skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO both of the current incarnations of retina Macbooks are underpowered compared to the massive number of pixels they need to push. This is especially true for the 15" while running on the integrated GPU, and the 13" all the time. HD Graphics 4000 just doesn't perform adequately for OS X on that resolution in a high end machine.

The cooling solutions are among the best in terms of noise per cooled watt, they both pack a lot of battery and the latest Intel CPUs are very powerful. But if the GT-650M is needed as soon as you scroll a webpage I think that the advantage of the Retina display diminish.

If you work mostly stationary the integrated GPU will face a great challenge driving both the internal retina display at the same time as an external 27" 2560x1440 display. That translates to a lot of noise and dust in your precious machine as the nVidia chip is needed all the time.

I opted for delaying my upgrade to retina until the Haswell GT3 GPUs start shipping. When that might be is anybody's guess.
if they can do that ,the backdoor will be found by others sooner or later.
Could Sous Vide revolutionalize how we prepare food?
So it's really just a deployment solution for EC2?
They should argue that on Reasonwell
This is a indeed a feature. It is a boon for people living with low data speeds and/or limited-data plans. I can wait for 5 seconds for each tab to load, rather than all 10 tabs loading simultaneously and freezing the browser. It also gives me a chance to close off those tabs (without loading the page) which I don't need.
I think the vendor lock-in (cough heroku) is the bigger risk rather than reliability.
Show HN: Writing wrapper on top of Selenium WebDriver
No doubt about it that the Selenium WebDrvier is going to change the face of automation of web application. BUT there is a problem.

If you know most of the resources in testing team do not have much idea about programming, Or even thought they know programming they generally rely of tools.

WebDriver is good but need expert java programmers to automate which is hard.
Hard for company to find a java resource who does testing.

To solve above problem, I am writing a wrapper which will enable any common tester to write code in java without having much knowledge of java.

Now how is that?
that wouldnt keep the monsters away in this case though :)
Why would you use Hushmail over Tormail + your own PGP? I thought Hushmail's rep was pretty well shot[1].

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_p...
Spamhaus vs CyberBunker - Largest ever DDoS
A squabble between a group fighting spam and a Dutch company that hosts websites said to be sending spam has escalated into one of the largest computer attacks on the internet, causing widespread congestion and jamming crucial infrastructure around the world.

Millions of ordinary internet users have experienced delays in services like Netflix or could not reach a particular website for a short time.
There is an option in the settings to load tabs automatically or when clicked on, upon browser restart.
Southern Cross health care - not for profit, but I wonder what it's executives earn? It isn't a feel good organisation at any stretch, and the beady eye of the government has reached out in the past due to some unethical practices they have. Preferred providers etc - keeping the money within its hospitals more like it. I might be cynical, but I've observed them working within the private healthcare sector and it isn't pretty.
Why we are planning to move from HTML5 Canvas to SVG
try:

IOOOIOOO (electronics)
IIOIIOII (music synth)
OIIIOIOI (Bowling)
IIIOOIII (cats)
Infant mortality is. And the mother's life certainly is too.
But in general you do seem to be right. However this could be due to quality of life being hard to measure, because quality of life is related to healthcare, but damned if I can prove that.
Very excited about the possibilities and convenience that Docker opens up. Will be taking it for a spin soon.

Few questions regarding performance compared to running the processes directly on Linux (I guess this applies to LXCs in general - forgive me if these are due to a lack of knowledge about how LXCs work in general):

- How much extra memory and CPU does each Docker process take?
- Is there any performance hit with respect to CPU, I/O or memory?
- Are there any benchmarks from testing available?

Again, kudos to all the people at dotCloud behind Docker and extra props for open sourcing!!
OH! I didn't know about that. Seemed like everyone who wanted to send PGP messages was using, but I guess I was wrong.

I don't use Tormail cause it's painfully slow at times (at least for me) and since I figured they're probably not interested in my plaintext gmail anyway. Stories like this may change my mind.

It's not that (mostly) anything I send is PGP worthy; it's just the principle of it.
The Art of Kenjitsu
The Mobile Economy 2013
Just FYI, Cyberbunker aka cb3rob aka Sven Kamphuis has been involved in scandals, conflicts, lawsuits and general mayhem for ages. He's a poor man's Kim Dotcom.

It's a paranoid one man show that seems to be compulsively anti-everything, and especially anti-authority. However, on a technical level he seems to know what he's doing.
Do you anticipate having more non-profit startups in YC in the future? Are you curious to see any other specific charity model put to work that we maybe haven't seen before?

