skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been building my own computers for years. I upgrade my PC on the super cheap every few years (couple of hundred dollars). After a decade, I spent less money on a constantly upgraded PC than a single macbook.

I now have a quad core i7, 16gb ram, geforce 650ti, and an ssd I salvaged. I think in the decade of this computer existing I spent a total of 2 grand on it.
I sort of agree with this, except ... there is something magical about unibody metal construction. By anyone.

I don't understand why nobody else can make this leap ... it's a tremendous step forward in look, feel and function.

I don't have any particular affinity for apple, but there is no way I am ever buying a plastic computer again.
Hah, I still use my 2003 PowerMac G5 Dual 2.5GHz every now and then.

The 30" Cinema Display I got with it is STILL my daily monitor, although I generally hook it up to my MacBook Pro instead.

I can't believe how long they lasted, and the money I spent on them has been absolutely worth it. A lot cheaper than spending $600 every 2 years on a new system.
I hate that they ditched it on the new 12". Seems like a step back. With a personal laptop that lives in the living room and dogs in the house, the MagSafe has saved many a fall from the sofa or side-table onto the ground.
OT: I hope that is the case. I've been responsible for building query-like tools for end users, and all the current stuff out there completely sucks.

For example, no non-programmer I've ever talked to can correctly explain the difference between:

A and B or C

A and C or B

And to be fair, it's only because of arbitrary precedence rule choices that those are different at all.

I've personally found that dealing with groups and instead of having "AND, OR" you have "ALL, ANY" and always group rules (even if they're groups of one rule).

But even when you have that, you then have to deal with nesting rules, and nests of nests.

The actual implementation of the backend of such systems is easy, the composite pattern / delegates pretty much deals with the implementation.

But the front-end side? They tend to then be forgotten and universally suck, to the point that either it gets handed off to a developer or query-tool expert to use, or some horrific mistake such as accidentally mail-shotting everyone[1] which causes them to never try to have automatic query rules again.

Graphical query building for the end-user is a really difficult area which hasn't seen enough research.

[1] I want to mail Visited Yesterday And are either Men Or Under 30. Instead of "Visit > Yesterday AND (Men OR Under 30). They forget the brackets. Whoops, that's half their clients hit.
This app featured as an example of "friendliness" of chat-based interaction looks to me more like a "Clippy"-like communication

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/galleries/2009/technology/091...

than something I'd like to use every day.
Well, college is about people of a diversity of opinions, even I guess those who believe that their spending money is included...

For instance, I'm glad that auto insurance is included, since it isn't expressly prohibited :)
I have a distinct distaste for Mac. That being said, I think there is a little more here: when I started at my current gig we were using Toshibas - not cheap ones either, these were top-of-the-line. 1.5yr down the road they could no longer perform the exact same job that they started out with. The same can't be said of my Dell: it's a work horse more than 2yr later.

With Mac you can't loose. PC (especially laptops) can be hit and miss.
Any recent experiences on Tresorit vs. Spideroak?
One of the reasons people regain is that they've gone on diets with a calorie intake that is too low (or lacking in protein) and experienced muscle atrophy rather than fat loss. A decrease in muscle mass also decreases their metabolism, which means their BMR is now lower, but because they don't know, when they return to their seemingly normal calorie intake, they'll quickly put the weight they lost back on.
Show HN: The platform used for the TechCrunch interview with Sam Altman
Last week, I published a conversation on TechCrunch with Sam Altman using ReplyAll http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/09/ycombinate/

I've personally used ReplyAll to interview Mark Cuban http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/a-conversation-with-mark-cuban/ discuss depression with Brad Feld https://blog.replyall.me/a-conversation-about-depression-with-brad-feld/and debate David Frum on marijuana legalization http://abovethelaw.com/2015/05/is-legalizing-pot-a-bad-idea-a-published-email-exchange-with-david-frum/

