skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this is obvious if you just look at the construction for five seconds

BS. When they introduced the current design they had no strain relief, because Steve Jobs thought they were ugly. Guess what? You need a damn strain relief. Year by year their strain reliefs have gotten longer and longer, but they still have a sharp cutoff (that looks pretty, I'll grant them that) that causes the cable to bunch up and break.

And they've made mistakes with their materials choices as well. My parents had a Magsafe charger by the TV, used when sitting in the sofa. After a couple years, the plastic in the little clip you're supposed to use to wind up the cable reacted with the plastic in the cable, and if you moved it, it just tore the cable sheathing apart.

> more obvious if you go read a tear-down of them

The electronics are solid, I'll grant them that. But in the exterior they made tradeoffs for looks.
This is not looking good for Newsweek. For Dorian to give such a flat unconditional denial means:

1. He is Satoshi Nakamoto but is calling Newsweek's bluff.

2. He is not Satoshi Nakamoto and is calling Newsweek's bluff.

In scenario 1, he's apparently confident that Newsweek has no other real proof and won't be finding any proof in the future...which is a lot of confidence in himself that he's wrapped up all the loose ends. Either way, Newsweek better have a trump card...they've been hinting that they had more information that backed their claims, so now's the time to show the cards.
This is not an hijack terrorism. Terrorism is all about showing off, theatrics, fear. No one would make a plane disappear for the sake of terrorism. I have only two theories

1. China or some other country shot it down by mistake and trying to cover up.
2. Something of immense importance was present on that plane or may be a person.

In either cases substantial involvement of some state needs to be there.
And since

http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-respon...

goes 404, I assume there's a handler that built the page on the fly.

No?
> Travel may be booked online using a GoPack up to 90 minutes prior to scheduled departure, subject to flight availability and all booking window and travel window restrictions.

How much would a flight 90 mins before departure normally cost?

They're going after a different customer compared to someone who books weeks/months in advance to get a super cheap fare.
thx for the strategy... I developed something similar while playing, but this explains it much more explicitly. :)
That is an awesome video.
I would love to see this on TV news even for a moment - just validating the long pursuit of scientific knowledge.
A Tiny List of Immutable Project Management Rules For Digital Agencies
Best time of my life, saying 10 times "work" for nothing: wall, rock, west, wall, welcome...

French power I guess
... and so sad about them further fragmenting the ecosystem with yet another language.
This is awesome! I took the time to create a pretty in-depth function only to find out you apparently can't do that :(
Considering the (lack of) alternatives I fear that using language to argue about meaning in language is the best I can do :S.

But seriously, I think talking about what _exactly_ something is meant to represent isn't "lawyering", it's essential for a serious discussion. I got another quote, too: "The boundaries of our language are the boundaries of our thoughts".

Telepathy would propably be better though, I agree.
"The trope of 'software as a highly abstract, intellectually demanding, nearly mathematical activity' contributes to a myth of software development as a profession 'naturally' dominated by males: math is the subject of its own interlocking system of tropes, myths and stereotypes that paint it as a manly pursuit."

That logic seems to be all backwards to me. Of course developing software is a highly abstract, intellectually demanding activity. Claiming it’s not is as absurd as claiming women are somehow incapable of doing exactly that.
ECAT HT Validated by Top Physicists
A doctor? Intelligent discussion doesn't start with "one guy thinks". Authority is not a reason for scientific conclusion.
I've always been curious how many actually unique brackets get submitted to the major bracket places. I'd imagine there's about 5,000-10,000 unique brackets that cover 99% of the people.

It's the one feature I'd love to be able to see is if I have submitted a 100% unique bracket on my own.
It seems likely that there is a way to cram disjoint types of information filtering into this mental framework.
Bill Gates interview: Robots will take people’s jobs
Try "Making Software: What really works and why we believe it".

