skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is a high resolution screen really necessary on a 13" device? I know we want great color reproduction, but that's why I have my 21" external monitor. I've just switched over to the new MBA (first Apple computer ever) and before I did so I did a heck of a lot of research.

Originally I wanted a touchscreen laptop with Windows 8 and 1080p, because, shit, here I am contemplating dropping a lot of cash on a new computer, might as well get spec'd out.

I tried everything out in stores, I think the only Windows computer I really liked was the Acer S7(?). However, touch screen on my laptop was a no-go (don't see the practicality of it). Just couldn't get comfortable with it. The lack of Haswell and battery life was also a deal breaker after I tried out the MBA13.

Sure I compromised on resolution, but I think I won big overall. 12 hours of battery life, Boot Camp (that I haven't even taken advantage of, but it's nice to know I have the option), OSX, and a great trackpad? I'll take that all day, every day.

Paired with my external monitor, mouse and keyboard. I think this thing is going to last me a LONG time. i5/8GB/256GB
Fair enough, other than a few email spam per month I've never experienced the other issues. Calling the company number and asking for you sounds pretty ballsy and obnoxious move on their part.
It's worth noting that the 3200x1800 laptop in the linked article is 0.01 kg heavier than the 13" MacBook Air. However, it has 3 hours less quoted battery life, and may have sacrificed on quality in other ways.
Performance is all well and good but the cost of an aston martin is for fit and finish in all aspects. Notice the panel gaps on the Tesla versus the Aston Martin. Notice how the interior looks a little clunky on the Tesla S versus the hand crafted interior on the AM. Car companies spend decades accounting for fit and finish and Aston Martin had major issues with it in the past. Tesla owners know that their cars are essentially still in beta and allow such things. But eventually that needs to change. And I'm sure it will. It just takes time and $.

Don't get me wrong, I believe Tesla is an incredible company and doing something awesome. But there's more to a car than just performance specs.
Should definitely leave the "competitors" question. There are way too many non profits as it is. There are 1.5 million non profits and many go after the same causes, and the same donors, preventing any from reaching critical mass.
This is because you're comparing maximum torque. The actual graph is likely unlinear and this is where the Tesla is winning.
I did that in combination with getting a Kinesis, and over the period of a couple of months all the symptoms were gone. It was bad enough before that at the peak that I couldn't button the small buttons on my shirts.
IETF and Internet Hall of Fame 2013: Tracy Licklider
Completely agree. The parallel he is drawing between MS in the 80's and Apple now is some kind of uninformed fantasy. He even says "I am not a tech industry maven, so I am busy coming up to speed"... Then he side-steps and says his real complaint is:

>So, my problem with Apple. In general, the thing about Apple is that it reflects the spirit of Steve Jobs, who knew what was good for you — and left you no way to do things differently.

His example is that iTunes doesn't do what he wants it to do.

Well it doesn't always do what I want it to do either, but as a product it is an enormous success and it earns Billions of dollars. So that's nonsense.

The best part of this article is that Paul Krugman listens to Arcade Fire!
I had to enable "Brightcove" in Ghostery in order to see the video. Hope this helps anyone potentially confused.
And if I am? Everyone has varying degrees of privacy preference. Who's to say that any end of the spectrum is wrong or right? Mine just happens to fall on the more liberal end.
And everything else is the tyranny of some minority, which is worse.

Monarchy - Tyranny of the hereditary minority

Oligarchy - Tyranny of the rich minority

Communism, libertarianism - Tyranny of the philosophic
minority

Anarchy/tribalism - Tyranny of the physically strong minority
> without PHP, you don't have to use the old fashioned process model.

Immediately followed by:

> Apache can work with PHP-FPM just like Nginx using the new evented worker mpm

seems contradictory. Can you clarify this bit?
I really hate these comparisons. What is the Model S trying to be? A luxury car? A sports car? A trip vehicle? Every article I read compares the Model S to some abhorrently expensive vehicle that does some specific thing poorly in comparison to Model S. I'd be much more interested in reading a top to bottom comparison between the Model S and a similar car. Do it with a BMW M3 or something, a reasonably priced luxury car that still tries to tailor to the sporty crowd.

The Rapide is a $150k car that is outperformed by a $25k Ford Mustang. No one has ever gone into the draft room and thought to themselves "If only I could design a vehicle that cost less to produce than the Rapide AND was sportier!". Outperforming it is not an achievement.
Am I the only one who feels like this is a temper-tantrum of somebody who wanted to be in charge of more toys, punctuated with some salient (but obvious) points about PHP?
One reason we didn't worry about this was that Watsi showed us that there is at least a subset of nonprofits whose founders are willing to work for very little early on. Maybe this will even turn out to be a good filter. But whether it does or not, I'm pretty sure there are other Watsis out there.
Thanks a lot Sir. The feedback means a lot. I am sure I am learning for the most evolved customers/entrepreneurs/techies on the planet right now. Thanks
Going the other way, if you want to enter the LaTeX variant called MathJax locally (PC and Mac), which is used on math.stackexchange.com (among other other places), try http://www.inkcode.net/qute. I find this very handy for short to moderate length math.

