skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alright, I wasn't being clear.

My real objection was groby_b stating something that is almost certainly incorrect (taxi ratio is 1:1) - I would bet money on this - as a means to refute something that is perhaps incorrect / unknowable (Tor ratio is 1:1).

I have no idea what the Tor ratio is, but it is "perhaps" 1:1. And what does legitimate mean anyway? Some of the work on Tor is funded by the US government so that people in oppressive states can speak out, which means that in those countries that speech is "illegitimate" whereas in the US it is not. Or did we mean morally illegitimate? Whose morals are we talking about? Or did mean we mean child pornography? And is that still illegitimate in all of the nation states that repress speech?

I think my ballpark estimate for taxis is reasonable, and that if motivated you could certainly find a lower bound on that ratio from taxi rides per capita per annum, crimes per capita per annum, and the assumption that all crimes used a taxi driver as an accessory.

If you had written your response here to swalsh, who defined a statistic of 1:1 for Tor, I wouldn't have anything to post.
"The Best" and "The Worst" balanced
Considering Syria is saying cables were cut even though Cloudfare pointed out 4 cables would have had to been cut simultaneously with a couple being under sea it's seriously doubtful this is what happened. The only plausible explanation is that the traffic was stopped and given Syria's reputation for trying to stem free speech and the flow of information about what is really going on kind of makes sense.

The blog post also makes mention of traffic being disrupted a couple of times on varying scales before this major outage occurred which kind of signals that they were testing bringing the whole Internet down beforehand.
Good point. Let's see what we could do about that. Thanks.
Dell emailed me a number of times about this, but it never made sense to me personally. I adore Dell as a company, and the Dell Vostro laptop I bought in 2007 performs splendidly to this day running the Ubuntu I installed on it. The thing is, installing Ubuntu didn't take me too much effort in 2007, and it shouldn't today. Seeing as how they are targeting this Sputnik as a developer machine, almost everyone should be able fix up any quirks in a zip.

The pricing also doesn't make sense to me, but it may to some. I know some people, especially professionals who buy machines as part of their work expense, would willingly walk into an Apple store and buy a MacBook at its retail price. In that regard, this Ubuntu XPS 13 is not that out of line. However, in the Windows world, you'd have to be stupid to buy any computer at MSRP. In fact, it's pretty much not possible due to all the discounts thrown on. I've seen these XPS 13 Ultrabooks go down to $799 on the street, and that's with a nice Windows 8 license thrown in (and installed and configured nicely; you may not think this, but configuring up a clean Windows install onto a laptop can be easily as much of a pain as configuring a Linux install). You might not need Windows, but why not take it as a bonus even if you immediately throw Ubuntu onto the next partition? This option also means you're using the latest Ubuntu build instead of Dell's own channel based on LTS (could be a pro or con, but you could also opt for LTS yourself as well).

Canonical has the image that Dell uses for the XPS on this page: http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-q/dellxps/

All that said, however, I understand and applaud the idea of making a complete hardware/software package as seamless as a MacBook. I don't doubt this would make for a great option for consumers who want a smooth experience with Linux.
Maybe I'm just a victim of my own FUD - Whenever I think about setting out on my own, I get all kinds of doubts about what kinds of taxes that I would owe, avoiding a patent minefield, how to make insurance work, etc.

To be honest, now that you've actually called me on it, I think that those are really just surface concerns. I think my real concern is more about being able to cope emotionally - I've seen multiple discussions here about significant depression symptoms in startups.
GameMaker DRM goes berserk, defaces dev work
This is brilliant. Very well laid-out with a nice polished design. Might just have to check this out.
weird...it's working on my end and the server says we're at 14% of available memory...
Agree on all of these points. In addition, knowledge of basic algorithms and data structures can give you a baseline for communicating with others in your field, which can be important if you're working on a big project with lots of other people with different backgrounds.

If you've been doing this for as long as you have, then this wouldn't be hard to pick up. You can try going beyond the "Learn Ruby|Python|FooBarBaz" stuff and take an online course in algorithms. You might find there is a whole world of stuff in computer science that could be up your alley if you dip your feet into it, and it would be all the difference between the how you do what you do, and the why.
Sounds like a paedophile's rationalisation...
My favorite part of the new app is that scrolling is fixed on Windows.
Olly - Arduino Based Open Source Smell Notifications
I went to http://www.moj.io/obd as instructed by the FAQ to learn more about the OnBoard Diagnostic port, but got a 404.

Edit: clarity
Use an email provider wholly owned and hosted in a country that's non-cooperative with your country, preferably one with an official language that differs from your country's. That alone will help you avoid standard subpoenas / legal requests.

