skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
brunch does all this, without the need for a ~100 line config file.
How does this work? Are you scraping other sites, then ordering them to yourself or something?
My own take on 4K/UHD is that it will allow me to get a cheap 39" display. Nothing more.

I think the 'debacle' over the move to HD, the vague standards and the more recent 3D TV push has stayed my hand on upgrading my TV until this all settles down, probably by the end of 2015.
>start trying to beam 5Ghz through three office walls (and fail), they'll want to know why and eventually find themselves back on a 2.4Ghz solution, simply because it's not so sensitive to solid objects.

Or they will put a single CAT6 to each room and put a low power 5GHz AP on it. If you are the only person in a few thousand feet 2.4GHz is fine. You cannot expect to have the ability to penetrate walls and have numerous neighbors doing the same.
A bit of context would be appreciated.
Ghost Themes in one place
I basically agree with you, but even though it was "later" that Windows became the go-to easy OS, its reign in that category lasted long enough to be a big part of consumer computing history. I do remember many friends and teachers loving Macintosh before I used it much, and I can imagine all the reasons they felt it made more sense or was simply more pleasing. However, even though I now prefer OS X to Windows, I know that people have generally found Windows easier, and even if the only reason was because the average user learned it first (at home or at the office), that still gave Microsoft an advantage in holding onto a huge number of users who stuck with it because it was what they were used to (found to be easiest).
Elements of an effective annual performance review
next up, geofencing-as-a-service?
This is slightly off-topic but I've recently read the book "Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science From the Bottom Up" and in my spare time I've been slowly implementing something very similar to the sort of "Maximally-Minimalist" simulation they describe.

This simulation includes the concept propagation of disease, again in a sort of "Maximally-Minimalist" way. While it's suitable in the sense that it fits with the rest of simulation, I've identified it as something that I am going to have to learn about before I extend that part of the simulation beyond what's already been described.

So I was wondering if you might know of a resource which presents various minimalist models of disease propagation that you could recommend. I'm not epidemiologist, I'm actually retired and studying economics as they pertain to environmental systems, so I'm not actually looking for anything that extremely complex or compute intensive... I'm just looking for something slightly more detailed that what I've got now and perhaps describes a step-by-step method towards modeling that's actually realistic.
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Deltaqueue just posted the prices and there is a $5.00 difference between the two. So you pay 4% more for 2.5% less annual failures. That sounds close enough to be worth paying more for less operational expense. Obviously, backblaze gets a better deal or they would be buying up the Hitachi drives instead.
Yev from Backblaze -> Where/what do you teach? We're unsure about releasing any more information at this time, but we're not opposed to it. What would it be used for?
Feinstein's defense of the NSA costs her support among key constituencies
And there's a lot to say against C++ as well, AFAIK.
This comment only makes sense if you stopped reading at the word "illogical".
I wish Backblaze would provide some sort of Amazon S3 competitor, Amazon always seems very overpriced.
By this logic nothing is secret and nothing is safe, ever.

Horrible example. Crypto, like every other secret keeping method comes down to trust. Who, and what do you trust to keep your secret.
> So this is a valid contribution to economics in the form of an inadequate dynamic model.

With that line of reasoning, don't you feel that anything is a "valid contribution to economics" ?
Two things I never like to see together on a hard drive: "Seagate" and "Made in China"
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Which is fine. But you're specifically saying that you are building Git to learn how it works. All I'm saying is, based on your wording, you need a disclaimer that this is not how Git works internally. You can already get the gist from a lot of the comments that they think they now know how Git works after reading this post.

I appreciate the effort and think it's a great idea to implement something your own way, I'm just trying to point out that you're saying this is how THE Git works, which it isn't. Nice write up as a whole though
Apples to oranges.

An iDevice is not at all in the same kind of market as a Sony Camcorder or PC Laptops.

The magic here is that Apple only builds devices that don't have to compete in a commoditized market where everything is the same except what it's specs are.

In those markets people have tens of options from each manufacturer, and it doesn't matter what they're called because you're looking at giant matrix of all of their technical specifications the whole time. You pick the one that does whatever you need it to for whatever your budget is, and it's not personal. It's not a subjective experience.

It's not the magic of their frikken product naming, it's the magic of their entire overarching strategy.
I also don't really follow why for the iPad it was good that they dropped numbers but for the iPhone it was good that they kept the numbers. Definitely hypothesis fitting.
Why would you need SSDs to backup your computer? Some people like to have a local backup and use the cloud for offsite backups, so they can recover much faster.
It's a fundamental difference between what they offer, though. Apple offers a very small variety of devices, generally one in each market they want to compete in (and all high quality, premium devices).

