skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like the author didn't like all the gray words so he wanted to spruce up the copy with a splash orange everywhere.
I smell a doozy of a class-action lawsuit.

Seriously, if my local newspaper can hand-approve comments on their website, I'd think somebody working in the medical field should look into that approach.
Even if your Mac is no longer supported or on Apple care you can always book an appointment with the genius bar to get questions answered regarding setting up email accounts or if something is malfunctioning.

Apple also sells one-on-one sessions if you are so inclined or need longer sessions than what the genius bar can help you with.
Agree mostly, but I do take issue with the idea that "an active GitHub account should be enough for most programming jobs." Recruiter or otherwise, that kind of assumption is a good way to miss out on talent.

At my current job I have a very active github account - but about 95% of that activity is in private repos.

I am just now starting to work more on contributing to github hosted OSS Projects but -- when I even had time previously -- those projects were often not hosted on github.

For my personal projects, I use my own git repos over ssh. I probably will decide to put them on github when and if I am ready to share them -- but that's not a given.

In my previous job, we didn't use github. Everything was closed source and internal.

Just because one service is the current fad (and don't get me wrong, I generally think github kicks ass) doesn't mean it's valid to assume that your next candidate is using it.
Apple kept saying that; "this is the biggest leap forward"... how so? It's thinner, like it is every year. It's got this year's processor in it, which it does every year. It's got a higher resolution screen, like it does ever year. It's an incremental update, not a new product. It's the same upgrade as last year's upgrade.

There's news I care about: I care about the new Nokia devices. That's relevant to me and plenty of others, considering the number of votes and comments the articles had. That's actually new stuff. Yet they got removed from HN because they got flagged.

Check out my comment that I posted hours before the Apple announcement:

" I think the announcement of new phones and tablets in new form factors with new apps and an upcoming software update from Nokia would be relevant, moreso than a slightly thinner iPad with the same internals and software as the already released iPhone 5s, which will undoubtedly be filling the front page later today."

Prescient, huh? Looks like I can see the future. But what I can't see is the articles that are relevant to my interests, because for some reason anything Microsoft related gets instantly removed from the front page, unless it's bad news. Whether or not you think this is a problem, it's actually a pretty big fucking problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6592147
Maybe more apt a comparison would be a choice between custom-built automobiles and those from factory lines. At the time, there was fear that working in factories was dehumanizing. The ethical question is resolved politically, by having labor unions so that workers have some control. From the undercover reporting articles on Amazon's warehouses, there aren't labor unions.

Amazon does provide a lot that stores don't, but now you're asking what is the outcome of your choice for yourself, not for others. There is a lot of that same focus in the comments here.

Counterexamples of people who work in stores and don't enjoy their jobs are perfectly valid. I would focus, though, on what my choice of where I spend money offers as an opportunity to others. The opportunity in the warehouse depresses me. The opportunity in the store seems pretty OK.

I, too, want what Amazon has to offer, and those who can pay taking what is offered them is the way of the world, but I still have to make my own choice.
bchjam said "Obama campaign" while you dismiss just the static website. That wasn't where the impressive IT investment in the Obama campaign was directed. You underestimate the amount of technology used for canvasing, volunteer management, exit polling, etc.

"Someone counted nearly 10 distinct DBMS/NoSQL systems, and we wrote something like 200 apps in Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Node.js."

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/11/how-te...
Yes.

For a big house, with long DC runs, you could lose quite a bit of power, negating any savings from having a single more efficient power supply.

It's definitely tidier to have a single supply, but I'm not sure you'd see increased efficiency. You'd also need double the wiring in the buildings. Retrofitting buildings would be a nightmare.

My personal thought is that all houses should have AC and Ethernet throughout the walls. Phones can use VoIP through the ethernet, and the ethernet can be used as a DC supply via PoE. Obviously PoE would have to become more robust and ubiquitous, but it makes more sense than running dedicated DC (or phone) lines throughout a building.
> Microsoft makes no money by giving away Windows 8.1 for free to consumers.

