skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I point out an architectural shortcoming, explain how it affects me, and you say the real problem is that I have too many plugins, the files I edit are too big, or my computer is too slow? Whose mind is boggled now?

The way you guys all keep plugging NeoVim (which doesn't even have an alpha release yet) definitely smells fishy. The Vim guys didn't want your patch. Sorry.

There's nothing fishy about our support for NeoVim. We don't know the authors (though I, personally, did throw some money at the Bountysource). There are a few reasons why we like them:

1. They share our pain. Thiago de Arruda (main author of NeoVim) tried to add a similar patch to Vim. Like us, he spent months trying to work with the Vim community before being rejected.[1]

2. We like NeoVim's architecture. If we had infinite time, we'd be writing a very similar editor.

3. NeoVim makes our product better for Vim users. They get the UI they love, but without a broken leaderkey or other annoyances.

While the readme says it's alpha-quality, it works fine. It can be used with current Vim plugins and performs better than Vim.

1. https://groups.google.com/d/msg/vim_dev/65jjGqS1_VQ/fFiFrrIB...
> In no way am I trying to incite Mac vs. PC

Oh, but you're doing it anyway. Whatever, sounds like fun! ;)

> I quite literally felt like I had a degenerative neuromuscular disease when I used the trackpad

[EDIT: I should mention that I'm using almost exclusively keyboard for interacting with my computers, so I may be missing some obvious things.]

I'm using mac book pro and some hp notebook (both a year and a half old at this point) and I don't feel any difference in how the touchpads in them work. Aside from the mac's one being overloaded with functions which shouldn't be there (for me ofc).

What exactly was a difference that make you feel like that? Maybe it was something that could be easily remedied by switching some options?
> About half wouldn't even try to justify it, and just said if the money's there I'll take it.

I'd respect those people more than the people who tried to argue it, as it's a case of don't hate the player hate the game (unless the player is rigging the game of course).

At least they are honest.
I've tried to observe how this app works.

It actually forces OS X's native memory management to kick in.

It does this by using an obscene amount of memory for a very short amount of time. This forces OS X to clean up the existing RAM in use as the RAM used by Memory Cleaner builds up dramatically.

In this way its partially cosmetic since your RAM would be cleaned up if you used more of it anyway.
>The answer is 3 years of music enjoyment

And, too, the collaborative experience that Spotify brings. I neglected to consider that. While very little money goes to the artists, the "sharing" aspect of Spotify is something that many people value and gladly pay for. Personally, I find that aspect too involved (I'm an albums person, not a playlist person) but from a marketing perspective this might be better for artists than physical media. I'm still too possessive for the rent-a-song method. What happened when I sign on and the music I like it out of license? Much better for me to have it as near to me as possible.
> just quality content and worldwide cooperation.

And cash from the dutch government via the Naturalis museum. And content contributed largely by volunteers.

It's a great project and website, but i think comparing it to a commercial company is very pointless.
Amazon's Lab 126 is micromanaged from two states away by Jeff Bezos. It's a toxic environment where only yes-men can thrive. It doesn't help that Jeff Bezos runs Amazon like a miserly cornerstore Wallmart - looking everywhere he can to cut corners, to the detriment of his staff and his product.

I'm impressed that they have been able to iteratively improve on the Kindle. Given what I have seen, I would hazard that with upper management's obsessive spotlight focused on the Phone and Tablet, the Kindle developers have been able to get on with their work.

The same may be the case for AWS - no longer a sexy new market, and consequently able to get on with it's work.
I wonder if anything like that, but targeted at linux, will ever come up.
No login works for me - Facebook, Twitter, Google+.
They're going back to the 6-row keyboard (top), not 7-row keyboard (bottom): http://i.imgur.com/NpmHQbL.jpg
I have an Asus Zenbook running on Ubuntu, and don't have any problems while scrolling. All in all the experience is really nice.
I especially love this part:

> In September, the company slashed the Fire phone’s price from $199 to 99 cents, a steep discount Limp said yielded significantly better sales.

