skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. One thing I was thinking of was trying to continue with 20-40 hours per month normal contracting while transitioning. Like many things, even the psychological difference in having officially changed paths can help.
Hope not. Possible, though.
- Nicola Tesla, no matter how much he is praised, it's always way too little.

http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/10-inventions-of-nikola-...

- Henry Ford: Giving the world mass production and giving his workers (comparatively) high wages for the time.
Django 1.4.9 and 1.5.5 released
old-school developer

With all due respect, you obviously know nothing about the Microsoft stack. These people were not using VB6. How do I know? From the article:

new projects chose a base technology stack of C#, ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC is not an "old-school" framework. It was first released in 2009!! That's four years newer than Ruby on Rails. It's ridiculously actively developed as well as being open source. It's currently in version 5 which was released October 17, 2013 which was... OMG 8 days ago.

I continue to be shocked at how little most HN developers know about the Microsoft stack and how much innovative work has been done since they last looked at it in 1998.
TL:DR version: Smart people who want to get better at programming.
I've heard this a lot but haven't experienced it. Could you give an example?
This article is so opinionated. Just some counter-options:

Enabling apps from everywhere:
Don't disable this. It's actually a good security feature. If you want to run an app that isn't signed, right-click and click "Open" and confirm you really want to run it and the OS will remember that choice for that app in future.

Terminal:
The default Terminal is actually pretty solid. Much better than it used to be. Two common complaints (lack of tabs, lack of colours) are now moot.

Oh My ZSH:
Or you could use fish – a new Mavericks compatible build (2.1) should be coming to the homebrew package manager literally any time now.

Also, for Python specifically (i.e. the title of this post), you can install a new version of Python via homebrew (and then place /usr/local/bin above /usr/bin in your PATH). This has the advantage of being able to run pip without superuser privileges. Though if you're using virtualenvs, it's probably not that big a deal anyway.
Which component? I imagine these are for all of the little things that need GPIO, like power and under-keyboard lights, the lid close sensor, etc. There's no use powering up the main CPU to slowly strobe the power light at you when you can offload that to a component that sips power.
I was being snarky in my another comment and was downvoted as hell. Oh well, I am OK with that. However, I can't help thinking of the failure of Scala at Yammer, which caused a big buzz two years ago [1] and [2]. From the blog posts I've read about Scala and Yammer, they planed the transition to Scala carefully and with passion, and they switched away from Scala in merely one year.

Has the situation changed totally? I don't know. Maybe Scala has improved significantly since then and all the pain points back then have been addressed nowadays. I'd like to be enlightened on these factors.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3297750
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292555
Nice post!

If you have a chance, please take a look at my site reportsfortrello.com. It tracks time by using trello actions. So with the movement of one card you are communicating with your client and tracking your time.
Three growth hacks (Greylock partners)
This has often been true for the Powerbook/Macbook Pro line vs. an iMac.
Changing for change's sake is probably much worse than sticking with something that works.

Chasing shiny things is great if that's your goal. But if your goal is to build great product, then focusing on that should be the goal. There's still a lot of great product written in C, Obj-C, C++, and Lisp -- all rather "dull" languages compared to the shiny new stuff.
I can understand the Microsoft hate. The big question is, where is the Apple hate?
Wow!!

What an answer.

That is going to help so much. If you have a site I would highly recommend making this a blog post as I have been looking online for help and nothing comes close to this.

Really, thanks :-)
And a lot of people dont realize the difference between PPC ads and organic results - this is from direct experience at business shows talking to potential customers.
I've used this framework to build an html5 video player.
I really liked how easy it was to move from jQuery based prototype to fully "knocked out" version.

The other thing I adore is a lack of magic. This means more code but this also means I can understand what's going on after a long break from the project.
Sounds like more reason to step up and pass the bill.
All of which can be done on SkyDrive. Not sure why the downvote for this.

The only one lacking a first party client is Linux. There are 3rd party ones serving it.

For simple sharing, it can be done entirely in a web browser. In fact for photo sharing SkyDrives web-based offering is much better than dropbox, from handling of exif/geotags to the whole commenting and such.
The good thing about his analysis: It has all the information you need to reproduce it and form your own conclusion. So even if he was working for the NSA, by following his steps, you will either come to the same result or not.

That's how science works.
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Jasymca ported to the web
I'd really like to use both macports and homebrew, and switch between them as necessary, but I don't know a good way of doing this. I know homebrew is relatively well-behaved and doesn't really put stuff outside /usr/local, but other things install into /usr/local too so I can't just remove that from my PATH when I want to use macports.

If anyone knows a reliable and simple way to do this I'd be very grateful.
Some guns and some parts of guns are banned, and this is an absolute offence. You find a gun in the attic and take it to the police? That's an offence. Having a part of a gun and suing it for something else would fall under that law. (I don't think all gun parts are covered).

