skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I'm reading more than at any other moment in my life before because I'm able to fill boring downtime by firing up the Kindle app. My long car rides are made more enjoyable because I can listen to podcasts and audiobooks. I can design circuit boards, find directions to a restaurant, read wikipedia, browse reddit and snap a photo to share with friends at a moments notice.

But in this constant frenzy of mental consumption in order to ward off the looming spectre of boredom, how do you find time to stop and collect your thoughts?

Having access to the sum of human knowledge (though not necessarily all of its parts) is amazing. It's also very distracting and can lead to a false sense of accomplishment based simply on the mental effort required to consume (and not necessarily retain) all of that content.

Kind of like going on a luxury cruise ship. There is always something to do, watch, eat - something fun, flashy, delicious. But at the end of it, you're exhausted.

What happens when the cruise never ends?
If your competitor's UI changes and yours doesn't, soon enough you'll stop making money.
The word beautiful is starting to lose all meaning.
The online legacy of a suicide cult
/concurs
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> Stock buybacks are just dead money

That is an oversimplification. Apple has more money than it could possibly hope to reinvest in its core business. When that is the case, and when the stock is undervalued as is the case with Apple, stock buybacks are a great use of a company's cash.
So it's worse, but it confirms to FSF's philosophy.
Not sure if it's on Android but on IOS I use "sign easy" and it works very well. The other ones I tried like "Sign n Send" had the same problems you discussed.
I think it's safe to say that if Steve Ballmer thought it was a bad idea, then it wouldn't be that way. All of his post "retirement" statements seem to be made in the mood of a man who didn't leave voluntarily, so he was forced to walk the plank over this and an accumulation of mistakes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdJyafSBCb0 Howard Bloom's "Big Bagel" theory hand waves an entire scheme for everything. Pretty interesting.
And by the lack of comments here, it looks like about as much of a shit is given about this one as the last.
its here! http://www.newyorkfed.org/markets/opolicy/operating_policy_1...
>Reminder: The iPhone 5S isn’t right for everyone. We’re not saying that. We’re saying it’s a great phone, which is true.

How could one of the greatest marvels of consumer technology of all time not be right for someone? You'd need to have impossible standards.
> detailed 30 minute walkthroughs of the new design and giving users the option to watch that.

That's the lazy way.

I even doubt that's a solution; the average user won't read one-liner warning/error boxes.
Bruce Schneier: NSA Spying Is Making Us Less Safe
Funny, except for the fact that I managed to look angry enough about the whole process that I did get a pat down.

I still get a kick out the the XKCD battery comic...
Free software stands in opposition to free data. When software is free data becomes the center of value and therefore is hoarded.
> [1] In my opinion, privacy is obsolete in a world where people voluntarily give over to third parties every detail about their lives, but reasonable minds can differ on that point.

The surveillance done by the big marketing firms today has nothing to do with "give over voluntarily". It is digital stalking done with very little consent from the subjects. "Give over voluntarily" means the subjects actively provides information. "Stalking" means the system monitors the activity of the subject with no active participation other than (maaaybe) clicking once "I agree to the terms" five years ago, probably on a different ToS anyway.
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Probably Webkit nightly
I think gamification has still a long way to go and should increase in its public reach and influence rapidly over the next 5-6 years.
I'm sure all of those pilots using iPads in their flight bags are super concerned with how fashionable they look.
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I was in the same position not too long ago. While I don't think I can make any real recommendations because I don't know your specific requirements, I highly suggest checking out Hetzner and OVH dedicated servers. I found that the ping time from hetzner to customers in the US did not make a difference for my purposes, and I can get a much much beefier server at hetzner than linode.

To be fair, the negatives I have experienced so far are: hetzner's management console is pretty poor compared to linode's (but it gets the job done), and linode is a self-serve almost instant provisioning while hetzner seems to take about 12 hours.
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Wow do I wish I could downvote this more times. Stop being a douche.
Daniel Domscheit-Berg's behavior is extremely suspicious. What kind of person would do what he did on principle or other personal motivation?
I wonder how much money Google has spent per user. $10? $50?
>It's like people waiting in line to see the latest Star Wars film, but a crappy movie about Blue Forest Indians riding Dragons outsells it.

Samsung phones are "Star Wars" and the iPhone is "a crappy movie about Blue Forest Indians riding Dragons"?

