skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're taking it too literally. Since Model T, cars have improved tremendously. Efficiency, comfort, and safety are still getting better year after year. That is engineering with a goal, to make a better vehicle.

Things like hydraulic power steering is a good thing. It is there for a reason, and taking it away does not make better engineering. It is however being replaced with electronic power steering, for the exact engineering reasons. Before we could make reasonable good electronic power steering, there was nothing to take away from the hydraulic steering, but taking away the power steering itself, would be a step back.
irony times. macbooks are the boring last decade thing that every startup guy (the new Suit) carries around, it doesnt even have touch screens. on the nonprofessional front every kitchen had an ipad.

meanwhile creative types buy microsoft hardware and tries to say how it is a machine for creators and not consumers.

and jobs is not even cold. (bye karma. but i cant resist a bad taste joke)
Not sure what you mean. It's another way to say "if you have the time/money".
I leave my Mac plugged in perpetually, or nearly so. It's 53 months old and the battery is at 80% capacity. So instead of 7 hours I get 5.5 or whatever. It's not really noticeable yet.

Maybe I'm just lucky. I had to replace my wife's macbook pro battery a month ago, same age as mine. Her's swelled up though, and was preventing the trackpad from clicking.
The Cat in Numberland
Phonebloks' Thunderclap campaign happens tomorrow at 10AM
The author sets up a dichotomy between living an interesting life and learning rules of grammar. But writing well is deeper than either. If you don't practice and learn from the masters, then even your most fascinating stories will turn to mush.

"Take any good piece of writing, something that matters to you. Why is it good? Because of what it says. Because what [sic] the writer manages to communicate to you, their reader. It’s because of what’s within it, not how they wrote it."

Obviously not true! Even our patron saint Paul is praised for his style as much as his insight. His clarity is a product of taste, training, and vigorous editing. And, I'm confident, of a strong wish to write good prose.

There's something to Ryan's point, but he doesn't express it very well. The article could be much better.

Just one example: the first paragraph namedrops Schopenhauer, but the article doesn't make use of the philosopher's thought. Instead, he's only brought in as a sideshow to support the author's point. Does he respect Schopenhauer's philosophy? If so, why not engage with it? If not, why cite him as authoritative? Sloppy!
It is possible to engage in constant communication even with a very long delay. Simply both start sending questions of a certain theme, and after the one-way time you can have a fluid conversation, albeit the theme of conversation will change very slowly.
How to get the media to notice you
Linkin Intro: a very cool tech solution, do we really care about privacy in 2013
Begs the question to outsiders, in the end, seeing the two deleted posts. So... are they illegal?
The key I think is people reading the bible have their minds engaged in the thoughts of morality.
This article is acting like men can.

Except that pretty much every guy I know who has a really high ranking job could give me a litany of family sacrifices he's had to make to get there. Missed recitals, sporting events, and just generally being absent from quite a lot of family life.

If women - people in general - want to opt for that path, I completely support them. But don't act like you're doing as much for the company as the person who makes the opposite choice - that you're on equal footing with someone willing to make those sacrifices - if you do.

I agree that there are lots of things in society that can change, and perhaps people would be happier if they did, but the idea that you can split your efforts and still deserve to be at the top seems silly to me.

(And there's at least one full generation of men who have had a serious look at the balance guys typically face between family life and professional life that aren't satisfied with the current status quo, which this article seems to be largely ignoring.)
They aren't writers they are entertainers.
Sweden requires about 3 months notice before firing/leaving companies.
So you're learning a lot more than just AngularJS, then, and attributing the problems you run into along the way to AngularJS.

Maybe AngularJS is hard to grasp if you're not already familiar with the DOM, compared to other frameworks. I wouldn't know, to be honest.

Your video driver example is not a good comparison, in my opinion. You're comparing developers to users. If a developer triggers a bug in a video driver through some specific OpenGL calls, he will certainly try to develop an understanding.

(The bad part about video drivers is that the maintainers of proprietary ones are hard to reach. But Valve is doing it, I guess because they have contacts.)
A Blueprint for Farming
This is a great substitute for employers without adequate intuition about their candidates and/or the willingness to actually go through a candidates' references and public projects.
You might wish to physically transport key material for a one-time-pad-based interstellar crypto system.
Why would such an advanced species "trade" ?

They would just mine planets directly via robots.

Hopefully if they were nice aliens they would only mine uninhabited, lifeless planets.
Add to that the fact that If you already have a lot of rep, and answers the same exact thing as other people, OP will tend to validate you instead of the first guy thats posts :).

It happened to me in several occasions.
And this is one of the reasons I tend to avoid answering questions now.
Worst for me: hooking up Angular with a stateless REST API without using a middle layer application for authentication.
We do have excellent support for Mercurial in Bitbucket, Bamboo (which I am Product Manager of) and Fisheye.

