skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless I misread the article, it seemed to claim that gold iphones sold much more quickly in asia than other markets. Observing that fact and say, "that region probably likes gold more than other regions," is not racist. If you were to get off a plane in hong kong and say to the first person you see, "Hey, everyone here loves gold right, do you wanna buy a gold iphone?" That would be racist.

Populations do things, and it's ok to say that they do things. It's not ok to assume individual members of that population do those same things based on their ethnicity.
> Americans are going crazy over the gold iPhone too.

That's racist!

^ This is what you sound like ITT...
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I said it before and I got downvoted to hell, but I'll say it again. Just because those of those of us on HN can deal with these UI changes does not mean that the vast majority of the public can. We ARE the minority, and when designing systems we should expect people to be computer illiterate. I am the computer-go-to-guy whenever something goes wrong or family members/friends need help, and ANY UI change always leads to difficulty. Something as small has the UI change from IE7-8-9 was enough to trigger a "how do I use this thing?" every single time. Same when MS Office introduced the ribbon.

It's the reason Apple have done so well - they didn't invent anything new which hadn't already been done, they just added better UI that appealed to the masses.

I have to say, I agree with most of what is written in that blog, I've gotten used to some of the changes now but still a lot of the time keep looking around to see where the hell something has gone (the attach files expands out to reveal more options, why the hell is add URL link under attach options?)
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I think the "tailoring to me" problem can be solved by logging out of google and doing the search (or search in incognito mode if you are a chrome user).
However, I wish there was a way to turn off personalized search. That way, Google can remember what I searched (when I am signed in) for but not give me tailored results..
Apple doesn't break down numbers to the device level. 5M sold last year was 5m combined iPhone sales (all models). So this really is an apples to apples comparison...
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Don't underestimate the power of peer pressure when it comes to physical activities. It's one of the main draws of Crossfit, and probably the strongest force for these people when they push themselves too far.

When you're working out with someone who you barely know, or may have just met, who doesn't know what to expect and doesn't know their own limits, and is trying to keep up with everyone around them, you have a recipe for someone pushing themselves too far to a dangerous extent, whether the outcome is rhabdo, a tear, or some other injury. Most desk jockies (myself included sometimes) don't take the proper care that you need when you try and start moving a body that sits idle for 8-10 hours a day.
7) Reseller gets homeless people to queue up overnight at the Apple Store in Pasadena, California. Apple refuses to honor the homeless people queuing, so then the reseller refuses to pay them, resulting in fights and arrests.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azK1h9Y38bo
By the nature of their technology, any FPGA will always be more expensive and energy hungry than the inflexible ASIC counterpart. No silver bullet.

What's more likely is interesting SoCs with partially reconfigurable analog blocks and accessible graphics co-processors.
What about OpenStack? OpenStack seems like the best of both worlds with being able to manage both your own hardware as well as burst to your OpenStack host's resources on demand. There are multiple OpenStack providers like Rackspace, HP, and many more. This means that if you don't like one provider, you can easily move to another OpenStack provider without being locked into 15 different AWS services. You may need to schlep your physical servers to a different datacenter, but that is still easier than decoupling your service from AWS.

From experience, I have seem that the price of performance on AWS is much higher than companies that buy their own hardware. Knowing what resources your service needs as a baseline can be helpful when picking which machines should be reserved instances, but still you may as well just buy your own hardware if you want the best perfomance/price.
See you are totally right what you say it is about communicating (listening, understanding and talking). Unfortunately this does not come so natural to everyone and talking with sexologist they tell me that the (lack of) good communication is what brings their patients to see them. Sexycrets wanted to give some better tool to improve this communication.
Had two today, have had a couple in the past but not for at least a year.
We all know that the C language is more a low-level system language than it is something else. Especially for this "something else" the use of other languages thrived. C++ since its appearance brought continuously on the table things to cover these higher levels of programming. This is what makes C++ a language that "will take you everywhere". Use newer incremental additions and you will do what Lisp, Haskell or Scala does without that "order of magnitude more work".
Don't forget about Xbox Live and Skype data centers. I'm guessing that those might be contributing a nontrivial percentage.
Which record did they break? What was the previous record?

While I have no doubt that this was overall a record-breaking weekend for Apple, they are likely hoping that this gets interpreted as iPhone 5S sells better than the iPhone 5 did at its opening weekend. I think this is highly unlikely, though, because the 9 million includes both iPhone 5s and iPhone 5C, whereas previous year's record breaking sales number of 5 million included only the iPhone 5.