Our homepage is www.replyall.me

Why we built ReplyAll: my cofounder & I used to exchange lengthy emails every day about important topics, and we lamented the fact that we didn't have an easy way to publish these conversations. Then we saw some of our favorite writers like Sam Harris & Glenn Greendwald doing just that: publishing their email exchanges as content.

http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/dear-fellow-liberal2

So we built ReplyAll to make it easy to publish this content (no manual cutting and pasting out of emails) and allow readers to follow along like a fly-on-the-wall as the conversation unfolds. Participation is asynchronous, so no one has to coordinate schedules. It is an easier, better way to create interviews & debates, and ReplyAll conversations get great engagement in both time on page (10 minutes plus) and repeat visitors (2.3 page views per unique).

Happy to answer questions about the platform, business model or failing to close the deal at our YC interview in April.
I've seen plenty of instances where the Glassdor listings were really a red flag. In these cases, there are several negative reviews focusing on similar cons, then several other glowing (and obviously planted) reviews to combat it.
The estimates are close enough. Unless a food is wildly inaccurate, it all comes out in the wash.
https://www.wuala.com/
Weird. I'm getting the same thing using Chromium on Debian Jessie. Firefox on the same system has no such warning. I don't see any errors on ssllabs.com, but interestingly, it only supports TLS1.1 and above. No support for TLS1.0:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=silentcircle....
Ask HN: Best JavaScript or PHP Developer Resources for SiteCatalyst
I'm trying to learn SiteCatalyst API for analytics reporting but can't seem to find a good resource.

Anyone know of any good resources?
Buzzkill Profs: Hedge Funds Do Half as Well as You Think
What happened to Light Table? Did it evolve into Eve? Is Light Table abandoned?
Facebook Notes Redesign
>that indicates that innovation in the sector has slowed and that many people don't find the newer models compelling.

It's ok to have it slow at some point. I, for one, don't particularly like "endless progress" (and with hazy goals, mostly for its own sake).

Better we learn to better use the tools we already have, and distribute them more evenly (1/3 of the world still lives in medieval like conditions, and the inefficiency with which the rest 2/3 uses the available technology is mind bogling -- I'm not even talking from an ecological standpoint, more like the useless "social boilerplate" that we use it for).
Clearly there are many major free software projects which are formed as NPOs and receive adequate levels of funding. These may further be improved through use of quadratic base-level pledging, crowdfunding, consulting work, academic grants and so forth.

Marketing and promotion are perfectly tractable. I do not see how appeasing to interests of proprietary service companies will suddenly have the funds funneling in, in any case. Not sure what is meant by "scale".
Frankly, my experience on mainframes is that UNIX is a stronghold there for a reason. I'd be far more interested in this ecosystem opening up by having strong mainframe vendor support for running Illumos and/or FreeBSD, and less concerned with running Linux. Among other things, Zones are more useful than lxc, and in this type of environment you often need strong kernel support for specialized high-speed interconnects and real-time operations, which Linux only has experimental support for but is integrated well in the UNIX world. I love Linux and what it's done for the world, but UNIX isn't dead for a reason, there are still many things it is superior at.
Still no idea after following the link on the first line:

> Never heard of Eve? [Read more here](http://witheve.com/)

...

> Eve is our way of bringing the power of computation to everyone, not by making everyone a programmer but by finding a better way for us to interact with computers. On the surface, Eve is an environment a little like Excel that allows you to "program" simply by moving columns and rows around in tables. Under the covers it's a powerful database, a temporal logic language, and a flexible IDE that allows you to build anything from a simple website to complex algorithms.
it's a symptom of a successful life, but having it does not mean one has a successful life

> Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you

that's what worked for me.
would be amazing to see sunroof and tesla power wall combine efforts on this...
> I'm pretty steadily at my lean weight. But when I'm not, I just switch to higher satiety foods and the weight comes off.
>
> This method is both easy and simple, but I rarely see it recommended. Are there people it doesn't work for?

