skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just did the same thing on Google and got different results, probably because Google adjusts results and auto-completion based on previous search history. Using Chrome and incognito mode, "uk to install" without quotes got me suggestions for the UK installing wind and solar power. With quotes, I got two suggestions for installing programs (iTunes and Skype) and two about installing cameras in private homes.

The latter seem to be referencing a tabloid scare from two or three years ago about supervised housing for families of repeat offenders (which wouldn't necessarily have involved cameras, according to the top result). There are also some results about the legality of installing cameras in private homes in the UK, which makes sense as a search.

Anyway, you would never really talk about "installing" roads, daycares, or homeless shelters. Traffic lights and dictators, maybe, but Google's auto-suggest is not an objective measure of anything.
The specs page says the MBP has 2 ram slots, so it's the difference between 2x4gb and 2x8gb which is about 50 bucks here : http://www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

edit: But looking at the hardware pics it looks like it is single module but more than that, it looks like the RAM chips are soldered directly to the motherboard. Not a RAM module soldered to the board but the actual chips which means the cost to apple would be even less since you just double the ICs.
Except that, as discussed above, "youtube" by itself is not a valid host name. It would have to be "mysite.youtube"

Still easier than you having "mysite.bobsvideo.fail" I agree, but frankly most people don't even find sites via the domain name. They'll google "Bobs Video" and see what comes up.
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Randomly killing instances wouldn't have detected this particular failure mode as far as I can see, since the error lay in the inability to resurrect a failed process under certain circumstances.
The link to your facebook profile is wrong at NOCONFORMITY blog. An "m" is missing.
Yeah penis waving hipsters in Starbucks writing their next novel whilst contributing to the bad credit problem that seems to have screwed up the economy...

Not any worthy portion of society then.
Got to add SEO to that list of things a growth hacker should excel in.
My guess is that it's laywers being paranoid. If Apple didn't stop the app from being distributed when they were notified of a problem and a court later upheld the complaint, they might be sued for contributory infringement, or whatever the relevant patent term is.
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Well I was responding to a specific poster who focused on a different issue. Steel tubes can easily withstand a vacuum... a round tube is an extremely strong structure. Sure the joints between pieces would be the harder part, especially with earthquakes and the like forcing flexibility.
And what am I supposed to do if I don't want to spend $2200 on a computer that only lasts me two years?

Well, it depends. If someone says "hey, did you check out the new MacBook?" say "yeah, I didn't really like the weight vs. upgradability trade-off" and move on. If someone says "you are required to buy this computer with your own money even if you prefer another one," laugh in their face and move on. If someone says, "wow, this computer is perfect for my needs," say "that's awesome" and move on.

Incidentally, this formula actually works any time any product is offered for sale and you don't want to buy it.

(Personally, I try not to stress about how much computers cost. In two years I'll probably put in north of 4000 hours on the thing. If there's a meaningfully better option, I'll take it even if it's more expensive. Not that I have a ton of spare cash, or that $2200 is a reasonable figure for most people yet, but this is one area where I think it's a false economy to focus on the cost.)
I don't understand the need to encourage students drop out. There are plenty of go-getters out there who don't need to drop out (I am thinking folks who have finished college .. many solo flying hackers, etc.). and can equally contribute at the same level of competitiveness and hustle and would appreciate the opportunity even more.
Pick a different one? Was it really that hard, do you need your hand held for every decision that you need to make?
How many domain-name filter regexs are hardcoded to .com/.net/.org/.mil and will never work on these new domains? Yeah, I know the countries are out there as well, but that's still a known whitelist, right?
The term "growth hacker" may be debatable, and the examples used in this blog post don't do it justice, but the spirit is right. People like Andy Johns (user growth at Facebook, then Twitter, then Quora) mix marketing with technical chops and actual product development.

When thinking through and building acquisition and engagement paths, having technical chops helps you connect the dots in ways a traditional marketer would never dream--but there's still a place for both types of people.
Ask HN: I'm creating an app that will help hospitals' processes. I need advice
Hi guys,
I found a process that I can automate in hospitals (it's not a critical process with regards with patient's lives). It needs interoperability among hospitals.

My questions are:
1. How can I monitize it? Should I sell it to the government agency that governs the hospitals?

2. I know PHP and C# and bit of Python. Which language would be more beneficial and easier to sell?

Thanks in advance!
Windows XP didn't ship with a user-level calendar. If Apple had a calendar before 2006, they'd be winning the calendar design front without much effort.
I'd rather see the OCD, state of the art rack setup.
I lack words to describe how awesome this game is, both from a pedagogical perspective and from "It's genuinely fun to play."

