skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Fine if you're plugged in all the time, but then why do you want a laptop?

I travel between countries a lot, and I can see myself doing that more for the near future. Being able to have just one machine -- rather a powerful desktop workstation and an ultraportable (like the MBA), is one reason I've been considering getting a desktop replacement laptop.

You get to take you work with you, anywhere. It's the alternative I've been considering, if I choose not to go for an MBA.
Interesting solution, but the reason why I use Dropbox is due to the ever increasing storage space limit for non-premium users. I have about 6 GBs of space available to me, and as soon as I get remotely close to that capacity, they usually give me an additional half of a GB.
That is pretty much the unspoken corollary to the "do what you love" mantra. If you love D, you can't just go from A to D. You have to find B and C to get you there. Sometimes B and C are going to college and working a shitty job for a few years. And if you have to work a shitty low paying job, you should at least pick one that helps you get closer to D.
You should also consider an MVP approach. What is the minimal viable product I can entice these customers with? I mean... what is the least I can do in order to get laid as quickly as possible?
I grew up in Southern Ontario and when I was in high school I biked year round. I agree it's pretty rare that it's impossible to bike in the winter, and a good mountain bike should get you through pretty much any weather. The tires are the important part of the equipment.

But it can be downright unpleasant. Dressing right is the hardest part. If you don't do it right, your core will overheat at the same time you get frostbite on your hands. I had to wear ridiculous getups sometimes like touque, tube, heavy gloves, winter boots... and a t-shirt.
From what I've read, Castoreum is (a) prohibitively expensive and (b) banned all over the world, so the chances of finding it in your ice cream or any other food are zero. Not that said food will be lacking other equally tasty ingredients.
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Non-Indians have benefited most from patent regime in India
Do whatever makes you happy is an ideal, and pragmatic in so far as you'll have an advantage in that area as compared to someone who doesn't have any passion for what they're doing.

Of course someone with passion and some other edge like a superior education, or fewer ethics (in some areas,) or who just started earlier than you - is still going to beat you if you're in a particularly competitive area.
I assume there is no validation required to prove you own the domain you are selling?

Example: http://i.imgur.com/VHd5uVg.png
I agree. I exercise, chiefly barbell lifts. They do help quite a bit, a bunch of chronic pain went away.

But how I work matters too. I feel better if I take breaks and move around, or if I alternate between standing and sitting. And my hip flexors are worse if I sit all the time.
Do you guys have an API by any chance? Can I push orders to a Shopify store via an API call of some kind?
I work on the new Shopify Reports product and we would love to hear more about what kind of complex sales reports you're looking for.

hit me up here, on twitter (@orenmazor), or email: oren.mazor@shopify.com
oh ok. We will try to stick with LaTeX :)
Alright, so only downloads require registration.
I've racked up 7.9GB on my free Dropbox account. Until there is an alternative that offers more for free, I probably wouldn't consider switching. However, I'm encouraged by the amount of cloud hosting services emphasizing privacy, maybe at some point dropbox will follow suit.
Hahaha you think Shopify robbed you of your completely unique game changing idea?
Am I missing something here? This is a parody that is to subtle for my sleepy mind right now?

Am I the only one that immediately reads it as Shopify Piece Of Shit?
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Well there are obviously certain areas where they should have final say (e.g. this candidate is great, but here illegally and not authorized to work in this country).

They should not have final say over a candidate based on personality or communications skills. They should be a source of input (i.e. this guy is an asshole, because he was very rude to the guy who helped him scheduled his callback interview, or perhaps more importantly to inject some company-wide context into what can turn into a group-specific analysis) but it's the technical people who know what kind of communication goes on in a technical team, and thus it's the technical people who should evaluate a candidate on that characteristic. Yes, this requires trusting your technical people and investing them with a greater responsibility to understand the dynamics of their work group. That's a good thing.
Bring Your Lunch to Work
My humble advice: Don't be an armchair health & fitness expert. Read up on it for intellectual stimulation, but don't expect to learn any magical secrets to being in shape or healthy. All the magical secrets have been known for a long time, and they're really, really boring.

You should do whatever makes you happy [within reason]. You should probably not drink 10 sodas and 5 bags of chips a day. But if you feel like having one, fuck it, life is short. If you feel like standing at your desk, go to town! Don't expect it to fix your problems. Just enjoy yourself.

If you feel like lifting weights, do that too, but if you don't feel like it, ..... you get the picture. Be active, be healthy-ish, but in terms that you can enjoy in life. Some people like dancing. Some people like running. Some people like kicking the shit out of a heavy bag. That's the only real secret to health & fitness: learning to enjoy it and be happy.

