skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe Apple charges $199 for a battery replacement, which is definitely not cheap, but might be worth it if you were still happy with the rest of the machine. I'm not sure how long it takes them to do it, though. I'd expect they'd continue to offer that service for quite a few years to come.

As other posters have mentioned, it seems to me like the glued-in batteries don't rapidly decline like the old ones did. I don't have any numbers, though, just impressions.
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I don't think adsense has done very well. Does Go generate revenue?
That was beautiful, thanks. My favorite was MLK's about being a street sweeper.
Kicking in doors: something you'd totally never see in a repressive political ideology.
California is so large it has many great public schools, but other states like Virginia (UVA and William & Mary) have public schools that rival the best in California, and most large states have an elite public school (Texas, Michigan, UNC, Georgia Tech, etc etc) that would be top tier in California. To some degree, California's support for its universities has slipped and the reputation is based on the past.
Fedora seems to cling to the optical media model, where everything
low-level is packaged as a CD or DVD image - installs, spins, and
so forth. Bloat tends to accumulate to fill up to media sizes,
and it is as if USB drives and networks did not exist.

I'd be delighted to be able to copy a small image to a USB thumb
drive, boot from it, install a very minimal Fedora OS - not even
including @Base and @Core by default - basically grub2, kernel,
console, and just enough tool-chain to support the yum package
manager, then 'yum install' some short lists of packages.

Then all of these spins, rings, bubbles, and similar jargon could
just be lists of top-level packages (with dependencies implied, not
explicitly listed) to feed to 'yum install'.

The real 'core' of the OS supports whatever the packagers tend
to require, the package/dependency engines become critical
to all of the flavors, spins, rings, jargon-du-jour, and
the users get to have just what they want installed and no more.

No CD or DVD images, less bloat, and and an opportunity for packages
to compete on footprint (Foo has 13% fewer dependencies than Bar,
Baz installs in half the space of Zap).

And Goldilocks and the 3 Bears lived happily ever after :-)
Is it available in New York City?
As a user of RethinkDB in my new apps and also the author of a RethinkDB driver, I have to say that the query language is the absolute best I've worked with. I've been working with databases and writing queries for over 8 years now and ReQL is my favorite.

Being able to compose queries in a language-native way is really effective but also powerful in that you are essentially running programs on the database that it understands enough to optimize and distribute amongst its fellow servers. Not only that, you really can marry your code with the forms you send to the database, making it easy to compose queries that are built from conditionals from local variables.

Also because of the expressiveness, there are almost no places where I ever run two queries when selecting data. For instance in Mongo, I always used to do "get X. If X is this, then get Y, otherwise get Z." Now all that logic can be shipped off to the database (without having to build some huge SQL string) and when I get an answer back, it's the one I want.

Great query language, great database, great team.
It's not an LXC limitation, but seeing as this case hasn't gotten the love it involves jimmying things all over the place.

https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/wiki/Docker-in-Docker
There were plenty of balanced articles about the faults of the student loan system. Nobody noticed, and now student loan debt has grown to be the largest source of consumer debt, even with the ease of obtaining credit cards, mortgages, and car loans.
When I first installed Woody, I didn't know that you could "apt-get" from the net. I don't remember ever using any of the CDs but 1, but I still have all seven for nostalgic purposes :3
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Is your startup co-founder a jerk?
You're basically saying let's ask people not to accept free money that's being thrown at them. That's not impossible, but I think restricting bad loans is more compatible with human nature.
I have no experience with this kind of stuff for Windows, but I really hope somebody wiser than I can do it easily. I assume there must be an equivalent to cron in win8?
One thing I missed in fish was bash's sudo !! to quickly re-execute a command.

A replacement is easy enough though and is in my config here:
https://github.com/dmotz/dotfiles/blob/master/functions/sudo...

Beyond a few other syntax incompatibilities, I've enjoyed using it.
Single tasking is the new multitasking.
The misogyny and bigotry are what really get to me here. Not only does he explicitly call SF women unattractive bitches, he makes a point to use the metaphor of PMS to describe the weather. Unnecessary, much? Of course, he goes on to describe the "transvestite to taxi ratio" as "literally off the charts."

He also describes the Tenderloin as though the Bronx "took a shit all over Manhattan." Keep that shih-t out of Peter's backyard, folks, where it belongs. Peter Shih doesn't go to the Bronx. The Bronx is dirty. There are poor people there. Peter Shih is not poor. He is rich. He is clean.

So he's too good for our women, our trannies, and our poor people? What kind of argument can you make against this other than "You are a disgustingly bad person?"
Yes, I'd agree that both solve the "large dev teams looking to build native browser-based apps". But I think the difference is that Flex was reasonably good at it, but was very effectively sold into the enterprise by Adobe. Hence it did well in the enterprise, but not great outside.