Of course they make money from it. That's very naive of you to think that they don't.
> I've replaced that with a firefox phone after it died

Which is far worse if you buy a ZTE open. I had a ZTE blade , no update to ICS , and the display lasted 2 month. You definetly get what you pay for but ZTE phones are crap.
The Mac Pro is Ivy Bridge-EP. Haswell-EP won't be released for a year.
One thing to note is that bitcoin not only made this autonomous system possible, it also made it transparent to outside (through open-source and public blockchain). In that sense, it could be considered more trustworthy than an actual corporation.
This seems like it would be cool for existing games to add as a feature, like a level creator on ipad or iphone games, but as for actually making games it seems like all these ideas are just custom basic side-scroller generators. Someone had something like this the other week at Hack-MIT and I think it even won some stuff, the tech is cool, but so far no impressive implementation.
On the other hand, if you prefer OS X as I do, you are SOL. :)
A relic indeed :)
Touch ID sensors are supply constrained and putting it on more things than the 5s wouldn't help.
OSX Mavericks marks the downfall of a post-Steve Jobs Apple
Just thought I'd be the first to say it. I don't think it's true, I love Mavericks!
Perhaps they wanted to see a period of time with real-world use with the touch sensor on the 5s before going all-in across their entire platform.
I don't think "a language I don't use" is a big concern in these email, just like I don't think I should be tested on a specific language in job interviews. It's always a plus if I know the technical / implementation details of the platform, but if I know how to code and I know how to learn languages it's mostly moot, IMO. However I definitely hate it when people pitch me a job that's a "perfect match" for my background and they clearly have no idea what my background is. Don't be disingenuous. If you think it might be up my alley, just tell me about it.
Does "The End of Files" mean "The End of Unix"? :(
Yeah I get that. If it's a frequently updated package that you use frequently and care about, or on an instance you're both developing and maintaining, it's totally worth it to do the system integration for yourself. I got the impression that GGP was deploying for other people. In that situation, not having a distro package maintainer for a package might mean the sysadmin becomes a de facto package maintainer, which sucks for the sysadmin and the users both.
Can I download this once and then copy it to my other machines or do I have to download this individually on every one?
here's the blog post on it: https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-10-22-firebase-bindings-f...
> Question is though, what about support. You have a 3 year old Mac of some flavour and upgrade to this OS, what about issues you may have.

If you have an Apple store nearby you can walk in and get help. There is a limit to what they will do, my anecdotal experience is that most people with software issues get them fixed in a few minutes without going to repair.

But if you don't you are SOL with a >3 year old product.

Here are the timelines for AppleCare: http://www.apple.com/support/products/mac.html
The iPad Mini and iPad Air are the same thickness (or thinness if you are in Apple PR). It's a strange naming scheme, especially considering their laptops. The Mini should have been the Air in the first place.
No, the EU mandate certainly had a large effect in the US. Why would manufacturers bother using two different charging port standards per model when they're only being compelled to use one? You must have a short memory if you've already forgotten just how recently the market was still riddled with Mini-USB and a hodgepodge of other connection formats.
Though I am reminded of the Ram Doublers from Connectix and others in the early 90s, and the buzz around magically doubling your memory... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix and http://www.ambrosiasw.com/ambrosia_times/january_96/3.1HowTo...
>Microsoft sells software, Apple sells hardware with matching software.

Something Microsoft would love, love, love to change about themselves. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
I dont' want to call your friend a liar, but this is most likely false.

> The week after this we had a trader in our office who had a meeting at Knight on the morning it happened.
> He said he saw the whole dev team just power off and go home at 11am, followed quickly by the rest of the employees.

1) Dev and Trading/Sales happen at different physical locations.

2) I actually know someone who spent their day cleaning this up and according to someone who was on the tech team and working that day no one went home early.

Think about it, the firm just lost a shit load of money due to an IT issue. Dev's were frantically searching the code for the bug, Sys admins were rifling through server logs. No one had nothing to do:)

> After trading was halted they set the cap at 20% loss for rolling back trades. So if you lost 19% of your position in that short period of craziness, tough luck.

This is just plain false. The normal procedures for busting trades were followed. There was no 20% "cap" for losses, how would you even determine what a 20% loss is?
I don't expect Apple to, but I wouldn't be surprised if they were putting in a CPU that we would pay that much for.

The CPU you cite is an E3 versus an E5 (not that I have any clue what that means), runs slower, and has less L3 cache. I don't know how much those add but I wouldn't be surprised if it was a lot. Just once, it would be nice if someone making a Mac versus PC price comparison could compare against a part that was better than the one in the Mac....
I don't know much about the wheel format. But eggs being dead is news to me. You have links for those interested in more info?
All things require balance. I think we could use a little more 'pushback'. Online connectivity does not provide the same quality of interaction as real life connectivity. Although it clearly has its place.
No, by "breakthrough" I mean support common x86 devices, which OS X does support to a limited degree.
Its not so much a matter of belief as the gov reported inflation rate is tied to innumerable fedgov dependents via cost of living allowance raises and so forth.

So the truth of the matter is the .gov is willing to pay its dependents 2.3% more, unfortunately inflation rate is somewhat higher, then again their cost of shipping is not necessarily numerically equal to the aggregate average inflation rate of every product for everyone purchased everywhere.

