skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, first, consider this: why would anyone design a tool for the 10% when they know from their own research that its primary use is for the 90%? That's the situation with cars. They are overwhelmingly used in cities, not offroads or on road trips, and car companies know that and design cars for the common use case. I am not sure how to quantify this, and I don't have any literature offhand on it. But perhaps you'd like to compare a luxury sedan to a military vehicle that really is designed for offroad terrain? I don't think I have the burden of proof here, either; I'd be happy to learn of any evidence you have that cars really are designed for long trips. Just because a car can be used for long trips doesn't mean it was optimized for that purpose, and Derek states that cars are over-engineered without any other justification.

"Cars Kill Cities" assumes that environmental friendliness and space are the most important criteria when choosing a method of transportation. My article points out that these criteria are secondary to convenience and location preference for many people. My goal was not say that Derek's criteria are irrelevant, just that they are less important than other criteria in many cases.
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I don't want Facebook knowing I used this, or anyone else, or anything. Just no.
library looks really nice! You guys should consider supporting mustache.js as a template engine - the advantage is it's compatible with other languages, we're using mustache for java, objc, javascript mobile, and javascript web.... oh and a bit of ruby mustache too!

EDIT: disclaimer i have a mustache
Another parallel I've experienced with going to the gym and coding is that its far more fun doing it with somebody else. You work out harder, and push yourself in a better way than doing it by yourself - something I've found also while I code.
Just to give you a heads up, you spelled weight incorrectly in the third to last paragraph. Great article!
I just went and read your link above. Have to say you captured my progression perfectly as well. I was a typical HNer, getting by on raw intelligence without putting in a whole bunch of effort. I am lucky that I caught this before it caught up with me professionally, but I DIDN'T catch it in my athletic endeavors. I ended up tearing an Achilles because I wasn't prepared.

Now, years later, I've applied what I learned professionally to my athletic life and am going through the same olympic stuff you talked about. Spot on. Good write up.
tl;dr: FBI wants to have its own version of what every startup that scrapes data from social media sites have been doing already, and the only change is that "keywords" and "trends" are now called "threats".
someday I hope the progress of technology will bring us back up to the level of 1980s killfiles ;-)
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I'm trying to move from downloading music to paying for it.. but they are not making it easy.
looks like the people in the other thread were able to build it from radio shack parts. Can't imagine this being very expensive.
I think a properly elected representative democratically elected government would help prevent this sort of thing regardless of economic ideology.

I've never been to china but the impression I have gotten is that it is basically a class system where those on the bottom have no power whatsoever.

This means that the Chinese government have no incentive to improve working conditions as they don't have any votes to win, workers can simply be used to "churn" which seems to be working well for boosting their economy right now.
3D printing is not the future.

Chucking a solid block of metal into a 5-axis CNC mill and having it grind out an arbitrary shape from a CAD drawing is the future.

I don't see any way of getting parts made out of the requisite materials with the requisite strength and resolution with "3D printing" technology. It's great for novelties, like the service which takes your WoW data and prints up a statuette of your character. But for serious fabrication, good old machining is still the best bet, coupled with high technology and cheap garage models with advanced safety protocols that let hobbyists grind out small to medium sized parts at small scales.

As a bonus you can recycle the shavings.
Unless you want to surprise me with a link to some high quality research about ease of use and enjoyment of smartphones, I don't think that is any sort of fact.

You'll find plenty of users who think otherwise and it is not worth the time to argue over which bit of anecdotal evidence or which opinion is correct.
Google is flavor of the month? They are 90% C++, Java, Javascript. They even write Java that writes Javascript
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But the game industry isn't desperately fighting the internet the way Hollywood is. A lot of smaller game studios (and a couple big ones) clearly understand that clinging to an obsolete business model is futile nonsense, and have embraced the online market. And they're absolutely thriving for it.

The console market isn't making the transition nearly as quickly, but I'm certain this is chiefly a matter of getting value out of existing investments (deployed hardware).
I'm sure there's a startup somewhere building an app for that.
My suggestion would be as follows:
1. Partner registers a callback URL with you, gets an api_key and a shared secret in return.

2. When partner sends a user to your site, they make a call to http://supportdetails.com/<api_key>?data=<random base64 string>

3. You collect details, and make a POST to the <callback_url> with all the information (including <random base64 string>) as JSON or XML and signed using a HMAC of the data with the shared secret

4. Partner verifies signature and then accepts the data. The <random base64 string> could contain information that the partner can use to identify the user/store session info, etc.

