skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting he mentions removing the Windows recovery partition, but not the ML one which is hardly top secret knowledge.

Apple is no better, but none of the other manufacturers are. Storage space is one of those wonderful facts which turn out not to be as factual they could be.
Trigger warning for data corruption and poor public relations.
Other than 9 months of grey skies and drizzling rain, it is perfect. However, a short 2 to 3 hour drive eastward brings you into brilliant sunshine 300 days per year. I've chosen to live in the east half of the state. :-)
Maybe it'd be better to think about this as a list of priorities, where there has to be ordinality. For example, developer happiness is the first priority, and ease of parsing falls somewhere further down. When Matz was creating the language, when he came across a problem with multiple solutions, he picked the one that would result in highest developer happiness, not which one is easier for the parser.

Is that a better way of wording it?
lerdorf seems like quite an understated guy from what I've seen of videos of him talking on youtube. He doesn't seem to want to influence anybody, clearly a smart guy but more of a regular "working class" developer who accidentally became a language inventor.

I think he's said a few times on the record that he didn't really know anything about language design when he invented PHP.
Rich in hairballs, yes.
Agreed. This article is completely useless.
LinkedIn are the kings of this sort of misleading information. I find it quite annoying but I suspect it is probably effective for them.

See also: the way they play with the "how many people have clicked on your profile in that last XYZ days" to always make it seem like you've got a lot of people clicking.
When I started at my current, you could get a desk phone if you specifically asked for one. Most didn't. About a year later, I think they phased them out entirely.

I don't know why but I find hearing half of a phone conversation infinitely more distracting then having two coworkers discussing something in person nearby.
This is Genius because Linkedin has been working really hard on one feature that could possibly make a lot of users upgrade.

The fact that we always want to know who "peaked" at our profiles (I'm sure half of your secretly wanted to know at some point of your life who looked at your facebook profile right?) leads people to upgrade.

A funny thing happened to me a few months ago, I was browsing linkedin and landed on a old client's profile and I was wondering what was going on with him and his projects.

A few hours later I got an email from him saying that he got a notification that I was viewing his profile and that made him wondered what is going on with me (and our company). That interaction made me think that this single feature is genius, it helps reconnect with people (some will argue that it might be creepy).
This attitude is annoying. They're forming overseas shell corporations with at most a few employees in those offices who claim an extremely high percentage of all IP-derived income. To claim these companies aren't doing anything illegal, simply because we can't prove that a few people in Ireland aren't responsible for all IP, isn't quite fair. Just because you've arranged fancy license agreements with your Ireland offices doesn't mean those contracts are valid or conscionable.

These companies pay almost no taxes yet feed off our public universities, court systems, patent and trademark offices, copyright offices, public airwaves, highways, federal banking infrastructure, etc. It's sick.
I would argue that the rain is a perk, and not a negative. But there are some that love the rain, some that live with it.

Washington is a beautiful state, the east side is a lot drier if you prefer less rain.

Lots of opportunities and 20minutes from Seattle takes you into the Mountains to get lost.
It's common wisdom that Snapchat appeals particularly to those under the age of 18. This study focused only on "respondents aged 18 to 29".

What people (read: the media) really want to know is "are teens sexting with Snapchat?" Naturally, it's harder to get survey results for that demographic.
Apple Is Not Wasting Its Cash Aggressively Enough
When the companies are 'current', t-shirts can be used active in trade, much like valid currency in circulation in our economy.

When the companies shut down or get bought out, the t-shirts instead behave like old, defunct currency that become collectibles and memorabilia. They're items that evoke memories and eras gone by. I have a Conner Peripherals [1] shirt from 1994 that's in my drawer which someone in my family must have gotten from Finis; the t-shirt was made in celebration of a product launch that year [2]. The t-shirt design is godawful but it's endearing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conner_Peripherals

[2] I think Mozilla does this with their team shirts and shipping products, which like the OP says, definitely helps with team spirit.
And of course the HN boys club doesn't see anything wrong with the headline. I expected nothing less :(

Seriously, people: "No means yes" is a clear reference to "No means no". It's a really bad choice of headline, because it communicates "I don't care about issues that women are facing, if it gets me a catchy headline".
Solve for X
> not allowed to change anything in the input

I've never seen such a term. Have any examples?
Encrypting Tweets for Your Fun and Not Their Profit – Part II
It's not any better in Chrome. To annoying to read.
Wow, and I thought Disk Utility was only a piece of shit for hiding partitions from me :-)

We've had at least one dispute with a customer who didn't get the "advertised" storage space when buying hosting - it's easy to you say this server has 8 x 500GB drives in a RAID10, but we've had a customer unhappy when 1.9 binary terabytes of data didn't fit onto that after RAID metadata, filesystem overhead etc.

