skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know. Mail.app does a lot of things that are pretty nonsensical. It's easily the buggiest OS X app that I use b y about 10 to 1. I'm not saying Thunderbird is an alternative though. For all the grief that Microsoft deserves, Outlook is far and away the best mail application I've ever used, baring stupid quirks of PST/OST files (especially when it comes to Calendar). That's like the one application that Microsoft has completely nailed.

I WISH there were a better alternative.
I found it amusing to learn that, in some parts of the world, surgeons are conferred the title of Mr, Miss, Mrs or Ms as preferential to Dr, as if above the petty nonsense of using "Dr" as a social differentiator.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgeon#Titles

And now we are wildly off-topic!
At least there's the option of leaving Macs for other brands. As a ThinkPad user, I'm totally fucked because of Lenovo's decision to get rid of the physical TrackPoint buttons[0]. First they got rid of the traditional keyboard in favor an Apple-style chiclet keyboard (which, after using both extensively, is a severe downgrade from the traditional ThinkPad keyboard). Now they're getting rid of the TrackPoint buttons. Next is going to be the TrackPoint, all in the name of copying Apple. There's no one else making a proper TrackPoint (and HP and Dell are ditching what they did have), and using a trackpad is so slow. It's sad to see Lenovo take a great laptop line and turn it into an Apple clone.

0: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXa0XzNvuZU
In general, Intel is a "class act".

A few years ago my employer worked with Intel on a joint IC project (not Flash). My overall impression was that Intel engineers were meticulous and smart. This internal culture probably applies to many different Intel divisions. So I'm not surprised that Intel SSDs are reliable.
I've yet to have any of the Apple laptops that I've owned (or desktops for that matter) that have broken in that timeframe. In fact I'm using an MBP that's going on it's fifth year here, and the only thing that's changed is I popped in a new battery after about four years. Excellent track record for me. (Of course, YMMV.)
Two additional suggestions:
1. 'A Mathematician's Lament' by Paul Lockhart (http://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsL...)

2. 'How to Solve It' by G. Polya (http://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-It-Mathematical-Princeton/dp...)
> I can't get League of Legends to work on WINE

You do realize you can dual boot, right?
>Regardless of specs, it's an absolute terrible looking device, a real monstrosity I would say.

You could say that, but then you'd have no taste.

>However, getting a MacPro is now longer a option with this "design" and self build suddenly seems quite appealing again.

Go for it. Don't forget the xeon lights.
What part of a country with concentration camps operating for decades would not catch our attention?

This sort of comment you have just made is total bullshit: If you are concerned that the situation in Haiti is not getting enough attention, then complain that the situation in Haiti is not getting enough attention. Don't complain that the situation in North Korea is getting too much attention. North Korea deserves all the attention it gets. We don't need to "deprioritize" our concern with North Korea to have some concern "left over" for Haiti. The situation with North Korea is not being exaggerated into being something worse than it really is.
-1 is an edge-case: if you're memory constrained, bzip2 isn't a good fit. Otherwise, you pay the extremely low percentage increase in CPU time to use -9 where bz2 will massively outperform gzip on most workloads.
The shine seems a little odd to me too, I wonder if it's like that in-person.

I was actually thinking that if a 3rd party could come up with a transparent replacement for the shell that could hold up to the head without cracking, that would look amazing.
> I have plenty of games that eat more battery than anything on my phone.

I'll agree with you wrt games in HTML/CSS. They are likely to be much less efficient than in native code.

> Except that like I said in HTML every single text you show is literally an eval call.

I don't follow. How come?
I don't know how well lzma parallelises, but bzip2 is plenty fast for me with a multi-core version like pbzip2, as measured in wall-time on an otherwise idle system. Different considerations in different environments and all that.
If you don't want to answer the question, don't answer the question.
U-Pick gaming marathon for charity
i guess i should take back my "Ashton Kutcher looks nothing like Jobs" [1]

[1] http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/52bc94e8ecad042c356...
Here here. Trackpoint has long been a major factor for me picking Thinkpads. The lack of physical buttons on the new ones is beyond annoying and trackpads in the Windows PC space are total crap.

