skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's common enough that I made sure our AWS boxes put the name of the current environment both in the bash prompt and rails console prompts (production is in bright red, staging is a nice soothing purple :).
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Anecdotally I'd have to disagree - my iPad is easily the most used device at home. Not a day without multiple hours of use goes by. That's not to say that I could ever imagine replacing my desktop iMac with it - that's not going to happen, but unless I'm coding or working in audio (where the iPad also comes in handy as a controller), I'll prefer using the iPad compared to the iMac. So I do "real work", just not as frequently as reading, browsing, writing emails etc.

Don't own a laptop because it would it would sit around idle for weeks. iPad + Microsoft Universal Mobile Keyboard is a very mobile and comfortable combination. And for "truck work" I prefer a real, powerful desktop with a big display to a MacBook.
I don't want to totally let producers of consumer goods off the hook here: they are certainly not blameless when it comes to the unhealthy consumer culture we have, and Schiller's comment was tone deaf IMHO.

But generally I feel it's appropriate for companies to tell us how awesome their products are; it's up to us to recognize which things are necessities and which are luxuries.
Who could be the real author if it's fiction? This Robin Sloan might certainly have the means and the motive. Either it is fiction, with a plot which is not to far fetched as any company with these kinds of databases can exploit it in the prediction market. "Information is power and currency in the virtual world we inhabit" Billy Idol once said. It's also an important element in Asimov's Foundation series: extrapolating history through psychohistory.

Or it's not entirely fiction or perhaps even factious. I remember Rupert Sheldrake mention in one of his mindboggling talks that he wanted to investigate potential psi effects on a much larger scale and was in talks with Google. If there were 'results' pertaining to precognition (or AI enhanced precognition of the crowd) would the public get to know about it?
I now live in EU and can relate to your experiences. But when I was referring to what struggling folk need, I meant what can really improve their position. And I hope you understand that it's not something like 9gag, but udacity. And udacity is a pain on a tablet (let alone phone) if you do the exercises.
Ford CTO outlines main hurdles on the road to offering self-driving cars
Are we sure it is sensitive to ALL forms of light? If the plastic bottle reflects UV, and the material is UV sensitive it could make rational sense.

Although I'll grant I am pulling theories out of thin air. I have no idea if this product is even real let alone how the material/bottle works.
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Sure, it's a vulnerability in the sense that they didn't want to allow WHOIS-based verification from their web frontend (for whatever reason. Maybe it wasn't even a conscious decision and they just forgot to include it during some rewrite.)

It's not a vulnerability in the sense that it's not allowed in their CPS or by CA/B.
F-Droid is the free app store.
"Here is what we are witnessing: the end of the on-demand dream."

The problem is that city managers are seeing money they can't tax and either pushing these companies out completely or creating new taxes and diminishing the profitability of the business.

If you want to blame someone for not being able to have flexible services, blame the government. Uber has been pushed out of many cities and Airbnb has had all kinds of crazy taxes added to them in San Francisco, in attempt to push them out. It's only a matter of time before it buckles under the pressure or just plain go out of business completely.

It's sad that our own local governments have to get in the way of innovation.
Or $20 unactivated smart phones from Best Buy.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/motorola-motorola-moto-g-3rd-gen...
There is quite a large cohort of PC users with minimal needs beyond a web browser for email, news and some basic entertainment (Youtube and simple gaming). Google has also done an amazing job with the Chrome ecosystem providing web services that meet all of these needs.
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Worth noting that Robin is also the author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore [1] that others around HN would probably find pretty enjoyable. I thought it was quite fun.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Penumbra%27s_24-Hour_Books...
same. when i saw this line:

'I spent the day haunting the roof of MPK20, feeling jangly and nervous, staring out across the bay.'

i thought it was about her confronting the ethical dilemma about whether she should rat out on her employer or not. it feels more likely you would accidentally disclose your fake data generator than your future predictor.
Ive had that exact same feeling since my iPad 1's life was effectively ended by software updates. It was the quickest device to become obsolete I've ever owned.
Total Cost of Ownership on imports is brutal even when compared to similarly priced domestic cars like let's say a Grand Cherokee in this case.