In my weirdness, I like to use qute in split-screen mode, and work out the math as I enter it, never writing anything down. I then make corrections, modify things, move lines around, all in qute. I have developed some techniques for having correct MathJax syntax at almost all times, which I find necessary since qute does not show the result of an incorrect expression.

I find qute very useful for formatting math. Since it is all offline, no connection is needed. After the formatting is correct, I can then push it to the clipboard and paste it into whatever I want (usually math.stackexchange.com).

I recommend qute highly. Again, it is for Windows and Mac OS, not Linux (unfortunately).
The article presents it as if the Guardian approached the Times wanting to collaborate on the story. If they have been collaborating with the Post on the the other NSA stories, why switch to the Times for this one?

Does anyone know how these partnerships work?
I think part of why everyone gets so offended by this situation is that Mayer's little adventure does nothing at all for communications professionals, in fact does the entire state of the art a huge disservice and tells other people that just playing around on a weekend is a good idea.

Over the last few decades we've advanced the state of the art so immensely that people from the 70s would not believe you. Instant, global communication. World wide brands. Full color customized print runs in hours. On mugs! Page layout, design, photography and lithography by one person on a PC that costs less than 3k. It's all amazing, it's hardly fathomable.

What is good about doing brand positioning professionally, is that you are feeding back into that process, advancing basically the human condition (excuse the hyperbole) and generally leaving the world better than you found it. What Mayer is doing, is taking a huge dump all over that process and setting back an entire industry. I sure as hell hope this is not the beginning of a regression back into the CEO's smart nephew drawing up business cards in CorelDRAW! or something. We would have peaked as far as design and communication strategy is concerned and that's just sad.
"Office of the director of national intelligence also suggests stories published by the Guardian and New York Times are 'not news'"

I've noticed one of the best ways to kill or slowdown the outrage over news like this is to write comments such as "this isn't news...it's old stuff "we" already knew...so what's so the big deal?!" - even though that's completely ridiculous, because if the person making that comment "knew about it" because he's been one of those "conspiracy nuts", as they used to be called pre-Snowden, it doesn't mean that everyone knew about what the NSA could do, and what has done.

Besides, even now we don't actually know the full extent of what NSA has been doing. So it's very disingenuous to make comments such as "we knew that already" in an effort to kill outrage over it (whether intentional or not).

I don't know if NSA has noticed this strategy, too, and are now using it on purpose (just like they're already using psy-ops), but at the very least saying that what the Guardian and NYT unveiled is "not news" is lying to our faces, because just yesterday they were trying to get these stories from getting published.

So which is it, NSA? Is it "not news", or are you trying to stop them from getting published, because it's news?

I know NSA and the administration have gotten very good at using words meaning the opposite of what they're doing (like Newspeak), but they can't have their cake and eat it, too. Either "everyone already knew this", or "the revelations are helping the enemy". Pick one.
This is super relevant. How to protect your open source project from poisonous people.

http://www.slideshare.net/vishnu/how-to-protect-yourhow-to-p...
But we know about COINTELPRO, and we know that Egdar Hoover had a bag of dirt on everyone that mattered.
Damn it. Reading. I fail at it.
The Atari's ROM's contained a full (well, for the time) floating point library implementation that used BCD floating point values.

The result was that the Atari's, without even trying, had more accurate decimal math algorithms than other contemporary computers. Something to do on the demo machines of the day in stores was to run this loop:

10 let x = 100
20 print x
30 let x = x - 0.01
40 goto 20

On an Atari this would accurately count down from 100 to zero with zero round off errors. The exact same loop on an IBM PC after about 5 steps started printing things like 99.94999999998 instead of 99.95.

Edit: formatting
IOS 7: Apple's Windows Vista
The headline here is, well, bizarre. The headline on Krugman's article is "On The Symmetry Between Microsoft And Apple", and the conclusion is that Apple's dominance now on mobile is less secure than Microsoft's on the desktop at the peak of Microsoft's desktop dominance.

Which is, for one thing, quite a bit different than the characterization in the current HN headline (he doesn't say anything like "Apple Is Doomed") and, for another, quite obvious (I mean, just compare Apple's current marketshare in any relevant market to Microsoft's at the peak of its desktop dominance, or compare the trends.) Apple is well past its peak dominance in, say, mobile -- and at its peak it was less dominant there than Microsoft was on the desktop at its (much longer) peak. Heck, less so than Microsoft is on the desktop now.

