skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have this gaming laptop from Asus (I need fast graphics), and one of the things they did was deck it out with a lot of ridiculous lights (because gamers, apparently?).

One of the more mystifying things it did: the giant lights on the back of the screen would do this really distracting blink when the laptop was in sleep mode. I have no idea what the thought process there was -- why would anyone want their laptop to do that when they're not using it? Not only was it a waste of battery, it was incredibly annoying. And keep in mind this wasn't a small light, it was a light that ran a circuit around the entire screen. Luckily you could turn it off, but I have no idea why it was on in the first place.

They also had this bios screen that had a logo for the "Republic of Gamers" (seriously?) that would then explode. That was more amusing than problematic, but I wonder who comes up with these ideas.
ASK: What's the most secure iPhone IM application?
Hello,

I'd like to use something TextSecure for the iPhone but there's not an iPhone version.

Which application would you trust as secure enough for to you chat with friends and girlfriends if you were in paranoid mode.

The iMessage is clearly not an option for sensitive kind of conversations. I like the "hushhushapp[1]" from the presentation but it's free and if I'm not paying... Well I think I'm the product.

I've even thought of an XMPP client that supports OTR and encryption. I'd like to know what other people use.

[1] http://hushhushapp.com
This is how progress happens, one small experiment at a time.
If we think of soda like tobacco this makes sense. If tobacco companies are against it, then it probably is a good idea.

But what if the book industry spent $15/SF voter to stop some law that applied to books? Perhaps that law would be harmful to book publishers AND to society overall.

It's amazing how soda companies have come to be seen as evil so quickly.
1.0 will be the time.

The reason for using nightlies currently is that there is no stability guarantees over the releases (sometimes, your code broke just 2 days after release). So, release doesn't give you benefits, and you are learning an unreleased language, so nightly is the way to go.

I'm pretty sure a lot of libraries will move to stable once there is something that can have the name.
You can have videos, animations, and fancy transitions in a PDF slide deck if you're willing to present with Adobe Reader, and the same file can provide graceful fallback for other readers and printing. And pretty much all PDF readers handle internal hyperlinks just fine, so you're never limited to just a static linear presentation.

Whether you should use those features is another question, but I've had a few occasions to do things like embed a 3d model in a presentation.
you're right, thanks for pointing it out. will fix the readme, sorry.
You don't understand; this doesn't boost the CPU on touch -- it changes your power management settings so the minimum CPU state is always 100%.
Different sections of the NYTimes have very different tones and journalistic merit. This article was published in the FASHION section of the paper.
W2 means an employee, from a wage standpoint it means your employer must pay for half your social security and medicaid.

1099 means a contractor, which means you are responsible for those.

There are many other differences, but usually when talking about wage the 7.5% is the big one.
w2 = waged.. the employer withholds tax and also pays half of some taxes that you need to pay
1099 = independent contractor.. you get the full amount but you pay taxes end of the year
There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling. There are more and more games on Steam that run on OSX but the performance is usually abysmal (e.g. Dota2 runs around 20% fps on OSX compared to Windows). And they're just too thin to have a cooling that'd be suitable for gaming -- Asus ROG laptops are incredibly well cooled, really.
PRISM (or NSL, or similar) + ANT (or 0 day hack or other) == compromised drive
I honestly had no strong opinion on the measure prior to the anti-campaign. I do think sugary drinks are a public health menace, but I did not think a tax is a good way to deal with them. Then: anti-E canvassers appeared at my door 3 times, I got about 5 robocalls, and about 10 pounds of glossy fliers in the mail. Clearly somebody with a deeply vested financial interest (not a public interest) doesn't want this to pass. So it definitely makes me consider researching the sugar tax a bit more and even consider voting for it.
Goodreads RSS Feed to Markdown, Using Python
Might be just me, but I really can't stand his way of talking for more than five minutes. Seriously, I really wonder, is it just me who feels this way about that way of speaking?

And it's not just how he says it, he talks so much around it... For example he says:

> Now, one of the major claims is that well these things generate excess energy and yeah they probably will under decent conditions and it'll generate decent revenue and it'll pay for themselves. Well, let's do some calculations on that. This will be fairly simplistic but it'll give us a good [ballpark?]. You can go a little deeper into the lifecycle analysis and all sorts of stuff which you won't worry about. Now, I'm gonna be incredibly generous yet again and I'm gonna assume that the LEDs consume no power at all. So we're just looking at this figure up here that we've got 380Wh/m2 per day. Remember, that's pretty much an ideal practical maximum, a fair, you know, a good [location?]. So, let's have a look at the figures. Shall we?

