amount of glossing over here :)

And it'll help a lot in pleasantly/tactfully dealing with such individuals. People are just folk, and most are sincere. Just not always as... rigorous as folk like yourself.
Just a guess here: I would have an agreed-upon key name suffix like "__b64_enc" or something. Serializers take a field "foo" of type bytes and serialize it as "foo__b64_enc": b64(value), and deserializers strip and base64-decode.

edit: it's exactly what you would do if you wanted to pass any binary data as json over the wire, regardless of whether you're using protobufs. you'd just get it "for free" (meaning you wouldn't have to write the boilerplate, not that you don't have to en/decode).
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The very fact that there is such secrecy involved makes me think those running the show know their rigging the game and just hope to get away with it before any non biased parties realize.
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Didn't you hear? Windows is getting SSH.
Just to help correct a common misunderstanding that I've seen popup in thus thread. Greece is running a budget surplus. The government is not spending more than it's taking in[0].

[0]http://www.wsj.com/articles/greece-misses-target-on-budget-s...
"For digital inclusion and a more inclusive future" as the author states in the article, I am also leading this[1] project for kids in Myanmar/Burma who literally stuck in the civil war between Myanmar Army and local rebel forces.[2] We are just a bunch of volunteers(refugees) from Myanmar who have been relocated to Norway because of the civil war. With Raspberry Pi, we want people to have access to basic education and literacy even in a freaking civil war zone. Never give up!

1. https://laizalibrary.org
2. http://time.com/3598969/kachin-independence-army-kia-burma-m...
FTFA: But environmental groups pointed to what they saw as holes in the report. In particular, they said, the report’s authors relied on data supplied by companies and wrote that limitations in data “preclude a determination of the frequency of impacts with any certainty.”

So, i guess that report is next to worthless then if it solely relies on data that comes from a group that is interested in "proving" the safety of fracking?
To be on the same tier of racism as the United States, Japan has to start lynching its minorities.
Also relevant, How to use npm as a build tool:

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Didn't minecraft's Notch say he was going to make a space game similar to something like this?
"Don't do it" and "Call a suicide hotline" have both been said. Good advice on both counts.

In my experience, everyone who said "Don't do it" is in a better position than I was in. A person with a problem will eventually solve it, or not. A fundamentally flawed person will have only have more problems, generally of the same type, again and again, forever. It's easy to confuse one situation for the other. Most people are not deeply flawed, they're normal people who are temporarily overwhelmed by normal problems. Anything they say to you probably won't resonate. Advice from those who have plenty always has to be filtered through a lens of "easy for you to say".

The only honest thing that can be said in this situation is to evaluate your life with clear and unbiased perspective. Are you a normal person who is going through rough times, or are you the kind of person that, for whatever reason, genuinely has no hope? The latter group is very small and if you're in it, you'll have known it for a long time. Odds are that you're better off than the truly forlorn, and you don't need me to tell you that because you already know it. Count your blessings and try to picture a better life.

I'm sorry if my candor offends some people, but life is too short and we're too smart for platitudes. I hope that you get through this.
A college degree is important to many kinds of places, such as government contractors who are obligated to have all of their engineers with degrees. Generally the bigger an employer is, the more likely you're going to need a degree. If you want to write software for Lockheed or McDonnel Douglas you need a degree.

In the context of software development, the most important thing you can get from a degree that you won't get from independent learning is the people connections. If you're wanting to start your own business and you've been living in a social cave for the last 5 years, you're at a significant disadvantage compared to someone who has spent the last several years rubbing elbows with the best brightest and best-connected people at Stanford.

On the other hand, you're going to spend years studying things that may or may not seem relevant to you, when you could be learning and building things of direct impact this month.

Most employers worth working for today want to see that you can do the job effectively, and you can demonstrate that with a killer portfolio and excellent interviewing skills.

I went straight into the software industry out of high school. Well, technically before-- I got my first programming job at 16. I've never had trouble finding employment except for a brief period at the end of the dot com collapse in 2001. But not having a degree has always limited my options. Almost all jobs 20 years ago stated they require a degree, and they meant it. Today it's a small minority of jobs that state that they require a degree and actually mean it.

The importance of a degree on paper is waning, and has been for some time. But the importance of knowing a bunch of people who know how to do lots of things, and have capitial: that is still vitally important. And a good university is a great way for a young person to get access to those things, but not the only way.
Just for information, you can click the numbers at the bottom to view some other cool stuff. I also liked the track on #8, try and figure out what it is, took me a while...
Thought this one was a neat idea: Critica: https://medium.com/@jasonhuertas/my-startup-failed-6c54bd68c...
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At that point though, it doesn't matter. If company policy says you can't use anonymizing proxies or can't SSH out or can't mask your traffic in any way, you're hosed right there. And most enterprises would have an employee handbook that says that. Immediately you're in breech of guidelines and misusing company resources.

So many people in this thread are trying to argue ways to hide your traffic. All I'm saying is, no matter how clever you get to hide what you're doing, you're in breech of your terms of employment from the very first step. No matter how clever you get, I've seen people fired based on my report that they were using SSH to get to their private server. Doesn't matter if they were checking their email or if they were hiring a hitman on Silk Road.

