skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All right, I get what you mean, but now we're talking about something else. Your original statement that I reacted to was: "There's no Macbook that's good for gaming, because of the OS and the cooling." Your reasoning that because of their OS MacBooks are not good for gaming is simply not true, considering that you can install Windows on them to eliminate the aforementioned graphical performance issues of OS X. If an ASUS ROG laptop was originally shipped with Linux, would you also say that it's not good for gaming because of its OS? See what I mean?

>So if the laptop is going to be used for gaming, then it does not make sense to buy a Mac and install Windows on it.

Are you sure? I think even if you cannot utilize the touchpad and energy efficiency to its fullest capabilities (which are not really relevant in gaming anyway), the build quality of the shell and the quality of the screen and keyboard makes it a strong contestant even among normal Windows laptops. Plus, you have OS X there (or Linux, for that matter) for non-gaming uses.
Really enjoyed reading this. Great post.
So you have trust that your vendor is tech-savvy enough to know about proper security measures or else your address will be leaked if he gets busted.

Isn't there any other ways to hide your address?
The answer is no and I seriously doubt there ever will be.

I am using a ThinkPad T420. I have a brand new ThinkPad T420 in the spare parts cupboard. I am done buying laptops for a very, very long time.

Also, please listen to a Cory Doctorow DRM talk before buying a Mac.
Great interface. How about adding a small trailer button on each movie preview as well.
Would save people time of clicking for a movie and then going for the trailer. Just my thoughts.
I think that the external package is supposed to work by providing an alternate implementation of std::io and several other parts of the standard library. Green threads will continue to be fully supported, but they are second class.
I would imagine they're also all in places with 24/7 video surveillance. The Amazon lockers here are in 7-11 convenience store, each of which has more video cameras than a fleet of drones.
If the Internet were more mesh friendly this would make sense, but as long as you need to pipe all the data in a town through a backbone provider someone holds way too much power in the relationship. With power companies third parties can run their juice over lines that goes to homes without touching another plant. The state can maintain the switching stations, but otherwise power never needs to pass through another third party.

Or in a state like PA, you may never get power from your choice provider, because you get to pick your power company here. So I can buy from some business out of Erie who is only serving power locally while I get all my juice from another company, but state regulation says that I get metered billing from my service and not power provider.

That can't really work with the Internet. Fundamentally, if the state owned the wires and the switching stations, they would own all the infrastructure. There is no equivalent to power plants in IP - unless you want private switching stations, which means you are not emulating the electrical grid (usually). It is kind of brain dead simple for a municipality to provide a dumb wire and routing, though.

I think it is worth noting that where I live (a town in PA called Kutztown) the borough a decade ago started a township owned telecommunications business subsidized by taxpayers. It operates as a semi-private entity, and since the huge township investment (it is still paying off the 15 million investment) the data rates have never gone up once, and the pricing has only gotten worse - it started at 10 / 10 mbps for $25, and today the rates are 10 / 1 for $30 and 10 / 8 for $60. The company has no incentive to improve their infrastructure and bureaucracy guaranteed the deployment was hugely inefficient for taxpayers to foot the bill. The only benefit was that the traditional telecom giant in the region, Service Electric, dramatically slashed prices in the borough in response to the town sponsored option - but their service now stays just as expensive as HomeTown Utilicom, and neither improve service or reduce pricing because now it is just a duopoly where one only expands through taxpayer money and the other has more lucrative markets to leech dry where they are the only cable provider.

So what I am saying is that the public option may not be the sunshine and rainbows everyone dreams of. The state is dramatically inefficient at building anything. They will spend ten times the money and get a tenth the return because they have only tertiary cost pressure and massive bureaucratic bloat. The perfect scenario is where you can somehow get infrastructure at private enterprise prices (and that means you had to get a profit motivated cost deferring entity to initially deploy the infrastructure to keep the expenses low) while somehow having the state pay off the business, and then give away wire access to its constituents for free or cheap. And then you have to constantly figure out a way to apply market pressure to improve the infrastructure, rather than just stagnate on the first attempt.
I'm using an SP3 to run i3, Arch (native, not in a VM). Dual booting when I need Adobe in windows. Didn't even have to disable secure boot.

