skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree and call it a mildly divergent opinion. The banks being regulated or the Republican primary candidates would call it outright communism. Depends on the yardstick, I guess.
Almost like you could install Pocket whenever you wanted to use it in your browser and remove it when you didn't want it, like you can with search engines?

Also, I would not particularly call those search engines a great comparison. They are simply keyworded bookmarks - you set the URL and when you enter a character or click the icon it loads the bookmark. The extent of integration was the search options menu where you can add any website's search field and it inherits the icon from that website, so its generic.
It is a major change to ask but I am wondering if they consider to switch to asyncio instead of using Twisted. Twisted is great library but it is a huge dependency to maintain.
Firefox is nowhere related to Apple of course, but it is so bad on Mac. I recently went back to Chrome because it just works so much better on my macbook. (El Capitan)
I see a few issues with this post (as others have).

1. He has a wood floor. They are hard and he should have compensated, either with more than a yoga mat, and better shoes, or Dr. Scholls inserts, etc.

2. A tall chair. The standing benefits are for people who move around, not simply stand in place for eight hours.

No need for a $2k motorized desk that moves, a simple $100 tall chair will do the trick as you can alternate standing and sitting throughout the day.
Yeah, I've experienced the same and it's really a pain in the ass. Apparently there's tons of orgs that can automatically add sites to that blacklist, I got abuse from some company saying there was a phishing page on my IP because it featured a login page and the text "Amazon" and suddenly chrome started showing alerts when I visited the IP.

As with most of similar systems (spamhaus etc) the people running them are just as bad as the people they're trying to stop.
blogspam (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html) original already discussed on place 3(!) on the front page. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033694
However I'm not sure an agreement is required and (I believe) agreements are usually only made concerning laws or punishments that are not applicable in the pre-extradition country. Therefore if Sweden and the USA can agree that breaching national security secrets is a crime in the USA and Sweden recognize a similar crime (which I'm sure they do), and the USA agree not to kill Assange I don't see any reason why they couldn't extradite.
I don't see how anyone could call Photos.app the best app they've ever used. Right off the bat, I can never tell you why I'm in a mode where I can multi-select or not. When I double-click on a photo, all of a sudden an intermediate navigation thumbnail bar thing pops up, but it doesn't let me do the things the main thumbnail view does.

I don't know when I can use the back arrow or not.

Flagging no longer shows up on the pictures, so I have to look up to the menu bar to see if a photo is flagged.

I've got a few shared galleries with family. Does anyone know which photos are going to show up in Photos vs Albums (All Photos) vs Shared (Activity and your named shared galleries) and the My Photo Stream under Albums?

Virtually every time I recreate a photo library or get a new device, I need to turn off all the icloud syncing crap and photostream crap about 3 times before it finally starts syncing photos. And sometimes when it does, I click on a photo thumbnail and the wrong photo pops up.

Photos is effing TERRIBLE from a UI/UX, features, and functionality standpoint.
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Do you have other suggestions for reducing neck pain? I'm 30 but I experience it very often. I just got a standing desk but wonder if that's enough.
OS X has major Thunderbolt issues. OS X crashes nearly every time I put it to sleep with a Thunderbolt monitor connected (10.9 through 10.11), daisy chained Apple monitors aren't detected, Thunderbolt monitors aren't aways detected when plugged in (as in they don't turn on), waking up a machine after disconnecting Thunderbolt monitors sometimes results in a black screen where the OS thinks the monitors are connected.

Windows 10 on the same MBP, has none of these issues. OS X crashes significantly more often than any Windows machine I've used in the last 5 years (Windows 7-10). Apple used to brag about how OS X was more stable than Windows, but I think that Microsoft's need to make Windows compatible with so much hardware and software has actually resulted in a more robust and harder to crash OS.
Surely it would make the most sense to build it into both AdSense and Chrome. That way Google know they're not running a network facilitating this, and they are also able to block malicious ads from other networks in the browser.
Installing TensorFlow with Python 3 on EC2 GPU Instances
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The Sad State of Scala Build Tools
One big issue is that there are other people on the other side of those debt cancellations that would get hurt.

A risk they assumed when they decided to put their capital to work. I don't actually have any debt myself so I don't have a dog in this fight, but if you have the money to purchase risky assets in expectations of earning a coupon then your necessities are already covered. Between people who don't have enough to live with dignity and people whose investments don't pan out, most of my sympathy goes to the first group.
I've seen developers refuse to use Python 3 because of not being able to use Scrapy. Hopefully this gets some more devs to finally make the switch.
as mfkp said, that's where I got mine too.

Important though, for compatability with firefox and some other browsers, you'll need to copy the intermediate cert to the end of the cert file. it works fine with 2 certs in the file, just put the intermediate at the end.
Online. Why would you buy a TV from a physical store unless it's really the cheapest place to get it?
Clicked on Namecheap ad because they don't stop following me despite the fact that I'm their customer.

