skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huhhhmmm. Interesting. I already have a linux WLAN gateway between my desktop computer and my router, I guess I could set up the tunnel there and it would be pretty much hassle-free. Thanks for the link.
You may be able to contact him (and family) via comments on the post in question - potentially less intrusive than unsolicited personal email, particularly if he's not necessarily reading his own email these days.
Yeah I find I live in one window only on any laptop to be honest so I would be familiar with that way of doing things.

I like the idea of the 11 being incredibly portable. My thinking is if I really need the bigger size with me I still have the 15" to transport around if need be.

But on train, plane, between meetings, coffee shops etc. the 11 could just be a more practical solution and it's a little cheaper. I can hook it in to a VGA display or whatever whilst on the move I'd imagine.

In terms of coding etc. I opt for sublime with the explorer collapsed then just the terminal and browsers so it could work I think.
I work with PayPal and to be honest my dislike doesn't come from the user experience but the developer side, the api, the tools, the interface, they are all broken, it is amazingly demotivating.
I'd just like to throw it out there that perhaps your problem solving ability developed in lockstep with your tinkering.
i came here hoping for a joke about business school. since one was not provided, i'll do it myself.

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I have a 2010 MBA 13" and a 2013 MBA 11".

- the smaller the computer gets, the more difference one diagonal inch makes percentage-wise. The screen size is significantly different.

- It is more awkward to work with the 11" screen. Think about running the browser with the debug panel taking up the bottom 30%, on the 11" that doesn't leave much room.

- The 11 has longer battery life and is a little easier to use in a tight space.

I like them both, but I think the 11" is superior as a personal machine, good for web browsing, movies, skype, etc. For working I would suggest the 13 just for the extra screen space, but I'm kind of a psycho when it comes to vertical screen space.

EDIT: think carefully about the SSD upgrade, AFAIK MBA SSDs aren't really upgradeable.
What kind of discount are you thinking of? It's already free for as many public repos as you want.

"Young professionals who want to continue learning" implies the graduate has a job.
I usually run other people's code through a linter if I don't like their coding style and have to read it. It saves a lot of pain later.
Codes of Conduct 101 + FAQ
Seattle gets a week of snow about once every four years, or at least it did when I lived there 10 years ago.
Ha I do love those displays, my 2010 MBP has seen better days though with a rather large dent in the corner from dropping/knocking catching a train.

Hmm It's a tough one, you have the 11? I am super keen on it but so torn.
Are Dogecoins sufficiently valuable and liquid/convertible to be worth it? In particular, how reasonable is the process of converting them into US$?
We should be happy Apple is making profits. Because companies like Lenovo and Acer that eke out an existence playing in competitive markets where prices are driven to marginal cost don't have the money to pour into R&D. Look at what Apple is doing with Cyclone: the first mass market CPU to challenge Intel in IPC since Opteron a decade ago. Its a game they can only play because the generate a ton of cash to throw around.
Strange sex habits of silicon valley
I spent $46k on Facebook ads last year, with very healthy ROI.

First, I want to say THANK YOU for the many improvements to the ad system that have recently taken place.

Second, I want to say that you have a LOT of work left to do. Facebook marketing is hard. Too hard.

I have many suggestions, but here's one of them:

Allow the same targeting options when posting directly to the page, as when posting an ad.

For example, I can create a custom audience, and send an ad only to them.

I want to be able to target (or exclude) that custom audience when I post to my Facebook page. If I could do that it would make a huge difference.

Thank you for your time / consideration.
Would this work in space too?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen
A Review of Criticality Accidents (2000)
I'd really like a one-click focus app that:

* blocks distracting websites (and arbitrary hosts so I can't SSH to my IRC bouncer!)
* starts playing some elected noise (either generated -- pink noise -- or pre-selected rain/ocean/etc.)
* blocks notifications (can the OSX notification stuff be set to DnD?)
* is a Pomodoro timer: will unblock everything by itself in 25min (or whatever time is elected)

Unfortunately, I don't have the time to make it :(.
Muslim scholar purged from US no-fly list in landmark court case
Google Glass Demo Interview #1: Play With Your Friends In Candy Cane Casino
It would be cool if you could set a schedule for certain times to block sites (or time limits). There are various browser extensions for this, but it would be more effective on the system level.
A lot of people are suggesting the 13 it seems so it may be the way to go. I just like the tiny form of the 11 that's why I am drawn to it.
This is absurd. While I'm sure there is a lot of fraudulent activity and rubbish ad networks (IE Facebook likes, as claimed by the article), traditional online ads are pretty trivial to track at this point for a business that can complete transactions online. If you run a web store, you can track exactly how much sales you get from a particular ad channel and weigh it against the advertising cost by simply creating a unique link for each channel, or using any of the many available ad analytics platforms out there. Entire multi-million/billion dollar businesses are built around arbitraging this opportunity positively, particularly on Google.

