skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So could some non-mac people post theirs?

Is this usethis for the uninvited?
So the wreckage made HDD manufactures realize that demand has been much higher to justify higher pricing. In the immediate future they will make more units - perhaps near the previous level - though prices will remain high to cash in even more revenue. The prices then will take a very long time to fall back to the past level due to natural competition :(
What do you do, if you just wanna read an article.

Which monitor do you put it on?

And don't you mind always keeping your neck turned at a slight angle?

I had 27 inch, and I would mind the angle of just looking at the side of it. I hated, that I had to turn my neck in order to see something.
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Then why did they make a reply like that to a question explicitly asking about software?
You're comparing different things: most of the complaints about AWS have been due to servers (EC2) or network storage (EBS) failing. The outage in March was networking related so that would count, however.
I suggest using a more appropriate title. It's misleading.
The big difference of drugs from alcohol and tobacco is their addictiveness. While you can't get addicted to alcohol or tobacco after one use, certain drugs cause severe addiction after first dose. Of course you can legalize only mild drugs. But it won't solve the problem because as we see this business is mostly about very addictive ones.

EDIT: typo
Thanks for discovering that. I'll get it fixed.
For some reason as I read this I thought of the thread from a few days ago, about how if you freelance, you shouldn't take on low-value, high-demand clients.

Maybe if your "friends" only get together or even talk to you in response to tweets or facebook, and forget all about you otherwise, you need to consider their real commitment to the friendship.

You know that friends did manage to organize cocktail parties at each other's houses, gather at restaurants, etc. before twitter or facebook existed.
Meth is very cheap already. Any changes?
I've always been a real screen real estate whore. I currently run a dual 30" setup at home and always thought I could never go smaller.

Around a month ago, I started using an 11" Macbook air as I was travelling a lot, and I must say, I'm absolutely blown away at how productive I have been for development work.

With a tabbed text editor (ST2), browser, and terminal combined with Lion full screen & OSX spaces, everything is so nice and compact and you can switch around in less time than it takes to turn your head across to the other side of a monitor. I seem to be hitting flow very easily and have been doing some great work since I started using this laptop.

Of course, being able to take my primary machine with me everywhere I go is also a real bonus. I'm getting some great work done on my side projects on my commute or on flights, and am quickly able to dial in to customer sites etc without being compromised in any way.

I'd recommend that anyone give this a go. I'm definitely going to keep trying to minimise and simplify my tools after this experience.
I think you would convert a lot more if you used https://budgetable.com. Im not giving someone my account information unless it is encrypted. As a potential customer, lack of that makes me wonder how secure the backend is. Otherwise, looking forward to what you come up with
I'd sign up if I had the money, looks like a cool course !
Do you have a mobile application or a mobile-friendly site?
I thought there was an OS feature that did that. I remember scheduling a reboot nightly at 3am. I loved that phone at the time, but hate it in hindsight.
Alcohol is already legal, so why gangs are not gone?
I stopped using iDoneThis because I was doing it in a vacuum. It would be great to get other people involved, but no one in my office was interested. There's also the issue of the founder's history, which seems to be marred a bit.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886171

but the idea is incredibly provocative.
Aggregates all your accounts, balances, net worth charts, budgets... all that good stuff. It's fully functional personal finance software.
If that day were to come, as a hacker, how do you turn down a chance to work with a well-funded customer that want you to build a evacuated tunnel train, but on the other hand, this is essentially blood money. A passion vs moral dilemma...
Scarcity = profit, abundance = no profit or loss, leading eventually to scarcity.
If your main interaction with a person is via facebook, they are not a close friend.
What is the logic here? That if the US simply doesn't invest in offensive security research, nobody else will? That the US is somehow escalating the information security crisis?

That would be a ridiculous point, unworthy of debate.

Nation states around the world owe their first allegiance to their own interests, and then to the interests of their long-term economic and geopolitical prospects, and then maybe to their people. Any allegiance owed to principled conduct in "cyberspace" is way, way down the list. Any rival of the United States has an advantage that can be prosecuted using offensive security research is assuredly already doing so.

I also take issue with your last sentence, with the idea that the US was the first state to directly engage foreign targets. Obviously, the words "of major military significance" gives your argument a lot of room to maneuver, but the overall effect of the argument as it stands is that the US is the only state pursuing any kind of meaningful offensive security effort. That's almost definitely not the case.