I am keeping notes on the process here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dX6WJ7GLwva58cTh8cCB13us... (note the outstanding bug about the power/hardware buttons).

Here it is driving a 34" ultrawide: http://i.imgur.com/oXLJkpP.jpg

I found that there are a couple critical tweaks for me to be able to move back and forth between comfortable external and internal usage. If you give the SP3 a go, I'd be happy to share further notes/thoughts on this. Basically, I detect the current DPI when launching a terminal and set the font size accordingly so I'm not doing it manually (not that font size adjustment is hard, but it's critical to a smooth workflow to have things just work right). Same for browser launching. chrom{e,ium} needs to have a flag specifying the UI scaling at launch for me to use it comfortably on the internal display vs external.
It works perfectly fine if you have two mouse buttons below the trackpad (which every laptop I've ever had before my macbook has had).
This is beautiful. Add in information/filtering for whether it's on Netflix/Amazon Prime Streaming etc... and i'd pay a small fee for this.
No not necessarily. I use PM a lot here in Ireland, mainly for things that only have UK shipping available, or free shipping to the UK but not elsewhere, etc.

PM is €3-€4 for a standard package, so what I'll regularly encounter is things on Amazon that are free delivery to the UK but quite a bit more expensive than PM to be delivered to Ireland.

Things also seem to ship through PM drastically faster than through the normal postal service.
What does depth look like in NBA?
Pumpkin geometry: shadow sculptures that illuminate an ancient math technique
After Knicks defeated the Cavaliers at The Q in the Cavs' season opener, Grantland's Kirk Goldsberry wrote a piece about Cleveland's bench that was outscored by Knicks subs.

In the article, he used minutes vs. points scatter charts to show what a deep roster should look like.

It is no rocket science and not the best way to evaluate bench depth. But, still, I had plenty of time on a Sunday afternoon.
It's no longer an extra charge (partly why I linked to that page which shows the costs).
There's no reason you couldn't do both. I really hate the trackpad click thing though for a specific reason: the pressure required changes based on where you are on the trackpad. It takes much more force to click at the top than at the bottom, so I end up using my thumb to click on the bottom anyway, at which point... I'd rather just have a proper button.
For right-click-and-drag (something I do a lot in Xcode), hold down the control key – that simulates a right-click.
Interesting idea! Maybe you could do it 'live' using a transparent curved display as the shade and a Kinect or equivalent...
One thing that also bugged me is the fact that an isotropic light source forms an unevenly-lit image, so maybe you'd want an anisotropic emitter too.
No noise whatsoever, even when gaming. My previous Sony had serious noise problems but now it's just silent.

I have that one: http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=cai157...

(i exchanged the HDD with a Samsung SSD)
Right. All the same things happen to men when they talk about being sexually harassed, abused, assaulted, and raped, especially by women, even to the point of "rape" being officially defined as something that only men can do.
The big text on the landing page says

> Contribute to Open Source

> Donate bitcoins to open source projects or make commits and get tips for it.

The language used is "donate to projects". If you click the "See projects" button, you get to a page with the header "Supported projects", which suggests some kind of agreement between the project and Tip4Commit.

If you click a project, you get to a page with text like "Project sponsors", and even "No sponsors yet. Be the first to support this project.". The implied "... on Tip4Commit" part is not obvious.

