skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could also recycle lots of Intel's own verbiage from its own Itanium introduction :-) That didn't work out so well.

There are some interesting questions related to whatever convergence of tablets and laptops ends up happening. But it's not clear to me that especially favors ARM. And, it's also a hybrid sort of device that seems so obvious yet Apple finally got tablets to take off by taking a different path. So I'm skeptical about time frames at a minimum.
Obviously, a response to the question posed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvmvxAcT_Yc
I don't understand how he got hacked. Anyway, there is a service like fail2ban on the Syno.
The offer is already very generous, isn't really too fair to game it.
There's some evidence, enough that some doctors will recommend you take them, but there's not strong enough evidence that the FDA will let you make the marketing claim.
Do you use M+1m in a retina display exclusively?
For what it's worth:

Israel has a 3 year (boys, 2 year for girls) mandatory army service for permanent residents and citizens; I don't know how the Singaporean regime compares, but it is generally possible for an Israeli soldier to take a "leave of absence" to visit family during said mandatory service. If their parents are not permanent residents, they actually get help with the airfare and other stuff.

From talking to Israelis and Germans (former still has mandatory service, latter used to have) - it's a part of the culture that isn't as intimidating as it sounds to outsiders. In fact, in Israel it is (or at least was) called "the fusion plant", and looked at as the great equalizer the binds rich and poor equally into society - and avoiding it for a long time had a social stigma with dire consequences. Mileage May Vary.
ZFS on OS X (including Yosemite)
A/B Tests in Marketing – Sample Size and Significance using R
> Inspiration and community are the best parts of school, and they are nowhere to be found.

Yes. Other things not found:

* Program structure

* Incentive for passing your courses (i.e. getting kicked out of school)

* Brand recognition associated with a diploma, to help you land a good job

* Keg parties

* Networking with classmates, alumni, and, if you're lucky, professors, to help you land a good job

For these reasons, and others, MOOCs in their current form don't pose an immediate threat to colleges.

Still, I think technology could be leveraged to make traditional programs more efficient.

For instance, university professors serve two functions: they spend most of their time and effort doing research, then they also have to deliver calculus/biology/whatever lectures to undergrads. In practice, the overlap between great researchers and great lecturers is often small. Why not supplement undergraduate education using canonical lectures from the very best speakers? I imagine some students are already doing this, by watching Khan Academy or pulling the lectures from MOOCs that feature better speakers than their professors.

Also, as tablet/e-reader screens continue to improve, digital textbooks will likely become more prevalent. There is so much room for improvement of digital textbooks by abandoning the one-to-one mapping from paper textbooks; specifically, by using multimedia more effectively and providing interactive examples. Further, adaptive or interactive problem sets would provide a rich set of data to identify where students get lost. A/B testing could identify which presentations are most effective. There's a lot to be done here.
Wow this is very well done. I had entirely too much fun playing around with it. I've been using minecraft and some mods like computercraft (http://www.computercraft.info/) to try and teach my nephews but this may be more fun to help explain concepts.
This means it is what you are good at. If it would be that easy for anyone, everyone would try to be in software development and salaries would plummet. Instead I have many friends whom I tried to direct into software development direction, but after few evenings they would throw it all away saying it is impossible for them to get it.
The first thing I looked for was the shoulder strap and it's a relatively thin piece of leather with a slightly wider piece of leather that adjusts. No padding, so far as I could see. Much of the weight of the bag will be placed where that strap goes over the shoulder. I ride with a Chrome bag [1] which has superb padding for the shoulder; further, the way it attaches to the bag means that the bag sits in the centre of the bag remarkably comfortably. I used this daily for years when I worked as a bike messenger. Sure it gets heavy and your shoulder will show some redness but that thing could carry incredible loads. I don't think your bag is really aiming at the same thing, lovely though it looks, but I'd be wary of packing yours full of large laptop plus camera plus a book plus etc etc.