Macs really do have everyone beat there, but even better are Wacom's intuos Touch models. I use a few gestures to quickly move windows around in OSX but can almost totally stick to the keyboard.
It's unfortunate that your Apple hardware experience was so poor, but you're really not going to have better luck elsewhere - all the major hw manufacturers have a fairly similar failure rate [1] (Apple apparently is one of the better ones). You just got unlucky.

[1] http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliab...
http://www.statisticbrain.com/laptop-malfunction-rates/
dual booting is really annoying.
Why can't they use 7zip?
I'm amazed that more people never got into using TrackPoints. Mac or PC, I've never seen anyone able to use the trackpad to mouse around at anywhere near the speed that I (or other ThinkPad users) can use the TrackPoint to do so. It's funny to see how astonished people are at how quickly I can navigate, when it's really just a matter of using the right tool.
200 sq ft would be hard for me personally, but mid-January I'm closing on a 375 sq ft building that I'm converting to a living space for myself, my wife and our dog. It will be short term for us while we restore the main building though... probably 18-24 months. After that it we'll use it as a guest house and I'll probably put it on Airbnb or similar as well. I've always wanted to live in a smaller space though so I'm excited. I'm used to about 1,000 sq ft, but we keep most of that empty really.
We've hit that point a few times. I'd say the first time was in '98 or so when the original iMac came out. And while there have been various PC clones of Apple laptops since the PowerBook G4s the MacBook Air certainly gained a ton of imitators.

Then again, you could argue the Air wasn't style but usability/convenience of lower weight/size.
Yeah, how hard can it be? Send a few ships down there, bomb the country two or three times (and ignore their rockets and possible nuclear weapons) and then send in the army to make peoples live better. Should be done in a few weeks!

Sorry for the sarcasm, but just look at Iraq for the effects of "rescuing the entire country" (from the clutches of Saddam Hussein) - if you have a good idea how to do it "the right way", then go on. Tell us. Tell someone whose job it is to fix that country right now. I'm pretty sure everyone would like to hear an easy solution.
I find it very useful - it keeps me from playing "just one game" when I really need to be coding.
I use Arch on an XPS. The fonts have been the most annoying thing. I'm considering switch to Wayland to get away from X fonts. The good side is some desktop managers (like all Gnome-derived ones) allow you to universally set the fonts. But if you don't use X you can't really go running Gnome every time you want to run a X application.

I would like a kind of font-wrapper for X. So it could be configured simply and just start bare bones X with the fonts all configured. Then XMonad would be a bit prettier.

(You can then install Heltevica et al. if that's what your into)
Every time I consider ditching my MacBook for a Linux machine, I come back to wondering why I'd want to do that at all. If it's to appease my command-line-junky insides, I can open up Terminal (or iTerm 2) and have instant UNIX. If it's to run some LAMP-esque stack, I can fire up homebrew and have everything I want. And if I don't really want to deal with the inner-workings of a machine, I can spend time in Aqua and have access to some of the best designed software in the game. Lastly, it plays with my ecosystem of gadgets - my iPhone and iPad are first class citizens, and thanks to iCloud and quality developers, things work seamlessly between all my tech, including my AppleTV through mirroring or extended display in Mavericks. I realize that this last bit makes me not the target audience for the article anymore, but it's worth saying.

The author states his only reason for leaving is failed hardware. I've had nothing but great experiences with Apple's hardware, and in the few rare exceptions, Apple has gone above and beyond to make the situation right. Fixes after warranty period, quick turnaround, etc, have kept my business with them.
How to test the market for a startup before writing code?
I have an idea for a startup (a reddit for product idea suggestions to specific companies + good ideas are paid by these companies). How can I test whether enough people will want to submit ideas to this platform?
> Besides political reasons, I haven't seen anything compelling enough to move over.

apt-get to install practically any open source software in the world is one.

