skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Safest,Best investment bets:
1. College
2. Stock Market(index fund)(10 investment horizon)
3. Home(w/home loan)
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Everything else is hands on and will consume your life(already mentioned):
4. Real estate,your own business, angel invester, collectibles, commodities, currency,bonds,junk(think ebay craigslist) etc.
Why would it? They are already authenticated with your router and still connecting to it, not a new device.
Tapeworms have a parasitic relationship whereas most gut flora usually has a symbiotic relationship with the host.

The line is kind of blurry, and it get's complicated, but there is no such thing as a sterile gut under normal condition. Hosts and "guests" have evolved together, so most gut bacteria won't become a problem most of the time. Exceptions abound, of course.

Tapeworms on the other hand have tons of side effects which the original donors of the gut bacteria don't seem to display...
Thus proving the title "Why most economists' predictions are wrong".
Weird post - he's definitely a smart guy, but clearly not an expert in this area. In fact, he sounds a lot like my dad.

Why do we care what he thinks here?

I am a big android fan, but I definitely see differences in quality between Apple products and others. I don't care as much about the polish, though - I like the freedom that android can afford.

But comparing Apple now to Microsoft in their hay day is not original, compelling or even that accurate. I mean, they're still selling computers, true, but the whole space seems pretty different than how it was when Microsoft was dominating... isn't that why Microsoft's in trouble in the first place?

I guess his point is more general - that Microsoft gained market dominance not through making a superior product, but simply by gaining traction and having the largest consumer base - that may be true, but Microsoft allowed a lot of freedom and control over your devices while Apple does not. Furthermore, Android has dominated the market in terms of numbers for a while now and yet Apple is still in the game - presumably due to the quality of their products, not the fact that lots of people use them.

Anyways, I'm probably rambling. My point is simply that Krugman should probably sick to his area of expertise.
1) They're well designed. Industrial design is important, as the rise of Ultrabooks and Apple has shown.

2) They have a fairly high end but affordable brand name. You either have a coffee maker or you have a Keurig.

3) It makes it convenient to try new flavors. My drip coffee machine won't make me a chai latte or hot cider at the touch of a button. My Keurig can, while also providing me with good coffee from a reusable k-cup.

4) Marketing makes sure they're everywhere and everyone has access to them.
Good variety, virtually no cleanup, no measuring of coffee. Not the cheapest option, or the best tasting coffee, but a great solution for me.
The article says you put the noodles and dried chicken in the cup first, from a different package.
I looked at Buffet but I was turned away by the lack of documentation for it. There is a short readme but that's it.
Japan and Korea have Facebook and twitter (though I'm unaware of the penetration) yet they clearly still use apps like LINE.
A retina screen will probably make it heavier (don't know for sure). The air is meant for portability, battery life, it's more minimal. If you want the retina you can get yourself a macbook pro 13 inch retina for about the same price. Apples goals are different from the other PC makers.

Slipping? Hardly, just remember who made high resolution actually matter.
Of course around 0 A.D. it essentially was a mob fight after the first minute or so of combat.
Same way you have flavorful ramen or cup a soup. Prepared broth, dehydrated.
I'd say the design, keyboard and trackpad are rather subjective if you think they're "systematically better". The Retina display currently is better than other offerings, but even the Nexus 10 offers similar DPI. Give me a ThinkPad with a N10 display over a MacBook anyday.

Also, there's no real reason Lenovo, Dell, etc. can't start shipping higher quality displays, keyboards, etc. While Apple's products are apparently solidly engineered, most of it is perception and design.
Krugman orders a pizza. Guy asks if he wants it cut into 6 or 8 slices. Krugman says, '8 please. I'm very hungry today.

-GSelevator
I know a lot of people criticize Riseup for not being perfect, but it's important to recognize that the alternative for most people is a Google Group. If there are things you think they should be doing better...donate some money so they can do it!
The PHP code is the tip of the iceberg. The real work in Facebook is done by the many systems behind it, which are very definitely not written in PHP.
This article is pathetic on so many levels. He starts off saying he basically has no clue about technology or the industry, and then concludes with Apple is doomed because it's hard to organize his youtube downloads in iTunes. Really?

There is no reason this should be on the front page, and the only reason it is there is because the headline has been editorialized.

