skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I think it's also worth noting that for a pro laptop, price is not a major issue, if you're trying to treat your laptop like a BYOB, you're doing it wrong. So:

(a) The RAM capacity is limited by the chipset anyway, and on "pro" machines, most people max out the RAM when they purchase or directly after. It's just that now you can't cheat and buy the RAM elsewhere to avoid an apple price premium.

(b) The SSD is replaceable, it's just not a standard connector. Obviously, 3rd party replacements will show up with a slightly higher cost than a bog standard SATA drive. I view this like the replacement of FW with tbolt, who cares?

(c) (Stock) RAM seldom goes bad before other components, and if it does, you treat it like the other components. They can unplug the SSD from your MBP and plug it into an identical one, swap complete. So we're not talking weeks for a replacement here -- just go to an Apple store. If you're not near an Apple store, you're probably not near a vendor of replacement RAM or SSD drives either.

One issue though: You had better keep that SSD backed up! 'cause if the machine goes south, you have no way of accessing your data unless someone comes out with a apple propretary card egd to sata adapter.
There's Geek Squad, or your smart cousin, or a local computer shop for PCs.
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Yup, my point was that the glucose may be moved into the CSF in order to favor the movement of water in that direction.
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The following link has information about the life-span of SSD's:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-520-sandforce-review...

Briefly, under heavy use, a drive can last at least five (5) years.

Edit: Corrected a typo.
While you can't use a server-side preprocessor to implement this, I don't see any fundamental reason why a JavaScript polyfill couldn't implement it on the client side.
It all makes sense. Having a higher-resolution monitor increases the resolution of HD video! Somehow!

Thanks for the laugh. Wow.
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Have you tried Safari Reader? It's quite similar.
A lot of it was not just shooting skill. Most new players tended to make a lot of the same predictable mistakes, for example standing close together in big groups at the same chokepoints in the map each time so that they could all be blinded by a flashbang. Also they didn't use walk effectively so would make a lot of noise.

CS was also one of the first popular games where weapon recoil was modelled and new players would tend to spray full auto at a target (because that's what you did in quake).
"So is Apple aiming for a future where you have to buy a new laptop every 2 years to have a machine that is relevant?"

I have a 2nd gen 13" Air that I got in late '10. Seeing that the 2 year mark will be upon it and it's still supported by Mountain Lion. I have a late '07 Mac Pro that is not supported.

I'm sort of in the middle of this. On one hand, I'd love to keep using my Pro because it still works fine (and I'm one of those types that get's pissed when the machine is slow). I've had to upgrade to ssd, put an ATI 4870 in it, filled it with 16GB ram, still has stock 2x2 3ghz Xeon's. But this has been my main development machine for years and has made me a good amount of money over the years, so I see the upgrades and very reasonable. I still think I could run Mountain Lion fine, but there's the whole 32-bit EFI thing that Apple has handcuffed it with. So this is the downside for me.

On the other hand, I'm not against modernizing everything. I think that Apple does not have to support years of legacy hardware like Microsoft does is a good thing. We can always be assured of the latest and greatest. If I could get min 2-4 years out of a laptop, that would be good for me.

As for Apple locking everything down? I see why they do it - it's all about design. Why include a thicker ram slot(s) when you can just solder it on the board and reduce your profile, or give you better space. We're going to see more and more custom from them, trending away from using off the shelf parts that everyone else will have to use. This will give them a competitive differentiator, which it already does with their unibody laptops.

However, the obvious downside (mostly for geeks/power users) is that we can't buy the 8gb ram option now for less, and then upgrade later. So we're forced into that decision quandary of buy for less now with not what we really want, or pay through the nose up front, grumble a bit, then go on our merry way. The latter is usually where I fall in.
Glad to see Sam Hughes is now licensing his code. It wasn't long ago that he wrote how uncomfortable he was with the idea of open source software.

http://qntm.org/code
>Who says it isn't policy to reject RMAs when another OS has been installed, and they only back down if someone creates a scene?

This is a valid concern. Their policy for return shipping is that the customer pays for return shipping on an RMA unless you ask a customer service agent for a free shipping label. If you ask, you get it, without any special requirements.
The reason you couldn't find a quality, intermediate example of autoconf is that there is no such thing; it's an obtuse and painful tool. As someone else mentioned, cmake is a much better choice.
>in any event, it's not helpful to provide disincentives for companies to own up to mistakes.

