skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lenovo G series. i5-3230M + 8GB. No extra graphics. Bought it without any OS. Installed Ubuntu 13.04, everything worked without tweaking, including the Skype client for Linux. Great value for money.
Even if you don't use OneNote for Mac, hopefully this gives Evernote the competition they need to move faster.

I, for one, have been looking for an Evernote replacement for quite some time. Evernote still has so many basic text and formatting bugs that it feels v1.0 quality.
+1. Any SAML enabled (or WS-FED) site can be integrated with Okta to offer 2FA.
The human mind is a funny thing.

You're assuming that the individual isn't affected by social factors, and that he can effectively isolate himself from negative demands and expectations. But if research in social psychology has shown nothing else, it's that the individual is not separate from his social environment. Even when we know better, when we should be able to rationally extricate ourselves from a situation, we continue on in it for a myriad of reasons.

We see the warning signs, only to blindly rationalize them away so successfully that they disappear from conscious thought. I've been there, and I've suffered the consequences.

Take an external authority figure, in this case a boss who values a person's ability to lose themselves in their work in order to get things done, and sit back. Add in a culture of co-workers who celebrate the same. Maybe the employee wants to work their way up the ladder, or maybe they just want to get the satisfaction of positive feedback from those figures. Watch as these factors slowly influence the employee's sense of perception, and eventually through it, their behaviors and how they judge them. Eventually, you'll see a affective and cognitive responses as they integrate these changed beliefs into their self-identity. This is made all the easier by the presence of authority figures

You see this everywhere. Why do young investment bankers accept the idea that they need to work upwards of 80+ hours/week, and often, 100 or more? Worse, they not only accept it but they make it part of their core self-identity to be celebrated. Why do undergrads pull all-nighters and consider them a badge of honor? Or far more darkly, why do so many battered spouses stay with their abusive partners, justifying the abuse as something they somehow "deserve?" If someone tells you that you're dirt enough times, eventually even the strongest-willed of us will start to question it, and far too often, come to believe it.

Across all these examples and more, the same cognitive phenomena are at work. You think this is solely a matter of willpower. It's often not. Yes, he's pushing himself. But social factors are also pushing inward on him, making it easier to do so.

I'm not belaboring your end point. It's a good one, and the presence of outsiders willing to give such advice--get out, get somewhere where you can rebuild your sense of self and personal boundaries--can help empower people to act on it. But don't assume that it's as simple as turning off the screen, or that you're immune to these pressures. You're not. No one is.

Given enough time, even the strongest can and will be influenced by social factors. Often, to positive ends. But not always. Given enough of the bad, eventually, everyone breaks. Not at once. Never at once. But little by little, piece by piece, people will change without even realizing it. And once you're there, the mind's ability to rationalize and protect itself will help keep you there.
I'll clarify, sue them as opposed to taking it to twitter and a pseudo-journalistic startup news site. I would think that it would be the last resort and some reasonable amount of effort be made before taking that option.

Or conversely, name names, go all in. Put the bad actors on notice and let what happens happen. It's not libel if it's true. Just all the rumors, speculation, etc. doesn't seem good for any thing. Not everyone involved with GitHub is an a-hole, at least I hope not..

All things being equal, I have no idea what the timelines are, I have no idea what reasonable things were done or not, I have no idea who is on leave or not. Yet in this thread strangers are questioning the marriage decisions of other people... It's an ugly story and it brings out ugly in the community. Sue everyone involved and if you win, future companies will certainly be different. My off the cuff immediate take away? Be really careful with the ultra social folks, big blog or big twitter following and they might just blow up in your face in a very public way.
Perhaps, perhaps not. My impression has been that of late the top-tier .NET langauges have better support for asynchronous programming when considered from a pragmatic perspective, because a lot more care has been spent on designing the relevant APIs and language features to be accessible and easy to learn.

Async/await really is a great abstraction on top of task parallelism; it's easy to understand without having to wade through a zillion blog posts explaining how it's just like burritos, Lego blocks, the OSI model, or homeobox genes, or underpants. Which means that it's something you could actually get away with using in enterprise software development, rather than something that'll earn you a reputation for developing software that your colleagues wouldn't be able to maintain.
Safer in that you can hear whats around you, I meant :)
Tired of neighbor's barking dog? Try sending this
Was there last week. Barely room to move and plenty of tech companies hiring.
http://boingboing.net/2010/09/19/intel-drm-a-crippled.html
I would suggest a Lenovo Thinkpad W540, but that's a bit out of price range. Falling short of that, a Lenovo Thinkpad T440s .
Anything they'd steal from within Pakistan is likely owned by people with strong ties to the Pakistani government. The kind of people who would have the connections to find out who did it and hold them personally accountable. You don't shit where you eat.
If you figure it out - please share it with us.

