skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the three biggest complaints seem to be: 1) Macbooks get too hot, too fast. 2) Noisy fans. 3) Ridiculously lame support for 2 external displays.

I would think that the first problem could be solved by getting a decent cooling pad. You would think that a noisy fan would prevent problem #1, but I guess not. Not much we can do about that.

As far as displays go, I would barely be able to afford the Macbook, I won't be buying two extra monitors!

Does anyone have any tips on how to fix the fan problem?
OpenNI comes with skeleton tracking as well!
Oh boy here we go. Another Apple apologist.
Because of the huge amounts of illegals from Mexico? Here in SoCal we see the negative effects of illegal immigration every day.
It seems to be related to sitting, nothing particular about sitting in a car or outside it.
instead of riding the hype, this guy actually keeps his site up-to-date (and has been for a while). kudos.
Gripes about OS X are more than welcome, seeing as if I migrate to Mac I will probably use it a fair bit.

I've heard that OS X has some pretty good software.
it's also still possible to recover the files you deleted with rm.

If you're lucky and didn't write too much to the hard-disk after deletion, yes, but with a recycling bin you have much higher chances of recovery.

Regarding `del` in DOS: You're the second one to bring up that analogy. I don't see how this is relevant. Just because Windows does it that way doesn't mean that it's good.
And they're filing a patent?

So let me get this straight. Mr Band holds a venue and pays to install Apple's patented film-blocking technology. Then, all of the loyal Apple customers who paid good money for their phones get a feature disabled at the concert. Meanwhile, Joe who bought a cheap Samsung phone can go on recording the event because his phone doesn't have some crappy Apple-patented technology in it.

Or is the idea that when I go to a big name concert, they'll confiscate all the phones that aren't made by Apple?

Either way, the idea, if reported by Fox correctly, is stupid and does not make any sense.
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This is completely unrelated to the original topic at hand, but I thought it might be interesting to shed some light on knife throwers' grips. For a given thrown weapon, whether a knife or an axe (or anything else that is meant to spin end-over-end), the number of revolutions is roughly fixed and is a function of the distance from the thrower to the target. Thus if you happen to be at a distance where you're getting a half revolution, you'll throw from the knife blade, or turn the axe around (so it's pointing towards you on throw). That enables it to hit the target the right way around. Of course, many people prefer to take a half-revolution step forwards/back so that they can throw from the tip regardless, just as a matter of form -- I did this for a while, although I feel I get better control when throwing from the handle.
there is no need to recreate the functionality at a lower level.

I refer you to the original submission.
This is misleading because if LifeHacker hadn't found your article on HackerNews, everything else probably wouldn't have happened. So I don't know if I would want to build something people wanted, and not focus on marketing... and hope one or two people spread the word to others. You might've gotten lucky. Yes, building something people want is the first step, but there's more.
I'm looking for something simliar. Execpt i want to do something along the lines of Empire Avenue.
I'm a couple of levels more paranoid than that.
First, I'll write the DELETE as a regular SELECT (to preview number of rows), then turn it into a SELECT INTO to save the soon-to-be-deleted rows into a table with a backup_date_ prefix (So old backups can be deleted occasionally). Next, before changing anything, I wrap the statement in a BEGIN TRAN, and ROLLBACK TRAN. After all that, I will finally modify the SELECT INTO into a DELETE statement, run it once while wrapped in the transaction (to verify that the number of rows modified hasn't changed), and then finally run without the transaction to delete the rows.
Overkill?
I only recently discovered molly-guard:

http://packages.debian.org/sid/molly-guard

which prevents you from running halt/shutdown etc. via SSH without first confirming the hostname.