So while I do agree that in some cases it makes sense to invest a little more (I'm typing this on a top of the line MSI laptop after all) - cars are not the best example here for a variety of reasons.
I'm a little sour on Apple. They say their products are rugged and "built to last", but an iPad is mostly glass which you need to encase in a giant rubber protective case if you don't want the screen shattered. Even then they are easy to break and very costly to fix, to the point now where it barely makes sense to fix it over replace it. Self-Repair is less expensive but so far I'm 50/50 on successes. I would say they are built to last, until the next one comes out.
It seems to me that there is still some progress to be made in Moore's Law. Maybe not directly by shrinking the manufacturing process, but:

AlphaGo requires huge amount of energy and CPU power to accomplish what human brain does in 20W, just using a smallish portion of its capabilities. There must be a plenty of undiscovered architectural improvements to computers that can still kick the Moore Law for a couple years.
It looks more like a confused report, as the email address used to verify the ownership was indeed listed as a legit contact in the whois database...

https://www.startssl.com/NewsDetails?date=20160322
It's certainly the only sane approach, I agree. It's like Lyle Lovett said, "You have to try ..."

My mention of doom is because I got the impression that the rise in risk (10%) was associated pretty hard with long term use, which I had, and distant past wasn't mentioned as a mitigation.
The article isn't questioning their valuation but the unit costs and if working in highly affluent SF translates to mass market.

Are they profitable?
Do their costs (and prices) go down as they scale?

Just because someone invested X for Y implying Z valuation doesn't mean it will turn out to be a wise investment.
Implicit in what you're saying is that the iPad is a good "car". I tend to disagree. Its ability to execute even "light tasks", like writing a three- or four-paragraph email, is significantly worse than even a Chromebook. And a perfectly usable Chromebook costs a quarter of what the iPad does. Fewer games, but better actually-important-stuff.
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More cores = more silicon (expensive)

You can turn hyperthreading on if possible

There's probably a narrow set of workloads that would benefit from more slower cores than 4 faster ones
I have a 3€/yr VPS with IPv6 and natted IPv4 for port 80 at http://lowendspirit.com/.
Installing one of these packages doesn't execute the script though, you'd have to do that yourself. (It could be updated to do that though, which is terrifying.)
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That seems like a workflow issue more than a threaded application issue. I can see that the majority of consumer and business workflows only involve running one or two applications at a time, but the extra cores and hardware threads can make a difference if you need to run multiple applications simultaneously.

Office applications may be single-threaded, but if you need to open Word, Excel, and Powerpoint simultaneously they can each use a separate core. Similarly, you may need to run a web application at the same time as one or more Office applications. This sort of multiprocess parallelism still benefits from multiple cores.

As for "Windows ... is still single threaded", I'm not sure what you are talking about. The concept of a thread is part of the OS implementation.
Tim Cook responded to this young illustrator's open letter
Creator here, happy to add / edit items on the checklist, if you have any suggestions?
Yes, npm will publish any package.json without `private: true` set, and will publish all files in the current directory by default (anything not listed in .gitignore or .npmignore). There is a great CLI tool called "irish-pub" I use, it shows a publish dry-run to avoid these simple mistakes.
There was actually more than one attempt at a sequel (Payback, Hell on Wheels) which were mostly "cash ins" outsourced by LucasArts and focused on more of the action-y stuff (FPS were just becoming the overriding rage in games) rather than the story telling. Tim Schafer, of course, moved on to Grim Fandango was not involved in the sequel attempts.

New rumors are that Tim himself is considering ideas for a Full Throttle 2 once they finishing remastering Full Throttle, but take those rumors with a giant grain of salt.

One entry way into the giant rabbit hole of old Full Throttle 2 news:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=full+throttle+2+site%3Amixnmojo...
It's not even by state. Nashville, TN has inspections and emissions test, while Knoxville, TN has no requirements.
Full disclosure: the illustrator who wrote the open letter is my 15 year old sister — she is currently pretty stoked right now.
Sadly, it is not. But there was a fan remake called Maniac Mansion Deluxe released a few years ago that has upgraded graphics. Not tried it yet, but it looks great: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/401/.
You do not have backups until you have tested the restore. Typically, I restore the production backups to the test environment. This way test gets up to date data and the backup restores are tested.

I have so many stories of data loss from many years working, that I do nothing without backups. From fat finger deletes to raid card batteries failing to multiple disks in the raid array failing at the same time. Data will be lost at some time with the only recovery method being a backup.
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I think "somewhat success" is a vast understatement as they're outselling all competing vehicles. That would be impressive for a new ICE manufacturer, but to have successfully created the technical and team infrastructure to make this possible is astonishing-- the service stations across the nation, a massive supercharging network, home delivery service nationally, etc.

I personally do believe their success is assured-- their success thus far combined with Elon's past and simultaneous other accomplishments seem to me as the very definition of ironclad evidence that this man achieves what he sets out to do. I just can't picture headlines in 5 years reading "How the man who landed the first rockets failed the auto industry." It just seems far-fetched.

And I don't think the market is as vastly different as you believe. At both levels you have people with money who want something shiny. And there are more people with $40k than there are people with $90k.