I'm about halfway thru reading it, some of the findings presented are that TDD studies either aren't very good or give inconclusive results; that a number of code complexity metrics don't predict bug rates any better than file size does; that bug rates are correlated with how well organizational structure matches code structure; and that competent PHP programmers do in fact exist.
If it is ISI it can simply buy a new Boeing plane from the kind of money that US is pouring into Pakistan in the form of aid.
It would also prevent the interviewer from forming any prejudices based on the appearance of the candidate's screen. Esoteric window managers, that sort of thing.
The author is either very clever or very dumb, and I honestly can't tell which.

She points out that sending a women to deal with another women is sexist. The (presumed) reasoning is that women are people, and shouldn't have be given special treatment (positive or negative).

Yet the title of her post SCREAMS "listen to me, because I am a women and for that reason my perspective deserves special treatment".

If her perspective has value because she is a women, wouldn't the wife the the founder have the EXACT same additional value of being a women.

Again, either super-clever, self-referential and meta, or dense.
The DNS is a bit... scattered. https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/fivethirtyeight.com
Nor mine, but I don't get invited to those fancy carbon-neutral parties, either. It might be because I still conform to the archaic and unfashionable practice of burning gasoline to get to work, but it might also be due to my excessive nerdliness.
The Malaysian Airliner Is Not Missing and Much More
Then again, why would you run anything less? Even my dated mac mini runs much better on mavericks than lion.
Regarding any possible response from Dropbox to Google Drive's price drop
The idea is nice, but the statistical odds are against you. Say you have a 50% chance of picking it right each time. With the play in games, you have a 1 in 4 chance of getting those right. With the regular 32 games, you would need to get all of them right, or 1 in 2^32. With the next 16 games, you would need to get 2^16 correct. Then 2^8, 2^4, 2^2, and then 2^1.

Multiply them all together, you get 1 / (2^2 * 2^32 * 2^16 * 2^8 * 2^4 * 2^2 * 2^1) = 1 / (2^65)...crazy small odds.
Hucksters and hustlers: inside the hidden brand orgy of SXSW
I organize mine by size, so I have my own version of crazy.
You don't have to be mentally ill to act mentally ill. The charade has pretty much removed all credence to the idea that he is the creator of bitcoin. Perhaps that's what he wants.
If you wish to actually move reserves in the current system (be they in the form of stacks of USD, gold, T-bills, &c), you need to secure them in transit. Securing BTC in transit may cost more than billing a credit card, but it costs substantially less than hiring a Brinks truck.
Yea, I mentioned it in my wishlist for Satya: http://hal2020.com/2014/03/03/satya-shuffles-his-leadership/...
Fucken retard-nigger. You want to fight God? Stupid fuck.

God says...
birds poor I_made_it_that_way take_your_pick Percival now_that_I_think_about_it
vermin yikes tree_hugger couldnt_possibly hurts_my_head
services petty rich awesome hotel zoot if_anything_can_go_wrong
ice_cream mine watch_it_buddy patience computers smile
nasty Angel Oy I'm_gonna_smack_someone kick_back but_of_course
hopefully na_na I'll_ask_nicely bastard begs_the_question
depressing you're_no_fun what_would_Jesus_do endure awful
Is_that_so caution

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

th him,
and been present at his dally life and known him in his family relations,
where he may be seen stripped of his tragedy attire, and again
in the hour of public danger--he shall tell us about the happiness
and misery of the tyrant when compared with other men?

That again, he said, is a very fair proposal.

Shall I assume that we ourselves are able and experienced judges
and have before now met with such a person? We shall then have
some one who will answer our enquiries.

By all means.

----

Kill the nigger.

God says...
wife umm_the_other_answer Oh_really hotel it's_my_world
as_a_matter_of_fact I'm_busy quite taxes charity lifes_like_chocolates
PhpStorm Tips and Tricks
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=johnny%20ive&sm=...

