skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My belief in why they wanted to purchase WhatsApp was it presented a threat to fakebook [sic]. This is why they also purchased Instagram, and attempted the same for Snapchat.
If true, then WhatsApp wasn't valued at $19 billion, but rather fakebook [sic] saw that removing the perceived threat was worth the price.

What astounds me the most, is the FTC doesn't seem to investigate tech acquisitions like other industries. Especially, when it seems there is a good indication choice is being removed from the market.

Although, I've seen a few deals structured in a way to make it seem like a smaller company is buying a larger one to avoid a review [at&t <-> SBC, Sears Holdings <-> K-Mart].
Same here, much better looking than any of the other EV's in it's class/price range. It's also more powerful and has much better range; what's not to love about that car?

It seem that the Model S has become the yardstick for any new EV coming out now; but that extremely unfair, we don't compare other cars coming out to super cars to justify calling them slow and bad looking..
When a company throws a biscuit at the wall, believe me they announce so loud that others can hear it very well.

When they contribute, they make it sure everyone knows about it.
My reason to have Bootcamp is literally to get Elgato Game capture, used to capture the presenter's screen real time, support in OBS so that I can livestream a Bsides conference once a year. I use an old Canopus firewire SD video to live transcode the camcorder in that setup.

I tried to do this in Parallels, but it just didn't work. Turns out live video composition and broadcasting needs the bare metal.
IBM/Lenovo always had great trackpads for the "Thinkpad" line, and the nipple/clit was always my favorite pointing device, I actually missing it as typing this on an MBP15.
Amen brother!
What a refreshing read, it came across as authentic advice with actionable points - I feel that the "value your own time above all else" and "prepare to be wrong" are all too often missed in the more glitzy & glamorous "I make n$$$ per month" posts.
I wish the US had laws like the EU that protected the consumer.
A VM running the an OS, a browser with some software identifying the interesting banners and clicking on the while they move the mouse and scroll the window in human-like ways.

Imagine now a beefy box with a couple hundred VMs running on it.

Now imagine fake cameras catching a rendered environment and tracking virtual eyes that move according to what the camera would expect.

If you want ad networks that rely on cameras to detect your presence capturing your image, imagine installing a fake camera driver on your PC that shows a rendered person in a rendered environment doing random browsing.

edit: last part was unclear
Blocking UDP 123 upstream is a common tactic to avoid participating in NTP DDoS botnets.

You're best off running your own NTP infrastructure that's isolated from the public Internet NTP servers if you want stable time sources. Put a CDMA NTP server in two locations, let them sync, and go. You can get cheap EndRun servers on eBay for a few hundred bucks.
There are some scale models of the solar system in various museums and universities.

I saw the one at UC Boulder a decade ago and remember being blown away by the ratio of how small the planets are to their solar distances.

To make the model fit within the campus, the planets, especially the non-gas-giants, are surprisingly small. And much further away from the Sun than you'd naively think from the usual solar system drawings in the science books.
> It doesn't translate cleanly to any kind of object structure in terms of code.

XML translates great to an object tree in many object oriented language.

<foo bar="1">
<yo />
Hello
</foo>

new foo(new yo(), "hello", bar = 1)

Which is why it's so great to describe documents and static UIs.

I agree though that it's not a great choice for a REST API.
It is not said there on their website. Is it for the US-only researchers?
also if you replace my name with Mark Zuckerberg.
Barnes and Noble's latest tablet is running spyware from Shanghai
> $13.04 per thousand faked views

I thought the usual payout was an order of magnitude lower than that.

Something like 1$ per thousand views
In that case, let's do inverted funding -- we seriously underfund schools in rich districts, and overfund in poor ones.
These laptops have been around, and successful, for years. They've just been snuffed by hipsters because they weren't Apple.
The slimmer dell laptops have been lacking the RJ45 port for a while now. I have a precision m3300 (very happy with that) which doesn't have one. Had to get a cheap adapter for USB but that one feels more like a plug that sits at the end of the network cable than a dongle.