Filtering it down to the content, we get:

> They claim to be profitable, but that is probably under ideal conditions. Let's do some basic calculations. For simplicity I'll leave out the LEDs and go with the ideal maximum of 380Wh/m2 per day.

That took two minutes and I didn't even make it to the results before clicking away. I just can't stand it. Anyone else having this?

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But in any case, according to the article this is the first ever live test. He's talking about some kickstarter apparently, they didn't make it I guess?
> The real kicker is the former company billed me out at $150+ when I had even less experience!

One thing to keep in mind is one of the reasons for doing that is the environment you are in and a certain guarantee about the work provided.
Sure, while you go collect those, here are a couple of the many collections that already exist for various Mac products:

https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pr...

http://www.mac-help.com/forums/mac-notebooks.3/

I find myself trawling through these posts for help pretty regularly.

And of course, forums like are from comprehensive. The most recent issue with my MBP in fact doesn't show up on any of these forums: it involved the keyboard and trackpad being totally irresponsive when my MBP woke from sleep. After many wild goose chases such as “reset the SMC”, I stumbled onto the fix by luck. Turns out it kept looking for a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse on waking up, totally ignoring the peripherals integrated into the notebook itself. The solution? Turning off Bluetooth. Sure, simple enough to fix, but “turn off Bluetooth” is not far from “you're holding it wrong”.
I'd host those images on something other than Imgur, some of the images there are missing.
I run Claxmav[1] on all my macs because one way or another malware will reach my computer, so I'd better be prepared. I never had problems since 2004, never had a mac virus or anything but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

I think to be sure you need a combination like: ClaXmav (monitors predefined dirs and incoming mails), LittleSnitch (monitor outgoing connections) and SpamSieve to manage spam with Mail.app.

[1] http://www.clamxav.com
This is about Silk Road et al. What about the AWS of the dark net? Does that exist?
Eh... unless there's more to the story that I'm missing out on, I don't think it's fair to say they "threw a tantrum".

Basically, that company has a service that lets developers do real-time collaboration. Like working on a Google Docs document... except that it's for code, and collaborators can all use whatever supported editors they like. When they went to add support for Vim, they ran into problems with the "real-time collaboration" part... because Vim is single-threaded and doesn't have a non-blocking event loop:

https://news.floobits.com/2013/09/16/adding-realtime-collabo...

So they kinda hacked together the means for a non-blocking event loop, and submitted it as a patch to Vim:

https://news.floobits.com/2013/09/17/adding-settimeout-to-vi...

The Vim maintainers kept rejecting it, for different reasons each time. After two months of back-and-forth, the Floobits guys asked the Vim guys to either give a comprehensive list of things in the patch that need to be different... or else acknowledge that they simply don't want the event loop thingy merged at all, and that Floobits should move forward with their own fork of Vim instead:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/vim_dev/-4pqDJfHCsM[...

Personally, I don't have an opinion one way or the other on the merits of that patch. However, I think the Floobits guys were justified in feeling frustrated about the Vim guys dragging their feet and not being completely forthcoming.

Either way, if you do some quick web searching, you'll notice that Floobits became pretty big fans and online promoters of NeoVim from that time forward! So much so that you kinda have to take it with a grain of salt.

I'm not exactly sure what to even think about NeoVim. They've been plugging away for over a year, their GitHub repo has over a hundred contributors and two-thousand commits, and yet it's still pre-alpha? Also, the primary purpose seems to be allowing people to write Vim plugins in any programming language. However, it's not like the Vim ecosystem is hurting for plugins today. Besides, the whole point of "vimscript" is that it's self-contained and baked-in as part of the editor. Totally cross-platform, and always there. If I install a NeoVim plugin, then I have to make sure I have the right version of Ruby or Python or whatever on my box to support it? Yuck, no thanks.

As near as I can tell, any real value-prop for NeoVim is using it as an embeddable component. Like the Cloud9 guys' cloud-based Ace editor (http://ace.c9.io), or as something that IDE makers could bake into their desktop IDE apps. I don't really see what's compelling about it head-to-head with standard Vim, assuming it ever fully ships.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKB48
Basically every "season", fans get to vote on their favorite member of huge roaster-pop group that J-pop has pioneered.

"The group has publicized special events to choose the promotional and recording lineups for some of its singles.[191] In 2009, the concept of sōsenkyo (総選挙?, "general elections") was introduced.[19] To obtain a ballot, voters must purchase the group's latest "election single."[192] Members who receive the most votes will participate in the recording of AKB48's next single[19] and are heavily promoted,[5] with the top vote-getter the centerpiece of the group's live performances.[191][192] Votes in the 2011 election exceeded one million, and the single "Everyday, Katyusha" (which contained a ballot for the election) set a Japanese record for weekly sales of a CD single.[193] The 2012 election had nearly 1.4 million votes,[191] and the 2013 election had 2.6 million votes.[194] Fans have reportedly bought hundreds (or thousands) of copies of singles to vote for their favorite members."
It's about idol groups (big groups of singers/dancers, usually girls), where fans can vote the singer that gets the most attention[1], who represents the group at different occasions or who will join next. Because the votes are usually tied to a CD, the logistics of crazy fans can be complex, as they buy cartloads[2].