Add Tor and encryption on top of that and there is almost no chance of government interference, unless you're a terrorist / subversive.
Which would make my sentence: It's an accepted core tenet of all common law countries and many of the others. Well, I suppose that's still true! But I don't think the tie to common law is stronger than the one to the US; it's an almost universal principle.
Thanks! That is a neat tool.
Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Talks AWS, Innovation
It is worth your while to learn OOP if you haven't and at least some of the technical stuff. I am a lot like you, engineering background as well.

However, if you try to just freestyle even a medium sized project without any knowledge it will become unmanageable in only a few months.

Most things you can just learn to do by doing plus some google, but there are better ways to do a lot of these things and you should at least try and do something like program chess in C++/C#/java/obj-c with OOP and inheritance. It will significantly speed up your ability to do subsequent projects and increase the scope of projects that you are capable of doing.
Google Play app revenue grows 17.9% while iOS shrinks
Each link is a request to Wikipedia, so I thought it would be better to request only if the user mouse over and wants to fetch the data. But yes, could be an option to pre-load :)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_...

define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');
this is depressing. cheers to the guy for his persistence and interest - but seriously - why would you still want to work for a company after being literally treated like crap like that? also - what bargaining value do you have at all w.r.t. salaries or equity if you go in seeming like the most desperate person alive? It should be the other way around - if you´re good and talented - which the author of the article obviously is - then companies should court you to be come a part of their business. Case in point - the 42floors guys - who were awesome enough to really try to woo Dan Shipper publicly - http://42floors.com/blog/consider-this-a-job-offer-to-work-a... - at the end of the day - you want to be valuable to a company - and you want them to want you - telling them that they can use you isnt that.
Great advice! you took the words out of my mouth! exactly what i was about to comment
I think you underestimate the number of PHP developers out there. There aren't many on Hacker News because we're all too cool for that stuff, but in the developer world in general there are a ton.
If you read the comments under the linked article, plenty of people are comparing it to the MBA.
Oh please don't bring Techmeme's Apple bias over to NYT. Okay, I guess they already have Pogue there, but this would be worse.
Good points...yeah I should really start doing that.
To get back to the list view, you have to click "Songs".
In the United States there is an analogous situation which is that of the 'high speed pursuit.' [...] If the officers give chase, they greatly increase the chance that harm will come to innocent bystanders.

Not only that, but they increase the risk to the person they are pursuing. It is general policy for UK police not to pursue motorbikes whose riders aren't wearing helmets for this reason. Presumably causing the person to die in a crash is worse than most offences they would be pursued for. It would also cost the taxpayer a lot more.
That's because you have never worked in a team. :-) Read up on version control systems. Also, learn to use text editors other than notepad (emacs, vim, sublime, whatever). You can quickly become hire-able if you learn all the things that will make you valuable when working as part of a larger team.
Very nice! I hope this will provide an easy way to backup information in DynamoDB to S3, or just move it to S3 for EMR. I've been wanting to back up our database to another service just in case for a while, but haven't had time to develop a script to do it. If I can set it up quickly in Pipeline I'd be super happy about that.

Also does it go both ways?

Can I take data from S3 and plug it back into DynamoDB?
Had another one of our accounts mysteriously locked by Google (yes, we still use them as a relay) so tried Mailjet out today.

Does what it says on the tin! Was setup in minutes, the helpful page on DKIM and SPF was a nice touch, now we're working through the email backlog.
Gruber approves of an Apple product... What's next, RMS advocating for free software?
A git repository doesn't have to be public, though you do have to pay for private repositories on GitHub. GitHub is great for the "network effects" of it having a lot of developers on there, maybe wanting to help out with your (public) software, but if you just want some free, private Git hosting, https://bitbucket.org is fine.
Which would be fine, except searching then takes me back to the other view. I miss being able to use "search" as "filter"
A criminal operating through their own exit node, or even running an exit node at all, is a nonsense misunderstanding of how TOR works.

Combined with your jumping to the "think of the children!" example of a child pornographer, and your framing your argument in the form of concern trolling, it's hard to assume good faith of any kind on your part.
HN troll whines about Gruber submission. What next, an argument about patents?
"Why should I use version control?"

http://stackoverflow.com/a/1408464/93995
Will the cloud-to-cloud integration this laptop ships with be an option for those who haven't got the money to buy this developer beast of a laptop perhaps as something you can buy separately or is it tailored only to the laptop that ships with it?
Newscast drops Lindsay Lohan story after feedback from Twitter
A sentence is worth 1,000 data (computer generated)
What does the resolution of an end user have to do with the desired resolution of a developer's machine? Each is accomplishing different tasks. Should you also program in an uncomfortable chair because many of your users will not be able to afford a quality one?
Well, after reading this I realised that the first thing is to monitor and tame your outgoing traffic. So I renewed my Little Snitch license. And started to consider wiping the Skype off the machine.
"the climate here in America has turned so decisively anti-small business that not only is it not fun anymore; it’s almost dangerous."

