skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick link into the introductory documentation: http://code.google.com/p/textfsm/wiki/TextFSMHowto — one specifies a state machine in a text template file that can include regexes and has a simple "->" syntax for state transitions.
> MBA has four.

Yeah? I haven't looked at one in person for ages, and don't see any at all in the Apple site pictures, so I'm guessing that you just tap the trackpad? But what if you want to right click to do something, or middle click to paste some text?
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I recently switched from a MacBook Air 13" to a Lenovo X220 12,1" (Intel i5, 4 gig RAM). I bought it used and it was in perfect shape and without any scratches.

I paid ~490€ + 80€ for an SSD and a additional 70€ for an additional 9 cell battery.

The 9 cell battery gives me around 10 hours of battery life with normal usage and up to 12 hours with very little usage (mostly Terminal/SSH). But i still own the old 6 cell battery: around 5 hours on top (sure, you need to reboot, but it's still pretty cool).

The only downside is the display resolution (1366x768), but 90% of my day is using the Terminal, so not a big problem for me. If you need more screen estate, you can still hook it up to a monitor via Display Port.

I'm running Linux on it, and everything works perfectly, no drivers problems or anything.

If you're not really depending on OS X, maybe a used Lenovo X220/X230 would be an alternative.

For Hardware Specs -> ThinkWiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X220
I would imagine you get a pretty good workout - at least aerobic - from your kayaking.
Amazing :) you should have a look at our credits page https://www.cvsintellect.com/public/page/credits on what we used to build this tool. You can ask for any further information which we will try our best to provide them! :)
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Data locality is not about seek times on disk, it's about network transfer times between different nodes! Linear horizontal scalability often needs sharding of data, and with a document store like MongoDB, you can easily shard a complex denormalized document.

Now, if I have this complex document normalized into several tables, how am I going to easily shard several tables, all such that I can execute successful joins that only need to execute on one leaf node? What if I start reusing a small piece of data in one of these normalized tables? I might be forced to go between network nodes to get this data.

Normalization is like premature optimization. I can take any program and modify it such that every piece executes optimally fast, but I am likely to compromise on clarity or to add complexity while doing such a refactoring. In the end, it probably got me no real-world performance boost that mattered. 80/20% rule and all.

Same thing with normalization: automatically making all my data fully normalized from the start is a like a bad premature optimization habit that we are forced into with relational databases out of A) sheer habit and school teachings, B) lack of easy support for nested structured data.
Regardless of the quality of their hardware, would you support a company that doesn't pay taxes, that's turning their OS more and more into a cage, that lets their hardware be assembled in factories where employees work in harsh circumstances, etc?

In other words: Is a good product more important than ethics?
I am really glad this happened and hope other countries takes this as example.
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So I can sit in a more comfortable chair with the thing on my lap or lap desk. I like having my Tempurpedic adjustable bed up in a comfortable sitting position with my Sager, holy-cow-that's-big-with-terrible-battery-life-but-great-specs laptop as I type listening to Pandora.
[copied from above comment] Certainly not. You can be assured of that! We have a try without sign-up just for the people who dont want to spend time in sign-ups / dont trust us enough. Its just that when we want to contact you for a genuine reason say send a mailer about a new template thats available we want that to reach you, specially since we spend on the emails being sent!
One thing not to overlook is the convenience of just taking any apple product to an apple store if you have problems.
Care to expand on how Mac OS is a joke?
seems to be the key point missing in all of this, exercising with a biomechanically screwed body = more problems. Though I certainly agree most just need to get off their butt and do something, I've had 7years of hip issues because my body essentially cheats deep hip flexion and I need to re-learn the correct way.
Not so fast. Spin doctoring is no substitute for substance.

As Caesar used to say, "fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt" (people are ready to believe what they want to be the case).

The fact of the matter is that New Zealand has passed a law with some restrictive language, but this is far from abolition. Broad swaths of software patents can still be granted.

Here's my more detailed take on it:
http://www.fosspatents.com/2013/08/new-zealand-parliament-ad...

And this is what a publication read by patent lawyers says:
http://www.iam-magazine.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=96d4aeaf-dedf...
The real test of this will be if software companies flood to New Zealand to tinker to their hearts content without fear of litigation...
or if they flee NZ for fear of invalidating any patents they could have brought on their upcoming software.

I'd like to be able to say it will be the former, but I bet corporate lawyers will be pushing for the latter (if only out of a sense of self-preservation).
How about this:

An ultrabook (Asus? Dell? Lenovo?) + Tablet(Ipad? Nexus?) + Powerful Desktop (Dell Vostro? Mac Mini?)

