skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The poster has what my mother always called an 'addictive' personality. It's both a benevolent and malevolent trait to have. I'm sure most professional athletes or anyone that 'masters' something to any sort of extreme has to have this sort of trait to stay intrinsically motivated.

I am disappointed to see people blaming 'this or that game' for their problems. Personally these types of folks need help and a good safety net of friends and family to point out what's truly happening instead of being surrounded by those with the same issues. Unfortunately it sounds like this guy had none of the former and plenty of the latter.
My Lenovo Brick... uh oh I mean T410S is still sitting on my desk. Within 2 months of getting it, the screen started having large white lines in it. Within 4 months the plastic started cracking, and within 7 months I got a fan error. I just won't trust a lenovo again.
Hmm, throw a few words out that you use when selling to the complexes? First names that come to mind are :-

Concierge, ApartmentSuper, ComplexSimple, TowerBlock

I could easily generate a list for you guys to consider. Email is in my profile.
broken record: just bought a t530 and the prtsc key makes me crazy. Who thought this was a good idea?? That and switching the left ctrl & fn (so it's like a mac). I suppose these things are just not for programmers/power users; anyway it's a big PITA to switch from ctrl under shift bottom left (every other PC keyboard) to "ctrl somewhere else, you just dimmed the screen."

EDIT: Thank you for BIOS keyswap tip. It's still not as good as a properly placed, properly sized ctrl key but this helps!
Personally, I would rather not have SOPA and have this guy lose a few sales.
Perhaps I chose the word bipolar incorrectly, but it's the closest word that describes the situations I've encountered with my anger.

I guess the feeling is hard to describe; "getting really angry and losing your shit." doesn't cover it at all, especially in the situations I can remember. Everybody looses their cool, this is way beyond that for me. The situations where it's come up wouldn't constitute the level of rage I've felt.
So, you wanted them to refund you so you could buy it again in the MAS and they would end up with 30% less money? Why would any business agree to that?

You still get the same software, you paid the same amount, and they probably have an update mechanism (the only real difference between the versions is keeping your license key).

I can't see how you can be annoyed about this. If you really cared you could have spent a few minutes extra on the site to check if they supported the Mac App Store.
I've used two from's for inner joins:

var filteredCustomers =
from c in customers
from o in orders
where o.customerid = c.customerid &&
c.IsMale && c.Age > 30 &&
o.IsPending
select new {Customer = c, Order = o};

This is one of those cases where I'll favor query syntax over extensions. OTOH, query syntax requires an explicit `select` where it's often optional in extensions. Also, `.ToList()` doesn't have a query syntax counterpart so you'll often mix both if you tend to favor query.
This is the same approach I take as well.

I find as a programmer/business person of ONE, if I spend too much time customizing at the onset I'll spend way too much time on things that won't matter.

Customization, colors, etc can come later when I get all my other things done.
To my knowledge, bitcoin is not recognised as a currency by my country (or any other country), therefore it has no special properties.

I would expect that the laws would be written so that anything people (try to) use as a currency would be treated as one, rather than having a list of currencies that someone has to keep up-to-date.
I'm pretty sure the whole thing is a fabrication - the details all sound like what you hear from a bad liar:

- 1% body fat
- ran 12 miles and got bored (so he walked home??)
- 20 one-handed push-ups on either side (but only 100 combined??)
- became a monk
- shrank an inch in a year do to inactivity
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(1) is probably the meatiest

(2) sounds intriguing, even though it's "just math." Care to elaborate?

(3) it's always better to pick your own problems if at all possible. makes you unique, and besides, given all the attention dolloped on "problem-solving ability", the ability to identify important problems is just as important, if not perhaps more important.
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Aside from possibly hurting the W3C Validator's feelings, does that matter?
It is possible his 1% body fat was an estimate or used a different technique to measure. I know nothing about it really, but it is possible he was more interested in training than finding a doctor to give him exact stats.
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Redirect after POST is not sufficient. Think about users clicking twice quickly (by accident or intention) before the browser receives the redirect. CSRF tokens could help if in place, however disabling the trigger until the redirect arrives is better. Of course this does not solve double-submits using Ajax.
Wow, I've never heard of this before, but I knew a friend in college who eventually lost himself to drugs for a bit (dealing it, using it too much). He had gone from passion to passion in 1-2 year cycles. During high school he was seriously into Unix and was incredibly into just hacking on it all day, every day for hours on end. The next year he decided he was over it, and got into really spiritual pursuits (converting to Islam) and wearing traditional garb and was incredibly active in a Mosque. Then, unfortunately, he fell into the aforementioned drugs episode.

