skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They kinda already did that with the retina version. you can't upgrade the SSDs(edit: it was the ram that I was upset about originally because they soldered it on the other point still stands) or add an extra SSD and remove the cd drive like you could with the last gen mbp. I want a powerhouse desktop replacement as a developer that I can bring with me places not a more expensive MB air. The screen is nice but not at the value proposition.
I don't see anything about fixing screen hero. This sucks for those of us in multiple professional organizations.
Open Letter to eBay: Your policies protect criminals, and you profit from it
Sure. I was sent to a referral-only recruiter in finance who had a hard time finding positions for me. When I told him I got a job and how much I'd be making, he said that little gem and skulked away. Haven't heard from him since and now the guy who referred me to him is now my boss. :)

The point is just that dismissive attitudes are everywhere in job searching, so it was just a damn good feeling to hear the guy with pie on his face.
#‎codeforlife‬ ‪online hackathon‬ is ON (April 8-10)
? The Medicare for All bill from 2008 and its current iteration in 2015, the primary and most prominent push for national healthcare, explicitly bans all private institutions from participating unless they are non-profits. Only public and non-profits are allowed to participate.
I like to misidentify things to give them bad data.
Naturally, it's even cheaper on battery life to turn off both data AND wifi, leaving your device not connecting to anything.
Absolutely agree.

We visited Domme, Arles, and Eze, and the people were really great, particularly in Domme.

The other thing I noticed about the South is that it was easier to carry on a conversation in French, in part because the people spoke a lot less (if any) English, which puts your mind into the mode of speaking only French. In Paris we'd be speaking French one minute, English the next.

BTW, what's the name of the restaurant in Nice?
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In Spanish OOP is "programación orientada a objetos", which suffers from the same mistranslation as in Greek. It also means "programming that is facing objects", in a quite physical sense.
anecdote: my SaaS has about 50 customers, 2 of which are from Romania. That's quite a high representation!
Interesting concept. Worry about the SEC getting involved with this.
Details => You might be able to save a life one day, by suggesting algorithms for better planning, simulation and coordination of emergency evacuations in public venues. There are 5 challenges and all of them are available for solving in 4 programming languages: C++, Java, C# .NET and PHP.
Yes. We are currently working with 10 selected customers. At this moment our logistic is working with third party apps like slack, typeform and internal tools developed by us that allow us launch the services in a mvp.

Our final platform is currently at 70% and should be finished and launch soon :)
In the case of freelancers, we have associate 84 designers and 19 writers. All of them from Latam
Classic door in the face technique.[1] Ask the impossible to get concessions you would otherwise be refused.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique

I disagree with the conclusion that the DOJ needs to be offered anything. It's like giving a rude, angry, loud customer a discount to appease them. You're just training them to be more rude, angry, and loud in the future.

They should lose as much face as possible. That's the only way to shut them up. If they look completely incompetent, they risk losing funding, because nobody likes wasteful government spending on incompetent agencies.
> especially if your cell service is noticeably worse than the wifi.

I’m not sure if that case exists anywhere in the civilized world. Subways and trains all have 3G networks, buildings have them, even in rural areas every 3rd tree you pass is a hidden 3G tower.

I don’t think I’ve seen a place without 3G anywhere in Germany in my lifetime (but I’m only 20)
Henrik Fisker Has Thoughts on the Tesla Model 3
Apple is really starting to suck in the enterprise, windows desktop OS is coming along but still has flaws, android is the future of computing.
this is coming from and industry certified apple tech who has been certified on every major make of PC as well. Most dip shots don't need a real computer for surfing the interwebs. google chrome does fine for most stuff out there.
Virtualization and web platforms like vision and AWS give low powered devices infinite hardware and software capabilities.
Where does a desktop even fit in this world any more, besides the IT office or possibly the accounting offices.
I had an apple rep to tell me to drop Open Directory in favor of Active Directory. I am not sure they even care about enterprise customers any more and just want to sell stupid IOS devices they can brick whenever they want you to buy a new one and release an update to kill it.
Who would ever want to try and manage mac OS with Active Directory, that is really dumb. I might as well get Windows OS or google chrome OS and manage it with native tools for the OS.
Well the lack of SOP is by design, since it's not a browser visiting multiple sites the idea of an "origin" doesn't always make sense. This is part of a larger body of work we've been researching, we found much more than this one (all known bugs have been patched, that's why we've been waiting to release this). We'll be submitting the full body of work to DEFCON/Blackhat, and a few other cons, hopefully we'll get accepted, be on the lookout if we do!
Which motherboard did you go with?
This is a space I have studied. I don't have time today to expound at length in hopes that you might understand my point, which I feel you have wildly misunderstood. But this comment of mine from elsewhere might cast a bit more light on what I mean:
http://www.metafilter.com/156605/No-Toilets-for-the-Homeless... (For context, it is a follow up to this comment of mine: http://www.metafilter.com/156605/No-Toilets-for-the-Homeless...)

