skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If an initiative doesn't seem far too wild, then it's not wild enough to be innovative. Quite a few lousy ideas seem too wild initially, but pretty much all of the actually valuable projects are as well.
Gave fish a shot for a week or so. It gives some "oohs and ahs" right off the bat, but in the long term, not something that I could use.

Maybe if it was at least somewhat bash or POSIX compatible I would be on board, but the developers don't even seem to want to help us out in that regard.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-ur...

Lots of sources down at the bottom.

EDIT: Also, I've yet to actually see any study that concludes direct causation between availability of loans and tuition prices. Yet somehow the burden of proof is on the naysayers?
If I remember correctly, with the Macbook Air it will have to be '"that's not right...", and grabbed another Macbook Air, and started migrating my data, etc, etc...'
It doesn't matter how long he's been here. His statement about the community may have been hyperbolic; do you have a real rebuttal against the content? Or will you nitpick one sentence you can attack?

SV Tehnorati is a stereotype because he's drawing comparisons, he wouldn't normally make a steretype argument unless you had already. The point was to demonstrate a different perspective, and this entire thread is just demonstrating a disgusting level of stereotyping for a category of people - MBAs.

The bottom line is that there is nothing inherently evil or pejorative about an MBA. Judge human beings on individual merit, not on a piece of paper.
I bought this when it first came out. It's a fun trip down nostalgia lane.
such action would become commonplace, a rite of passage at graduation

Good.

Then people will stop lending students tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Then schools will lower their prices.
I think it is even worse than simply "easy credit", I think the rewards built in encourage exploitation. Allow me to explain.

1) You have capital seeking a return.

2) There exists a basic need that can be facilitated by the application of capital (a degree for a "good job").

3) You remove all the risk out of providing capital for filling the need through government guarantees.

4) You provide a rate of return that is higher than the government guaranteed rate on their own capital instruments (treasury bills).

#4 there, which gives you higher returns on low risk investments, creates a demand for those instruments. And that demand causes a supply of instruments to be created. And the regulation on that supply is minimal.

The result is you get financial institutions giving loans to students for useless degrees at inflated cost institutions knowing that the government has made defaulting nearly impossible (hence the low risk) and they can offer better rates than t-bills.

Students are being exploited exactly like unqualified home buyers were being exploited in the mortgage fiasco of 2008.

What annoys me about the journalistic coverage is that the 'rage views' are "Students are graduating with few prospects from college and a mountain of debt" whereas the bigger story is that "Rich people demanding higher returns, enslave unsuspecting youth through their loan seller proxies."
They said (as I recall) the cadence how you say it when calibrating is the way it expects you to say it in the future.
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There's nothing inherently harmful about goto either, and people who think that just having it around is death, seriously don't understand the machines they're programming, and how we implement these magical control structures they love so much. (hint: we use goto)

I don't feel any respect for the article because it's written on the premise that goto is bad, and that it is anything like a callback.

Callbacks have been, and will continue to be an incredibly useful way to handle events.
In this case, going for the Porsche experience is fine even if you can't afford it, so long as you are smart about it. Make sure you have a plan to pay it off after graduating, and make sure you have a contingency plan if you fail to graduate (you should find state schools with programs that you can fall back on before even starting at your "Porsche school").

The problem is people want the Porsche experience, and have a bizarre notion that they shouldn't have to do the planning and are entitled to just study whatever pleases them. Either of those two attitudes by themselves are more or less fine, but when you combine them then you get problems.
"the price of education has little correlation to the availability of student loans"

Sure. And the bubble in home prices was a purely secular affair, with no correlation to the introduction of option ARMs, low doc/no doc loans and subprime credit availability.
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To get around this issue they can build an alarm which starts sounding when the battery is getting low. Another feature would be to send a notification to the care giver to charge the battery. The third fail safe would be to alert care giver if there is no communication with the device.
That seems abnormal, though possibly bad IDE behaviour? What is CPU usage like at this point?

Also, might be worth giving this a go: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget-...

Some badly behaved software (notably Netflix's Silverlight thing) will seemingly peg the CPU at maximum turbo-boost frequency for no good reason, which hits power usage hard.
This is pretty neat, I certainly like not having a separate query language embedded as strings and manipulated with string concatenation etc. (SQL injection ...).