Things like Facebook Likes are more difficult to track and are still relatively new, and that's why many people haven't figured them out yet, but over time they will either reach an equilibrium, where value provided is equal to cost or they will disappear.
My dad works on an 11" with dual Thunderbolts, and I can attest to how amazing it is.
You have successfully solved the problem posed, but it was not well-stated. In a real-world scenario, it is important not just to identify which of the 10 ideas is most promising, but to defeat the null hypothesis that the programmers should be fired and no idea should be pursued. After all, to choose the best of 10 bad ideas is to have failed as an economic enterprise.

In order for a business to be investable, it is necessary to demonstrate that it will be profitable to an investor. (And of course all businesses need investment, whether that is VC money or just a lone developer's part-time effort.)

We have avoided this problem because in the early days of software, most software was profitable. But as the software industry has grown, this is proportionally less true. And I seriously question in 2014 whether more LOC are committed each day to "black" or "red" projects.
Thanks, these are great suggestions. Should definitely be able to get these added.
Regarding the ARC, is zfs not as efficient about evicting the cache as, say, ext4? With ext4 I've never had to worry about it consuming as much memory as it pleases.

Thanks for the tips!
Since you already have an iMac, I would go with the 11in, but the best route would be a 13/15 in rMBP.

I find desktop unnecessary unless you're going full out with multiple monitors. Sometimes I wish I had a 2nd screen when working on xcode.
Ask HN: What do you use as a startup for your business phone lines?
To have a reachable number somewhere, I'm looking into either Twilio or Google Voice. Problem with Google Voice is that I believe I need a phone associated with the number (and I already use as GV number for my primary phone number).

What are others using? Ideally I'd like to just have a nice answering system with a place people can call for support and as a means to look more legitimate.

Thanks.
That's a real good point, I hadn't even thought about firebug sessions on the 11inch, that could be a dealbreaker and point me towards the 13 to be honest.

Thanks for that!
I thought the introductory statement is ironical, but, apparently, it is not. I don't think this article resounds well within the HN community since it is a "mainstream space" that is being criticized.
However, despite its polemic nature, it is a worthwhile read, a representative neo-Marxist critique, that you won't often find on HN.
it's not an attempt for social credibility, it's a way of expressing sympathy. seriously, it's such a common way of saying "i have read about what you say and wish you well" that you have to be particularly cynical to read it as a show of piety.
You also can't edit HN comments after an hour or so.
They would do it to make more than "a few bucks" with ads. Business is full of these tradeoffs, so I don't know wherefrom this presumption of purity from FB to our walls comes from.
It's very common for readers / viewers to feel that elements of a story represent a world view that is much wider than the specific bounds of that particular story. If you read 1984 without reading Orwell's goals, how would you characterize his goals? Is he trying to say something about all societies, or is his book concerned only with _that_ society? The more superficial the interaction with a work, the easier it is to mistake an author's perspective.

I think these sorts of differences in perspective are common to people in general. Some of it is jealously, but a lot of it is simply a failure to understand or take into consideration the viewpoint of the piece.
That reminds me of a HN thread a few days ago about someone getting fired after two weeks since he asked too many questions.
Nathan Fielder is behind Dumb Starbucks, gets shut down by Health Dept
I made a small rails app which presents reddit AMAs nicely

http://ama.hawth.ca/1xj56q

Here's the source https://github.com/jhawthorn/riama
I am also from a developing country (Uruguay) but if any of my family ever has cancer all our concern will be in the emotional issues, the economic issue are already resolve: basically the health system coveres all diseases that you could get.

I do not understand the countries that don´t have this, it is just logical that if you pay when you are healthy you must be 100% covered when you are sick (without excuses or having to justify anything). The most strange thing is that what I pay for my health insurance is less of what I heard it is pay in USA (I pay 70 USD per month) but the difference is big: I live assured that whatever happens I'll be covered, no disease will make me lose my house.

The problem is not about beeing a developing country or not, it is about political decisions that obligate insurances to do what they must do.
I'm not sure how people work without at least two monitors nowadays.

I couldn't imagine working on a small laptop screen.
Ha and this throws me back at the 11 when someone had suggested the 13. Yeah external screens are going to be a big factor. I have the screen at home I can hook up to and you can connect an MBA via VGA to most monitors I'd imagine
Not to be rude, but that doesn't obligate the government to provide that particular service. Just because I pay taxes doesn't obligate the government to provide me a house. Why is that the case for health care?
You may have a good point however the parent thread is about using MongoDB without ACID support and you don't need to read the source code to get over that hurdle with TokuMX.
BS - I've watched both videos twice and more sophisticated targeting solves 90% of their "problems."

How much facebook advertising have you managed? I hope it's a lot if you're going to call out "fundamental flaws" and "large portion of ad spend...likely wasted...on what is effectively fraud."