Well, of course its going to yield significantly better "sales" when you sell your item for something approximating zero.
I was curious what the ultimate goal of Virgin Galactic, and the other sub-orbital space companies are. Since they are sub-orbital, they can't really take anyone to what I would consider "space" -- you have this big rubber band (gravity) attached to you that immediately starts pulling you back home. So is the idea just so passengers could say they've "been to space" (really, just reached a height high enough to be in a super thin atmosphere)? Or is the idea that by going high enough that you get a few minutes of free fall, to give passengers a glimpse of what being in space is like?

Now I realize that the early Mercury program was sub-orbital too, but that was gaining knowledge and practice prior to developing Mach 25 (orbital) technology. Is that also the goal of Virgin Galactic, to use the current design as a stepping stone?
Right, we've all read PG's submarines piece. Now my question is why is NYTimes writing stuff against Amazon? I couldn't find even a pro-ish Amazon editorial when I searched, and if there is one it's severely outnumbered by misunderstandings and falsities about Amazon written by Krugman and friends. I think there are some really great arguments to be made that there are big problems with AMZN, but NYtimes fails to make all of them in favor of traditional "but where are the profits" type arguments.

I pick on the Amazon story in particular because I had a position in Amazon and so I followed media about it in particular. I'm sure there are other companies that are similar. I'm not particularly shocked or outraged by it, but I would like to know why they are so angrily anti-Amazon, if only to better understand their bias.
it sounds to me that the relocation money never passes through the employee's hands - microsoft probably deals with relocation vendors directly (most likely have long-standing relationships), and it is not part of your compensation. it's an expense that you may or may not choose to incur, with stipulations.
but who ignore the fact that the only reason these companies are so big is
that they are state granted monopolies in the first place.

I disagree with that statement. Standard economics theory has long held that "natural monopolies" are possible, in markets with high barriers to entry [1]. Internet infrastructure, with the massive fixed costs of laying wires to every home, is one such natural monopoly. So it's not fair to say that the only reason these companies are so big is because of state granted monopolies. AT&T was a monopoly before it became a state sanctioned monopoly. Standard Oil, as well, became a monopoly without very much state aid. While state regulations may make natural monopolies worse, it's inaccurate to say that removing regulation (e.g. allowing anyone to run cable or put up cell towers) will automatically end the dominance of Comcast and Verizon.

[1] http://www.economicsonline.co.uk/Business_economics/Natural_...
I'm not talking about tap to click. I'm talking about the whole trackpad being a button.
If Lenovo just took the original X1 Carbon, swapped in a 1440p screen, added a 16 GB RAM option, swapped in a Broadwell chip, and improved the battery life, it would be fantastic. I have the original X1 Carbon, and it's the perfect laptop.
I use Karabiner [1] to make my constant jump between OSX/nix/Windows more easy by remaping ^C/^V (amongst others) without having to actually swap control and command keys via OSX's utility.
[1]https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/
The Quantified Anatomy of a Paper
I don't think that is so bad, use each one for their respective strengths.

Linux for the desktop, FreeBSD on the server.
Introducing IBM DashDB and IBM DataWorks
So would that Odwalla drink I listed be exempt? It contains a ton of added sugar. So the rule is that if it has over 25 calories and and nothing manufactured in a lab you can add as much sugar as you want and be exempt?

So this has a bunch of High Fructose Corn syrup

http://www.foodfacts.com/ci/nutritionfacts/Beverages-non-mil...

Does that count as exempt?

What exactly does "natural fruit and vegetable juice" actually mean? Concentrated orange juice often has citric acid added to it.

Tropicana Orange Juice from Concentrate has added "natural flavors". Does that make it taxed?

http://www.tropicana.com/#/trop_products/productsLanding.swf...
Well, thank you. It's quite flattering to be praised at HN... but now that it's the morning after, I cringe at my post's unclear language and incomplete arguments.