I can't speak for Stash but there is a lot of work going into it right now. It's still a relatively new product and both Git & Mercurial are important parts of many teams workflows, so we will have to wait and see.
He's offering it for free (in certain cases). I was suggesting also let people pay him a small amount instead.
Same here. Got 9k rep by mostly answering basic Java questions.
Thanks, now I have a problem I didn't know I had ;) I haven't upgraded to Mavericks, yet, but after reading this thread I clicked on my battery indicator (mid-2009 MBP) and there is a "Service Battery" warning.

I haven't noticed any issues, and typically get 4-5 hours of usage from a full charge. /shrug
When I first started using Angular I actually bought a video course on it from Pluralsight. So when I started my first Angular project I hit the ground running.

There are also a lot of free videos on Youtube, that sometimes explain things more clearly than the docs.
Can you request from your current employer one week unpaid vacation time to compensate? If not, then why?
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Correspondence chess, maybe.
Gmail is working perfectly fine here for me
> Should they be able to set their own price?

He's offering it for free (for some users). I was simply suggesting he also allow those users to pick a price and pay him something.
There was an email sent by Textmate talking about plugin issue.

If you wish to use TextMate 1.x on OS X 10.9 then to fix bundle items that do not work with ruby 2.0 you will need to open the bundle >editor and change the first line of the command (called shebang) to the following:

#!/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
Being the best on one market isn't always as beneficial as being good in a couple of markets. Apart from that you're looking at it from a single perspective making you see only certain trade-offs (which are only there for those expecting a tablet or ultrabook anyway) and not the other side of it. Other people might just see a full-blown laptop running a desktop OS with touch and Wacom. And when you get rid of the keyboard you're left with something that's quite usable as a tablet ans still runs a full desktop OS.
Li-Fi 250 times faster than broadband
This was software aimed at people seriously studying the bible with a reminder that would come up when they're reflecting on their religion. And you think that's irrelevant?

They've already pirated the software so it's not morality, it's guilt.
Sorry to be that guy, but isn't one of the cornerstones of optimization in programming that you should only do it when it actually gives a meaningful benefit? E.g. don't spend days or weeks to make a part of the program that gets called very rarely run 0.1% faster, when you could instead spend that time on solving a new problem, or making an actually useful optimization, or doing something else entirely.

Of course, it's silly to bicker about what is "useful" when it comes to things people do to relax or entertain themselves; and usually fruitless when it comes to things they do as escapism or getting a feeling of achievement to compensate for areas where they are stuck or blocked off. I do think the psychology of it is interesting though, and my personal guess is that most if not all people have the innate desire to progress and achieve things, but we often can't for some reason or other. Why does a caged animal endlessly walk in circles? Because it's better than doing nothing. And before you think I'm just being snarky, think again, please; I did and do my fair share of such things myself, I just also can't help but notice that the smaller and more powerless people become, the more we celebrate rather pointless things - TV and the interwebs are full of that. And even if I'm wrong about the motivations of everybody else on the planet, I do know myself well enough, and although I might be projecting, it's at worst a honest mistake.
In my anecdotal evidence there's actually huge, but hey, that's exactly what we have science for.
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Fury at Facebook as login requests “Government ID”
Exactly right, but also exactly wrong. patio11 made an understatement to get his point across - that design doesn't matter as much as people think. That you, respectfully, call Bingo Card Creator not even close to cutting edge just makes his argument stronger.
Ember WAS Sproutcore, Sproutcore 2.0 is what became Ember.

Worth noting: Sproutcore was used to build iCloud, apparently.
Customer service stinks. I've been on hold for 12 parsecs.
Forget About Google: MPAA Reveals Places to Score Illicit Torrents
According to this comment http://blog.aggregateknowledge.com/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-... , it's custom made and based on d3.
Apple Sold 33 Million iPhones, 14 Millions iPads in Q4
Not even an option worth considering, IMO. And that's with 10+ years experience with Debian/Slackware/Arch that I'm saying that. I've run the above as my primary desktops for years but they still aren't ready for primetime (for both getting work done and for entertainment). That goes triple for laptops.

I was dragged back to the Windows world with Vista and 7 because it was obviously more efficient with my time. Last year I purchased a mac mini and it has completely taken over as the machine that I get all of my work done on. Easily five times more efficiently than any other platform. My Windows machine does nothing more than store media and play games. The next computer I buy is going to be an rMBP, I have no doubt.

And before someone eventually brings up Ubuntu, it's a joke and a toy OS that's suitable for hobbyists and old people. I wouldn't suggest it to anyone who wants to actually learn Linux.