Partially as a consequence of that, but other stuff as well, the development experience for those using the console and not an IDE is far better on Linux than OS X or (by far) Windows.

Finally, the "political" stuff you mention is not politics for sake of politics. It stems from very practical real-world things. For example, if I write an app and calling a system library does something unexpected, I can read the source code to see exactly what is going on. That's not possible, generally speaking, on OS X or Windows. Open source isn't just for sake of lofty ideals, it's also just simpler, easier, and better.

As a consequence of these things, there is a culture around Linux that is not present on OS X and Windows. OS X and Windows people 'blindly' rely on the OS for many things, while on Linux, people hack the OS routinely. You have much more opportunity to ask people about how the OS works (and of course to see the code).

For all those reasons, I would say Linux is by far the best OS for hackers. Of course OS X and Windows are good as well, just in different ways, hacking isn't everything.
What is the maximum amount of cash you could withdraw from a bank account in a single day with no advance notice to the bank?

Probably less than $10,000. And probably not enough to be worth fleeing to a safe haven for since the plane tickets and one week in a hotel will cost approximately that.
PG: Women haven't been hacking for the past 10 years
> - Apple displays are beautiful and completely free of defects

Guess that depends on whether you get the Samsung panel or the LG panel.

As for developers, where are are the matte displays?
Most people never realized that there are three different Trackpoint tips and the default was for a long time that crappy classic dome. The soft dome is somewhat better but I've been a soft rim diehard for near 15 years now.

Also I think the quality of whatever rubber they used in the mid-90s was really poor.

Gestures are a pretty big deal to me now though. Gestures and the keyboard shortcuts for me are much faster.
I had an old Intel G1 SSD die during a power outage that went a little too long for my cheap UPS. Of course one event in uncontrolled conditions isn't meaningful. I still bought another Intel SSD because every Intel device I've owned was top notch.
This isn't a desktop, it's a workstation, and Apple's workstation line has always had replaceable components.
Laptops are vulnerable to this problem, if you don't know about it.

On my notebook I've lost a partition with Crucial M4. OS hanged, I did a hard reset and after reboot discovered data loss.
I actually like the design... I only wish they'd do a consumer grade version... somewhere between this and the mini in terms of pricing... around a $1k price point, I'd get one.
You think encouraging the use of technologies that protect privacy is akin to NRA rhetoric? Or is it that I don't believe in relying on government to protect privacy? We'll have to agree to disagree.
Interesting in that Air Koryo is banned from EU operations.
People often make similar comments about high end hardware. Another common line of reasoning is, "I would have been interested in this, but it does not have $esoteric_feature, so I'll have to pass until the upcoming $new_model comes out."

My going-in assumption is that such people are not really serious about buying the hardware at all.

It's OK not to be in this corner of the market, but the rationalizations are tiresome.
Gay marriage and pot legalization haven't done anything to diminish the power of the State. If anything, they've done the opposite, by introducing even more controls into certain areas of our lives. But leaving that aside, I think that governments find our privacy to be a much greater threat to their power than who they decide can get married, or what they decide people can smoke. I think that going after the surveillance state cuts much closer to the heart of their power.
Run a live cd and double click the installer icon?
If you raise $8M in funding and your company is only valued at $11M, then you deserve to own less than 50% of your company since investors could have done almost as well sticking their money into a bank account.

I don't think the numbers given in your example are particularly realistic. Series A rounds are almost never smaller than seed rounds and are usually at least 3x - 10x.
There are ways to make it more bearable for sure, but I haven't explored them in a long time. I think Wayland is still several years out for most people unless you really like Enlightenment, which I may give a try when E19 is out.