This is why the 99%( particularly left ) have trouble creating political capital. The rabble of the mob doesn't always provide rational incentives.

As a counterpoint, Jews are able to swing states like Florida by block vote even though they represent a minority.
As far as I know youtube videos at 1080p use the same bandwidth regardless of whether you're displaying on 720p or a retina display. This is silly, is the reporter confused about HDMI/DisplayPort vs. network bandwidth?
Upgrades: The SE/30 started its life as an SE, so it got the 68030+SuperDrive upgrade, and we put a monitor card in the expansion slot (which I later replaced with a 10BaseT card). Upped the RAM from 1MB to an intimidating 8MB. I think I stuck some RAM in the Lombard and the iBook too.

Repairs: invoked AppleCare once, two years in, when my iBook took a nasty fall off a table.

Apple makes sealed machines with bizarro, non-standard components inside, but by no means are they treated as disposable.
There is, as I understand it, strong support for the ideas of "Reciprocal altruism" and "kin altruism," from the evolutionary psychologists / evolutionary biologists. Game theory research[1] by Robert Axelrod[2][4] has shed some light on the nature of altruism, cooperation and competition, as has the work of Robert Trivers[3].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Axelrod

[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trivers

[4]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_cooperation
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The best I can come up with is adaptive streaming video. But I doubt anything streams higher than for output to 1080p and you certainly don't need a retina display matrix on a laptop to display 1080p.
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Our ancestors generally weren't eating massive portions of heavily processed, heavily spiced meat. Taco Bell gives you the shits because it's Taco Bell, not because it's meat.
A few websites like Apple's are 'retina optimized' and the way Apple implements it, it is a bit inefficient--the web browser downloads the standard size image, then some js replaces those images with high-res variants. But sites like that are rare, and still don't account for a large amount of bandwidth used, so I vote: FUD.
It never existed for the Apple branded SSDs - the people who reported that were people who bought the cheapest SSDs and used them with non-SSD-aware filesystems which overwrote the same blocks repeatedly.

SSDs with smarter controllers and filesystems which don't abuse the disk make a huge difference. Apple controls all of these so they should have a much better idea of the reliability factor - and even if you pay for repairs, there's a high risk that an early failure will make you less likely to buy from them next time.
I like the underlying idea, but the fact that this requires access to my Gmail account is a show-stopper for me. Email is simply too critical to leak to some external applications, even a trusted one.
Nearly all blogs require you to authenticate with some kind of account. The alternative is spam city.

RSS: There's nothing wrong with it. But if you object to Disqus centralising "your" users, you should equally object to eg Google Reader centralising them. It's exactly the same principle. You lose "control", to the benefit of the user.
Never actually delete any data, and you don't have to worry about re-writes.
But what if that customer HAD to scream loud in order to to get things put right? If the customer rep truly believed that was the policy (whether is was or not) and you keep batting emails back and forth to them... they will not budge. So you have to go above their heads... I don't know the whole/original story but if it was me then I would have kicked up a fuss with Newegg and demanded a telephone call from a manager.

However, it (hopefully) means that everyone at Newegg is now aware of the correct policy and that we will not have this issue again. It also hopefully means that if there are similar issues in the future then clarification is sought before refusing a customer OR it is dealt with by someone more senior.

I don't think a one off incident where they put right should be looked upon so negatively... imagine someone judging humans in the same manner!
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Yep, they are a lot of us like that, each trying to deal with it in their own way. I think it's the nature of our occupation: staring at a computer screen for hours is probably not the most natural thing ever. I really like factorialboy comments about meditation. For my part I've had a look at http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/, looks like it's working pretty well for me, simply taking short break between short working sessions.
The reason there is no pork cat food?

Because there is no part of a pig left over after you make sausages to put in the cat food!
"When a company buys another company it's a package deal. "

They aren't using the domain. The company they acquired they shut down. All transition has been done.

So by the logic that many commenters here use they are squatters. Because they aren't using the domain.

As an aside google and many large corporations who aren't actively selling domains own domains that they have stockpiled for one reason on another (preventing competition).

Back to the domain in question. It doesn't go anywhere. Just because they aren't in the business of registering domains for the purpose of profit doesn't make it less so (by once again people's definitions here..) that they are squatters. And just because they got the domain buy acquiring a company doesn't change the facts.