By contrast, AngularJs is not being sold into the enterprise by anyone (yet?), and is, IMO, better at solving those problems.

Hence my prediction: unlike Flex, AngularJS will gain market share in single-page-apps outside the firewall, as well as inside the firewall.
IMHO, the pain of being handed code is related to its "magic". The more magic, clever, interesting contortions that are present, the less likely you are to get grips on it in any sensible time. Ruby & Rails give lots of tools to create insanely hard to unwind stacks, but I am not sure they are worse than Django & Python (custom loader [importer], decorators everywhere)...

The real bitter pill is that these systems are created with the best of intentions, to make them more maintainable, more DRY, more configurable, more portable... but they generally miss the mark and cause pain for all involved.
> Well, it take likes 5 seconds in the System Preferences

Why do you think you'd be allowed to?

> I think Apple Engineers smart enough to think out something, after all, we pay a premium amount of money for those devices, and shouldn't be handed over a crippled keyboard.

Usable design is hardly what Apple focuses on.
The OP is my co-founder ... but I don't think he is talking about me. I will need make a point to ask him how he is feeling more frequently though.
> The real utility comes when people can actually schedule something on your calendar without your help.

Sounds like a nightmare.
Reminds me of BT Tower in London, built in the 60s. Despite being quite a tall and recognisable structure that obviously exists, it was considered an official secret and didn't appear on any maps until the mid-90s.
I'm glad you made this comment. It's disheartening that so many people in this community lash out at MBAs like they're viral scum. Stereotyping never solves anything.
In your .vimrc, insert at the top:

set shell=/bin/sh

No more problems with plugins in fish.
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Haha, that's awesome. I'm guessing you were 30 mins late pretty often then? :) I never had the capacity to learn all the key combo's, I do remember hearing about competitions to find the fastest texter, going with somwthing like 100 words a minute or something.

I had Sony Ericssons, Motorolas but the Nokia interface worked best for me (I had my Nokia N95 for a LONG time, 4 or 5 years). I found it came down to whatever you were used to, since the placement of the keys and combos were different (for things like commas, apostrophies etc) between the different brands.
I actually did some (simplistic) examples of this in a small presentation to illustrate the performance improvements of batching memcached requests, if anyone's interested: https://speakerdeck.com/robotmay/a-simple-introduction-to-ef... (slides 11 to 14)
> putting his politics in front of his art means some won't make it to his art.

And a lot of artists are 100% ok with that. Mr Stross seems to be among them. Last time I heard that sentiment expressed was recently - a folk band who mentioned that they just weren't interested in playing a paying gig for a British National Party member.

To me it feels like personal integrity. But then I'm in broad agreement with Mr Stross' political views (and the folk band too) so it's not much of a challenge. I wouldn't want to be a fan of a far-right artist anyway.
University education in China is not free, they have tuition costs as well.
I also like nerdtree when I'm browsing a codebase I'm not familiar with. It's a really nice, easy way to drill down into subfolders without having to do `:e ab[tab]d[tab] ...`

It makes exploring the unfamiliar a lot easier, especially in larger projects, as you mentioned.
> 2. I stated that in this case I thought the emotional abuse Bukowski's fiance inflicted on Bukowski was worse than the physical abuse he inflicted on her. That's my opinion. I think the way that she casually taunted him with her infidelity is _serious_ abuse. The kick is also terribly abusive.

How exactly is being honest about not wanting and not committing to a monogamous relationship on an equal playing field as getting hit? Moreover, even if you considered that verbally and/or emotionally abusive, that in no way justifies hitting someone.

> I don't know if Bukowski went on to be a serial abuser or not, but that's not relevant to what happened in the video, which is the subject of this discussion.

If Bukowski was a serial abuser, it is most certainly 100% relevant to the video in question. Domestic abuse isn't about a single incident, its about a continuum of behavior and events.

> You say: "I don't know if you yourself has been in an abuse relationship or know anyone that has been" - the answer is yes. I don't know if you've ever been cheated on by someone you're in love with.

I have, but hitting someone and being cheated on are not even remotely on the same playing field. In fact, it is a common tactic for abusers to accuse or blame partners for the abuse by insinuating or referring to actual past instances of cheating.
There are studies about the lifetime value of various college degrees, so it should be possible to limit loans to some fraction of that.
I like this idea. The flower delivery market has plenty of players, but also plenty of room for disruption.

I can't think of a time when I've needed flowers in the next 90 minutes, but if you want flowers even in the next week, you tend to get gouged by e.g. 1800 Flowers, so it's nice to see a new offering there.