I remember watching Ive in a conversation with Steven Fry on Fry's tour of the US. He was even on Charlie Rose.
For the Data Scientists out there:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/march-madness-predic...
Assuming each outcome is equally likely, which it isn't.
Here is what doesn't make sense about Dorian Nakamoto being the Satoshi behind bitcoin:

Here's a guy who code switches during conversations and emails to maintain either the secret identity of an old Japanese man living in CA and playing with model trains, or to maintain the secret identity of a sophisticated programmer who created a proof-of-work system called bitcoin.

But then this advanced guy maintaining a secret identity signs every message he posts to the internet with his real name?

Leah McGrath-Goodman found this secretive guy who people have been searching for for the laser few years by looking his name up in a phone book?

That doesn't really track.
Also, getting bought out is not the same thing as "partnering with".

A partnership can be dissolved by either party. Facebook owns WhatsApp.
Edited to make more clear, thanks!
Fire your banker. Hire your mom.
Oddly, their uptime charts still show 100%
Ask HN: When is the best time to start looking for summer internships?
Hey,
I'm wondering when do you think it is the best time to start looking for an internship, on the second year of university, the third?

Has anyone done an internship on the first year summer?

Lastly, when do you think it'd be advisable to start looking for companies and sending CVs, late fall, early start of the year...?

Thanks
I'm French, have ADHD and had to discover by my own at 28 years old that it was an existing condition. I guess (hope) it's better recognized nowadays but still I suspect it's underdiagnosed and also you only have access to Ritalin and Concerta as possible medication with many restrictions to fulfill a prescription.

Yet it's often presented in the media as "the obey pill that Americans give to their children".

As a coincidence there is currently a shortage of Concerta until mid-April ... great.
Xbox One sees a 96% boost in sales in the UK as Titanfall launches
The author could have just as easily written "Cancer, as currently defined, does not exist" or "Arthritis, as currently defined, does not exist".

In all of these cases, the the catch-all phrase is used to describe a handful of similar symptoms that stem from a wild variety of causes.

This is why we won't be curing cancer any time soon. We may cure a specific type of cancer, but we're going to have to cure each type of cancer in a specific a relevant way.

If the author wanted to say "ADHD is actually a catch-all term for a variety of root causes that would be better treated with specificity" I would be all over that. But, hey, page views.
If it prints out without presssing Fn then you're doing it right. Laptop keyboards are weird but usually it's just the PrtScr key as it acts as SysRq when using the Alt[Gr] modifier.

It should print something like:

"SysRq : HELP : loglevel(0-9) reboot(b) [...]"
I'm very interested in Musk's comment. Do you know where I can find a source?

I do automotive product development and I've always felt that materials really do make a difference. I also feel that time can sometimes play a bigger difference to perfect design than cost.
Hate to be the skeptic, but what's to guarantee that the winner will distribute the winnings evenly? It's not like the site has any official connection to the contest.
Complexity Creeps: Why I'm Concerned for the Future of Angular.js
http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...
woocommerce itself is free and open source. The themes that woothemes sells for it may not be free but there are many other WP themes that should work with it as well.
I agree. If it takes less time to google-fu and implement an answer than it does to write and publish a blog post about the problem, there is a high probability that the blog post was the real intention all along...
That's pretty cool! I actually live in the DC area. I'll definitely check this out.
Another big obstacle was that the INRIA license effectively prevents forking the language (you can only distribute modified compilers as original source + patch, not as eg a github repo) so for a long time there was a bottleneck on the language evolution. Lots of useful extensions (eg delimited continuations, staging) wilted and died because of that.

The rise of OcamlPro and Ocaml Labs does give me hope for the future of the language. There is already renewed momentum behind fixing packaging and handling multicore.

Now if someone would just figure out ad-hoc polymorphism (just pick one of the dozens of propasals) and maybe even document camlp4/5....
In this example there is no upside for somebody who doesn't already have Bitcoin. But there are other instances where Paypal or other payment providers are not available or charge high fees.
FYI

If you drag one or more e-mail message out of Outlook for Mac, it creates .eml files. These are just RFC2822 MIME source with a file extension—almost any mail client out there can read them.
If you drag an entire folder out, it creates a .mbox file. This is also a standard that many mail clients can read/import (Mail.app included).
Rubik's cube 2048?
That was one of the main reasons IE6 survived for so long.