Watsi was pretty novel I thought (and wonderfully implemented). You must be very proud of what it was able to accomplish.
OIIIIIII (digital)

OOIOIOIO (space)

OOIIIOOI (hotdog and hamburger )
Well, in the case of sous vide it would be in a sealed bag, under pressure, cooked longer. I would hypothesize that the increased pressure would help with brine solution penetration of the meat. The sealed bag prevents moisture loss to the environment. The lengthened cooking time would mean more time for the brine solution to effect the contracting muscle filaments, and more time for the solution to be pulled into the muscle cells.

This isn't what we want. We want the salt to effect the outside of the steak the most, the portion that will be exposed to high heat when searing, because that's where the most water loss will come from.

With a slow cook in a combi oven, the characteristics would be still different.
For medical devices that are based on modern mobile platforms, the average FDA clearance time is down to 67 days. It's not nearly as capital-intensive as it used to be and there are going to be plenty of predicate devices to base your filings on.

The ubiquitous computing plus sensor environment is making healthcare hardware startups the norm—we're seeing more and more applicants in this space at Rock Health. We don't think the FDA process is that onerous, and just published a report outlining the process for entrepreneurs who are new to the space.
Cancer is never cured? An early find of some cancers will have you living longer, due to increased awareness and vigilance. And why is survival a better measure than mortality? 2 sides of the same coin?
Thanks for assembling this wonderful collection! One more suggestion, though: Since many of the books don't have cover images, you actually have to mouse over the ":-(" images on the "shelf" page to locate a particular title. It would be nice to also have a simple textual list of all the titles on your shelf, sorted in alphabetical order.

Another useful feature might be an RSS feed that gets updated when a book is added.
I think other providers have similar speeds, and that the redis and mongo providers provision on lots of provider's machines. But I'm not sure how far that goes.
Windows did not "power itself up" - the person specified that he turned off the monitor, not the computer.
OIOOOIOI rocketship (space)
I think this is related: http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_o...
When there's a battle of opinions between "they're regulating too much" and "they're regulating to little", my presumption is the actual answer is "they're regulating it in the wrong way".
I'm not sure why, but my understanding is that microwaves are not good for flavor or texture.
nor do you really get that much of the product itself.

The RSS -> email list feature is nice.

There are plenty of competitors out there, but I rather like having the trusted Google name on the signup confirmation page and on the individual emails, which are sent from Google servers.
The underlying technology(LXC) is quite similar to OpenVZ, the main difference being that LXC comes standard with the Linux kernel while OpenVZ comes as a module. They are both lightweight virtualization technologies that create separate process and memory spaces inside the same kernel. I think OpenVZ is also much older then LXC.
The Weird 1969 New Wave Sci-Fi Novel that Correctly Predicted the Current Day
> The truth is that Facebook and Google can give away (or even sell) your data to the government, and they have your consent to do so.

Can, but apparently aren't, if the FBI is making a fuss about not liking how things work at the moment. If Google were giving them everyone's Gmail, one assumes they'd just stay quiet about it.
TargetProcess - Agile Project Management Software for Scrum or Kanban
Not that common for me. I know several users who have 1 simple & 1 complicated password that's used depending on the site's requirements. Those two password are used repeatedly.
And it's been in Firefox for a while too. (Nightly only, maybe?)
The content on all SE sites is licensed under the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ cc-wiki license. I wouldn't be worrying about a bait-and-switch.
> Nobody wants to talk about what happens when you cut costs there however (unemployment, lower wages, et al.).

The market will adjust. Other countries have lower costs there, and no worse unemployement (or general wage levels).
Well I have had my genes for quite some years and my parents had them before then - oh and they got them from my grandparents.

Just how long does it take before a patent expires? Or is this prior art?
Without going into the detail of the article I think in general this is just great advice for life.

One of the best decisions I ever made was to try to take people at face value, and not second guess them or discern imagined motivations (which is usually where we get our sense of offense from in the first place). Not naively, but as a conscious and knowing choice.

Recognizing that good people sometimes say and do bad things. That none of us were born with an instruction manual to life - we're all just trying to figure it out in our own way, and figure out how to extract a bit of happiness out of it. It leads you to a compassionate view of people.

But that doesn't mean you have to like everyone. Nor agree with the disagreeable. Far from it. And I certainly don't bat 1.000 when it comes to practicing it. But it's a sound approach that I think has made me happier.

As a side-effect I also find I am more effective, particularly as there are many people who try to put you off kilter by deliberately causing offense as a tactic in negotiation or just everyday interaction. Where it's an inadvertent style of theirs it means I find it easier to defuse things, and when it's (unpleasantly) deliberate it removes that tactic from their playbook and resets things.
I am using latest 15" Mac Book Pro right now.