The only thing suggesting that Tip4Commit is not affiliated with the projects is a low-contrast message at the bottom of each page, which was added after this blew up.
Facebook Just Created a Custom Tor Link
Replied by e-mail. Best of luck!
You sound like a wimp! I have never had a problem fitting my Asus ROG laptop in my backpack. I got raid ssds, 32 gigs of ram and a 770 GPU. I can do my work from anywhere.
That'd just be more suspicious than regular deliveries. Your mailman might think it odd that you are receiving packages for different names at your address...
I take this article to be an argument against snake-oil panaceas, just broadly overstated in its phrasing. Not a generally useful piece, but a healthy rebuttal to the woo reductionists.
I know it's not mandatory, but if I click the "update" button, it gets installed.
I really want to know what a16z's IRRs are and how they're going to do in a down market. Do any public pension funds have to disclose that data?
In the same tone, there's a stock XYZ at $1. I think it will go to $10 in the next year, so instead of buying in at $1, I buy at $8? Wow. On Wall street, this is called "dumb money".
You could go full circle by mapping a tessellated tile-able projection like
Peirce quincuncial back onto the spherical lampshade via the inverse stereographic projection.

http://www.jasondavies.com/maps/peirce/

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week229.html
I'm not talking about noise or blurring, though that's another point. Something like a self driving car doesn't operate on a single image, it operates on a time series of images from multiple angles and points in time. I think an adversarial example which lasts for a prolonged period of time from multiple angles would be rare if not impossible.

It needs to be investigated further.
Without going too much into details, I work in cyber security and we use graph db to store control flow graphs of modules/binaries that we disassembled using IDA/IDAPython. We use the information to filter out "interesting" functions when conducting a research that spans across versions of the same product.
Business Partner Birthday Wishes – Happy Birthday Messages
There is syntax highlighting for Vim, Emacs, and Sublime Text editors. GitHub does syntax highlighting for Rust repos and in Gists. There is support for Rust in the Pygments syntax highlighting library (which is used by a bunch of tools). Several community members have worked on IDE support for various IDEs (e.g., http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7438). Post-1.0 (i.e., next year) we plan to really focus on excellent tool support, so expect lots of cool stuff then.
Again, the police are never there to help you.
Why can't Google our Mozilla start their own CA? Free certs for everyone!
They don't even mention the real issue of the Play store, or lack thereof. The real reason nobody seems to want it is that the apps aren't there, and they tried to substitute some silly gimmicks in hope that nobody would notice. If they Play store and the rest of the Google apps were there, I bet it would sell fine at the original price. Without them, they're having trouble giving them away.

Of course, that would mean kowtowing to Google, and the real purpose of the Fire line of Android forks is get Amazon out from under Google's thumb. They're welcome to try, but I'm not about to sacrifice my experience to help them.

The deeper issue yet is the still open question of the third ecosystem. Apple and Google have theirs already. It remains to be seen if there is room for a third, but plenty of companies are opening their wallets to try. IMHO, Microsoft looks to have the best shot at it now. For Amazon, it's hard to see them pulling it off when the core of what they're working with is a fork of Android. How are we supposed to believe that they're ever going to be better than Google is at Android?
Disclaimer: I've read and enjoyed most of his books and short stories, but Egan's not for everyone. He favors ideas and world-building over characters and storytelling.

I most like Egan when he avoids math and goes to a dark, cynical place. His short story The Extra[1] is probably the best example. If you like The Extra, you'll probably enjoy Blindsight by Peter Watts[2]. Some of the late Ian M. Banks titles fit as well: Against a Dark Background and Matter are both grim, somewhat hard sci-fi.

If you're a fan of Greg Egan, you'll likely enjoy Ted Chiang[3]. He doesn't write much, but he writes well.

1. http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra

2. http://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm

3. http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/130698.Ted_Chiang
In the US they cut off your electricity and then pose as electricians who're going to fix it :D
They are contractually obligated to display that banner. It has nothing to do with Asus's actual products.
This is the flip side of the new powers granted to police under laws such as the Patriot Act. Yes, they have more power than ever before to spy on you. No, they won't arrest criminals, even after you have tracked down the criminals yourself. The government needs expanded powers so it can spy on you, not the criminals. Certain classes of criminals are high profile (drug dealers!) and there is a certain prestige in getting them, so the government is happy to go after them. But if we are talking about ordinary criminals, then the government can't be bothered.