So yes, under some circumstances, old formats are deprecated - even on the web. The world is better for it, but it still sucks for those who need that old stuff and are unable to move it forward.
"Patches welcome" is an aggressive, user-hostile, anti-social response to being told that the thing you suggested does not work. It's telling the user to fuck off because your own suggestion was flawed. clarry didn't run to HN and scream "pdf.js sucks!".
Hey mmcclure - sorry about that. We don't have any check's against in-depth functions ;) so maybe there's a bug on our side. Can you send me your function at nimit@fullstackacademy.com and I'll get back to you about what may have gone wrong!
> The universe of unwanted, valuable consumer electronics is probably quite small.

Spend some time exploring Ebay and Craigslist and you'll see that it's bigger than you might assume. People are exchanging a lot of consumer electronics, and for nontrivial dollar amounts. And not only the newest stuff.

As for worrying about disposal costs, I think that's unrealistic for any device that isn't actually broken. Show my any working computer or phone and I can guarantee you there's a non-negative price at which somebody will take it off your hands.

This is a case of tech-world myopia. Lots of people either don't care about or can't afford the hottest tech. An 18-month-old smart phone or two-year-old laptop still affords quite a lot of value. Which is why you'll see hundreds of them changing hands in the various marketplaces.
Complete, Eazy to use, Ruby on Rails Tutorials and Screencasts
It's partly digitized. There's still quite a bit of shipping dollars around.
> None of that data has ever been collected and stored by WhatsApp, and we really have no plans to change that.

Just because WhatsApp has no plans today doesn't make plans to exercise it tomorrow less viable.
I like this, it reminds me a little bit of corewars. Is there a way to get an enemy's type when programming from the base?
Few tix left to hear how information spreads on Facebook
Wednesday's talk by Facebook data scientist Lada Adamic is almost sold out.

For the first time, she shares how information spreads on fb.

Tickets at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-information-spreads-on-facebook-tickets-10523398769.
For those interested, this was also brought up in 2012 [0]. Among 44 different things that were requesting comment, was this, tucked away in section 15c [1]:

"tailored data retention periods for up to 2 years for parts of a data set, with specific timeframes taking into account agency priorities, and privacy and cost impacts"

One of the main reasons it didn't end up going further was likely due to the fact so many Australians wrote to the inquiry expressing their concerns [1]:

"The Committee received 240 submissions and 29 exhibits. Three submissions were received in largely identical terms from some 5,300 individual members of the public. These submitter's expressed opposition to the reform proposals, particularly the proposed mandatory data retention proposal."

The part you will be interested in is "Chapter 5 - Data Retention" [2]. In it, the committee came to the conclusion that there wan't enough information provided in the terms of reference to make a proper judgement. However they talk about how it is of obvious interest to the law enforcement agencies, and obvious problem to civil libertarians. They commented on how it is up to the government to choose how to make a decision and take into account these two opposing views.

This is actually the first time I participated in a democratic process, beyond voting, and was pleasantly surprised to find out (only this morning during a more detailed read through the report) that they quoted my submission! [2 (Box 1)].

It is sort of the opposite to voting, where you feel "how can I make a difference". If you take the time to write in to such an inquiry, then it is highly likely that your opinion will get taken seriously.

[0] http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/hous...

[1] http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/hous...

[2] http://www.aph.gov.au/parliamentary_business/committees/hous...
> I would put absolutely NOTHING past the original architect.

An thus create a unfalsifiable, worthless hypothesis. Al Gore could be Satoshi then.
Good point. What I am actually more likely to do is replace my pickup with an electric version when there is a good option available. I only really need one gas car, and the truck would be a good candidate for going full electric. My next vehicle will probably be an electric truck with a roughly 100 mile range. I may have to wait a few years for a good option in my price range though.
If the definition of ADHD includes 20% of all boys, then I'm inclined to believe the definition takes in too many kids. If 1 in 5 kids has it, then it is normal behavior in that age range.
Microsoft is a bit late : on the MAC there are already quite a few apps that do what OneNote does.