I've done that before with pretty traumatic consequences, so it's now on my list of must-have's for any important remote box.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/molly-guard.html
That's pretty heinous, but deleting /usr shouldn't cause you to lose any irreplaceable data.
The last statement I must disagree with. NS prints utter crap so often that it is safe to ignore it completely.
Pretty sure he means the reboot, but I would enjoy seeing both. :)
"And the jab at reddit from the HN pedestal is probably misguided... reddit used to be more like HN, and HN is becoming more like the bad parts of reddit every day."

But you just did the same thing...
> Once in a while when the recycling bin gets too big, the user can empty it.

Many Linux systems don't even have a regular "user". They just sit in a corner and serve webpages, or do other tasks silently.

> Or you can have a scheduled operation that deletes stuff after 30 days.

Why not just keep backups for 30 days?
the hardware itself, not much. I don't like the magnetic latch on the 13" plastic macbook, it makes it annoying to open with one hand and occasionally when I'm closing it if my hand slips it slams down. I would also love bigger arrow keys.

one thing I still don't like in OS X is how you can't navigate menus via keyboard like you can in windows. I know there's some keyboard shortcut to focus on the first menu, but I prefer the alt+_ shortcuts in windows.
Former Groupon Employee Describes High-Pressure Tactics Culture
I have never bought a MacBook, because I don't understand how you're supposed to survive without a dock. I have two desks. When I drop my ThinkPad onto the dock on either desk, it lights up the second screen, external mouse and keyboard, speakers, wired Ethernet, and battery charger.

I do that twice a day. I don't want to plug in half a dozen cables every time.

There are easy workarounds for Ethernet (WiFi) and mouse/keyboard (Bluetooth), but not for the other three.

It's ironic, because Apple invented the laptop dock with the PowerBook Duo, circa 1993. (I think.)
With zero effort, I found this for you:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110413005584.htm<b...;

"Junichi Matsumoto, acting head of Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Nuclear Power & Plant Siting Division, acknowledged the seriousness of the Fukushima accident at a press conference Tuesday. 'Although the details of the [Chernobyl and Fukushima] accidents are different, from the standpoint of how much radiation has been released, [Fukushima] is equal to or more serious than Chernobyl.'"

That was just a citation in the Wikipedia page for the incident.
The thing he didn't mention is will-power / the ability to focus / capacity for thinking. I think the vast majority of students fail to pay attention in class, but even when they do, they fail to think hard about the concepts being presented. I see it in myself, when trying to grapple with a new concept, it's so easy to say to yourself 'just give up' and turn your attention elsewhere. Especially since you can tell yourself that your diverting your attention to something equally valuable (eg. reading the next page of the book, or listening to the next part of the lecture).

It's easy to mentally pat-yourself-on-the-back for doing X hours of studying, much harder to confront your cognitive limits by trying to integrate a new concept on the spot (as opposed to picking it up gradually through practice and experience).

Another thing to note though is that if you develop the self-discipline to hit the library for hours on end every day, that self-discipline will arguably serve you better in life than the A-A+ average you might have gained with better study techniques.
You appear to not understand how Python works. Python has no increment operators; your statement is equivalent to "x + ++++x" or "x + x", using the unary + operator.
Listen, just the damn clocking in and out process is inexcusable!
http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/some-things-just-a...
Is there a good reason that reddit has banned 80legs crawling?
No wallet, no problem?
Sign up as a startup for BizSpark, and their entire stack is free: https://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/Startup/Signup.aspx

You can run it in a VM.
Please add a whole separate category for remote jobs. When remote jobs aren't separated it's too much effort for remote job seekers to filter through to find them. Basically every job board ever invented fails at this.
I always (with sql server at least) add a begin tran/commit/rollback before any prod statements, because of getting burned in the past.

Even if you add the WHERE, but put it on a second line and only run the first, the transaction will help...

Of course, if it's going to lock the data, do all of the statements together:
BEGIN TRAN
UPDATE ... WHERE ...
SELECT ... WHERE .... -- show that the update worked
ROLLBACK

Then run the actual statement
Article forgot to mention amphetamine.
"'Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,' Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera"

OK, after reading the first sentence, I was already suspicious of this article. Quick tab back to HN comments seems to confirm it. Thanks for saving my time, HN.
This concerns me:

"...states could still make a case for taxing the former employer."