Edit: also, this from the guy who said the internet's impact on the economy would be no bigger than the fax machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6342272
Chris Stucchio addresses this at http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2012/hft_apology2.html

He links to the HN comments as well.
My First youtube music video #pleaseshare
Of course, that's just a corollary to "the future is hard to predict." Honestly, what group of people gets it 'right' with any kind respectable frequency?
I feel like its just one of those days where you have to turn something in but procrastinated and said "Fuck it, I'll just compare Apple and Microsoft". Slow day...
Krugman's a smart guy about a lot of things, but he didn't get computers and the internet, didn't believe that measured productivity gains from using them were real (to his credit, he did publish a mea culpa or two years later) and I think he's just as ignorant about what differentiates Apple's products from Microsoft's. 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).
Why not a mobile app before a desktop app then? It would allow you be everywhere.
Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials
Like Yolesaber suggests, this is a gross mis-characterization. You need to read more and more widely. It's no longer 1935. And even then, at the height of modernism, a wide spectrum existed.

Edit: Obviously, reading literature is an entirely optional activity. I don't mean to suggest that you are obligated to do so. Only that to be familiar with the subjects that one makes claims about isn't such a horrible idea.
> The government almost certainly doesn't want to spy on you, it just wants to be able to find spies and other bad actors among you.

Maybe, that is true today. My fear is that tomorrow they will want to spy on me? Why, because the definition of "bad actor" has serious scope creep. I think this is the authors point.
This was my hypothesis, too. I'm disappointed.
I am not a car guy, but the Tesla cars regularly give me goosebumps.
> No, their official response is to suggest that encrypting your communications makes you indistinguishable (at their end) from those who encrypt for criminal activity.

Good way to put it. An analogy that might help this stick in your mind: encrypting your communications is like walking around downtown in black clothes and a face-covering balaclava. You might not be doing anything wrong--but if someone in the same area robs a convenience store, the police won't be able to tell that you aren't them, and they'll have to at least stop you and search you for stolen goods before they can let you go.

Interestingly, just asking you to take off the mask (i.e. knowing that the source and destination headers on the packets are both local) isn't enough; they don't know what the face of the guy who robbed the store looks like under his mask, so knowing what you look like under yours won't tell them whether you're him or not. (Likewise, they don't know that the chinese hackers they're trying to infiltrate aren't using Tor with a US exit node, so they can't trust US-to-US traffic to be, well, US traffic.)
Huh.. if he says that then it isn't in this article. The word "doomed" does not appear anywhere in the article... not even the title.
YC Hacker News is an aggregator based on voting.
Techmeme is an aggregator based on human editing.

The new change should not be surprising.
Such as, for example, to help U.S.-based social networks and telecommunications providers to succeed in the face of competitors which might be more difficult to extract intelligence and data from?

I think it's plausible -- spy agency's incentives are to access as much communications as possible, and to be able to break into communications, and both of those would be massively helped by having big service players on your side (preferably ones which have lax internal controls and engineering policies).

I definitely remember a lot of skepticism about privacy and safety of information regarding data placed 'in the cloud' when the concept first appeared - it would certainly seem rational to keep your plans and designs outside of cloud systems if you worry about these kind of possibilities.
I'm no financial or legal expert, but by market moving I am referring to data that moves the aggregate market in a fairly predictable direction. If jobs or the consumer confidence numbers go up, the market follows and vice versa. If your system gets this data before everyone else you essentially have a money-printing machine (at the expense of everyone else).

If you report data that's valuable because the federal government uses it in monetary policy decisions, then just push it to your customers as soon as its available for a flat rate.

When a company intentionally holds back data to make money on an incremental time difference, I'm sorry, that seems scammy and unethical to me.

As to Bloomberg consoles, that seems like a slightly different case, but if they similarly tier, then it is also unethical IMO.

Don't pit your customers against each other.
That doesn't mean we should trust trust them not to decrypt the trafic though.
Your startup will die, if... you are a solo founder with a day job and enough work for 15 developers.
Try the Knox bible, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knox's_Translation_of_the_Vulga... ):

"It was my resolve to live watchfully, and never use my tongue amiss; still, while I was in the presence of sinners, I kept my mouth gagged, dumb and patient, impotent for good. But indignation came back, and my heart burned within me, the fire kindled by my thoughts, so that at last I kept silence no longer.