I have been using it two months and during this time it worked fluently and I didn't run into any problems so far.

HD Graphics 4000 does its job and Retina display shows great pictures and texts on supported apps (Chrome, IDEs, iTerm2 and Pocket support it, that's all I need!).

Same on setup of built-in display(2560x1440) + 2*ViewSonic(1980x1080).

The only drawing lag I noticed was with app Kickoff. Moving window of this app between Retina/non-Retina display is a bit laggy. But notice that mentioned app uses a lot of drawings, animations and probably heavily relies on "fast and light-weight" CALayers.

Everything else (SSD, CPU, RAM, cooling) is as high and fast as on PC with same price.

Is it worth that money? Don't think that any Mac Book is.
Having tried both the systems of Spanin and Denmark - your post doen't seem very informed.

In both Spain and Denmark the system works excellently and all the information is available for you to verify. You just dont have to do any typing.

So if you are paranoid you can spend as long as you want verifying pre-completed information. If you have better things to spend your time on (family? friends?) you can just do a quick check to see that the numbers look right.
I donot really understand why Chrome needs to be on startup. Can we not click a taskbar icon and start it whenever we want?
Clickable: https://www.rfk.id.au/blog/entry/persona-identity-provider/
> “Nobody ever deputized Spamhaus to determine what goes and does not go on the Internet,” Mr. Kamphuis said.

Nobody is forced to use the Spamhaus service. The people choosing to use the Spamhaus service seem to be happy with it.
I think you misunderstood his argument. Assuming I understand correctly he was saying that if you have $100 in your society and 100 goods available for purchase, evenly each good is $1, if you have $200 and 100 goods each good is $2. Despite doubling your money it is still worth the same. Obviously it is more complex than that but I think that's the basic idea he was getting at. You can only increase the wealth of a country if you increase the amount of goods rather than the amount of money as money will more or less scale to goods. From what I understood he was referring to goods as wealth.
It's not the setting. Chrome automatically continues there when it's closed by Windows restarting. The idea is that applications that are open will return to the same state when the computer restarts. This is separate from the user closing the program and launching it again.
How about the unimpleted problems ? Or does that fall under unsolved ?
OIOIOOII - 8bit graphic
I wonder how "not so well off" people pay for health care. What are the costs in government run hospitals?

(I am from Kashmir. Consultation with the best doctors does not cost more than 5 - 8 USD and in most cases this amount is for 10 - 15 days regardless of the number of visits. And if you go to government run hospitals you can get the best consultation for half a dollar. Only problem we have is that the health care infrastructure - private and government combined - is overloaded. Not enough hospitals, not enough doctors, not enough equipments. )
Why couldn't these fibres work with EDFAs? As long as the fibres are designed to operate in the C-band (~1.55 micron wavelength), there shouldn't be a problem running them through an amplifier.
I hope google, facebook, hacker news and other web sites would start shutting down at least half of their servers during the night. And, when I say night, I mean night anywhere on this platnet, not just night in some particular time zone. That would help.
If our economy has $100 we both receive a paycheck for half the remaining money and you buy a stock that gives you $1/year and I do not, assuming we spend the same you will automatically become richer each year until we are both paid a pittance while you sit on most of the money. I think that was the general idea.
I doubt Feedburner will ever be shut down (by Google at least). The backlash that Google will suffer can not be worth the savings they will receive by shutting it down. It will remain a tax on a bad acquisition decision and it'll continue on with the bare minimum of maintenance.

Maybe Google will "sell" the service to a lesser known company who will let the service die after a while. They could also spin it off with a seed fund of its own and allow it to die if it can't be profitable. This method might allow Google to get away with killing the service and take so much of the blame.
It lacks metric units (wind is in mi/s). I think that the contrast between ground and sea could be better; I had quite a hard time figuring out what region of the globe was actually displayed (I naturally first saw ground and sea reverted).
well, it would still restart all his plugin-based media streams when he reopened chrome, which is the underlying bug. but yeah, it would be a decidedly less monsterful experience.
SO moderators are at least elected by their user base (yeah, with biases, of course) and well identified, while here on HN they're chosen in an autocrat model and are invisible to any kind of public scrutiny. You say they're harmless, but looking at the people being hellbanned¹, I'd say there's plenty of harm being done, with users spending months in their invisible prisons for no discernible reason.

I think the fact that you harshly criticize SO and dismiss HN as harmless is interesting.