This protects your partners from fake submissions, if they care about that sort of thing.
Once again, the Onion got there first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0

I will start worrying when companies are legally required to let the FBI trawl through the databases without a warrant. It's hard to make a law against scraping public information.
There's a good chrome extension I use called "Resolution Test" that does something similar:

http://www.benbeckford.com/wordpress/2009/11/29/chrome-exten...
This is very true, In fact on the very first day of my first job I spent time figuring out researching retirement options.

Many people laughed, I told them unless a comet is about hit tomorrow, not worrying about tomorrow doesn't make any financial sense. Because tomorrow always comes and in 99% of the cases to 99% of the people. So 'don't worry about tomorrow' is bad financial advice anybody can give you.

I started planning and investing, five years into my work life now. I have done far better than my other friends who even got paid a lot better than me. I am sure another 5 years and a decade into my career I can achieve the kind of financial independence you describe.

And again as you said, retirement doesn't mean not doing any work. It just means you have sufficient backup to support you if you don't have work.
As fingerprinter pointed out this isn't universally true, however research (and my own experience) has shown that the main reason people don't feel well after working out is almost entirely due to nutrient depletion and poor nutritional timing. If you go to the gym and do heavy squats at 6:30pm without eating anything since your lunch at 11:00am you are going to feel like absolute shit afterwards. Post-workout nutrition is essential for building muscle and recovery, but making sure to eat a mix of complex carbs, protein, and fat ~1 hour before you workout makes a world of difference for how you before during, and feel after your workouts. If your diet is sound though, and working out still makes you feel so terrible that you don't wish to do it (I'm not talking muscle soreness or the usual reasons people find to not workout) you should definitely consult with a nutritionist or dietitian as something else may be going on.
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Windows 8 for ARM is stable, ready to be in hands of developers?
You can remote wipe (among other enterprise things) using google apps for business and the google apps device policy app.

http://support.google.com/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
People who read such an article with the details provided, only have enough information to have an approximate understanding of how this thing works, but it won't stop them from experimenting. Already, I see instructions being posted on this very thread.

Yeah, I'd be shocked if half the population of HN don't have one of these things inside a week. Somebody should call Jameco and Mouser, etc., and ask if they see a spike in sales of certain electronic components in the next few days!

I probably have most of the parts needed in my parts-box already, so I might just give it a try myself. Nothing like a little reckless self-experimentation...
Equinix is a little on the expensive side... Just a little bit.
Just curious ... what would people be willing to pay for the courses? Especially if it meant some kind of official recognition or certificate.
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Great post. I like how this talks about the other ways going to the gym makes you stronger.

I've been falling into a similar second-day routine, though some weeks I try to go every day (and it usually doesn't go that well.) What is the best/most effective routine to get into? Every second day? Five days a week?
I assumed they already did this. As long as the data is public, there's not much you can do. As always, be cognizant of your online persona!
You're sort of equating working long hours with quality of life and general health which I don't think is a fair comparison, and even if it is, you're overstating it

First of all, I don't think quality of life necessarily translates to years spent living, or at least that's very hard to quantify.

For the Quality of Life vs. Long Hours:

Firs of all, it's also a weak comparison. You can work at a job 8 hours a day and hate it while the guy next to you does it for 12 hours a day and loves it. You might end up ruining your quality of life and he won't be. So you can't quantify your quality of life with time spent at work.

But even considering that there is probably a strong correlation; fortunately there is also a very natural balancing mechanism. If work long hours is really ruining your life then that's a direct incentive for you to not do it. You have a constant pressure to not overwork yourself because you it psychologically make you feel horrible and no one wants to feel horrible. So things sorta tend to balance themselves out. Even if you look at environments/careers were people really push themselves due to competitiveness in the long term I don't think they end up having shorter or worse lives.

Sure there are masochists that work 12 hours a day, hate it, but do it for the promotion; but even for them I think in their minds they don't have a horrible life. The prospect of the promotion prolly keeps them happy and keeps them going.

Now compare that with taking a pill or zapping your brain:
If you take a pill and you get dementia 40 years later then you're trading in current gains for future pains. You're not getting constant negative feedback to hold you back. So to keep up with your peers you and all the people around you will be popping every pill possible because otherwise you drop out of the race.