I would hazard a guess at: most people with weight issues. The problem is not how simple the method is, but how psychologically easy it is to adhere to.
Yes... it inspired me to make my own version that only has what I need: https://github.com/j127/Better-Firefox
Spreading wrong information is basically graffiti. Correcting it has little to do with education, it's simply aesthetically displeasing.
It's a MS Access like desktop database application. That's what I understood.
How do they make these maps?
Do they have satellite images of different points of (sunny) days and run the analysis that way?
Keep hunting around. I was able to get my "dream Mac" of 15 years ago (a PowerBook Pismo G3 with max RAM) for just over $100. Still works fine and was a nice separate screen for chat or distraction free writing with WriteRoom, at least until Dropbox discontinued PPC support this year.
"I regularly saw people bring their laptops into the bathroom, where they would sit on the toilet and write code"

I would need some corroboration in order to believe this bit. The rest of the behavior listed I've sadly seen in other companies, though I've fortunately never been somewhere it was a cultural constant, as opposed to the lack of tact of some individuals and double-digit tendency to hire folks who lacked tact.
Yep! http://abcnotation.com/
Earlier discussion of Bezos' statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071600
As an exAmazonian I think Amazon treated me decently. I ultimately left for some place that treat me even better (with free food and better pay); but I did not believe that I am entitled to those perks. Judging by life of the few Amazonians I know personally, most of them agree with me. I only know one person who complained heavily about Amazon and it is more about his team and having a crappy boss than about the company.
I have a 2008 MBP 17" that's also gone through two swollen batteries. Most of the time now I use my work-provided Lenovo, but every now and then I need a big screen and Adobe Creative Suite (with a still-kicking Wacom Graphire2 tablet, circa 2003), so out comes the Macbook.
How does it work? Looks like David Blaine street magic. I'm getting pretty good results even if keywords are really poor.
Wow. I can't believe how expensive solar panels are. This really is a great tool to give you an idea how much solar panels would cost. What about wind... does anyone know of any affordable residential wind turbine solutions?
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maintaining a healthy lifestyle isn't a chore, it's a symptom of a driven individual's mastery of all tools available at their disposal

(not that you said it was)
This reminds me a lot of the gateway drug argument used to ban pot.
I don't know enough to weigh in on if a person is just a gig. I'm just going off of this[1] presentation.

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...
The perception I've gotten is somewhat different, though based on much of the same stories. I don't think Amazon is a horrible place to work, but it seems like a horrible place to stay for too long.

I had a roommate who was a nurse who and worked in a couple of area hospitals. When I asked her why she drove 90 minutes to one hospital rather than working all her hours at closer area hospitals, her response was, "That hospital is in a poorer area of town and gets all sorts of bizarre and desperate medical issues. It would take me 5 years at the other hospital to get the experience I'll get in six months a that hospital."

I think Amazon is like that hospital. It's an amazing place to grow and learn things you basically can't learn otherwise. And employers elsewhere know it. When I get an Amazon candidate who spent more than a year there, I can basically know ahead of time that that candidate will pass the technical part of the interview process. But once you've got that 1-2 years of experience, it's a place to leave, go elsewhere and get treated/paid better.

But again, this is based on anecdotal evidence from past Amazon employees...I've never worked there.
4. Willpower and discipline.
Oh yeah, you're right. I was way off on that interpretation. Apologies.

> One of my concerns is that modern peoples are already very out of touch with what matters for the creation of things of real value. We already have bizarre ideas that money = value.

First off, I do absolutely agree with this.

The concern I have is that this is an orthogonal problem.