Maybe if we stop reading about these 300K jobs on HN, we'll have more contentment. Won't help us at all, but it's one less piece of stress :-).
Finally! The OneNote client simply beats Evernote on Windows Phone (surprise surprise) and I finally don't have to use the online version that's even hard to log into, forget to use!
Explains the issues I've had with texting.
A beginner's guide to understanding gravitational waves
I'm led to believe the Glasgow TMU is pretty lively as well, although I've never been.
I like how every interviewer will try get a leading question about future product development, just in case there's a bit of senility that day "Oh yeah that jetpack we're...wait a minute!". It's a bit redundant, we know Apple will work on something new, we know they won't say.

Aside from that, nice to read some of Ives thoughts on design.
Turns out, atea does all I need and integrates nicely into the OSX UI with an icon in the menu bar. It does:

- project-based task management
- proiority ordering of tasks
- Dropbox-based syncing of one or more task files
- time tracking
- comparison of real times to estimates

So, in the end, maybe it is actually the perfect solution, and it is free, too.
Usually publications are understood within the context of their field. It would be exhausting to list each limitation of your field in every paper, and the limitations are understood by the intended audience.
Last time gmail was down, I set up my own email server. Now that talk is down, I need my own chat server.
Spreadsheets have been down for around the last hour for me
I hope they're fixing it. Hangouts, Google Talk, Gmail (chat), Google+..... you know!
What you buy at grocery store now a clue for food researchers
Thread: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&sid=22&iid=9c...
Alternatively, why don't planes have floating EPIRBs (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_radiobeacon) or even floating black boxes? They could be attached to one or more points on the plane where they're likely to be released if wreckage sinks.
HTTPL multiplexes all of its messages over a single channel (which postMessage is) and so it supports pipelining and full-duplex.
Infographic: The Situation in Ukraine
Well, when I'm wrong, I'm wrong!
Leopold Tenkeyless Tactile Touch

http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=leopold,tenkeyles...

Cherry MX Brown switches

I bought this first for home and within 2 weeks got a second one for work. I like the responsive (but not crazy loud) Cherry browns.

Moving my (less used) 10-key to a separate keypad on the other side of my (much used) mouse has been the single biggest improvement. It allows my keyboard to be much more centered to my body without pushing the mouse far right.
How to beat confirmation bias in any given domain
This might have excited me four years ago, I've long since switched to Evernote + nvALT/taskpaper.
In batter. And the beer had better be Tennants.
I think he means a symbol of worship. Something that is worshiped because of the desire to worship something, not because of any deep understanding of it's intrinsic worth...
Who said LINQ was just about the database? Of particular concern, actually, are LINQ to Objects.

And yes, those milliseconds matter. And it's very strange that I noted that after repeatedly encountering performance issues with LINQ, you say that we should have oversight. Do you understand that such is oversight? That the rules and exceptions came about because the recurring issue with LINQ (particularly LINQ to Objects) being an enormous performance issue?

It doesn't matter to you, probably because you don't even know what the cost is [and that isn't meant to be at all a slam. For most software the cost simply doesn't matter]. And that's fine. But save the continual exclamatives (which you always add right after defensively down-arrowing).

Though I have to chuckle at the notion that LINQ helps with testability, or robustness for that matter.
Random: I really like how simple the Google Authenticator's TOTP algorithm is: https://github.com/tadeck/onetimepass/blob/master/onetimepas...

It's only a few lines of code and other than having sync'ed clocks does not require any other running services. At one point I implemented it as a second factor for my most important servers that I ssh to so that my IP would be unlocked for 45 minutes after the initial connection.
The Tyranny of Tyranny (A Response to The Tyranny of Structurelessness)
I doubt that the poster is proposing to build the plant, so much as build the CPU in a plant.
I thought the NY Times bought/owned the fivethirtyeight brand?
Well, the other interactions (electromagnetic) propagate through spacetime. Gravity waves are ripples in spacetime itself. So they aren't quite the same.
Showing How To Scale a Web Application Using a Coffee Shop as an Example
>The federal spying agency is supported by the Northern Territory Police, Victoria Police, Australian Federal Police, Australian Crime Commission and Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity, who all say they are in support of a data-retention regime.

Just once I'd like to see a law-enforcement agency somewhere in the world and do the unexpected: come out for individual liberty, and against invasive data practices. It would be remarkable because this data represents leverage that the cops can use against, well, anyone, and so to give it up as a matter of principle would be a laudable position.