I've managed many millions across a handful of companies. Has their been issues? Yes, just like every other channel.

You're spot on about being jaded though.

Wading through the masses of BS is a huge pain.

75% of the people probably give up, 20% outsourced to varying results, 5% nail it in-house or via finding the right partner.

But that 5%-15% of potential advertisers that lock it down?

That's 80% of the ad spend right there.

One Expedia is worth 100,000 small businesses to Google.

Google, Facebook, et al have all tried to simplify their ad products to capture more potential advertisers at different levels.

But in doing so they arrive at a Catch 22 though...

To make it simpler, they hide sophistication and advanced options. The very options that are needed to drive campaigns with meaningful ROI. But those options are also over the head of the SMBs.

So what are they supposed to do?
I've seen people send rape and death threats to people _from their work email account_, so yes, often anonymity isn't strictly needed for people to be terrible.
I don't really use any space, I use Spotify and I mean I have a 64gb in my MBP and I probably only use like 15 of that lol.
There Is a Paranormal Activity Lab at University of Virginia
I don't particularly see this as being a strong problem with American healthcare. You can buy health insurance to pay for any and all medical expenses. The healthcare system is broken if you do an honest day's work and can't afford insurance, but that's not what we're talking about here. There is a reason that most of the best hospitals in the world are American, and the way we fund our healthcare is that reason. Yes there are plenty of efficiencies to be improved, and much in the way of helping everyone access affordable care. However, you're never going to have Americans shifting away from exchanging dollars for doctors.
Nanomotors are controlled, for the first time, inside living cells (w/ video)
Which version? I've found I get less and less pauses with each new version of IDEA. Currently the only blocking pauses I get now are when I change branches and my Maven POMs change underneath IDEA and it has to recalculate what modules belong in my project.
Or maybe there will be a world war to reset the cycle, kill off tons of uppity civilians and let those that can reap astounding profits and lock down more control over the experience of the civilization we have...
I'd be surprised if btrfs was smaller. Its feature scope is significantly wider.

The btrfs performance isn't at par yet either, but I'm particularly interested in filesystem-level compression which isn't supported in ext4.
Dude, it's marketing. If you want to promote your language, don't make it offend people. It doesn't matter if the offense holds up to your personal views on what should and shouldn't be offensive.
Nothing To Hide: an anti-stealth game where you are your own watchdog
Coinbase CEO here - can confirm it was not us.

Checked with the team and we couldn't find any interaction matching that description. http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1wtbiu/how_i_stole_...

We work with a community of security researchers who help us test these sort of things https://coinbase.com/whitehat including quite a lot on race conditions. We use a variety of datastores for different parts of the app where they are best suited.
Performance isn't a huge factor for me I don't think going from a 2010 MBP with the RAM upgrade and a 64gb SSD. I merely just use text editing, terminal and browsers, Spotify or Netflix if I'm on the go I guess.
Startups, here's how to cut through the crap when you're looking for a CRM tool
Title: "The Real Story Behind Why Flappy Bird Was Deleted"

In the article text: "In what surely is one of the strangest stories in years we are unlikely to ever really know what happened."

Well, okay then...
> I'm a scientist, not a programmer (although I mainly program).

I guess it comes down to a good employer. My employer takes the view that a) give people the tools they need and b) developer time is expensive, computers are cheap in comparison.
Would this be the reason I'm currently unable to submit a post to HN (getting a bad gateway error), or is it just because I'm a noob?

Edit: Appears so, as the post finally went through.
Show HN: Flappy Doge AI
I made a javascript AI for flappy doge. Just start the game, click once, and it'll take over.

Game: http://dogetek.co/game/

Gist: https://gist.github.com/tsholmes/8927374

Minified javascript URI:

javascript:(function(){function t(){if(ingame&&!gameover){var n=0;var r=1e4;var i=100;for(var s=1;s<=3;s++){var o=$("#tube"+s).get(0).style.left;o=Number(o.substring(0,o.length-2));if(o>40&&o<r){n=s;r=o;o=$("#tube"+s+"top").get(0).style.top;i=Number(o.substring(0,o.length-2))+600}}if(i>250)i=250;var u=$("#bird").offset().top-$("#game").offset().top-80;if(u>i+130&&fall_bird>0&&e>3){$("#tap").click();e=0}e++}setTimeout(t,20)}var e=0;t()})()
Crowdsourcing a Bitcoin FinCEN request for clarification and guidance: Bitcoin
Being a noob, I wasn't originally able to post a link directly to the draft of the FinCEN request. Perhaps I can now: https://valme.io/alpha/c/bitcoin/20qqs/crowdsourcing-a-bitcoin-fincen-request-for-clarification-and-guidance.