There's a very real possibility that I'll take up a 40-50 hour/week job by summer 2015, which means I'll have time to read neglected books, study wishlisted MOOCs, and maybe even write something worth publication and discussion.
Get Your Hands on Gmail 5.0 with Material Design and Multi-Account Integration
A Robot called Archaeologist (2005) [pdf]
Japan has made a lot of breakthroughs in certain areas of technology which, as a consequence, they'll probably be the last to abandon.

Their national broadcaster has a research lab into television technologies, it's figuring out how to encode 8K for terrestrial broadcast, among other amazingly cool projects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK_Science_%26_Technology_Rese...

On the flip side, their national broadcaster has been really slow to invest in internet streaming, or push online access, with 60% of weekly Japanese NHK news consumers claiming they didn't even know NHK had a website:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/english/reports/pdf/10_no8_07.pd...

Maybe CDs vs. streaming is in some ways Sony vs. Apple, and there are factors like national pride, domestic market control, and local branding dominance that play a role in the choice of technologies, rather than just products. Even so, always fascinating to see weird exogenous factors (beyond performance / capacity / etc.) tip a market.
Didn't the main release of colonial nations happen after WW2?

Most of Africa, Palestine/Israel, India/Pakistan/Bangladesh, etc.
One of the funniest incarnations of giri is giri choco[0] and honmei choco[1].

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giri_choco

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honmei_choco
I would never buy a phone that requires me to repurchase thousands of dollars of apps, games, music, movies, books, etc. For the same reasons I stay away from Kindle Fire. Until there's a consumer law requiring companies to honor your digital purchases of the same intellectual property on difference marketplaces, I'll stick with the devices running the monopolistic Google Play.
I'm not sure why everyone seems to think carrier subsidies are a con. Amazon isn't getting that $1000+, they get whatever the non-contract price is of the phone. Carriers subsidize some of that cost in-exchange for some guaranteed cash flow for 2 years.
There are tricks that iOS Devs (including me) use to make iOS cleanup after itself, for example iOS can take its sweet time releasing memory from MKMapViews even after the controller is gone so a trick is to switch the Map Type just before the controller is released as it forces iOS to drop the cache for the current map type. So yeah, I've not used that program but I assume it's using similar tricks in OSX.
tally.tl looks very sleek!

But I'd say, that while the purpose is very similar - quick poll creation, our take on it is a bit different. tally creates a, possibly, fastest possible poll creation method. Ours includes some customisation (not in a design perspective, except for the poll design style); real-time results viewing (both admin and user end); image creation for embeding to sites, forums (that update automatically).
Is it good to hear Tower Records lives on, even if not in the U.S.
yes there are situations where faxes are needed in the USA. As I understand it mostly is in cases regarding legal documents. In the NYTimes article i linked in the previous post though they talk about individuals still buying fax machines and people preferring to fax their lunch orders to a restaurant instead of doing it on a website.

From the article: "The Japanese government’s Cabinet Office said that almost 100 percent of business offices and 45 percent of private homes had a fax machine as of 2011. "

I would be surprised if 10% of private homes in the USA have a fax machine.
I tried ALL of the internal Lenovo-supplied utilities, and even "upgraded" to a generic driver provided by Synaptics (maker of the trackpad hardware). Moving the mouse cursor around the screen was usually not a problem, but scrolling and click-and-drag (to say, move a file using the GUI) would only actually work about 70% of the time. Instead of scrolling it would stutter and zing about, and instead of click and drag it would pick up the file and drop it some other place. It's actually a bit hard to describe, since it actually made me genuinely wonder if there was something wrong with my hand/brain. Tiny little errors for such a critical thing really do cause havoc.
The trackpad should never feel sticky. Something is wrong if it does. My MacBook Pro trackpad feels as smooth as my phone (2009)
That is correct. The pool simply aggregates things for searching. That'll go away eventually when we get a blockchain up for it.
> What might look like a frothy bubble though, is in fact a much more fundamental change in the way venture capitalists perceive investments... Some might call this a bubble, but Slack is literally the embodiment of the fundraising acceleration thesis.