This is the flip side of increasing police powers: the police are increasingly immune to criticism, so they are increasingly lazy about going after the kinds of criminals that ordinary people actually care about.
Looks nice, but isn't implement an HTML Imports [1] polyfill instead a better future-proof idea? Here's one I just found [2] (used in Polymer).

[1] http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/imports/

[2] https://github.com/polymer/HTMLImports
This is one possible dynamic of a monetary system, but it is not how things must work by any stretch. Until the Bretton-Woods agreement gold was shipped from country to country to settle trade imbalances. Money was an IOU for gold and not a method of nullifying debt with currency.
Nothing like having Don Draper make promo shots for your new computer.
There's lodash-contrib too – https://github.com/TheNodeILs/lodash-contrib
http://bigv.io/ (bytemark) support FreeBSD no problems at all.

Edit: you just select "none" as the OS and point it at a FreeBSD 10 amd64 image URL as the CD image and it'll install fine and use virtio drivers for network/storage. Very reliable as well.
The market is weird about laptops right now. Basically, it seems that Apple is the only one still making a profit off of them. Maybe PCs bet to heavily on netbooks?
This was in the context of

"Take YouTube videos for example. An MP4 video file is also ..."

But there was a podcast recently that took me quite a while to get the real URL for because they only linked to iTunes. They seem to have fixed it now though (with a libsyn.com RSS link).
"You'd be surprised. People already fall for all kind of BS "snake oil" remedies and magic pill solutions (not to mention stuff like homeopathy and aromatherapy, etc)."

I think a big question is whether this would get any worse. I think that it would, but I am not exceedingly confident about that.
That photo of Herbert J Richman is a pure classic.
I don't understand this story. Why wouldn't the police do anything? If I'm an officer who's motivated by helping others, it's a clear way to do that. If I'm motivated by a desire for justice, easy way to promote that. If I'm motivated by power, I can go take down the thieves and bring them down a notch.

Perhaps one explanation is that the police get enough zany people calling in about enough zany things that they don't take any info from ordinary people seriously because it's that unreliable. But not sure if I even buy this explanation myself.

Anybody with good knowledge of police workings have insight into why things happen like they do in the linked article?
This is the very first topic covered in, well, Gotham. If you're interested in the history of New York City, it's a great book. I say that even though I'm still currently reading it, and probably will be for some time to come. It's about 1,400 pages in print and the ebook formats to about 3,500 on my iPad mini.

http://www.amazon.com/Gotham-History-York-City-1898/dp/01951...

Irving's Knickerbocker's History of New York is on Project Gutenberg.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13042

One interesting thing in this book is that it has a very early reference to Saint Nicholas as an explicitly Santa Claus-like figure:

> And the sage Oloffe dreamed a dream—and, lo! the good St. Nicholas came riding over the tops of the trees, in that self-same wagon wherein he brings his yearly presents to children. And he descended hard by where the heroes of Communipaw had made their late repast. And he lit his pipe by the fire, and sat himself down and smoked; and as he smoked the smoke from his pipe ascended into the air, and spread like a cloud overhead. And Oloffe bethought him, and he hastened and climbed up to the top of one of the tallest trees, and saw that the smoke spread over a great extent of country—and as he considered it more attentively he fancied that the great volume of smoke assumed a variety of marvelous forms, where in dim obscurity he saw shadowed out palaces and domes and lofty spires, all of which lasted but a moment, and then faded away, until the whole rolled off, and nothing but the green woods were left. And when St. Nicholas had smoked his pipe he twisted it in his hatband, and laying his finger beside his nose, gave the astonished Van Kortlandt a very significant look, then mounting his wagon, he returned over the treetops and disappeared.
Awesome! I'll try to get one from my employer. Or do you think it's worth waiting for a SP4 with a Broadwell Core M?
What's it like to have a 150 IQ? Is life really super easy?
Purely functional transducers – where does state belong?
It would have already if there was the market share.
If you're just lurking then you're committing no crimes, and sure if you've ever even googled "Tor" or "Tails" the NSA will have you marked for it anyway. [1]

I decided to fire up Tor and have a look at the places mentioned in the article, having previously browsed (but never used) Silk Road before it was busted out of similar curiosity.

