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A competitive AI challenge.
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> "Installing Linux on a laptop recently was a pain thanks to the secure boot nonsense, but I got there." Is it easier if you just temporarily remove the HDD, boot the laptop, get thrown into the UEFI settings, remove the unwan
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Linus Torvalds once said: "If Microsoft ever starts developing apps for Linux, it means I won." Is this close enough?
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"Once open-source gets good enough, you'd be crazy to compete with it." -Larry Ellison Any startup that sets out to recreate Photoshop would also compete with GIMP and Pixelmator.
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Somewhat related question: Which is the recommended tracker to use when creating private torrents nowadays?
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A related project is this: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/asql/
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Is Chrome being installed without your consent when installing some other piece of software? Could you give a specific example, that is new to me.
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Oh, look, this again. > "ads are what makes the current internet work." No, they're not. The Internet was designed as a tool for enabling communication, not money-making. Without ads, a lot of the blog spam that exists tod
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There is one particular use of IRC channels that is insanely useful, that I'd like to share. On various programming language channels, there are ad-hoc expression evaluation bots that experienced people use to guide newcomers through t
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Why do journalists at The Verge keep using the terms "the software giant"? Isn't that company "the devices and services giant" now (by their own admission)?
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While I agree that HP selling Seven isn't news, the shift in marketing focus from Eight to Seven __is__ very much news.
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Can the OP say whether it works with Wine on Linux?
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The original title of the submission is: "Skara: Creating the massively online beat'em up" Why change it just for the sake of evangelizing a particular platform? From HN's guidelines: "please use the original title,
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The issue at hand never annoyed me too much. It can probably be fixed with a browser extension (I'm using HN Enhancement Suite, maybe contact the author and start a discussion?)
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Very useful! Additional question: I noticed how on the clojurescreencasts site the author of the videos uses InstaREPL in split screen mode. I couldn't figure out how to do that with my own installation of LT. Do you know?
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An electrical engineer from GE, a chemical engineer from DuPont and a Windows kernel developer from Microsoft are in a car, driving along a desert road. At some point the car malfunctions and comes to a stop. The following discussion ensues
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Abstract (cut-and-pasted from the paper): We describe the results of an experiment in which several conventional programming languages, together with the functional language Haskell, were used to prototype a Naval Surface Warfare Center (NS
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This URL works for me: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Haskel...
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Microsoft retrenching into "IBM mode" under the new CEO.
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I would give it at least a little bit of credibility just based on the fact that it's a consumer-oriented site with a wider audience than just us technical people. But I agree it's just one data point among many. Which brings up a
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The demo doesn't have a voiceover, but this project looks intriguing. I would love to read a side-by-side comparative review of Raskell and iHaskell (which I've used on someone else's iPad, and liked).
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Question: did you develop this game on a display with a higher vertical resolution than 768?
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Firefox OS isn't aimed at Android, as the article implies. I don't think it's even meant to be aimed at something, not even at dumbphones. The intent is to provide a fallback digital-freedom option, should any of the mobile p
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There potentially exists a solution: leave the front page as it is, and create a secondary page where stories are weighted by taking into consideration something like upvoters' seniority on HN. One upvote by a 3-year old account weighs
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What does "Delphi mentality" mean? I'm genuinely curious, not having been exposed to that ecosystem at all.
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Interesting. The HN community appreciates diversity and unbiased, well-reasoned debate. Maybe you were too strong of an advocate of a certain technology stack / platform to the detriment of all others? What is your old account? Edit: t
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It's different. os/2 vs. windows was about two players attempting to prevent each other from monopolizing the industry. I don't think the Jolla guys go into this with a business plan of one day being a monopoly, or preventing
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> "One problem is that almost all of them are language-specific." Shameless plug: I built a platform [0] like this - but language-agnostic - for use during hackathons at the local TU's department of CS / software engi
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A font called "Source Code Pro", available here: https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro
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Your BI/ETL/algoritms requirement is interesting. I'm a big data guy and I've been looking to do some freelance work in this area for some time now, but HN seems to be hiring Rails/iOS people predominantly. Could you elaborate on your requi

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