[1] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/07/01/language/voting-...

[2] http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/05/22/akb48-fan-shows-his-lo...
Yes like everybody else. A friend of mine, asked me twice, if this MacKeeper will keep his mac safe. I told him it's a simple spyware and he has to avoid it like the plague.

It's kinda widespread software among mac users, because you can find banners literally in every website with disputable content like porn, torrents, subtitles, you-name-it.
No idea how solid it is, but there's always the truly hilariously named HP Envy 14" if you want something that looks like a Macbook with a Windows button.

http://store.hp.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/us/en/mdp/Lapt...
edit: "not even remotely an economist" I mean as a compliment, I read his Prospect Theory papers and hold him in high regard. He is a great scientist and psychologist, who did not ever study what is called economic theory- so not an economist.
The voting is something unique (I think) to AKB48, where for the last 6 years they have an annual event where fans get to vote for which performers will be in the singles. I believe in the last election there were 200+ participants, including all the '48' family groups and training members. http://stage48.net/wiki/index.php/Senbatsu_Election

The tickets usually refer to hand-shake events where you can meet and shake hands with members of the group.

Another hook is including different DVDs in each of several versions of a single, for example Making of videos, close up versions of the video, dance versions, etc. I have seen up to 6 different versions of the same single.
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If there was a filter for "Available to stream on Netflix", I'd be all over this.
It pays to check validity of such claims before you announce them to the world... You (tachion) wouldn't want to be accused of being Americentric now would you? ;)
You should not blindly believe ssllabs.com without spending time further digging into the results. For example, some sites have decided to keep sslv3 but only support ciphers which are not prone to Poodle.

I'm not saying it's the case here, but be cautious about blindly believing everything ssllabs.com reports.
Well done. I always have a very bad time when trying to figure out which movie I want to watch, most websites have bad navigation / filtering capacities / just unfriendly in general. Movieo solves that problem elegantly.
Four types of anxiety, and how to cure them
Thanks for the heads up! We recently swapped out some images that are now not under my private account
Putting aside a debate over regressive taxes, the problem with your comparison is that you assume the market for sugary drinks functions the same way the market for cigarettes does when, in fact, studies have not found the same type of substitution dynamic[1].

In other words, "support soda taxes because cigarette taxes!" is not an argument based on any hard data. If you're going to argue for the use of taxation to force behavior, as a starting point you should have real evidence that the specific tax in question has a high likelihood of producing the specific behavior you're trying to change. Relying on some other tax that may have influenced another behavior is simply specious.

[1] http://tigger.uic.edu/~fjc/Presentations/Papers/taxes_consum...
I'm still not invested into any IM solution. Running an xmpp server for my family (parents, wife, me - everyone else cannot use that because they're on Hangout or FB or Whatsapp etc..).

TextSecure certainly seems the best option, but its adoption wouldn't help me a lot (I could migrate my wife, my parents - but I most certainly won't be able to use it beyond that circle) and - I really, really dislike central services for communication. This isn't even a serious trust issue, I do believe that the developers of TextSecure are genuinely offering a great and secure text chat experience (ignoring that other solutions promise the same - Threema et al for example, but TextSecure comes with a lot more credibility and therefor trust). But I like to stay in control of my infrastructure. The xmpp server is the best fit - but the protocol and clients cause some issues and No One™ is using it, so the federation is a moot point.
Poll: Do you use adblock plus(or something similar)?
The Thinkpad nipple mouse on my x220 is glorious to use
I think a big part of this is just personal preference. I've never used a Mac until a few weeks ago (for work), and I'm dying to return to my X220 or W530 trackpad. The giant glass pad is sticky and hard to use, and the scrolling gestures feel wrong to me.

