skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For comparative failure rates, see here: http://www.squaretrade.com/htm/pdf/SquareTrade_laptop_reliab...

A bar graph comparing failure rates among manufacturers appears on page 6. Asus and Toshiba represent the top tier, but Apple's better than average and not far behind them.

That said, I think much of the "unrivaled quality" that many perceive in Macs has less to do with failure rates and more to do with the details - MagSafe power adapters, fantastic trackpads, the general lack of crapware; all these details come together to give an overall impression of a more put-together piece of electronics. This is coming from someone whose first act upon firing up a brand-new Mac is to stick a copy of Windows on it. (Nuking the price advantage I'd otherwise be getting from going with Macs in the process.)
Ask HN –  What do you do to stay fit while working? 
While working in the tech field (misting sitting) how does everyone stay fit or active, or maybe how do people get to a state of fitness?
You could build an erlang/OTP style supervision tree using recover at the top level to restart panic'd goroutines.
What is so sad is that your are right. BART is a wonderful way to get around when you compare it against the mass transit options of other cities in the US. And yet there is so much room for improvement with BART.

I just want to throw this in: Dallas has some of the worst mass transit options. Many of the trains won't even run on Sunday. And every time you cross the street you feel like you are about to run down by some oversized, overpowered vehicle that could hold a dozen people but only holds one.
I think it's perfectly clear. In the end of January, Google releases a design draft detailing how they are switching Chrome from NSS to OpenSSL[1]. Two months later, some Google employees announce they have found a major bug. I don't have any inside knowledge, but I think the causality chain is obvious - they did a security review of the code as part of the switch and found it.

[1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML11ZyyMpnAr6clIAwWrXD53...
You mean a collocation dictionary? I've never heard of a dictionary of synonyms and a quick Google search didn't really come up with anything. Could you point me in the direction of a publication? Thanks!
Well he did retain counsel[1], and they did file things with the court. Whether they were competent is another matter, and whether he had standing to intervene is a third. But I think we can all agree that handing over the key in four-point font is holding contempt for the court, and judges aren't stupid. He can complain all he wants, but the only person responsible for the consequences for him is himself.

[1] I have no evidence of this, but I suspect the reason he had trouble finding counsel is that he was asking them to play games with the court, which a smart lawyer will refuse to do.
If Comcast can't handle the amount of data, how would using a different CDN help? Does the other CDN somehow send less data given exactly the same requests?

Or are you arguing that an ISP should be allowed to restrict which services people are allowed to access depending on how much those services pay the ISP?
Long, long ago, I wanted a way to launch arbitrary numbers of CMD.EXE windows with arbitrarily-chosen foreground and background colors. The standard settings only let you store a finite number of color entries (something like 16) to choose from. However, the registry key it finds the settings in is based on the executable name, so if you make a copy of cmd.exe called cmdb.exe and run it, you have N more slots of colors to choose from. So I wrote a little hack that took --fgcolor rrggbb --bgcolor rrggbb values and then made a hard link to cmd.exe in the temp directory called something like cmd_rrggbb_rrggbb.exe, set up the appropriate registry keys, and then invoked it with whatever other args you provided. Subsequent invocations with the same args would find the temp executable and reuse it. It was an absurd hack, but it worked really well and it amused me to write it. edit: and is a testament to how idiotic the CMD settings scheme is.
So please tell us, why is it not done? Contract provisions? Lack of profit?
I was trying to figure out what about DDG's results page made it so much harder for me to scan than Google, and this is definitely it. Just a bit more hierarchy makes the page so much easier to process.
I suspect that whether a given government software spec includes blacklists, whitelists or a combination of both depends largely on who wrote it. Unless someone can show me that exclusive whitelisting is enforced US policy, I would think there will often be documents detailing which versions of software are not to be used on a given contract, as well as which ones are.
Pay us $x to connect our network to Y network to your Z network, our our millions of Y users won't have access to customers on your Z network, and that will make the Z network look bad to your customers.

Of course, it goes the other way - Y looks bad because they can't get to Z's customers - but I suspect the commercial customers on Z might be more likely to ditch Z rather than the end users (who probably don't understand the situation) ditching Y.
Indeed, and it takes quite some memory, and it's for me the first extension ever which actually crashed at some points (I'm using Chrome with a dozen other extensions installed).
It's only the necessary income to afford the mortgage. The media house price was listed as something like 600k.
You're going to have a hard time maintaining consistent state but if you manage your bookkeeping very well that might work in a long lived process. If not you might end up leaking resources. Go routines and erlang processes are not mapping 1:1 with each other and I (maybe naively) assume that resources such as file descriptors and other subtle state modifications could easily survive a naive implementation of such a scheme causing eventual resource depletion.