Another interesting thing about this quote is that it so blatantly gives lie to the notion that any of this power is used, or is even intended to be used, for national security. No, this data is going to be used by cops on the street. It's going to be used as leverage, and as an insurance policy: if they beat you up, they do a background check and see if you did something wrong. If you did, they offer to reduce charges on those grave offenses if you agree not to charge the department with brutalizing you. If it wasn't for all that data, where would the poor old police have the leverage to strike such a deal? They'd have to go to all the trouble of actually getting warrants and seize your data, which is of course an undue burden on the police. Much better to have it all stored and waiting for use.
simple, lets start a government.
I have always wanted to live in Scotland, does anyone know how common it is for companies to provide sponsorships for work visas?
Im sure we can find Hal Finney
Apple’s Upcoming Healthbook Software For iOS 8
Personally, I find the whole military radar thing to be extremely suspicious. The fact that this plane flew over the whole country without being noticed even though it was tracked on military radar is just too implausible. Yet it happened.

Personally, I think perhaps somebody on duty was involved somehow. Perhaps bribed, perhaps threatened, maybe both, or just a co-conspirator.

It's a crazy idea and pretty unlikely. But to me it seems like the least unlikely scenario, for now.

I don't think it would take too much skill to merge your radar blip with another airliner. Just pull up behind it and slightly above it (to avoid the wake turbulence) and get close. Radar doesn't have superb spatial resolution, so you don't have to pull perfectly in line with the other plane. As long as you're fairly close to it (within a couple of plane-lengths, I would imagine) then the two planes will show up as a single radar contact. Sitting right behind another plane like that while it's cruising would not be too difficult.
How is that begging for a scathing reply?

>People who need to save $200 on a tablet where we live very likely do not need said tablet at all

You essentially said that if you cant afford the 200 dollars more for an arguably better product, you don't actually need it or its substitutes.

I made an analogy with food. Just because I can't afford to eat something expensive doesn't mean I shouldn't eat anything beyond the cheapest basic staples.

I could have just as easily made the analogy in another way, say with tools: i.e. if I can't afford the extra 200 dollars for a better, more powerful drill, I don't need a drill at all.

A tablet is in essence a tool, just like a drill is.

The reason I found this offensive is because you're talking about need as if you're its great arbiter. You don't know if a guy making 500 dollars a week needs a tablet for some reason, but you at least appear to think he doesn't deserve one if he can't afford the apple model.
"google is at war with office" is not a "stat"

this article is retarded.
I think it's fair, personally. If people used the same terms as he was in his complaint, he would be complaining about that instead.

It's not one person it's a company, but it's not a company it's an agregation of people and policy. Is Obama evil? No the US government is, is the US Government evil? No but there are some corrupt people and some bad policies.

on and on we go.
Mortal afterall...
Figshare is mirrored by several universities in the CLOCKSS scheme:

http://figshare.com/blog/Ensuring%20persistence%20on%20figsh...

Twelve research universities keep copies of all the data and will make it publicly available should Figshare implode.

Other data repositories, like Dryad, do the same thing, and grant agencies with data deposition requirements usually require you to deposit data somewhere that has a long-term plan to ensure access.

So as long as the twelve universities manage to update all the DOIs to point at the new locations, Figshare DOIs should be reliable.
"A totem is a being, object, or symbol representing an animal or plant that serves as an emblem of a group of people, such as a family, clan, group, lineage, or tribe, reminding them of their ancestry." -- Wikipedia. They may have spiritual/shamanastic uses in certain contexts.

In this context, Bitcoin has been purported to be an emblem of freedom, liberty, anarchy, libertarianism, decentralization, etc.
Lol, this is complete garbage. It is so far from the truth the author must have known they were lying.
If you were a nation-state you could just create a start-up 'front' company, seeded with laundered money, and hire the best of those that apply.

And if you didn't have the money to actually continue funding a start-up, you could create the front, offer to fly all the employees to some destination-team-building exercise and kidnap them from there.
An Introduction to DevOps
You could increase the ping rate somewhat trivially. Look at what the trucking industry does to keep an eye on cargo. And in any event, the current 777 search area is how big?
spreadsheets working for me for the past 4 hours with no problem...
Since they released Notes with 10.8, its pretty much replaced Notational Velocity for me. Search isn't quite as fast but syncing via iCloud is awesome. Now with AirDrop its super nice, being able to quickly send a note to someone else and have it show up in the 'normal' notes format (trying to read it in a text message is goofy).

I know its just outside of the scope of notes, but if there was some level of collaboration, Apple could seriously cut down on the number of couples arguing in supermarkets (and Ikea)
I agree with you. This doesn't make any sense from a financial perspective for Intel.
They parted ways last summer, purportedly because the new NYT CEO did not think much of his non-politics-season value:

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/5-takeaways-york-magazines-profile-...
> Maybe the identity crisis that Apple has isn't so much their inability to find the next big thing, but their over-attachment to their past hits? Perhaps the key to new glory is letting go of the old glory and sharing it with the world, their ego removed from the equation?

Compare Microsoft's attachment to, and unwillingness to consider letting go of, Windows, with Apple's triaging of the iPod and Mac...
The flip side of looking stale is looking iconic.