Now, however, he's stabilized after going to therapy and has a pretty rad job doing pen testing. Anyhow, thanks for posting this link, I knew there was some sort of thing describing his personality trait :)
If you work as a web designer (technician, really) it might be.
We have changed much of the old site design developed by getmefast after we had the bandwidth and resources to have an inhouse team. Our experience was good enough to get started with a website. However for a start just getting some good templates from themeforest may do the job also for a lower cost till you can afford to hire a top notch team.
Until none of them will be in English?
Which dialect of Chinese you like most?
I don't have a true Ultrabook but I do have a Sony Vaio Z with a 13.3" 1920x1080 screen in it. I run it full resolution in Windows 7, with everything scaled down to standard size. Is everything very small? Yes. But when I'm sitting in front of it it's not much different than being a couple feet from a monitor and it truly gives me usable space. It's my travel machine as I am on the road a lot, and since I've had it coding in a hotel room is finally productive for me.
You probably should read the document lionhearted linked to:

> Google the term “rage to master” – click around, read some summaries, and then check out a couple academic papers. It will be very worth your time.

I'm not sure if it's related to Aspergers, but I don't think negativity[0] is warranted. Having an intense interest is good by itself; if it keeps for a few months—there you have a startup. =) The only problem is indeed that you have to master it, and not always do conscious attempts help.

[0] Although I might be mistaken and there wasn't any in your reply.
I know I shouldn't feed the troll - but if you look, you'll see that insert, home, end, page-up, page-down, and delete are all still there.

Also, from what I've read the underlying key mechanism is the same. The caps have been made larger and they're curved and thoughtfully shaped.

I played with the new ThinkPad keyboard at a retailer and I think its better.
Not necessarily a dick move... just sloppy Web 3.0 engineering as usual
Could be, but the parts about game addiction itself are dead on with my experiences. I effectively lost six years of my life and dropped out of college. While I was playing the game, that seemed like a reasonable loss - it was only after I stopped playing completely that I realized how badly I had fucked up my life.

I should add that I don't live in Korea or China. I'm a guy in my late 20's who lives in rural Wisconsin, and I know several people that I met while playing that particular game that have gone through similar (though usually less severe) experiences. The ones that I've kept in touch in agree that they were addicted as well, and that it's probably a lot more common than anyone would like to admit for players of certain genres of games, particularly MMOs.
pinboard.in - Give it a try.
Is a federated Twitter even possible?
Not quite the same thing but here is a corollary...

"Smalltalk had a three-button mouse and pop-up menus, in contrast to the Mac's menu bar and one-button mouse. Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get them to repaint, and programs couldn't draw into partially obscured windows. Bill Atkinson did not know this, so he invented regions as the basis of QuickDraw and the Window Manager so that he could quickly draw in covered windows and repaint portions of windows brought to the front. One Macintosh feature identical to a Smalltalk feature is selection-based modeless text editing with cut and paste, which was created by Larry Tesler for his Gypsy editor at PARC." --http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...
Easier in shell:

$ date -d '864 days ago'
Tue Apr 13 13:46:16 EDT 2010
Came here to say this. Github owes a lot of their success to their amazing designers.
We are not associated with or funded by YC, although Sam did fund us personally. I'll shoot you an email.
I'm also a climber, I've been climbing about 20 hours a week lately, and using a cheap electric current device, I was getting measurements between 6% and 12%, and I have very lean muscle.

I have some friends who are physical trainers, and they were talking about low body fat once, saying it's very difficult to to get down to around 5% and lower than 4% is dangerous.

According to a random body building website thread, 3% is essential body fat... http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=143851451&...
There is a continuum between losing your shit, like normal people do, and having a full blown behavioural disorder that destroys your life. We all lie somewhere on it. There's probably another continuum that goes off in the other direction, with jesus hanging out on the end with master joshu or something.

If you need to put a label on yourself, intermittent explosive disorder or something is likely closer than bipolar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent_explosive_disorder

There really is no reason to pathologize your behaviour unless you want to seek treatment though. There's a lot of shite in the DSM.
Same here. Just got a house and I'm looking for a way to automate the whole thing, but there's a pretty shockingly small amount of usable hardware out there for a reasonable price. Here's hoping this platform is everything that hackers like us are looking for in a HA system.
I know Linux is working on hibernating processes[1] and Windows 8 has made significant progress also.

This would be cool feature for desktop as well, for example to integrate with KDE’s Activities.

[1] https://ckpt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
Meh. This complaint is widely overblown IMO. I came from a T61 and an R61 and recently switched to a W530 which has the same keyboard layout as the Carbon. I contemplated the upgrade for an extremely long time and finally jumped.

After a little more than a month of use:

For one, the "real keys" v. chiclet style keys issue is a non-issue for me at this point. They have the same keypress feel for me and there's part of me that prefers this keyboard more.

