skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we believed you, but that still doesn't make it more than a streak of bad luck. (The plural of anectode...)

That said: 2012 Computer Reliability Report: Lenovo Most Reliable, Acer Least Reliable, Apple Declined http://ctwatchdog.com/finance/2012-computer-reliability-repo...
At first blush, considering Microsoft a wholly B2B company seems so naive that it made me lose faith in the author.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple all have B2B SBUs. That doesn't mean they're necessarily B2B companies.
Y Combinator interview decisions postponed to November 15
We originally intended to invite people to YC interviews
on November 13. But we pushed the application deadline
back by 3 days because of Sandy, and it turns out there
is just not that much slack in the system. We need more
time to read applications, so we're going to push back
our deadline too, to November 15.
Users would probably compare it to tablets, the Kindle Fire gets 9 hours, ipad mini gets 10...
Thanks Leonid! Have you used these in production?
Hardware: Are the older models supporting the low energy mode of bluetooth 4? If not .. that'd be the reason, I guess.
Yep, you've pretty much got it right. It is an indirect probe of new physics, not a direct probe. However, that method is well established. Some of the strongest constraints for new physics come from things like neutron dipole moment and studies of the g-factor of the muon (see g-2 or "g minus 2" online). These indirect methods make use of the virtual particles that arise from vacuum fluctuations in ways that are cleanly calculable (and thus make quantitative predictions).

All that said, SUSY has about 100 free parameters in the model, and all of these LHC searches hoped to find SUSY in the easiest of places, even though there is no firm prediction from the theory. Simply put, for a long time to come, SUSY can be "tuned" to remain consistent with all existing physical data.
Deep Emo Shit
Installing flash block is often times the #1 way to improve your battery life.
$250K! What?!
> It isn't like this is a real operating system

[citation needed]. How is Chrome OS not a "real operating system"?
But it is too late to use a bank. He was mugged and his money stolen. What do you tell him?

You avoid answering because you know that cash theft is a big hassle.

Bitcoin shares some of the properties of cash. This includes its advantages (direct people-to-people transactions, no account can be "frozen", pseudo-anonymity, etc) but also its inconvenients (thefts are hard to recover). And smanek's point is that if cash is good enough despite its weaknesses, then surely Bitcoin is good enough too.

Furthermore, unlike cash, Bitcoin has numerous ways to palliate these inconvenients. Two examples:

0. You cannot "back up" cash (if you put it in a bank, you lose all its aforementioned advantages), but you can back up bitcoins by making copies of a wallet file. Very useful especially when using deterministic wallets.

1. Cash can only be secured in primitive ways (physical security), but Bitcoins can also be secured by using wallet encryption, storing them offline, remembering them (brainwallet!). Soon you will be able to store them on tamper-proof credit-card-sized hardware Bitcoin wallets protected with PINs or similar.

I will be the first one to admit that Bitcoin is not yet easy enough to be used securely by inexperienced users. But these problems are solvable, and are being solved.
Do you have an NVIDIA GPU?
I don't have Flash installed, so Flash block isn't going to do much. Thanks though! :)
That's not an exhaustive list of features. It can also execute javascript, which seems to be lacking in wkhtmltopdf. That's a must-have for me.
HootSuite technical issue exposed emails of thousands of users
There is nothing specific to MongoDB here.

Also, using appropriate cache headers and putting a Varnish cache in front of the Rack server would be far easier and faster and would also reduce the load on the Rack server itself. Oh, but then I couldn't say I created a DSL...
I can personally vouch for Matt Strassler's writing, he is one of the most trusted and readable theorists in the field.
I appreciated that the video had Santa Barbara references (as a native), but I don't see this as being a big seller. People who misplace their wallets probably have the same issue with their phones.
I forget where my smartphone is (once a week or so) way more than I forget where my wallet is (pretty much never), so I guess this isn't a good product for me.

