skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People exchange things that are worth less for things that are worth more. In such an exchange, both parties profit, always.

Someone puts gun to your head and tells you to cut off your left hand in exchange for him not pulling the trigger. Both parties benefit from such exchange. You get the rest of your life, and he gets his amusement. Wouldn't you agree that such exchange wouldn't be exactly just and free?

Let's assume that this trade is unfair even though you might see it as benefiting both parties in some way so unfair trades exist.
One might say that it would be illegal and all legal trades are free. But if law can so perfectly tell fair trade from unfair trade then why the law changes over time? And how do we know that now the law is perfect, not like it was 100 years ago or like it will be 100 years in the future?

My comments were serious, so I guess I'm idiot, at least from your point of view.
Can you point to data showing competitors that are doing it better? Seems like the battery life problem impacts everyone pretty equally, and the batteries being used inside Macbooks are pretty similar to those used by every other manufacturer.
Didn't I see this on the front page a minute ago? This is big stuff. Ignore at your own peril.
My house was secured, had a 5% interest rate, and the bank lost over $150K when I walked away from it. People still default their mortgages when they're as little underwater as $10-15K, yet, the interest rate on mortgages has not shot up. Go figure.
No kidding. Besides that, the people scheduling the appointment will probably want to schedule it from their calendar, not some third party app. The most valuable use case is determining when someone is available, not creating the appointment.
I would reframe #1 in terms of acceptable risk. If you're very risk-averse - for example, if you're raising a family and it is absolutely unacceptable to you to fail financially - then it's difficult to justify giving up the security of regular employment.
As a former python user, I wish this library had existed 18 months ago -- would have helped with some of the nasty cases you can get caught on with gevent.
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I'm working on a similar website called http://www.thrusong.com that's going to be opening up for beta in about three weeks.
Yes, you can specify which hours you are available.

Also, we are working on a duty calendar feature where you can create appointment slots.
I never understood what docker is or who is supposed to use it. Can somebody enlighten me?
Great points, both of which we have put much thought into:
i) our target customer is actually the daughter or daughter-in-law of the device user. They are almost always the ones who make decisions to get a system similar to Amulyte, and they are the ones that typically end up covering the cost for their elder relative.
ii) we considered coming out with an app, but after talking to a lot of industry experts we verified what we had suspected - seniors simply don't use smartphones. There definitely are some that do, but the majority of them do not. Even those who have one rarely use it (it isn't uncommon for them to turn it off when they aren't using it or leave it somewhere, unused, for extended periods of time). Getting the right form factor is an important implementation consideration, and a cell phone isn't suited for this user.
Use case: "Oh shit it's February 14th!"
I agree on #3. Solve the money problem, and you'll then lament about the sex problem.
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In the political world price is a feature, not a bug. You will not pass any proposal through congress that significantly lowers the price of a quality education, say through technology.

If the government is giving out $800 billion/yr, there are MANY people with the incentive to see that continue and grow.
C:\TAD\Text\PILGRIM.TXT

such things is most
profitable; for by so doing, a man may get knowledge of many things;
as of the vanity of earthly things, and the benefit of things above.
Thus, in general, but more particularly by this, a man may learn
the necessity of the new birth, the insufficiency of our works,
the need of Christ's righteousness, &c. Besides, by this a man
may learn, by talk, what it is to repent, to believe, to pray,
to suffer, or the like; by this also a man may learn what are the
great promises and cons
The thing about China and possibly several other countries on your list is that while college is cheap (or free), the number of students accepted are very low. So for example only the top 10% (or 1%) of high school students even get the option to go to college. So competition in high school is very fierce to get one of the college slots and not end up with a factory job.

(And I imagine money can be used to "open" a spot, but that won't appear in tuition summaries.)
Maximizing your battery's life is not remotely close to a science, but as a rule of thumb, discharge to 50% every couple of days then recharge.
When I'm sitting at home with my laptop plugged in for a long time, I usually just unplug the battery from the computer and set it next to the desk. Is this an ok idea?
Some distros/OSes ship with unmapped arrow keys and broken home/end in the terminal. This is seriously bad for your health.
As one of those defectors... it isn't so many options, it is that they all have piles of gotchas and corner cases that can take weeks (months!) to debug in complex environments.

Yes, you absolutely can use all your cores by combining multiprocess, gevent and custom C code. But, debugging that stack of a level of hell I will never return too, ever.
Well, we don't have dorm rooms in college, since the buildings are in the cities or very close to them. That dorm room situation is very weird to me, I don't really see the benefits.