The Home-PgUp-Del-End-PgDn key issue is going to differ per person is a tricky one for me to elaborate. I hated this keyboard at first since the PgUp and PgDown replaced the forward and backward keys that I used HEAVILY. After cooling down my hatred, I'm completely fine with those keys and the top row of Home-End-Insert-Delete.

After getting used to those my only long-standing complaint is the god damned print screen button. Why in the hell it's next to Alt and Ctrl is beyond me. It's absolutely horrible positioning and I don't think I'd ever forgive Lenovo for this decision.
These are "Best Practices for Linq Enumerables and Queryables when You're Not Really Sure How Linq Works but Still Want to Use It".
Then the validator is not really a proper validator yet. It's 2012. HTML5 is a proper spec alright...
I was primarily pointing out the construction and build quality. An Apple chassis cannot be beat =)
Personally I think its more the latter, and fair warning there are folks who will tell you the Federal Reserve is unconstitutional and the only legal money is actual gold or silver. Suffice it to say there are a lot of opinions.

In Vegas, the Secret Service was pretty clear that their 'goal' was to mitigate criminal activity not clamp down on people who bought a slurpee at 7-11 and only had a $5 casino chip in their pocket.

While there are perfectly libertarian reasons for not wanting your transaction history or cash flows viewable, it is essential in many (most?) criminal endeavors. For better or worse this is an aspect that the US Government uses to uncover those operations. As we've discussed on HN before there are waaaay more federal laws than are necessary which result in making a lot of things "illegal" which I and perhaps others would not agree made sense ( the whole 'lying to the FBI' which is waaaaay overly broad for example ). My point is that if you ask Eric Holder or any Treasury Agent if using BitCoin as the currency for buying or selling goods or services in the US to people in the US they will say "No, it is not." And if you tell them you have been doing so, they may decide to arrest you at that point.

Policy debates (and really that is what this is) are messy and heated, but its unreasonable for a print publication to say that BitCoin is in a 'legal gray area' when calling up the Treasury would disabuse them of that notion. Just like saying paying Income Tax is optional. From the point of view of the IRS that is not true, regardless of the number of scholars and researchers who will create a chain of reasoning to show that it is.
X10 reborn. I know people who were playing around with stuff like this back in the 90s and the X10 protocol has existed since the mid 70s. I don't know if these are the guys to do it but it does seem like the time is right for this sort of home automation to finally take off.
Thoughts on the Windows SmartScreen scare.
I believe there is an order of magnitude more people/companies involved on the entire Linux ecosystem than there's people involved on OS X. Obviously there's an overlap, some Apple engineers work on open source components, but even then the OS X stack shares more with FreeBSD than Linux.

So, yeah, you're being romantic.
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> Xerox allowed Apple to use some of the concepts in the lab because they were investors in the company.

I'm not sure "allowed" is the right word here. Didn't they sue Apple over this a few years later...? I guess you could say the period before they filed suit, they were allowing it. (?)
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Yeah, but the whole domain was down for a few minutes for me.... No blogspot blogs loaded either. And isup.me also showed it down, so just wanted an opinion. Guess it was just a DNS issue for me!
I sort of understand why people like Github for public projects, but what's compelling for a private project?
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Do you happen to know which of the Empscripten or Mandreel compiled versions is fastest?

(After searching a bit, it seems that the emscripten version is the faster one[1], at least in February, but the testing methodology in that post isn't clear.

[1]: http://mozakai.blogspot.se/2012/02/box2djs-box2d-on-web-is-g... )
>How would you display a list of items in backbone? What do you do when an element is removed/added?

Collections

>How do you update a view when an element changes?

Model/View binding.

I didn't think it was bad and the only issue I had was when your views broke the hierarchical nesting. I see no solutions to that problem in Angular. Was curious if your problem was something similar.
So this is a standard Thinkpad thing, then?? How bizarre...

Still, at least it has 2 Ctrl keys. The Macbooks only have the one. Makes some sense for OS X (until you run emacs, anyway), but it's a real pain on Windows.
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I've said it before, but I like Zurb Foundation because I felt that I had to customize a few things from the get-go: http://foundation.zurb.com/ (Not affiliated) And the built in responsive grid stuff is pretty nice, and you can still chose some of your own display components.
This is my concern after looking at and playing with Angular a little bit.
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"That gcc and a lot of the open source technology used by both OSs, is a win for the Open Source movement, and also may explain why performance is similar."

I'm afraid Dr. Stallman killed that with GPLv3. Each new OS X release comes with less and less GNU software.
I am very thankful that I don't have a too terribly addictive personality. At worst, I'm addicted to "the Internet", but only in the sense that I'd rather be reading Hacker News or programming a side project than hiking or sitting on my ass watching TV.