The thing I think with those of us that do have their computers connected to cable network a lot ("all the time") is that it's usually in the same place (our desk) so it's not that big a problem to adapt the end of the network cable there.

In fact I'd prefer to use a usb-c brick with all connections (video, keyboard, mouse, lan) over the current one where I insert the network cable into one usb, then the monitor into the hdmi, and the monitor usb which has the mouse/keyboard in it's hub into a second usb. Of all the "docking flaws" with my current laptop I find the lack of RJ45 to be the least annoying actually.
Hah, I run the exact same config. I used to be a wmii user but moved to Windows for quite a while when work and school required software that only ran there. Now I'm back on the tiling window manager train with dwm, and I realize I had forgotten how much I like this setup.
Bluntly teachers who need to work much more than contract hours are not efficient or planning ahead well.
Ask HN: Are (Windows) Symlinks Dangerous?
What I'm trying to do:
I have a central repository of scripts and I figured that symlinks would be a novel way to keep scripts located throughout my network always up to date. I ran into an issue during a Windows deployment where I got the following error "The symbolic link cannot be followed because its type is disabled." This is the default behavior on Windows for remote to local and remote to remote symbolic links.

I can enable this functionality with fsutil, but I want to know the potential repercussions of doing so. If this is a bad idea, what methods or tools do you guys use to keep your scripts up to date?

Background:
In the Unix/Linux world hardlinks and symlinks are par for the course, but Microsoft hides this functionality in Windows (though it is present). Microsoft disables the functionality for non-administrators by default and obscures it from users by making it possible only through the command-line.

Notes:
I know things can "break" when symlinks point to symlinks and I know that some programs (e.g. backup) may choke on them or just not follow them.

Discussion on Information Security:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/10194/why-do-you-have-to-be-an-admin-to-create-a-symlink-in-windows

Discussion on Superuser:
https://superuser.com/questions/10727/why-cant-normal-users-on-windows-create-symbolic-links

Here's one of the Windows STIGs about preventing symlinks for users: https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/windows_7/2014-04-02/finding/V-26482

Previous thread on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3075408

Thread on /r/sysadmin:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/5jdq2d/windows_discussion_are_symlinks_dangerous/
The lack of attention could perhaps be caused by the death of the man who brought the attention?
This actually looks interesting. You can maybe containerize it to increase adoption/reduce setup time.

I agree with both the unfriendly and over-engineered part ;). But right now there is no other tool that provides a task runner PLUS all the plugins of Jenkins that provide so many features out of the box.
How does one tell which XPS 15 one is ordering?

Suppose you order one through Amazon, other than doing a feature by feature comparison, can you tell it is the "latest" one?
FYI, taking the cilantro leaves off the stem and then freezing in a small plastic container seems to work indefinitely. Not quite fresh, but a whole lot better than giving up on cilantro because of the waste.
If I understand you correctly, you are talking about managing Jenkins configuration as code. For that, see

* configure jobs as code (https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Job+DSL+Plugin)

* system configuration as code (https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-31094) and its current prototype (https://github.com/jenkinsci/system-config-dsl-plugin)

* bypassing setup wizard (https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-34035)