[1] http://www.chromeindustries.com/media/catalog/product/cache/...
Or any of the others who work on the code. However, even jacquesm[0] - third on the leader board[1] - says that to the best of his knowledge one cannot downvote articles:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#downvotearticle

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jacquesm

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
About two years ago, I was responsible for the curriculum of a number of after-school "learn programming" classes for kids aged 11-14 (Canadian grades 6-8), and we used a slightly older version of light-bot as one of our teaching tools, among others.

After using light-bot as a central piece of the first classes we ran, I decided to make less use of it, because it had significant usability issues for the kids. The awkward click-targets and instruction management were very difficult for the kids, who wanted to experiment and change the order of their bot programs frequently. I'm very glad to see that that's one of the biggest improvements in this version of light-bot: instructions highlight when you mouse over them, clicking them removes them/adds them immediately, the position they will end up in when you release a drag is highlighted, etc. Great work on that! Starting with just enough instructions and slots to demonstrate the direction of flow is also a good move.

There are a few other issues that seem to have popped up: there are so many buttons on the relatively small screen that at any point, it can be difficult to tell what to push next. What do >> and >>> mean to an 11-year-old, or < vs a wraparound back arrow?

I haven't tested this version (I no longer teach those classes), but I can imagine kids clicking arbitrarily around until things move forward without them quite understanding why or whether they were successful, or just being paralysed by not being sure what to do. That paralysis was very common for us, and it sometimes took a lot of encouragement to get kids to just play around and try whatever came to mind.

Regardless, I think light-bot is fun, challenging, feels good to beat, and helps to familiarize kids with step-by-step operations and looping structures especially. Procedures often required some extra conceptual explanation, but also get a good treatment. Glad to see it being updated and promoted!
I was thinking that a legal form of LSD would be distributed like blotter; i.e. you'd receive your dose as a tiny little piece of paper, which could then be combined (ground up) into a much larger dose.

More likely it would be packaged as an edible (cookie, brownie, whatever); then it couldn't be combined (trying to cook/boil down the bulk matter wouldn't work as light, heat, and moisture are the kryptonites of LSD potency), in which case, sure, why not, could be a viable non-addictive alternative to valium and friends that people across the world are hooked on.
I wonder how many tech-savvy users have a complete reporting firewall, controlling in/out connections at home as opposed to a router with a custom password attached online.
I was in love with this bag the entire article until I got to the end and saw the $220 price tag that followed with it. The bag has to last a minimum of 10 years to compete with the cheap messenger bags that I just buy yearly.

Even if this bags lasts 10 years the problem is I'll probably have to buy another one before that because what we're carrying is rapidly changing. 5 years down the road a new device could come up that is shaped in just such a way that this messenger bag doesn't work well with it.
Did Xapo Commit A Bait and Switch?
Think Of YC As A Growing Startup
you would still need to have ports forwarded to the NAS from the internet, a compromised router, or the NAS connected directly to the open internet. All of which are a bad idea.
FWIW, be careful leaving this checkbox ticked when profiling code: it can consume 30%+ of CPU cycles, dwarfing everything else.
I wonder how many drone smuggling attempts have succeeded. I'm a drone hobbyist, and I don't think it would be at all difficult to deliver small packages with a very low chance of getting caught.
> for Apple's A7 it's around 3x versus a normal desktop chip like the 4770 and only 1.7X versus the 4250U you'd find in a Macbook Air

That would still be noticeably slower for native software, and unbearable for anything run under emulation. It would also be very painful for use cases such as people wanting occasional Windows applications or Linux VMs.
The linked optical illusion, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis, is interesting as well. This is why when glancing at a clock, its second hand may appear stalled. I've always experienced this; never knew it had a name.
Seems to be a response to:

http://hueniverse.com/2014/07/30/open-source-dickishness/
Replacing 32-bit loop variable with 64-bit introduces performance deviations
Very minor complaint but first of January 1984 is always depicted as '1984.01.01' in the game, regardless of I18N selected. While this is good in Germany, it many countries like US you instead prefer something like '1/1/84'.
> Why doesn't Apple design their own x86 CPU?