"This time is different."

[Nothing against Slack: great idea, great team, great execution after a pivot. Kudos to them for their success so far.]
I do the same with control/fn as well. Karabiner is fantastic.
http://standardjavascript.info

Great when I just cant remember the syntax for non-jQuery things in pure javascript!
Second this. Seems like the second most important thing behind the movie ranking is its availability on Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV - e.g. I want to find the best ranked movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
You may want to read the Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
The full freight of the phone, plus the cost of off-contract service with somebody like Straight Talk ($50/month for unlimited everything for me, they throttle me to 128Kbps after 5GB of data), is much, much cheaper than the initial buy-in plus the delta of the monthly carrier bill.

The situations where carrier lock-in makes sense are few and far between (generally around large family plans), and outside of those situations you're paying hundreds of dollars extra over the life of the phone and the contract.
It's interesting and well put together, but not especially relevant for HN at this point.
I'm not totally clear on the status of green threads but I'm not sure they should be encouraged presently. My understanding is they will be an external package and std::io will not support them.

[1]https://github.com/rust-lang/meeting-minutes/blob/master/wor...
Please read again, I never said anything about any fedora.
I've heard terrible things about Lab 126 and I'm happy I've turned down several of their job offers already. I hear backstabbing is daily business over there, everybody can submit an anonymous reviews for your coworkers to your manager, and the whole environment is a zero-sum game. I'm a big fan of Jeff Bar, Werner Vogels, and, of course, Jeff Bezos, but, I guess, this is another instance of "far from the sight, far from the heart"!
I read that differently. On the one hand, there is the experimentally confirmed drop a minute. On the other hand, they do not state that that half liter has been confirmed experimentally.

I still doubt that number. Looking at http://atmosphericwatersolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2012..., I see a machine that weighs 38 kg, consumes 373W of power, and produces 'up to 17 liters of water a day'. This thing would be an order of magnitude smaller, and produce almost the same quantity of water. Possible? Maybe. Likely? No. Because of that, I would like to see experimental confirmation of that half a liter per hour before accepting it as a given.

Also, see http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_water_generator which claims the U.S. army and FEMA use a system that needs a gallon of fuel for 'up to' five gallons of water. If something like this were known to be more efficient, I think it is likely they would use it.
For some definition of readable. Be prepared to have yours eyes glaze over at certain points, but it's well worth the struggle to push on through.
You can just imagine the product meetings where these decisions are made. I'm horrified whenever I do that. Turns out Dilbert cartoons come from hidden cameras
Really nice UI. But as a dane I find AM/PM really confusing, I would love if these types of webpages also had a 24-hour version.
The con is that you're forced to pay the replacement cost for your phone in instalments every 2 years whether you get a new phone or not.
You're right. But there's no (open) federation.

Unless something drastic changed (or I'm utterly misinformed) you could run your own server - and you'd split the network. The explanation was, as far as I recall, that there's no easy way to route things if all you got is a mobile number as an identifier (So .. on what server is that client? A JID has a host, a mobile number doesn't).

To reiterate: You probably could run your own server. In which case you and the 3-5 people you might convince to use that server would share some infrastructure under your control. You would not be able to send a message to the 6th friend that happens to use TextSecure, but _also_ needs to be on the authentic/real network to chat with his family.

Edit: Partially based on https://twitter.com/moxie/status/438049169052155905
I think you're right. In spite of the many good points that people are debating with this issue, there's clearly a witch-hunt dynamic going on here. I'm seeing a lot of comments with perfectly valid opinions getting down-voted just because people don't agree with them. I think people just need to sit this one out and let the actual stake holders work it out.
I was given the impression that as soon as the lifeline was out of scope, the resources were cleaned.