Erlang is bulletproof in this respect.
The whole point people are making is that tablets aren't good for work, which is why the surface is so great.

So the surface has to be better than the MacBook Air for work, or better than an iPad as a tablet.

Otherwise it's just a compromise that is worse at both.

[edit: the downvotes are pretty indicative of the nature of this thread given that all I've done is ask valid questions to which I don't know the answer]
This reminds me of this frequent YAGNI-vs-"design" debate that keeps coming up as well. It all comes down to how educated your guesses are about the future of whatever you're building!
FanXT Launches Multi-platform, Multi-language Fantasy Football Game  
FanXT has launched fantasy football (soccer) for FIFA World Cup 2014 on website, Facebook, iPhone and Android platforms and in English,
Did you do anything aside from TNW to promote it?
Great idea! You should find a partner to print to physical books - this may be a simpler export option (and added feature) while you work on your sqlite-based export. You should provide some sort of verification that notes that I claim to have entered on a certain date were indeed entered on that date, for inventions (although the US is now first-to-file). And you should allow me to scribble notes on a tablet.
They are superficial in "it will cust just a few hours of development time to fix". But certainly aren't superficial in "the user experience does not suffer because of them".

Microsoft is living a lot of money on the table.
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On top of that, good luck buying a place with a mortgage/20% down payment. A friend of mine was turned down multiple times trying to buy a condo last year because the sellers were only accepting all-cash offers.
> I have been looking now for a while for a rigorous treatment of how to deal with monopoly-related problems

http://mises.org/rothbard/mes/chap10a.asp

there are two, and only two, ways to settle what the prices of goods will be. One is the way of the free market, where prices are set voluntarily by each of the participating in­dividuals. In this situation, exchanges are made on terms bene­fiting all the exchangers. The other way is by violent interven­tion in the market, the way of hegemony as against contract. Such hegemonic establishment of prices means the outlawing of free exchanges and the institution of exploitation of man by man—for exploitation occurs whenever a coerced exchange is made. If the free-market route—the route of mutual benefit—is adopted, then there can be no other criterion of justice than the free-mar­ket price, and this includes alleged “competitive” and “monop­oly” prices, as well as the actions of cartels. In the free market, consumers and producers adjust their actions in voluntary co­operation.
Ausencia.
Quite a lot of digital artists were using the surface pro 2 instead of buying the Wacom companion. I think the n-trig stylus will scare a lot of them away from the surface pro 3.
Pushups and marine style crunches before going to work in the morning, a ~5 mile (one way) bike ride to/from the office, and don't sit around all day after work. I write software.

That and Wing Chun Kung Fu classes 3x per week
The http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Hartley_theorem limits the information that can be transmitted through a given channel. If you want to send more wired data, you add more channels by adding more wires. Wireless doesn't have that luxury.
Another great Erlang essay by jlouis.

The Erlang practice of letting things fail is also SOP for experienced implementors of any large SOA system. You just let things fail. If some process getting messages from a queue can't talk to the Database, don't retry; just exit and let the supervisor deal with it.

Erlang is great for writing robust software because this type of error handling is a first-class feature of the language and runtime.
Linux can't get to that point for a long time since it's limited to sending scroll wheel events.

I don't have a proof, but this doesn't seem to be the case for GTK3 apps. Scrolling in Evince (GNOME's PDF viewer) and Web is very responsive.
I find myself writing libraries (like xmerlrpc for XML-RPC). The rule of "just let it die" doesn't apply too much in such code.

You typically don't want to decide to die in library code. You want to postpone the decision until the actual application/service is written.

It's easy to convert error reported by returned value to error reported by exception: just cause badmatch with guard. But to convert an exception to a value is more troublesome. You need to use try..catch.

To properly catch errors in library, one could either use global try..catch hidden in the library code or be much more precise on errors and carefully intercept all the errors that could happen. The latter approach gives an opportunity to give very specific error messages and allows hypothetical bugs in code used by the library to bubble up instead of being disguised as "invalid argument".

As the article says, there are cases when rule of a thumb needs to be broken. Writing a library is such case.
I have heard good things from people who take the DART from Plano/Richardson to Dallas for work. What are your complaints? Lack of frequency/coverage?
Why buy in SF when you can rent? I don't see the point and honestly it depends on the size of the property.
I run 3-4 times per week, lift weights during those days also, and go walking 7 days per week. Even though I sometimes slack off during these routines, it's enough to keep me fit.
What difference does it make to the seller if its a all-cash?
Wired connectivity certainly isn't either. I find myself using my home internet connection almost exclusively for movies and games -- not exactly the great innovative services everyone talks about.