Knives are covered under a different law.
In my understanding, it's hard to say. It appears to have a base semantics that you can think through as OO-like message passing or FP-like lambda calculus reduction. I assume it's implemented OO-style on the JVM, but it's hard to say whether the core language biases one side or the other.

I think that's interesting but also a big indicator of why you see such a big split-brain situation in Scala. FPers program FP-Scala, OOers program OO-Scala, but neither is dominating. As far as I can tell, Martin Odersky programs balanced OO-FP, but few others do.
Who cares. I do not care one bit if I can replace or repair my MacBook or MacBook Air. You know what I care about - the fact that it is very light and I can use it on the flight from San Francisco to Tokyo. Everyone that cares really need to get over themselves. Welcome to the world of solid state. Heck, if it made them more reliable and run longer they could fill the inside with gel for all I care. I buy this because it works and when it does not Apple fixes it. Just to be clear I no longer fix or repair my:

1. car
2. LCD TV
3. stereo
4. every other piece of electronics made after 2006 or so

They are just to complex anymore and I just do not care.
I do wonder if this suggestion was the straw that broke the camels back and lead Marissa to yahoo.
Or it simply has a name you don't expect. A lot of the problems I had in Linux, before I got used to it, was simply not knowing what I needed to install.

I'm used to being able to do, 'brew install foo' and not needing to worry if I needed libfoo, libfoo-dev, libfoo3-dev or just plain foo.
Pretty much this. I love driving, but its my largest hassle and expense I'd like to replace with a good commuter bike.
I would be curious to know for which sort of accounting things Excel is ideal?

Sorry, I could not comprehend the second paragraph.

Fraud has nothing to do with paper or computer based system. To minimize risk of fraud you need to implement proper sets of controls, like segregation of duties, etc.

As for Excel - Excel is a poor instrument for doing the accounting, therefore it shall not be used ... unless you have some kind of micro/nano business.
The next step is bloodless, and the Stasi had it right.

> By the 1970s, the Stasi had decided that methods of overt persecution which had been employed up to that time, such as arrest and torture, were too crude and obvious. It was realised that psychological harassment was far less likely to be recognised for what it was, so its victims, and their supporters, were less likely to be provoked into active resistance, given that they would often not be aware of the source of their problems, or even its exact nature. Zersetzung was designed to side-track and "switch off" perceived enemies so that they would lose the will to continue any "inappropriate" activities.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi#Zersetzung

Data mining is extremely useful and a significant technological leap, but data manipulation on a massive scale is definitely something to marvel at.

Facebook is already impersonating your friends and family by showing fraudulent "likes" (but hiding them from their owners so as to prevent discovery), now imagine that the people you respond to on reddit and HN aren't actually people but instead they're trojan horses -- bots meant to influence society by manipulating it. MSM will no longer be the only domain that our elite overlords encroach upon.
> what was MS thinking when they joined email configuration with the desktop settings management?

Selling Exchange licences, what else?

> AD imposes a lot of restriction on how one must organize his services

Preventing machine-profile creep is a big concern for me. Every different kind of machine we deploy is one more different configuration we need to manage.
Salesforce $1 Million Hackathon
Police (and the home office) doing press releases telling us all the new ways criminals are going to hurt us (maybe) is really getting on my nerves.
Same thing occurred to me. It is so telling, and yet so sad that our leaders care so much for their own privacy, yet so little for that of others, even those that they supposedly represent & protect.

What can we do? We are being abused, yet we are powerless to stop it.
I totally agree with your point. Somehow we as technically savvy folks have confused the idea that the tool is more important than the big picture. While tools are great (and I even blog about great tools) it is the knowledge and skill behind the tools that ultimately lead to success. The tool is just an instrument. In other words, a means to an end.
Even if it was easy, you still need to go and find bullets, which is presumably just as hard and finding a gun. I wouldn't know, I've never had any inclination go anywhere near the things, and I don't know a single person in my normal life who owns one.
Dev Here,

I have thought of creating an Amazon Paid AMI that could be sold to schools who want to make this available to students.

If you are a student, would you have a need for this?
The little fading lights aren't actually using any CPU. It's just PWM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-width_modulation

The extra ARM cores tend to be integrated into 802.11 controllers or storage controllers.
This guy built an AK47 out of a shovel. (well the receiver and stock anyhow) Some of the other bits are a little more tricky. Vodka appears to be an important factor as well.

http://www.northeastshooters.com/vbulletin/threads/179192-DI...
But it ended with his death and there was a backlash from power. That's what doesn't make me worry about the NSA actually spying on US political figures.