Now since there are no brakes to the process and everyone is trashing their bodies to make it to the top your society eventually ends up with a group of super smart pill-poppers and brain zappers and they become all the CEO and PhDs but live to only 40 before their brains are fried and then you've got the rest that live to 90 and clean toilets.
I dislike Timeline for three reasons.

- When some of my friends' Timelines open, it takes ages for it to load and then every other program I might have open on my laptop drags, if I leave that tab open
- It is far more difficult to follow the "timeline" even for recent postings, that often you can miss interesting items
- I can't hide or reduce to a select group, only delete postings

Which is why I haven't implemented and hate when I see it on other's profiles.
Its not just take home salary every month.

Let me tell you I'm 27 and from India, I am a native Bangalore resident. I am sure similar options I'm going to tell you now exist in the US.

The first thing you must do when you get money in your hands is know how much you want to spend and how much want to save. In my case I see, I can spend around 40%. The remaining 60% goes in to my savings. Then you need to figure out a way to convert 60% of the saving to investments. Gold, endowment insurance, real estate etc. There are many options, the earlier you start the better.

Of course this requires discipline. To give you an example, I don't have credit card till today's date as a principle. If your routinely save and invest then over time you can save yourself a fortune.
For example, http://www.vg247.com/2011/04/13/garrys-mod-lures-pirates-to-...
And cell phones don't display long URLs, another phishing problem begging to be exploited
Someone else raised this point elsewhere but...so what? Monitoring public information is their job. I'd be disappointed if they weren't monitoring those services.

If you post public information, it's publicly consumable, including by government intelligence services. If you have a problem with that, consider that the issue might be your choice to post information publicly that you don't want the FBI to see, rather than the fact that the FBI is looking at it.
It'd be a viral winner (puppy mode vs cat mode!), but how often do people really need this sort of function? And when they have the problem, how many people just email the client "What browser are you using?" (initiating that "Is it Windows?" conversation) rather than Google "best way to get support information from my nutbag client"?

Cat mode sounds immature, but MailChimp gets by.

Is there another common process where by technical people need to collect information from internet battlers?
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I'm looking to get a 15" macbook air for my wife, but currently don't have the available funds to buy one outright. I do, however, have a lot of experience in backend development and full stack web development, and am ready to trade. I'm a lead developer at a venture backed company, and proficient in python, django, flask, various php frameworks, - and quick to pick up new languages. Can provide a portfolio on request.

If you have a project worth a macbook air to you, send me a message at willworkformacbook@gmail.com
You can try http://www.reddit.com/r/fitness, there are some pretty knowledgeable people there. Also try searching there, similar questions pop up from time to time.
Which I sort of mentioned.
Replacing Google with Apple's iCloud seems odd to me. It is not like Apple has a better record on privacy than Google or did I miss something?
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I'm afraid designers were few and far between at the SWSJ event and we didn't have one on the team.
That's not what "criminal" means under law.
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ecaroth,

I believe that I do maintain a proper diet for my weight-lifting, I eat well during the day before my workout and afterwards as well.

I feel fine after my workouts, I just don't feel so great that I can get into the state of focus I need for programming. So it's not fair to say that I don't feel well; just that it usually requires more focus to program than I can muster after a workout.
As a disclaimer: I don't claim to understand academic politics. Having said that, I think you need some sort of citation or at the very least a stronger argument to back up the statement that "collaboration is something valued by people who greatly depend on others". To a non-involved observer such as myself, what you're describing (in a positive tone?) just sounds petty and extremely unproductive for everyone involved, whether they're average or "very capable".
Guys, don't listent to wrong feedback coming out of... whatever. Trollblock is an awesome resource for trolling and you should stick to that idea.
Comments should be hella funny and yeah, keep the facebook login. Otherwise u'll have a bunch of weirdo nazis screaming out loud.
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Thanks for the concern. I already see a psych once a fortnight. Just so it's clear, nothing I said was a cry for help or suicide threat.
My gym time is diminished because a year and a half ago I moved a considerable distance from where I then worked, and still a bit further from where I now work.

However I typically run 6 miles a day during the week at around 9PM, which serves the same purpose.