So the new product (bigv.io) expresses storage and RAM in binary gigabytes, and I'm thinking I might convert all the dedicated server storage specifications away from lying drive manufacturer sizes, even if that means advertising a 465GiB disc. (or should we advertise size after ext3 overhead arrrggghh).
We opened up an office there just over a year ago. Finally saw it in March last year. We'd planned to go in January, but the few feet of snow and freezing weather wasn't going to fly with my fellow Texans. When we did get out there, it was beautiful. Cost $3.00 to take the rail from the airport to downtown where our office is located. Everything was within walking distance and there's a lot in that area. Never needed a car. I'll visit again, so long as its warm.
Yeah with my apps I haven't noticed many iCloud related problems. I generally however just store simple keys in iCloud then pull the real data from my server based on those. It's not as robust as I'd like it but works.
Just picked up a micro SD adapter that sits flush in the MBA; allowing me to add another 64GB for about $55 ($40 card, $15 adapter). Not as fast as the internal storage, but perfectly fine for a music library or photos.
Is this what you work on? "Combining in-situ and in-transit processing to enable extreme-scale scientific analysis": http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2389063
Elusive El Niño challenges NOAA’s 2012 U.S. Winter Outlook
For non-rubyists, what does this example do? Are those labels?
OP here; the site worked on my iPhone, didn't realize it would cause so much grief elsewhere. I've sent the post's author a link to this thread. I'm sure he'll get it to the right people.

tl;dr/cr: Elon Musk called Boeing to say "I've got an idea". Boeing said "Our guys are on it, so thanks, but no thanks". A couple of weeks later they called him back. "Hey, about that idea..."
I'm not a fan of microsoft, but this is pretty short sighted. The convergence game is just warming up, and microsoft is in position.
New SECS GEM Driver Availability
Coworkers as Your First Customers – Your Office As the Ultimate Dev Environment
Until I got to the bottom, I thought this article must have been written by Tim Ferris, because her book follows the "Four Hour XXX" meme.

Either way, probably not a book I'll read. I have a lot on my reading list already.
I feel suddenly so left out. :)

I actually do my best to minimize my appearance in search. No job descriptions besides titles, no skills, no visible endorsements, no recommendations. I basically use LinkedIn to keep track of ex-colleagues, but that does not stop recruiters from still finding and contacting me.
Protip: if you want me to actually wear your tshirt often, get American Apparel 50/50 or comparable quality/comfort shirts.

I just donated 30 tshirts I didn't want to Goodwill. Only one of them was a 50/50 and it had a particularly ugly design.
Imagine OPC-UA Everywhere
Not an issue for me personally, but this probably warrants some sort of soft NSFW tag. The first photo in the article doesn't show nudity but it is pretty work-questionable for anyone who might have co-workers shoulder surfing when they happen to hit the page.
Volkswagen Polo
NSFW above the fold (rather mild, but you may get odd looks from your coworkers)
Nitpick (and most likely even considered OT):

- Mac OS shows storage space the right way, because it shows capacity in KB/GB (which is base 10 by definition)

- Windows OS shows storage space the wrong way, because while using base 2, it still claims to show you space in KB,GB (but actually it's GiB)

To what is generally better:
Well for the common user GB might make more sense, since every storage device is marketed with GB in mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Quantities_of_bytes

And people who feel cheated because of less storage space seem to ignore the fact that this tablet is running a full Windows Operating system.

I guess it's just the mindset of many to think of tablets as "big smartphones" instead of compact full-fledged computers.
> So what does that middle dot actually do before the function names?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/13490787

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.go.general/78328
It would be interesting to see a 255x255 box heatmap. No real benefit other than enjoyment ;)
I hope you stick with the decimal units, because it means that if I have 8 x 500 GB drives, that's 4 GB. If I have 8 x 500 GiB, then I have 3.90625 TiB, which I need a calculator for. Frustrating and annoying.

Stick with metric, it's easier on us humans.
I do meditate and it does help me solve problem on a large scale, with some perspective. But it's not magic, i.e. if I'm not in a calm room for long hours, I just can't code properly or be more productive.
I used to have trouble sleeping (that's not really the case now) and I'd remain in bed doing nothing, expecting (hoping) sleep would come.
Then I started noticing my breathing, and it became some sort of exercise. That was 7 years ago or so... Now every night I go to bed and I do the same routine: notice and control (more or less) my breathing, nothing else. I'm quickly engulfed by thousands of thoughts and the trick is just maintaining the routine for as long as it takes for them to calm down, observing them in a non-judgemental way, waiting. It's a bit of a leap of faith, that part. I can hardly describe the sense of clarity that strikes me after that...
I actually believe this simple routine helped me a lot in getting rid of a general anxiety I use to have when I was a teenager, and find a better sleep (with richly symbolic dreams during the night that proved to provide a lot of "subconscient" answers to day-to-day or creative problems), among other things.
Yahoo News republished the story: http://news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-may-simple-solution-15441942...