They're basically as described. It's fairly disturbing that these exist. I don't mind people buying and selling drugs, as people are going to do that, but on these same market places people are selling identities, fraud equipment (POS and ATM skimmers), stolen credit card details, funds from hacked accounts and, most disturbingly, weapons.

The weapons are by far the worst aspect of it. There's listings for everything from 3D printed guns through to modified AK47s that are now fully automatic. Worst of all, there is materials listed for making explosives, as well as components like fuses and switches.

I hate to think of whose hands these things end up in.

1. http://www.cnet.com/news/nsa-likely-targets-anybody-whos-tor...
Before "The Soul of a New Machine."
Global IPv6 Deployment Progress Report
Brand new iPhones have this same sensation
HipChat was already acquired. As was Yammer. So they aren't VC relevant any more. Products often stagnate once acquired anyway.
Git Ninja Class Comes to Amsterdam
Open offices do not attract talent just REMFs who save 5$ on office space but cause $20 worth of damage to the company
Couldn't agree more with this. IMO Dropwizard (with help from JAX-RS) has greatly simplified the process of spinning up a basic REST web service: embedded Jetty by default, Jersey support, Logback (talk about simplifying the world of mess known as Java logging), Jackson-based JSON support, etc. Not to mention (despite my many gripes with Maven) being able to simply build this thing as a fat JAR and go.

This new framework, Civilian, on the other hand seems to be going back to over-complicating everything: requires servlet container by default, a shiny new templating language, HTML forms processing, etc.
This is pretty sweet, but wish there was a way to filter to show movies available on netflix.
That was an amazing read
Nice; that's the way my original X1 Carbon looks and I'm really happy with that keyboard. In particular, I absolutely love the nipple and the proper mouse buttons. Is there any chance of the linked keyboard actually making it back into the X1 line as well?

I almost updated to the new one however they completely murdered it with the "adaptive" change. Capacitive function keys, home and end on the caps lock key, what _on earth_ were they thinking?

http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/01/stop-trying-to-innovate...
This is a great work of fiction, but I don't feel it's relevant as HN content. What does everyone else think?
Pawnmail: a free email host for custom domains
Aargh, CC license but its the attribution non-commercial version, which makes the entire thing useless, as "non commercial" is completely ill-defined. So for example, it is unusable by Wikipedia.
Ask HN: Does anyone have experience creating free, community programming classes?
I'm an SDE in Seattle. Right now I'm interviewing people for a web developer position on my team and I'm seeing a lot of self-taught people coming through that definitely have a firm grasp on the basics, but just aren't there yet.

Some of these folks are Veterans and it's been making me feel like crap that I can't direct them to better resources that can help them. I think Code Fellows and the like are a little too onerous (and expensive) for some people, so I thought it might be worthwhile to volunteer my time at a worthwhile community center, church, or something, but it seems like nothing of the sort exists.

I know there are online resources, but I don't think everyone's learning-style jives with being self-taught, and my biggest issue is that some of these people just need someone who is actually in the industry to tell them where their knowledge-gaps are and what it actually takes to get hired.

Has anyone ever tried to set something like this up? If so, was it worth it?
Most police are motivated by none of these things. Policing is a job. Depending on how career-oriented they are, they want to be promoted or they want not to be fired. And chasing down petty criminals that they probably don't have enough evidence to charge is not helping their stats, which is all that matters in either case.