That surely puts your "overheard at my company/neighbor's trailer" BS in perspective.
I can't find anything in that link that indicates most gold phones went to Asia. Did I miss it?
If you can even get them to give you the free hit. They seem to have 4 simple requirements met, but I've been turned down for the program even though I'm just a guy developing a single web app product on .NET who started a month ago and have no income yet. I've reapplied but I'm not sure it's worth it. I may end up porting it to Rails or attempting to get it to run on Mono.
On the flip side, I've been burnt by Open software vendors who have decided that their commercial needs mean discontinuing support and funding for their own projects. The Insight frontend for gdb, for example, was fantastic, but has languished since RedHat bought out Cygnus. I can also point to the support policies of many Open operating systems -- I can still get support, patches, and bugfixes for Windows Vista, which was released in 2007, but can no longer get support, patches, and bugfixes for any Linux distribution released in a similar timeframe. While I can see more and more of the market moving towards Open solutions, I can only see FSF-created solutions dragging us down.
Assuming you dont voice much. T-Mobile offers prepaid(bring your own phone) $30/mo unlimited 4G and SMS with 100 minutes. Assuming you always want the latest iPhone, you save about $200 per 2 year. This deal was way back before LTE availability, So it WAS a hot deal.
That comment perfectly sums up what I have been trying to argue with friends the last day or two! Thank you! Presuming you don't mind I will send this over to them!
Conversely you can just change a phone password. Hell you could rotate it daily if you wanted (surprised that's not a feature yet). But you can't change your fingerprints.
Actually, it is possible that PHP in the near future will look like this. I, nikic, and some others, want to add methods to primitive types.
The colon has been optional for a long time now, as I've been using this feature for years without it.
Insufferable marketing aside, people seem to think that Apple can back it up with one of the best quality smartphones on the market.
I think the "flickering" is actually intended, I think its quite realistic ... I think its an observed phenomenon: when a drop is in motion down a pane of glass with bright lights behind you often see some fairly drastic changes in which pin-points of lights it's refracting into your eye at anyone time, resulting in a sort of rapid flickering inside the drop.
Agree but we don't have much of a choice. The cost and risk associated with cleaning it up is actually more expensive than leaving it.

Visual Studio would do fine if it was a 64-bit binary. The memory ceiling of 32-bit processes is the problem. People have been calling for 64-bit Visual Studio for a long time.

That is their fault.
Quote from almost a decade ago by a Linux fangirl - "I love MS products, but I cannot stand their policies"

My perception is that here the situation is similar.
Gravatar has been able to pull it off.
No I am not. I said "decent", this implies at least "usable".
It'd be nice to get that done by the time it hits stable, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
What exactly is racist about saying one product type appeals to a certain set of cultures more than others? It is well known the Korean culture values extra settings and controls as a sign of status, for example, and that Koreans value replaceable batteries more and carry them around more often. Is it racist to say replaceable battery phones sell better in Korea than elsewhere? There are already OEMs that make different SKUs for exactly this reason, like LG.
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What Makes Developers Really Great
I think your anti-pedanticism is excessively pedantic.

Conventional use of the term does indicate an analysis of events after something has come to an end - if not necessarily death. A company, a project, an incident response.

I'm with GP on this one. Based on the title, I thought that the project had in some way come to completion and this was an after-the-fact analysis of cause, effect, and resulting behaviors.

As you said, the conventional use is what matters - and the author here has used the term in a non-conventional sense.

Edit: another read through after seeing the author's comment below. The project did, in fact, come to an end - though that wasn't really clear. Given the content I think the "retrospective" is a better fit. The author used this in the content of the entry itself.
Watched something on TV a while back on how ingrained gold is in the Indian culture. I don't have any links handy to back up my claims, but I think India accounts for a majority of the gold market worldwide.

Edit: Quickly searching I found this: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57376057/indias-love-a...
Oh, please grow up(1).

What specifically in this article are you calling out as casually racist? Was Mr. Lian, who is quoted as saying "Chinese people like Gold" being racist about his own race? My wife has said much the same thing to me. She's Chinese, though now a naturalised Brit.

(1) I apologies to my esteemed HNers for that, but it seems appropriate and if I take a karma hit for it, so be it. It was worth it.
Thanks for the update. Would you mind linking to the article?
Marketplaces will become more and more common. Because Customer/Company/Employee is much more cumbersome (legally, administrativaly) than Customer/Maketplace(with reviews)/Independant Contractors. Robotic automation will take more jobs because they continue to do more and more cheaper.
That's actually really standard across the board.

1-3 phone interviews, 1 day of on-site, occasionally a couple hours worth of coding problem.
Are you speaking in general, or accusing this article in particular of having racism in it?
IPhone 5S outselling iPhone 5C nearly four to one
Everyone assumes metadata doesn't include the source data.

Even a compressed copy of your telephone conversation isn't the actual call, just the 'metadata' describing how it is compressed...
Why hardware development is hard, part 1: Verilog is weird
> The apple designed A6 chip?

AFAIK, these claims are actually legitimate since Apple's acquisition of P. A. Semi a few years ago.

> And they talk about going 64bit on a device that has only 1GB of memory as though that is a benefit to anyone.

