skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Gruber is in denial over the weakening fortunes of Apple. The writing over Apple hasn't gotten crazier in my opinion, just more negative (and I think it's appropriate).

They were the world's most valuable company and they run it like a black box. They do a terrible job of communicating with shareholders. I think that has been responsible for some of the $300 billion in value Apple is missing these days (and the 9 pe ratio).

The market wants to know: what is Apple going to really do about competing with Android / Samsung / Kindle Fire / very low cost, high value smart phones and tablets.

Can Apple retain a healthy ecosystem (apps, music, media) with 5% of the global market? 10%?

Android has become a near monopoly in smart phones, squeezing Apple into an increasingly smaller corner of the market. The same thing is going to happen in tablets, if only due to price / selection alone. Eventually this compression will begin stealing value from the company and not just slowing down their growth rate. Most forecasts are pegging them to declining profits and drastically slowing sales. Is that crazy writing? No, it's a negative view on the company's prospects.
I wrote this snippet of code to explain the concept of function/hashmap/object/class to javascript beginners.
http://jsfiddle.net/AXTdj/
A plug here for F.lux, which attempts to correct for the unnatural color balance of computer screens and seems to have more or less eliminated my insomnia problems; the only times I have trouble sleeping anymore are traceable either to caffeine after noon, or forgetting that I've disabled F.lux.
OSH Park does an outstanding job. I've used them for work and hobby prototyping, and while the turnaround time isn't great (week or two) the quality is first rate.

From what I gather the boards are actually made by Amitron outside Chicago.

Unlike most quickturn PCB fabs they don't bury you with options. The standard options give you everything you need (ENIG, double mask+silk screen, either 2/4 layer, etc.). The OSH Park ordering wizard is a case study in how PCB orders should be done, and for the quality the price can't be beat. Best of all, it's just a "Fred in a shed" operation in Oregon that came out of a hackerspace there.
And dudes with big muscles are good at digging ditches.
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I have the website field turned off -- it's not visible if you are a real user using the form, and "website" doesn't show up next to comments.

But I still get a lot of spam containing the website field; it seems like the bot is just automatically submitting POST requests with website included. This should be trivial to detect -- is there a plugin that just immediately deletes all of these out of hand before passing them on to an antispam tool?
What the heck is this doing here?

In any case, boo hoo for Iverson. He had plenty of time to fix his life, he had plenty of examples of people before him taking the same path and ending up the same way.

And the Pat Croce quote about god was one of the stupidest things I've read - Iverson gets the credit for becoming a good ball player and Iverson gets the blame for becoming a waste. If you think anyone or anything else is responsible for your success and failures, that's one of your biggest problems.

And the fact that he's evidently dirt poor now is no excuse whatsoever for his behavior and general douchery. You can work at McDonalds and still be a good person and worthwhile citizen and I'd have more respect for those folks than any rich guy dropping millions on charity for no other reason than to make a name for him/her self.
Sorry but I don't understand why and who can't make it happen if the hardware is there.

Maybe because the software ISP use is not ready yet ?
Interesting. I installed 5.0.2, removed anything that would be interfering with my .zshrc and still have the same problems.
Position Based Fluids Demo (GTX 580, 130k pts, 30 fps) [video]
> as ZFS is likely caching the reads in the ARC

Each of the seven queries we used in our benchmark required a sequential scan of the 32GB dataset. It's unlikely that the ARC had any impact on the results since the EC2 instance had only 7GiB of memory.
Right, I was going to mention this but you beat me to it.

My impression was that in reality, you rarely get checked unless you're in a region with stability concerns (western Sichuan, Tibet, Xinjiang), near a protest or terror incident, doing something official, etc. But it's a scary system to have hanging over you. Generally people can normalize with the support of an employer.

In some cities, like Shanghai a few years back, I've heard that the police do make more use of it to give immigrating rural people problems.
Happy birthday Mosaic 20 years of the graphical Web browser
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The crossing itself is done in a day and photos don't do it justice. Looked a bit ho-hum to me until I was there.

Probably only one tiring bit (Devil's Staircase?) then the rest is pretty straightforward.
And the massive data loss due to a rat/roach infestation?
Intel, AMD etc at the same time they promised to kill the VGA port by 2015 also promised to kill LVDS by 2013:

http://newsroom.intel.com/community/intel_newsroom/blog/2010...

And Intel followed up by removing LVDS from Haswell:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-4770k-haswell-pe...
> In the context of Judaism it's generally used to means Haredi Judaism, but can sometimes include other conservative groups.