(Personally, the only thing that made me adopt an active lifestyle was group exercise. Now that i'm more used to the routines I work out by myself or do sports. But if you find yourself having trouble getting started, try signing up for a group class with people who seem nice and a good instructor)
I am also using[1] microsoft natural keyboard, because it is the best (for me) combination of ergonomic split-hand slightly skewed keyborad that has normal querty layout. BUT.. the quality of the kyeboard is terrible. I with it the MS Natural would get Cherry MX Clear keys and better wireless tranciever.

1 - http://urza.cc/pc2013
I got a test that tested my math skills, problem solving, my understanding of a text, and word associations. They ended with a test for a Myers-Briggs personality type.

My math skills (without calculator) were pretty bad, but I was reassured that it didn't matter, I was applying as a software developer not an accountant.

I got the job, and in my time there I also heard about people that "failed" the test.
I'd love to know where he is now.
> Can someone enlighten me as to why google doesn't want to make an enterprise play?

They do. They have a range of commercial, including enterprise, offerings (many of which are based on originally-internal technologies, including their MySQL-based distributed database that preceded F1.)

> why wouldn't google commercialize that technology themselves?

They probably will, just as they have commercialized their previous internal storage technologies.
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Magento does everything if you wade through the data. Like if you wanted stats on... off the top of my head, abandoned shopping carts by region and product, you could.

I think in Shopify you can view how many abandoned carts there are in the orders section, and it's not filterable.

I mean how difficult would be for Shopify devs to add a reports section on stuff like this. Just tabulated data would do, I don't need any animated graphs. It's very frustrating because the data is just out of reach in Shopify.

Edit: I'm not a Magento advocate here, I really really want Shopify to get better quick so I can stop using Magento.
We tend to say anyone involved in the process can veto and I'd extend that to HR if they'd shown themselves to add to the process.

Work permit issues are entirely a reason to veto and they're better placed to spot that sort of thing that the dev team, similarly issues around references and the like.

The issue here isn't with HR per se, it's with a bad HR department overreaching, but personally I'd be just as skeptical about a technologist pointing to poor performance on a technical test (with good face to face interview results) as I would about this.
I just looked at the Oracle price list:

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-...

Processor License cost (excludes support):

* Standard Edition: $17,500

* Enterprise Edition: $47,500
(that's the one with Materialized View Query Rewrite)

* Partitioning option: $11,500

* Advanced compression: $11,500 (basic compression is apparently slow?)

Per processor.

This is why all these other databases exist. Very few businesses, certainly not many startups, have the kinds of value of the data stored to warrant that kind of cost.
Fragmented Memory
Myers-Briggs test isn't recognised as being scientifically valid so is largely ignored by the field of psychology

just saying ...

http://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2013/mar/1...
registry lock != registrar lock

The former is with Verisign and cannot easily be removed by the registrar. The latter is with the registrar and can be removed by the registrar. In whois status codes "clientXXX" = registrar lock (weak). "serverXXX" = registry lock (stronger).
Redis 2.6.16 is out
We had looked into other names and POS/point-of-sale was the most recognizable and familiar with storeowners. Yes, the acronym is a little unfortunate. :)
Microsoft just upped their SkyDrive to 25 gigs I believe.

Edit: Actually, I guess that's for their basic paying account.
love it, class picture....awe inspiring!!
Racial income gap: As big as ever, with wealth gap even larger
Thanks. That is an excellent example and I learned something interesting!
I know that it's hard when you want a job, but personality tests should be declined the same way polygraphs should be (if they were legal to administer). Developers have an advantage right now in the supply and demand department, and this is exactly the way that power should be used.
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Can you get a micro-sd card that is several times as big as 64GB?

Or is the concept to keep a pile of sd-cards with all your data on it? I guess it is conceivable, but why would anybody want that?
Why physics needs to get stranger
> switching to a flatter keyboard that sits closer to the desk has actually caused any and all pain I used to get while typing to go away.

Then your desk was too high.

But hey, ISO 9241 made the same mistake, and drove the best keyswitches ever off the market for being over an inch high.
I personally use keepass and keepassx (the alpha compatible with keepass2.x) and sync my passwords with SpiderOak. That's worked pretty well for me, and I don't actually have to trust a website with my passwords. Even if there's an insecurity in SpiderOak, they'd only get my encrypted keepass database which they'd then have to also decrypt.

I definitely recommend keepass over lastpass.
> Only issue is protecting that journal

Or losing it.
With APNG standardization, animated GIFs can be a thing of the past
That's it, Macs are just flat out nice. Really nice. You just can't get the same package with other laptops, as nice as some of the others are.

The other thing that keeps me on a Mac is whenever I run Linux I'm always tweaking shit - you can't on a Mac, so you just get to work instead of goofing around with settings all day. Plus everything works the way it should, you don't get some weird app you can't cut and paste in or just random things like that.
system76 is indeed pretty good. I don't know if you knew, but their laptops are all Clevos underneath.