-$0.05 for Namecheap.
I think it'd be easier to do on a case-by-case basis. It'd be too much to predict the effects of stripping out anchors across all sites, because some single-page apps still use that as a way to mark actual endpoints.

There are a handful of domains that are repeatedly submitted and have very predictable behavior...nytimes.com and medium.com. Everytime you go to an article URL at nytimes.com, at the minimum, `?r=0` is appended. As far as I can tell, every NYT article has a permalink in which query parameters have no effect to the end user. So writing a rule to strip out query params when testing for uniqueness would probably be of minimal harm.

Obviously such a rule would be terrible to apply for all domains...for starters, it would penalize all sites that use the `q=x` type param to query for unique pages, such as PHP bulletin boards.
Ask HN: Palantir Software Engineering
I'm trying to collect more info from anyone working (or has worked) at Palantir. Most of the reviews on glassdoor seem copy-and-pasted. If anyone has anything to say, I'd really appreciate it!
Amiga 500 Class of the 90s
Mechanize would be nice, but it's practically abandonware at this point.
> 8. If there is any content in the app who wrote it?

Err... God?
I wonder if this is the lower bound. The 0, 1 or 2 degree of average separation doesn't make much sense so the lower bound must be 3?
Speech recognition is an area where objective evaluation has been as much part of the problem as the solution.

If the paradigm is "get the highest recognition rate over sample X" you can have super-human accuracy but the product still sucks because you are saying "Xbox Play Titanfall" over and over again and it never figures it out because it doesn't engage you in a dialogue to understand what you are saying.

We've seen the same problem in full text search. The TREC evaluations have, over the long term, taught us how to make better search engines, but if you looked at any one year of TREC you would get depressed about the prospect of making a better search engine because you'll see all the things people tried that failed.

When Google came out the TREC community was overturned because it was clear you could make a much "better" search engine, but measured the way TREC measured things at the time, Google would not have appeared better, because TREC rewards you for being accurate at position 1000 and Google cares mostly about position 1. Customers perceive the latter, but they will never get to 1000 unless they are researching a patent application or something.
> As much as there is one big button/search field etc, DON'T REMOVE advanced options for advanced users.

I think Mayer's rule implies that. If you remove the feature entirely, you aren't designing for the 98% case, you're designing for the 100% case because the remaining 2% case is gone.

I interpret "design for the 98% case" to mean "focus on that, but don't eliminate the other 2%".
> There's just no way in hell Steve Jobs would be putting up with this and I wish he was alive to tear some people a new one.

Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs ... that's the guy with the skeuomorphic preferences, right? The one who, at the first iPhone release, told developers that they don't need native apps because using HTML + WebView is enough, right?

Just to make sure we're on the same page here.
Those are Apple Color Plus 14" display monitors, running out of mid-90s Power Macs.
The chair he has in a picture (IKEA Markus) gave me a huge back pain also it is not very good at supporting you in 135 degree position.
Lawfare thinks it can redefine π, and backdoors
no, not all. she consented, but was surprised that he didn't use a condom. which could be legally interpreted as mutilation or rape in sweden. she didn't interpret it as rape at all
> As a consequence, global well-being (by any reasonable measure) is also increasing at an accelerating pace.

Meanwhile, in reality:

- corruption / inability to problem-solve in most governments in any reasonable amount of time is more and more evident as transparency / software insecurity increases, and there's no obvious way to fix this

- business advantages through technology, information asymmetry, lack of competition, and very cheap labor accelerates, businesses which have a singular goal in mind with little care for negative externalities

- species diversity plummets

- climate change remains negatively positive (zika incoming everyone, I'm sure we'll figure it out in time, just don't have any babies in the meantime)

- wage slavery becomes more and more real for more and more people, in the US particularly through people taking on debt for what used to be a non-risky endeavor (higher education) but which actually turned out to be foolish once they were ready to work

Remember, the only thing that matters is that you get yours; that's the name of the game and it's only so long until the consequences of this utterly delusional approach of infinite growth in a closed system will find its way to the homes of the rich and powerful, too. Who in their right mind, excluding miraculously well-executed altruistic AI proliferation appearing, is looking to the future and saying, "we're doing it everyone! things are getting better and better!".

Do you have any idea what 3 billion+ people living in poverty looks like? Because that is now, and it's fucking shameful how little we care about our communities, our planet, in this race to greater and greater "wealth".
Montreal plans? I'd love to help set it up here.
Seems like many people are not making enough of the distinction between choices and bugs. Sure there are bugs in lots of stuff, and that's an entirely valid conversation, but there's also a layer of confounding choices. Some make sense from an "corporate" perspective, some...

-iTunes bloat is a choice, and bugs.