Similar:

- Avi Bryant's Relational Object Expressions bring relational algebra into the programming language:

courseTitlesForProfessorNamed: aString
|courses|
courses := (professors * courses
select: [[:ea | (ea lastName = aString) & (ea id = ea professorID)].
^ (courses project: #title) copyFrom: 1 to: 10.

http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/avi/blogView?showCo...: and http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RelationsAsFirstClassObjects

- The query system for the Gemstone object database evaluates query blocks against proxies that capture the messages and translate the procedural queries into logical queries:

myEmployees select: { :emp | emp.age > emp.lengthOfService }

http://community.gemstone.com/download/attachments/6816350/G...
It depends on your keyboard as well. I use a Kinesis Advantage, which has the arrow keys in a place that doesn't require movement from your hands, so hjkl doesn't provide the advantage that it used to.
It's disingenuous to treat your religious dogma on the word "open" as shared by everyone else. I don't believe for a second you understand how Google is using the term nor what they are applying it to.
Looks fine for me in Firefox (Iceweasel) 23.0 on Linux, even with NoScript having disabled everything on that page.
> Rails remains the slowest and least efficient server side language by a huge margin.

Rails is a framework, not a language, and its not clear whether this "slowest server side <foo>" is really directed at Rails (the framework), Ruby (the language), MRI (the main implementation of the language), or some combination of framework, language, and implementation.
These are a big step forward compared to today's tangle of plugins! Much smoother and nicer to code.

On IE10 this library has no animations. Is it possible to polyfill your way to decent support with animations at least on IE10?

(I hate IE but a lot of our customers use it)
Right. For it to really feel like vim movement, I'd push two keys and the snake would jump to the next food pellet in insert mode...
Cloud Platform Blog: Google Cloud Storage now provides server-side encryption
This is odd - I was interested to read more but all the links are broken.
You're making sweeping statements evidencing the superiority of one area in the world over any other place, and all you did was make a comment full of fluff and grandeur.

There is no "California mindset" just like there's no "Wall Street mindset" in New York. You're just being sectionalist.
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How has this happened? Isn't it Microsoft's to release?
>If you can't see it, there is no point explaining. There are significantly more than 7 users.

I can see it. But you're acting as if Google just blackholed orphans from getting food.

>Microsoft are trying to provide access to a popular service. Google are blocking it on frankly extremely spurious grounds and refusing to develop an app of their own (that I don't take issue with). For the final time; it's about users.

Microsoft is trying to access a popular service while breaking the terms of service. What guarantee does Google have that Microsoft won't try to pull more shit in the future, requiring Google to take action in response (at a cost to themselves)? Everything is opportunity cost; why should Google spend any more time on Microsoft's phone's relatively small user base?

Edit: Also, Microsoft phone users could just open a webbrowser.
Sounds like the "brick" is quite literal too in this case! :)
https://raw.github.com/blakeperdue/ios7-wireframe-kit/master...
> Conpig threads still can only run on one core of a processor.

This isn't true concurrency. Scaling to 20 million requests per second over 40 cores on a single machine is true concurrency.
No matter how many times it's encrypted, if it's encrypted solely with keys that Google generates, then it's insecure with respect to stuff like PRISM. What good is locking the door when you can simply give a spare key to someone else? Granted it's a decent feature to protect your data from the run of the mill script kiddies, but I don't see how this allays a single PRISM concern if theyre generating all the keys.
From the first day of school children are taught two things, to obey authority and if you want to make something of yourself, go to college. A large number of people go to college because they believe that is what they have to do, they've had it drilled into their heads that if you want to be successful, you go to college. If you can go to college, whatever the cost, you go to college. No one is forced at gun point to go to college but they are pressured into it throughout their entire lives, most people truly believe that they need to go to college to be successful, to end up with a spouse, a house and children, they think college is the only path. You can quit smoking, you don't have to drive, you can leave the army after a few years, but what you can't do is reverse the decision to take on student loans, they're just not comparable.
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The problem with Glass isn't quite that pronounced. it's not always listening; the wearer needs to wake it up before it'll take commands.
Last time I did a battery replacement with Apple (for a mid-2009 Macbook Pro 5,5) it cost ~$120 off-warranty.

Doing the research, seems like different machines have different battery replacement costs from Apple:

http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html

* $129 for non-retina 11", 13", and 15" Macbooks (air and pro)

* $179 for the 17" Macbook pro

* $199 for the retina Macbook pros.
It appears to add some amount of Python-bytecode level preemption to gevent, which allows you to hopefully avoid some of the pathological cases of cooperative scheduling. Said pathological cases are only a matter of scale... if your program becomes large enough, you will hit them, eventually.

That said, with no offense intended to mirman, I'd really hesitate before using this for anything serious enough to reach that scale in the first place. Gevent, frankly, visibly pushes Python to the limits (and occasionally a bit beyond), trying to also tack on some preemption on an environment not fundamentally expecting it would scare me another notch.
GMAFB, you're just showing a personal hatred and stereotypical perspective, stop being so melodramatic. Incredible things have come from MBAs. You're being ignorant.
Is there evidence for this? Is there a better battery tech the entire industry should be using instead? Seems unlikely.
This is the best kind of startup - targeting an important problem whose current solutions are outdated and not very good.

