skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? If some random guy didn't do something to make himself popular (considering he's really smart, if he didn't make Linux he would have still probably done something else massive) how would he be a troll?

Your comment makes no sense... considering the only reason you/hn/whoever even reads his posts is because he's the Linux guy. If he wasn't nobody would even read it, and you can't troll nothing lol.
> Fire your email and/or network admins. I'm serious. I only receive a couple hundred emails and send a few dozen, so maybe I'm not a heavy user like you are, but I literally can't remember the last time Mail.app crashed. It's always worked, day in, day out, and without failure.

I don't think so. We're a large Microsoft consultancy. We have 2 certified exchange admins who know their shit. it's not misconfiguration. One is an Exchange MVP as wlel. This is a regular problem with all iOS devices connected to Exchange. We've had a large insurance company who is a client ban all iOS devices as well due to this issue. They've switched to Android.

> All the recent "iphone won't play mp3s" query hits were problems with iTunes Match. I absolutely agree that it's had its issues, but it's been running smoothly for quite a while.

Look harder.

> I guess I didn't. So it's like one of the apps listed at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Apple_iOS#Navigating_feat.... then.

Absolutely nothing like any of them. I've spent about £200 on iOS navigation apps and nothing comes close. Only a real piece of dedicated hardware is anything like it for accuracy and reliability.

> "My mailserver is obviously misconfigured because I'm having symptoms that almost no one else is describing. I shall blame my phone vendor."

This is not a mail server issue. By elimination, Android devices, Windows Phone devices, Blackberries, Outlook on desktop all work fine. The only odd one out is iOS.

This is surprisingly common. Most people just don't talk about it as they don't give a shit or don't get annoyed by app crashes etc. They assume that's the status quo, then shout at their ops team who sort it out.
This got started because I had an itch to play around with procedural map
design in multiplayer games like Team Fortress 2. (Playing the same
carefully-architected maps over and over led me to think about a server plugin
that could generate a unique, fleeting map every n minutes and keep players
on their toes.) There didn't seem to be any easily accessible libraries for
modeling Valve's map format in code, so I knew the first step would be to make
my own.

I'm not quite far enough along in that step to start exploring the actual
problem, but the library itself is starting to become useful to the point that
I wanted to share it in case anyone out there wishes to play around with it
or participate in its development. (And, of course, I want to hear about
what I'm doing wrong!)

Oh, and be sure to poke around at the examples/ and tools/ directories,
as I've provided some pretty READMEs in those places as well!
Hugo Chavez dead
Totally untrue. For a simple existence disproof: compare Mao's policies with those of his successors. One would be very hard pressed to claim that revolution or uprising caused the shift from hard enactment of anti-Western Marxism (the Cultural Revolution being the quintessential example of this) to what they have now (essentially, command capitalism.)
If you want to take this even further, here are a couple of other suggestions:

Require confirmation instead of one-click unsubscribe**

Even better - allow unsubscribes by having the user take a photo of themself next to a handwritten sign with today's date, their email address and a request to be unsubscribed. Then you know it wasn't an accident!
Game Design Tools for Collaboration
The joke at the end of very Humble Bundle video is one of the thing that I always wait for with the bundle. :)
The challenge with selling such a product when free (especially open source, not just free-of-charge) alternatives exists is convincing potential users that the performance/productivity advantages it has over the alternatives now and the support commitment you are making for it outweigh the freedom that comes with freely-licensed software and the risk that comes with reliance on proprietary technology that may be abandoned by the vendor (in which case it is not only unsupported, but potentially unsupportable) compared to open-source alternatives.

Its certainly possible to make that case, but it can be challenging.
There are actually a ton of companies who are flat in and out of the industry--and I think it's fairly popular for startups to begin that way these days. I'm trying to compile a list right now and will hopefully be publishing that on our site in the near future. If you'd like me to keep you in the loop, let me know.

http://ngenworks.com

Cheers!
Firefox uses much less memory than Chromium does on my Linux machine. How much memory is Firefox using compared to Chrom(e/ium) for you?
I read the article, and the only mention of blockquotes was in the CSS / HTML itself. I don't see any mention in the article about how it works.