-Mail.app is mostly bugs. (non-standard .mbox was a choice)

-Final Cut X was a choice.

-Eschewing strong AppleScript support in native applications is a choice.

-The app store(s) are a choice.

-Allowing core utilities like Contacts and iCal to stagnate and be outshone by 3rd parties (BusyMac) was a choice.

-Aperture+iPhoto=Photos was a choice. (So was selling Aperture after it was EOLed)

-FFF
Comcast ready to buy spectrum, possibly become cellular carrier
Even though I was the one to provide the source, I still upvoted this comment.

While I was aware of the five techniques, I literally googled "uk torture" and that was pretty much the first link I got.

If you really want sources, I think doing a quick google search before asking for them is a good idea. Not that you shouldn't ask for them, but doing even a single search before that doesn't take more than 10 seconds.
They'd invoke the first amendment. It would be pretty open and shut.
Not being a morning person may come down to genes
I use a standing desk because I have two herniated discs in my lower back, and if I sit for extended periods then I increase the risk of muscle spasms that last over a day.

I generally agree with the author's sentiment - if you don't need a standing desk then don't get one. But for crying out loud, don't write some authoritative-sounding Medium post about what you should do instead that cites questionable web sites and links to a random video of a Russian lady doing squats.
Wow, i've published a few small apps but know nothing about games. What would be your number 1 improvement to Google Play you'd like to see?
The Netherlands already has this, for comparison. Some other EU countries too, I presume - though I'm not sure.
So as usual, Apple is lying/misleading people here. At least 'technically'.
You can make a difference working at any company. It doesn't have to be a special one that currently has over 50% growth.
Funny thing is that running your favorite language on the browser is maturing as fast as running the browser language at the server.

People that adopted Node.js because of this may be set for a nasty surprise.
Have you tried MATE? There's a version of Ubuntu with it already bundled in - https://ubuntu-mate.org/
I hate using free hosted download services that some people use, especially on forums, because there are ads with download buttons and real download buttons and it's nearly impossible to tell which button needs to be clicked to initiate a download.
I'd kill for a superb physical keyboard with that dream tablet :)
We use Mesos/Marathon/Docker extensively at my work as well, and Marathon has definitely been the flakiest of those three.
"does fusion really matter that much?"

Yes. The reason more humans can live on the planet than the planet could "naturally" sustain, is that they employ outside energy to produce food, shelter, and raw materials.

So more energy, we can support more humans, or existing humans with a higher standard of living.

Three things that you might worry about "go away" with practical fusion energy:

1) Hunger

2) Anthropogenic Global Warming

3) Fresh water supplies

They go away because high energy farming techniques become much more cost effective, fusion power contributes no CO2 and can actually extract CO2 from the atomosphere for commerial use, and the water in the oceans can be desalinated on demand.

It also eliminates many things that cause human suffering, coal mining, oil drilling, fuel transport (oil and coal and gas), smog (electric cars are more cost effective, no more coal fired power plants), and warmth/cooling (if your electricity is cheap enough, everyone can have air conditioning or heat to counteract outside temperatures).

So yes, a practical fusion system will change every aspect of the world.
It's just a matter of what you're used to. I'm a recent Mac convert and I can't stand the old clicky trackpads, but I love the haptic click on my MBP's trackpad.
The issue is that the ideas aren't just something that can be transmitted in a sentence.

I run a business. I've had ideas, and implemented them. I have ideas for future stuff.

In both cases, the ideas are hard to separate from me. I know the market, I know the users, I know what I can create, I know enough relevant tech.

I could give the ideas to another domain expert, and they could probably implement them. Though they'd have their own take on things. That would change things. Some for the good, some for the better.

Obviously, you can get ideas from external sources. But they'll be more powerful if they're based on your own experience or readings, so that you can bring everything to bear.
When closing your laptop Windows goes into standby. It should only install updates when shutting down and it tells you that beforehand. So it "did what it said" ;)

> Windows scatters files all over the place!

Just have a look into your Library folder on OS X. Also some programs don't use that, but create a dot folder in your home directory. Maybe I'm missing something though? I haven't used OS X much lately.
Why would people downvote a sincere/honest question?
An economy that can fail because of a lower price of oil is itself a failure.

It's like saying, "yeah, our high traffic e-commerce site is only failing because an intern tripped over a server power cord". No, failure is when tripping over a power cord is enough to make you fail.
Sorry if this is incorrect but wouldn't a better term be long term capital gains rates? Short term capital gains are taxed at ordinary income rates but they're still capital gains.
What It's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs (2011)
The M10 is an existing device sold with Android. You are getting an alternate edition of a device by a company you haven't heard of. (Confusingly the full device name is either M10 HD or M10 Full HD, with 800p or 1080p displays, respectively; the Ubuntu one seems to be the Full HD model.)