It's good to do some separate research on the Clevo as well. If you want something comparable to the Bonobo Extreme, but cheaper -- consider the Clevo W370ST. It's similarly specced to the Bonobo Exteme (but without the backlit keyboard and a couple o' other things.)

I've found the Clevo W370ST being sold in two places:

* AVADirect: https://www.avadirect.com/gaming-laptop-configurator.asp?PRI...

* Sager: http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np7370-clevo-w370st-p-5841.html

Sager offers more customization, for things like cooling and stuff (esp. important on a machine like this - which according to reviews tends to get very hot).

Also, here are some reviews of Clevos:

* In-depth (European) review of a Clevo model. See the section on the display: http://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Schenker-XMG-A523-Clevo-...

* See the 3rd comment here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1415091/im-thinking-about-buying-...

Also http://www.overclock.net/t/1404827/new-laptop-for-work-2-3k-...

If you are concerned about the Clevo's Matte display not being good -- there's a Toshiba Qosmio X70 which is specced very similarly but has a "TruBrite" display. I don't know how good that is, but maybe it's better.

The Qosmio X70-ABT2G22 Laptop: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/cdetland.to?poid=2000098...

The cooling is probably also more well-honed on the Qosmio (just speculating coz "Toshiba" is a well-known brand), so you might not have to spend extra on upgrading the cooling as you might have to do with the Sager/Clevo.
The target market (ie, retailers and food service types) will understand the acronym perfectly. Point Of Sale systems have existed for a long time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_of_sale
- Where do I put my binaries ?

in /usr/bin of course

- But it's kinda personal stuff...

so put it in /usr/local/bin

- Oh right, but now I have more stuff that's not really important but still useful

that's what we have /opt for

- but... what if it's optional and only on my machine

oh hell, just create /opt/local/bin and be done with it already!
The author seems to miss the facts that spurred the trend for standing desks in the first place. Whether you exercise or not, sitting down all day dramatically increases your chances of dying from heart disease.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/sitting/AN02082
Not only did CloudFlare (where I work) and the New York Times communicate, the CTO of the paper has said the following: https://twitter.com/rajivpant/status/372559771960098816

"I'm super impressed by the operations, incident/crisis management & expertise of the @CloudFlare and @OpenDNS teams."
If you are sufficiently paranoid about having to destroy the notebook, tissue paper and water soluble ink go a long way to making it easier. I made about a dozen for a murder mystery party about two years ago and still have one lying around somewhere. A small waterproof bag should make sure it isn't inadvertantly damaged in the rain.
One fail in the article:
"It’s worth saying at this point that I don’t, to my knowledge, do anything wildly illegal."

The definition of illegal varies over time and you have no control over it at all.
Phoronix for sale
http://docs.shopify.com/api

Order creation will be open soon.
Read the FAQ

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5227923

linked in the parent comment to yours, and you can learn about the best trade-off among time, expense, effectiveness, and legal exposure among all hiring procedures used by companies. It's low-hanging fruit to improve competitive position for a company to follow the minority of companies that use effective hiring procedures rather than the majority of companies that use haphazard or demonstrably ineffective hiring procedures.
"We have a million and a half users in 3 months" is a pretty good substitute for "We're making a million dollars in revenue a year"
Agreed.

To me, it's even more funny when you realize "WOW" actually means "Windows on Windows." Say what??
HR are parasites, you have to keep them on a short leash or they infect the operations of a company. Under no circumstances give them any decision power whatsoever -- they're there to do the tax forms, stamp the cheques, arrange the resumes, and make sure the fridge is stocked.
"is associated with" is the ultimate weasel phrase. I see this constantly in press accounts of medical research: no distinction whatsoever between correlation and causality. "Red wine decreases your risk of heart disease", etc. In cases where causation has been definitively established (i.e. smoking -> lung cancer), it took a lot more work than an underpowered association study to do so.
SpiderOak does have one problem. It has no arm build for linux (and they apparently have no plans to make one soon). If you frequently use a Raspberry Pi or linux on an arm Chromebook then you'll be out of luck on syncing your files.

I wish they'd release simple sourcecode for a headless sync client or that someone would reverse engineer it enough for that to happen. As it is, you can sshfs mount a folder synced by one of your x86 computers, but that's definitely not ideal.

Other than that complain I've enjoyed using SpiderOak and it's a great piece of software.
Yes and UNIX is really better!

$ mkdir ".. "
$ ls -a
. .. ..

Fun eh?
Wow. That test looks like an excellent way to select for a combination of mindless corporate drones and skilled liars.
"I was never passionate about construction."

Its interesting that HR would never permit him to be hired now a days.
"Anecdote" is not the singular form of "data".