So how many iPhones 5S did Apple sell compared to iPhone 5 last year? Let's say the 5S and the 5C sold equally well (which is VERY doubtful considering not just price but also availability). This would put both iPhone 5S and 5C at 4.5 million. Both below iPhone 5 sales of 5 million. It is much more likely, however, that the 5C sold many more units than the 5S thus putting the 5S as lower than 4 million units sold, perhaps as low as 2.25 million.

There is no bad news here for Apple as I'm sure their profit margins on the 5C are similar, if not higher than the 5S. But it does indicate the oncoming commodification of smartphones and other personal digital devices. The 5C is definitely holding its own, and Apple's brand is as strong as ever but I just wonder if Apple really wants to get into this kind of competition.
Direct link to GitHub home and longer discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6430049
Surface 2 and Surface 2 Pro
I applaud his efforts - but how is it so many people find main stream Linux distros that non-configurable that they need to create their own?

I mean, even distros like Ubuntu are highly configurable. You can kill off as many packages as you want and even compile your own kernel if you really want to.
You're entitled to my being down voted by proxy, if you make a compelling argument, instead of wishing out loud for extra downvotes.
Why can’t you find a job with a Stanford computer science PhD?
too bad Bowen doesn't have the balls to violate his severance agreement and self-publish his original testimony and supporting documentation.
Same. Chrome automatically downloaded it for me too. Twice.
I would guess they are trying to build up their cloud business. They have lots of cash, and they want a successful business. It's easy to justify a large buildout in that case, with the belief that the revenue will come. This is a common trap for innovators: you have to spend a lot just to stay in the game, while also preparing for the future. MSFT missed a lot of opportunities over the past few years due to their focus on Windows and Office (as Ballmer admitted recently) and now they have to play catchup.
For issues and comments you can simply drag an image into the body area (or use the upload button) and it will upload to GitHub. You only need to reference from your repository for README or other files inside of your code.
Hot or Not for written sex tips?

It looks like this would survive based on the number of people interacting with it, and hiding your content behind a signup form might limit that. Hot or Not added a matchmaking service, which might work in your case better than advertising alone. The additional service is where you would want them to sign up. (Freemium)

Forcing the reader to rank them, before seeing the next one, makes me wonder if people would just vote something random instead of actual feedback, like hot or not, which makes the numbers irrelevant. They might be better expressed as just a general percentage sexy ranking.
http://mojoupgrade.com/ does what you describe. They don't allow users to enter their own, but they have a pretty comprehensive list.
The types of users who have real problems with designs changes to the point they can't send an email would watch that video.
Where, exactly, does it say that gold sold out more quickly in Asia?

All I see is that it said gold sold out quickly in Asia. Which of course it did, just like in the rest of the world.
Compressing the two spatial dimensions of a map into the x-axis and using the y-axis for time is in fact a beautiful way to present events over time and space. I needed to do this in a project a few weeks ago and I don't know why this didn't occur to me. This is so much better than a dynamic map with a time slider.
No. Only life on farms where children were labor, and not since the industrial revolution.

The United State's page on the history of Social Security gives us some more information:

http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v66n1/v66n1p1.html

>The Great Depression was clearly a catalyst for the Social Security Act of 1935, and some of its provisions—notably the means-tested programs—were intended to offer immediate relief to families. However, the old-age insurance program—the precursor to today's Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance, or Social Security, program—was not designed specifically to deal with the economic crisis of that era. Indeed, monthly benefit payments, under the original Act, were not scheduled to begin until 1942. In addition, from the beginning, the Social Security program has embodied social insurance principles that were widely discussed even before the onset of the Great Depression.

>Although the Great Depression was a catalyst for the creation of the Social Security program, the idea of social insurance predated the committee's work and the Depression. As early as the 1880s, Germany had built a social insurance program (one requiring contributions from workers) that provided for sickness, maternity, and old-age benefits.1 Some authors have linked Germany's early adoption of social insurance programs to its rapid industrialization in the latter half of the 19th century (Schottland 1963, 15; Schieber and Shoven 1999, 17). A significant period of industrialization and urbanization also preceded the advent of social insurance programs in the United States. In 1880, the populations of farm and nonfarm workers were about equally balanced, but by 1930, workers in farm occupations accounted for only 21 percent of the workforce (Census Bureau 1956, 195).

>As the nation industrialized, increasing numbers of Americans depended on wage income (and less on family-based structures typical of a farm economy). Further, Schieber and Shoven (1999) argue that wage income, even before the Depression, was volatile. From 1905 to 1909, the nonfarm unemployment rate varied widely (ranging from 3.9 percent to 16.4 percent), with a similarly wide range (4.1 percent to 19.5 percent) occurring from 1920 to 1924 (Schieber and Shoven 1999, 19). Older workers, in particular, often bore the brunt of economic downturns.2 Cyclical swings in the economy were not the only concern. Lost wages due to disability, death, or retirement were also seen as problems not adequately dealt with by the structures of an industrial economy. Academic and political interest grew in social insurance plans that would smooth out the volatility of income or, said differently, insure against fluctuations in labor-market income.