Firefox would need to work though.
I wouldn't take OS X vs Linux advice from a person who calls her computer a "Mac Air"
Best Linux Laptops (2013)
After searching using hnsearch I saw it had been a while since this topic had been explored.
note: It does not necessarily have to come preinstalled with a linux distro.
If one was confined to 200 sq ft, I would agree that it would be difficult to live in. I think the idea with most of these tiny houses, is that owners live more outdoors, and they move the tiny houses to the environment they want to live in.
My aunt and I think eight or nine sibling grew up in this house https://maps.google.com/?ll=46.24838,-63.12407&spn=0.001167,...
Research I guess.
But really, software is one of those things that you write, test, and throwaway all the damn time.

Even if the code is good, the message or the implementation for how people use it could still be crap.

Write some code!
US judge declares NSA phone surveillance program legal
I've been thinking the same, but I'd settle with a Nexus 10 instead. Chromebooks aren't big where I'm from, and it's really hard to get good support for them. My friend had the same netbook as you, well truthfully I'm not impressed. Also my budget simply does not allow a netbook AND tablet, so I'll just have to settle for either one. Thanks for reply, helped cut down my choices down to the MBA or the pc tablet combo.
Why I keep building
Super efficient apartments/small living spaces are very attractive to me. I've never tried actually calling one home though -- not very common where I live.

How creative do you expect you'll have to get in a space that size?
Inside the SSD are flash memory chips. It takes a relatively long time (typically 10mSec) to tunnel the charge that changes a '1' bit (the erased state) to a '0' bit. If the power goes away during that programming time, the result in indeterminate. Not just bad, but bad in a potentially unknown way.

The worst case, which I've experienced with direct writing to flash chips, is that a totally unexpected flash location is corrupted. My guess was that the CPU started the write cycle just as power was lost, the CPU glitched the address lines as it was losing its brains, and the flash corrupted a random location.

Very, very bad.

If a power loss causes the flash to scribble on the wrong SSD location (e.g. the tables that keep track of good and bad blocks), the SSD "dies".
I don't use anything except coffee, but I know some extremely talented coders who smoke (outside of work) to help with stress/anxiety/focus. It's probably something you have to evaluate for yourself, as it affects everyone differently. If it's helpful to you and improves productivity, I don't think there's anything wrong with it as long as the benefits outweigh the negatives. Maybe try tweaking how much or how frequent you smoke to see if you can reduce the side effects.

Btw, I've known founders who smoke. The only people who might care in SF are more conservative VCs etc.
If some people want to spend their time and energy on political pursuits, they're free to do so. I won't try to stop them, but I will be happy to both discourage them and to not join them in such pursuits. This isn't like trying to get the government to allow the plebes to smoke pot, or something similarly-unthreatening to their power. Though I am sure that governments would be happy to legalize your privacy, in exchange for broad regulations on how much they'd like to allow you to have at a given moment (meaning, none whatsoever when it really counts).
I've always enjoyed learning, but I despised school and most college courses. Thankfully I'm an autodidact and don't need the school system to learn or else I'm afraid I wouldn't know much of anything. The public school system is in shambles and can barely be counted on to teach the most fundamental of curriculum let alone more advanced courses that should function as the foundation of future college learning. The university system in contrast is less interested in teaching any particular thing than it is in wringing every last cent of tuition out of each student before they either drop out, flunk out, or somehow manage to navigate the various flaming hoops and traps the university's have erected to stand between students and their eventual departure from them.

Nominally the various classes are supposed to provide an opportunity to learn, but in practice they're little more than a set of speed-bumps designed to prolong the amount of time a given student spends at the university. To that end it's really in the best interest of the university to do as little actual teaching they can as opposed to as much testing as possible, and it's largely reflected in the curriculum of many professors.