A fresh install of MacOS is probably 90% of the way ready for me to do everything I need. Getting it the other 10% there takes less than 2 hours. Tops.
Windows (any flavor) starts at maybe 30%. Closing the gap is easily a full day.
Getting a Linux system up and running properly takes a weekend, taking time to do everything the right way. It's worth it, no doubt, but requires much more effort to properly administer. My time is way too valuable for that.
Sorry, but the three designs you posted may have been well designed 10 years ago but now they just look old.
> [a very] painful experiences to install and re-install an entire OS

Don't want to be contrarian but I just installed an Ubuntu on an old laptop for my own use, and it took around 1.5 hours, with only a few minutes requiring my attention.

I follow and update a personal step-by-step installation guide, and most tweaks and installations after the main OS install are commands I just blindly copy-paste in a terminal. I can even use command-line to configure apps and gnome layout.

Not to say I am an Ubuntu fanboy. I hate it actually, and wipe some warm tears each time I have to install it (why did they drop gnome 2!?). But I still hate it less than other non-Linux systems, and didn't take time to explore other Linuxes.
Has Phonebloks done anything besides draw concept images though? I mean, it's a cool idea but something like this is far easier to dream up than to implement. Was the point just to show manufacturers that people would buy something like Phonebloks? I would like to buy a flying car too, but that doesn't mean starting an internet campaign is going to make that any more likely.
>'m not sure that mandatory required charity is anything more than asking for trouble. People should give, people should help, but they should do it willingly. If you force them to do it, they will resent both the charity and you. That is a scenario that offers short term benefits at best.

Every study on the subject has consistently found that giving creates a sense of happiness and fulfillment. These feelings more often than not encourage the givers to give more, to encourage others to give and to also give their time and efforts (not just money) to help others. It increases their humanity.

Why would people giving to someone of their choice (the receivers are of course qualified recipients) and seeing the good it does that person VS the government taking the money out of your pocket, wasting half of it and spending the other half on programs that under perform cause more trouble?

I may very well be wrong here, but I don't think someone with your opinion has ever given directly to a needy person...
Why do people always assume that aliens would be smarter than us?
Please do not use a framework that you do not understand. It is not good for the sustainability of your application. It is better to read/maintain a verbose application than dealing with some obscure magic.

I tried to learn AngularJs but I can't understand it so I gave up and used a simpler and more limited JS library (ractivejs).
(A tiny step towards) Automating Web Design
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It used to be like this, but throughout this year in preparation for the 1.0 release the devs really stepped it up. The official guides are good nowadays.
Sounds like it would be better to let them uninstall... craziest vendor lock in crap I've ever seen.

Stories like this are why I don't use Adobe products.
For some of the ramifications of interstellar trade, see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_of_the_Galaxy
>google.com, which launched a $340B business on a website that could've been made by a 12-year-old.

wrong, a 12 year old had not made a minimalistic website, it had been full of gifs and cat pics. THATs why google was successful because they made the paradigm sift ..
Because you might want to share files with somebody who isn't using Windows or you might want the ability to switch platforms yourself in the future without worrying about having to migrate all of your stuff.
>Mandatory charity is by definition not charity. It's a form of forced labor.

Please have a better argument than semantics and proper English usage. Everyone knows what I am talking about.

Also, if this is forced labor, so if mandatory tax filing, mandatory Obamacare ETC.
Dispatches: An Open Invitation to Violence in Russia?
Not all aliens, but generally we're only concerned with aliens that could potentially affect us. Since we can't travel that far away from our planet right now (and we know that there seems to be no life capable planet nearby - with a loose definition of "nearby"), any alien that we can meet right now would have to be quite a bit more advanced to us.
I'm not sure there would be anyway to monetize it but I considered trying it as a personal project. It would be way to much work to manually enter the data of thousands of papers into the computer though. I would also need objective data on which studies actually turned out to be true or false. Or at least which ones could be successfully replicated.
I know it all too well. At some point I felt so annoyed by the smartphones intrusion in my life, that I began to ignore the notifications. It was great for a while, but I still felt a slight nagging. So I did the logical thing, and turned it off entirely. Haven't missed anything of significance, and I'm still in touch with the people that I want to be in touch with over the social networks.
If this sort of thing fascinates you as it does me, you might be interested in the latest Charles Stross book that features relatavistic finance as a major plot point. Here's a preview chapter: http://www.tor.com/stories/2013/06/neptunes-brood-excerpt

Mr. Krugman himself thinks it's "the best thing by far written on the subject to date" (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/20/the-theory-of-in...)
Exactly my point - the prices I cite are lower than you could possibly get on the open market.