Edit: I guess the product works both ways (wallet will beep your phone if the app is running), so that's more useful than I thought, but when I do misplace my cellphone I can always find it by calling it via my google voice on a laptop or whatever, so I'm still going to skip this.
KDE 30 day activity:
* 3575 Commits
* 219 Contributors
* including 11 new contributors

Trinity 30 day activity:
* 369 Commits
* 5 Contributors

KDE has added more developers in the past 30 days than Trinity has ever attracted.
This is the one thing which depends very much on the hardware you're running, but as the post notes, turning of the GPU can very helpful, and you won't notice the difference in most usage (which may even be everything you do).

I was able to do this in the BIOS, which is actually the easiest way to do it (if your computer supports it).

The other thing is scaling the fan down[1] - as long as you don't go overboard with it, it's perfectly safe, and a huge impact on battery life.

Finally, turn off your wireless card and/or Bluetooth if you're not using them. Many computers enable Bluetooth by default, but since most people don't use them, it's a needless battery suck.

[1] The other thing is scaling the fan down - this
Can't get it to work on OS X. The provided app bundle does start, open the Last.fm website, then does nothing. No window, no dock dropping, no (meaningful) menu bar.
Hint: jailbreak and install AdBlock on your iPad
Eye of Gyre: Print yourself as 10cm (4 inch) 3D model for $208 (japanese)
The product seems interesting but the video is wayyyyyyy too long(4:48 ! ) and doesnt get to the point soon enough.

I think a short video (less than a minute) would be more effective.
The 100GB of cloud storage is worth $5 a month/$60 year. I'm hoping Google starts throwing around storage with all their future devices. Maybe on the Nexus 4?
Why not just sign up for an AWS account and launch a Linux or Windows instance using our Free Usage Tier?
I had a friend from Iowa who told me it was actually an acronym ... is this true?
https://github.com/doda/rewindhn/blob/master/scrape.py#L26

This is where the scraping happens. The code is a little uglier than I'd like, but that's largely to do with the hard-extract-data from HN markup. I'll look at adding more data soon.
Bigger ones now provided.
You may be interested in these DC/NOVA meetups:

HacDC
http://www.meetup.com/hac-dc/

NOVA Makers
http://www.meetup.com/NOVA-Makers/

I haven't been to either, but have been meaning to get to one of the NOVA makers happy hours for a while.
I doubt the screens on any cheap laptops are up to much. I tried a ThinkPad X131 recently (11.6", ~£400) and the screen was garbage. Looking straight on, there was still colour fade between the top and bottom thanks to the low quality panel.
People who understand these things a lot better than I do always tell me that pings aren't a reliable measure of network latency.
they are now.
> If you really can't stand behind your opinion, what's the point in having it in the first place?

What's the point of knowing something most people don't or of having a belief, unless the credit for it can be connected to your address or mother's maiden name?

I don't understand this sentiment at all. When I'm complimented for something that I've said anonymously from someone who has chosen to remain anonymous - I'm happy that I could help someone, or that I made someone smile. It doesn't matter who that someone is, and it doesn't matter whether they know where I work, or where my sister works.

In fact, I would prefer that they not know any of that stuff. I'm not sure why people don't understand pen names, why they are useful, and why they always have been.
There are very nice solutions out there already, Microsoft Lync & IBM Sametime.
Wrong. There are currently 15k to 16k Americans working in Iraq, under the auspices of the State Department. I guarantee they aren't all working desk jobs and God knows how many mercenaries...I mean contractors are still running around. Just because they aren't labelled "combat troops" doesn't mean they don't carry guns and kill people.
Indeed... as presented before:

http://blog.getspool.com/2011/11/29/fast-easy-realtime-metri...

And the HN posts / comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292542
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3748239

And the Redis warning on setting large bitmaps (Re: split your bitmaps):

http://redis.io/commands/setbit

Note: I know I'm responding to someone who is probably already aware of this information, but the crashly slides are lite on the techniques technical side.
Do you have terminal access with your google version of chromebook?

Would be great to see a developer edition of chromebook with a native terminal app.
Honest question: is anyone buying these?