"Lord, warn me of my end, and how few my days are; teach me to know my own insufficiency. See how thou hast measured my years with a brief span, how my life is nothing in thy reckoning! Nay, what is any man living but a breath that passes? Truly man walks the world like a shadow; with what vain anxiety he hoards up riches, when he cannot tell who will have the counting of them! What hopes then is mine, Lord? In thee alone I trust. Clear me of that manifold guilt which makes me the laughing-stock of fools, tongue-tied and uncomplaining, because I know that my troubles come from thee; spare me this punishment; I faint under thy powerful hand. When thou dost chasten man to punish his sins, gone is all he loved, as if the moth had fretted it away; a breath that passes, and no more. Listen, Lord to my prayer, let my cry reach thy hearing, and my tears win answer. What am I in thy sight but a passer-by, a wanderer, as all my fathers were? Thy frown relax, give me some breath of comfort, before I go away and am known no more."

-Psalm 38 (39) from Knox's Translation of the Vulgate.

Knox's translation is lucid when compared with the "correct" and dead modern translations of the bible. Try it if King James does not speak to you.
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V. is a disjoint "novel" with parts cobbled together from short stories. I wouldn't recommend it as a first (even though it was my first). Instead, try Vineland. It has a more or less straightforward plot and is quite entertaining.

Plus some absolutely brilliant passages. Here's an apropos one:

"If patterns of ones and zeros were 'like' patterns of human lives and deaths, if everything about an individual could be represented in a computer record by a long string of ones and zeros, then what kind of creature would be represented by a long string of lives and deaths? It would have to be up one level at least -- an angel, a minor god, something in a UFO. It would take eight human lives and deaths just to form one character in this being's name -- its complete dossier might take up a considerable piece of the history of the world. We are digits in God's computer, she not so much thought as hummed to herself to a sort of standard gospel tune, And the only thing we're good for, to be dead or to be living, is the only thing He sees. What we cry, what we contend for, in our world of toil and blood, it all lies beneath the notice of the hacker we call God."
Amazon Wants To Offer Its Smartphone for Free. Who Will Follow?
If by X, you mean religion, sure, I'll agree with that.

And, ultimately, you have no right to police what I teach my children.
I know, it's great isn't it.
what about stuff like garmin gps watches or tomtom multisport watches that already track tons of data?
Yes, this. There is nothing I hate more than forced celebration w/ co-workers no matter what it is; I especially hate celebrating my birthday, co-workers or otherwise.
Facebook is entirely written in PHP. It uses all sorts of databases and other systems to handle stuff, but so does every other website. It's still written in PHP.

Facebook has their own PHP fork, which they use/and modify. I do not believe that Facebook pushes their modifications to PHP as a whole.
Subscribe to it for awhile and you'll see.

It also turned off the suhosin author to the point where he moved onto other stuff.

He had some great ideas, now lost (no longer works with PHP > 5.3 )

But Zend shows up and folds back in some great stuff into PHP once in awhile.

Take a look at their now opensourced opcode cache, it's faster than all others.
> "My casual impression is that Apple’s lock isn’t nearly as secure, in part because it’s relying on the loyalty of individual customers — in contrast to Microsoft, which was largely relying on the loyalty of corporate IT managers, who are inherently more conservative."

The important thing is right in this quote. Apple cares about making product we want to buy, not product we are forced to use.

To stay relevant, Apple needs to keep going. And because they rose so high, they pushed other players to offer amazing product to compete. That's almost like capitalism at its best.

Of course they could fail, and they will not be saved by IT Managers inertia. Well too bad, I will have fond memories like I have fond memories of my C64 and Amiga500.

I certainly prefer that to the bland pc market.
We shouldn't, but that's besides the point, which is that the point in the article is wildly illogical.
Eh. He is right about Apple forcing you to work their way, and only their way. Try to select all on iPhone email, or try to access the file system. For the computer literate, the lack of these options on a stock iPhone is beyond annoying. they are just a sample of frustration encountered when using Apple products, no mater how good their quality is.
Even if a large company like Facebook did want to help add direction, they'd have to do so within the confines of internals and the RFC process.

The prehistoric luddites and trolls on the list would shout down any truly language-improving proposals in the same way they always do, regardless of source.

The only way to get rid of those unwanted elements would be a fork, but that would be unproductive. The remaining thing keeping PHP so popular is how amazingly ubiquitous it is. A fork wouldn't have that advantage, especially in comparison to languages and environments that are objectively better anyway.
Is this just a case of meritocracy at play?