I'm also unclear as to why I should be particularly disturbed by the weaponization of IT. Let's stipulate for a moment that Stuxnet was a weapon intended to sabotage a covert Iranian nuclear weapons program. OK. And? What moral authority does Stuxnet lack that a laser-guided bomb dropped from a jet owns? Did Stuxnet kill anyone? To the extent the US military can accomplish objectives using technological countermeasures rather than explosive munitions, I call that progress.
The actual web app is https. Thanks for the feedback.
Yeah, still need to do some A/B testing around that.
The key problem with your argument is the idea that we can reduce drug use by making it illegal. That fact isn't born out by reality.
I think that if they can, they will. "Can" being dictated by the market of course. Look at the Mac Pro - arguably the most ignored product line Apple sells, yet it still sells. If people continue buying the non-Retina MBPs, I have no doubt Apple will continue updating it, even if slowly.
I mind the splash page (and content disposition headers).

1. For quickly showing ideas/images/screenshots to friends/colleagues, it becomes an ordeal. (Okay, click through a marketing page, then the file starts to download, then they need to open the file in an image viewer, then they need to find and delete the file. All this instead of click, see, close tab.)

2. It breaks the process of embedding media into web pages / forum posts / etc.

3. It breaks the process of being able to say, throw together some HTML, CSS, Javascript files, and images into a folder under /Public and have the public URL function in a browser.
Only when working with explicit Booleans, yes. Otherwise no:

[21] pry(main)> foo = 1
=> 1
[22] pry(main)> bar = false
=> false
[23] pry(main)> foo && !bar
=> true
[24] pry(main)> foo &! bar
TypeError: can't convert true into Integer
from (pry):24:in `&'

In this case, the behavior is inappropriate in that Ruby evaluates only false and nil for False, and everything else as True.

I'm going to assume this is some quirk or "feature" as part of the bitwise operator '&'.
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Not yet, but it's a top priority of course.
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> This of course doesn't solve the real problem which is consumption.

I object to your use of the definite article here. We can argue about the degree to which consumption is a problem vs. it leading to problems, moderate use, what particular drugs, etc... but making the police into the enemy of a large swath of our population is itself a real problem, gang violence to control distribution territory is itself a real problem, etc.

If people are doing things that hurt themselves that's bad, but it's important we don't cause worse problems (for those people or the rest of us) in trying to stop it, and legalization frees up huge resources that we could put toward educating people about the dangers of various drugs and cleaning up the mess when they don't listen.
Where'd all the comments go today? Great articles, no commentary? Is everyone on their way home from WWDC?
I built Strangers for Dinner[1] and edgeyo[2] around the slow web idea.

The idea is that people should have lives. If you are running a startup, you want to be out there writing your app, you want to be out there courting your customers. You don't want to be writing reports to investors or spending your time writing a pitch deck, presenting and in all probability, fumbling and failing. You shouldn't be frantically worrying about notification on twitter and facebook and angel.co.

The main philosophy is that you shouldn't have to do that. You should be doing what you're best at doing, and everything else should just be background noise that can be easily ignored.

I think this is the reason why people have so much trouble with email. When everything goes to your inbox, nothing gets done. The idea is to limit what goes into your inbox, not to invent a new smarter inbox.

Jack sums it up as "Timeliness. Rhythm. Moderation". On the note of Rhythm, my personal experience with rhythm on edgeyo wasn't too good. Rhythm has caused the equivalent of ad blindness for edgeyo emails, so when I created Strangers for Dinner (since we had to pause work on edgeyo for a bit), the idea slowly swapped out to sending sporadic notification emails sent out in fibonacci sequences over time (think a ciccada's lifecycles). Yes, I realize it's a dark pattern and probably shouldn't do it too often.

The fast web has caused us to be feedback junkies. It's a problem both my sites are facing, and I was wondering if anyone knows how to solve it. It's quite difficult explaining to people that you don't have to stick around the website; instead, the service comes to you - at moderated intervals.

p/s: I also own aslowweb.org which I originally intended to lay out a doctrine of the slow web philosophy. Thanks for motivating me to put love into that.

[1] - http://strangersfordinner.com

[2] - http://edgeyo.com

EDIT: I actually own the aslowweb.org, not .com
Arguably it would take time for the violent crime to subside. A culture of violence does not vanish over night, but rather over generations.

My prediction is Mexico's violent crime spilling over to the US resulting in a drug war surge (both already happening to some degree.) In the background, regulators slowly loosen up laws as to not lose face (would explain the toleration of medical marijuana.)