This guy has had one bad experience, and from it immediately derives a general rule that applies to everyone. How narcissistic!
Parsing C++ is literally undecidable
Frank Zane is also a really weird bodybuilder from the 70s. He won Mr Olympia 3 times I think. He's very "philosophical" about his workouts, brining in some kind of Zen philosophy to it. I like his physique the most of all bodybuilders, perfect V taper and king of the vacuum pose.

He seems very despondent about modern bodybuilding and the obsession of getting as BIG as possible without regard to the aesthetics (HGH/roid gut). He said they should make the vacuum pose a mandatory pose in all pro bodybuilding competitions to weed out this kind of crap.
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I am agreed. Although the last time I heard about a major attempt for a modern file system was in Longhorn and all we know how that ended.

I guess there are still some fears to try it again, considering that current file systems in mainstream OS' are "good enough".
Of note, there are other POS providers that use the Shopify API to provide integration and have been for awhile.
wasn't /usr the original /home? as I understand it, it grew and became a system directory. with /bin as the original bin.
The API documentation is here: http://docs.shopify.com/api

There's no API order creation at present, but the API is consistently evolving as the platform does.
> We tend to say anyone involved in the process can veto and I'd extend that to HR if they'd shown themselves to add to the process.

IIRC there was a woman a few months back with Valve who couldn't get the staff she needed because of that sort of veto setup.
I totally disagree. Anyone working in the retail sector (the target customer) will understand immediately what POS means since POS is a well-known business acronym.
The password would be a number of bytes. They could easily use stenography and hide it in an upload or download of the file. Or have an update that would weakly encrypt the data, or encrypt and decrypt to a key known to them, making it trivial to retrieve the data.

Without the source, their security is meaningless. You've just given a closed source application access to the network, and to your files. You've already lost the game.

Edit: Thinking about it, this is the real problem with encryption: the good is the enemy of the perfect. A 90% solution is worse than a half assed one, because you know not to trust the bad solution.
It's private. Sorry, that's sort of pertinent information.
So are most HR types.
Since it isn't obvious from your profile or the comment maybe add a bit that you're working for cloudflare?

edit: thanks John.
Good advice. A confident delivery is often more important than the words you used.

I didn't feel that confident about my work in the first year, now I do. I say the same thing to different reactions now.
What's the ideal MBA specs for full-fledged web development?
What? As a brickie's labourer? I think strength, and willingness to work hard are quite sufficient qualifications for that job.
> What we need is a normalized value that is proportional to pay but inversely proportional to hate.

Well, except that positive utility from pay (what you'd really want to weigh against disutility, or "hate") probably isn't directly proportional to pay (several studies have shown decreasing marginal utility from increasing income and even a point beyond which the marginal impact of additional income on realized happiness becomes undetectable.)

And you probably want to maximize net utility (utility - disutility), not (utility/disutility).
The acronym always makes me snicker but having dealt with some clients talk about their POS systems, it's a very widely used acronym. In fact, it was a big US company for which I was first part of a conference call where the acronym was used. I snickered in a "they're calling it an iPad? Really?"-way. Then I got used to it. Just like iPad.

I kind of cringed when I saw the name too. But I can understand why Shopify chose it. Potential customers are going to google for "POS" along with a handful of other keywords.
"So, naturally Strickler won’t pull the plug on celebrity projects, and he’s going to defend their right to exist for as long as he can."

Just because it's a big direct revenue source, that doesn't mean Kickstarter can't pull the plug on something. They recently banned hardware projects that just showed simulations without an actual product built yet. They're playing the long game and don't want to hurt the trust the community has in the platform -- so they're not in it for a quick buck at any chance, and they reject a lot of projects that don't meet their somewhat strict guidelines.

That being said, where do you draw the line on 'celebrity'? At some point, if hypothetically they banned celebrity projects, who determines the level of celebrity? It's so ambiguous to the point where it doesn't make sense to address it. I think the celebrity stories are a non-issue and the press always wants "controversy" to talk about even if it's drummed up by them.
US has banned 'software patents' long time ago. However, you can still patent a software being performed by a processor or computer, which then becomes 'hardware'. NZ has now caught up with US. It is not what you think it is.
Some contrary thinking from the great Cal Newport:

1) http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-t...

2) The book : http://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/145550912...
>Some of those are deceptive.

All of those are deceptive.
Working in retail as a teenager, the cash desk/terminal/whatever else you may call it was always called the Point of Sale.

The joke got old really fast when you actually use a POS.
I'll bet five dollars the credentials were stolen by a botnet the SEA runs or has access to. You wouldn't believe the shit that pops up sometimes. (It's also incredibly trivial to take over botnets run by jackasses who took a tutorial in setting up Zeus) Less likely but still highly possible would be spear phishing of registrar resellers.

Edit: I don't know why, but the nameservers I use don't resolve any address for nytimes.com now. If I query 8.8.8.8 directly I get a response. So, could be they're still suffering from this attack, which sucks.