There's the small matter of getting an x86 license. Which would mean buying Intel or AMD, since it's vanishingly unlikely that Intel will be handing them out any time soon.
The 4250U I mentioned is the one in the 1.3 Ghz Air.
I learned about Hatch Labs a few hours after coming up with the name Hatch. It's a very cool word after all.

Who knows, we may change the name later :)
There is absolutely NO conclusive evidence. Your doctor is not a scientist (http://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/328/7454/0.9.full.pdf). It's not up to doctors to decide what works and what doesn't. The fact that doctors prescribe Omega 3 pills means absolutely nothing. The fact that there is no scientific evidence to say the pills are conclusively beneficial DOES mean something. The only evidence of effect has been based on studies of large groups of people who claimed to consume Omega 3 or not. However, proper blind experiments do not reach any conclusive outcome. There is no evidence to suggest the effect is anything but correlatory. (That said, most supplementary pills will do you no harm, either.)

Even RB themselves write this on the homepage: "Supportive, but not conclusive research shows that consumption of EPA and DHA Omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of coronary heart disease."
Ask HN: What service do you prefer for incorporating?
One specific example he provides is developing better digital textbooks. Specifically, digital content that is more than just a PDF version of a paper textbook. Some options:

* Use multimedia effective (video, animation, sound could all be integrated effectively with the text)

* Interactive examples (see this HN-featured page about Markov models for some nice examples: http://setosa.io/blog/2014/07/26/markov-chains/index.html)

* A/B testing to determine the most effective way to teach a concept

* Mine data from interactive problem sets to see where understanding tends to break down, then iterative on the text until you teach those concept effectively

Another specific example he touches on: better video content. Consider that a lot of MITx's video content was just a recording of a professor lecturing in a monotone at a blackboard. This is the least possible effort they could have made. For a specific example of a better way to lecture online, he references Khan Academy's video. I fully agree. And he points out that not only is this approach effective, it was also inexpensive to produce.
This is weird. Why would you want aerial view of your wedding?!
Thank you, I was going to say that one of the main reasons I play Civilization is for the often strange stories that can develop from the procedural content and simple sets of rules. "The rebel sons of nearby Valetta who embark on a hundred year campaign of foreign shores, sometimes dashed on fortunes rocks, but always rebuilding, and becoming the first people ever to experience firearms."
Unless you think the article itself it offensive, you might consider reviving this one, especially if you will be around to moderate the comments. I don't agree with all of it, but I think there are elements in it that could lead to productive discussion on privacy.
Gplgpu: GPL-licensed graphics
No More Unicorns – CascadiaJS Keynote CJ Silverio
Agreed. If somebody likes that — well, that's nice. I even see on screencasts sometimes TextMate with proportional fonts, so obviously somebody will find it desirable. But it won't be me for sure. First off, what I've seen there doesn't seems readable by itself. Second, I don't really see any real benefits of using proportional fonts for coding, while drawbacks are quite big: when I'm tired or just reading quickly through the code I often find myself depending on being able to see that lines with the same number of characters have the same width.

Even more than that (maybe it's something like "professional deformation" already, but I'm fine with it): I've considered using non-monospaced fonts automatically for stuff like LaTeX or markdown, or my own txt notes, but didn't find it pleasant enough. For all the european languages, anyway — typing japanese in vim is a bit painful for me and I don't know languages with more exotic writing system, be it arabic or hindi. I even hard-wrap natural language texts, which would be crazy using proportional font — and am glad I did so, when I want to see it through `less` on fullscreen.
Which titles specifically?