On the contrary, FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt brought down Nixon through the Washington Post, in his role as Deep Throat of Watergate fame.

This all happened after Hoover died in 72.
Nameless inventor of wheel
Jesus Christ
Alexander Fleming who discovered penicillin
Might be, I still find it ironic, given that the founding fathers of Apple grew out of the open hacking/engineering community where all the designs were out in the wild and you could mess with things at will.
Wow, the cake wasn't a lie...
I believe it depends on local law, in some countries it can't be prosecuted as a pyramid scheme if it actually sells something, i.e. it configures "multi-level marketing" (e.g. Agel, Monavie). Pyramid schemes always seem attractive to the uninformed, I think the investment these days is in making them barely legal.
Ghost will have a hosted solution similar to Wordpress where Ghost will host it.
Whereas the people I've talked to about it tend to fall much more into the "disapproving of but not surprised with the NSA" camp.

And if you look at the top rated comments, rather than the BBC editor's personal picks, you'll see a fair amount of "Totalitarianism is a far greater threat to freedom than terrorism."-type comments before you get to any attacking Snowden's actions.
As a general observation on extended warranty programs (without claiming this is the case for Apple, I have no idea), it might not be uncommon to time the program length shy of the expected breakage time of the device. To look at it from another perspective the companies providing them need to make money out of the extended warranty services after all
I really wish I could learn to analyze typefaces better, like the author. When evaluating a typeface for my projects, I usually just eyeball it, never spending more than a few minutes. I hadn't really thought of thinking about the target audience instead of just a font that simply matches the design.

There are some great tips in there that I imagine would help one pick a fitting typeface for most projects.
mSATA is an industry standard and very small. But I think SATA could be a bottleneck which is why they moved to PCIe
Some of us do care. We care about paying more for overpriced RAM upfront because we cannot upgrade later. We care that we have to leave our laptop with Apple for long periods of time to do repairs of any kind (do they repair? Probably replace). We also care about the environment. Shiny is nice, but shiny comes at a cost way above the dollar sales ticket.

Still. Some don't care.
I may be wrong here, but don't 3d printed guns still need a metal firing assembly to work? Would that be enough to detect?
What for would you need "probability distribution and run a monte carlo simulation"?
Interesting presentation. We sort of understand the gist but lacks someone talking about the slides
AZ16 betting on Facebook/Yahoo alumni in $53B Big Data Mkt.
Thanks :)
I'll make it a post and add the URL to this thread as a comment once I do.
> What happened to the dreams of a computer in your pocket that knew what you wanted to do?

"Yes", the dream lives on; your pocket, your computer, your life -- dream on.

"But" this is a for profit business.
So far - for development - I haven't had any issues with the case sensitive file system. I guess it's because in the end of the day, it's all tools made to work on Linux I use.

If you're using OS X for an all-round machine, it might be the wrong choice.
No one should be alarmed by a non-metal firearm until someone figures out how to make plastic bullets.
It's cool to see https://goinstant.com included as one of the APIs too!
Oh the perversions of capitalism and maximising shareholder value. All is fair in love and free markets, especially cheating (see what I did there?).

This is why we have regulations. It's always easier to cheat than it is to improve.

The fine should've been much larger though.
Not at all. Lies are proliferated as truth as a matter of official policy -- misinformation campaigns. The truth doesn't matter when you can drown it out.
i7-4770
Solum: Open Development From Day One
In my MBP manual it shows you how to replace the RAM, and the hard drive, and it uses standard screws.
For starters:

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed -- obviously. Similarly Marx.
Socrates/Plato and Aristotle also had long-enduring influence on how people thought.

Highly effective conquerors -- Alexander and Genghis Khan come to mind first, because they punched WAY over the weight of the nations they started with.

Newton, Gauss, Darwin, Einstein -- massive and enduring influences on how science and mathematics are framed.
Well, it is probably possible to do financial modelling in Erlang (fault tolerance, etc) or Go (good concurrency support).

But why would you need this? You can do financial model in 1 hour using Excel...
Thats how it read to me too. Except I translated the CTO's "hard look" as "what big thing can I change to show I'm in charge."

Irrespective of the merits of the technology [1], if hiring a new CTO results in a lot of the existing development staff leaving then something is very wrong.

[1] I work on the .net stack, but I've tried Scala and think its a great language.
I would make an argument for Bill Gates. I know on HN people might snub this, but I honestly believe that for better or worse, the future was reshaped by his business tenacity.

I know that everyone involved in the entire PC movement equally played a big part, but Windows ended up being the huge unifying factor for Joe White-Collar-Worker. I think the surge in office computing in Windows was what eventually lead to the acceptance and idea of "normal people" owning computers in the home and consequently the drive towards intelligent consumer electronics in general.