But more to the point, the problem is pretty much the opposite of what you describe. Since money for education comes from taxes, education doesn't get nearly as much money as it does in the US. Some buildings are in a pretty lousy state, and teachers don't get paid much. The private sector sometimes invests in universities that will prepare people for the jobs they need, but even that is sometimes protested by the faculty and students since it can be seen as influencing in the curricula. Not to say it's all bad. We certainly could use more money, but we are still giving some of the best education this country offers, for free. In a lot of fields, the only reason to go to a private college is because it's easier to graduate.
Not successful yet on the Mac Terminal.app command line... Thanks anyway.
"Discover your Vim heroes and periodically check how they have set their editor up. A lot of people publish their dotfiles on GitHub."

Does this actually happen? How does one discover a "Vim hero"? If you guys have any, can you show some examples of who might be a candidate for a Vim hero please?
I don't know how Bloomthat works, but I'm a little suspicious of anything that offers pre-arranged bouquets without any consideration to which flowers are in season. San Franciscans who like flowers might like http://farmgirlflowers.com/ : locally farmed flowers with beautiful arrangements and home delivery.

(Disclaimer: I have no connection to Farmgirl beyond being a happy customer. I feel like every time I carry my bouquet home I end up gaining them another customer though because people always ask me where I found such nice flowers!)
I thought it was Debian... but point taken!
I just checked, for fun:

$ ls -lh .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 <me> <me> 10k Jul 26 13:31 .bashrc

Yep.

It's also remarkably fast because I took great effort to optimize the parts that happen the most. Shell is actually pretty fast if you don't fork and exec all the time...
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"Google's inbox is Good for the internet consumers"

Isn't that good enough?

Good luck finding a solution where everyone wins.
The battery is still used even if you leave your laptop plugged in -- it uses the extra juice when the system is under high load. I have used my 45-month-old MBP plugged in 99% of the time, and coconutBattery shows 97% capacity at 38 cycles.

Deep cycling only helps calibrate the battery charge indicator, but doing so will lower the battery's capacity simply because you're cycling it.
I think that's an over-simplification - "this issue" is not just about funding; it's also about costs. Ultimately costs have to come down - if costs come down, then so much of this is not an issue (or at least goes back to being what it was in the 80s and 90s).
They're rather waaay on my keyboard where my right hand is.

What I'm talking about is deliberate crippled default configurations.
I'd pay for something that could really make me stop procrastinating. Unfortunately, I still haven't found anything that works. Your idea won't work with me either. Along the years I've been mastering my skills on "paying for things I will never use", like a gym, for instance.
My problem with procrastination is that when I have a productive day, finishing big and hard tasks, I feel like I awarded myself with procrastination credits so I become useless for another extended period of time.
How do you even measure max capacity of the battery? Is it by keeping track of the current balance or is there some other direct physical way to do it?

Measuring once per minute seems like massive overkill for a property that changes on a timescale of months, but the interesting question to me is - does it do anything to the life of the battery?
I love the promotions tab.

OTOH, I hate it. IF Google could actually read my mind and know exactly what I do and don't want in "promotions" vs. "inbox" it might have some value. But they frequently mis-classify messages, at a rate that makes it useless to me.

And yeah, I know you can manually tune it, but that feels like more work than just doing what I do now - let everything go to my inbox.

shrug
>A smaller organization can not do as much as a larger organization.

See 'The Mythical Man Month', SpaceX vs other aerospace companies or the writings of R. V. Jones on the advantages of keeping intelligence agencies small.

>Ok, a handful of people could stage a coup. Then what?

I agree staging a coup is not the same as running a government. Not sure what you point here is.

>You get the choice between large, effective, and open; or small, ineffective, and clandestine.

The current choice is between: large, ineffective and semi-transparent or large, even more ineffective and semi-opaque. I agree with Assange on this.

The danger is that we could get small, effective and truly-opaque, but it is unlikely to happen due to political concerns.
Are they're people out there that replace their own MB(P|A)?
Is it possible? I know there are hacks out there to take apart and fix chargers (I did it myself).
Very good introduction to vim. I like using tabs as well as split windows, though so I do this instead with my motion shortcuts:

map <C-J> <C-w>w
map <C-K> <C-W>W
map <C-H> gT
map <C-L> gt
Obviously there are zero confounding variables in the late 1990's and this is a perfectly controlled experiment.
Great comment! I missed that.
As an employer I would be interested primarly about productivity, HOWEVER being introvertive does not help in team work. So it is something you have to work on.
Except that's really all it is. You might be fancy with your degree for a short period of time and land some interviews others might not, but it soon all goes out the window. The second you have some sort of industry experience, where you went to school and how you did there doesn't really matter.
>Now who's being a bit silly? :) If anyone could cite sources supporting such a strange position, presumably they would have by now.

There's nothing strange about that position. The Japanese derive enormous benefit from the US presence. We left the Philippines when the Philippine government asked us to do so, and we'd leave Japan under the same circumstances. Do you really think we'd go to war with Japan to maintain bases there? That's preposterous.