I haven't followed the full discussion and events leading up to here, but would it be very wrong to assume this just a case of a bystander starting a discussion that didn't really catch on with any of the active maintainers?
I'm surprised iPhones don't survive been dunked in water. I've dropped my $150 nokia smartphone in water numerous times with no problem. I would certainly expect a much more expensive phone to have the same level of durability.
You can find discussion greatly facilitated when everyone has the power to silence the imbeciles by down-voting them into oblivion.
That $115 is in dollars. We only support USD at this point. Our site should not convert.
PHP is addictive.

You can create whole web app in one PHP file from scratch and it will have everything including API and DB management layer and be secure and fully functioning.

And it will work on all servers and on all operating systems.

Millions are made by average developers developing themes and plugins for wordpress.

Hard to beat all that.

#drama is for queens :)
Apple kickstarted laptops with high-resolution displays with the 15" Retina MBP less than a year ago; they still have one of the few high-resolution 15" laptops on the market. They also have a 13" version, although it is not as light as the MacBook Air. Most of those 3200x1800 products aren't out yet. Give them time.

(However, it is true that that 3200x1800 display is considerably higher resolution than the Retina MBPs. I'm curious where this is going.)
(p.s. in case somehow it's not clear, this is in reference to this: http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-o...)
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So I was really excited then disappointed as I clicked through. I thought it was going to be a developer who helps the NSA crack encryption. No offense to anyone here but the last thing I need is another article around the NSA and snooping from someone.

Who here wouldn't love to hear from a developer who's helping with this and has strong beliefs in their reasons for doing it?
We don't know yet what will turn out to be the most important questions for nonprofits, so we just kept the subset of questions that seemed to apply to any project whether for profit or not.
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I have to back him up on iTunes. I hate it. I've always hated it. I'm not sure it dooms Apple, but I've seen lots of products die as a result of infuriating design choices. It takes a while, but it does happen.
Impressive as Rapide is both lighter in weight and more powerful than the Model S (470bhp vs. 416bhp). Both cars have the same amount of torque. (443 lb-ft)
I never read any startup news or any of that nonsense, I don't read 90% of HN blogs. So pointless. If your product is good, people will tell each other, and it will spread.
TechCrunch are nothings now. This year every major story has gone through AllThingsD and other sources, with TechCrunch rushing to post a rewrite.

All they have left is soft-serve YC press releases, major startups posting minor updates, and generic shit like the rest of AOL's content farm churns out.

I won't be at all surprised when next year they announce TechCrunch is re-launching as a category on Engadget who are actively pursuing startups and are much better at spewing out rewordings and zero-impact articles.
This is ludicrously, hilariously, almost unbelievably ironic, coming from Krugman:

>>"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. And if you are an atypical user, you end up putting a lot of effort into fighting iOS in order to do simple things."<<

It should baffle me that this problem is so obvious to Krugman and others in the field of electronics, but simply beyond mention when it comes to governance. It doesn't baffle me because it's clear that Krugman and others stopped being scholarly thinkers as soon as they gained a national audience to preach to.
Hip Hop is giving up on PHP internals while not having to throw out legacy code [immediately anyway]. They might for all I know still use plain PHP for some things but the Hip Hop project is not a vote of confidence.
Ditto. It's a bit beyond my budget too, but this and the Model-X are really the top picks for my parking space.
The difference in price between fully charging / fueling is particularly striking. I wonder what this means wrt. electric cars and the environment? What would our emissions look like if all cars were magically electrical tomorrow?
1) I don't agree with this. If I walk into (or around) a Best Buy and they capture my movement on a security camera, are they stealing from me? Technically, they are recording data of my movement. Also, stealing generally infers that the victim is left without the stolen item. That's why we don't call piracy stealing. So, if anything, trackers are 'pirating' my browsing information and possibly reselling it. Truthfully, I wasn't doing anything with that information before, so my life hasn't changed for better or worse because of this. No proof of bad thing here.

2) It is a useful standard. I avoid being nit-picky about the little things, and so I like to make a distinction between things that are worth worrying about. If ~$273 is taken from my bank account over my entire lifetime (based on average lifetime), I'm really not going to worry about it. If data tracking is on the same side of the distinction as taking 1 cent from my bank account, I'm fine with that.