There is the obvious data gathering issue that amazon can't signal 6 sig figs of inflation accuracy, for marketing reasons it probably had to be rounded to the nearest $5, probably rounded up.
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So the fact that you have to plug in a million wires into the thing is a mute point.

It's not only moot, we are also past the Statue of Limitations to be able to talk about this.
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And if anyone had said the Kindle was better, this snark would be relevant. But this is clearly a discussion of tablets' weight and whether the iPad Air's weight is a significant advance.
Wait, I thought the whole point of retina was to be a set PPI based on optimum viewing distance. Are we now expected to believe that the new iPad Mini and the iPad Air have different optimum viewing distances that happen to result in the exact same resolution?
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For what it's worth, it takes very little work (< 20 lines of code, IIRC) to stub out the require() function so that you can use Marionette without RequireJS. (Sadly, the project I was working on that required that wouldn't allow me to open-source that bit of glue code).

Of course, that doesn't address all the other incidental complexity you inevitably have to deal with when using Marionette.
Federal Gov employee here. Can't speak for a project with this scope, but the procurement middlemen get into everything, far for the worse.

Two years ago our team wanted to buy a small cluster (~300 cores, ~$50K). We talked directly to two good vendors (good recommendations from university partners) and came up with a fine machine and 2 bids for it. Sent recommendations to procurement.

Procurement put it out for bid, and a fly-by-night company undercut the bid by $10K... by noticing that procurement had not specified details of service level (that were in the bids we'd gotten and forwarded). Procurement, once it goes there, is a true black box. No communication, no understanding.

Five months later, we were basically delivered 2 pallets of unassembled parts and no instructions. Believe me, we spent 3-4x as much in labor as the $10K savings to get it working, and it's been plagued with issues that would have been under the onsite service warranties for the better companies.

The biggest irony is: I firmly believe that procurement acts this way not because the government is fundamentally incompetent, but because the Public, and thus Congress, BELIEVES we are incompetent, so puts so many levels of "check" bureaucracy in place that the people who know what they want can't participate directly in getting it.
I don't understand why you would want to write your book on a tablet. Sounds counterintuitive. Why not just use a real keyboard and OS on a Macbook Air? They are marginally thicker than the iPad.
Nokia brings its biggest Lumias yet, including a Windows RT tablet
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At my company we also work remote and we love Floobits.
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You have to stop thinking that a large OEM such as apple will be as subject to the artificial market segmentation pricing Intel & AMD makes. Intel sells i7 CPUs much cheaper than the equivalent xeon cpus for example. The big advantage of the equivalent xeon is being able to dual socket it and some other cheap-for-intel features being switched on. You can't dual socket CPU this mac pro anyway and GPUs tend to max out at ~$500 each for equivalent consumer GPUs.

So in summary, you can make an equivalent performance PC for $1500-$2000 dollars.
No.

http://ark.intel.com/products/75779/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-... max turbo 3.9 GHz

http://ark.intel.com/products/75780/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-... max turbo 3.9 GHz
jq is in the software center in 13.10
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When you install/update the system it creates/update your restore partition. Does Apple still only put necessary file and then do an over the air installation or they put the whole system ready to install ?
Exactly, "get out of the building" would be "get out of the country", making much harder to follow the advice.
Intel is moving towards soldered CPUs due to the issues with signal integrity and pin counts. I'm sure they would prefer for people to have the ability to upgrade CPUs.

This shouldn't come as a surprise to those of us who witnessed the previous fiasco with moving the pins off the chip and onto the motherboard. This was also spun as some evil Intel conspiracy, but was due to the same reasons. It is becoming an industry wide issue, because of the exact same reasons. Density can only go up so much until you start having to remove traces and integrate components.

Then again, these were the exact same complaints that circled when ICs came out.
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Unfortunately most of the recruiters tend to rely on scale aka spam method instead of very targeted approach. The quality of this kind of work is mediocre at best. They are wasting everybody's time - candidates, employers and their own.
Hypothesis: Apple OS X is now knocking hard at the doors of the enterprise, and it's removing every barrier to entry except their main source of revenue, hardware costs.

iWork is more than good enough for many MS Office use cases. If you work on documents that you often don't need to exchange with co-workers, then you don't really have any barriers to switching. Obviously, financial analysts with their massive models in excel aren't going anywhere anytime soon, but real estate agents like my mother and others like her have few reasons not to switch.