That makes it sound like if My Company in my state has any interaction with Your Company in your state, both of our states can suddenly make a case that we're both doing business in both states and they'd try to hold us responsible for additional tax.
Zed Shaw (yes, that Zed) has a good text on `ad hominem' and similar in this blog post:
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1293530004.html

and the relevant HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2045120
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Oddly, though, if you live in MA and work in MA, it turns out that you have to pay NH income tax.
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Posterous
its blogging via e-mail rocks
Listen, concerts and live events are the least of it.

What if the cops have this tech installed in their cars and prevent you from filming them in action?
This is a disconcerting self-community interaction analysis tool. I don't like my top comments at all.
Possibly overkill. But at least there won't be any tears.
This is a nice SDK. It's biggest improvement over the Open Source ones is the inclusion of the skeletal tracking. This high level interface opens a lot of great opportunities in human behavior tracking.

I'm just going to miss libfreenect and using my Mac to do this development.
Absolutely hate the glossy screen, should have gotten the matte version :(
Given that point values of comments are hidden now, how does this determine the comment score? Just curious.
Obama's data.gov CIO quits White House
I totally agree with you about the unpleasantness of ads in general, but iAds don't work like that - a static banner appears first and then if the user taps it, the interactive portion is started.
I actually like command C for copy instead of ctrl C. copy and paste from a terminal goes a lot smoother when you aren't sending SIGINT to your running program by accident ( even though selected text is automatically copied, I still hit ctrl c out of habit in linux sometimes ).
I checked a few of my own comments -- there was for example one that I have score of 89 but this tool shows 21.

Is it something other than straight upvote count?
BEGIN TRAN
DELETE FROM ...
SELECT FROM ...
ROLLBACK TRAN -- things look bad, itchy finger, etc
COMMIT TRAN -- things look good, skip previous line

That, and I have 15-minute backups for all databases I care about.
> What is definitely true, is that nobody I know feels anything positive about facebook, at all. It is seen simply as a sinister, addictive[1] necessary evil.

You and your friends probably spend so much time online for work that you reproach yourselves for excesses like Facebook. (FWIW I'm no different.) The majority of the normal, non-technical users I know don't view Facebook as evil. They just think of it as something everybody uses nowadays, like e-mail. I don't think those users are going anywhere anytime soon.

Facebook has reached an inevitable point where everyone who hasn't signed up either doesn't want to, or can't (no internet access). I mean, do you know anyone who really wants to sign up for Facebook but hasn't gotten around to it yet? It's no surprise that their growth would eventually slow. I wouldn't read too much into it. They're going to be around for a long, long time.
Ask HN: Should I go to college?
I've posted on here before about which colleges are good and paying for college but now that I've graduated and this is actually a reality I'm having second thoughts as to actually going to college this fall. I was thinking about waiting a year.

I'm 17, I just gradated last week, and I'm working full time for a startup (http://popvox.com) making more money than I've ever made. I want to move out this summer, you know all that fun stuff. If I don't go to college I think I would move out, get an apartment, work, and save money.

If I do, I'm not sure how it will play out with work. I love work. So it's not really work. I am a web designer and mobile designer for Popvox. I do all sorts of fun things. Better than fast food. I think I should wait. What do you think?
interesting, when you run csslint against its own css (located at http://csslint.net/style.css), you get a lot of warnings.
It's a slippery slope from generalization to prejudice to racism. Each little step "makes sense" and is innocuous enough. We take many little steps and then we wind up far away from where we started off with.
I believe the main problem wasn't the damage to the plants so much as the loss of power and unreliability of backup power, a known and critical flaw in an earthquake-prone area.
I can't get the wildcard character to show up ... it should be x.x
I'm not sure the abstraction bothers that many people. If every time you lifted your hand a virtual hand appeared on the screen I think people would get by. I certainly think Kinect is preferable to the Apple's current desktop solution (the touchpad touch interface)

Part of my logic here is that all of this is a placeholder.