There are LOTS of seniors already using such a product (usually ordered by their concerned family), and a low monthly fee is not an issue when your loved ones's life is at stake.

The existing solutions are basically a DECT cordless phone with a one-button 911 call. Marketing something like amulyte should be a slam-dunk. Of course you're not gonna sell "it has GPS and an accelerometer" - you market "it will notice when you fall, it will automatically call for help, even if should be unconscious, and even tell people where exactly you are".
As far as I understand, there are two major factors that will shorten the battery life considerably.

One is heat. This may not be avoidable depending on the computer usage. My mom "plays" Second Life (for english lessons) and her battery barely lasted two years - expanding to the point that the trackpad on her Macbook Pro was sticking out.

Another is leaving the computer plugged in all the time, which will top the battery - and apparently lithium batteries hate that.

Some electric cars have the option to only recharge the battery up to 80%, to increase the lifespan. Would it be possible to do the same with laptop batteries? Perhaps by patching the SMC?
Is that $200 ever six months in perpetuity or does it stop at some point?
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First, the burden of proof actually isn't on the people saying there's no correlation. It's on those saying that there's direct causation. Baseless claims should be treated as such until there's something more behind them than "well it just makes sense."

Secondly, there's a lot of sources at the bottom of this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-ur...
Assuming we're talking about lithium ion chemistry, The most significant thing that will impact the longevity of the battery is heat, and keeping the battery at a high level of charge generates it. In particular, if you're always plugged in and the charging system is keeping it at 100%, this will impact the longevity in a meaningful way.

Not sure about Macbooks, but my laptop has settings to control this. I typically have it setup to only start charging when the charge drops below 40% and to stop at 85%.

Some other points:

- It's preferable not to discharge fully. Very deep discharge can damage the battery, although all modern batteries have circuits to protect against this.

- For long term storage, ~40% charge is best. That's why new phones typically come charged at around this level.
Enjoyed it, more would be welcome, only if you have more time to give of course.

ps: especially on committing and layering.
Has anyone watched the movie ? I want to watch it but it has not been released in India :(
Ctrl+[ isn't an alias for escape, it is escape on traditional terminals (and a whole lot of terminal emulators). It's useful to know this when using a keyboard that lacks an escape key.
This was caused by government unintended consequences....

Some doctors graduated from med school with $100ks in loans.
So they immediately filed for bankruptcy and cleared the debt. After a few years of work they were back in the bucks and debt-free.

The loan industry had congress write some new laws (was it 2008 ish?). The package clamped down on debt-collectors calling at all hours. It also eliminated clearing college loans with BK.

The loan industry celebrated - nothing like sure bet! Indentured servitude - Yahoo! They started giving away loans like candy.

Then the schools noticed all the free-flowing money and joined the party.
"Government and colleges are not driving up college costs," government and colleges report.

That blog post, by the way, the source of the quote that Taibbi references in TFA. It's not even an op-ed, it's a guest post written on one individual WaPo blog.
I can't believe the egocentrism so many engineers demonstrate when talking about MBAs. It's like the popular kids vs the nerds in high school. It's...sad.
Why should the government decide what school is right for you?

On the flip side, perhaps the government should refuse to provide loans for programmes without accreditation from a professional organisation?
Unfortunately I have encountered the opposite. I have worked with plenty of folks who were good at learning and very poor at getting things done.

Furthermore, I think that constantly being praised during childhood for being smart did them harm as it made them underestimate the value of tenacity.
robots, and later nethack, served this purpose for me as a child... likely less effectively.
Its still dead then. You may have access to infrastructure to experiment on, but its on your time, not Google's.

You wind up investing personal time on company projects, with all of the usual ownership issues, thus no different than any other tech gig.
> Then people will stop lending students tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars...

Let's make your comment a little more accurate:

Then the federal government, which is responsible for ~85% of the student loan market, will have to stop lending students tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and there will be no end to the cries that millions of young Americans are being denied a college education by well-to-do politicians who are out-of-touch with the economic realities of the average American.
I categorically reject the notion that STEM does not teach critical thinking.

After all, STEM fields have a built in reality check for one's thoughts. If you design an airplane and it doesn't fly, you're forced to develop critical thinking skills so that doesn't happen again. Physical reality isn't going to bend to your thoughts.
To be honest, you sound brainwashed.
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>Some electric cars have the option to only recharge the battery up to 80%, to increase the lifespan. Would it be possible to do the same with laptop batteries? Perhaps by patching the SMC?