I'm trying to argue that housing is expensive in those areas - really expensive student accommodation really helps my cause. :P
I am using Mavericks on my MacBook Pro 15-inch, Early 2011 without any problems.
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it could also mean that the project maintainers focus on their day jobs... the way Googlers hardly use their 20% time.
Answering my own to bring some conclusion to this:

https://github.com/ffi/ffi/issues/288

Seems like the current maintainers are on a good way of actually contacting everyone to agree on a license change.
If it's really like in this video: https://www.atlassian.com/software-development?utm_source=ji..., then it should be pretty awesome
Exactly. Few weeks ago Russia has banned all milk products from Lithuania. Official reason was low quality, but that's simply funny as the same products are exported to EU countries, that generally have higher quality standards. More likely was unofficial reason: revenge for problems caused to Gazprom. So yes, it is a common practice for Russia to imply import bans as a political reasoning.
"Stealing" has a very narrow definition. Causing someone to lose some potential revenue is not necessarily stealing.
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I think this can be good business. I see it working as an independent design review/audit system. People can use your service to have a different professional check the quality of the consultancy work you ordered in Odesk, Elance etc. "I think the quality of this is subpar, and the people at inputfarm think the same. Check this report they wrote and come back to me with an improved version"
They have to be VERY careful, since it's a clear copyright violation.

The only way this could work is for someone who never again will do any work for GIMP to analyze the code and write a spec for .psd (good luck with that :) and give GIMP the spec.
RFC 7049 - Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
>What you're suggesting is simply a new form of government. It might be great; it could perhaps work. But it's certainly not something to suggest offhand. Our current form(s) of government is a result of centuries (and millennia) of gradual, and sometimes revolutionary, progress. I wouldn't just throw it out the window.

Where on earth did you get "new form of government" and "revolution" from? I am merely suggesting that social services be reformed heavily. This is certainly something that could be evaluated on a small scale (state level perhaps). I do realize that while the concept is simple, the implementation would be far more complex.

Everyone here keeps coming up with all these wild reasons of why this is a bad idea. Funny thing is, almost all their reasons (such as corruption, fraud, ETC.) already exist in the system today. I am not saying that there would not be any regulations, oversight, ETC. I am also not saying that there wold never be abuses. All I am saying is that the government is certainly not the best at getting this type of job done and tax money going to the poor and people not even seeing it happen is dehumanizing us.
My NL sites are live but NYC DC seems to be completely offline. This is bad, only last Friday they had some more downtime.

As of now there's no news at http://www.digitaloceanstatus.com/
You just have to keep looking. One thing to note is that typically great artists rise in popularity over time while mediocre artists diminish. Looking back in time you tend to only notice the great artists, and in the moment they tend to be lost amongst the weeds. But that's usually how it is, with rare exceptions.
It's interesting, but I want to know, as a young individual what is likely to kill me? I want to know where I should put my efforts towards not dying.
Sorry but that makes no sense whatsoever.
This is an interesting subculture of gaming: people trying to dissect a game by all means possible. For Shadow of the Colossus, there is a community dedicated to finding every bit of the game world, even the unfinished parts that made it into the final versions:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-02-the-quest-for-s...
An open letter to CEO of Air France
A little context here. The FDeSouche blog (a pun on "Français de souche" which could be translated as "stock French" or "purebred French", really meaning "White French") is an extreme-right blog whose commenters are pretty tame compared to what you could read on, say, Pam Geller's site. The commenters have internalized the French Hate Speech laws and mostly use innuendos.

The "mariage pour tous" (="marriage for all" i.e. same-sex marriage) was opposed by a semi grassroot movement called "la manif pour tous" ("the protest for all") made mostly of our religious right. The protests were huge, and some people have compared it to the Tea Party (minus the guns).
The Nobel Prize in Physics Is Really a Nobel Prize in Math
I wouldn't say that. People who are in steady relationships are happier, and those have less HIV risk.

People who bounce for person to person might be having fun, but long term and not usually happier.
How Buffer Handled Getting Hacked
I would start with a skills test, try to use vloopup in a spreadsheet. If you can get to grips with vlookup, then look for something that fits with how you learn, a book, an online course or even making small changes to programs you find on the web. Java script is probably a good c
hoice, as there are online example around that you can try. But as others have requested, please say why you want to learn.
edit:I started with games, changing code in simple games created by others. But I was 13, games are important to a 13 year old ;)
Finally someone said it. Even if I write more code by only using libraries and no frameworks (which is debatable), at least I'm happy while writing it.

I do consider some frameworks to be exceptions though. Express is called a framework but it looks more like a library for HTTP handling to me. Most npm packages behave like libraries - maybe that's why I like using Node.js so much. Also CSS "frameworks" like Bootstrap aren't in the same league. They've never caused me the type of frustration I've had with frameworks like RoR or Angular. Bootstrap is actually a library of UI widgets. They can call it a "framework" but I don't consider it to be one.
Reminds me of "A Fire Upon the Deep", because the warmer the climate the worse the mortality rate.
You might want to check out https://github.com/observing/thor, it's basically wrk/ab for sockets.