Appreciate any suggestions you'd offer before it's submitted.
I'm the developer of Reddit In Pictures and I'm sorry about that issue, please go into 'Settings' and disable ads!

I just wanted to give as much space for images as possible, so when the ad loads it puts itself between the text showing the number of images and the ActionBar, if the ad doesn't load it doesn't take up any space. Is the bounce you're talking about when the ad initially loads (like on orientation change)?

I haven't had a chance to work on that app in a while, but when I have time to re-visit it I will test out making the ad area static so that it never seems to bounce.
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How about "HAI" -- a Lisp that compiles to Lolcode?
"Fail fast, fail often" is less of a good thing when it's actual people's lives.

It depends. A lot of people are already losing their lives through inaction.

This is slightly tangential, Alex Tabarrok's book Launching the Innovation Renaissance is good on the subject of FDA inertia and spending too much time trying to prove efficacy and too little emphasis on experimentation and rapid iteration: http://www.amazon.com/Launching-Innovation-Renaissance-Marke... .
Github is going to be the next facebook, or rather tumblr.
I think terminology [1] is quite promising, although it doesn't yet do all of the above.

[1] http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology
Dohj
Just to add, I'd love the ability to block notifications as well (as possible with the built-in "non-distracted mode") except for a chosen few applications. For example, I'd like if iCal could still keep me updated on schedules via notifications.
They are both check-summed and copy-on-write.

This is great for consistency and storage, but the first part somewhat sucks if you've built it into your layer as well (like hadoop fs). And it makes writes & reads a tiny bit slower than it should be.

They have fat xattr inodes, which is great if you use it - but useless if something like SELinux means nothing to you.

The point where they truly excel is in a multi-disk scenario.

And in that land, the zpool array implementation makes it awesome to introduce an SSD+HD mixture with nearly the best of both systems.

BTRFS doesn't have that yet (well, bcache on the lower layer, perhaps).

But as someone who's fired up debugfs a bit too many times, if you really don't know which one you need, pick the one that ships with your distro!
I'm working on integrating some of this into Focus already, and plan on adding pre-focus & post-focus hooks to add your own custom functionality to cover everything else.

Should be out soon and the app is set to auto-update, so stay tuned :)
AFAIK PyCharm comes with stuff (like Django support) that the Python plugin doesn't have.
Recently, two failures to follow up with promised service appointments / reschedules.

Looking forward to the day I can tell them to shove it.
God is perfectly just.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\PLATO.TXT

f wisdom, which is philosophy?

They are the same, he replied.

And may we not say confidently of man also, that he who is likely
to be gentle to his friends and acquaintances, must by nature
be a lover of wisdom and knowledge?

That we may safely affirm.

Then he who is to be a really good and noble guardian of the State
will require to unite in himself philosophy and spirit and swiftness
and strength?

Undoubtedly.

Then we have found the desired natures; and now that we
have found them,

----

All will worship in God's temple.
Personally I have found it useful to keep in mind that it's the pair that's fundamental and not the list. IIRC it was pg that made the point somewhere that car and cdr are acceptable because there really aren't any slam-dunk general terms for the parts of a pair.
Other than some kind of leak there's essentially no way to have proof. But bandwidth tests from many customers across many AS paths could expose where the problems lie, and if they all lie in one particular place then we could break out the pitchforks.

Here's an example of uncovering the "everybody pays Comcast but Comcast pays no one" business model: http://www.internap.com/2010/12/02/peering-disputes-comcast-... It appears that Verizon has now adopted the same tactic of creating selective congestion through deliberate non-upgrading.
Having worked on Fraud Detection and Risk Management at eBay previously, I can understand the difficulty in solving this.
As it was explained in the video, the fraudsters will want to look like the regular folks as much as possible.
I think this is solvable problem. I will not post the features here, My guess FB folks already know how to address this specific aspect of Fraud.

Btw, has anyone had better experience/ROI with FB Mobile app installs ?? How is the effectiveness of those Ads ?
> The mac version looks OK in screenshots but feels foreign when you use it

I use it daily on OS X and it doesn't feel foreign to me, but then I usually hate most of OS X's shipped interfaces anyway (my calendar is still pretending to be made out of leather), so perhaps I'm a poor judge of fit.
Thanks this is something I'm definitely thinking about, but can't resolve what happens when you really do want your internet connection back.

Should it just let you?

What happens if a client calls or an emergency happens and you need access?

Would love feedback from anyone who wants this feature.
The Google engineers are also trying to release their methods. This is not detecting 'fraudulent' activity, but rather trying to classify adversarial advertisements: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37195.html (pdf is linked there). You can assume that they are doing the same types of thing to classify fraud.
Two questions: (1) What are practical, specific ways that Facebook could fix this problem? There's clearly a problem. (2) Also, how should digital advertising companies that integrate a Facebook share option in their offering avoid supporting shares from fake profiles?