Lenovo competes in a lot more markets than Apple does, for example. Lenovo has its T series laptops, which are close to the Macbook Pro. They have the X series, which are close to the Macbook Air. Then they have the Yoga, which Apple does not have anything to compete with. It's a touchscreen computer that has a swiveling screen. They have the L series, which Apple used to have the Macbook to compete with but no longer have anything in that market. They have the W series with dual video cards and 17" screens, which again Apple has nothing to compete with. They have the Helix, where the screen detaches from the keyboard. Apple has nothing in this market.

The logical complaint is that Lenovo competes in too many markets. However, Lenovo is the biggest PC maker and post pretty nice profits, so that argument doesn't work either. Obviously Lenovo is doing something right, and people like their products (even the ones where Apple has nothing to compete with).

Other companies are not Apple. This is a good thing. There can only be so many Apples in the world, and consumers (for better or worse) demand more than what Apple is making.
Yes, this, exactly this. You've said better than I did. He is absolutely, totally a hacker. Pushing the limits. Challenging himself. Challenging the status quo. I was just talking to a friend about this.

You know what somebody's really made of when they have all of the money in the world. Then you watch them and see what happens. Everything Kanye does (at this point) he does because he feels it needs to exist in the world. Another million doesn't mean anything to him. $10 million probably doesn't even mean much to him. He doesn't do it for the money. Unlike lots of musicians, he didn't release 1 or 2 platinum albums and quit. He just keeps going. I align him more closely to somebody like Mark Zuckerberg than, I dunno, Huey? Zuckerberg has billions and just keeps on hacking. Kanye is a hacker through and through.

> Kanye also sacrifices for his art. He paid millions out of his own pocket (back before he was financially set, I might add) to produce his own music videos for "Jesus Walks", after the studios wouldn't go with the direction as he wanted. I can't pin down the quote right now, but I recall him saying something to the effect of "If that album [Late Registration] wasn't a success I would have been broke". As we all know "Jesus Walks" became a #1 hit, Kanye got his videos on MTV, and the album went triple platinum. He continues to shell out of his own pocket for tours (that consistently succeed far past expectations)

Did not know this any of this. Wow. Just one more reason to respect Kanye.
HDP 2.0 for Windows is GA
I'm a big fan of single platter drives, I just buy the biggest single platter at the time.

Which is currently the WD 1gb blue. Very fast, very cool running.
Over 223 billion new streams: the year in music
Don't use the Green line for anything performance related, even if it's watching videos. The Green line is simply not intended for that. I think it's designed to be an occasionally-accessed backup drive, or something like that.

The Black line is the performance-conscious line, look at the corresponding equivalents in that line. IIRC the Blacks are 10-15% more expensive, but they actually respond.
HN policy is to always have the title the same as the source, for better or sometimes worse. There are many cases of them changing a link title even if the provided one was much more descriptive.

Edit: relevant discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6572466
Security is on Time Period Zero (Day Zero, and Year Zero didn't really seem to be the right terms). What we need in Crpyto is awareness and ubiquitous use. Additionally, it is not a fast moving concept. It will be long periods of sweat and churning before the internet is reasonably safe to use (I use the word reasonably, because anyone familiar with security understands that Perfect Security is not feasible. Rather we strive for security with negligible chance of failure).

If nothing else, Bitcoin as a protocol is a ray of hope for cryptography. If a digital crypto-currency ever becomes widely used, then crypto will become embedded in everyone's daily life (whether they're on Facebook and Gmail or not).

Public-Private Key Crypto is a concept that has only been in practice for less than 50 years. It has yet to be fully understood and implemented.
Does the printed edition have videos? Real time updates? RSS?
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So you are just making assumptions based on your prejudices.
Victor Hugo's one character telegram to his publisher, asking about the reception of Les Miserables: ?

His publisher's response: !
It's painful to do a tech startup anywhere! I don't think it'll come as a surprise to anyone that Silicon Valley is the best place in the world to do a tech startup. The eco-system there has had decades to develop and grow, while London's is still in its infancy. Silicon Valley's tradition of the benficiaries of IPOs re-investing their new-found wealth into tech startups stretches back to Mike Markkula's investment in Apple, while there are still relatively few British angels. And the "What's in it for me?" attitude prevalent in London stands in marked contrast to Silicon Valley's collaborative, "Pay-It-Forward" culture. London is also hampered by government attempts to "help" (i.e. take the credit for) the tech industry that is often inept and, at times, cronyistic.

But I wouldn't give up on London. It takes time for eco-systems to grow and mature. London's tech startup scene may well be amateurish but it's also incubating world-class companies like Mind Candy, Huddle, King.com and Spotify. Silicon Valley-based startups are coming to London to acqui-hire companies like CrashPadder and Lightbox.