Second of all, the life expectancy in 1935 was 61.7. Lots of people work until 61.7.
"Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden's cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people -- including President Obama -- discounted the seriousness of the NSA's actions by saying that it's just metadata."

You left out the part where he knocks it down with 9 different articles from various credible sources on the VERY NEXT LINE. Who is trying to deceive people here?
My advice would be to understand what steal is, and what CPU usage your cloud provider is offering you.

steal is time when your VM wants to run but the hypervisor doesn't let it because another VM is using it. It does not include time when your VM was idle and another VM was using the CPU.

As a result, steal is often very low until your VM's CPU usage starts increasing. Then, steal increases rapidly.

For example on EC2, 2 m1.small VMs normally share 1 CPU. You might benchmark your application and see it can handle 1000 transactions per second at 10% total CPU. You might then (possibly naively) assume that you can put ~10000 transactions per second through before you hit 100% CPU. In fact, as you went through 4000 transactions per second and towards 5000, your steal would rise rapidly and you'd max your CPU out.
Thank you for sharing. Hiring is very tough, and I appreciate the war stories.

At what point does a 4-5 day project morph into a 10 week internship or contract project? (Even after 10 weeks it can be tough to decide on an offer!)
If you are experiencing low conversion numbers, then your model might be incorrect. Have you tried selling the tshirts offline? If people will buy them from you, then you will have designs that people will buy online.

Another member made this point, but I'll repeat it. The design of the site is not very usable, and looks outdated. You should look into that, because tshirts fall inside the fashion industry. Where design is #1.
I love PIA but I was too afraid to use it at Black Hat / DEFCON this year. If you use L2TP (required for iOS, handy for OS X because there is a native client) there is no certificate to prevent a MITM. Is there any way to address this? Can you use a certificate instead of a pre-shared key?
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You can simply drag a photo into the markdown editor and the image will be uploaded and markdown created.
Did you make any dietary changes at the same time you started this? Or is the workout the only thing you changed in the last 50 days. Just trying to attribute the weight loss to the right factors. I compared the first side photo to the 50 day side photo and only saw a slight gain in the peck area. You don't really look more toned in your arms or torso.

Now, you were already a slim guy. For the US audience he went from 152 lbs down to 149 lbs. Which really is within a daily fluctuation depending on time of day, full/empty bladder, full/empty pooper, hydration level... etc.

As I have 2 kids, a full time job, and other odds and ends that I do, I'm temped to give this a try just for the sheer time element. Have you every tried to do 2 sets of the intervals at a time? How exhausted do your muscles feel after this 7 minutes? Would a 2 minute recovery allow you to do it again?
While I've heard good things about PIA, you're still trusting someone else with your data. Whether you trust them or not is entirely up to you, but it's not that hard to set up your own VPN tunnel. We posted about it a few weeks ago here: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/dont-get-pwned-on-publi..., and there was some good HN discussion on it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6285458
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Because it's a web application. In the old days, you could use that old version of said software until your motherboard gave out 15 years later. However, today there is only ONE version of Gmail. Everyone has to use that version. Hence one person's "New Feature" will be another person's reason to cry. The cost of keeping X versions of Gmail in production is just too prohibitive.
Thats actually not unusual for elasticsearch.

While not always including images, a lot of the new features start as something like this:

https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/3376
While I get the resistance to change, a small UI change in software is something people should be able to deal with. Our world is ever changing, new roads and neighborhoods are constructed, stores come and go, and we need to be able to adapt.

And as far as frustrating changes go, recently they changed the layout of the grocery store across the street. What should have been a 5 minute shopping trip turned into a 30 minute long ordeal. So I don't have much sympathy for those who can't deal with buttons in new places on a computer screen.
It's 9 million over one weekend, not over a quarter. The Blackberry number is irrelevant in that perspective.
Yeah, I think that makes sense (although I don't consider myself part of the group that has this unspoken belief about the misfeature of CC/BCC). But if they just at least keep the three separate fields visible to me as soon as I fiddle with them, they can please both the average and the 'advanced' (for lack of better word) user.
How does your payment gateway performance compare?
International first class flights can cost $15-20,000+. Granted you're probably not willing to spend that much so you may value it at less than face value but the actual redemption rate is way higher than 1 CPM.
No he didn't. Don't just make shit up.