In what way is this actually true?

I completely sympathize with people who have impostor syndrome but I am having trouble seeing this long rant as anything but a 'pity-me' advertisement.
you don't have to make it public, it can be private. I use bitbucket, unlimited free hosting repos, and makes for much better code deployment to distributed servers etc.
I'm actually looking at Air now, and the build is what is making me look elsewhere. I understand the form factor is nice to use, but the non-replaceable battery and soldered-on SSD means it won't last long, and it's not that I can't afford new one every two years, it's that I hate to buy something with planned obsolesce.

If only they put better displays in thinkpads.
"Does Apple have a single other remaining app with a modal preferences dialog?"

What is Gruber talking about? The "Preferences" dialogs in Pages, Keynote and iBooks Author work exactly the same way as the one in iTunes.
What was wrong with it? I haven't used iTunes on windows in years.
You sound like every contractor being hired everyday in the DC Metro area.
It doesn't even parse for me. If "+ve" means "Positive", what does "+" mean? Positi?

Regardless of what you do, a little bit of respect for English is always a good thing to have.
GE Uses Crowdsourcing To Solve Air Travel Delays and Healthcare
They haven't (or at least hadn't) made any announcement. The only announcement was for a press conference on December 3 to give an update. The rumour mill provided the rest.
It's good to hear Bumblebee works now. When I was researching laptops earlier this year I read that it was unstable.
I like the changes and new features quite a bit. My single quibble is that you can't use the MiniPlayer when iTunes is in fullscreen mode.

I'd love to be able to relegate iTunes to its own Space and have the MiniPlayer float around the Space I use for development, etc. When I want to do basic navigation (beyond what I can do with my keyboard), I'd use the MiniPlayer; when I want something more, I could swipe over to the fullscreened app.

Maybe in 11.1.
Quite similar to Google's official 'Dictionary' extension -- which I highly recommend: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...
Will you be Michael Jordan or Harold Miner?
We've reached the point where the glam jobs are no longer those quick and dirty websites that everyone and their dog wanted up until recently. The bar has since been raised significantly, such that people want scaling and maintainability, something you can't do without a very disciplined team.

You've been able to slide along like this due to an accident of circumstance (internet boom, dotcom booms), and in fact you could continue to do so for quite some time yet if you wanted to, although the quality of your customers will continue to decrease as time goes on. The cool projects of today are like the cool projects of the early-to-mid 90s in that you need a team to make an impact. And to work in a team, you need to produce maintainable code and architectures.

Your story reads a lot like mine. I, too, started programming on a C64 at age 8. I then learned assembler and C, and graduated to an Amiga 500. By the time I entered college, I already knew everything. And by "everything", I mean "nothing", because I lacked any and all discipline, which I spent the next 18 years building.

I still couldn't explain what a red-black tree is (or even a heap, to my shame), but I am extremely careful to ensure that the architecture makes sense, that the code is cleanly written and tested, fully documented, and entry points are very clearly laid out and orthogonal. I realize that far more time will be spent by other people reading my code than I will read it myself, and I'd much rather they have a pleasant experience with it and not spend weeks cursing my name for some piece of shit I wrote without any consideration for others.

Is my code super hot shit? No, but I'm constantly seeking to improve my craft. If I can keep the praise mail rate higher than the hate mail rate from people who use my code, I figure I'm doing OK. I'll never reach perfection, but I'll keep striving for it anyway.

tl;dr Doing things right is hard work.
As a Zenbook owner, how would you compare the screen with Macbook Air's?
Modal means that you can't do anything else in the app when the window is up. In the other apps you mentioned I can open their preferences and still use the app for something if I have to without closing it.
When another company copies an idea, it is "cargo culting" from Apple. But when Apple copies an idea, it is doing exactly what it should be doing.

The reality is that lots of companies copy lots of ideas and that is normal. The exchange doesn't just go from Apple geniuses to everyone else. No company is an island
Atari celebrates 40 years of Pong with new, free iOS Pong game
thanks, got it..
How much is a 64Gig iPad?
Right, in other words, they are killed off by old age prior to breeding.
yeah I can fizzbuzz
Thanks for the advice and I agree with the chess idea. I'm familiar with OOP but my usage of it is very loose. Especially since my webapp is mostly, "if this happens, do this." The only objects I really created were to store into the database. I have learned Java at university 10 years ago (Python and Javascript self taught), so OOP was what I learned from the start.
Not everyone is a frontend web developer, or any sort of frontent developer. I develop software to manage network attached storage, making my resolution pretty much irrelevant for testing my software. In fact, for the small amount of UI work that I do, I run it in a VM at 1024x768; the tiny resolution on this thing means that that would take up pretty much my whole display.