Time will tell.
Most popular media out there that people want you to pay money for is simply not of any value to modern consumers, you can easily do without it and you are not rewarded for reading it in any way more than reading any of the other stuff available for free.
free? Does that happen only in USA? Apple care in India quoted me around 400 dollars for replacement with 6 months warranty. No way i am buying second hand Apple hardware in India if service costs so much.
+1 on this, a great book
My wife and I have a Timneh African Grey parrot.

She flighted, very social, very co-dependent. Prefers being on a shoulder or on top of a head most of the time. The flighted part has been difficult at times. She flew away and we lost her for 4 days once. But I still stand by her being flighted being a good choice. She flew to a stranger that saw one of our thousands of fliers and turned her in. She goes where she wants when she wants when we are home and always has energy to burn flying around.

We have staggered schedules so the bird is only alone in her cage 7 hours a day 4 days a week. She actually loves this time as we set up a tablet full of hundreds of videos on random of other birds singing and talking to pass that time she must be in her cage during the day. She -loves- it. Whenever it comes on she will stop what she is doing to go gets all excited and runs over to watch it and start singing and mimicking the things she is seeing.

This may not work out for all birds, but it has certainly worked out for ours. She has her own educational TV :D
And a vulnerability in your website permitting an attacker to create a file opens the possibility for an attacker to get a certificate for your site too, and without certificate transparency you'll possibly never even know it even happened...
Fexofenadine/Allegra was reviewed and not added. This is fortunate as it's the only OTC allergy medication that actually works for me.
I don't really ask people to configure things. I ask if you understand how DHCP works, and how TCP works, how top works (ie info is in proc . . . I volunteer laptop at the start of interviews but most people never use it. I try to stray away from asking for a list of facts.

Often I will ask a question about making a big change and I want to know how they go about it, is there error checking, is the a list of failures that can be worked later, if it's big scale are things run in parallel, are parallel processes run in a way that would max out the boxes resources? I don't need all of those because everyone answers those questions differently but I want to know how you think and assume you can look up arguments later. Or that I can teach you how to use a man page depending on the level of hire.

A huge majority of our stack is proprietary so you won't know how to use it anyway. So if you know how to think and you know how to learn then you should be fine.
You need to be more specific. Tool on the web? As a mobile app? Desktop app? Library to be used by other software?
Yes, we call those marks "permissions". Most operating systems have them. The problem is putting the right process in place around using them.
Is there any documentation or discussion on the justification for doing this? I'm scratching my head and asking why anyone would do this intentionally...
That would get annoying very quickly, and also in an ideal world you use a config management tool like Chef and manage your server through there.
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>> Now the bloated upgrades, as I said, did also help forcing users to "want" the new one more.

My experience after switching to Android is not that though. Most of the major releases, including the upcoming N, offer performance improvements.

Granted, I don't know what that says about the code base, whether it was already so vastly inefficient that they find tons of room for improvements or whatnot, but it's definitely a refreshing change from iOS for me.
But can get a nice Motorola for £150 and a £7 month sim - you dont need a Iphone do do all that
Yes so the ranking is arbitrary but I know that you've made it to the top of the rabbit hole and looked down it once. Some people are at the edge of the forest and don't even know there is a rabbit hole. That's what the question is for.

> I usually just probe by asking details about the projects they've done etc.

I do this too, but that tells you if the person has a matching view of their abilities with their actual skills.
What is the benefit of rsync's $0.20/GB pricing over any other cloud storage solution that costs $0.01-$0.03/GB?
Providing super-duper proprietary info to their biggest advertisers that no one else has and no one else can verify? Absolutely!
Not long ago I discovered backups don't do any good if you delete them. The incident went down while I was wiping out my hard drive to do a fresh install of Fedora. I believe what happened may have been due to sleep fatigue.

Everything is a bit hazy. At one point in my wandering on the command line I found the mount point for my external backup drive. "What's this doing here?" and decide to remove it.

At some point I woke up in a panic and yanked the usb drive off the my laptop. Heart pounding. "Oh shit."

I actually felt like I was going to get sick. Tax records, client contact info, you name it, all gone. Except, basically, the pictures of my kids, mozilla profile, and my resume files.

While I reconstructed some of the missing files there a bunch that would be nice to have back. All of the business records though have had to be reconstructed by hand. By the next day I did realize I really only cared about the pictures of my kids in the end. And those were somehow saved from my blunder.

Work flow change: backup drive is only connected to laptop while backups are being made or restored. Disconnected at all other times. A third backup drive for backups of backups is on the todo list.
>A 5-year-old PC is probably not running a recent version of Windows,

Windows 7 came out 7 years ago, is still reasonably supported, and you get a free upgrade to Windows 10 for it.

> And if a person wants a new computer but can't afford it, that is sad too.