Next time someone goes to upgrade office, they are going to have to compare an expensive software license with putting that money into a brand new computer instead and who doesn't love having a fresh new computer.
I'm getting the error "Before installing OS X Mavericks, this system requires MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.1. Click on the Updates button in the Mac App Store to install the update." even though I've applied the firmware update and there aren't any updates (besides Mavericks) in the Mac App Store. Any help?
Except this completely defeats the purpose. You no longer have a central DC supply, but instead have a wall-wart converter build into the wall instead of hanging off the plug.

This would actually be less efficient than the approach in the article, as you are increasing the number of idling DC supplies, not reducing them.
> which effectively mandated that all smart phones sold in the EU use micro USB for power

The very Wikipedia article you linked to contradicts this statement: "compliance is voluntary"
On a tablet, bigger doesn't equal better, and a very common sentiment is that the Mini is the ideal size, with the iPad full-sized being unwieldy for many uses (any situation where you hold it in your hand). So I'm not ignoring screen size, but quite contrary am saying that smaller, in this case, for many purposes == better. Obviously that is to a point, but for common uses the iPad Mini is very close to perfect.

To put it another way, now that Apple has equalized the hardware (same resolution, processor, accouterments), they could legitimately pitch the Mini as the more expensive, premium device (fitting more capabilities in a smaller space). Of course they couldn't only because they originally intro'd the mini as the discount device, but had they not it would be a legitimate angle.
plus... if you spend enough (i.e. buy new tires there once a year) you can sign up for executive membership and get your membership paid for.
There is a project on github that is very similar to the authors intentions -- https://github.com/rowanmanning/joblint
Sadly you need to re download the whole thing. Just skip the warning that you already running 10.9 and download then install it again.
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Apple is making safe, welcome changes to their products, which is something you can do in times of plenty.

Apple is also the company that made risky, aggressive bets cannibalizing their own products during times of plenty and was highly praised for doing so. (I speak of the iPod) I'm not surprised when people wish to see that kind of movement again.
The only mention of Forstall in the review is on the first page.

> But that was all before last year's ouster of Scott Forstall, senior vice president of iOS Software. By all accounts, Forstall was one of the driving forces behind the iOS aesthetic that Lion and Mountain Lion so enthusiastically embraced. Jony Ive's iOS 7 strikes off in a bold new direction based on a philosophy that Apple is eager to generalize to the company as a whole—leaving OS X holding the stitched-leather bag.

Not exactly sullying his name. There has been a design shift, it's fairly striking, at least on the surface, and it seems to be tightly coupled with a changing of the guard.

The story that will go down in history is Scott Forstall was the skeu guy, and he got the boot so Ive could flat-iron everything. We don't know if it's true, but unless Apple tells us otherwise, it fits the data we have better than most things.
That's a mega-truckload of fail
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Apple doesn't want to sell you an iPad 2. They want you to pick up an iPad 2 and then an iPad Air and buy the iPad Air.
Finally adding OpenGL 4.1 support is pretty big as well.
We can download hundreds of fully functional iso for a myriad of unix-like systems... Why is it naive to expect Apple to follow suit?

Is it their software which is so costly, or is it the hardware upon which that software runs?
I don't think that they'll add multiuser support because then the incentive for e.g. each family member getting their own idevice would be less. instead people might get a family ipad...
yeah, I had to put in an underscore for my city as well.
Mavericks GM hasn't been too good for my 2011 MacBook Pro. This machine has only 4 GB RAM, and it shows. It's swapping noticeably more than before, and overall everything feels less snappy than on Mountain Lion.

On the other hand, the battery life is definitely better. It's not really worth the performance hit, though...
That diagram for the "waterfall" approach that they yanked from Wikipedia is a complete straw-man representation. It's nonsense.

Here is the actual, original source for the Waterfall approach, first published in 1970:

http://leadinganswers.typepad.com/leading_answers/files/orig...

If people would just bother to scroll past the first couple of pages, they will notice that the approach already includes some iteration cycles between steps.

In other words, this whole "agile vs. waterfall" debate which has wasted countless hours of human effort is based on a complete misunderstanding of what "waterfall" is in the first place. No one ever seriously proposed a model without iteration. It simply never existed in the first place!
After seeing videos of traveling professional photographers bringing a thunderbolt display and more in checked luggage, I think this form factor will be very appreciated by that market segment.
FYI for others looking for more specifics, there's now a specs page up (separate from the store):

http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/specs/

And there is, indeed, a 12-core configuration option listed.
With monster FirePros it better.
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There's a big difference in the amount of bureaucracy needed to organize thousands of volunteers doing one thing versus millions of employees doing an uncountable number of things.
Boy that first page was completely worthless. Maybe there was one useful sentence in there, saying there are new features and bundled apps. Not sure I should bother reading page 2. Ars' latest iPad announcement coverage was awesome, though.