If/when they try to spread to a new city, I wonder if the community will welcome them, or the establish ed competition will work against them?
No true Scotsman would do such a thing.
When can we get this in Chicago?
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Whatever happened to personal responsibility? You're 18, you can smoke, drive, join the army and take out gigantic loans you can't repay. It's a fine line between making it easy for everyone to go to college and making it easy for a mathematically disinclined person to take out a huge loan for a dumb reason.

It would be great for everyone to have the chance to go to some college. For some reason, people seem to immediately want to get the Porsche experience when they should be opting for the Honda. So should the government step in to say "hey you can't afford to go to X school because it's too expensive", or should the government allow people to take the risk? Should more be done to push people into in-state schools, where tuition is often orders of magnitude cheaper?

The people in the article bemoan how easy it is to just sign these documents. Whose fault is that? They didn't read what they're signing for? Isn't that their own damn fault? Couldn't you say the same about stupid car loans? Stupid short-term loans? No one forced them to go to college, especially not one that leaves them $40k in debt.

In my opinion, too much has been made of the "follow your dreams and let the rest sort itself out" is a big reason for this. Sometimes you have to weigh following your dreams and figure out if that's your life-long dream or just "hey that sounds like fun". Just because you get accepted to a great school doesn't mean you can afford it or should go there.
How long do you have to be at a company to understand how things work in it?

(That's a trick question, since the answer is going to depend on the person's intelligence and ability to make observations.)

Also, a ton of long-time Googlers agree with the stuff he says. It's not like he's some lone dissenting voice.
This was released under GPLv2, so it may not even require that (iirc2).
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imo very conscious decision on part of Apple (and PC makers) to provide short battery half lives, rather than spending more money to deal with the size and heat/cooling constraints of laptops, especially the thin lightweight variety.

not only saves them money short term, but helps push users to new versions before they really need to jump...
I just want a smartphone that I can use with one hand :(

Not sure what it is about all Android phones now being the size of a house!
> It was very smart of him to get out front of the story. Now if the Feds go after him, he's the businessman taking a principled stand.

This has been my argument with Snowden, too. It's damning that people have to raise a huge fuss in the media by deep-sixing themselves before the government gets to spin their story in order to not get railroaded.
Exactly. It amazes me how many people seem to believe that the solution to the student loan debt problem is to allow for discharge in bankruptcy.

Not only will this necessarily force lenders to increase the cost of these loans to borrowers, a lot of folks apparently don't understand that the biggest lender in this market is the federal government. Of the more than $1 trillion in student loans outstanding, about 85% have been provided by the federal government. Just over one in five federal student loans is already in default or delayed default. If the law is changed to permit discharge of these loans in bankruptcy, Student Loan Debt will become Mortgage Market 2.0.
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At this point, damn near everything should be hosted on non-US repositories.
Apple batteries cost no more than competitors' batteries, and that includes getting them exchanged. Sure, it's annoying you can't do it yourself, but that's about the extent of the downside.

Of course you cannot get third party batteries … but surely no one would get those for laptops amyway. (Well, some batteries are not yet glued in, so those can easily be replaced. But i don't think getting third party batteries is very wise.)
Here's the thing I don't get, the integration of Now is clearly high, higher than a random Android OEM is going to get from Google. So why do they keep pretending that Motorola doesn't have unique/special value by virtue of their closeness within Google.
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function mkcd () { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1" }
Transit directions on Maps started as a 20% project.
One other possibility; does the "battery health" metric actually mean the same thing it did four years ago? My 2012 MBA is showing 92% capacity, and seems to last about as long as it did when new. My 2007 MBP shows ~70% capacity, and lasts about an hour; it lasted about four hours when new. I'm not convinced it's that meaningful a metric.
Why would I give my time for free to Google?

Because my entire career- well before I started working here- has been dependent on things that Google has given to me for free.

Like Google Search. Search helped me learn to run linux clusters effectively (it was far better than AltaVista for searching for specific error messages) which ensured I had a job, even in the dotcom busts. It helped me learn python, which also played a huge role in my future employment.

Like Gmail. Although I've run my own highly available mail services in the past, free Gmail with its initial large quotas hooked me early on. I have never regretted handing the responsibility for email over to Gmail.

Like Exacycle (my project): http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2012/12/millions-of-core-...
in which Google donated 1B CPU hours to 5 visiting faculty (who got to keep the intellectual property they generated).

I would like to repay Google for their extreme generosity. Spending my "Free" time doing things I enjoy (building large, complex distributed computing systems that manage insane amounts of resources) so that Google can make products that it profits from seems perfectly reasonable to me.

If I had continued to work in academia, I'd spend most of my time applying for grants, writing papers, and working 150% time just to maintain basic status and get tenure. Anybody working in the highly competitive sciences, or in the tech industry, who wants to be successful, has to put in more than what most people consider a 9-5 job.