There are also puppet modules, Chef cookbooks, and etc that a lot of people use. Some of those are maintained by people who are also in the Jenkins community, so I don't consider them "3rd party hacks" if you are referring to those.
Methbot Operation Stealing Millions in Ad Revenue [pdf]
Once your client "clicks" all the ads suddenly all meta data about you becomes useless. That is much better than simply not showing ads.
sorry, that's simply wrong. OSX has menus fixed in the menu bar, not in the window titles, these are separate. And so far I find menus at the top still offer the best UX - no need to target the pointer vertically, the menu always anchored where you find it, a root representation of running apps other than their windows. Unity does almost everything the other way round - hidden menus, revealed wherever the top of your window is if you happen to figure out the right key combo or gesture. Discoverability? Who needs that, people can't operate something more complex than an iPhone app anyways...
Feel free to provide some recommended examples instead of just being snarky.
Did they say they were going to .NET Core? As someone who researched porting code from .NET to .NET Core, it seemed like a lot of work, there was a lot of libraries we relied on that just didn't exist in Core, and we decided not to pursue it within the company at this point. I imagine such a massive engine as Unity would be even more difficult.
I have a precision 5510 (pro version of the XPS15) Skylake gen and it doesn't have the annoying coil whine of my previous XPS13 (Haswell gen)
Rumours have it that next year's line-up will return to having slim bezels like the current XPS series has (and Thinkpads had a decade ago…).
The thing that gets my goat is that the last keynote was supposed to be all about the Mac.

The first 25 minutes were spent rambling about other Apple business, and then they only updated 1 of their many Mac product lines.

Is it any surprise that longtime Mac users are pissed?
How Strong Are Your Startup’s Competitive Advantages?
Apple's PC market share is much higher in the USA than it is worldwide, and it's very low in Asia, apart from Japan.

Also, Apple's market share is much higher now than it was when the masses adopted PCs. That happened under Windows 95 (which nearly drove Apple out of business) and XP.

When Windows brought computing to the masses, Apple's global market share was closer to 2%.
Probably $13.04 is what network takes for 1k views... publishers get scraps
I reverted to just taking pictures of my notes. I then put them into Google Docs for storage and put on tags if I need them for storage. (I use to use Evernote for storing my pictures of my notes but ...)
Folks considering this should also check out the HP ZBook Studio G3.

It has Quadro M1000M 4GB graphics, 32 GB of ECC RAM, quad core, Linux certified by HP, 4k screen, can handle two external 4k monitors and drive the panel at about 4.5 pounds.
Nah, man. Real wages are flat to down, housing in areas with jobs is through the roof, and everyone gets a free debt treadmill upon graduation now.

Tastes change and all, but, end of the day, they are poor.
A sci nerd's dream gift:multicolor electron microscopy
Calling malloc is not that expensive if you're using jemalloc or any other modern allocator. And with generational GC allocation is not just a register increment because Java has mandatory object initialization and all objects will be pushed to 2nd gen heap eventually. std::shared_ptr is quite fast when been used correctly (no excessive sharing between threads and no abusing).
There still are kernel panics, they're just very rare.
This is a decent place to find videos that haven't been gamed: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepIntoYouTube/
The beach ball
Register windows help with code size but bring along other costs. http://yarchive.net/comp/register_windows.html explains some of the tradeoffs.
Well, given her partner, we can be sure none of their products use React.
And that could be the beginning of the end. Yes, it might be slow; however, once devs start migrating to other platforms, it could become a serious hit on Apple.
> Not a single european country in the list of the five most polluting countries in the planet.

Congratulations for not understanding the concept of "per capita".
Speaking of which, seems like the 580/P580 never really delivered on the promised performance compared to the much lower power Iris 540/550 (used in the macbook pro).

The next gen looks promising though. Intel's already mentioned the kaby lake + iris for the NUC in Feb/March. I'm hoping that intel tunes the performance, power use, and price so it makes it into more devices. Iris graphics on laptops is pretty rare so far.
I had no idea "escape rooms" were a thing. Here's the Wikipedia page, for anyone else who is perplexed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_room
I've seen and have encouraged small business to move their web presence to Facebook and Google Local Business.

We've built a solid amount of websites for small businesses, and in most cases they don't care about maintenance. So in the end they spent a solid amount on a website and hosting, don't change anything for four years and build a new site. Having gained nothing in between.

Having a Facebook page doesn't cost you anything, and on the plus side, if you maintain it you will get free exposure by appearing alongside organic posts on users' timelines. You'll have to work for your likes, but it's your responsibiliy to provide fresh and interesting content. The more users engage with your posts, the more visibility you will get as well.