I use my phone for almost everything else: online shopping, communication, news consumption, even work since I tether my laptop to it when I'm on the go. It's a lot more convenient; and the only thing I really need high bandwidth for is media playback.
>>Perhaps they don't end up in the news because their services actually work

Or because they willingly comply with every government request, unbeknownst to their users, which is not really news-worthy (unlike Levison standing his ground for principles in which he believes).
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And for the first time, I got confused and thought it was text, not png (I've had Naptha installed few weeks ago).
If you're going to nitpick a strawman this hard, you have to say this whole command should just be replaced with "tail file" but presumably the author intended it as an example where in real life there would be options supplied to sed. Those options might cause the number of lines to change, necessitating the tail being after the sed, not before the sed.
Less chance of the deal collapsing.
Downvoted, as that is a misunderstanding that design is neither just on the surface, nor underneath. It pervades all the way through. You have to iteratively improve it all.
I agree. Also, I think it relies too much on your physical proportions; if you have short legs and/or a big gut, you probably can't use it on your lap.

Given the reduced weight and width in the design budget, its a shame they don't offer a counterweighted keyboard as an accessory (with possible extension battery acting as the weight?). Although I understand why from a marketing perspective...
[delete] wiki'd my question.
Just to put things in perspective with some NYC area vs Bay Area commuter rail/heavy rapid transit systems -

Commuter rail:

LIRR: 97,090,300 rides/year, 336 miles, 124 stations, 24/7 operation

Metro-North: 83,326,200 rides/year, 330 miles, 121 stations, ~21.5 hours/day operation

NJ Transit: 81,942,000 rides/year, 398 miles, 164 stations, ~22.5 hours/day operation

Caltrain: 16,294,900 rides/year, 77 miles, 32 stations, 19 hrs/weekday & 12 hrs/day weekends

Heavy rapid transit:

NYC Subway: 2,651,804,600 rides/year, 232 miles, 468 stations, 24/7 operation

BART: 124,747,400 rides/year, 104 miles, 44 stations, ~20 hrs/weekday & ~17 hrs/day weekends

More:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_rapid_tra...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_commuter_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_light_rai...
Slightly lower risk. Typically, if you are taking a loan, then you have a condition stating that the sale is contingent on the loan getting passed. If it does not, then the seller has to put the house on the market again and loses a few days and possibly value.
I think most people are interested in public transportation to commute to work. I know I am and Uber/Lyft doesn't really help that situation.
I have a pretty messed up knee that gives me nightly pain. I find that Advil or Aspirin sometimes doesn't work so instead I smoke a little weed, the pain disappears and I can fall asleep (after the initial high wears off). As for productivity when I'm high, I would say that it can assist in working through an idea when stuck architecting something, but I always make sure to check my work the next day; naming variables or services after foods and characters on the TV show I might have in the background makes for a very confusing code base.
Renting in SF comes with its own set of strings and scams/opportunism, for example a lot of condos set out an attractive initial rent, but then either (a) tack on ridiculous extras like paying for water, and/or (b) raise your rent by a ridiculous amount after your first year.
That's income, not house cost.
Zero chance the buyer and/or house will fail to qualify for a mortgage. Also gives the seller more leverage in not having to fix issues not required by law.
Eng. out of school w/ 0 experience are get $135K+.

I don't see a problem here.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/163
That is true, and I suppose the fact that third party go libraries won't be written with this philosophy in mind means that you would have to audit all third party library use pretty carefully, which would make using this approach on projects of significant size untenable.
I don't really think throwing away $3k+/month for a small 1 bedroom is a better option. At least have that money go towards a mortgage and get the tax deductions on interest...
Why rent if you can buy?

Buying in SF is currently cheaper then Renting[1] not to mention its one of the best investments out there (better then apple stock over the past 2 years) [2]

[1] http://www.trulia.com/trends/category/rent-vs-buy-index/
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-stock-gold-or-bay-area-...
Powerlifting and rowing, and I make sure to use a workout tracker to measure my progress. And sleep, definitely sleep.
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By selling adverts based on the current query. It already does so.
I’m bailing on San Francisco
Whatsapp sold for $19billion surely every start up employee is a millionaire.

/s
Love this post!
Does anyone know about a german dictionary of such a quality that s/he could recommend?
I really enjoy disecting words/sentences/speech and to find those pin-point-descriptive paraphrases/expressions :-)
(pls do not judge my english, I r no native speaker :O)
How would they do this, assuming they wanted to? If they built their tools correctly, nobody knows how to comply with such a request.

Or are you suggesting that they maintain a secret list of unknown vulnerabilities in their own code, just so they can help people spy on their own users?
Get Far Manager www.farmanager.com - you'll have the both the command-line and midnight-commander/norton-commander like file viewing/browsing copying tool. Press Ctrl+O to toggle between full-screen and showing the file bars. Maximize the windows as much as you want (it'll work). Make the shortcut to start Far Manager maximized.