In fact, Apple's trajectory in mobile is a lot like Apple's trajectory in the "personal computing" space in the 1980s -- lead initially, establish a firm loyal base willing to pay premium prices, and then starting losing the rest of the market (which has lower margins) to other players. Really, except to exploit attention directed at Microsoft because of the current CEO drama, there's not a lot of reason to look to Microsoft's history for a comparison, when Apple provides a better one in its own history.
I've read about the toxicity of php-internals so many times, without any opposing views, that i'm quite willing to believe it. However, I'm not convinced other projects that aren't run by a benevolent dictator fare any better. This is just how projects get when everyone on the internet can throw their 2 cents into the game.
AFAIK it's not true. First they don't use raw php: https://github.com/facebook/xhp/wiki

Then they use it only for the view layer, it only pull some data from memcache to render HTML.

But all the hard work is C++ / Java / Tornado / etc
As I said, the Raspberry Pi isn't the only platform I've run Apache httpd on, and that experience isn't the primary motivating factor behind my dislike for the software.

It just struck me how starkly the difference in resource consumption between it and Nginx was illustrated in that case in particular, as the rPi handles the latter just fine.
"1. At what percentage will your entity spend on administration costs?
2. Will you agree to keep it to less than 10%, if we give you funds?"

Sometimes (important word, sometimes) admin costs need to go above 10%. You have to spend money to make money.

If a business had an opportunity to spend 1 million dollars to make 2 million dollars, they would do it all day. (Taking into account their rate of return etc.) If a nonprofit had the opportunity to spend 1 million dollars to make 2 million, they might not, because they don't want their admin costs getting "too high".
What if they provided a thumb toggle button to turn it on / off, or to increase / decrease its brightness (similar to the volume control on many steering wheels)?
Indeed if there's one thing electric motors in general do very well, it's to produce lots of torque at a much wider range of speed than an ICE.
And my desire to buy a Tesla when I can, only increases.
> encrypting your communications is like walking around downtown in black clothes and a face-covering balaclava

No, it's like walking around clothed when most people are naked. You may have legitimate reasons to cover your body, but because you're part of a minority you stand out.
The front end is PHP, but I thought they used other languages (such as Scala, Erlang, and C++).

I found a page from 2010, but I couldn't find a more up-to-date source.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/facebook-work-nuts-bolts-techno...
> Oracle is vastly more powerful than pretty much any of the open source technologies

Does it have multi-master replication like CouchDB? What about append-only storage of data (so can do live backup snapshots)? Or a REST-ful interface (so can directly use it from web clients, via a simple proxy)? A web based data browser and viewer like Futon?

Becuase those are very important features I like in Couch.
Now I am not saying it knowing Oracle doesn't have those feature, as I don't know Oracle much (maye it does). But it seems to me that your claim how Oracle is a strict super-set of all the other database technologies out there is a bit hyperbolic.
As stated in the same comment, my "little homebrew computer gadget" wasn't the only platform I've run Apache httpd on. It was just yet another environment in which it came out as sub-optimal when compared with Nginx in the same use case.
> It's interesting that he doesn't understand the difference between their value propositions (Microsoft is competing, in a sense, with Google -- which sucks because Google gives away its products -- while Apple is competing with Amazon and Samsung).

In what space is Apple competing with Amazon or Samsung where it is not also competing with Google?
Correct. An electric motor can output its full amount of torque from 0 RPMs; this is where an ICE falls down (and hence, the need for an expensive transmission).
nginx is a joy to configure and work with. I like the style of thinking of "OK, I'll run this on port 7001 and just use iptables to forward 80 -> 7001" Lets you run services as non-root, with the exception of the iptables one time setup.
£4.50 for 260~ miles is very exciting! Really hope they make an affordable version soon, and the UK gets geared up for these (although with a range of 260 miles it could be easily charged from home overnight)
I'll make it not a rumor, and add used car dealerships who don't appear to sell many cars. Turns out they can be an investment strategy for land.

This is from an online class I took called "Texas Essentials of Real Estate Investment".

"With the elimination in 1986 of preferred treatment of capital gains profits and accelerated depreciation allowances, real estate investments lost much of their glamour as tax shelters. However, the tax laws have preserved other sheltering aspects, including tax-free refinancing, pyramiding through refinancing, special exemptions for profits made from the sale of principal residences, installment-sale deferments, exchanges, and inheritance tax exemptions."
It's so hard to judge things like this from a low-res video. You need to be in it and actually drive it to judge.

That being said, the reviewer mentions that the interior and exterior is on the same level as the AM, yet the AM feels dated.
> People often forget that underneath the glitz, glamour and dazzling array of numbers of the stock market and Wall Street, the purpose of "the game" is moving real capital to real businesses in need.