And, by the way, the constitution of india enjoins every indian to be treated equally. If you don't understand that concept, and only view life through casteist eyes, then you are in for a sad, bigoted future.
> Please login to get free full access to the whole list.

Naaaaah... not that interested, especially since I just saw two crappy "secrets" (the guy wants to be blown every morning!? I wouldn't have guessed.) Maybe a few more secrets would've enticed me to join, but this is too little as an incentive and looks kind of staged/spammy.

Hiding your content behind a signup form won't make me sign. You might want to leave the form for later (perhaps additional content?)

Also, when I pasted that, I got an ugly

- See more at: http://www.sexycrets.com/users/sign_in#sthash.UfpvAPnI.dpuf

Those things just make users angry.
Google actually does a lot of charity

http://www.google.com/giving/
It's "overwhelmingly obvious" yet nobody can produce any evidence for it, and especially not for the specific claim that the gold iPhone is in more demand in Asia. Even the linked article can't bring itself to straight-out say that gold is more fetishized in Asia. It weasels out of the claim! Is it really "obvious" then?

Until and unless this stuff can be backed up with something resembling actual evidence rather than "everybody knows", articles like these are racist. Calling out a single racial group for behavior everybody is engaging in is pretty obviously so.
The title reminds me Chris Dixon's "The default state of a startup is failure"

http://cdixon.org/2012/05/18/the-default-state-of-a-startup-...
Pull requests and code reviews
Ironically, the women who did not get aborted become more valuable over time.
Based on Apple's existing precedent to 'revolutionize' phones to the average consumer, I'd consider all the devices in the 5 generation to be iterative.
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It's only really good for Apple if the profit on the more expensive model is greater than the profit on the cheaper one.

All the Apple blogs were talking as if the 5s wasn't really available in large numbers and the plan was to sell lots of cheap-to-make 5c models instead. Which is just one more terrible prediction to chalk up, but it seems they at least thought that would be a good thing before today.

I wouldn't know where to start estimating the profit margins on either phone, but it's worth mentioning since every other discussion about Apple is about how much profit they make, not how many they sell.
Strictly speaking all programming languages are visual. Except ones are much easier to write because typing on a computer today is way faster than drawing.

Once drawing becomes more productive (which I don't see exactly how, to be honest) then diagram-based languages will raise their heads. Until then, no, thank you.
I'm no babe in the woods. I've been through multiple acquisitions in the past as well as multiple funding rounds. With either you run risk of meaningful changes for employees and customers if you don't choose well and structure properly. Lots of founders and CEOs take the cop-out of "I didn't know." You won't find any of that here.

When I give my commitment and my word that we won't do anything that would compromise our product or our service, I do so with eyes wide open. Again, I'm not making any statement about the rumors that others are fueling. However, I do want to be very clear about our principles and the fact that everything we do will be driven by our commitment to deliver great products and fantastic service to our customers. That means I’d have to be very confident in our ability to do that for any path we choose – with no cop-out of “I didn’t know”. There will be no deviation from that – you have my full commitment on that.
That you're just making threads toxic with your white knight attitudes.

Saying that BI is racist because they generalize the Asian market is what's wrong with the world. Not only do you generalize an entire continent by reducing it to race (racist against all Asian races?), but you then go on about how they can't generalize.

Almost all markets generalize. They need to. It's how you do business. If target age 24-32 female, white, etc...

Stop being such a white knight and attempt to read the article and bring valid points up for discussion instead of derailing it and wasting many a programmers time.
Thanks! There's no problem with them not being configurable enough, the problem is with understanding how they work behind the scenes. The best way, IMHO, to address this, is by starting from nothing, and building it from the ground up - not just compiling things, but writing basic replacements for things like bash, init, etc. Along the way, this gives me room to try new ideas out on a much lower level - rather than just trying to hack them into Ubuntu/another distro.
One could also imagine a specially crafted image file which exploits some vulnerability of the graphics library to gain arbitrary code execution. Then you just need the user to look at the twitter button.
Good point.

When I implemented the votes I was thinking to use them on a single tip in this way you have your own list of tips you DO like, you DO NOT like and you MIGHT try.
So the ranking is not between a tip and the other but an quality indicator of if you like that particular tip or not. Does it make sense?
The Bootstrap 3 ticket/discussion is also pretty epic. [1]

[1] https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pull/6342
Absolutely yes to "Pass the Hacker News test". Seneca's letter Epistle XI is one of my favorites and teaches this exact lesson.

It closes with "Cherish some man of high character, and keep him ever before your eyes, living as if he were watching you, and ordering all your actions as if he beheld them."
http://www.stoics.com/seneca_epistles_book_1.html#‘XI1