The Chromebook seems to be all about corporate strategy ("everything in the browser!") and not about creating something people actually want.

I'd love to hear about how I'm wrong however.

Edit: unsurprisingly, I seem to be wrong. :) The top selling laptop on Amazon is a Chromebook (http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/pc/565108/)
Bay Area ... Prius

Our second stereotype of the thread!
Leonid is bringing up some good points, but I was always wondering: How do you get to do auto-expiring page-caching.

While Leonid is right that Action Caching with Rails.cache is much easier to do, action caching still lets the request hit the stack, while it does not do so with this proposed solution. Page caching makes the expiration of the cache harder then this solution.

Question: It seems this solution has nearly the ease of action caching, but the performance gain like page caching. Is there a low-level gem/solution available to do something like this?
Hands free solutions do not help according to studies.

That's the ironic thing about many laws requiring them.

http://www.baldwinandlyons.com/publications/quill/2011/04/in...
Considering the exec mentioned his own CIA connection, likely to scare his target, it seems absolutely pertinent for the author to mention it. It's details like that which transform a threat from laughable to believable. As others have mentioned, there are many valid reasons to fear ex-CIA agents even if you don't expect to get shot.

Worse, Cisco has a history* of fraud and conspiracy to falsify evidence to get people jailed. At this point, with their history, an employee at Cisco would be absolutely in the right to expect their reputation to be tarnished by lies, to be fired even if their leaks were legally required, to be framed for leaking trade secrets, etc., even if they weren't even originally involved, just because of this hothead's paranoia and the vastly greater chance he'll find an innocent person, especially after announcing his crusade.

On the upside, from now on almost any dismissal can be claimed to have happened as part of this crazy traitor-hunt giving all departing employees a far better severance package than otherwise.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Cisco+deceived+Canadian+cou...
What he did - he made a pipeline, same like Ford did with a car assembly line. But it not just that.

Usually there are very mediocre people who works at assembly line. The trick is that YC filters out the best people possible, like Google does.

This is why the odds of successful exit (one way or another) are much greater than on average. They don't need each project to turn out into Airbnb. More than one is enough.)

Everything else is second. It is a pipeline of people who motivate, control themselves and push themselves to the limits. This is the cheapest (but hardest) way to get work done.
"The technology works both ways, which means your wallet can beep to alert you that you're leaving your phone behind."
How about an optional bitcoin miner running in the background while using reddit using webgl (so it can make use of the GPU) that accumulates bitcoin. As the user browses around reddit it will be active, slowly generating bitcoins as part of a pool. When the user has accumulated enough for reddit gold, it automatically buys it for them. Maybe it would take two years or so to accumulate a bitcoin to buy reddit gold but that's at least turning users into money.

Am I an idiot or did I just discover an alternative to the ad supported model for free content sites?
Well, I know when Perestroika started, but I gave it a bit of a margin, since I can't say for sure when precisely it affected this discrimination. It's known to be gone for sure in the 1990s. Could be, it started in 1989.
Appreciate the heads up, thank you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43lBiJIzEPk
Indeed. So perhaps such people need a permanent bodily insert that beeps when it's too far from the phone or wallet?
I'm wondering the same. The whole idea of fracking sounds like a very high risk with uncertain aftermath.

Maybe the U.S. should invest more in green energy then in "bad" energy and a new even worse way to get to it..
Hasn't Apple been pumping huge amounts of money to allow their manufacturers to make these plants though? Surely the investment is from both sides? I'm trying to angle for a reason why they would go ahead an trigger a clause when they easily have enough money to do whatever.

Aside: I am always surprised with the other comments. Do people really think there aren't a bunch of terms on a multi-billion dollar contract limiting what you can do?
Use a wallet like Coinbase, which stores 87% of funds offline.

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/coinbase/
Luajit 2.0.0 released
the only real way to make this graph informative is to show it right alongside an obama likes graph.
3D-Printed Gun
And if you want to have both command line args and config files, check out my project: https://github.com/ipartola/groper. It even supports creating a sample config file out of the options you have defined.
I'm not sure I want to be adding more to stuff to my wallet. In fact, I don't think I'll even be carrying a wallet in the near future with mobile payments quickly growing (Square Wallet, Google Wallet (NFC), Level Up, etc.)