Double-precision floating point instructions will be much faster.

> Who is buying a phone that costs more than 3 times as much as its competitors and the screen size still hasn't exceeded 4 inches?

There are plenty of people who prefer the smaller size - I am one of them. My daily carry is an HTC One, and I love it (I think it's the best smartphone available). But...the screen is too big. The "back" button is also on the far bottom-left corner and I normally use the phone with one hand. Stretching to reach that button 5000x a day makes my hand hurt. My hand actually hurts. Also, I now have a hole in the front pocket of two pairs of jeans.

Which phone is 1/3rd the price and comes even close in the camera quality? I think the iPhone 5S competes on the high-end smartphone market - HTC One, Galaxy S4, Nokia 1020. The price is competitive.

> The "retina" display on these isn't even 720p.

So you'd prefer more pixels which your eye can't see because...
I particularly like the point about how each question should result in a hire/no-hire result.
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If you have ever tried to manage a bigger project in Go, you probably ran into the limitations of the basic go get and go build commands. For example go get only catches the master branch, while go build expects to find all your sources in your $GOPATH. These limits can make things difficult, if you want to maintain different branches. Things get even more complicated, if you have several Go projects on your development machine and all of them depend on different version of the same third party packages. This is where goem tries to help. It is a wrapper around the go command and extends its functionality. Go is a young language, which has its weaknesses. One of the biggest disadvantages of Go is the deploying of Go apps. This is where goem makes things easier and extends the capabilities of the go tool.
...and did they improve the fortunes of their advertising client base, or merely suck the wind out the prevailing sail without offering anything in return?
Salon: 6 shocking revelations about how private prisons make money
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6399569

In summary: Their main problem was no "installation fee" meaning the barrier to hopping to a newer server every couple of years just wasn't there. If their new offerings were priced competitively to attract new customers they would also be priced similar to how older hardware was priced when sold a couple of years ago, so anyone on the older hardware would jump to new boxes.
This is my exact guess as well. I would be surprised if it turned out to be something else.
Google Drive, Gmail hit by service disruptions
What if the top comment is a line of discussion I'm not interested in? Too bad, because that is the only line of discussion anybody will engage in, because you never see the second comment.

I know I could scroll down 7 pages and find the second comment and discuss there if that line of discussion interests me, but who else would talk with me? Nobody, because noone wants to scroll down 7 pages.
If you're really concerned about this, just register part of the finger that isn't the tip, and get in the habit of smudging the home button afterwards. I usually only touch the phone with my finger tips or palm, and you could register, for example, a part of the finger under the knuckle that almost never touches the device except to authenticate the print.

Of course if CCC knows which finger was registered, AND has a perfect print left on the device AND they know which print corresponds to the finger registered on the device, of course they can crack it. But if they have to guess which print on the device cracks it, I'm willing to bet they trigger the 5 failed attempts which then requires a passcode (and 10 failed attempts wiping the phone, although this is optional).

This means there are more than 10 options (which finger AND what part of each finger) you could use as a print. The oft cited scenario of police being able to compel you to input your print assumes they know what part of your hand unlocks the phone. They can't make me divulge the part of my hand thats registered just like they can't make me divulge my password.
Plus you can mix and match different view styles. If you have a lot of very similar views, elevate them to class-based views, or a smarter function-base view. If you have a lot of dissimilar views, you can keep them in function-based views while other parts of your app are using Vanilla Views or class-based views. Mix and match as appropriate (right tool, etc).
For example, all the prosecuting of banks and big corps that the Daily Show cheers on depends quite heavily on investigators having access to third-party accounting and financial records.

Aren't those records of companies, not of people?
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or, you could just use https://airvpn.org/
It has little to do with the color gold and more to do with the social status.

Money spent on home appliance is minimal and an after-thought, and this is because you cannot impress people with your home appliances while you're out of your home. Meanwhile you can flash your Gold iPhone everywhere you go and it implicitly shows everybody around you that you can afford a Gold iPhone.

Social posturing is a central part of East Asian cultures and the Gold iPhone appeals directly to that mindset. There is no racism but instead it's just the reality of the situation -- hubris is ingrained and prevalent.
according to here: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

there are 2.5B internet users. since google is more than a search engine(android, gmail, adwords and so on) we can assume that most of these users somehow interact with google services, so just adding other expenses and deviding the number to 2.5 billion would give a quite accurate result.
Driving a freight truck on ice: Practice of big data engineering.
Remember when Nixon said "when the President does it, it's legal" ?

Well we've reached the point where the government is arguing whatever it wants to do is legal.

Of course metadata is surveillance, it is pretty darn obvious it is. It is just easier to spin.
The demo scene was indeed strong in Sweden. Several of the Swedish game developers started out there. Digitial Illusions (the DI in DICE) started out as the demo group The Silents and wrote pinball games for the Amiga. Several members from TBL (the Black Lotus) later came to work in the games industry.