These comments may also be useful:
http://www.metafilter.com/contribute/activity/153873/search?...

Especially the first one:

http://www.metafilter.com/157297/I-cant-afford-to-buy-grocer...
100% agreed.

I work for a slack competitor that has away messages, and I'm jealous of Slack's willingness to ignore the old interface patterns and implement the simplest solution possible that makes the most sense for larger group users, new users, ignoring the expectations of the smaller group of users, old-time users.
Apple has been steadily been abandoning the "creative pro" market for a long time. The two most recent indicators were dropping Final Cut Pro 7 for Final Cut Pro X, which was not ready for professional editing at release. The new Mac Pro confirmed the move away from the pro market, since it only supported one CPU. For compressing feature films, dual CPUs are a must.
In Germany, until a few weeks ago, we had the concept of Störerhaftung: Unless you could prove that all users of your WiFi were educated by you about pirating and co, YOU were liable for their actions.

So, every single WiFi had login pages. Everywhere.

And many cities have full WiFi in the downtown area.

Wherever you go, every few meters, a new hotspot, a new login page, a new vibration.

I just turned all WiFi stuff off.
cpu is $60, but mobo will kill you :(
And for criminals to target your bank account.
"Every time a bus passes through me"

Maybe a vibrating phone is not his biggest problem...
Andrea Rossi Responds to IH Statement
All this hate for Android's crappy work-around, and none for the asinine UX implemented by wifi providers that make such a work-around necessary in the first place?

There's no good, universal solution here, short of never connecting to these blights in the first place.
Taking CSS Animations to the Danger Zone
Rossi is alleging that the defendants have not only refused to pay the agreed amount on conclusion of a successful test, but also that they have attempted to patent the technology themselves (despite Rossi's existing US and European patents).Whats the majority opinion here who is scamming who. And if the device does not work then why the patent fight.
Is this sort of parallelism also doable with Solr as well?
Oh, my bad, I misunderstood.

Lemme first state that I am not a systems developer; I mostly do servers.

That said, some stuff that keeps Rust from being my favorite is a lack of tail-call optimization, the lack of the ability to say that a function is pure and impure (and have that enforced), and not having some concept of a green-threading library built-in.

I realize that the last point can fairly easily be implemented with a library, but the first two points keep me using Haskell.

And evidently, if I'm wrong about any of these points, don't hesitate to correct me! I'd love to have a chance to get better with the language.

EDIT: Just a note, I know that Haskell isn't a systems language and not a direct replacement for Rust. That said, I find that a lot of the features I want in Rust are things I like in Haskell.
Wikipedia says it's still used by cargo, corporate, and private operators.
iMessage bug exposed target's chat history after one click
I 1000% percent agree with you. But my fear is they've got the $$$ to wage this war of attrition longer than all the rest of us combined.
I think you are grossly overestimating the general public's ability to consume and understand a technically complicated argument no matter how well-reasoned.
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Here's the megalist of them all: http://officesnapshots.com/companies/

There is also http://officesnapshots.com/search/
I upgraded the SSD on my Retina MBP. It's easily accessible after unscrewing the back panel
There's a real, reasonable fear at the heart of this legislation.

If encryption becomes widespread and providers/individuals start using it correctly, then it will greatly hinder law enforcement's ability to gather physical evidence for certain types of crimes.

At the end of the day this is just another situation where we have to weigh the positive of greater freedom against the negative of the impunity this freedom may provide to those breaking laws that we all support.

I don't know what the answer is, but acting like anyone who supports this legislation is just after more control is immature.
Why would they even use a apple machine specifically for pixar, disney or some other animation house? They have a few cross platform apps they use and the option of creating huge beefy workstations that live at an office desk.
... which I highly recommend until you outgrow it and graduate to Kafka.
You are literally the only person I have ever heard say they make more money at Amazon than elsewhere, and this is counter to my experience working at Amazon.

You might be surprised if you were to actually have that conversation with a competitor.
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Yes, the NSURLIsExcludedFromBackupKey file property.
1. The environment is generally positive, love my co-workers and I do a reasonable job as a platform engineer.

2. Would love to have more input in the direction of certain aspects of the product.

3. My #1 priority is work-life balance. It is taken care of here.

4. If work starts becoming tedious (monotony?) and starts eating into my free time / weekends, I would leave right away.
So the publisher that publishes text book on crypto have to provide a bank door to the government?
That's a pretty different comparison. The current-generation Retina Macbook Pro was released almost exactly a year ago. It's due for a refresh. The XPS 15 you're linking was released in October and likely won't be refreshed again for another 6 months.