To OP: Broken in Safari OSX for me, works in Firefox.
Right, using an A7 in a Macbook would be totally crazy. The idea is that Apple might create an A8 that's about as fast as the current Macbook Air and use that. Getting as much performance increase going from A7 -> A8 as they did going A6 -> A7 strikes me as implausible, and it would probably be a bad idea to switch architectures anyways. But it's not totally crazy.
توقعات الابراج مع كارمن شماس اليوم الاثنين 4-8-2014
I love that this has a big fat "reproduce the results" button with detailed build instructions.

Why isn't reproducibility required to publish in CS? Unlike in fields like psychology or chemistry, reproducing results should be trivial if the authors provide instructions on how to do it.
OTOH you can cache the decoded microops (IIRC modern Intel chips do this, while modern AMD and the original Pentium cached instruction boundaries), and in thumb mode ARM is also variable length.
The second and third video show more details.

http://vimeo.com/99653723

http://vimeo.com/99038775
I speak with no special knowledge, simply being a user of the
system. I have, however, written systems that take user input
through web browsers, and have made decisions like this, so I
thought I would suggest a reason.

In HTML, a new line does not imply a new line in the rendered
text. Thus there is a precedent.

When typing text into a browser TEXTAREA, it can be useful to
insert new-lines to aid readability, but those newlines might
not correspond to where you would want new-lines in text when
rendered. Instead, you would want the text to flow, and only
get new lines where you have a paragraph break.

So you need to allow the user to put new-lines in the browser
textarea without them creating newlines in the rendered text,
and you want some way to allow the user to specify paragraphs
in the rendered text.

The existing system of typing plain text with newlines in the
browser for readability and blank lines for new paragraphs is
completely natural to me. In typing this I've added new lines
for readability, and left blank lines for paragraphs.

It seems a good compromise to me.

Here's what it looks like in my browser TEXTAREA:

I speak with no special knowledge, simply being a user of the
system. I have, however, written systems that take user input
through web browsers, and have made decisions like this, so I
thought I would suggest a reason.

In HTML, a new line does not imply a new line in the rendered
text. Thus there is a precedent.

When typing text into a browser TEXTAREA, it can be useful to
insert new-lines to aid readability, but those newlines might
not correspond to where you would want new-lines in text when
rendered. Instead, you would want the text to flow, and only
get new lines where you have a paragraph break.

So you need to allow the user to put new-lines in the browser
textarea without them creating newlines in the rendered text,
and you want some way to allow the user to specify paragraphs
in the rendered text.

The existing system of typing plain text with newlines in the
browser for readability and blank lines for new paragraphs is
completely natural to me. In typing this I've added new lines
for readability, and left blank lines for paragraphs.

It seems a good compromise to me.

EDIT: I seem to recall that some browsers - probably ancient ones - used to insert CR into text lines from TEXTAREA fields, possibly after 254 characters or something. Can anyone confirm that? My Google-fu is failing me, and I could simply be wrong. Alternatively, it's so old that no one knows or remembers.
I'd recommend against Transifex. They were originally an open project, but ended up going proprietary and abandoning the open version, causing problems for various projects that depended on it. Take a look at some of the alternatives, instead, such as Zanata (http://zanata.org/).
I've been pondering the idea of a more feature rich router/firewall device for my home connection. Something that would do like you say report, log, audit, etc. Any suggestions for specific model or models to look at?
HTML version: http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html
Organism as a self-reading text: anticipation and semiosis (1998)
That was my reaction as well: why not gettext? ngettext and other facilities are wildly useful, and there are a huge number of tools out there designed to make it easy for translators to maintain translations.
Freebsd vs. Linux 2014 performance and features
Your linked article does not support the case that height restrictions are what is making Paris, or other global capitals, expensive.

But thanks for the link, I found it an interesting read.
I think GeekBench is a poor benchmark, since it's measuring peak CPU performance in a narrow domain, but the table you cited shows that the 4770 is 6.5x faster than the A7 (16774 vs 2564). Even at the same frequency and core count, Haswell is 1.8x faster in the benchmark.