I can only imagine that from the outside American appear completely crazy. Regulators and lobbyists write the laws, bankers and the wealthy fund the enforcement, and then both parties consume them in obscene quantities. The exporting country pays the price in blood and corruption. From my perspective as an American, that's not crazy, that's evil.
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Best answer ever why you shouldn't parse HTML with regex:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-...
I have a 13" MBA, and the reason I chose it over the pro is that it has an SSD. I've killed hard drives before thanks to them not sleeping when I shut my lid. But I can't do real work on it for long periods of time, I need my dual monitors.
You fail to make a general point about JS. Instead you make the point that jQuery is inadequate for large apps, and I agree. Just because you failed with jQuery dosent mean JS can't be used. I've seen Big JS projects go horribly wrong, but I've alse seen big C# projects go horribly wrong (And COBOL and ...). Every time the projects didn't have good tests, a CI server, nightly builds, structured code reviews, a modular and simple design etc. If you use all the good practices available, big JS projects become maintainable.
It shines through in your post that you didn't do it close to right.
Unless they have a screen that can rival the Retina, this is dead on arrival.
Given that Apple for the most part is the other PC manufacturers R+D arm I would expect most of the other OEMs to follow this move over the next 2-3 years.
>Drugs are still illegal in the US and we don't really see >the same kind of crime in our country because the police >actually (for the most part) do their job.

I strongly disagree with your statement. Police? Mexico is not using your usual police officers to fight drug violence neither Colombia. They are using highly trained military forces. Why? Cartels have very advance military equipment that is, sometimes, even purchased directly from the U.S. government as stated by one of the captured Zetas cartel heads (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/7/inquiry-of-we...). One of the main reasons the U.S. doesn't have the amount drug related crimes that countries like Mexico do is because it's their primary market (in the case of Mexican cartels) so they, obviously, don't want to create that much problems there and mess up their business.

This is not about pointing fingers or saying that the police is useless but as someone who was unlucky enough to witness hitman executed individuals (in front of my house) but lucky enough to _not see anything_ useful for the police I have to tell you that is not about an effective police force. The production, distribution, violence, money laundering, and all the other problems that revolve around drugs are shared between: consumers, criminals, and corrupt individuals (private, government, and public service sectors). My point is that this very complicated problem has only gotten worse since the "War on Drugs" started so legalizing drugs to have some regulation could be an alternative.
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Has adaptive design failed? Of course it bloody hasn’t.
You made a new account to post a duplicate from last year - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2287213 - and reduplicated 5 months ago.
I still like the original Doom Shareware model. They gave you what felt like 1 whole game for free, enough that really impressed you and gave sense of a complete product.

Then they made an offer of 2 more games (or episodes) for a fee. When taken as a whole, they were only giving 1/3 of the game away for free, but before purchasing, you felt like you were given an entire unit upfront.

This established a great relationship between the user and ID software. They demonstrated for free what 1 unit of Doom was, then offered 2 more -- which I roughly understood what value I would get.

I think creating and segmenting units of a product that are complete in themselves, but related to other premium offerings is a great way to get a user to feel both satisfied with a free product but yearning for more. It also shows that segmenting your sales narrative in freemium is very important. I get irritated when you interrupt my free unit and offer the rest at cost. I am happy when I receive a whole unit for free, then am offered more units for a fee.
I stopped reading at the second paragraph.

Microsoft is about to concede that Apple may be onto something.

Microsoft has been wanting to do a tablet for a decade. It's not like Apple invented the concept.
"Scientists have found, for instance, that nicotine is as addictive as heroin, cocaine or amphetamines..."

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-t...
couldn't agree more with what Elliot is saying in his blog post
And google should give us all ponies.

Would you mind defending your expectation that other people and companies will give you extra services for free?

Amazon has been very clear on the expected failure rate of ebs volumes and the attendant rds failures. If you want data safety, multi-az deployment offers it.
Agree there are advantages and disadvantages of each approach. I encourage you to keep improving your app, it is indeed an excellent alpha. I always wanted to integrate canvas and SVG into Edit Room but have not done so yet. Cheers!
Will there be an API for my data?
When a job listing says ninja/rockstar/badass coder, its really just a codeword for someone they can force to do anything at all costs. They act like they want a 10x'er but really just want someone who they can get to do 10x much work.
VaaS: I use http://www.getcloak.com and am quite happy with it as a security measure. For bypassing "the great firewall", my girlfriend is a flight attendant; she and several of her coworkers use it, so that they can browse the web normally when in China.
Street price doesn't even need to drop: it is safer for customers to buy it at the local drug store (legal, pure drug) than on the street (unknown quality).
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Maybe it's because of my running naked blog post, haha. That sucks though, I swear I'm not a porn site.
Ok, I thought the story was silly at first - but come on. Let the story die.
Why isn't cocaine legalized? Honest question - I've never done it nor have a I done a ton of research.
I might take you up on that. I am currently finishing up an iOS game. Once done with that I might go through my outstanding projects and pick one to try and outsource partially or in full.
I go to facebook.com probably 5 times in less than 5 minutes. To me, that is giving up social media. I'm sure I'm not alone.
In depends on the requirements. And if your requirements are to produce the thinest high-end laptop while minimizing production and support costs then the retina MacBook Pro is a good engineering solution.
Work should be calming down now, so I'll be less busy until the fall. But all that means is that my boss will have working on even more things I find boring, but with shorter hours, until trade show season sparks up again.