Once you've cleared the bar of the bachelors however things change somewhat. With most students leaving after attaining a bachelors (or a masters in the case of business students, and a PhD in the case of medical students), those left are destined to become faculty (or at least attempt to become faculty) and to take part in the other major fundraising activity in the university system, the attaining of grants. At this point the emphasis shifts from delaying attainment of your degree to press-ganging you into becoming a cog in the grant generating departments. In the post-grad track you're only as good to the university as the grant dollars you're helping to bring in.

Ultimately the problem boils down to the shift in emphasis of universities from places of higher learning, to businesses geared around extracting maximum profit from each individual customer in exchange for a largely meaningless paper that HR departments around the country still have a fetishistic devotion to.
nmap is a fairly common used tool for more than testing. So is dig netstat sockstat nc tcpdump qmail djbdns pf s(sh|cp) traceroute also read your security and tuning man pages as a great place to start.
To have a starting salary of 300k/year is very difficult. But if you are a star you can perhaps get to that after a couple of years. But it is pretty much impossible to get to that point if you do not live close to your job. There are people that make that much and more that live in the suburbs but they are usually the ones that have a lot of experience and seniority. If you are young and want to make that much money you have to be in the office all the time you have to have a flexible schedule, which means you have to live in the area.
For me the real breakthrough was to get rid of Ubuntu and install Arch and configure everything by myself for my laptop. It was super fun, learning to use systemd and making everything to work. Having xmonad, with pretty fonts, automatic suspend, wifi, vpn and all that working. And it was not at all that hard and took me one night and a couple of beers to get everything done.

I might be different than most of computer users, but I really do enjoy doing everything by myself. Now I know exactly what's wrong if something breaks. And Arch (or Funtoo, my work distro) are much easier to configure with a text editor compared to Ubuntu (or if we go this path, to OSX). I like systemd much more than upstart or launchd. I like the idea of a rolling release, so I don't have the nerve breaking massive updates every now and then.

But if just switching from OSX to a Unity distro, for me that wouldn't be enough to switch.
The culture of San Francisco also is heavily accepting, even promoting of smoking marijuana.

Your startup is in SF, so this is probably relevant, but there's absolutely nothing that requires a startup to be in SF. It can be in Austin, Brussels, Sydney, Fargo, or Bangalore. If you feel that local culture acceptance is a reason for, then you've already answered the question if you start up in a locale where it isn't.
For me, the scariest/most interesting part was that some SSDs had problems with the tests in which power WASN'T interrupted.
> But this article is free software evangelism ("I set myself free") [...]

That is what is so irritating about this type of rhetoric; I switched from OS X to Ubuntu and now I'm free! Well, no, you just switched from one corporate controlled Operating System to another. Ubuntu may be open-source, but it's hardly free. Biggest example: You have to opt-out of Canonical's desktop search results sharing relationship with Amazon. At least when I look for files on a Mac, I don't get ads in my search results. If you like Ubuntu over OS X, then that's fine, but please don't say it's because of "freedom".

If people are going to write about their holier-than-thou articles about how they switched to free software, they better be running something like Trisequel Linux on a Gluglug Laptop (http://www.fsf.org/news/gluglug-x60-laptop-now-certified-to-...) or perhaps they should think about something else to write about.
Ditto on reliance on caffeine.
And, it's one of many reasons I do.
We're in a new era of surveillance, where Nixon's abuses look like schoolyard pranks compared to what governments are doing today. Even the excesses of Hoover's FBI can't touch what is being done now. Considering how little (read: next to nothing) was done about those past excesses, it won't shock me to see nothing at all done about those conducted in the present-day. We've seen legislatures, presidents, and courts all lining up on the same page, with more than enough rubber-stamping to go around. Creating oversight bodies means another set of rubber stamps.
I liked http://www.managinghumans.com also good articles on the authors blog.

And there is of course http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
See nick.
They do have lots of quality issues with their software -- I'm not sure why anyone would want to build products like them.

Once, they had a Flash video of a concert on the first tab of their app that was impossible to stop playing. The best you could do was play your music loudly over it.