You see, it's psychology - Everyone prefers 3 candies for 12$ to 1 candy for 10$.
Couldn't agree more with the standing desks - no doubt they bring some improvement, but they do seem more like the 'in-thing' and 'hip' rather than genuinely life changing. As it always has been, regular (even if short) exercise sessions are a key part in healthy living.
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Go find another machine with the same specs then subtract the cost from the air. If you'd pay that much for OS X then by all means get the MacBook Air. I personally like developing in Ubuntu more compared to OS X and Windows so I just use Windows with a virtualbox. This way I get the best of both worlds.
Have you looked at Lenovo's Thinkpad X1 Carbon? I bought a Lenovo last year that I'm happy with - decent build quality, solid keyboard. Maybe not as good build quality as a Mac but near to it.
Where are these other magical brands that don't use factories in China?
I'm a pretty heavy Linux user and I constantly oscillate between Desktop Windows + Linux VM, and a Macbook Pro/Air.

Even though I feel Mac laptops are very overpriced, I keep coming back to them. Some of the benefits you get are an intensely integrated experience, along with dev tools that work very well, with a lot of support for whatever kind of work you might be doing (lots of SO questions, etc.).

I've come to the conclusion that I just get more done more quickly on a Mac. And my Air is probably the best laptop I've ever used. Light enough to carry around, fast enough for any kind of development work, and very sturdy. You'll love it, and completely forget the price tag.

One piece of advice though: Get a personal articles insurance policy. State Farm (and maybe others) offer this special policy specifically for laptops, and they will replace or pay for your machine to get repaid for any damage, including water spillage. I spilled water on an Air last year and that machine is essentially a wash now: too old to fix, and too broken to sell. Don't make the same mistake.

EDIT: Thanks for the downvote :|
It really matters most what those "things" that are 25% faster are. I don't have Mountain Lion, but if it's a general speed up on the entire system I'd say it might be worth it.

Maybe go to a store and try a demo? Might make it more obvious what, if any, difference the upgrade will make for non-resource intensive tasks.
Usually it's not too much weight, but the wrong posture/trajectory of the exercise that causes injuries.
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Oh cause nobody else uses Foxconn. Certainly not Dell or any other computer seller.
Sure. But what I don't understand about the spam video responses meme in this thread is that the video owner can currently choose to automatically accept video responses or not.
This is a great idea but I question the process in the example - should they not be capturing the lines and then dividing into areas rather than trying to draw areas instantly (the areas being inside the line with random width spaces between)? Also - a good process to capture the information will probably vary significantly from map to map.
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That's a good reason to have an administrative assistant, right? In fact there;s no reason why departmental administrative assistants can't take on HR roles, is there?
I actually find that better as I'm forever hitting F1 instead of Esc in vim.
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I'm glad this happened. For things like copyright, I thought there were international conventions - countries that were lax were hounded by others diplomatically. Is this not the case for patents?
From my reading of the rules, you are limited to broadcasting +36 dBm EIRP (30 dBm [1W] into a 6 dBi antenna -> 4W EIRP). This can be a single frequency. In the 900 MHz band, your bandwidth is limited to 902-928 MHz (US limitations, different in other global regions).

You can happily beam out a 915 MHz single-tone CW carrier at +36dBm EIRP all day and that is fine.

The reason your gen2 reader is frequency hopping is not FCC mandated but protocol mandated. The UHF RFID gen2 tags have a high manufacturing variation and the RF frequency response varies greatly between tags. Some tags may be resonant closer to 902 MHz and some tags may be resonant closer to 928 MHz. Hopping over various frequencies allows the reader to address all tags in its view.

The only reason the readers are "required" to do hopping is to conform to the gen 2 protocol. In fact, from what I remember you can use the LLRP (low-level reader protocol) to stuff the frequency hopping table with a single frequency so that it will stop frequency hopping.

(My PhD was on high-data rate (up to 100 Mbps) rfid/backscatter communication.)
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+1 for this project. It helped me get my first tech job.
I'd also recommend a good Lenovo. They are still fairly amazing computers, maybe not the quality of their old black ones, but still excellent.
I don't think this is a company I would continue to work for if I was in your shoes. At some point the strong suggestions from technical advisers and common sense should out weigh their one size fits all test.
They say they've adopted UK case law, which they claim is more restrictive than the overall European practice, but even under UK rules, hundreds of thousands of European software patents are valid. HTC challenged four Apple software patents and claimed in each case that the invention was not patentable because it was a computer program "as such" (today's New Zealand bill also excludes only patents on programs "as such"), and succeeded on only one of them, and even that one was overturned on appeal.

For further detail see the link in my first post to this thread in which I warn people against believing what they hope to be the case just because it makes them feel good, no matter how wrong it may be.
regarding the first link:

"When combined with a lack of physical activity, the association was even stronger. Women and men who both sat more and were less physically active were 94 percent and 48 percent more likely to die during the study period"

Compared to 37% and 18% when they did workout.