¹ Yeah, they might be banned by robots, but I don't think that makes it any better. It's not like the algorithms are independent entities.
As always Kenneth Reitz did an awesome job.
More than a game, it's an arms race. Both us and the privacy invaders have to make moves, even if the race won't stop. Surely, they'll come up with something else. Something else that we'll have to counter, and so on.
Is the capacity limit of 37 channels a fundamental limit due to the design, or a consequence of fabricating these fibres in a university lab? I'm honestly asking since I can't access the full text at home, but I suspect it's the latter reason.
Right place right time seems to be your shot at all these people, most of life is about that!
Any time people think in terms of EROEI they get an upvote from me, as it's the problem with so many plans.

I was hoping from the headline that this was a conc. solar tower or something similar, as have been described in the past and which have a chance of being EROEI positive.

Sadly few people see the world in the eyes of basic physics and energy return on energy investment. Most of the utopians who believe we'll think ourselves out of the energy crisis without having to make any lifestyle changes or depopulate tend to rely on arguments that are almost always EROEI negative.
Where by "sooner or later", you mean "last year":

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9235260/Rogue_G...

and

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9219606/Hackers_stole...

Fortunately that attack is only possible if you're a despotic nation-state who controls your entire countries internet connection - or perhaps a three letter agency who'd only have to lean on half a dozen or so major internet backbone company CEOs - so you can MITM pretty much _all_ the traffic...
Right... I've heard of the concentrated solar towers which create an updraft to drive turbines in a very tall chimney, and seen suggestions that they COULD be made to be net energy return on energy investment positive. But this one is pretty new to me. I think it's time to pop over to see what the folks on TheOilDrum.com have had to say about this - they must have seen it and are probably ripping it apart by now.
I find all these debates so difficult because it's so hard to interpret all the numbers. For instance, your article's numbers all seem to be based on outcomes for people who are seeing doctors. Maybe there's something about people who don't see doctors in the US which would cause the outcomes to be worse. Or maybe not. It's just impossible to trust anything, since everything can be interpreted in 10 different ways.
Right place right time seems to sum up all these people, and most of life is about that! But the only way to fight it is work your ass off and put yourself in a position to be at the right place at the right time (give yourself a platform for an investor to find you for a high acqui-hire price cough cough what happened here). For the many people who complain all the time on this site and critique but have never started / built or done anything except complain, you have no ground to stand on. Sitting on your computer complaining has (almost) never put someone in a right place, right time opportunity (except when blogs were first invented)
Google Keep screenshot walkthrough and review
no license specified = trap

I've never understood this. I suppose you're an advocate of MIT, which basically means you can do whatever you want with it. So how does this differ from having no license at all? Why do you need MIT?
To run Riak in production you need 5 servers.

Here all you need it S3(scales indefinitely) + 1 elasticache instance.
Someone should put a reminder in their Google calendar to ask whoever is CEO at Yahoo at the their 2014 annual shareholder meeting what the Summly team has done for the company over the last twelve months.
Riak of course has a lot more features
Introduction to raymarching with WebGL
Spanish Linux user group files European antitrust complaint against Microsoft
I suggest reading Fahrenheit 451... similarities with TR;DR problems outlined in the article are striking, at least.
I was surprised Bittorent was working on a plugin for the browsers, instead of using this. Same for their live streaming tech. It would be much better if you didn't need extra software/plugins to install to use it.
Hells Yes. I'm right there with you.
Anti-cyber threat centre launched
You constructed a list!

Well done, that was tricky syntax. You used the (:) function. It takes two values, some value and a list, and constructs a new list out of them. We call it 'cons' for short.

No it's not:

> 'a' : []
=> "a"
Paranoia? Anti-authoritarian behavior? Technical expertise? I have found my new hero ;)
Ok, forgive me if I'm missing some sarcasm here but... you realize that about half the planet is in darkness at any given time, right?
Would it be acceptable if you hear their playing one beat late, and they hear your playing one beat late?
Programming may or may not be hard, but it's not a good idea to think of it as hard. You need the laziness that makes you think, as soon as you get to callback 3, "there must be a better way than this". Occasionally you're disappointed, but generally if you know programming is easy then it will be.
3. They have a more pleasant reading experience (arguably the most important part of a book) for many people. I just roll my eyes when I see these kinds of dismissive statements. Just being honest.
Philip K. Dick Previews Blade Runner (1981)
I wouldn't look to a private prison company to reduce crime because that's not the need they are pursuing. The commercial war on crime tends to be waged by associations that roughly map to where/how crimes are committed and chambers of commerce. These organizations are the pooled efforts of businesses to fight common problems.

A private rail company might decide to lay down unprofitable track to massively grow demand and habitual preference for rail travel. Or, it might stick to more profitable tracks and in exchange not have to pass on the costs of disparate routes to the customers in the high-density areas.
Yes, because the little warning pops up asking if you want to postpone restart.