Enterprises don't care what you're doing, they care what you're not doing, and what you're not doing is the job they paid you to do under the terms you agreed to do it.
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Food, clean water, and shelter are important after a disaster... not cash.

Who are you going to buy "a new roof" from when everything is in shambles?

What value does money have when everyone has the same amount, but no one has the things you want to buy?
I've been using OrientDB for the last 7 months and as such I've been following @lvca and @phpnode (OrientDB node.js driver creator/maintainer) work closely. I have great respect and admiration for both and for what they've achieved!

@lvca, I find your comment distasteful and it's not the first time I see you trying to shutdown people who criticise OrientDB (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9253488) when you should really be thanking them for exposing the issues they face (a lot of people don't go public). It would be more productive to engage @phpnode, @anonwarnings and others, listen to them, raise issues in the bug tracker and address them. Accusing people of trolling or flaming doesn't benefit OrientDB or its users at all...

Unfortunately I haven't tried ArangoDB so I can't make any comparisons with OrientDB but I hope both succeed!
Infinity is not a real number, it is a name for a concept that means no real number is large enough.

But actually, the cost of Japan candy was approximately a plane ticket and a week of time. But its still not arbitrage because the concept of arbitrage is based on the existence of a market with information assymetry leading to price errors, not introducing an efficiency to a production system.
Be my guest and convince all of the record companies of that.
That is the line of thinking which got Greece into this mess in the first place. Running a deficit on the expectation of ever increasing GDP works great until it doesn't, then you're fucked.
> Making sure the white Canadian could poo-poo comfortably counted as aid.

Well, yes of course, it is aid.

And making sure also that this doctor can wash his hands before their next chirurgical intervention (is really so relevant to notice that is canadian, thus probably white?).

Doctors also need to go to the bathroom (is not so easy if you are a woman). Or clean itselves of vomit and blood after a hard day. Somebody need to assure that the volunteers have their most basical needs covered and can focus all his precious skills in doing the job (instead to just get ill and totally useless just 24 hours after their arrival). To study first the access to clean water and a way to avoid faeces spreading all around your clinic area and contaminating hundreds of wounded people is not corruption at all. Is to invest wisely your resources.
I agree with feedjoelpie. One criticism I have here is that there is a lack of comprehensive data analytics from their actual portfolios before they cut the chord, and that it relies on self reported data from the founders, which is bound to be bias to some degree. Some of these failed that are exact clones of companies that were the exact same idea but implemented more quickly and ended up and still are very successful, and in those particular ideas, the autopsy of the failed companies never seems to want to admit their idea was just not that original, or not implemented as well.

Examples that stand out to me just from knowing really successful competitors of the same idea:

Bombfell
Manilla
Dnnr
bloom.fm
solorix

Overall, I value their feedback (and I am glad to see it compiled as opposed to every failed company posting on here as if they have some diamond in the ruff wisdom on why they failed) but I would prefer some more data based trends.

Overall interesting idea to start pulling more calibrated analytics from. I was also thinking someone should do the same thing for lessons learned from how VCs and Angel Investors screw over companies.

It's actually going to take some time for me to find something on this list that doesn't reek of knocking off popularized trending app ideas.

I happened to see 99 Dresses on this list, whom I saw on Shark Tank somehow (the one time I watched the show). I'm a girl and for me personally I don't really give about the idea of weddings and think its nonsense, and think it's a waste of money, but I thought it was a pretty cool idea that basically you could rent a wedding dress, and that sounded unique to me and a good niche of rent the runway, though I doubt I'll ever invest in a wedding dress myself in any capacity. Point is weddings are a billion dollar a yr industry and wedding dresses are sometimes the most expensive part aside from venue and catering. As culture becomes less traditional, it's less likely women will view their dresses as a long term investment their posterity will wear.

Additionally, I think I know of plenty of girls who would rather rent a designer wedding dress they could never afford outright (especially if their posterity is not going to wear it as culture is these days) than settle for something they like alot less because that is all they could afford to buy, that will sit in a closet. Additionally, now that we have facebook and social media, girls do not need to buy the dress (despite posterity) so it can collect dust in their closet for the sake of nostalgia. Now we have social media to document not only the dress but how the woman looked in the dress. Therefore, providing the capability to rent one of the most expensive clothing items the average woman will ever invest in, seemed like a pretty solid idea, and at least there was something a little unique about it. However, I have no idea how well she implemented the idea nor did I follow the company after the pitch.

Other than that one company, I didn't see anything I have not heard of realistically, atleast 5 times before.
So why do a risky thing like startup if you hate it?

I can understand that many people working for McDonalds hate their job, but it's no risky task, just quick money.
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Ask HN: Flask or Django for Building RESTful API?
We are planning to build REST API for our next project. The project will be in the financial domain and we need to do lots of statistical analysis using Pandas, Numpy and Scikit-Learn and provide the results as JSON, which will be consumed by AngularJS app in the frontend.

Another thing will be the database backend, which we have decided to use MongoDB. Everything will be hosted on AWS.

The incoming vintage data is from Amazon S3, which is less in early stage but it has potential to grow folds very soon. So in future we may need to integrate Apache Spark as the backbone for processing the statistical computing and returning the returns as JSON.

So, which framework will be best to work with for creating REST API which can integrate well with MongoDB and in future Apache Spark? Please provide your insights on this. Thanks