That's actually a common misconception.

While all "Haredim" (ultra-Orthodox) are Orthodox Jews, the majority of Orthodox Jews do not belong to this group. In fact, nearly all Jews in Israel are technically Orthodox (that is, they have their Bar/Bat Mitzvas in Orthodox synagogues, have weddings performed by Orthodox rabbis, etc.), even if they are almost entirely secular.

In the US and Western Europe, there are two other popular denominations— Conservative and Reform.
no no no, i don't even need to read any of that. 6 hours sleep. perfect for me. not tired, almost always in a good mood. very simple and effective. i don't need no recipes, to know about deep sleep and all that.

you should not forget that people are very different. so don't try to impose all these rules on everyone just because it works for you.
Fair point, though the lawsuit cost insanity is hardly limited to patents.
Lessons From A Crash Course In Data Science
Legacy addresses, meaning those registered before ARIN's creation in 1997, are essentially property. Otherwise, they'd force you to pay for them.
The real plan of the DTAG is something no one has thought of yet. Because this will only affect new customers, the new customer-base will drop, if not vanish entirely.

Now, the DTAG can complain at the BNetzA (regulatory body) that they don't get new customers and that they can't maintain the infrastructure because of missing money, and so can increase the amount they charge of resellers.

At the same time, though, they will lower their own pricing, so that they have a massive competitive advantage again.
Of course the author preformed daily backups to removable media and other cloud based services?
Let this be a lesson. Data redundancy is important!
I had horrible experiences with Mimos, touchscreens randomly failing, screen freezing.. Can't recommend them. Also, they are completely overpriced.
If this file is indeed the cause of the account closure... what happens if you're using a Chromebook? Then not only do you loose access to that computer, you are restricted to what kind of content you can create and store on your computer.

I hope this gentleman is wrong. I really do.
I would really, sincerely, love to reply with my opinion on this, what seems by the title at least, wonderful article. But unfortunately people do not seem to have decent enough of a hosting provider and/or server to survive the outcome of getting on the front page of HN and hence I am forced to see "Error establishing a database connection".
Thanks for your comment! At the end of the day you have to find what works best for you. For some (lucky) people they can kick ass on just 6 hours of sleep. For others, they need to be consistent and sleep for 7-8hrs.

I didn't mean to impose anything on anyone, just trying to share some of the things I've learnt :).
You'll have to buy the connectors and solder them on yourself.

Just FYI, those SMT flexible-printed-circuit connectors are a bitch to get soldered onto a PCB correctly. You might survive with a lot of flux and a very thin tip (and a microscope since the plastic will melt at a pretty low temp. No mistakes allowed).

You might do a little better with a hot air gun. But this is not level-1 soldering.
I think people make a mistake when they assume that the stand-up is about an exchange of data. It's not. It's a social construct. Technology development, especially in a team, is a social activity. We need to create social rituals for it to work at maximum efficiency.

The "bugs" he sees in the process, "synchronous, everyone needs to be in the room (or on the phone), and often after the meeting much of the content is lost" -- those are features.

People need to synchronize for social purposes. They need body language to help debug subtle performance issues. They need to have problems shoved in their face to either act on or forget.

That's all great stuff.
A couple of decades ago I read about a company in New Hampshire of Vermont that made skiing and hiking outerwear, definitely not hi-tech. They posted everyone's salaries on the wall, including management. If someone wanted a raise he crossed out his old salary and wrote in a new one. The president(?) said no-one abused the system because it was self-limiting it was all there for everyone to read.

I've never seen it anywhere else. It would take real guts to do it in Silicon Valley.
Btrfs is unstable too. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5460449
An interesting way to bootstrap Daypace (and make conversion easier for people coming from Upcoming) could be to import recent events from Upcoming.
i love it when the lead character in the post stops by and participates in the discussion
about this they use spamming software for internet marketing which works thou!
I love f.lux, but it doesn't seem to work so well with my dual-monitor setup on xubuntu... and I'm never really sure if it's working properly. I wish it had some kind of a 'temperature indicator' or something.
Cloud storage doesn't count as a backup if it is the only place you've stored your data.
There is Bulgarian Method, but I kind of doubt that most people have the time for that...
Seeing that Twitter has 500 million users, an order of magnitude more would be in the range of 5 billion, and a second order of magnitude would be around 50 billion.

So I seriously doubt Amazon has "orders of magnitude more users" that Twitter. For Tumblr, maybe, but I doubt that too (maybe just one order of magnitude for it).