Whatever the exact number, it doesn't invalidate the point I was making: Switching to ARM will ruin performance for x86 programs, which need to be emulated. ARM has to be significantly faster than x86, or else the emulation overhead will make users hate the transition.

This is a huge challenge for the Mac Pro and rMBP, which are all about performance. Generally, a given microarchitecture can only scale TDP by a factor of 10 by changing frequency and number of cores. Satisfying the pro line would require a new microarchitecture. Considering an x86 to ARM transition would take 1-2 years, that's asking a lot of Apple's chip designers. If Apple was going to go through all the trouble of building a new ARM core for high-performance, high-TDP applications, they might as well build their own x86 CPU. It would save a transition and the necessary emulation overhead. They could roll it out for the MacBook Airs first, then address the Pro line at their leisure (or not and just use Intel CPUs).
> I'm honestly not sure what Prof. Flower's view is here ... The best MOOC courses I've done are highly produced and thoughtful

Keep in mind, this article is 2.5 years old. While there were some good MOOCs at that point, a lot of MITx material was just PDFs of syllabi, homework assignments, and lecture notes posted online.

And to this day, most MOOCs are just a one-to-one mapping of how the professors teach their live class. I think Flowers' view is that MITx had the funding and talent to completely re-think digital education, develop new tools, and raise the bar. They did not do that. What they did wasn't bad, but it wasn't transformative either.
The $40M quote is actually related to OCW, not MOOCs directly. You could probably argue that MOOCs are, in part, a reaction to the limited impact of OCW.

(Jumpstarting discussions about broadening education, yes, but the actual impact of which was mostly releasing a bunch of course notes--no. Probably not surprising in retrospect. Was it really realistic to expect that teachers in Africa would take all this and create courses for their students?)

I suspect we're well on our way to some sort of crash of this first wave of MOOCs as well. Whether something substantial comes out of it other than a gradual petering out caused by the lack of meaningful returns and results remains to be seen.
It probably UPnP'ed itself out.

(Edit) Or it might've been checking for updates, got redirected elsewhere via a DNS hijack, downloaded something funny, didn't bother to check if it's authentic and installed it.
True, but this is at least partly balanced by the fact that decentralized systems cost considerably less to operate. With my own example, I've already calculated that I could handle over a million concurrent users on a few hundred a month in hosting costs. If I had to relay all that bandwidth it might be hundreds of thousands in costs.

A decentralized Facebook would have less revenue, but also negligible hosting costs.
A sign is not alive – a text is (2002) [pdf]
Though I liked this post, it confuses invisible interfaces with keyboard interfaces, and this is a mistake that many people seem to make.

Vim is actually a perfect example for what I'm talking about. In my experience, it's a very polarizing tool, because people either know how to use it (and love it) or don't (and hate it).

This is because vim's interface is both keyboard-based and invisible. It's powerful because it's keyboard-based, but it's difficult to learn because it's invisible, and therefore requires a great deal of memorization.

Something I wish more UI folks would try to tackle is a visible keyboard interface. Use the screen to provide feedback to the user that shows what keys are being pressed, and what potential key combinations can stem from that.

In a basic example, let's say a program implements the usual Ctrl + X/C/V for cut/copy/paste. If the user holds down Ctrl, the UI should detect that and show the user that X, C, and V are all potential key combinations, and it should explain what each of those do.

The reason why the GUI became massively popular is because the interface is discoverable, and doesn't require the user to pore over a manual. The reason why power users hate the GUI is because it doesn't use the keyboard. I see no good reason why we can't make keyboard-based GUIs that make everyone happy.

In fact, the best part about a keyboard-based GUI is that once it helps you learn how to use it, you could simply disable the graphical component to reclaim that screen real estate.
The name is funny, but after a minute of clicking around the repo I'm still not sure what this actually does.

The linked help text for your `Usage Examples` isn't very helpful either.

How about an animated gif of you... adding multiple key-value pairs to be written to the file?