Well, if it is a public offer, yes. But most of the time people are just buying stuff on the secondary market, meaning that the ownership of the company changes (a bit), but there is no capital move to and from the company. Nevertheless, this might help companies to create and time new rounds of public offers.
It'd be interesting if US, Russian, and Chinese entrepreneurs got together and agreed to build start-ups for one-another's citizens, where the US brand was run from Russia, the Russian one from China, etc. Now that'd get some people on terrorist watch-lists.
On the other hand, most of us already know how the Model S compares to its more natural rivals. The Internet is flush with information including such straight-forward comparisons.

I actually revel in wildcard comparisons that demonstrate just how remarkable the Model S is.

And let's not overlook the obvious: they are both upscale sedans with a penchant for spirited driving. This isn't a sedan vs coupe or sedan vs pickup truck comparison. It is actually conceivable that a Rapide buyer would cross-shop a Model S because of the unique cache of the Model S, and much less conceivable they would cross-shop a Mustang.
I agree that technical solutions help. But they will never be a real solution. The eager troll will find a way around them. The real problem is a lack of strong leadership and stewardship. There is no BDFL setting the tone and punishing those who don't toe the line. Or maybe there is and this is the result. Ha!
IRONY is the thing that happens immediately after you comment on HN and get the book in a priority shipping envelope!
ircmaxwell has contributed a hell of a lot to PHP recently, this is not some worthless shmuck complaining, this is someone that can and does provide significant value to the community.
Note that opinions differ on this. Personally I think semantic HTML is nothing but meeting-bait. If you try to be diligent about it you end up in discussions and meetings around whether a certain element should be a figcaption tag should be used or aside etc... And at the end of these types of discussions, regardless of the outcome, nothing that has any actual effect has been changed. It will make zero practical difference whether you use semantic HTML or not. The only thing seemingly affected are imaginary mobile devices that render <nav> differently than <div> or imaginary screen readers that can't read text unless it's in a <figcaption> tag.
I think what is more likely to happen here is just a continuation of the natural ebb and flow of code-makers and codebreakers.

For thousands of years, some groups of humans have been trying to find ways to protect their communications, and other groups of humans have sought ways to break those protections.

At times the code-makers become aware of the breakthroughs that the codebreakers have made and change their tactics, or new technology gives them a new cipher. Either way, the codebreaker sets a setback and has to change their tactics as well.

This new revelation doesn't seem like anything too different from that cycle - it is just revealing a larger breakthrough than is regularly revealed.
Though it is tempting to try to capture the entirety of the "efficiency" of a non-profit with a single number, it isn't really helpful.

In particular, it turns out that "administration" doesn't scale linearly. A 4 person nonprofit still needs their ED to spend ~50% of time fundraising; there's likely >15% of your salary right there.

Information from folks that have done this for a while: http://philanthropy.com/article/3-Major-Charity-Groups-Ask/1...

Data, if you want: http://nonprofitquarterly.org/management/22239-new-study-low...
You caught us red-handed, and then is your fault, not ours. Lets put in jail witness and set free assassins with this way to see things.

The one doing wrong is the US government. And the affected by what they are doing is the rest of the world, both foreing countries and US citizens. Not reporting what is happening means that they would be deepening what they are doing and abusing even more of everyone (specially by the people that know about this)
They mention that in the video. He says "It isn't meant to compete with a car like the aston to be honest, on any level. We just wanted to show how fast it is in a straight line".
I think these comparisons are useful.

You are comparing cars that don't really compete, yet the Tesla matches or outperforms them. I personally like to know that it's faster than X or better equipped than Y or drives better than Z.
Honestly, crytpo -- whether we need more of it or less of it -- itself is not the problem.

It boils down really to who do you think can be a suspect, just because they have locks on their doors.

If all crypto users are potential criminals, then all gun owners, knife owners or any person who owns an item that can maim another human being is a suspect. A state that suspects almost all of its citizenry, is a state that has bigger problems than terrorists.

Even worse, a state this does this, sooner or later, will convert a large chunk of its perfectly good citizens into behaving like bad ones because they are no longer sure what exactly constitutes bad.

At the heart of a democratic society is the social contract that the state will, largely, do things that will keep most of the citizens safe and un-harassed; while, on the flip side, the citizens are largely expected to behave in a manner that is not detrimental to the state.

What you see play out right now is that contract being broken.

Important question is, what is the right price to pay in freedom for what is deemed to be adequate security?
How an Entrepreneur Uses Surveys for Academic & Business Research
Can I include this in the Emacs chapter? Please?
True or not, phones are becoming a medium to bring value to a larger ecosystem. I can see android's value to Google. The only play Amazon might have here is to control media consumption by offering their phones. Somehow it seems unlikely of them to offer phones for free though.
SpaceShipThree was* planned for orbit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipThree

Edit: * was planned for orbit.
Automobile did a comparison with BMW M5. Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvHTN0Yi1t4