I've solved it by carrying a small external mouse in my laptop bag, and by using my MBP with a mechanical switch keyboard and a Logitech mouse 90% of the day.
The Razer Blade is supposed to be a dream, but it's targeting a very specific small market - adult gamers with taste.
This is wicked. It's slow, probably getting hammered by HN and/or has to retrieve data from various online servers (imdb and whatnot) but it's wicked guys, congrats!
https://minotar.net does about 4 billion requests every month. About 15 million unique "visitors".
Not sure if it's small enough:
https://www.toggl.com/
If you're installing Linux, why does it matter how bad their Windows drivers are?
What if you explicitly don't want a clone of a Macbook? When my X220 is too old for a laptop, I don't know what I'll do. Modern ThinkPads are pretty unacceptable now, with the new keyboards and the giant clicky touchpad.
Regarding #2, it's not a '"whitey is bad" mindset' to say that if your goal is to expand access to education, and you're primarily reaching people who manifestly already have access, then you're failing at your goal.
There is a good discussion of the relative merits of both articles(the linked blog post, and the post it criticizes) on the LessWrong forums: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/h6p/g_a_statistical_myt...
I am glad the article mentions discrimination. I think the net neutrality debate should be framed this way.

There are no fast lanes. We don't want slow lanes designed to segregate and discriminate against traffic from individuals content or demanded content, essentially creating a virtual caste/class system. What class are you in? What class will areas/countries be put in? Who will be our privileged new kings? What part of the internet bus can you sit in?

People don't realize what they have until it is gone sometimes. When you have some freedom, hold onto it because it takes fighting to get it back. Nothing we have on the internet now would exist like it does with internet segregation.
Can anyone explain why Coca-Cola and Gatorade gets taxed but this does not?

http://www.odwalla.com/products/smoothies/strawberry-c-monst...

Edit: Oops that does have added sugar so it will also be taxed.

Edit 2: So it will not be taxed because it does not use artificial flavors? So you can put as much sugar as you want in something as long as it does not contain artificial flavoring? So is this actually an artificially flavored drink tax?
It's also amazing how quickly diet-related illness have become a national problem. [1]

Say, I see you work for Instapanel. Who paid for this? And who pays for Instapanel in general? The book thing seems like an odd enough comparison that I'm wondering where your interests lie.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/aag...
I don't know that apple gets this right either. (I have a macbook). The actual tracking feels fantastic and precise, and it has a nice texture, but I /hate/ how they refuse to put real buttons below it. Things like "right mouse drag" which I use all the time become a nightmare, and the whole "no buttons" thing just seems like it's putting aesthetics over functionality.
Virgin Galactic was warned about potential instability of new fuel, experts say
Thanks for the response. What I wouldn't give for a built-in equivalent of python's pickle.
Well, I don't know about the 'dark' side, but I know @kordless has been hacking on StackMonkey:

https://www.stackmonkey.com/

Which lets you buy compute instances anonymously using BitCoin.
Wouldn't this make them more aggressive when seeking plea bargains? As they /really/ don't want to go to trial for fear of losing the case?
Really love the site and bookmarked. For an anime movie fan it's tough to find a nice place that does all the things you guys do in a user-friendly way, so this is epic.

Highest audience rated animation from Japan between 2000 and 2014? Bam, there you go. That's how you help people. :)

So thank you for making this. If you need any extra help / feedback in return, lemme know.
Please, can we just call it a "summary" instead of invoking the anti-intellectual air of "tl;dr"?
Perhaps the most interesting point is in the last paragraph:

> Moreover, the deep web’s denizens will continue to adapt. Jamie Bartlett, author of “The Dark Net”, predicts: “The future of these markets is not centralised sites like Silk Road 2.0, but sites where…listings, messaging, payment and feedback are all separated, controlled by no central party”—and thus impossible to close.

I know some work along these lines has been started with e.g. OpenBazaar, but it may be a while before they are seen in any large scale activities - maybe another five years still until they are at all commonplace, or even available to the general public.
>There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling.

I'm not sure what you mean here regarding the OS. You can install Windows on any Mac since Apple transitioned to Intel processors around 2006-2007.
> What I find more interesting is that parking SHOULD cost more than it does

No, not really. This is a sentiment that I see a lot in San Francisco and NYC, where it makes a lot of sense, but if you've ever driven in LA, you'd quickly realize that it doesn't really apply there because the LA met area is extremely broad, not dense.

In the bay area, you might spend 45 minutes driving from Palo Alto to San Francisco, and then another 30 minutes - an hour driving in circles looking for parking, depending on the time/day.

In LA you have the opposite problem. Traffic gets so bad that it's not uncommon to spend 1-3 hours driving across town on a weekend evening. But once you make it to wherever you're going, you can usually find parking in under 15 minutes.
Jesus Christ, there really needs to be a warning on that.
Never run a virus checker (there are none) and I don't download stuff I don't know (to avoid malware of some kind). I have no clue why people think they need something, especially one with such a scummy background. I wish Apple would simply block the app from running to save those who fall victim.
I don't think it would be progress to implement this tax only in SF, or across the globe.
That's not exactly "using a mac", though. That's running OS X in a VM.