You can read it there without the awful UI decisions of the original site. (Some Firefox and some chrome are unable to use it.)
The traffic is pretty bad.
and of course would love any feedback from real sales people outside of our office too :)

http://close.io/
Facebook SEO vs. Google And Other Regular SEOs
Thanks Peter for such an inspiring post!
How so?

Apple's stock is already priced to account for their war chest. If the war chest is drawn down, the stock would (presumably) reflect this and drop in proportion to the amount of cash that's released.
Does it benefit Apple? Is the lifetime cost of H264 patent licensing more than the cost to buy out all the patents?
A quick Google search provides this article: http://createlivelove.com/238/why-i-hate-icloud/ that explains his hatred, but it's not terribly detailed either.
Do you have a mac? OS x reports free space differently since the last few versions
Even Cheaper than Indians ! ;)
One caveat: if you're going to make a t-shirt, do it right and spend the money to print it on decent material, i.e., soft, not scratchy, fitting decently, etc... (American Apparel's t-shirts are nice.) Any cheaply made t-shirts I get go straight to Goodwill.
I live in Chicago.
That is true, but in my experience third-party SSDs don't include the reserve space in the advertised drive size.

For example, I have several "60GB" drives that actually have 64GB of internal storage but the extra 4GB is reserved. I also have several "128GB" drive that actually do show up as 128GB to the OS, meaning the reserve space is in addition to the 128GB, not part of it.

Another 120GB drive I has reports the exact same binary size (112GiB) as the Macbook Air "128GB". So it appears that Apple is including the reserve space in the advertised drive size while third-party SSDs do not.
How are EU users defined? I'm a european citizen, created my FB account from a EU country, but only visit the website from the US nowadays.

Is facial recognition data linked to my account deleted? Is there a way for me to know?
Interesting, I hadn't heard of StructureMap. It seems related, but Graph is less complex -- just the dependency and composition parts, without being tied to any particular use case.
Microsoft tries to address that issue by including an SD card slot for expanded storage. However, the +$300 that you have to pay to Apple to upgrade from 128GB to 256GB is also completely absurd.
And all of the Apple employees driving on those highways pay income tax.
I'd love to chat about this as well -- I'll send you an email.
The succession plan was horrific. The Marketing GM is a total tool without a clue who basically destroyed everything he touched, hence the toxic place to work you experienced. He's gone, things are much better now, and that San Bruno office is finally being put to rest. When he said he promoted too many of his own people too fast, he nailed it, but not because of some image or trust problem within the new company, they just weren't very good at all.
This reminds me of a research project that was done at my university a few years back[1], except they were specifically scanning for web servers. Out of the 3,690,921,984 addresses they scanned, 18,560,257 had web servers running on port 80[2].

[1]: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/research/webcensus/Web_Census/...

[2]: http://cs.acadiau.ca/~dbenoit/research/webcensus/Web_Census/...
The fact that you have such a large number of laptops in your possession suggests to me that you're probably in a corporate IT setting (apologies if I'm wrong). In such a case, Hardware failures are probably going to be the most prevalent mode of failure for needing a system re-image, since software usage is going to be in-line with corporate policies. People aren't going to venture into warez sites, etc.

But for the average, non-technical user, I think you'd see a much higher incidence of needing a system re-image due to viruses, malware, spyware, etc.
Actually, when the VP mandates that any web app he purchases support iOS and Android, it trickles down pretty quickly.
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About two weeks ago, spaceship-and-electric car-maker Elon Musk (pictured above) got in touch with Boeing, whose 787 Dreamliners are grounded because of smoke and fire problems with their powerful lithium-iron batteries. His team had figured out how to tightly pack such batteries into both space-going and earthly vehicles. He was happy to pass along lessons learned. Boeing replied that the situation is “under control,” Musk said.

Now, Boeing appears to have reconsidered. Though it is not saying so explicitly, it seems to be looking at Musk’s main advice—reducing the chance of fire hazard by increasing the space (paywall) between the lithium-ion cells in the battery pack, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A Musk fan site is crowing about Boeing’s possible about-face.

The reporting on Musk gets one thing wrong—his Tesla automobiles do not use the lithium-cobalt-oxide chemistry that is in the Dreamliner batteries. They rely on Panasonic nickel-cobalt-aluminum lithium-ion batteries, which may be less volatile.