So it acts like a GCed language in most ways, in that, most of the time you don't have to worry about cleaning up after yourself, and that it is hard to memory leak.
There's always Boot Camp. For me, at least, this has gotten a lot more pleasant with Yosemite - rebooting into Windows is incredibly fast now!

I've been playing modern AAA games on Medium graphics settings at 1080p (or sometimes 720p) with very good results on an original Retina MacBook Pro. Could I get better graphics with a different machine? Totally, but it's good enough that I don't feel like I have to own a separate gaming machine anymore, which I'm very happy about.
But that's talking about memory usage tricks within a process, which is a totally different beast from what this app claims to do.
I love the subtle zoom effect in the grid when mouse hovers over poster image.
unless the whole point is to show there is an alternative to the commercial web, and it is not only wikipedia.
That and also a filter for movies you've already seen.
I love it, too. I hate that Lenovo no longer makes a ThinkPad with only that style pointer any longer. I always felt the trackpad was a big waste of space since I never use them.
Wow, I had no idea. I assumed, as pbhjpbhj wrote, that MOOCs' high incompletion rate was due to the complete absence of barriers to entry. I've enrolled in dozens of MOOC courses to have access to their course archives in the future, contributing to the "failure" ratio.

Completion is already an extremely suspect metric by which to grade MOOCs, but it's particularly dishonest when you depend on expulsion-level populations. As most anti-MOOC arguments depend crucially on the San Jose study as evidence that lectures must be live and artisanal to work, I expect to refer back to your post quite often in the near future. Thanks for the heads up!
ReSharper and a debugger a completely different pair of shoes. I agree that you need a debugger (and Rust has one, gdb), but I don't agree that it needs refactoring tools.
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How do you manage to type on Apple laptop keyboards though? For a serious typist, Thinkpad's keyboard feel is just beyond any comparison - especially on the older models.
Secret government briefing admits metadata law cost and warns of 'internet tax'
I got a solid Dell, full aluminium, 16GB memory, 1TB SSD, FullHD laptop and all is fine. I never liked Dell laptop because i had some unpleasant experiences years ago with a cheaper model but this one feels great.
I used to buy Sony but over they years their quality went down very much (as well as Lenovos/IBM).
Capitalism Has Gone Off the Rails
It had nothing to do with price.
You sound like a smart person, and using it to your advantage will benefit your career.

There is a cognitive bias in psychology called Dunning-Kruger effect[1], stating that individuals tend to rate their skills higher than their actual level, without realising they are doing so.

You may have the skills you claim you have, or you may not. The only objective way of showing that is to build stuff, and let other see your skills through your work, not try to tell them with your words. "Show, don't tell" is a very effective way to get others see your level.

And, with the technology continues to advance at a higher speed everyday, constant learning is pretty much a requirement to stay competitive for software developers.

Nobody can choose your path better than you, every individual is different, and your life is yours to live as you see fit.

A general advice would be to continue learning. Knowing the areas that you are weak, and admitting it is a great virtue. Study, learn, and use your newly acquired knowledge to build better stuff.

And build projects. Contribute to open source. Write a blog. Do some contract work to have a portfolio to show that you are good, and earn money along the way.

When you are applying for a job, having these under your belt to show to your prospective employer will get you far ahead of your peers.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
I suppose you could use an incorrect name and then not open it for enough time for any raid to happen.

Down the line if your address was exposed you could claim to have stuck them back in the mail unopened with return to sender written on them?

I wouldn't like to be relying on that though.
"Better captchas that are optimized to be hard for machines, but easy for humans."

Nope, not gonna work. You'd have to have the classifier/ANN parameters to generate these in the first place in order to locate its adversarial counterexample. Otherwise, the perturbations would likely be irrelevant noise.
Even if you discard _all_ the one-star reviews, I wouldn't be excited about the rest of the ratings.