The Dell might well be the better of the two, but you would expect that since it's a recent release. It's not as if the MacBook Pro Retina has languished for years, though.
Graphene Filter Could Make Wireless Data Transmission 10 Times as Fast
My motherboard, RAM, and processors were all used. I wasn't concerned too much about the RAM or processors, but I've seen a lot of posts about people getting bent CPU pins on used motherboards. Luckily, everything was working for me when I got it.

I was initially considering a new Xeon E3 system, because I wanted to have ECC memory, but the price on these used components had a significantly better price/performance ratio. Whenever I decide to update to a new system, I'll be looking at something like this again before I consider something new.
here's another experiment for you that I've run on myself:

When I consume products that contain wheat, I feel sick. When I don't, I feel fine. Sample size n=1, and I am not medically trained. What conclusions, if any, do you think I can draw from my experience?
As it should violate because single responsibility is not applicable to this use case.

JEEVES text showing up in our chat is useful when I ask JEEVES to do something for us. Remember JEEVES does not show up till we ask for "it". Also remember this conversation is about planning to meet up for a movie not discussing some topic or sharing some content or having witty back and forth.
They know how it works. They want the kinds that work well to be made illegal for civilian use.
I would guess that the spam mailers subsidize a lot of USPS's mail services. If they're already getting paid to ram advertising garbage in my mailbox, adding an actual letter in there is probably relatively cheap.
Encryption does not create impunity for anyone. Crimes are still crimes, and plenty of criminals were caught, prosecuted and convicted before mass surveillance.
Exactly none of the issues listed seem at all like nightmares for US Cities. Slow news day?
can you get a second certificate? i'm not sure how the technology works, but since let's encrypt is free i think it could also be automated to solve this problem
Ended up getting a used Supermicro X9DAi from eBay.

Edit: Should mention that Supermicro has proprietary ATX/E-ATX motherboards. I went for them because I thought it would just work with an E-ATX case, but I ended up drilling 5 or 6 holes in my case for the standoffs.
How Not to Care What Other People Think
Side note: It amuses me that "calculator" can be over-analyzed down to "small chalk pebble-token doing thing".
But the Mac Pro is round. That's the important thing. Other lame computers are square. The cool Apple computer is round. That's what's important.

Half the people who buy that thing probably never use more than the browser and some music/video play apps.
Seems like he's ripping into Net's toxic environment, not Google's.
Q1: Covey would say there are some basic human needs. Physical health, money, opportunity to be creative, challenge, social interaction. For me, absence of creativity/challenge and onset of boredom has been a common theme. In the future I'd guess I will be okay on that front and struggle with others.

Q2: Definitely. Some awareness comes from taking time to meditate, and some comes from experience. I'm not going to argue I can anticipate everything or that I've met all of life's challenges. That would be silly. But I do feel more comfortable dealing with things day-to-day and feel less of a need to plan/control the future.
Employees of other companies are not a cult, though this perception is common internally to Amazon. It discourages you from quitting, and stigmatizes people who leave.

Think about this next time you have a conversation where everyone quotes the leadership principles.
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I think this is awesome news. Hopefully we will see Chrome starting marking http only sites as non-secure and Apples App Transport Security (ATS) forcing people to switch to https all over the web within a year or two.

https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/marking-http...
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/General...
Another option is to start flying with something that qualifies as a 'firearm' in your luggage. Such requires actual proper locks that only you can open. There was a talk on this at DEFCON 17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw

Obviously, this only works in the US. Other countries will have different laws on the ownership and transport of firearms.
Here's a previous 'Ask HN' question I asked about this. There are some interesting comments about UK management culture.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10987237
I'm sorry -- "if encryption becomes widespread and providers/individuals start using it correctly" is what everyone technical agrees should happen. The spread should be as wide and as comprehensive as possible.

To suggest otherwise is to say that security isn't important at all.

Or could you concretely suggest some areas where communications shouldn't be encrypted? Offer up some sacrificial lambs.
Exactly! Monetization through partnerships with service providers or affliate programs or service promotion (e.g. a new chinese restaurant opened if you would like to try it)
Télécopieur is one of my favourites, it's the fax machine. The fax, i.e. the piece of paper coming out, is the télécopie. Tele-copy, that's something I can get wrap my head around, it actually is a better derivation than from Latin facsimile.
I mostly agree with you, but I don't see why iOS isn't a potential contender against Android in the future Enterprise market. Have you been watching what Apple has been doing with iOS in education lately (http://www.apple.com/ca/education/it/)? Seems very likely that's a targeted "first user-story" for technology that's very generally applicable in the enterprise.
Basically saying that Apple's release cycle is slower for desktop and laptops than the PC counterparts.

Nothing really new here. Because there are several PC makers. Even if all of them releases new hardware in the same rate as Apple (say 2 year generation), having 3 of them can easily interscale release dates and make it look like PCs are releasing new stuff much faster.
I think this is great.