In the end, that may not be a crucial difference, one battery scientist told me—“I would be the first to say that there are safer battery chemistries available than [Boeing's lithium-cobalt-oxide],” he said, “but if you know what you’re dealing with, you can make a system safe.”

Yet it may be at least partly about perception. Why choose the most volatile of all the standard lithium-ion configurations when, in a crisis, that could turn into a public relations nightmare?

Generally speaking, battery scientists will speak only not-for-attribution on the 787 issue. In some cases this is because they have been hired by Boeing as consultants to figure out what went wrong. The one quoted above doesn’t want to be identified.

But he also thinks that, contrary to what some reports have suggested, Boeing has made progress in figuring out the root cause of the problem with the Dreamliners. “The process of elimination does rule out many possible root causes and gets you closer to the answer,” the scientist said. “I’m sure they have a short list that’s getting shorter by the day.”
That's an interesting line of thought to stew on; thank you. :)
Detecting redirects with the Navigation Timing API
Forgive the amateur question: when would one absolutely need to have a function defined inline?
Who is they? Why do we want to beat them? What is FP? Who upvoted this?
Probability as a Basic Modeling Language
There's a reasonably high earthquake risk, more likely to happen in your lifetime than a volcano.

On the social side, Seattle tends to be somewhat slower paced than SF or NY. You might not see the same level of high intensity and fast paced tech development that you find elsewhere, and might feel like you're moving slower than you want. There is an oft-noted 'seattle freeze', where people are polite, but reluctant to form close friendships - meaning that you might have more trouble finding the same strong friendships and communities that you can elsewhere.
That can be a costly strategy.

Waitressing in LA pays terribly.
Desktops and laptops have already reported drive capacity like this: total capacity before OS + apps. Tablets and smart phones, as they've existed in the marketplace since 2007, advertise available space. Most people think of the Surface as the Windows version of an iPad, not a new form factor for a traditional laptop. As such, they need to be marketed like their cohorts.
Coolest thing I've seen all day.

I'd be really curious to know how long the full scan took. Couldn't find the info in the article.
cool dude sent email from navidb (at) gmail
The point isn't that SELinux will be used by your mother, but that SELinux or similar will be used by Steam and the Linux distributions to make sandboxing happen automatically behind the scenes.
So he wasn't taking a moral stand? But he believed he was doing something for the greater good and took some measures (albeit small ones) to avoid being 'caught.' He didn't do it from his "home network" at Harvard.

So JSTOR is basically a library and they do business with libraries and have some fees but access it generally free and affordable in a lot of contexts. I'm not aware that they restrict access to things. What exactly was the greater good? He just didn't like JSTOR's terms and the fees? Or was there something else? It just wasn't "free enough?"

And MLK Jr's name is being tossed around? Are we serious?
Sigh. That has never happened to me. But perhaps on that site, I should be more concerned with conversion rate when recipients respond. Need to make a bed-side Google Analytics plugin that tracks such transactions.
"And even as Android’s market share has increased, iOS’s profit share has increased too."

This is not correct, iOS's profit share peaked in 2011. At any rate I agree iOS is doing fine.

I disagree with the bigger conclusion about Microsoft. Windows 8/RT/WP 8 literally just launched. Should we have judged the iPhone a failure based on Nokia's dominant profit position less then 6 months after the iPhone launched? That would be silly.
[meteor dev] This is on us. The docs don't make this point clearly enough. It's also the single most voted for thing on the Meteor 1.0 roadmap: https://trello.com/card/patterns-for-writing-larger-modular-...

JS files in the 'server' directory (or any path with a 'server' component') are not sent to the client.

Everything else is.

Putting code inside an `if (Meteor.isServer)` block doesn't keep it from the client. Now someday we might statically analyze the code for clauses like this and keep them out of the client bundle -- the first step is greenspan's jsparse package -- but not likely in the short term.
The Valley Needs A Valleywag — Or Something
This is a bought arcticle if I ever saw one. Two wrongs don't make one right.
Apparently, their marketing efforts try very hard to make everyone feel special: I've just received an email exactly like the one mentioned in the blog, congratulating me: "You were one of our first million members in Hong Kong."
I don't even use LinkedIn, that's just a dummy account with no information.

I can imagine their marketing department trying very hard to make sure they find some kind of positively-sounding (but ultimately not very interesting) stat about every single account so they can justify sending that email to everyone.
> We all know most users are screaming for improvement.

Do they? A few times a year we get a "I made a better UI for HN" article and almost without fail everyone seems to respond "This is unneeded and worse. This reduces usability".
Pretty sure a bunch of that used space is actually just a recovery partition that you can get rid of if you want to.