I would call that a pretty significant improvement, and a stupid conclusion. Did you read the article?
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I wonder if they ever considered hub motors for better efficiency and quieter operation (no belt), or would it be too big technical challenge to custom-build (basically the wheel and motor would be single integrated unit).
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Confession of a Java Anonymous – Ruby is so brittle, and I like it. This brittleness makes you a better developer, makes better code.
I hardly see a reason for panic. Apple having the trademark for the word "Apple" doesn't stop any apple seller from slapping the word "Apple" on every box of apples. As long as a word is used for descriptive purposes it is not violating trademarks.

No startup will ever use the word "startup" in its trademark.
Yeah, is it any surprise that the click-through rate would be abysmal? People want to watch the video, not responses to the video. But as you say, when you are on the response, you may actually want to watch the original video and so the reverse click-through rate should be much higher.
http://www.strava.com/segments/948473

The 11% average over 1km isn't too bad, but the start looks pretty steep. Strava shows it at up to 40%. That's not exactly 100% accurate, but I've ridden 25-30% slopes on Strava and they are hard enough that on my road bike I can't stay seated (the front wheel comes off the ground) and if it is the slightest bit wet the rear wheel slips when you stand.

I'd be very impressed if this can make it up there with a person on it.
That was not the question, and not the only point I mentioned.
I guess in SV the coolest is Founder and Investor, then Board Member and Advisor, but we still have CEO, CTO, Exec, etc. followed by standard positions like Distinguished Engineer, Senior Engineer, etc. and generics like partner, associate, and employee. VP isn't worth much since some industries use them at very low level.

If you can't call yourself a founder, or it doesn't go over well in Europe, what's to stop you from just saying I work for company x. No one knows it is a two person company + outsourcing anyway. It's the same as saying I work for amazon, etc..
It may just be for people who previously took the class, I haven't taken it and cannot find any of the archives mentioned by modersky, but I can find it on other courses I have taken
I agree that software development as a job works only, if you exercise regularly.
During the last 15 years, I swim regularly, twice a week, usually 2km freestyle. And I run once a week, 12 km. I do this with my wife and we do it before work. We always insisted to get the time in the morning. In summer, when the outdoor pools are open, we swim outside, although the pools open only at 9 am. We aren't at our desk before 10:30 in that case (once or twice a week).
I won't accept a work that doesn't give me this freedom.

In the evening, the kids are at home and we cannot leave. And all the lazy office guys drift in the pool and this is annoying, if you want to swim.

I am 48 now and have zero health issues. No back problems, no blood pressure problems, not an ounce overweight. Same with my wife.

I can only whole-heartedly encourage everyone to do the same. It sets a standard for software developers and life is so much more enjoyable.
.0004% of the respondees or .0004% of visitors?
Sure, if that fits you. That still doesn't make "HR" disappear - they're just labeled differently and can't specialise. So as long as you can't fill a full HR position that's certainly a measure, but if you can, why not fill it with somebody who can and wants to fill that role as good as possible?
The problem with departments named "Human Resources" is that employees are not resources and they resent the dehumanization of being treated as such. All the HR horror stories have the same thread: they are dehumanizing employees.

In my limted experience this is much more of a problem in big companies than small. In small companies, employees know each other as fellow human beings from the owner to the interns. In big companies, the humans are numbers in a computer to be ranked, graded, and filed yearly.
HR performs some useful functions though - administration of healthcare, benefits, and retirement plans are some things that come to mind.

If they needlessly block good hires, that's a bad thing, but I'd rather not be responsible for dealing with administering my own pension or benefits.
I agree that there is a risk that all uses will be pursued and as you allude to, potential damage to a brand is in the eye of the beholder. However you're making a leap from a use which could conceivably harm the distinctiveness of a mark to taking action against every use and appear to attribute this to the lawyers' over-eagerness.

In my experience, most lawyers are reasonable people who will understand the limits of a trade mark better than anyone else. It's often the commercial people who are telling the lawyers to pursue an infringement against the lawyer's advice.
Use Mac or Windows so you can use productivity tools needed (Microsoft Office, Adobe products, if needed) and then run virtual machines for development.

My 11" MBA runs great. I've only installed a few things - I do NOT install server tools (where "tool" == apache, nginx, pip, memcached etc etc etc etc).

Mac laptops are still good quality, and you're NOT stuck using the Mac OS for everything, especially development.
Country wide spying efforts, but no software patents issues. You win some you lose some I guess.
Price no objection?

AT&T has a phone that's some serious shit.
We got a demo the other day... and that thing resists drops, high temps, freezing, water splash (or underwater to a couple of feet... don't remember).

It was some serious hardware.
Of course, it's not running Android, yet if you want indestructible, I was impressed with this thing.