Furthermore, I like to be able to see my code and and the final product at the same time. In fact, I prefer to be able to have several columns of code, a terminal, a web browser, and my VM that I'm deploying my work to all visible at once. The more I can see, the better. I usually work with 3 1920x1080 monitors plus my laptop display, but sometimes need to use my laptop when I'm not at my desk. Being able to fit multiple columns of code and/or terminals on my screen at once is important to me.

Heck, these days, phones are coming with greater resolutions than that; you can't even fit your phone emulator on that display without scaling, if you develop mobile software. The Nexus 10 has 2560x1600 display on a 10 inch screen; why does a $400 tablet have such a better screen (its smaller dimension has more pixels than the XPS 13's larger!) than a $1500 laptop?
Huh, I watched a review that said the SSD is soldered to the mobo.

As for the RAM, its absence from the hardware maintenance manual is because Lenovo doesn't recommend/support its replacement. You need to remove 7 screws and the entire bottom base of the laptop to do so.
I would argue that the article doesn't really say much/add much value and that if it weren't written by Gruber, it wouldn't be submitted and it wouldn't be on the front page.
I wonder if DreamHost will lower the price of DreamObjects (built on Ceph) which remains at $0.07, given that the gap between them and Google/Amazon has narrowed.

http://dreamhost.com/cloud/dreamobjects/pricing/
Zynga Shares Sink 12% After Renegotiated Partnership With Facebook
I'm never going back to a sub-1920x1080 laptop screen for development. Screen real estate is just too precious to waste by having a sub-optimal resolution. Maybe in 10 years, or whenever I need reading glasses, I'll feel differently.
It makes things crisp enough that those higher resolutions are practical. Sure, you can turn your font size down low with a low res screen, but you rapidly get to a point where the characters are harder to distinguish. Not so with the retina screens. Really you just have to see the difference. It's striking.
This is a good response to the active thread yesterday based on second-hand speculation.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4841887
That is the truth. I've had Ubuntu on my Dell laptop for years, and it was an entire learning experience to perfect the setup completely to my liking. It was great when I was young and had the time to play around, but recently I made the sad jump to a MacBook, because when it came time to actually work on real projects, I needed a rock solid desktop experience where I didn't have to constantly fiddle with my own computer. My Mac is nowhere near as fun or personal as my Linux setup, but it is what I rely on to do my work. Hopefully this Sputnik project makes Linux what Apple does in terms of the complete hardware/software package
I looked at your personal blog and came across your post about trying to learn Rails:

http://www.flatplanetmedia.com/im-learning-ruby-on-rails-bec...

How did that go? I wouldn't learn Rails just because it's the hot thing of the month, but to understand why frameworks are valuable and to be able to use one to quickly prototype client work. Are you handcoding your PHP sites?
Those who are unfamiliar with the command line ought not be pasting commands from a blog into their terminal emulator without understanding what they are doing.
This is clearly in the fuzzy definition area since your argument is that you have gained enough experience in this area to give subjective life advice, the argument against simply has to involve a judgment of your level of experience.

In the same way that I can't meaningfully ask "am I attractive enough to professionally model?" and respond to every "No" with "ad hominem!", when you bring your person into the argument as support, either implicitly or explicitly, the scope of things classed as ad hominem fallacy is constrained. Ad Hominem's are also in the class of fallacies that can still inform a decision even if, like all logical fallacies, they cannot prove anything.

To exit the pedantic logic argument for a second: That confidence and directness is a good practice, and writing practice and avoiding seeming unsure are great reasons to do it. In my experience if you also use that confidence and directness to preemptively address potential weaknesses in your argument (as in "I know I'm new at this but here is exactly why, in this case, I am right anyway") you are even more convincing.
Right now it's just all the news thrown up in a jumble. Adding some order to it would be better. You arrange it by type a bit but it's still a kinda scatter-shot feel.

Also, say I live in Boston but hate the Herald and love CBS. I would like to be able to personalize my content aggregation so as to receive more from CBS than the Boston Herald, or to cut out the Herald entirely.

You can't just aggregate all the sources through RSS and say you're providing a service. I can do that myself. You should figure out where you add value; is it by putting more than one city? Perhaps you can add metrics and comparisons from city to city or allow users to select multiple municipalities.

Who is your audience?
You can always start a number of personal projects or dust off some old ones and put them up on github. That's basically what I did... take code I can't really sell and use it to sell myself. Such as it is.
"in the Israeli startup scene ties, not launching are your best bet at getting a good job."

Could you explain why?
Why so soon?
You can, just go to window > mini player and it appears in conjunction with the fullscreen itunes.
Ah, I understand. Thanks!
Break-up the Telecom Cartels
Very good points...yeah I'll start using it.