With basic income, there's a good chance that we can fix poverty today (as the data consistently illustrates). As for economic education, you can figure that out at the same time. They're independent problems. Well, sort of. If someone who "gets it" still can't fix "their bodily needs" and they have no access to a job, then their lives simply won't improve. Some will, of course. But others will still starve because creating real value is a moving target. Worse, eating is a short-term concern. Creating value can take much longer. It won't be able to feed you until you see some ROI. So people in poverty are forced into nearsighted thinking, which is a barrier when trying to create real value. A basic income allows people to eat, heal, etc. so that they can participate in the economy in meaningful ways. Going off of what you're saying, this would give more people the means to participate (and I'll add: to experiment, fail, and learn), and so you'll have more people with their ideas shaped.
> "Defense in depth" is a commonly accepted security principle

Indeed.

> that suggests otherwise:

Except that it does no such thing. If you have passwords for defense in depth, they both exist for security reasons and it is a security problem to expose them (because you've just eliminated part of your depth.)

Defense in depth means that the problems of any one layer being violated are mitigated by additional layers of security, it doesn't mean it suddenly ceases to be a security problem if one of your measures is compromised. It just reduces the likely immediate severity of such a compromise, providing a greater chance of being able to effectively address it before it leads to an actual breach.
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start with what Jesus said. 'Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.'
What is it about sample-based music that makes it so inferior to acoustic music (on average) that culling it en masse "will result in a net increase in quality"?

edit: of order words out
There was some discussion in http://incidentalcomplexity.com/2015/02/24/january--february...

> While running in the browser is a requirement for Eve, it's always been clear that using javascript directly was not a long-term option. So many of our implementation problems come down to lack of control over data layout. For Eve we need to implement:

> New types (like intervals) - but there is a space overhead of 24 extra bytes per object
Polymorphic comparisons - but dispatching on typeof is slow
Cache-friendly indexes - but it's hard to store multiple js objects sequentially in memory
Radix tries - but converting strings to bytes is slow

> We also want to be able to distribute native code for mobile devices and use real threads on servers. Lastly, there is some benefit to using reference-counting for the indexes so that we can avoid copying nodes when we know we have sole access.

> We ruled out C++ and D on aesthetic grounds - we have a preference for small, simple languages that we can understand completely. Rust wins points for safety and abstraction but the toolchain is not nearly as mature and there are issues that currently prevent compiling with Emscripten. C gives us less support in the language but is much more future-proof at the moment.

I also wrote about our experiences with Rust later at http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2015/06/04/three-months-o...
QVC to Acquire Zulily for $2.4B
What the fuck does this even mean.
Wow, match made in heaven!
My roommate works at a call center. There is a rule there that you can't go to the bathroom within 15 minutes of clocking in. He complains of the arbitrary control of people's bladders yet in the same breath will complain of people who go straight in at 9:15. To me that's where work culture gets despicable: make people look down at people who don't approve of rules they themselves don't like, and you've outsourced shame from managers to the employees themselves.
I'll chime in with a "same story, different result". I too was a student working remotely for a web shop. My son was also born during this time. I'll add that my wife was doing her student teaching and we couldn't afford a sitter so I basically took care of the kid full time. I would do work when he was asleep, where ever that was. Sometimes that was at home. Sometimes it was on campus in an engineering lab. Many times I found myself parked just outside a classroom I was supposed to be attending keeping an ear out for the words "iClicker quiz" and blindly answering because it meant I at least got attendance points.

In the end, it all worked out. I got plenty done at work, managed to graduate and the kid didn't starve.

Yes, there were some days I had to take a break, beg someone to come watch the kid for a few hours so I could run down to the pizza place down the street (with WiFi) and work in peace. But honestly, I get the same feeling working in an office.

My point is not to refute the need for a dedicated work environment. It's just to say that you may be perfectly fine in complete chaos. Just pay attention and you'll figure it out.
Thanks for trying it out!

To fix that issue (remove the duplicates), click twice on the keyword/checkbox at the top of the page beside "add search term." That will reload the list freshly from the server.

The issue comes from a lag in updating your selection of relevance on the server, most likely caused by the demand being placed on the server right now.