London's already the best place in the world to start a company in certain segments (e.g. fin.tech) and it's often the first choice for companies looking to establish their first international office.

And it's going to keep getting better because there are people here who want to see it get better.

Thanks Michael, your feedback is appreciated. We wish you all the best in Silicon Valley.
Yea, unfortunately we aren't large enough to work directly with the manufacturers. We do buy from distributors sometimes, but if we can get a cheaper deal online, we'll go that route every time.
Looks well-done. Do you/they use Entity-Component-System engine design?
Yeah, I've always had a negative view of Hitachi since I had a lot of trouble with the Deathstar 75 GXPs. But Seagate bought Maxtor, and I never heard anything good about Maxtor aside from "they're the cheapest!", so I guess it goes both ways... I stopped hearing good things about Seagate right after they had to stop using their "silent" tech after some patent dispute, which IIRC coincided with the Maxtor acquisition...
Thanks for your suggestions! SpriteKit support is under consideration for a future release.
I guess by being near him. If my theory is correct, Snowden want's them near him, protecting him against non-US spies, who would like to kill him (and thus cause the release of the remainder of the documents).
The article argues that your assumption that "advanced" techniques used by motivated governments now will stay the exclusive domain of those governments is wrong.

IT systems and networks have become so large and complex that vulnerabilities are everywhere. Your home computer may have a small enough attack surface by itself, but is constantly communicating with systems who don't - and much of your important data is kept in those anyway.
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I somewhat agree that it is simple with Apple, but how did people not appreciate the same differences with the Surface. Where there is the Surface and the Surface Pro, and it seemed there was constant complaints about people understanding the difference.
IMO it really is a bit easier to understand the Windows lineup. Any idiot can figure out that 98 came after 95 and 7 came before 8. But I cannot ever remember which "big cat" came first in OSX, or even which one we are on now.

I personally don't really care, but I definitely agree that "Puma Cheetah Jaguar" is less friendly to the uninitiated than "Windows 7 Windows 8"
1GB? that seems... awful small.
Same in Dutch-Belgium setting. None of the names sounded realistic and when van de/van der or variants were used it was always in lowercase which is a thing from the Netherlands. In Belgium it'll be in capital letters.
"take pride in using programming languages and text editors that have been designed by programmers, not updated since the 1970s, and never touched by anyone with a modicum of design sense."

Sounds like this was written by a web developer.
> He paid millions out of his own pocket (back before he was financially set, I might add)

If you can pay millions out of your own pocket for anything, you were financially set when you decided to do that.
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Crazy Middle Eastern country opposes free speech.
I dunno if SSDs have been around long enough for reliability testing. Along with they have been advancing quite rapidly also so it is hard to stick with something and expect the info to be relevant down the road. All I know when it comes to SSD reliability, Intel is king.
There is still some people interested in HDD, for example those who hosts a n-Terabyte home NAS and that can't afford spending thousands of dollars[1] to fill it with SSD..

[1] http://www.zagg.com/community/blog/what-is-the-largest-ssd-s...
Actually it is not. And I wish mods were not so overzealous.

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> (...) please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
The UI is designed (and battle-tested) to be controlled mainly via keyboard. Mouse is mostly useless (but somewhat supported for non-power users).

You definitely shall not toggle mouse/kb in an infinite fashion; stick with the keyboard control instead - use arrow keys for navigating around.
I wonder if they act the same way about contentious academic papers. Prof A writes a paper, Prof B writes a rebuttal quoting Prof A's paper, Prof A cries copyright and shuts down Prof B?
Go read the original story, there is a link above. Someone even went as far to parse out one version of the Bible to determine if the first letter combinations matched.

Even know what the basic thread of her thoughts, its the discovery and how to further that discovery that is the fascination. That is was prayers actually made it easier and leads to other methods to work it out.
Not nearly as successful as some of the other guys here but I have couple of avenues for passive income:

1) I make a few bucks a month off my reddit client: http://www.ruddl.com - I pay $0 for hosting on Heroku so I'm more or less net positive.

2) I also make a few bucks off my blog in tips: http://jes.al/blog/

I'm working on ideas for a SaaS product or even a book to add to that list.
I think they meant "next door" in the sense that, someone consider where to work would probably go to the big banks as opposed to the lower paid startup "next door".
http://www.dicerealm.com makes me minus $5 per month, but it was mostly an experiment to validate some of the advice from Start Small Stay Small (http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching-...), which is a fantastic book.
Because it murks things up. Same as network-manager pointing /etc/resolv.conf to 127.0.01, and then run it's own resolving dnsmasq on that address. It's trying to be too smart in resolving a problem. And now, when I cannot resolve a hostname, can't even edit /etc/resolv.conf, or trust it's contents. I now have to look into /etc/dnsmasq.conf, interpret it, find out where it stores the real resolv.conf file and have a look in that file.