And yeah, unfortunately attending (and working) the trade shows is mandatory.

I can handle stress, it's just hard to handle it when I don't care about the things I'm making. I feel like a startup with an interesting product could alleviate that...
What if its for 50 bucks and subsidized via ads? Or if it allows you to play Xbox games remotely over the internet? Or if it has great handwriting recognition? Or if you can program on it using any language you want?
I have been advocating startups build privacy in to their systems as differentiation points over their competitors. As privacy breaches make the headlines, it makes for PR that you can piggyback on to fairly effectively.
IANAH, but this runs counter to my understanding. The Opium Wars are closer to what we are currently fighting, than to the results of legalization. The British (Mexico) wanted to sell opium to the Chinese (US) when it was against Chinese (US) law. There is a significant difference in that Mexico technically forbids this activity too, of course, while the British did not, but legalization by the US would move it further away from the historical situation, not closer to it.
The promise of the web (and I suppose, most web services) is/was to make our lives easier, smoother, and better, but it seems like each new app or service I use takes a little more of my time rather than a little less.

I personally feel like the slow web movement is at it's heart about using the web for its purported purpose: streamlining communication pathways instead of creating new ones.
Conversion rate after the user visits the website is going to be the same either way. You could triple your email outreach to his the same visitor count as snail mail and have tons of capital left over.
Thanks for the feedback! I've gone through several versions of the home screen so far and will try to improve it further.
People stop giving huge wads of money to violent criminals. Drug users stop being legal pariahs and are able to be a part of the criminal justice system other than as just a defendant. The courts stop being crammed full of drug users. Police departments stop being preoccupied by "dope on the table" drug busts and concentrate on things like homicide and violent crimes.

No, gangs aren't going to go away, but they will be reduced in capability and law enforcement will be far more effective. Crime will go down. Not instantly, but over a fairly short amount of time.
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> but he’s certain he can find some legal recourse for what’s going on right now – “California code is just so long, but there’s something in there about this,” he says.

Hypothesis: If I dig long enough I'll reach china.

He's forgetting a few layers of the earth; at least.
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1) Mozilla is generating a stock set of components that you wont have to "scour" for. 2) The components can be easily included using an app bootstrap builder that the Mozilla Marketplace dev hub will feature 3) You write the tags like you would any other in HTML, there is not complex copy or paste operation... 4) You can use components without modifying them, #4 is a red herring

Another huge benefit: the polyfill is 2k compressed composed of pure, library-independent JS
The 11" is just so convenient if you work from multiple places.

It's so small and light and you kind of casually pick it up and take it with you even thinking about it.

They're also not badly priced if they are to be used as a primary machine.

And with the SSD and now 4-8gb as standard, you have a pretty good spec for most web development.
The new T430s. Just came out.
You can get an MBP with an SSD. I have a 13" MBP with a 128 GB SSD.
I wanted to agree with you, but then I realized: Snow Crash is basically the Tarantino approach applied to cyberpunk. The violence and bad-assitude is way, way over the top, but has a cutting, satirical intelligence to it. Eventually your inner fanboy and your outer ironist are laughing simultaneously.

So it's totally possible to make this a great movie (if you agree that Tarantino makes great movies, at least).
I read hundreds of pages of Infinite Jest, on your recommendation, and while I did find certain scenes compelling, it finally dawned on me why I didn't like it: It's totally devoid of hope. Maybe I just didn't bring enough internal upbeatness to the table to enjoy IJ, but to me, the best part of reading a long novel, is enjoying the distillation of a big part of the authors life and getting to know them. I found DFW (in this book) just brought me down.

[EDIT: Maybe it didn't help that it was a Kindle book. I've read long books on Kindle, and it's gone fine when the books are mostly enjoyable and easy to follow throughout, but when they're not, it probably helps to have more physical clues as to where you are in the novel. IJ's chapter titles certainly didn't help me to know my way around the book either.]
I think this is a beautifully expressed thought:

"… as soon as I saw 'the slow web movement,' I assigned my own meaning to it. Because it’s a great name, and great names are like knots—they’re woven from the same stringy material as other words, but in their particular arrangement, they catch, become junctions to which new threads arrive, from which other threads depart."
Yes, exactly.

The war on drugs is a perfect example of capitalism v socialism. In the red corner we have black market capitalists engaged in an enterprise with extremely high risk premiums. In the blue corner we have socialized law enforcement. If you truly believe that capitalism is the superior force, you can't help but know that the war on drugs is absolute unwinnable folly.
On the other hand, if you were running a dangerous, cutthroat business, wouldn't you want every possible edge to stay ahead?