"If you eliminate squatters, let's say you somehow make it illegal,"

It seems like the thing you want to be illegal is people being in the business of buying and selling domain names then, am I correct? You think domains are a public trust and there should be a committee that passes judgement on who can get a domain and also monitors that a domain is used in an acceptable way and finally that a domain isn't sold without content. And a whole bunch of regulation to prevent people from gaming the system. Unfortunately that would hurt the internet.

Your idea isn't practical and not the way a free market works. There is nothing special about domains that requires such special protection. They aren't kidneys or liver transplants. Lastly, there are other TLD that you can register your name in. You just can't get .com or any of the mostly popular ones. If you can't get hackernews.com you can get hackernews.tld

I was around at the start when a) domains were free b) domains were then priced at $100 for 2 years and c) that price was lowered to $70 for 2 years. Then came ICANN and many registrars and domains dropped to $10 or whatever godaddy was charging at the time or Tucows etc.

I was around in the beginning when you had to fill out a long form and say what you were doing with the name. Pretty soon there were so many people wanting domains that NSI asked the NSF if they could charge per name. Then people got upset with the money they were making and we got competition. Reviewing applications for domains stopped and that was actually good. It allowed the Internet to grow quickly.

A vestige of this system exists with .edu names. Last I check (and this may have changed since I haven't attempted for years) I couldn't even get one for a University without justifying why they couldn't use their main .edu. It also exists with some sponsored TLD that you've never heard of.

Bottom line: Who is going to pay for the regulation and who is going to run that system?
Everything is best learned by self study. School should expose you to the different choices in life. We expect doctors to have a good grounding in the practice of chemistry even though they'll never do a lab test themselves.

Also: I'm not following. The context of your post implies that you agree with me, but the facts seem to say you're an IDE user. How can you possibly be doing development without modifying your build system? If you're not using make, you're using something else. My guess is it's an IDE...
I would feel better about the "Detailed Quality Checks" if that very same point didn't have an improperly formed </li> closing tag poking through...
"(...) better quality displays require more network bandwidth, which allows users to increase data consumption"

Whaaat?
The article is poorly worded. The point is that retina 2x graphics do require more bandwidth. As retina displays grow in popularity, bandwidth may become an issue. It's certainly something developers should consider when thinking about site performance.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/2DDraw...
Exactly. With my typical setup, a makefile looks like this:

BIN=my-program
OBJ=file1.o file2.o file3.o
DEPS=../foo/libfoo.so

-include ../config.mk
include ../mk/c.mk
include ../mk/lexyacc.mk

It's not hard to modify, it's flexible, and if I need custom scripts to generate files, it's very easy to extend. I don't have to futz with compiler options, command line parameters, etc. I just add the next .o file to the list, and get back to coding.

There's room for improvement, but it works for me. And it's implemented in less than 100 lines of make.
I wonder if the WSJ would hire me to write about financial issues. I mean, I know nothing about the subject, but apparently that's not relevant.
Feature request: multiple sizes
I really enjoyed using Songza between it's intermittent outages. The concept is well executed, the UX is polished, but performance-wise it just doesn't seem ready for prime-time. In fact I got to this page by googling 'Songza down'. :-(
So, having two bucks in credit will be enough to offset this?

Still, this sounds awful.
You really think YouTube is downsizing them in the front-end, rather than rendering out multiple versions on the server? That doesn't really make sense, plus it would make it odd that changing the size of the video restart the playback.
This is my favorite part. I've always wanted to have meaningful conversations about brands.

> reach our hundreds of millions of connected users in a place where they can have meaningful conversations about brands in a highly engaging environment.
Haha, I played with the cheaters.. But only with other cheaters. There was a small subset of cs1.3 cheaters who played competitively vs eachother. The original OGC hook was released as source and gave me my intro to compiling editing and debugging, along with some help from unknowncheats.com at the time
> You take the same data and either run it through a Json serializer or a view renderer.

My experience might be different than yours, but very often my html views quickly end up needed more than 1 resource to render and now I need to fetch data just for the html templates. The same data set isn't needed when returning json or xml and the API end points exposed for data consumption are often quite different.
That said, in some cases, I agree that your approach would work.
Very true. But really knew one guy personally who really shot that good. But he usually scaled back a little bit in casual games. And that spraying part took me quite a while, old habbits die hard. :-)
> Time to stop using Skype

Eh, I don't see it as that big of a deal. They're providing a free service, it looks like it's only there when you're not video chatting, it uses real estate that isn't already used, and (at least the first version) only allows silent, non-expanding ads.
What's a good alternative to Skype?
I am just surprised that people are surprised about Macs being hard to upgrade.