That having been said, I have a handful of friends or acquaintances that have problems with addiction. Each of them ruined their college experience with a combination of: drinking, pot, alcohol and finally Adderall (to fix their attention, but ultimately fueling alcoholic-ish binges).

It's terribly sad because I'm an excellent student who spent basically three years straight getting high after classes and homework and continued to work on my github projects. Stopped when I moved away for an internship cold turkey and had a headache for a few hours and then was back to normal.

I hope that we can learn how to screen for these things or provide better treatments for people that get addicted to those sorts of psychological releases. Video games are a nice way for me to relax and I've been known to have a four hour binge with a bottle of wine on a Friday night, but I can't imagine literally losing control of my life.
I am currently using a Lenovo T60p... a laptop from 2005. Lenovo is known to be a reliable business laptop.
You were very unlucky. I rarely see so many issues. I don't have recent models, but own a dozen from 2002 and 2009 which are all still in great working condition. I hope they serviced your warranty promptly though.
My reply to Delicious, Pocket and many others.
You can switch the ctrl and fn keys in the bios.
I work in a group that makes avionics simulation systems. We use Delphi for user interface components in some programs.

I kind of doubt we would start anything brand new in Delphi, but it lingers on in old applications that we continue to update.
Funny, Sallie Mae offered me the same deal.
Here is the engadget review. It has comparisions to many more ultrabook models than the Ars Technica review does.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/08/14/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-carbon...

There are definitely some compelling Ultrabooks besides this Lenovo. What about the similarly priced Samsung Series 9, or if you have a tighter budger and can accept lower specs, the Toshiba Portege Z935?

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/06/samsung-series-9-review-1...

http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/05/toshiba-portege-z935-z835...
This was my main problem with the article. While it's well-written, it has many details that (on the face) seem way too contrived.

My friends even looked up to me, as they are monks who train Taoist Wudang Kung Fu in southwestern China. At one point I became a monk by my own right, and I was looked to for even spiritual advice.

So you're such a badass that monks that train others in Kung Fu looked up to you at 18 years old? They also made you a monk and decided you were enlightened enough to give spiritual advice, despite the fact that you have very obviously poor impulse control?

I tried being a drywaller, and a welder twice.

Why didn't you try doing what you spent all that time in southeast Asia learning, and start doing martial arts professionally? You could be a martial arts instructor, stunt man, or any other profession that hires badasses of this caliber.

Also, "being a welder" isn't something you just jump into without previous experience and/or equipment.

This whole thing feels made up for sympathy. Apologies if you're telling the entire truth, Tom.
> Add-ons in WoW are usually minimal in design. There's no reason to ever jazz up the UI for WoW - that'd be self defeating.

I'd disagree, even the defaults of a lot of the custom UI add-ons were overdone and I had to scale them back. The majority of the people making add-ons aren't designers themselves, so the outcome of their efforts is going to be based on their experience or needs, not necessarily on the idea that UI should be minimal.

Additionally a good portion of these add-ons were made specifically to be very visible and add functionality that was either hidden or not available in the game. Screenshots from some of the top raiding guild members were overwhelmed with buttons, notifications, etc. because if your macro is good and communication is consistent, you just need to focus on these more intentionally-prominent add-ons.
This seems like a really useful tool! Would be very nice to have this integrated in the build process and get warnings for each issue found.
Same! I'm curious too
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This seems like marketing spam with no actual content just to get on HN.

You can write a thousand articles comparing things to launching a start-up. Here are a few,

a) Running a restaurant is like launching a start-up.
b) Making a movie is like launching a start-up.
c) Making your own beer is like launching a start-up.

Flagging this...
A fellow Madisonian! I happen to cross Old Sauk Rd. on my bike to work as well! I also run, and use MapMyRun for that.
Many videogames are designed as Skinner boxes of some form or other. Bejewelled was a big addiction for me that I noticed coming and managed to quit before I got too far in - I have [had] a tendency to get "addicted" to games.

The games provide consistent rewards. From the gamers perspective the only down side is leaving the game - you're suddenly tired, hungry, possibly feel unwell. Of course those are the symptoms of sitting on your ass all day playing video games but one isn't aware of the symptoms until one finishes playing (or later, eg trying to work on a couple of hours sleep). It seems all the emotional, adrenaline rewards are in the game and all negative feelings - pain, hunger, tiredness - are outside the game. Such feelings get amplified by having respect within a game for your position, having friends within a game, etc., if one has none of these things in the real world ...

I find it very easy to get in to drink. If I could afford it then it would be a problem for me too I think. Thankfully I've managed to avoid other drugs (except caffeine).
Try http://impossibility.org/ Ive had good luck with its suggestions in the past.