Google is also apparently launching a virtual physical card. It's great since you don't need to carry multiple cards. If it gets lost you can probably just disable Google's virtual card rather than having to call your bank and having your card killed/changed.
The Git Sequencer
Good point. I didn't see that. When you throw in Canada's tar sands, it's a lot less surprising that North America could be a net exporter in <20 years.
I've gotta say, you sound sort of like you think you have a point and that you think it might be controversial, but I have no idea what it might be.
You can buy and sell bitcoins on Coinbase, which is also a wallet (bank). They keep 87% of their funds offline to prevent customers from loosing their funds in the case of hacking.

http://howdoyoubuybitcoins.com/from/coinbase/
That 100GB is only free for two years. No mention of how much it will cost in the third year.

And I was also not at all clear from the on page text that the 1080p playback requires a bigger/better screen: "high-definition videos play smoothly (yes, videos like Gangnam Style in 1080p, in case you’re one of the few left who hasn’t seen it)" doesn't even mention the actual screen resolution. Why doesn't an "extra bright" 11.6" screen can't do better than 768 vertical pixels?
Javascript is certainly addictive and fun to program with.
Obviously the driver is, that it is part of every browser, and now the server.
While flawed, it is so very expressive as a language.
I think now that we are seeing some serious architectural concepts implemented and documented in the various libraries, it is making development much easier and faster.

I recently discussed this with a colleague, and we agreed, that the ability to do JavaScript client and server (node) side has made it a no brainer, end to end javascript over RESTful services is the best way for "us" to go.

I like that in windows 8 you can reference class libraries written in c# directly in your is project also.

So I see a bright future for JavaScript :-)
Login fails completely on the latest Firefox (16/OSX).
True. I've used the same technique when doing Balsamiq mockups. Though I'm pretty sure the UI/design person I'm going to work with will make it fairly different.

I'm certainly liking what I'm seeing, though hopefully down the line the typography can be worked on a bit more. It's not very "warm" -- the whole layout is a little hard-hitting on my eyes. But still pretty solid!
I guess there's more energy to be harvest from stretching and shaking your clothing while you move.
Tasteless advertising video = close window, forget about the product.
This may be too late, but from the discussion in /r/argentina [1], what I gather is that both parties were cited by the judge for investigation (for involuntary manslaughter). Since David left Argentina, the judge assumed a flight risk and he ordered an international warrant for his capture(to continue the investigation).

[1]: http://www.reddit.com/r/argentina/comments/13260b/argentina_...
Since everyone is asking (and no one is doing), I put together a simple benchmark for pyquery, bs4, and lxml (cssselect/xpath).

https://gist.github.com/4061368

All it does is grab paragraphs from python.org's html a couple thousand times.

==== Total trials: 100000 =====
bs4 total time: 31.6
pq total time: 9.3
lxml (cssselect) total time: 5.4
lxml (xpath) total time: 4.3
regex total time: 8.9 (doesn't find all p)

What does it mean? Unless you're running thousands of queries for parsing, it doesn't matter which library you choose. My computer old and slow. Pick which one is the easiest, that you'll fight the least with. Don't put energy into unnecessary optimization. Using a good library is like choking someone, they'll fight for a little while until they pass out. (you'll remember this analogy next time you want to switch libraries, do you really need to choke someone to get your job done?) After they pass out, it's smooth sailing and you don't have to worry. Don't rock the boat unless you have to.
Slight correction for the lazy who just copy/paste commands.

sudo apt-get install laptop-mode-tools

Thanks for the tip.
I really do think this chromeOS project is a dud, at least for its original purpose of serving the non-techie lite-user. In my mind I'm always comparing it to Android & iOS based laptops that I expect to come sooner or later. It's less powerful

- Not The Simplest - The point of web as an OS was simplicity. No worries about "managing" your computer: installing programs and dealing with files. In reality doing everything through the web it involves workarounds. Bottom line is that iOS & Android have simplified using a computer more.