Still, thanks for the explanation. Does every mail client do this (like, due to an RFC) or just the popular ones?
I'm not sure that breaking political news belongs on this site. I can read this on any news site on the web.
That is often the case on all OSes. At least most of them let third-party be first-class, so the replacements are complete. iOS is an obvious failure here.
I went through all the links HN'ers have posted in this thread and I couldn't find the information so I have to beg the question:

_Does it have a good keyboard??_

(Laptop keyboards seem to become worse as the years go on -- with the exception of macbooks and possibly Thinkpads -- and I'm really hoping that the Chromebook Pixel has a respectable keyboard)

Some of the pictures on Google's site seem to suggest a macbook-like keyboard layout and profile so I'm hopeful that they're comparable.
That's very much like saying, 'If you have a plumber van, it already drives fine. If not, you're probably not a plumber, in which case a rusty bicycle with a broken crankshaft is great!'

The brokenness of the Finder affects users of all stripes. You don't need to be especially technical. It has been reviled for years and years by developers and non-developers alike.
So if we rule out
- money
- showing off
- altruism
- love of the subject

then what the heck do you think think they're in it for?
You forgot 2-factor auth.
They have advanced a lot under Chavez. You can read it up on Wikipedia, it's all there.
> "Which startups died because they got buried under the weight of their own codebase?" That's a long and very depressing list. In many of those situations, some TDD might have helped.

Could you give some examples? PG doesn't include that in his list: http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html, and in my personal experience I've never met a startup that failed because they had an unmanageable codebase.
I still use Unity, for some reason, and I am shell-shocked it was allowed to be released.

I've never worried about window focus failing to work properly until Unity. I've never had terminal windows fail to be refreshed when scrolling text until Unity.
So don't upvote it.
> Suspend mode on lid close with nouveau and i915 (does not come out of suspend; blank screen).

This makes ANY laptop useless.
Why i like typing in lowercase
OpenOffice versus LibreOffice versus The World
That's not entirely true either. The threat of a revolution can be just as effective as an actual revolution if the leaders are sensitive to it. Having a billion people to feed that might get very upset with you some day is a good reason to change, I think a real revolution in China would have been inevitable if they had not changed course. It came close enough as it was.
Getting an insight into your network with Sphirewall Analytics
This story is a case study in the dynamics of flagging on HN. Every Chavez story has been flagged aggressively, with most dropping off the front page within minutes of their appearance. This one appears to have snuck in through a lull and collected enough votes to fend off the flags.

I flagged it anyways, of course.

Plonk! And now it's off the front page.
Shipment: Share and review designs on collaborative projects
Exactly. It's just such arbitrary information.
The answer to that is always no.
Just a recommendation before you make accusations, perhaps ask me if I had read it rather than going: you haven't read it.

It did actually fail, the brake assistance system stopped working.

1. I was referring to the fact that a 55 mile range is laughable for a car and that looks bad on TV
2. Also electric vehicles take a long time to charge up, that looks bad when accompanied by item 1.
Venezuelan Leader Chávez Dies
I have no idea about the Pixel, but my Samsung Chromebook's keyboard feels just as good as my older Macbook Air's.

The touchpad clicks really loudly, but the Pixel has a new glass touchpad so that might not be an issue anymore.
In high school I wrote a turn based strategy game (think "Empire" with resources, like a very very basic "Civilization") and sent it off to a shareware publisher. The Internet and self-distribution wasn't invented back then.