Twitter seems to be mainly for support and quick updates when you have service problems and Instagram is nice if you have something more in the graphics or design sector. In my country it's also mostly used by geeks and doesn't work if you want to reach a general crowd.

However, as a customer it all depends on what I'm looking for. Want a new tap for the kitchen sink? I'm not going to look for that on Facebook, you'd best have a website with some examples and pricing. If I want to go to a restaurant I only care about their contact information and the menu. If I can find that on Facebook or the Google sidebar, I'm happy.
out of all the laptops that are around right now, the xps series seems to be the closest to my fantasy -- this is due largely to their developer models which come with linux and linux supported hardware. when you say w do you mean Wh? ive heard murmurs of the legal limit for battery capacity in a laptop being 100Wh so that is very disappointing that the new xps would not even approach that anemic cap.

i was in a mall the other day and happened across a windows store. i was very pleased to see they had a range of xps laptops on display. i found them to be very attractive and well made. IIRC some of them had a power button on the side of the laptop instead of the top of the keyboard. my current laptop has a power button like this and i cannot fucking stand it. i press it by accident at least twice a day. any sane person would realize what a terrible idea that is -- it totally baffles me why they do this. its very sad to see such an obvious flaw on these otherwise great laptops.
I have never once experienced the palm rejection problems you're having while typing on the new MBP, nor have any of my friends that have one. And I've been using it nearly 12 hours a day for a month now.
And yet those opposed to school choice are the very ones whose contituencies would benefit most. Being against school choice is almost a liberal mantra; likely because the teachers unions are major contributors to Democrat politicians. They also oppose charter schools for the same reason. Look at Elizabeth Warren's flip flop on charter school quotas in Massachusetts; it wasn't an accident hat she received significant campaign donations from teachers unions before she took her 'principled' stand favoring keeping quotas low.
I love how thinkpads feel. They only feel cheap if you think anything that isn't Apple feels cheap. No, they're not shiny, but they don't feel cheaply made. If anything the added sturdiness, to me, feels so much less cheap than super-delicate Apple products.

A bit like the difference between driving a 30 year old Porsche that needs constant maintenance and is delicate as can be. No one would call that car cheap, but I'd opt for the Tesla Model S and ignore the brand loyalists.
I'd be all-in on Quiver if there were a mobile client and nested folders.
Which is precisely what proceeded to happen: "I don't believe any of your suggestions are true in a way that don't apply to public spaces in general. I wouldn't do "thing x" in case the wrong people saw, but that includes the possibility of a friend of my boss seeing me making out with his wife so I'm not going to do that where I might be seen."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13220139
Dell's XPS series has been around since 2013, they just didn't make it to HN. Lenovo also had more compact-ish 15" models with the T540p and later the T550/T560. Not sure about HP's Envy series, I'm not following them too closely.
But then I would have to run Windows :-(
I loved firebug and was hesitant to switch to chrome, years ago, just to use the tool. To this day I prefer the UI over devtools. IMO, building that tool as an extension when it was built, is an empresive engineering feat. No doubt there was a lot of pain and learning!

Luckily, devtools in chrome has also come a long way and I'm sure it will keep getting better.
For me, there's still no alternative. And I also will not recommend anything but a Mac to friends and family. They just have the best personal computer on the market, period.
Has anyone taken the Novena laptop designs and tried to produce an updated version? Seems like fairly obvious Kickstarter material there.

https://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
Going from a civil engineer to computers and programming is an all too common career path. For some reason, even though I am very knowledgeable of computers/programming/development, I never made the switch.

Part of the reason Civil Engineers go into Civil is because they are excited by the idea of making things (especially with computers). Part of the reason they leave, is after they see how frustratingly slow-paced it is, how poor communication is, and how ridiculous the number of times your project or work gets axed (not shelfed, axed!).

There is a concept in software engineering called reusable code. That concept is completely absent from CE. The entire industry works that way. And it seems backwards.