My fiancee has just ordered me to take a bath as a clever way to get me away from the iPad because she wants to do algebra, by herself.
One thing I don't understand: Apple offers battery replacements for more or less reasonable prices, right? How in hell are they going to replace this battery? Do they have some special fluid that can quickly dissolve that glue?
So... DRM chip?
The second point did arise in the article (sort of):

"They [privacy problems] affect the power relationships between people and the institutions of the modern state. They not only frustrate the individual by creating a sense of helplessness and powerlessness, but also affect social structure by altering the kind of relationships people have with the institutions that make important decisions about their lives."
$150,000. "millions of domains". That works out to an average of a few pennies per domain. Given that the top 100 sites take a big chunk of the total, the median is probably much less.

We're still looking for that sustainable business model.
Modern tech products are used by so many people that you really can't give all users the same label. There are some brilliant people using Macs to get their jobs done and same goes with Dells, Lenovos, Windows, IE, Ubuntu, etc..
Was I the only one slightly tickled that the same company who registered .mormon also registered .porn?
Semi-related: I've started several businesses, consulted with other startups...basically spent a lot of time trying to come up with business names only to find that a depressingly high percentage of the corresponding domains are being camped on by some clown who wants a ridiculous sum of money.

Domain squatting is without worth and indefensible. Squatters create nothing and they provide nothing of value in exchange for the extraordinary premiums they demand. It is a wholly extractive business model that costs entrepreneurs like myself thousand of dollars with no discernable return.

I recognize that squatting is the (semi)free market at work and as a pretty hard core libertarian I respect that. This does not, however, make me any less contemptuous of the business model or any less desirous of the opportunity to beat a squatter with a shovel.

EDIT: Changed verbiage, replacing the term "domainer" with "squatter."
An interesting feature is dynamic updating of dependent variable properties:

This example shows a variable property safely using a variable:

:root {
var-main-color: #c06;
var-accent-background: linear-gradient(to top, var(main-color), white);
}

The ‘var-accent-background’ property will automatically
update when the ‘var-main-color’ property is changed.

edit: clarified the wording of this comment to remove ambiguity (not a question).
I am also a computer science assistant professor like Cal Newport so I can relate to what he is trying to say here.

An academic paper in computer science usually consists of applying a well defined "technique" to a well defined "problem." For example
applying "Support Vector Machines" to "Text Classification" or applying "Expert Systems" to "Medical Diagnosis" or
applying "Particle Filters" to "Robot localization"

The crux of what Newport is referring to is that in practice, many(most?) academic researchers don't deeply learn new techniques that are outside of their immediate research agenda after leaving grad school. They will certainly be AWARE of new techniques and might learn their high level ideas but they won't really learn them deeply enough to be able to improve them or use them in a non-trivial way. It is much much easier to continue exploiting and building upon the techniques they have already mastered than to invest several painful months(years?) to master completely new techniques.

So what Newport is suggesting that you should stop applying your current methods that are easy and very productive for you and make a substantial investment of time and energy to master the latest techniques - even if you don't exactly know how you're going to apply them

A programming analogy: If you're a C++ programmer, stop doing C++ projects and spend at least 3 months until you're an expert in Python. If you're a Python programmer, stop writing Python and invest several months in becoming an expert in Go. (the analogy is not perfect because mastering a new language is probably a bit easier and more fun than the kind of things Newport is talking about)

Here are a couple of thoughts I had on this:

(1) How applicable is this idea outside of academic research? For example, in academia there is a big reward for being the FIRST person to apply a given technique to a certain problem, but outside of research being the 2nd or 3rd person to do something can be just fine. (See: Friendster, MySpace, Facebook). So maybe you can afford to wait until someone has shown a great application of a new technique and only then jump in and try to exploit it.

(2) An opposing but also convincing idea is that it is better to focus your efforts in one area to avoid spreading yourself too thin. Such focus allows you to gain "comparative advantage" and to easily do things that are difficult for people who don't have your deep experience. In other words, it is better to spend your efforts trying to become the world's greatest Python hacker than to jump on the bandwagon of every new programming language that comes out and ending up as a "Jack of all trades, master of none."

My conclusion: I do think it is worthwhile to challenge yourself not to just stick to what you already know (which in my personal experience is VERY easy to do especially if you find that you're very productive using what you know). But you also have to be selective. Life is too short to try to be a master of everything. And there is great value in gaining a very deep expertise in a particular topic or technique.
Buy a different laptop?
As I understand it, NFC is similar to RFID, but RFID provides one-way communication, while NFC provides two-way communication. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't. I do know what is involved though. You dig a big hole and put them in it. Then over 25 years or so the lithium seeps out into the water table...
> And what am I supposed to do if I don't want to spend $2200 on a computer that only lasts me two years?