They have always been a PIA to upgrade since Day 1:

http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
Is this thread title for real?

Skype has been a critical part of my personal life, never mind my business life, for free, for several years.

They can do whatever they want with the otherwise blank screen I have during the audio call for all I care.

What part of this would make anyone actually stop using Skype?
I was diagnosed with ADD as a kid. It turns out I was just bored. There are only 2 reasons for jumping around like this. Either you aren't that interested or you hit a knowledge roadblock.

The knowledge roadblock is probably the easier of the two to overcome. Join a local users group. My learning was highly stunted until I had people around me that could answer my (frequently dumb) questions face to face. Sites like stack overflow are great but they are no substitute for someone who can see the look on your face that you aren't getting it and change course accordingly.

Is building iOS apps something you really really really want to do or something that would be cool to know? Learning new things usually starts by sucking pretty hard. When the interest level dips below the difficulty level it is easy to move on to the next thing. If your interest level isn't really high to start it is going to be easy to jump from thing to thing.

A general productivity tip is have a clear objective, a fixed time and write it down in a place where you are going to see it. Attach a reward to getting it done and a penalty for failing to complete the task. Finally have someone to hold you accountable. When the pain of not getting it done is worse than the pain of doing it you will get it done.
While on a 1:1 audio call, users will see content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences. So, you should think of Conversation Ads as a way for Skype to generate fun interactivity between your circle of friends and family and the brands you care about. Ultimately, we believe this will help make Skype a more engaging and useful place to have your conversations each and every day.

How can Skype pretend something is desirable if it goes away automatically when you pay? That's nearly the definition of undesirable.
you use the "makeitso" button under the graph to change your rate.
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How bizarre... I thought this was going to be about the new Power Nap feature of Mountain Lion that continues to talk on the network while the laptop is suspended.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5981/mountain-lion-power-nap-c...
Look, I think what you do is legal and should be legal. But I think you're letting your emotions from people criticizing you get in the way of your logic.

>> If the squatter would not have taken it then it would've been available for $10

> Absolutely positively the biggest myth out there.

He didn't literally mean that without squatters, every domain would be available and you know it. Of course someone could still beat you to it but the problem most people have is with squatters not Google owning a random name that they don't want to sell (unfortunate but I think they have good reason to keep it and it's not a major problem for most people).

When someone has an idea and goes through 100 names before finding something available to register, the odds are that approximately 100 of those will be in use or squatters (often the majority), not Google unwilling to sell.

Take away the squatters (again, I'm not suggesting it should be illegal) and you've solved a big problem for a lot of people. That's just the way it is. You don't have to care and you can rationalize it to yourself all you want but it doesn't change that fact.
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I am wondering if YC application results are posted publicly. I know that PG posted dropbox's application as an example but is there a complete list of all YC applications that have been accepted/rejected ? We could learn so much from them.
I can absolutely see Dropbox, Google and Facebook creating a class of SSDful machines as a middle performance layer between RAMful and Diskful machines, but price point and storage limits have a long way to go before there's any wholesale replacement of diskful machines with SSDs.

Also, I'm really surprised there's a datacenter that has a meaningful amount of Facebook, Mozilla, Dropbox and Google servers in the same DC. Looks like someone might be trying to bolster their DC image a bit.
Facepunch, the forum mainly connected to the sandbox game Garry's mod, has had this for a long time. If you broke a rule you were banned to "Refugee Camp" for some amount of time. Only you, the moderators and gold users (paying or 5+ years and no permaban) can see your posts in the Refugee Camp. Mostly people complained and tried to reduce or revoke the ban, but occasionally it let to rather creative or crazy time-wasting.
Its simple. Choices are complicated. People prefer easy decisions over hard ones.
The article cited never asked "Is 12,000 ...". They say "Look cameras are not that bad since most are on premise and are privately owned and operated." I find that this comparison is dishonest and is not relevant.

edit: changed "you cite" to "cited", The response is not to the OP.
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You can't stop using Skype because there is no alternative. Skype free calling, particularly the video, is too huge for international market. They are like Facebook where everyone is signed up.
Good thing I never started.
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Point 1 is brought up all the time, and it's not the viewer who has the final say, it's a (theoretically objective) court.

As a practical matter, getting to court and fighting a case is often so expensive that the viewer's determination may be effectively final. However, your comment assumes the worst and then works backward in search of a logical antecedent.