I was pretty disappointed when I received the rejection letter.
No, he probably isn't. Chavez was wildly popular with a good chunk of the population (the poor) because he did not take as much as he could have.
Revisiting Richness versus Reach in light of MWC 2013
He's not wrong. "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
A useful reminder
Yes, I won't be surprised if it gets unceremoniously dropped soon.
I feel like whatever gets voted to the front page by the community belongs on this site.
The way I understood the original submission was that "100%" indicates the point where the thing is ready to be released to the world at large. Before that, one may well do iterations involving users and potential customers. That will of course make the actual release, or launch, less of a traumatic event. And yet, perhaps I'm old-fashioned, but to me, release is still an important milestone, sort of a finish line, or a goal I'm working towards. That "first 90% vs. last 10%" really resonates with me.
I've never noticed this problem with my rMBP.
Correction: "you're" should be "ur"
No, I'm not. I've lived in South America for some time and been to Venezuela, too. But I don't want to turn this thread into an argument. There is plenty of information available everywhere. You just need to look.
What do you need to store on the built-in drive that you couldn't store elsewhere?
PostgreSQL can have almost all DDL changes inside a transaction.
The common thread between Russian, Latin, and Greek
I use Vundle to take this a step further

https://github.com/gmarik/vundle
That's actually my argument. The OP talks about starting projects. The GP talks about starting startups.
What exactly counts as a good keyboard? I've never had any trouble with my XPS, and don't really see how one could mess up a laptop's keyboard (then again, I haven't had that many laptops). Although some of the cheaper laptop's keyboards seem clunky.
I think generally the advice to beginners is to ignore most of Hackage and focus on the Haskell platform—which is frankly kind of terrible advice. It's intended to avoid things like the enumerator/iteratee/conduit/pipes madness and focus on a stable library interface, but almost all of the fun is being developed on the bleeding edge of Hackage.

I'd agree completely that this is a deficiency with the Haskell community, but I also don't see it stopping until there's a larger critical mass of new users—a chicken and egg problem, certainly.
1680x1050 was popular for a while about half a decade ago. Unfortunately it seems to have been primarily replaced with mostly 1366x768, not 1920x1080.
I want to laugh, but the grammarian in me is cringing too much. If you don't understand the cause of my cringing, please read the Their/They're/There section of http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

EDIT: saraid216's response was funny, without being cringe inducing
Yes, a coup d'etat against a corrupt dictatorship.

And he has since preached and respected the constitution again and again.
And after all that effort convincing people that "brogrammer" is a bad thing?
"Wheeee, I found a Jeep!"

Source: http://forum.i3d.net/huiskamer-dutch/14785-if-ww2-rpg.html
I lived in Japan for many years until recently and had my own start-up with two other co-founders. The company is still going (and quite successfully I might proudly add).

There are many start-up companies over there across all industries. There isn't really a clique/community like there seems to be in San Fran, Sydney (my home town) etc. Founders just start up out of opportunity and need.

There are also open desk places for start-ups. A lot of that seems to be mainly occupied by creative design companies. In saying that I think you'll find most start-ups are not tech based.

If you'd like to know more shoot through some specific questions and I'll see if I can help you or even introduce you to the appropriate people.

--

I seem to not have answered your question with the above.

If you are eligible for a work visa get it before heading over. A common way to get a work visa if your two countries don't have a working holiday visa agreement is to apply for an English teaching role in your home country and then when you enter the country use that work visa to springboard into another job (note: this normally means you have to teach English for several months which can be hell if you don't like that sort of thing).

Already having a job ready for you when you arrive is the best way but highly unlikely a start-up is going to go through the process of sponsorship for your visa.

If you have 100K to spare you can go over there establish your own company and then sponsor yourself. You can then pay yourself an annual salary of 100K and get that money back. Little bit dodgy but within the law. At least the way I did it was!

Expect to get 200,000-300,000yen/month for a real beginning of the journey start-up company. If it already has a steady and growing revenue stream then you can probably negotiate higher.

If you are open to one-step-above-a-backpacker's-hostel living arrangements I suggest you get a room with SakuraHouse (if you plan to stay in Tokyo -- also advised if you want to work in a start-up). As it is cheap and easy to cancel the contract. Once you get a feel for the place then look to set up more permanent digs. Also look through the classifieds on www.metropolis.co.jp which is a local rag for foreigners living in Tokyo (you probably want to do the whole complete Japanese immersion thing but finding a Japanese sharehouse will be more difficult than a foreign sharehouse).