>As for the US, Okinawans want the US military off their land.

So what? Okinawa isn't an independent country.

>In any case, that's all besides the point. Even if your claims were 100% correct (and there's areas I agree with), the point still stands: "It's doing reasonably ok because we let it". You're arguing a point I haven't made.

We "let" Japan do things to the same extent we "let" other countries do things. The only real stick we have with the Japanese is the threat to leave and take our money and protection with us.
> "We will give you this much money. We will charge an annual interest rate of x%. Interest will not accrue until you graduate"

It's pretty much exactly like that, in most cases.

But I think an underlying issue is that many teenagers now enter college with no concept of money. Many haven't worked before and haven't paid their own bills (they can't deal with that as teenagers because they need to focus on getting into a good college). They don't understand how fast money spends and how slow it accrues. When they think of the salary they may earn after graduating, they don't account for the government shaving 20%-30% off the top. All of this knowledge comes later, with experience.

When you're 18, and the government starts mailing you $3,000 checks every semester, it feels like free money and it's hard to quit. It's not until four or five years later (well, better make that six or seven, because you'll need a master's degree to set yourself apart and land the job you really want) and you're $40,000+ in debt with interest accruing, that reality starts to set in. When the free money stops, and you need to pay your rent, car insurance, groceries, health insurance, loans, etc., etc., with your hard earned money, that's the first real dose of reality for many kids today.

Was it irresponsible of them? Yes. But it's not surprising, all things considered.
Indeed. It's a good thing there were no developers between 1970 and 2000, and all programs spontaneously arranged themselves via xkcd butterflies until monitors arrived that allowed for development.
I can attest to that: my Macbook white bought on October 2009 (that's 46 months folks) which I used every single day to this very day has 261 load cycles and 91% of original capacity.
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Yes, but it was an offer they couldn't refuse.

Not quite that simple - students have tons of choices. They could choose a school with a lower tuition. They could stay in-state so as to avoid the much more "out of state tuition". They could opt for a degree with a higher chance of getting a job. They could opt for a degree with a higher average salary. They could work full-time to pay off the loans while they go to school (as my wife did). They could live with their parents instead of paying rent/dorm.
Concurrent means at the same time. You can't have things happening concurrently but not at the same time.
It depends. Do you mind me asking, what is your background/profession? And have you deployed a virtual machine before to run an application?
Looks like the output of cloc
Food. Money. Desire to fit in.

I beg to differ. Those are all part of sex and death.

Without food I will wither away until I die. Without tasty food I will feel like I'm in a living death.

Money buys power (consumer power, or what have you) and with that grants you the possibility to expand your genetic profile, just like sex. And the desire to fit in is in the same realm as sex, because we want people to find us desirable so that we can potentially become a mate. I'm stretching and only using male-female desire here, but it's not a great leap to see how male-male desire (not sexual) is just a form of males wanting to become alpha- rather than beta-male to increase attractiveness.
> I believe the elite will work hard to prevent it, by introducing some kind of wealth/capital tax that will redistribute wealth to the not-haves.

You are an optimist then. I think more popular sentiment seem to be rather that elite will use its advantage to develop surveillance, law and prison system to detain whoever opposes them. After all they had one communist revolution to learn such things have to be actively mitigated.

You might argue that keeping poor in prison is a way of providing for them. And since less and less criminal people will go there it might some day become some sort support center for homeless/jobless.
How Effective is Sharing Picture or Video compared to Text updates.
Nice!

Why aren't the resources tagged "ruby on rails" also tagged "rails" and "RoR"? People will try searches on various tags, not just the first tag you thought of. Maybe you allow users to tag the content, but maybe I arrive at the site just wanting to search and find what I searched for.
It's no excuse, but I see a reason for this: most people feel they understand these irrelevant topics better than they understand the scalability features of the infrastructure Reddit has built. People talk about their comfort zone.
Ironically I added this to my sea of bookmarks =(
In our solar system? Yes, it's just 7 billion of us, some animals, and one green/blue rock.

In our galaxy? Maybe. There is definitely potential for there to be alien life, it's just a long way away. Then there is always the possibility that we are the first intelligent civilizations in the Milky Way galaxy.

In the universe? Odds are that there are millions of other intelligent civilizations. The speed of light and the amount of distance to cover is a big reason why they probably haven't visited us and we will probably never visit them.
All real bubbles are silent. Just because everyone screams "bubble" at any growth curve, does not mean that anybody knows for sure when it is going to burst.

Eventually most growth curves falter or crash every so often. Then the same people will say "Ha! I knew it was a bubble for the last ten years!"
Thanks. That still kind of validates the impression I had that hyperventilating wasn't an irrational thing for him to be doing, but it's a very different thing.