My laptop (X1 carbon) does this, I assumed most did. The Lenovo power manager let's you choose when to start charging and when to stop. I start below 40% and stop at 85%.
I've always kept my laptops plugged in whenever it's reasonable to do so and I get great life out of my batteries.

My 2008 T61 ThinkPad had 85-90% left when I sold it in 2010.

My 2010 15" MBP had nearly the same battery life after 2+ years as it did when it was new.

Here are the numbers from my current 2012 15" rMBP:

Age: 13 months

Cycles: 117

97% original capacity

And that's with 70+ hours a week of use.
You're confusing concurrency [1] and parallelism [2] -- this is addressed on the bullet point before the one you quoted.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrency_(computer_science)

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_computing
Well -- first thing is lets decouple your premise. You imply that all the technology you listed was designed with server side in mind. It wasn't: C#, Ruby and Java are general purpose languages not targeted at the server explicitly.

Second, if you don't think C++ gets complex (and has entirely different working models based on who is writing it) -- I recommend you use it more. C++ is a damn complex, deep, feature packed language. C++ server side frameworks exist (and are the fastest thing around: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) but they take massive amounts of effort versus some of the newer languages.

PHP took off because of shared hosting, wordpress and pragmatism. People who were inexperienced could (1) get access to it, (2) deploy it and (3) get things done.

ASP.net survives (most would argue it didn't really take off) because if you live in the MS toolchain, it is a very nice experience.
I think you are reducing this too much. It is not just a matter of whether I want email from a company or not. Just because I want email from them doesn't necessarily mean I _always_ want to read _everything_ they send me. Neither does it mean that I want to unsubscribe if they send me "too much," because "too much" is a function of how busy I am on a particular day, as well as how many unread emails I have that day. Having Gmail put these emails in their own tab means I don't have to explicitly add them all to a specific filter.
I'm not trying to be snarky, but your comment is off topic as well.. When does it end?
The best approach is to not worry. The battery is supposed to retain 80% capacity after 1000 charges, which should still be enough for decent battery life. The $200[1] cost to replace the battery is well worth it for two years of moderate to heavy use without worrying about wear.

[1] Estimate, no idea if this is accurate
There's a surprise. A grandiose documentary about some capitalist's life. Who cares. I refuse to watch it much like I did with the social network.
>Another is leaving the computer plugged in all the time, which will top the battery - and apparently lithium batteries hate that.

I thought modern batteries had mechanisms in place to prevent that?
Looks like a fairly concise roadmap to me. Doesn't take up that much space compared to many infographics.

While I myself would prefer a text summary, this is a fairly unobjectionable infographic.

And I bet you wouldn't mind as much if it was screenshots of a kanban board at different stages of roadmap ;-)
From the article's comments:

> We realize that SMS is inherently unsafe, so we use an automated phone call to you and ask you to confirm the transaction with a 6-digit pin. So in order for someone to drain your account, they would need to spoof an SMS message to Coinbase, intercept a voice call from Coinbase, and know your 6-digit pin. We do this if you try to send, buy, or sell bitcoins.
Someday you'll be carrying a box of personal effects out of the office crying and wondering why your god has forsaken you.
> smaller Clandestine organisations would by necessary [sic] concentrate more power in fewer hands

I think that "by necessity" is not true here. A smaller organization can not do as much as a larger organization. Ok, a handful of people could stage a coup. Then what? They still need bodies for tax collecting, law enforcement, jailers for the secret prisons, whatever. Those people need information to do their jobs, which increases the circle size, etc, and we're back where we started.

Assange's insight into clandestine organizations as information networks that can be disrupted is profound. You get the choice between large, effective, and open; or small, ineffective, and clandestine.
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I really like the tabs.

I have been opening promotions since they came out. Something I never did before. Made me discover Groupon.

I love to take a look at the promotion tab from time to time.
I don't see the unintended consequences: financial companies asked Congress to write a law for the express purpose of insulating those companies from risk and increasing their profits and the results were that (1) borrowers couldn't discharge debts in bankruptcy, making the financial services companies more money, and (2) increased profitability led to more loans, helping drive up tuition costs increasing the average loan amount and making the financial services companies even more money.

Doesn't seem to be unintended consequences at all.
Then don't activate the feature.
But do we trust them or the key exchange?

No probably not.
Isn't that sortof useless? I guess if your goal is "compliance" then ok, but managing your keys is also part of compliance and if you're not doing it...

"If you require encryption for your data, this functionality frees you from the hassle and risk of managing your own encryption and decryption keys."

So basically they automate key sharing with the NSA?