There is even project to bring ConEmu + Far Manager, and there is even way to make Far Manager work with cygwin's bash (I have separate link for it).

Give it a try - it's zip-installable, and has real installer too. Lots of plugins (including zip browser, exe browsers, ftp/ssh/etc.)
What about the garbage men and public educators?

Or would you rather we just do away with them, along with the middle managers, telephone sanitisers and hairdressers?
> better then apple stock over the past 2 years)

That's extrapolating based on current conditions. It's a bet that a) nothing meaningful is done about housing supply, b) the overall market doesn't turn south and c) the US cheap-dollar policy of low prime rates doesn't change.

I'd be suspicious about 2&3, though I'd probably agree about (1) - never underestimate municipal incompetence when that incompetence means tax coffers fill faster.
What kind of speech disorder was it, if you don't mind my asking?
Do you mean 'sl'?
Yeah this is a really frustrating flaw in online job markets. I knew this would happen and never posted my stuff online; but it's also frustrating to go through job postings by hand to find ones that fit you. I ended up writing near regex complicated search filters on places like Indeed to get what I wanted.
> Nobody paid anybody for the service because it was assumed to be symmetrical: as many bits were going in one direction as in the other so any transaction fees would be a wash.

The justification for peering is not equal traffic, it's equal value - my customer wants to communicate with your customer. Regardless of the direction of traffic, the traffic is equally valuable to both of us because the traffic is the primary thing our customers are paying us for.

Unless, of course, I can get you to pay me for it anyway because of some unrelated advantage such as the fact that your customers can leave you more easily than mine can leave me. Comcast and others are attempting to leverage exactly that - in many regions they have no viable competition whereas Netflix and L3 are much more replaceable in their respective markets. This is a prime example of abuse of a monopoly.
Not sure where those numbers came from, when I'm looking for a Google eng w/o xp it's bellow 135k care to explain?
If you cherry pick laptops these days, you can even surpass Mac OS or Windows. My MacBook Air from 2012 has longer battery life and stays cooler using a stock Linux kernel than with it's Mac counterpart.

The trick is that it has very well supported Intel components. As a matter of fact, Linus used this laptop for some time.
> It'd be like patenting the ideal air-to-gasoline burning ratio: it's just a fact of life.

That never stopped people from trying to patent such facts of life, often succeeding and making tons of money with it or forcing competitors out of the field. Patents are like swords, use or abuse, to some only winning matters and they count their wins by their pocket-books.
As Court Fees Rise, The Poor Are Paying The Price
Someone already made a variation of Greenspun's Tenth Rule about this--in the absence of formal management, your company will contain an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of management.
right, but it's essentially saying that you need at least two six-figure wage earners to enter the market.
I expect negative comments on occasion from everyone, but you've been registered on HN for 16 days and every single comment you've made since you've joined has been vitrolic haterade that adds nothing constructive to the threads you participate or the community. Do you ever have anything positive to say about anything? If you're so embittered, why participate here at all?
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Most of which are rinky-dink dumbphone replacements that see few, if any, app purchases.

If you're developing a mobile app, iOS is still where you'll find the majority of your audience, and it's less of a money sink when it comes to development and QA.
Flagging this, it is a dupe (article still on the front page).
what depends on the size of the property? right now rent in SF averages about $2k per bedroom for units available on the market.
Wikipedia has a page explaining how to cite Wikipedia according to various styles[0]. Additionally, when clicking "cite this page" in the sidebar of an article, all links use oldid= fields. (MLA citation is an outlier, as it doesn't link to anything.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_Wikipedia
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Everyday, I do 100 pushups - 50 when I wake up & 50 before I go to bed. It takes 2 - 3 minutes from your day so you have no excuse. If I have extra free time I'll go swim at the local pool.

Adam Savage (of Mythbusters fame) does a really awesome podcast on which they discussed fitness/well-being one week[1]. The main takeaway is in order to become and more importantly stay healthy you have to change your mindset to always be thinking about what you eat.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A1rpGGqYew
A simple and obvious problem is that elementary and high school teachers in SF are making $40k-60k/year. So even if you and your spouse are making >$100k/year and living comfortably in your sf apartment the teachers teaching your kids can barely afford to live in the city.
Please don't feed the troll. (see puppetmaster3's comment history)
If you live in NYC, my trick is to go to a gym that in on the way home from work, but not the same stop as my apartment. Then I just force myself to always exit the train at that stop even if I really don't want to go to the gym. Once I've stepped off and the train leaves it's either go to the gym or wait 15 minutes for a new train.

YMMV but I've never not gone through with a workout once I've stepped off that train.
Yea, they are going to a different model, and I think they are going to ship the start menu in a future update.