What it really comes down to me is a few things:

1) It forces me away from the computer for about an hour a day.
2) It clears my head from the day, and prepares it for tomorrow. I find that also helps me sleep better as I'm not cycling through things in my mind.
3) It is good exercise. I've never been fat, but it keeps me fit and that in and of itself makes me feel better

I think mostly its just something that doesn't require me to be wired in and hyper vigilant while doing, which I feel managing/coding/reading/hacking does.
Look up NSL.
This is an interesting space, mit has their mitx program set to launch this spring as well.

http://mitx.mit.edu
You are so very wrong. Hardly any marketing is done for US shows abroad. You could easily miss the premiere of a new season if you weren't paying close attention.

I live in Australia, and a HUGE amount of marketing is done for new US shows that they think will go well in Australia.

For example New Girl has had constant promotion for months, while Homeland has only had mild promotion.
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As much as I hate our current IP mess, this doesn't seem like the right answer. I'm saddened I didn't get to see Chuck this season, but it is WB's property. Why should they be forced into giving me their content in a way they don't want to? Would you be OK with the government saying "if a company won't release it's source code, you are ok to hack into their site to get it (obviously not apples-to-apples, but I think it is close enough for this discussion).

I wish I was smart enough to come up with an answer, and I really wish I could consume other's content exclusively on my terms (and I'm more than willing to pay!), but it is their content, not mine. They don't have a God-granted right to make money, and I don't have a God-given right to do anything I want with their content.

Maybe the problem is intractable.

P.S. Most content is available online. People just don't like the terms (I'm one of them!). If this kind of a law came to fruition, it would be trivial for all content to be available. You just have to pay (even more) outrageous fees for it.

P.P.S. I am not a supporter of our current IP laws in any way (see my comment history). I just think the argument can't be solved until both sides are communicating and not talking past each other.
[edited because I realized we're in violent agreement]

To me, MDY makes as much sense as writing pi as 14.3.159265
IMO, it's more Apple Incorporated's prestige driving executive sales rather than simply the products themselves. Business people respect things like stock prices and profit reports, and ever since Apple rose to being the largest tech company, there's been a certain mentality that "they make the most money so they must be doing it right". (It actually reminds me a lot of the adulation of Microsoft in the late 1990s.)

And from an IT standpoint, Android sounds like a bit of mess due to uneven support from different vendors. Obviously there's ways to work around that, but Apple may not necessarily be the worst "enterprise" choice.
Don't use zipties as much as possible. A roll of velcro cable ties cut to length is much easier to handle and reconfigure.
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As a matter of opinion I use zipties for permanent cables (tray runs, other mostly fixed cabling), and velcro ties for in-rack where they're more likely to be updated. But then again zip ties are cheap and it's sometimes just easier to cut them off then mess with the velcro.
"Information wants to be free? Well, part of freeing something is that you can lose it forever."

hang on, thats not right! Being free here means, free to obtain, reuse and distribute. Right now, the information is most decidely NOT free, because the feds are in control of it.

They could've made a copy of the data as evidence - there isn't any need at all to remove the servers. This is digital data, the hardware has absolutely no bearing on the correctness of the evidence. I bet they were somehow 'persuaded' by the MAFIAA to sieze the hardware. I feel its unfair that lobby groups has enough power to use public money to achieve their goals.
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I don't think most people would class moving into new markets with existing competitors as "evil".
Then mate write a hit piece on 56k modems
I made the script open new windows

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Indeed, when I wrote "zipping" I actually meant velcro.

We're doing it pretty much the same way (in some racks we even have a velco-strip on the side as "parking zone").
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Very cool, we'll definitely be using this when we work on making our site responsive.
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Yet another Google vs Apple.
In the article he gave example the Apple factories in China and the employees in China. But what about Google's yellow badge employees in USA?
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This isn't only difficult for consumers, but for producers as well.

For example: a few years ago I worked on a worldwide project for Metallica (www.missionmetallica.com). Get the laughter out of your system now........

Metallica is represented in the US by Warner Bros. Records and internationally by UMG. As such, while WBR was fronting the development and maintenance of the site, we had to enable Universal International marketing to sell it through all their international retail partners worldwide and ex-US.

That was over 30 different partners. So imagine trying to integrate into commerce systems for 30 partners, in dozens of languages and currencies.

In the end we resorted to the easiest API in the world: 16 digit alphanumeric codes and a huge HTML table to track everything for reporting.

It sucked.

International rights aren't just a stupid thing that is invented by content and media companies to make your life harder. They make everyone's lives harder. It's the collision of globalization and lack of one global government/economy. C'est la.