But even more impactful would be pairing a move like this with a platform that automatically generates a form letter to send to the governor and state senate, so impacted people can express their outrage to the local government.

Just a simple embeddable link generator that floods the governor's inbox.
Imagine the police response time to a black neighborhood where gun violence has just been reported. Now imagine the police don't have guns, cars, or any knowledge of the law because there is no black and white law. Now imagine you live in that black neighborhood. That black neighborhood is called the internet. And the government is trying to outlaw locking your door.
I'd like to see another 17" model. I miss the extra screen space.
I think that this reputation is waaaay overblown, due to the mostly futile efforts of the Académie Française to preserve the "pure" French language.

As an American who spent a semester in a high school in France, I remember being shocked hearing our French teacher use "le timing et le planning" discussing our strategy for how to write an in-class essay. This was an ordinary French class for French speakers made up of upper-middle class 11th graders in a stuffy Catholic school.

English loan words (the term itself is valid in French!) are all over the place. "OK" is pervasive. Other examples include "stop", "week-end", "parking", . There are even strange examples where English words are used in ways that make no sense in English. "Footing" means "jogging". "String" means "thong". "Pull" (as in "pullover") means "sweater". "Chewing" means gum. "Baskets" means "sneakers". My favorite though, is "talkie-walkie" where the "l"s are both pronounced.

If you received a blank stare from the supermarket guy, he probably just did not understand what you were saying.
This was a while ago too but I used AWS support and the Loft extensively to try to bang out what actually worked. Most of my stuff was pretty simple and I was a one person ops team so it was "good enough". I would not try to make it work with a larger team but still better than that generation of EB.
I'm a bit concerned that you're relying on RedisMQ for buffering. Redis is an in-memory store with optional persistence, but having persistence doesn't make it a log-structured system like Kafka. You still have to make sure you don't run out of memory. This greatly limits its ability to buffer messages.

It would have been much better IMHO to utilize an on-disk buffer instead, like syslog-ng PE does.
The problem I see is that there are more scamming sellers than buyers. Ebay, as a company, would rather concentrate on the sellers because they need the trust of the buyers to survive as a business.

It's the same on Amazon: They treat the third-party sellers like garbage and allow scams to continue. If you go through the Amazon seller forums, you can see many stories about sellers that were scammed, then banned, and ignored.

You should never rely on either of these companies for your business (as a seller). It's just too risky.
Apple earned only 6-7billion last quarter selling Macs, in a quarter with 50-60 billion in overall sales. [1]

I think there's a real possibility Apple will stop selling computers. They already don't care about the "high-end creative" market. OTOH I don't know what people would use to develop for iOS/Watch, but...you heard it here first.

[1] http://www.statista.com/statistics/263428/apples-revenue-fro...
Although, both came with this word separately.
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> It's like they don't make any effort whatsoever or think that the French accent is some kind of honorific mark they should cultivate.

To native English-speaking ears it does sound kind of fancy. Kind of snobby too, though.
I apply that term more liberally, it not much as about size of CPU or RAM but more about how it is indented to be used.

Is the user expected to know about OS packages on it. Are they installing/updating software components by hand, so they know the OS version which runs in the box even, are they calling it a "server"? If the answer is yes, it not "embedded".

If they interact with the device as with an appliance (a dvd player, microwave, car infotainment center, some radio base station and so on), then it is embedded. It can still be an 8 core Xeon monster, but because of how it is serviced and used it, I think of it as embedded.
Pixar and Disney mostly use Linux (as do most of the VFX / CG studios).

Artists can use Windows / OS X in some cases, but given the main apps they use (Maya, Mari, Modo, Katana, Nuke) all run on Linux, there's no point really, and using Linux everywhere makes admin much easier and more consistent.

There are some apps that are used which are Windows-only (ZBrush), and so certain artists/modellers who need to use it will use that, but these are generally the exception.
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Hey everyone!

This is my first startup. I know it's not an earth shattering idea, but I'd love to hear your feedback on it.

Is receiving a weekly newsletter of about 5 - 10 significantly discounted SaaS subscriptions something you would deem of high value to web folks?

If not, how so? What pitfalls do you predict in providing such a service?

I intend to build a customize tool so that subscribers can also choose which categories they prefer. This is to help prevent subscribers receiving deals they're not really interested in or able to benefit from.

Let me know if the site copy is also unclear as to what I do.

Thanks so much you guys, I'll really appreciate your feedback :)
Russian diplomats’ curious obsession with poetry
This is why I'm hoping we can ultimately just let go of all these analogies for encryption. Analogies are training wheels, and if we leave them on for too long, we risk propagating the idea that all bikes have four wheels.
Hi Brudgers. I'd be happy to try and provide what you're looking for, but could you clarify what you are looking for when you refer to "samples?"
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