Winter is feezing, Summer is humid. Be prepared!

It is an amazing place.
Interesting aside:

The post 'How I ended up with a Mac' by Miguel[1] got flagged off the front page while this post is zooming up the front page.

Coincidence?

http://hnrankings.info/5327247/

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5327247
It doesn't have a trackpoint. Pass.
This is actually very, very wrong. Goverment structure often changes a hole lot if it becomes known that a leader has a terminal illness. The dictator/king or whatever is the one distributing the goods between his cronys that make up his powerstructure, as soon as a illness becomes known everybody knows that things are about to change and the infighting starts.

Revolution are not always bottom up, I would even say they are usually not bottom up. Most of the time the goverment changes because of political infighting. This holdes true for all kinds of organiational structures.

Cases where this has happend are well documented, for example in this book:
- The Logic of Political Survival (http://www.amazon.com/Logic-Political-Survival-Bruce-Mesquit...)

The books is quite heavy so I would suggest this podcast on the same subject with the author:
- The Political Economy of Power http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2006/08/the_political_e.htm...
A surprisingly large subset of interesting games transitions very well between input methods. Suspend your scepticism.
Working for Rakuten would be an easier way than trying to work for a startup.
I can't see anything on a 1080p screen at 12" and considering my eyesight isn't all that bad, I imagine it's not going to sell for most people.
> I mean, is it ok to eat people who are jerks?

It's the death that's required to eat them not the eating itself. And yes, I feel much less bad when jerks die vs non-jerks.
Chávez Dies, Leaving Bitterly Divided Nation
Good point. Not a ThinkPad.

I'm rather worried about how Lenovo have gone all experimental. I still want an old fashioned black brick with a clitmouse.
I would have used sharding, and then normal failure handling and resynchronisation between nodes. If you have the requirement that two adjacent versions have to be able to resynchronise after failure upgrades (and rollback) become equivalent to normal node failure.

As it stands, during your upgrade you've lost all of your fault tolerance and can't meet your performance requirements - you've gone from 5 nodes able to process the traffic to 1!
Hugo Chávez, Venezuela’s Leader, Dies at 58
Eric Holder: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
What kind of SSD does it use? It is a standard 2.5" format that could be swapped out or is it a proprietary interface like some of Apple's SSDs?
I can't work out if the bit labelled "hash buckets" is in RAM, while data volume is SSD or if it is all SSD. I am guessing this is the case so it is quite similar to eg Twitter's fatcache.
a great loss. a sad day for LA.
I could move, squeeze and compress my sh*t to fit in the tiny SSD, but not for this price, thank you. Are we going back in time?
In other words, each country is approaching a distinct local optimum.
You make a good point re: fault tolerance. As it happens, I've simplified the diagram quite a bit to make it simpler to visualise. We have more than 2 Nginx instances, and more than one shard of our app was running the new code.
I know you shouldn't have to on a laptop with that price - but Sandisk Extreme Pro SD cards are pretty damn quick and would make a decent expansion. Assuming you don't need the slot for other reasons.
Hugo Chavez dead at 58
wow what an awesome read. the shadow idea is brilliant, so simple and so effective.
Berlin Start-Ups: Chasing the Distant Dream of a German Google
They have these things called TrueType scalable fonts. Since like the late 1980s.
suddenly everything started to make sense...
Yeah this for sure. We've been stuck with 1080p for so long.

It's retarded to think that in the late 1990s we had 1600x1200 CRTs at 120hz and great color quality. Now it's almost 15 years later and 120hz isn't even main stream, color quality is worse and we traded some vertical for horizontal resolution.

Wtf?
And they're even better for hard-boiling, as the shell is more easily removed.
Stance of EFF and Humble Bundle on the acceptance of Bitcoin
Why can't I downvote comments?!? Argggh.
I have a Dell XPS from 2008 (now a tertiary machine) and some of its keys will get momentarily get "stuck" under the laptop chassis when returning from the compressed position.