Trivia: Stefan Boberg who is a technical director on Frostbite wrote the Amiga version of LHA which was the file compressor on Amiga.
Tim Berglund on Product Owners, Product Development at GitHub [video]
You'd be wrong. Ask second-time founders. While you don't repeat some of your past mistakes, the expectations get jacked up and the stakes are higher. It doesn't get easier.
You're wrong. Nothing is communicated to Apple, ever. Fingerprint data stays in the secure memory on the A7 and the scanner is the only thing that has access to it. The system is completely closed to the device which contains the TouchID sensor. For example, you can't use your fingerprint to activate a new device.
I agree. It just feels like the UX became even more complex.
Da nigger does not listen. The nigger does not speak English. You gotta speak louder so the nigger can hear.
It's not racist if it's backed up by data.

So far I have seen no data whatsoever to back up this idea that Asian people prefer gold more than other people in the world.

Articles like these simply take a racial stereotype and run with it to the conclusion they want to reach. That's racist.
FYI, this is the info page for our new (beta) OpenVPN based client which supports multiple encryption options:

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http://qz.com/127294/what-apple-wont-tell-you-the-iphone-5s-...

This article is claiming that most of the phones sold are 5S's, actually... which would mean the 5C is making a moderate difference to that number... just enough to bump from 7 million to 9 million, perhaps!
Instant Search: Algolia vs Elasticsearch
I guess my analogy must have been confusing, since you assumed that the "line waiting" referred to Samsung phones...which it clearly does not since nobody waits in line for Samsung phones.
Side comment: that's a nice website; how did you make it? I see it's hosted on GitHub pages and that you use Bootstrap. Did you write all the HTML/CSS yourself, or use Markdown, etc?
google doesn't throw her money away !! I'm positively sure that they will get it double a triple :) they don't do charity
I take it you are OK with _lawful_ spying by the NSA?

I do not believe them the fingerprint is not stored.

People claim just a hash is saved, maybe - but what is stopping the gov for example to use the same algorithm and hash their existing fingerprint db?
You can stop the cruise at will by setting down your phone. With great power comes great responsibility.
I'd suggest using polycarbonate for the case instead of acrylic.
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"People in Asia like gold a lot, as evidenced by the demand for the gold iPhone 5S." What about this is racist? Or is looking at data based on location now racist?
Google hit a billion unique per month in May of 2011 and they've spent $21 billion in the last 7 years. Assuming no growth (which is absolutely not the case) they've spent an average of $3 per user per year.
In the long run we are all dead. And all companies go bankrupt.

Interesting to ponder which happens first...
This article takes a racial stereotype (Asians love gold!) ignores confounding factors (turns out, lots of people like gold, even non-Asians!) trots out a token Asian (some of my best friends are black!) and produces no evidence whatsoever to support its claims.

In fact, the article itself basically admits that the entire premise is full of shit:

"...gold in Asia is perhaps even more fetishized than in the West."

"Perhaps". This entire article, this entire kind of article, is based on a wild guess. Yet this doesn't stop everybody from running with the "Asians love gold!" theme.

Probably two thirds of the people in the iPhone line I was in wanted gold. Yet I don't see any articles saying "Americans love gold!"

Writing crazy and uninformed articles about faraway people while ignoring similar behavior at home? Yep, that's racist.
Demand for gold is high everywhere. I've yet to see any evidence whatsoever that demand or preference for gold is higher in Asia than in the rest of the world. Yet everybody runs with it because "Asians like gold!" as if that's somehow different than anyone else.
I completely disagree with pundits that argue CBVs are way more complicated than function-based views.

Three key differentiators for me are the reduction in redundancy with CBVs, consist organization of code and better code reuse through inheritance. This comes out best with generic model views (as one poster has said).

The real problem with CBV generic view usage is that it's not very well-documented, specifically the order of method calls. I often have to refer to the source to understand the flow (which is fine, but a pain, and I imagine extremely intimidating for new users).

Were this well documented, I think it'd actually be easier for people to get into Django - because CBVs outline a lot of the key features that people would use in Django anyways, except now in a much more formal, easy-to-use way (i.e., get_context_data, Form submission and so forth).

In contrast, function views seem to be more for experts who need to do some kind of complicated view processing that goes beyond the bounds of a typical CRUD app.
I'm running a small project on a fixed server 24/7 and AWS makes sense for me. Why? I'm a one man team supporting a research project. I have no ability to self host. I have no time to look around at a lot of options and trying to figure out all the details of every offering. I need a server that has good uptime and good performance. Most of all, telling my users that we're hosted on Amazon makes them feels secure - it isn't going anywhere. Believe me, for a certain class of users, this is important.