EVENTUALLY someone will invent a smudge proof technology with tactile elements and we'll probably evolve to the point where are screens are angled (think Star Trek consoles) so the reaching isn't so much an issue.

Until that comes along there will be abstractions and I think Kinect has a chance at being the best of those abstractions.

(In the above I assume you meant a mouse by "moving your finger". If you meant an iPad like interaction I'd agree it is better but I think it is unfeasible for desktop interaction)
Reading deeper, I'm guessing that the HNSearch API that powers it still has deeper access to the point values of comments. Interesting.
The missing pieces of Minority Report are coming together.
This reminds me of Randy Pausch's method of getting someone to sit down for lunch. [1]

"And he asked a question. And I was like, I’m sorry did you say you were Tom Furness? And he said yes. I said, then I would love to answer your question, but first, will you have lunch with me tomorrow? And there’s a lot in that little moment. There’s a lot of humility, but also asking a person where he can’t possibly say no."

Although, admittedly, that's after you got them to say a few words to you and you're in front of a large group of people.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo 19:40

Edit:

For those who don't know, here's the setting of this talk:

This talk is one in a series given at CMU called the "Last Lecture" series with the hypothetical setting of 'what if you had one last talk to give?'. Randy Pausch, a professor at CMU, didn't have to pretend. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and in August of 2007 (when he gave the talk) was told he had three to six months left to live.

If you haven't seen it, watch the whole talk. It's really good.
You are right that it is not known for a fact that the Maunder sunspot minimum was responsible for the Little Ice Age recorded in Europe and elsewhere.

It started out as an interesting speculation and has remained there.

This was earlier than Dickens' time -- it was mid 1600s. Galileo and others first saw and drew sunspots in 1610 (due to the invention of the telescope). So their disappearance happened very close in time to their first definitive sighting (they had been seen earlier, but only huge ones, and not clearly, so it was not systematic at all, they were confused with planetary transits).

The original article in the Register was trash, actually. Utter trash.
I don't think side projects are mutually exclusive with work-life balance. Granted, I don't have children; but aside from that, I think I've been living a very full and action-packed life. Time-consuming outdoor hobbies, girlfriends, friends, going out, travelling - check. I also waste sickening amounts of time on sites like this one, and playing video games. Yet I've found plenty of time over the years to work on two large side projects (both ultimate passions), and several smaller ones (like iPhone apps).

Nothing says you have to spend ALL of your spare time doing ONE thing. You can rotate. I can certainly accept that some people's circumstances are such that they really don't have the time, but I think casting side projects as necessarily creating time conflicts is wrong.
blessed potion of willpower
Paying attention to the credibility of a source is not even in the same universe as an ad hominem attack.
The number one thing I don't like about my macbook is the keyboard. As a developer I have to learn, and re-learn, twice the amount of keyboard combinations to write code.
The point values are available through the search API (except the last five days).
What about UIWebViews? I believe I've read that they do not yet gain the Nitro benefits.
I managed to submit one posting without the magic string in place in my profile, but I needed it the second time.

I'm reporting this here in case it's a bug. ;)

Thanks for building this. I hope it proves useful to everyone.
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How about not assuming a company that just IPOed is at the end of its road but instead will continue innovating and finding new revenue streams? They did just raise $200MM after all.
In light of this: http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/facebook-project-spartan/ I think it's just their way to fight back against Facebook.
Sold 15 which was surprisingly enough to get us to the top 10 in Music (#10).
Because that's not what rm does. Changing it would be breaking all sorts of standards. Many, many things depend on rm simply unlinking files. Why don't you use a different program if you would like to have some sort of trashbin behavior?
Yeah, I know, I was just working through it in my own head. Seeing it in the context of this "solution" to the sleep sort problem caused me to think hyper-ops were something they are not. So, I did a bunch of reading to figure out what they actually are. It took a while to wrap my head around it.