There are other computers on the market. They're available from a range of manufacturers. Many people recommend a few of the Lenovo range.

There might be legal issues if you want to run OS X.
Having worked in a small data center, I can remember once or twice that we had to improvise when an emergency struck like a heat related power failure of our entire block, or a leaky roof. But, wow, nothing like this!Maybe a large fan or two plugged in pulling out hot air and in cool air, or a tarp for maybe an hour or two.
The fourth year of AppleCare now costs 2 grand since every MBP will now self destruct in the fourth year :)
Personally, I don't really think of CCTV cameras as a privacy issue at all. If you're in a city street you should expect that nothing you do is actually private. Its always been perfectly legal for a cop to stand in the street and notice who enters or leaves a particular building, and in a small town they'd be able to figure out just as much about you from that as a CCTV system with face recognition could in a big city.

The important this is that people be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects", not whether the police can see you walking down the road.
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"Sorry but stuff like this is just pandering to consumerism if it is disposable by design."

You are kind of right.

We use our 7 year old G4 Powerbook with the 4th battery.
Its a pity that there is no real operating system available for a Thinkpad.
Thunderbolt is the high-speed channel on this thing.

Plug it into a matching Cinema Display and you've got Firewire, GigE, etc., all via Thunderbolt.

Apple, once again, is betting on a new standard, which seems to be working.

(The HDMI port is a nice touch, since most modern projectors and large-screen devices support it.)
You're right, the machine in front of me does not do any "serious computing." It's just a device which lets me communicate with the people I work with, look up things on the internet, and enable me to work on a ~500 core cluster.

The computer in front of me is basically just an appliance now. That has no bearing on the actual work I do.
> some pharma businesses like GSK, spend about twice on sales and business costs than they do research[0].

Marketing and sales costs include free and discounted drugs for poor people. It also includes costs for educating doctors?

You clearly think that too much spending on things other than research is wrong. So, how much spending on the things that I listed (which comes under the categories that you complained about) is too much?

Now that you understand more about how patents work, my question about generics still stands. Pfizer wants you to buy new improved lipitor but there's no patent protection on old lipitor. Pfizer's lipitor sales just dropped 71% and (IIRC), they're dropping prices.
I get the impression you turn everything into a political tirade.
If by "recycle" you will accept the alternative "reuse", I know many people who reuse batteries. I've done it once, when a hardware failure caused my laptop to become a doorstop. The battery was put into an RC project I was working on and the rest of the laptop was sent to true recyclers.
At a client's (more like a prospect in fact), the "server room" is just a regular office where they put their machines and switch boards.

Since there is no air conditioning in the building, they put an air conditioner in the room, with the tube of hot air coming out of the door and into the lobby. The door of course stays open at all times.

This company is in the information business and absolutely relies on its IT infrastructure to survive...
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What are some good tech support/IT/Computer Repair blogs?
FWIW, Apple's machines are some of the most recyclable in the industry. Aluminum and glass are far more recyclable than plastic.
Yep, the design is plain stupid. Then again, the average consumer and corporate user never replace components anyway, so Apple will probably not lose sales over this.

I hope other manufacturers won't follow suit, though...
I'm surprised to read that people who did better on the SAT did worse with the bat-and-ball question in the article. That sounds like exactly the sort of simple trap I'd expect to find in an SAT math question.
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I would welcome this if I hadn't finally just gotten on board the SASS train. All I see this doing (for some ill-defined span known as "the present"), is adding another layer of headache into the browser compatibility game. Furthermore, I agree with VMG that there's something to be desired in the chosen syntax.
indistinguishable from web development in terms of activities performed

You're over-discounting domain knowledge. Anyone can write in code x+y. It might take much deeper knowledge to know that sometimes, it's x-y, and exactly when that is.
A Random Walk with Pi
> They push out OS updates to devices not capable of running them properly, and provide no easy path to roll back.

Barring a temporary bug in iOS3, every time an iOS update has come through my phone has felt faster afterwards.
This node.js version is most certainly faster
https://github.com/Weltschmerz/wsdemo/blob/master/competitio...

Wondering how much!
Why are there trade secrets? Why is there classified information? Why is there encryption? Why are there door locks and window blinds and fences? What was the big deal about Wikileaks if you have nothing to hide?

If the US government or some MegaCorp wants to dump all of their correspondence and data, decrypted, onto the internet for my perusal, and unlock all the doors, safes, fences and windows on their buildings, then I might consider opening up my personal life to them as well.
I disagree; I believe this marketing focus is more effective.