My parents have a Toshiba laptop from around 2011, and its keyboard is undescribably atrocious. Poor key layout (small keys & excessive space between keys), overly resistant and springy key dynamics, very slippery key surface, etc.

The best laptop keyboard I've had was the late 90's ~ early 2000's IBM-era thinkpads.
Nice post but this line really got my attention:

"...I can lug around this 1.5kg monster despite feeling fairly strongly that a laptop should weigh 1kg or less."

Are there laptops with any respectable screen real-estate weighing in at < 1kg? My primary laptop is a 13" Air. 1kg is only 70% of its weight. I was unaware they got much lighter while sporting double digit screen sizes.
For me the one thing that eats up space is my virtual machines for software testing. The other big driver is iMovie for editing videos, but I am sure I could do that elsewhere.
But this crappy portmanteau is empowering to an underrepresented minority! It's only bad if it perpetuates stereotypes people find offensive. This way we're not just passively describing a ridiculous aspect of geek culture, we're actively excluding people through our use of language.

That's better. Right?
The SSD is soldered to the board and non-replaceable.
Watching the video now...

It seems beautiful, enlightening and wrong.

It might be described as a powerful statement of software idealism. Essentially, start simple and stay there, the problems, the mess, the mythical-man-months, etc all come because the developers refused the effort needed for simple and impatiently descended into the swamp of complexity.

I too, love starting simple and usually intend to stay there.

But the problem I would suggest, is the complexity will build up and simplity-as-the-simple-methods you've learned, simplity-as-such, can't fight this build-up. If being simple COULD put an end to complex situations, you wouldn't have to START simple, you could use simplicity to "drain the swamp of the complex". But every methodology more or less says that you have to be on the top of its mountain and to stay there (except original OO and we know how well that worked).

My contention is that this "mountain dwelling" is only possible at times, in some domains, in some organizations, etc. Humans can, at times, carve simplicity out of the swamp of complexity. But it isn't easy and it isn't a product of any fixed set of simple tools we human have come up with so-far.

Mr. Hickey's viewpoint might be useful for selling simplicity and I would be willing to use it if I thought simplicity would be a good buy for my organization. But the reality is tradeoffs never good away. Sometimes people overestimate the value of short term payoff but sometimes people overestimate the value of long term payoffs. The one thing that I think I want to keep here is the clear, simple distinction between "ease" and "simplicity". It's useful even if it might not be entirely, true.
On any modern OS, resolution and text size have little to do with each other. If you can't see anything, turn up the DPI to match the actual DPI of your display, and any well-behaved application will become readable.
Seems more like a TFM [1] reader.

[1] totalfratmove.com
Hugo Chavez dies aged 58
I don't see how that would stop what the grandparent was talking about.

Go to single page->enter email->unsubscribed
Here's what you're doing wrong. Stop it! But what should you do instead? I'm not going to hold out on you here, but...

...I'm holding out on you, so book me for a presentation!
I read this with genuine interest, only to discover that the way to "foster a female friendly company" is to contact this person to hold a "Femgineer Forum" at my company.

Fantastic. Because nothing raises confidence more than zero content (aside from a short list of alternate ways that you can't make your company more female friendly) with an immediate pitch to make money.

The rest of the content on the blog appears to alternate between fairly generic startup advice and more self-promotion, so one would have no idea of the quality of information on the topic that is supposedly the selling point.

plonk
He also mentions that the screen is larger than his needs, so presumably he prefers the 11" range for his laptops.
I'm going to see about resurrecting the project and putting it up on Github soon!
My workaround is to click an element, then type into console

$0.appendChild(document.createElement('tagName'))

but yeah, a [+] button would be nice…
I want the output of the command available in the article. I've seen it in show/hide boxes before, but yes, if it's relevant at all, show it.
AFAICT, this was technique advice specifically relevant to the parent post, the ongoing thread, and to improving folks experience with the tool in original post. To the anonymous downvoter: I give up. I have no idea what message you were trying to send.
Best Buy cancels telework program