The side benefit is that it caused me to download a Perl 6 implementation for the first time since pugs many years ago. I probably won't be using it for anything other than tinkering, of course, but nothing wrong with playing with new things. And, YAPC is coming up, so I can hang out with the cool kids who are talking about Perl 6 and Rakudo.
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Ask HN: 1000 signups a week, but how to gain long term engagement? 
Hi, HN frequent reader, infrequent poster looking for advice.

After an embarrassing first release, and an awesome UX/UI redesign of our cloud-based iPhone app, we're pleased to be getting a steady 1000 signups a week on our free app. But we're stumped on how to turn this initial interest into long term engagement for our group productivity app.

The engagement funnel looks like this: we don't advertise much (ad words isn't working for us, banners perform better and in-app ads are ok but not for our target audience: professionals) so through self-driven discovery these new users are coming to us based on App Store searches: Group Messaging, Productivity, Real-time Messaging, Shared Contacts, Shared To-Do's seem to be what's drawing people in. Users have described it as a "peer-to-peer CRM," or an "Evernote for Contacts," or a "Basecamp/Highrise for those who don't know what Basecamp is!"

Next, after installing the app, the sign-up process is easy but we require an email + password based authentication because we support invitations and only want to send out trusted invites. We also give users the options to choose an avatar, and activate location & push notifications. The point is, it's time consuming. Which means the initial engagement, the expectation anyway, is high. About 75% of users are uploading custom avatars. About 80% of users confirm their email address (two-step process).

Last, we offer users an option to invite teammates from either their LinkedIn or Twitter social graph. Again, we're focused on professional users so we avoided Facebook integration. You can also invite teammates later, by email. Perhaps this is our first indication that something's wrong because very few people are using LinkedIn or Twitter invitations.

Finally, users enter the main features of the app. We measure engagement here and find roughly 60% of users create some form of content (Contacts, Status Update, To-Do Item, etc.) so they take the first step.

And then we lose them.

We have about a 35% retention rate the first week, higher in Asia, and then dropping from there. Very few respond to follow-on email prompts or push notifications. They just fade away. Leaving behind a ghost record of their effort & aspirations. Clearly, they were looking for something else. But they signed up, and shared very private info in the hopes of what?

And for those of you who've read this far, I'm hoping that you've had similar experiences yourselves and overcome them. Whether for a web or mobile app, how have you driven engagement?

Thanks,
--ff

PS: I don't think the discussion above is specific to an app, but for reference here's ours:
http://fieldforceapp.com

PPS: Holding back on using real names 'cause I obviously can't quit my day job with these numbers!
Whilst the lack of that feature certainly wasn't good, how can that be described as a 'bug'? Nothing was broken.
Thriving is overrated.

Taking a contrary view: there are too many of us already. A smaller population will be more sustainable in the long term.

Unless you want unlimited growth with a huge apocalyptic human extinction event at the end.

In other words, I don't care specifically about industrial age humans. I want post-industrial and post-post-post-industrial age humans to survive too.
Lack of home/end keys.
I find it highly distressing that the Nordic countries are putting up with this stuff.
New Apple Technology Stops iPhones From Filming Live Events
Is that 9.95 per backup or per account with unlimited backups?
Here is a pertinent wikipedia article with some links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion

It's interesting how this applies to more trivial things, like trying to keep yourself from laughing.

Would it be a stretch to say that this supports the idea that we should automate as much of our lives as possible? If I don't have to decide to put a certain amount of my paycheck in savings every time I get it, and it happens automatically, I could potentially reserve that energy for another decision-based task.
This strategy is what led to the first date with my wife.