Thanks again. :)
How Radio Enthusiasts Are Listening to Earth’s Secret Symphony
Study finds that violent video games may be linked to aggressive behaviour
Obligatory YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P47OC439x88
He had a blog post about this, how early design decision to make absolutely every feature in the editor a plugin over-complicated the design to the point that he was the only one who could maintain it, and maintenance was all the more he could do. So yes, LightTable itself is done. He also said he planned on returning to addressing the goals of LightTable in the future.
So what about caching and rendering? So I imagine that if I render 200 buttons that have inline style it would be slower if I load one stylesheet and 200 HTML tags.

And caching problem would be if I have 2 server rendered pages ( even with JSX that's possible ) and have same styles which will be downloaded twice from two js bundles.

I think separation of those is still better solution. Not to mention stylesheet commits that are far easier to follow than just modifying a js file.
Have a look at lazarus (http://www.lazarus-ide.org/). It uses a different language (FreePascal instead of C#), but for me it's much more productive, and the programs written run without any framework and feel much snappier.
Sometimes, but sometimes a function just has a type of String -> String with nothing besides the name to tell you what it does.
We are talking about computing in 1985. A 25 MHz workstation would be at least 10,000% slower than a modern computer, with about 1,000× less memory available. Still, this isn't a huge difference in context, but talking about adding 4 to 16 bytes of overhead on every data structure, or every object, in a worst case scenario could result in twice as much memory usage.

Steve Jobs wasn't an engineer technically, so he wouldn't know the specifics here, but at the time object-oriented programming had a stigma associated with it because programmers did know of these drawbacks. Using Objective-C was obviously a fundamental choice by the software engineers.

Writing C in an object oriented style is what a lot of programmers did then. But there's a difference between associating data with methods and supporting polymorphism. Hence the talk of virtual function tables.
Weird, it says it covers Boston but when I put my Boston address (single family in the city of Boston itself) it says they haven't reached the address yet.
It's called multi-tasking:

http://dilbert.com/strip/2012-10-26
jidest ?
The author is to blame for this unfortunate headline. "Humans engage in a kind of tug-of-war with the food we eat, a battle in which we are measuring the spoils--calories--all wrong."
Limiting the daily intake of carbs is a proxy for limiting the daily intake of calories.

1 bowl (2 cups of rice, about 330g, more or less 1 serving in areas where white rice is a staple food) have a 331 kcal [1] Even if one would ate a whole package of Canadian Bacon (6 oz, 139g) it would only be 257 kcal [2].

Carbs are very easy to gorge. A medium sized fast food cup of soda is 180kcal. Same cup for raw orange juice is 223kcal. For comparison 150g of beef is 274kcal and that would be a big serving (IMO).

When people cut carbs from their diets they end up cutting the most densely caloric food: pasta, rice, starch and sugar and that's a good thing too, even eating as much of the rest as they want they will hardly be able to overconsume calories.

[1] http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/6497?man=&lfacet=&cou...

[2] http://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/2636?fgcd=&manu=&lfac...
heck, I still drag around an old 2005/06 era 8.9" netbook I picked up for $300. It's tiny, gets on the internet ok, can connect to an external monitor/kb/mouse to turn into an impromptu desktop in a pinch, has a 250GB HD and two SD card slot so I use it to offload photos from my sd card at the end of a shooting day while out traveling and the other slot lets me expand the storage if I need.

I can use it to review my photos from the day and do some minor edits with gimp.

Bonus, it's about fast enough to run dosbox or scummvm and play standard def movies in vlc well enough. I can even emulate a Sega Genesis and hook up a controller and use it as a mini console.

It's been around the world with me many times, fits into the space a large paperback book would take. It's not "modern" by any stretch, is pretty beat up, but the large cheap storage device that happens to be a computer is very hard to come by these days. I've seen some newer devices with better specs, but they all insist on tiny SSDs, like 32GB drives, so they're an instant no-go.