Besides, all that's orthogonal to my point. Except if you mean that the reason that Twitter and Tumblr have less users than Amazon is that they left those services due to outages.
We're probably going to see some declination of the parasitic inheritance in the next parts, none-the-less this article has been a good read. You don't find a lot of real JS article these days.
I can't access the article. Can anyone tell shortly, what the author is complaining about?
It guessed 8 years too young for me. Looking at that result and the ones below, it doesn't seem like it's doing a whole lot better than randomly picking an age in the 30 +/- 5 range.

I'd like to see how it does with folks further out on the age spectrum - less than 20 or greater than 50.
Startup Office Hours with Vinod Khosla
Gearbox acquires Homeworld
Or you could avoid all the trouble and bad a Surface RT or Pro, isn't it? Compatible out of the box with thousands of printers, scanner and every kind of peripheral you can possibly imagine.
EBay's response on Internet Taxes
Give me a break. OpenFlights.org, a completely free open-source flight mapping tool, had a really popular Facebook app that a) let people post a map of their flights to their Facebook profile, and b) post updates on Facebook automatically when they flew somewhere -- not exactly spammy, parasitic or viral, just sharing info with friends. But merely keeping the FB app up and running consumed more support time than the (far more complicated) website itself, because the APIs changed all the bleeping time, and eventually in 2010 Facebook decided that letting people post apps they liked to their profile was Not Allowed(tm). So we gave up, and seeing what has happened in the three years since, I don't regret making that call one bit.

http://openflights.org/blog/2010/11/05/farewell-to-facebook/
If you're consistent you should reach the point to where you don't need an alarm and your body is capable of waking up at the same time everyday.

However even if you're wearing earplugs you'll be able to hear an alarm, they don't block off noise that much.
Is there a tool to backup your google everything?

If there isn't then what you're doing is called "taunting".
Looks real cool man! You've got the wrong James Anderson on the Rockets page. I don't think he has a twitter, actually.
What is the reason for using ext3 over ext4?
Top Beautiful Google Doodles in 2012
For me these become servers :-) Built in UPS for the win!
I don't understand what is particularly special about this case of domestic terrorism where persons are now wanting to treat the attackers somehow differently than the Turner Diaries brand of American bomber (aside from that the brothers were lawful residents, not citizens, of course.)
You're confusing income with profit. Restaurant utilization is also highly variable through the day, and cafes often have long loiter times on tables. Paying rent out of $3.40 left over after materials, labor, and other non-rent expenses, even on an upscale café's inflated prices, is fairly challenging.
I agree. The amount of maintenance to fix bugs created by FB is insane.
Earplugs don't actually block out a whole lot of noise.

For example, if I wear my earplugs in the library, it'll completely muffle the sound of people whispering around me, but I'll still be able to hear the oblivious jock talking at full volume to his buddy at the table across from me.
Facebook gets its amount of beating too.

Those too should be very careful to not get regulated by an angry mob. I'd say well deserved.
You can always observe what happens if you hit the Disable option. If there's a noticable difference, it was working.
Reminds me of Youtube. On-demand video was the "flying car" of Silicon Valley before them.

And what about Skype? The notion of a usable video-phone was pure fantasy for years prior to them.

And now, Tesla is doing this again.

I can walk into my grocery store, use their smart-phone app to get discounts on things I want to buy and then wave my phone at the self-checkout station to pay for it all. What a nice future.

Reminds me of these commercials: http://ThisWillTake.Me/youtube/ATT_You_Will . They seem so quaint now.
Did you miss the "resulting in death" part of the charges?
No third party can call memory in some other third party's router's RIB their property. All it takes to overcome that hurdle is filtering.
This is quite silly, of course. A solid developer has no problems switching idioms (not just syntax) when hopping languages.

There's really not much sense in an argument that says you "lose" something by learning newer things -- provided, that is, you're really making an effort to wrap your head around the newer things that you're studying, and not just cramming selected phrases and reflexes into your head in order to finish some current task at hand.

If anything he's become a better C# programmer, not a worse one, precisely because of his "bad" experience, because he now sees that overuse of certain habits can lead to bizarre or otherwise undesirable results (just like with any language).

So really he should be thinking positively about the whole experience, rather than negatively.
>We always slightly overshoot (carried by technology), and stabilize by those things you are mentioning (hunger, war, diseases, infant mortailty, ...). We just slightly overshoot not because of restrain, but because it is physically impossible to overshoot too much, since mortality increases very strongly (exponentially?) once we are above carrying capacity.