Me, personally: My phones last approx 2 years.
My iPhone 5 (got it around 1 year ago I think) is all busted up.
I'm not an Apple lover, yet this thing is tough.
EVERY panel on it is broken, bent, shattered... and it still works without a hitch.
Props to Apple on that.
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I'm using a MacBook Pro so it's not exactly the same, but I will say, it's hands down the nicest laptop I've ever owned by a large margin. (This is my third laptop, all the others were not macs). I agree on the OS thing -- I actually run windows the majority of the time so I'm not buying it so much for the software.

In terms of cost, I think it comes down to how often you use it. I view computer hardware the same way I view, say, beds in that if you're going to spend 1/3rd of your hours with it, it's probably worth investing in something you really really like. If not, go cheap.

On the other hand, you might also consider a Thinkpad. I haven't owned one, but the ones I've used have always seemed like very solid hardware and if you don't need OSX you can avoid paying the apple tax.
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A lot of vitriol in the comments of that post.

I wonder how many people will stop using Google products as a result of this design decision.
NO! I'm afraid of change!
Changes are easy?

How do you migrate documents created before you changed your schema to documents created after? Or do you deal with an entire collection of documents all wildly varying in shape?
You're right on. There's a WTO treaty on the Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), and it requires patents to be available in all fields of technology. See TRIPS Art. 27: http://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/27-trips_04c_e.htm

That's probably part of the reason why New Zealand did't actually ban software patents today. For more information on why today's bill is not tantamount to the abolition of software patents, see my other comments on this thread.
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I raise my hand to that non-english characters are being changed to ??
I was thinking along the same lines the other day when I saw a big billboard promoting Ontario eggs and how "fresh" they are.

How well the chickens are treated should be most important to a civilized society.
About two and a half, probably.
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I absolutely love my macbook air. Had it for about 2 years now. Got the very low end model at the time and use it for software development and photoshop and it runs beautifully. My only regret is not shelling out a few more bucks for a larger ssd (i have the 128gb model). The battery life has been great even after 2 years.

As far as build quality, I'd say its unmatched. I've dropped it numerous times and have never put a case on it. Never even put it in a sleeve. I've left it on top of my car and driven off. It has a few scratches, but thats about it. Maybe I've gotten lucky.
Their job is to protect the company from the risk that employees represent.

If you get a moment, read "Corporate Confidential" by Cynthia Shapiro. Only 200 or so pages, and it's a quick read. But very enlightening.
Thanks a lot for the pointers :) we will try to see if Danish universities would be interested in us. And for being dependent on the app. Yes you will have to depend on us for the awesome templates we will provide and you will not feel bad about being dependent! ;)
Cherry MX Red switches require less actuation force than an Apple keyboard. A Red will take 45g of weight to depress, while an Apple seems to be closer to 60g [1].

[1] http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1727025
> It is absolutely untrue that you risk losing a mark if you do not enforce it widely. There is an obligation to enforce against third party uses which would undermine the distinctiveness of the mark/confuse the public, however not every third party use falls in this category.

Actually you only have to enforce it in the cases where someone else might argue undermines your trademark, which is far wider.
I don't know much about Qt and the changelog seems short...what is the relevant about this release ?
As more and more people write code and become technically literate, I think we'll see lots of this sort of thing. Once the majority of normal people "get it" then it's all down hill for those trying to control ideas.
People lie on the internet. Don't be so offended by it.

So glass makes the phone feel like plastic? You realize that is nonsensical, right? The build quality and feel of the phone has pretty much universal praise, and you are the only person I've ever heard use that descriptive, so maybe you're just misusing it (the descriptive I mean). Design is subjective so I'm not by any measure saying that you have to like it or appreciate it, just that I don't see how a rubber and glass phone can be called plastic feeling.

As to the lag, again, you're completely on your own on that. You see to have no relative perspective to the market.
SquareTrade is great for iPhones - $99 for two years with a $50 deductible. But for other smartphones, it's $125 for two years with a $99 deductible. For the 8GB, it would just be cheaper to buy a new one.
It's actually a natural selection. If the metrics are bad, the company get's a competitive disadvantage and should be on the way to bankruptcy in the long run. If the metrics actually are quite good, producing only few false negatives and few of the opposite, then there's no problem.
"I work online" is my go-to, it gets around the 'Im an entrepreneur aka out of work bum' trip wire that even I look out for, and leads well into a description of my service biz.
Glad to see more entrants not backed/beholden to major labels, congrats. Very clean and well designed site, pleasant to use.

Bandcamp currently has most of the indie diy music distribution market, do you consider them your competitor? What would you consider your advantages over them - to artists? Bandcamp take a much smaller cut (15% on digital, 10% on merch [edit: forgot PayPal fees 4-6%]), offer free downloads, and are agnostic in the sense they are just a platform: customisable pages etc.

Good luck too!
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>Fine if you're plugged in all the time, but then why do you want a laptop?

I sit on my couch with my laptop plugged in all the time. Am I doing it wrong?