Consider their entire product line. The MacBook Air is thinner than this, and it's old news. The next-generation MacBook Pro is their first Mac with a Retina display.
That's an interesting site, very nice lessons. But one would have to actually read the material to understand the chart (grin). But that chart is getting on toward what I expected to see at the subject of this HN post.
I found this:
http://www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2011/09/50-must-read-...
> The point is that it is regarded as a religion here whether Germany likes it or not.

Again, so what? The French like Jerry Lewis. The Germans like David Hasselhoff.

There are lots of facts, but few are actually "points".
> Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve ".<whatever>" is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on "<whatever>.com"

Monter (the job people) and Monster (the expensive audio product people) are both going for .monster

How do they resolve that? Toss a coin? Auction it?
It's not the css we wanted, it's the css we deserved. :)

But seriously, this is extremely consistant with other css directives. Yes, I'm still going to just use less / stylus / whatever, but browser based vars mean some interesting possibilities sans js.
That sounds broken: anyone hitting defcon 1 means everyone loses.
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You had me at "We're not living in a dream world, many are trying to be realistic".

My whole discussion thread is about being realistic. Is it realistic to have exactly one OS version deployed worldwide on hundreds of differenct device models created by dozens of different manufacturers with dozens of different hardware configurations ranging from low-end to high-end?

No, it is absolutely not. And so noone should complain about that ghost named "fragmentation" because it's a stupid discussion and it's an unfair comparison.
And it is not 'just' third party use, it is no upgrades, ever.

To be fair, there will probably be (unauthorized) third party SSD replacements, and USB3 allows much more flexibility with external upgrades.

I imagine it adds $200 on to the cost, because they will feel the need to top up the extra 8gb to future proof themselves.

Yeah. It's also disappointing that the high end model still only has 8GB standard, but that way Apple guarantees that you have to order through them if you want 16. I'll still do it, because by all accounts the display really is that good. It will likely be my last Apple hardware purchase, assuming that in a few years other PC manufacturers have realized that Apple is on to something with their brilliant strategy of making displays better instead of worse.
Vanity, my favorite sin. I can't imagine when people start registering their names: britney.spears, lady.gaga, kim.kardashian

This will be a huge money making machine, retarded but huge.
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"Pro" doesn't indicate what type of professional.

The Photoshop pros, photographer pros, etc. I know don't want to open up their laptops, but they're still pros.
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biketour.berlin.ge biketour.paris.fr antics.london.uk

Nope, there's room for all of those things in the current scheme.

Might I add that none of those cities are the only city to have that name, and that the country part carries real information?
> I've always heard (and likewise, advised my 'power-user' friends) to just buy systems with the baseline HD and RAM options, because those components really tend to be a lot cheaper via third parties...

Not to mention if you hit your HD limit after a year the bigger drives are going to be drastically cheaper.
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Try entering "ac" or "ac." in your browser. It's a TLD with an A record, so it should just work.

If you have a host on your domain also named that, well, things might get interesting depending on how your resolvers work (domains, search order, dotting, whatever). Plus, if you're in a corporate environment or something else with a proxy, add all of those demons, too.

Buckle up.

(Random trivia: I checked all 676 two-letter possibilities, and these are the ones which should work: AC AI CM DK GG IO JE KH PN SH TK TM TO UZ VI WS)
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Why is there an emphasis on foregoing college with this grant? Why not offer it to college seniors?
AFAIK every .cat domain has to have at least one web page in catalan. This is to prevent it being a vanity silly domain
Only problem is that no one else supports it.
Privacy and democracy are inseparable. http://51elliot.blogspot.ca/2008/07/your-privacy-is-your-fre...

"If your private thoughts were broadcast on a television screen above your head for everyone to see, its fair to say we'd all be more careful what we thought about. We would be forced to practice thought control to give others a good impression. Mental self-discipline is great, but this imaginary scenario illustrates a critical point: the absence of privacy has the ability to influence.

Moreover, the one who usurps privacy is the one who wields that influence. And such control at the cost of privacy is the opposite of freedom. Democracy and freedom are upheld by the individual's right to form thought and opinion and to communicate within the haven of privacy."
Raspberry Pi Stack Exchange receiving loads of interest
Come to think of it, soldering RAM isn't that hard - people were doing it with a cheap soldering station over a decade ago (increasing RAM on video cards).
Seeing as this is the only design used in new Ultrabooks and will probably be prevalent in new laptops, those who want to upgrade will have to upgrade their tech skills.