- Not as good at videos and music.

- Less Powerful - Web apps have goten powerful, but not as powerful as it looked like they would get circa 2009. You still can't do a lot of things with webapps. What if Mick-first-used-a-computer-in-2011 gets an ipod? He needs itunes. What if his daughter wants to skype him?

Bottom line is I don't see why people will want a laptop that does less than their phone.
Natural Earth v.2.0.0 is live
Pruning: Turning subtraction into addition
Consumer Perception of Microsoft after Windows 8
Yep. Things are getting really interesting these days. Some German coal plants have to shut down during peak solar production because they simply become unprofitable to operate. The US has added huge import taxes on the next generation of Chinese panels. Lots of existing solar companies are going bankrupt because they haven't been able to adapt fast enough.

It's not just a series of pie-in-the-sky headlines. Things are changing, fast.
Can you help me understand how this works? How is there both physical and bitcoin value?
This thing will be a hit in hotels and mall parking lots...
This is quite a cool idea:

>>> path('a') / 'b' / 'c'
path('a/b/c')

It would be fun to have that in Ruby!
Nvidia launches not one but two Kepler2 GPU coprocessors
> We do not hold on to our original idea out of sheer stubbornness, or because our ego is tied up with its rightness.

Sometimes sticking it out is what is needed. These days it is fashionable to "pivot" -- I believe that in most cases you've gotta to stick it out enough with the original idea to see where it takes you.
The data only tells you what you want to measure. The best insights/pivot you'll get by following your @gut (or as PG did with his "aha" dream of converting into a web-based store)
I would cross my fingers but then I wouldn't be able to code very well. Good luck everyone!
A minor flaw in iPad mini
Wobbly mute button. It would make any difference on any other manufacturer, but I think it's very uncommon for Apple.
Not the first time I've seen HN mangle post relations - he (or she) probably either posted to the wrong thread or some bits went to the left when they should have gone to the right.
They have been working on Secure Shell for a while. You reminded me and I just fired it up and it looks like there have been some improvements since it was first released.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell/pnhec...
Do those troops have more pressing engagements elsewhere? Or are they just going to be unemployed? To the extent that it's the latter, we really won't save anything.
The bridge between Apple and Samsung is on fire, but given that Apple set fire to it, they probably have an alternative in the pipeline.

Samsung are just adding fuel to the fire; they know Apple's going to drop them anyway, why wouldn't they make as much profit as they're contractually able to?
Why Build a New SQL Database?
Really good for you; this story is a true inspiration for me. Good luck.
Samsung profits very little from Apple, maybe they will profit more now, but as it stands, i would like to be the one to report shareholders that we lost the biggest customer, but we have record profits because of that, selling smartphones is way more profitable for Samsung (they are close to Apple profits) than selling chips to Apple will ever be.
excellent - another weapon in my arsenal of excuses. thanks!
Right, and while you could store cash or bitcoins physically in a bank, there's no point in doing so for the average consumer. Cash is comparable to bitcoins in this regard: it's a riskier form of money because it's anonymous and can be stolen relatively easily, but it's also really convenient for financial transactions.
That was expected (given the deadline change) but the notice is highly appreciated.
Like everyone else, we spent a lot of time going over the application and fine-tuning it. Personally speaking, we are glad you're taking a comparable time reviewing the application given Sandy and all.
Building Analytical Applications on Hadoop
I guess that explains why the fan is permanently on in Linux on my XPS L502x.
Good decision. Best of luck to everyone applying!
Good luck to you too :)
> Unix, the open-source operating system

edit : what UNIX did you use ? Linux ?
Looking at the source to rachet, it seems @fat is back to using ; again.
Well, if you have enough bitcoins, you are probably pretty happy to spend small amount of them. It is usually pretty rational to spend some of your collected wealth before you die.
Good luck, everyone. I'm looking forward to seeing the next generation of YC startups launch.