The interesting thing is that Arthur C. Clarke was a very experienced scuba diver and still had a problem with the scene. Ah well.

It's one of my favorite action scenes in any science fiction film. The interesting thing is that the trick just relied on good photography, piano wire and dropping Keir Dullea. It's easy to imagine how a present-day director would mess that scene up with CGI effects, slow-motion, stuntmen, and so on.
And if you're one of those skeptics that thinks "but I sometimes use caps lock to type C_STYLE_CONSTANTS, and I need it!", there's a wonderful thing I call two-shift caps lock: you press both shift keys at the same time, and it toggles caps lock. Now you have your Shift keys, and your caps lock, and a key that really truly has no purpose. Now go forth into the world, and remap thy keyboard.

In GNOME: System → Preferences → Keyboard; Layouts; Options; Miscellaneous compatibility options → "Both Shift-Keys together toggle Caps Lock"
(You can also remap Caps Lock in this same dialog, so the change isn't just for Vim. It's under "Caps Lock key behavior". Also, having a compose key is awesome.)
Does it teach empathy, teach a way to see others as we see ourselves and imagine other people complexly?
Haha, that gave me a good laugh :)
My summary from reading several reviews is that it's not high art, but it would be fine for a TV movie. It actually sounds like the criticisms are very similar to those for the Isaacson Jobs bio: serviceable but not insightful.

I'm not paying theater prices for it, but I'll probably see it on DVD.
Great read. But I honestly had to read it while awkwardly covering up parts of my browser window. Some of those large animated GIFs are super distracting.
Docker is a way to bundle an application inside a filesystem and then run the application inside of an LXC container.

Containers are an isolation mechanism. They aren't virtual machines. More of a distant cousin to chroot or a jail.

The target audiences are developers and operations. It's a packaging/deployment tool.
Are the tags user created? One thing I've learned through experience is user created tags are almost universally useless (this is especially true when the service gets popular, and people start adding completely false tags to content, in hopes of garnering more attention).
Recent: a news app with personalized recommendations
NSA To Open Big Data Lab At NC State University
Mac OS X makes the stats available directly from the battery.
Show HN: A nice Bitcoin price ticker for OS X, my first OS X app
That is interesting and I'm getting back late on this.

But after mentally parsing that, it seems all this is doing separating blocks. What one would want to also do is to also scan operators, if one was evaluating code or transforming it into an abstract syntax tree.
I enjoy Bukowski's work.

But the insights he shares in this letter are tempered by the fact that he didn't quit his job at the Post Office until after a would-be patron "employed" him to write.

Still... Some people never go crazy...
In latin languages, "marketing" and "propaganda" are used interchangeably.
Thanks natch.

I feel it somewhat makes it harder to find things that way because it fragments things too much. It is tricky for some things, but it's kind of like stack overflow.. 90% of the time you're right. For the remaining 10% you can use the regular text search vs tag search.
How do you prove this to Apple? I have a 1year old MBA that is definitely not getting anywhere near 3 hours on battery, let alone the 7 they advertise.
Yes, I have. A few months ago in a meet up in Europe. I didn't know anyone and I thought that it could be a nice way to break the ice as this is the way I naturally behave, I mean offering to help people out.

What I've got as feedback went from weird looks to passive-aggressive responses. I was as disappointed as I was shocked. Why were these people reacting so rudely to an honest selfless offer?

A few hours later hanging out with totally different people at another pub I've got way better output out of this behavior.

My conclusion was that in this business people are so used to harsh conditions that they aren't even able to acknowledge that something good is being given out of nowhere.

Anyhow just don't. Or, at least do what the OP did, talk to the person around an hour before making the offer. Because anything less than that is a guaranteed way to get weird responses.
They're not entirely user created. You need a certain score to add new tags, and by that point you have gotten the feel of Pineapple where I'd trust that user to add new tags. I also moderate all new ones that are added, and update tags for all new resources added. I also delete redundant tags, etc.
I'm very well aware of who wrote it. That's why I didn't tell you to read the blog. I told you to look at the sources.

I have no idea who's to blame. I think part of it is institutions adding several layers of bureaucracy is one part. Institutions expanding resources is another (justifiable) increase in cost. Most importantly, a simple increase in demand: Students need to do something to give them an edge in the job market. The safest way to do that is still, by far, to go to college. Just because it's less safe than it used to be doesn't mean it's more irresponsible than, say, dropping out and hoping you're Zuckerberg/Gates/Jobs 2.0
loving that some mod changed the headline from "A cheaper alternative to Soylent?" to "Nutraloaf", thereby removing the satire - wouldn't want to offend our investor overlords.

of course, there's no record of the edit, & my name is still attached to the article. nice to see Paul Graham's as ethical & self-aware as ever.