It's overcomplicating things.

Yes, I love automation. I puppetize and ansible-ize the hell out of my serverparks. But udev, kudzu, network-manager and now systemd: they're solving the problem by creating more complex problems.

I just have very bad experiences with automagic systems trying to outsmart me. And failing miserably, costing me a saturday-evening with the missus. And outsmarting me ain't even that hard!
> What might shed light without revealing too much is information about where they source drives today

Backblaze employee here -> we are willing to buy from anybody, we have no loyalty. Lowest price (for a particular drive model) always wins. Once per month we ask about 20 common suppliers for their "best price". We have bought from "B&H Photo Video", NewEgg, Amazon, etc among others. We're always willing to add more possible vendors, but I think we drop you from the list if the vendor bid prices don't even come close for 3 months - that means you don't understand anything and you're wasting our time.
I'm a *NIX admin and actually, when it comes to OSX I'd rather go the VM route than homebrew/macports (either way, I don't run OSX daily).
Its on Forbes sourced by Quara ... I'm not sure if Forbes has taken over Quara or if it's just syndicating that post.
Save for XP and Vista, they're all pretty logical and you can tell which version is the next version. With big cats, you have to wonder "was Puma before or after Snow Leopard?". There's no increment, only a change. With Windows, 95 came out in 1995. 98 came out in 1998. 2000 came out in 2000. 8 came out after 7 (and obviously no one would ever wonder if they should update Windows 7 to Windows 95 thinking they had missed 88 releases).

The underlying version (actually the version of NT that is powering the OS, not the Windows version) doesn't matter a bit and is never mentioned to consumers. Outside of Linux, people tend not to care what kernel version is under their OS.
I use it outside of a Rails project when I don't have the asset pipeline available in my tool chain. It gives me the scalpel to define exactly what happens to my code and files vs. a one-size-fits-all option like LiveReload or Brunch where I need to match a specific filesystem layout.
Just checked it out. Looks interesting. The pricing structure is still not quite the perfect fit for me, so let me explain.

I've got around 20 clients I have to meet with in person every 6-12 weeks. I'd like to have a client app I can install on each of their computers (PC and Mac) so at any time I can jump on and help them without any prompt (other than possibly a "allow David access, yes or no" option.

It is likely that the real problem is that I'm just not charging enough. With what I current charge my clients, I can't justify $5 / month for a client who generates on average $15-30 in revenue each month (that's average, because I don't meet with them every month).

I like the Copilot Classic pay by the minute pricing, and if my users were more tech savy, that could work well. But they aren't and by the time I get them to connect to a website and get the screenshare running, they'd rather I just setup an appointment to meet with them in person. The Copilot Classic pricing structure though could work well for allowing me to answer any questions that take less than 15-20 minutes remotely and reserve onsite appointments for the bigger issues.

I'll still have to give it a try with a few of my more tech savy clients and see if we can't make it work. Thanks for the suggestion.
It's not just about product names, but overall Apple's product line is much more narrowly focused. Apple chooses to focus on a few well made product lines rather than a shotgun blast of different variants for every budget and market segment. The shotgun blast approach is quite intentional because consumer electronics makers sell more product when they crowd the retail shelves with too many choices, the consumer sees a plethora of choices and feels and obligation to try a few, at which time has been invested, so now you have to make that time investment worthwhile by making a purchase.

Instead of playing the shelf space crowding game out in bazaars, instaed Apple built its own quiet Zen retail space which is decidedly focused on only a few types of products and each has many upgrade options. Apple realized that they needed the undivided attention of retail consumers, pull them away from the noisy bazaar of the big box stores, pull the shoppers into their private Zen garden to contemplate only on how the latest iPad while fullfill their journey in life.
Please forgive my ignorance, but how do alternative coins work? Who uses them? I've only recently noticed Bitcoins being relatively widely usable, so how does the process work with alternative mineable coins? Do you convert them to dollars at some point or just mine and trade them for good/services?
Any particular advantages of having a single platter?

Also, I assume you meant to say 1TB ^^
Yeah, one thing that startups in London need to get through their think skulls is that, if they can't match the salaries on offer in the City or the media/marketing/advertising companies in the West End, they need to offer equity stakes to early employees.

I've actually felt embarrassed at some of the stories I've heard.
Ditto for me.

I shoot hookers for money, photographically. The kind of mid/high-end ladies that have their own sites and galleries.

They're a hard market to get into, but frequently one girl will know another five or ten, and personal recommendations go a long way.

Those girls, and retired people who want pictures of their cats/dogs are the only consistent group of people who seem willing to pay for portraits/photographs.