I am still holding out hope that one day this field will improve, and I may have a hand in it. But in all honesty, I see architects, surveyors, and software engineers doing a better job of revamping this industry than civil engineers ever can.
People cannot provide feedback on something that has not launched.
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You seem to be preemptively trying to head off an attitude that has not yet been shown in this thread.

Petrochemicals that are not burned are not contributing to co2 emissions. Also, there are other sources of those long carbon chains besides pumping them out of the ground. And at such a tiny percentage of oil use, they are not a big concern.
Sometimes I build small utilities for myself. Even small projects count. Sometimes those lead you down more interesting or challenging paths as well. You definitely don't have to build a popular web app with a big userbase (a big user base might even be seen as a distraction by your potential employer). Even just something that simplifies your life and you're the sole user of shows something. Most engineers are more interested in just seeing how advanced your dev skills are and how much you know / follow best practices.
I don't know why but I like it this way - I at least have some assurance that what my dev tools show me is what the browser actually sees.
If the US had the same taxation and regulatory environment as Europe you wouldn't have Facebook in the first place lol
You must be trolling to seriously compare the creative disruption automation causes to real human loss slavery causes.

Compared to the non-slave inventors the list of slave inventors is disproportionately tiny. A few anecdotal people don't hold muster to waves of people innovating. I can point to single companies with hundreds of inventors.

In the long run automation benefits everyone, even the people who temporarily lose their jobs. Those people are encouraged to get back into the work force and to do the best they can even they have less work to do because of some new tool. Slaves were sometimes killed for not working hard enough. If slaves invented a labor saving device they got non of the benefit and instead any value increase was entirely given to the slave's owner. Employees can choose who to work for and choose their conditions, slaves cannot. Employees can try see their obsolescence coming and go to school, shift careers or fight it, slaves can only do as they are told.
The biggest battery capacity I've had in a laptop was 160Wh with the Thinkpad X220, I'm curious where that supposed 100Wh limit comes from.
That's a fair point, and maybe I'm just demonstrating a personal bias for a particular type of discussion that isn't reflected on Hacker News. However, I didn't try to "correct" the grandparent commenter so much as show that while an acknowledgement of an anecdote is made in good faith, it doesn't take away from the overall impact on the audience. We may not be researchers peer reviewing the work of colleagues here, but we can still strive for a certain level of scientific literacy and decorum in our discussion.

Stated another way - if this were an article about computer science instead of neuroscience, would you expect the overall discussion to be stronger, the same or weaker compared to this discussion in terms of rigor? Furthermore, would you think that rigor was warranted on this forum (these aren't rhetorical questions, I'm curious)? I understand that disciplines like neuroscience allow us to relate with the science a bit (it's tempting to retroactively interpret our experiences with novel research!) but comments offering anecdotes, even with those expressly accounted for, allow biases to be couched in between legitimate data. I certainly think the grandparent comment would be challenged similarly if this was a psychological study with the current concerns about replication.
>> 32GB ram laptops don't utilize LPDDR3, as in Low Power DDR3, which is used to reduce power consumption. If you're happy carrying a "portable" jet turbine, be my guest.

I think you're missing the point. People want the option for 32GB even if it increases power consumption. Given how most people don't need more than 16GB, you can probably assume that those pining for 32GB are at least willing to make that compromise.
I really like the term "friendly pita". When people complain about tech support being unhelpful, I've often found the opposite. Be genuinely friendly and relentless and I've found even incompentent people will fix things. Which I also genuinely appreciate.

Sincerity helps, both as a shield and as a way to diffuse the inevitable frustration that comes from troubleshooting tech.

Of course, I've got a strong force of will, too, so I tend to mix poorly with charlatains like the grandfather's post. I really feel for the souls who have to work under that jerk.
I hardly believe that CmdrTaco's reaction on Slashdot to the iPod is indicative in any way of how the "pro market" responded to the iPod or iPhone.