But hey choice is good.
If anyone starts hula hooping at my office they will surely attract a lot of attention because it's just not something people do at work (YMMV)

I didn't say she was asking for anything, I said her credibility is weakened by her reaction to this. Try it, get any two people at your workplace to hula hoop and see if people come and watch, gawk or whatever word you want to call it.

And why quote Courtney Love at me, that's about as ridiculous as quoting Germaine Greer in response. What did CL think would happen when she jumped off stage? She of all people understands human sexuality, and was exploiting it. She says the big smile was her pretending it was happening, however, there are a million other interpretations. If I jump into a hungry lion's den do I complain when I get eaten? Ask yourself why CL is says it wasn't rape and then it was, she's a very astute woman and knows exactly how to exploit the attention she garners, because she sure as hell is a lousy singer.

Hula hooping doesn't look like stripping, any which way you want to spin it, so given that she has her normality barometer so poorly calibrated, how can we believe much else she says without applying the same thought process?
I tend to believe the Newsweek article because a reputable journalistic source of that caliber would not run a story like that unless they had enough evidence to prove it. Because this guy is not a public persona they would probably otherwise be guilty of libel.

--

EDIT: As gamblor956 pointed out they would be "liable" rather than "guilty". It does sound like he may have a case though, especially if Newsweek is wrong.
It's not hard to get stuff on the front page. Make a reasonably nice project, get a designer friend to do a landing page. Then let 10 of your friends know beforehand, get a commitment for upvotes.

Post it, get your friends to upvote it (DO NOT send them a direct link, the HN spam system picks that up, they need to find it themselves on the new page).

This will buy you maybe like 30 minutes on the frontpage, from there something lame will drop, something decent will stick for a few hours, and something more awesome/controversial can stay all day.

I've been directly involved in like 3 of these (as landing page designer), and an "upvoting friend" in maybe about 10. YC companies do this (I was surprised at first, I thought they got a magic orange YC upvote button).

Extra Credit: A "midbrow dismissal" in the comments that is then debunked in a condescending/clever response can be helpful.
Google Maps still has much better data, which arguably is what's most important but to me Apple Maps has a better UI. For example, Google Maps has a much lower frame rate and in general is less fluid and responsive than Apple maps.

I wish that Google provided the data and Apple the front-end design, just like in the good old days.
> dismantling the 10x claim (writing an entire book about it)

"Leprechauns" is by no means entirely about 10x developers.

In it I also tackle things like the "exponentially increasing cost of bugs" claim, the Cone of Uncertainty, the "software crisis", the successive mythical reconstructions of the Waterfall bogeyman, the limitations of the "empirically based software engineering" movement and specifically the problem of discipline envy.

If it had only been the 10x thing that turned out to be ill-supported I wouldn't have gotten my knickers all atwist. My beef is precisely that when you look closely most of software engineering looks awfully like pseudoscience.

This article is, in a way, Chapter 1 of the next book, in which I'd look beyond "academic" myths, and try to confront a broader picture of how the software community thinks about itself, and how that perpetuates some of the problems we've been bitching about for decades. (And some of these problems turned out to be non-existent; other very real ones barely rate a nod from academia. That is also part of the problem.)
Yes, but nothing that has ever been worth pursuing because they don't pay enough or have stupidly small vacation policies or require me to show up in person.
If there are waves in the space buttresses, isn't there a danger of the sky falling down?
Came here to post this, especially because the wording about splitting the money seems purposefully vague.
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Didn't intend it to be an ad. Deleting.
I'm surprised there aren't companies that look at the expiration dates of SSL certificates and try and get them to use their service to get a new one, like domain people do. Seems like it could also be a feature of New Relic / Pingdom / etc.
protip: nagios.
namesilo.com is the best domain registrar I've used. No upsells, dirt cheap, great API, and 2fa.