Also a mention for Sir. Tim Berners-Lee, of course it was not a one man effort but he is largely attributed to the creation of the WWW which, let's face it, has already hugely reshaped society in many ways.
I'm more and more confused by everyone that bashes the MS stack because it doesn't have the OSS community that the other stacks do. I'd really love to hear what OSS projects there are for the Python/Ruby/JVM/etc languages which don't have equivalents for .Net. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but my experience on .Net has always been such that I can find a project to meet my needs. Sure my target OS is Windows, so the OS interop is not an issue for me, but for my day to day needs, there is always a solution to be found in the .Net OSS community.
"Nameless inventor of wheel Jesus Christ" - man, that guy had many talents
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On a lot of laptops, the jack is mounted to the case with a single screw and connected to the motherboard via a short pigtail connector. This eases in repair since you can very easily swap in a new connector without having to do any desoldering.
This looks like a cool upgrade to Mozilla's Collusion add-on, which is no longer available. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/collusion/ Edit: It even gave me a pop-up warning me that it's overwriting my Collusion data.
I wish my country had enough capitalism to live like that - its not the reality yet, though.
It's not a bug, it's a feature: the rise of glitch art
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This is a really useful starting point, thanks for sharing
As the author mentioned, poetry usually compresses quite well, thanks to rhyming.
Here is another fun example:

http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/6043/were-no-str...
Edison -- yes, way over Tesla. He drove and shaped adoption of a whole lot of technology.

Bill Gates, similarly albeit to a lesser extent, plus he has his massive charity.
Nice read, but I'm left with some questions. Thisis a website where one can find recepies and read those with the instructions while you're cooking if I'm correct. If so, I'd love to hear if the author actually studied some users in their kitchen while cooking a new recipe and using these new fonts.
I love my macbook pro for many reasons but for me, the most important one is their magic trackpad. Their trackpads are just awesome and I haven't found any other trackpad nearly as slick. I would love to get a Linux-only laptop, but the regular mouse just kills my hand (and my productivity).
Flint Raises $6M Series B
J. Robert Oppenheimer - "father" of the atomic bomb
The worry isn't unfounded though and in the case of programming it has actually been measured, the decline in quality of CS students is what inspired the Raspberry Pi project:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/about
I'm going to go from least to most probable here:

There's a theory that the nearly last minute requirement that eliminates window shopping was intended to hide the ugly details of unsubsidized prices for the new, one size fits all gold-plated plan. Whatever the trade offs in monthly premiums vs. deductibles, the minimum plan has a 10 or so less or non-essential benefits, like covering your children to or through age 26; the old "real insurance" high deductible major medical (catastrophic coverage) plan is soon to be illegal except for around 2 of the 18 million who managed to squeeze through the needle of grandfathering. Letting just anyone window shop would enable a lot of bad press.

It was decided the Federal system was the only one that could calculate subsidies, the state exchanges and insurers have to use it. Whoever does it, this process is absolutely essential to avoid screwing worse many of the above who will lose their insurance come Jan 1 and can't afford the new plans without a subsidy. That, BTW, is the really hard deadline to all this, it's one thing to be changed an already delayed once penalty for not getting insurance, quite another to lose it altogether because your old one was outlawed and the government can't get it's act together to let you buy a one compliant with the new law. And to the extend young whippersnappers feel public spirited enough to buy insurance they don't really need (beyond major medical coverage) so they can help to pay for the 50-64 bracket this system is truly subsidizing, showing them after subsidy prices makes that easier. The initial financials of the system require about 3 million of them out of the total 7 million.

Someone should do a bunch of verification things, and in theory we trust "the government" to do this....

FICO scores are understandably part of new insurance policy pricing (someone's going to be on the hook for when customers don't pay co-pays, deductibles or premiums, so it's an input into pricing), so Experian is checked for yours (which is currently a nightmare for those who don't have one, like sick children who've never really needed to get a credit card etc.; there's supposed to be a process, but it's hard/impossible to get to it on Healthcare.gov or the phone numbers for it).

Credit scores are absolutely tied to real identities, and you can't let just anyone find a particular person's one, directly or indirectly. Only way I can see to have done this differently would still be a stiff identity check and then telling a person what their's is, so they could plug that in along with everything else prior to "window shopping".

I'd note that the current system doesn't allow "what if" games, which due to the subsidy etc. system would be incredibly useful. E.g. the most common advice on how to decrease your Obamacare insurance costs is to make less money. Or someone using a Kaiser? calculator couldn't find any scenario where being married didn't result in higher costs....
I agree, though not about the battery. There's a world of difference between being able to instantly replace the battery with a spare and not being able to do so and sit on the charger. To me it's the difference between a device made for actually traveling, and a device that you can only use during a commute.