As for open sourcing: Google has a nice program to ensure that Googlers can write open source code. I haven't taken advantage of it, because most of my codes are internally facing and don't need to be open sourced. But I would certainly consider using my time to do that; I just think my time is best spent working on Google products because I believe their impact will be much higher.
I wonder if using your laptop plugged in at your desk 90% of the time, but carrying it around to use in meetings the other 10%, is as good as their "ideal use."
But credit card debt can be discharged; why not student loan debt? The inability to discharge it is relatively recent, I believe - a compromise reached when the private banks were pulled out of the federal student loan loop. Also, if they could only be discharged during bankruptcy - as was the case before - there would be no concern about it becoming a rite of passage.
the clientele must spend their own money to receive medical services

The flaw / issue with this, is that sick people are in no position to negotiate. People that are sick are desperate for the drugs. People that are not sick dont really need them. that is ill suited to the simplification required of econ 101. In econ 101 you want the price to converge to the marginal cost of supply, not converging to the marginal amount of residual equity / net worth of the patient's bank account (that's the hold up problem: give me all your money or you die). Imagine if you had to negotiate the price of a fire-department visit with your house burnging? Its just not a service that is ever going to fit the framework (in particular, the behaviour assumption of non-opportunim) of the typical econ 101 course.

That being said, I agree with your analysis of the insurance model when applied to "scheduled maintenance" type services. Opaque pricing and a culture of witholding service is particulary innappropriate here. Assuming that chronic and life-threatening services are another matter, that still leaves the issue of everything in-between. The issue there is that there are life-style type elective surgeries and treatments that some may want access too (the rich) but not be willing to subsidze for others (the poor). So there is a basic triage of the types of health care, and they all need to be thought through from a sociological perspective as well as just an economic and medical/technical one.
Sorry, I must have wrong information :( .

I'm 100% sure we don't have tuition here in Uruguay, and poorer students get state help.

However, five years after you graduate, you have to pay a mandatory special "university graduate tax" called "Fondo de Solidaridad" which helps pay for the poorer students, etc., so I guess it is a form of debt :) .

It's about U$ 200 every six months currently.
Love it, I hadn't seen it yet. I've been trying to handle links to tutorials, links I find while reading tutorials, resources that might be useful later when I'm already familiar with what I'm trying to learn, and it was clumsy. Tried Delicious, Kippt etc, but a focused service is much better—and more likely to have good links from other users.

Already found some interesting tutorials and posts while searching for something I intend to start learning this month. Thank you.

Addendum: a problem I've found while trying to find good learning material is that of the unknown unknowns (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns): when you're starting out, you don't know what you have to learn yet. Maybe guides that tell you what you have to learn, in what order... A way of letting the user organize tutorials that lets the user "patch" holes in their knowledge by adding other tutorials, or revisiting some tutorials... Well, this is beyond the scope of Pineapple, but it's an interesting problem to think about.
That's from the six-part series Moon Machines. It's a great look at the research and scientific work that went into the Apollo lunar program, and the focus is on the men and women behind the scenes, rather than the astronauts and other people at NASA. Well worth watching if the lunar program is a subject of interest.

http://www.amazon.com/Moon-Machines-Robert-Seamans/dp/B0026I...
The guy who taught me accounting used to be a car salesman. He told me that car lots don't make much selling cars, they make their bread by selling financing. And they do it to people who simply cannot understand the numbers.

It gets worse. He'd patiently explain the numbers to the customer, and they'd still sign up for the most expensive option. (They were motivated by the monthly payment amount - the term or the interest rate simply meant nothing to them.)

Being math challenged has severely negative consequences for ones' financial prospects.
For me... the part that broke my brain was when he cited Ruby / Rails as something that is low on accidental complexity.
Not reflecting on this case specifically, but if six months isn't long enough for a new employee to generally understand how a company works, it would seem to suggest something's wrong with the company's culture, or at least with how people are brought on board. Six months is a long time in an industry where people change jobs every two years.
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Welcome to the internet. You seem new.

Everyone goes to Google.com to search for things. You know that when you do a search, you're going to see helpful related adverts.

That level of conflict of interests and possible abuse, privacy concerns etc, means that the entire world uses google as their search engine.
Oh and they make billions in profit.

Your hypothesis about an advertiser asking wikipedia to alter content surely applies to google search results.
I use zsh and for this use case I typically use "mkdir foo" followed by "cd $!".
> I can't think of a time when I've needed flowers in the next 90 minutes, but if you want flowers even in the next week, you tend to get gouged...

Exactly. I can't think of a time when I've needed flowers in 90 minutes, but I can think of a half a dozen times when I've wanted them same day, and at least a dozen or more when I've wanted them next day without paying a gigantic surcharge.