And an iPad Pro for 600$-1200$ is very likely not the answer for them.

I agree, it's a lot of talk about a single stupid statement, but I think it is a really stupid statement, on multiple levels.
And what about all the people who are not random strangers? The people who can have a material effect on my life and will do so, in part, on their assessment of my worth? Shall I ignore them as well? What does that get me?

The points I was making without spelling them out explicitly, before being confronted with the sad fact that too many people appear to have been watching the Hallmark Channel, are that there is no such thing as intrinsic worth, people make decisions that affect you based in part upon their assessment of your worth, and a lot of that assessment is based on possessions, money, job title and physical appearance.

Choosing to ignore this doesn't make it go away.
I am not expert... The site looks great, maybe you could put a little sample of your previous works in the first part of the website, not just the "Contact us" and something that I always look, the "About us", is good to know more about who is behind of the website... Is just an humble opinion.
huh? Isn't that what CentOS is meant for, more or less?
The article is reactionary and click bait.
> a script to generate the package.json for an arbitrary package name

Yep, that and it publishes your project to NPM!!!

edit: I was wrong, the x.sh script looks malicious but appears not to be? In any case it shows that installing NPM modules is just as unsafe as 'curl | sh'.

Ways to be safe are to first check what scripts will be run by a package: 'npm show $MODULE scripts'. There is also the '--ignore-scripts' flag[1].

[1]: https://blog.liftsecurity.io/2015/01/27/a-malicious-module-o...
Toyota debuts the Prius Prime plug-in with a Tesla-like screen
All valid points, but it hasn't always been this way. There is a model for profitably and sustainably running a business that builds solid products and then services them.

We often act as though the world we live in is the only way things could have possibly proceeded, but after WW2 U.S. manufacturing invented the idea of the consumer to cope with manufacturing capacity built up during war time.

We are still effectively living in a manufacturing boom time created by a war machine.
I was reasonably happy on my bosses plastic Macbook until OSX stopped supporting them, and I need xCode for my job.

I now have his non retina Macbook pro to compile apps, and i fear the day that stops working too.
How do you know that you, as a lone developer, aren't writing insecure, unperformant, buggy code?
You're only ever allowed to use your account with the person you validated with. You cannot share an account, e.g. between employees of the same company; if you want to transfer an account to another person over your vacation, you have to create a new account, re-validate, and recreate all certificates on the new account.

Obviously, we said f*k that and just registered everything on the CEO's name and have him do the phone verification.
>They rarely have a person in their life who models delayed gratification and saving behavior, let alone strategic investing, so they never see the benefit of doing that.

I'm not really sure this is correct. If you have a source please do share it.

From what I've read, the reason they have difficulty saving isn't because they weren't taught to do so but because when you constantly have to no to things you want, you use up a lot of energy, or more specifically, glucose. This in turn makes you more impulsive and less rational.

For example see: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2010/wan...

That being the case, I don't really like the idea of labeling poor people as being poor because of their inability to save or their own foolishness. There have also been studies that show that living in poverty actually changes your brain and makes you less intelligent.

See:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/poverty-disturbs-c...

It's a self perpetuating cycle as far as I can tell
Avant (online lender) blasts past the $3bn mark
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Great piece of fiction, it feels like the author works at Facebook or knows someone who does though.

That said, what's described could possibly be done with existing technology . Could Facebook accurately move forward statements like "next Monday is going to be massive for Volkswagen" over time you could weight private messages from people who work for regulators higher. For more public events like an apple launch they could predict a spike easily just by all the media mentions of the date
It certainly isn't dead. It is slower than it was before. Moore's original law stated that every 12 months the number of transistors would double. That was revised to 18 month in the 90s, and is now due another update.
I second you on this. My ipad one is perfect but websites are killing it. Reddit and Hcker News are working fine mbasic.facebook.com too but for other websites I expect a crash as soon as I touch the link. People talk about planned obsolescence but it's webdesigners that killed my Ipad1 not Apple.
I'm glad somebody finally wrote something on this. I would love to see the incomes for all the delivery workers (drivers / packers etc) broken down revenue and net income minus taxes, gas, vehicle maintenance, benefits, referral fees, and incentives etc. I can't imagine people are really making a solid hourly rate.
I dislike the way I feel on Claritin (I would call it a bit "fuzzy"). I've been taking Zyrtec lately without noticing any side effects.

Maybe try the other 2nd generation drugs next time you feel the need (Allegra is yet another compound)?
Actually, no, the Surface Pro is a tablet. The Surface Book is a laptop.
I'd recommend reading the article in this case. They make a very good argument for why the 10 kWh version was inferior to the 7 kWh version.

I guess the larger one used a different type of battery?