(not saying I personally feel they are, but they definitely have an unmistakable look over the years, similar to a BMW 3 series)
Google Hangouts, Gmail Chat And Google Spreadsheets Go Down
Hmm, no security for the payment form?
Yeah and it is going to be future and hacker proof as well. So I heard!! :)
You don't need the fab, you hire one of the existing ones to build it for you. nVidia does this for example (and ATI did as well)

You can license the ARM IP from a company as well (I mean, not just the instruction set IP but the actual implementation as well)
I'm printing this.
Or science funding: https://experiment.com/ (formerly mycroryza.com)
Should I leave my current position?
I am sure most of you will understand my reason to remain anonymous in this post, with that said:
I have been offered the following posts, and am deliberating on their acceptance, your help would be very much appreciated.

Firstly, whoami: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=developer786

I am not a born coder, I know that, therefore,for he second post, I will be working very very hard.

Post 1 - Windows/Linux Administrator / DevOP - Large Private Healthcare company with good financial backing / profitable. - Job Security: Medium/High - Environment: Working with a team of 30 2nd and 3rd line support - No Stock options or shares - Salary: $63K - The role: Little development experience, lots of Linux Admin Experience, training in any sysadmin courses provided once every 2 years.

Post 2 - Developer(bash/php/ruby/python) / Linux Administrator - Private Telecommunications company with private shareholder backing / breaking even. - Job Security: Low/Medium - Environment: Working From Home - Stock options - Salary: $84K - The role: Developing bespoke applications in the above languages for a range of customer requirements. Developing and extending Linux based applications.

Your help, If I don't get to thank you later, is very much appreciated.
Completely off topic, but very interesting -- the author of that post wrote a book about surviving the Costa Concordia! http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AUYIKNK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_...

Seems like he really did need some tools.
I haven't got time at the moment, but I would consider contributing an implementation in the long run, if no one else does by then. It just shouldn't be O(n log(n)) when it doesn't have to be.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

No one in the history of the world has ever conceded that their version of a bad thing is the same as another version of the bad thing.
Oh come on, Scottish Nationalism ≠ Nazi-ism/EDL-ism

Scotland's "Nationalism" is about gaining independence and actually becoming a nation, not about violent and misguided idealism.

In fact, Alex Salmond (leader of the Scottish National Party, the majority party in Scottish Parliament) has come out for more liberal immigration policies, to encourage positive economic immigration[0]. Compared to the UK government's increasingly tough stance on immigration[1], and the rise of right-wing parties such as UKIP and the BNP, I'd much rather live in a small, liberal nation like Scotland.

[0]: http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-i...
[1]: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence...
The puck is horrible.

However, for regular office use Magic Mouse probably is the most pleasant mouse I've used (and I've used a lot of different models). Never been pinched. And it's in one piece still (bought it just after it was released).

For gaming it's more or less unusable though… I need my scroll to be tactile, and I also need to be able to use both mouse buttons at the same time. Long live Logitech MX 500/510/518 for fragging!

Too bad that you've had bad experiences with Magic Mouse.
Assuming the hijackers weren't already in the cockpit. It seems to me that the most likely people taking control of the plane in the situation stipulated were the people already in control of the plane when it left the ground.
This is a very good free replacement - https://www.awesometalk.com/
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This might be entirely superficial of me, but I always preferred Haskell over OCaml simply because OCaml required me to type ";;" after every line.

The only real reason that I can see to choose OCaml over Haskell is that if you learn OCaml, you might be able to work at Jane Street. Is there a strong argument for abandoning my Haskell-ing for OCaml?
I just opened a sheet and seem to have no issues. I've never shared that particular sheet, however.
Deep fried pizza in batter? Isn't that a "Pizza crunch"?
Linde: "Can can can can can you repeat it?"

It was very touching.
Batter your Mars bar and deep fry that too
That depends. If you intend to work on other people's code or currently-active projects (or anything likely to be active soon), starting with 2.7 and learning the differences later would be a good approach.

If you're just using it for its own sake, or only for building things locally that either don't need to run anywhere else or only need to run where you have enough control to install your own Python, and you don't and won't need dependencies that aren't currently ported... then definitely start with 3.x. :)
Duelbits A Game For Wealthy BTC Owners
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
I love the humility, skepticism of belief Linde professes at the end. Despite a deep desire to believe in the beautiful, he is well aware of how you can be seduced into believing things because you want to, not because the universe is that way.﻿
> I guess that the difference between your vocation being your passion and it just being something to pay the bills.

Or maybe it's a passion, but not to the degree of being able to sustain that passion for much more than 40 hours a week. That's a whole lot of time doing one thing (let's not get into the details of how many of those hours are really programming, technical work, etc.). Maybe you won't call it passion since yours seems to be more "intense", but it's still much more than just-being-something-to-pay-the-bills.