In order to make sense of the importance of anything in time, I remove the constants and just check for the differences.

So, if we "always slightly overshoot" and stabilized by "hunger, war, diseases, infant mortailty, ...", the fearful thing is that in this particular era we also have:

(1) An astounding number of people in "third world" countries.

(2) Mass ecological harm.

(3) Global warming and continuous extreme weather conditions, like successive breaking of the records for the hottest summer temps recorder (whether one believes it's connected to (2) or not, which I do).

(4) Weapons that can wipe out the population or even the rock we are standing in several times over (from bio to nuclear).
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New Healthcare.gov will be built with Jekyll and managed using Prose.io
Researchers Connect Entropy To Intelligent Behaviour
Ask HN: Working with autism
Are there any devs here with autism who have managed to find steady, long-term employment in the industry? I am struggling at the moment and the future looks quite bleak, so any advice is duly appreciated.

Thanks.
One thing you could do is implement this service for your own area. If you see a need for it, chances are other people need it to.
Google closed his Google Account including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calender etc. without notice and without explanation. After 6 days he got it back after a google employee he knows personally escalated the case internally.
>I don't think overpopulation should ever be a factor in determining if you want to have a child or not. A layperson has no responsibility nor influence in that matter - that's something for policymakers and implementers to handle.

The very notion of democracy is that there is NO layperson.

The citizen very much has responsibility for his state's actions, and policymakers and implementers are only supposed to reflect the general will of the population.
I would never partner with an ideas guy unless they are bringing money to the table.

They also have no skin in the game, which allows them to change their mind at a moments notice.
There is a need to decentralize email, social networking, cloud storage etc. FreedomBox is a step in the right direction. So is Diaspora Project.
Go to a doctor and get their opinion. Many, many, people have been through this and live happy lives now with medication. Don't believe the anti-medical pseudoscience that floats around the Internet. It saves lives, and may save yours.
Why not trans-code the image format to something more common if the user wants to save the image? I would imagine that would be far more useful to the vast majority of users.
I dont understand what point you are trying to make and how that may relate to what I said. Are you trying to state that new things are invented? If so, I think you missed my point which was that determining why things work now can also be a difficult question.
I wonder how my co-lo would react to me attempting to rack a pile of elderly laptops with display deficiencies :) I'm going to have to try this now...
Whether or not you agree with Internet taxation, eBay's arguments are bogus. All you need to do is subscribe to a tax calculation service that calculates the taxes on purchases. At the end of the quarter they send you a bill. you pay them and they file the necessary forms. (I know, returns, chargebacks and all that, so it isnt trivial). If the service doesnt exist yet, I'm sure there will be a yc funded startup to do so.
Interesting post, but I'm not sure if some of this advice can work for me. I've tried earplugs, but to be honest, it makes me paranoid that I won't hear the fire alarm or burglar coming in, which makes me much less relaxed. This isolated feeling is also weird for me. Covering my eyes just feels uncomfortable and also isolating. It's probably just me.

Also, I'm not entirely sure where I heard/read it, but I thought it's actually good to wake up with (natural) light, which brings you into a more natural cycle or something. I think I also heard it could help with jet lag, releasing melatonin or something of that sort.
For your robot-building needs, $45 BeagleBone Linux PC goes on sale
This does look like the best option! Thanks! I might do this for my family, since I'd basically have to get 5 mailboxes.
>Great, take smart people out of the gene pool. I don't think he's thought through his cunning plan. As he says, he doesn't believe he'll cause everyone to not have children. But the only people who even know who he is are the relatively smarter part of the population, and therefore any of those who act on his advice have just diminished humanity's potential.

Actually it could be the inverse. For one, RMS is quite kooky.

Second, who said that those that follow his advice would be the "smarter part of the population"?
Perhaps you didn't read the article, but it's about using an iPad display panel as an external monitor for a computer (via displayport).

There are no other parts of the tablet, only a screen.
Wordpress ?
You're clearly not a student :). I'd love to choose when to go to bed, but that's not really compatible with a workload challenging enough to appease admissions counselors.
I used oshpark for a project recently - http://magicsquarefloor.com - the boards were absolutely beautiful.
Out of curiosity, is the software to enable better online political activism public yet?
If f.lux doesn't work properly, give redshift a try. Does the exact same thing and works perfectly for me.
>My boy is the best thing that ever happened to me.

So your life was meaningless without having a child? And, following the same logic, your son's life is nothing too, unless he gets a child too?

Or do you mean "it's the best thing that happened to you", but other things were quite nice too?