The Nexus 6P is not available in another edition. But Google did, in fact, sell other devices much like you describe, though they were called "Play Edition" (running a non-customised stock Google Android).
Previous discussion of this article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9275623
WordPress at Scale
If the claim that your site is dangerous is demonstrably false and there are demonstrable damages you can indeed be liable for damages or face injunction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact
> Now I'm 30, and I just want the damn thing to f'ing work reliably. I don't need rounded corners, or transparency, or animations or even a desktop background

xfce - that's what I use. And I'm an even grumpier old man at 40 :-)
You know what, fuck the creditors. Let them feel what it's like to have no money coming in for a while. If they don't want to lend any more they can spend down their capital or go and get jobs. The society we've built around the premise of mortgaging the future is not so fabulous that it can't be improved upon.
Please consider Visual Effects. There's always a need for "brainiacs" to bring the latest, fastest, smartest way to render/simulate/store the visual effects in the latest Pixar/SuperHero movie. It might just be a short contract for a few months or a year. Don't be afraid if you don't have much art/design experience, there are other specialists for that. And in all reality the day to day work of lighters, animators, etc is more matching the design specs of the director.

But maybe that's not your thing, just putting it out there as some of the biggest and oldest vfx studios are in the SF Bay, namely Pixar, ILM, Dreamworks, Tippett, and well honestly little young studios might be interested too.

www.creativeheads.net Is a clearing house for all kinda of vfx and games jobs.
That is some serious overanalyzing. Everyone's body and environment are different. Get something adjustable or rig it to be makeshift, go about your day. Buying into marketing ("sitting is the new smoking" is just that, marketing) is always going to be misleading.
I'm not sure why this comment is getting downvoted, his previous comment was obviously tongue in cheek and sarciszewski doesn't actually believe that the GP is a JTRIG operative.

Nevertheless he does make a valid point, NSA and GCHQ actively run campaigns to manipulate public opinion and this would probably be one of the prime topics for that.
I have a background in system design, programming, and martial arts. That was a great essay. Really enjoyed it. So thanks for linking it. I'm glad I've finally gotten into the Master phase in the sense of philosophy rather than claiming a certain talent level.

I'm sick of all the needless complexity in what people push. I'm old enough to have seen it repeat in many fads over time. I've seen designs that beautifully and simply (for user/developer) handled their requirements. I've even seen the master programmers he thinks don't exist that write maintainable, good code under deadlines. I've seen amateurs following good principles come close enough. So, I'd like to see more people emulating the principles of mastery he espouses using any proven method to get there and avoiding common pitfalls.

A significant rise in amateurs on that path would itself deliver a better baseline than what today's experts are pushing. I'll take a well-trained amateur that hates complexity over an expert any day. 80/20 rule says I don't need many experts anyway for most jobs.
Awesome! I'll have to give it a shot, then.
>> You need to get used to it like anything else.

Totally. I used boxes and makeshift platforms to test whether standing was for me. My first day was brutal. The only thing that ran through my mind was "What was I thinking?"

After a couple of days though, it was second nature. My knees do get tight, but it forces me to do squats to stretch them out -- not a bad thing, IMO.

I have a similar setup to yours, except for the keyboard platform, I used an inexpensive shoe shelf [1] and a vertically oriented VESA monitor stand [2] for my 2 27" monitors.

On the odd occasion that I want my laptop elevated, I use an articulating laptop stand [3] to the left of my keyboard platform. In this case, I use Microsoft's Mouse Without Borders to "extend" my desktop's workspace to the laptop.

Like the author of the linked post, I have to sit down for some types of tasks ("deep thinking" stuff like planning or design) but in those cases, I just use my laptop and sit down somewhere. Recently, I added an Ikea stool to my setup [4] that seems to be designed for their sit-stand desks.

It's not the nicest setup, I'm thinking of something more permanent, like building a standing workstation into an IKEA PAX wall unit.

[1] http://www.homedepot.com/p/ClosetMaid-Selectives-24-in-White...

[2] https://secure.img1.wfrcdn.com/lf/187/hash/31565/13889834/1/...

[3] http://pcbuild.qoeeky.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/9e2bf91...

[4] http://www.ikea.com/ca/en/catalog/products/60279570/
For me, this is a great example of what we're talking about:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7257238?tstart=0

""Disk Not Ejected Properly" error after EL Capitan goes to sleep and wakes up again."

It's because of things like this that I usually wait until the .4 release to upgrade. El Cap is at .3 and I'm feeling stupid for breaking my rule.
A New Web Browser: Built Around One Big Button
I'm not sure I understand why everyone is magpies.
Fred Wilson: Travis Kalanick is 'wimping out', needs to take Uber public
The fuel is also much more environmentally friendly to extract. Tritium is hard to purify, but you don't need much of it, so it is probably more difficult to extract the steel for the reactor's structure than the fuel during its lifetime.