skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the same token, when something is pushed to all those users and makes relatively little impact, that's a huge opportunity cost for FB. Each time they try something new, it will alienate some users, whether they just visit FB less or stop using altogether or whatever. They would prefer that new products/services make up for that one-time user cost with compensating increased "stickiness" for other users over time, or some similar benefit. They can't annoy their userbase without limit. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part...
When the Chinese look at the US X-37B, they see the future of space-based attack
I'm going to guess you're either around 20 and just don't know many people who took up new pursuits in their later years, or that you're late 50s and haven't seen peers put the same amount of effort they put in when they were in their 20s.

Most of the 15, 20 year olds I know who are _good_ at something are almost obsessive about it. It's not just that they're young, it's that they're really hard workers.
To further improve your idea: you could detect links to binaries and look for hash-like strings next to them. Then you can pre-download, detect hash algorithm, patch, hash the patched binary and then serve the page with the modified hash (and cache everything for later use).

It might make the first visit slower, but for small binaries (or large bandwith) it's probably not that noticeable (especially in Tor, where slowness is expected).

Lots of times the hash is in a separate file, which makes the attack even less noticeable since you can patch and hash the binary as you detect it but before the hash file is downloaded by the user (and you can even delay the hash download as much as you need).

As I see it, downloading hashes through unsafe channels delivers a false sense of security, which is even worse than no security at all.
Unfortunately it seems to me that the Google Drive folder linked is inaccessible.. the individual documents are easily found via Google Search but seeing them all in one place would be kinda nice.
Supported a fleet of 500+ Lenovos (T400s-T430s).
They were solid machines.

We had a bad run of LCDs on the T410s and Lenovo had folks on-site to fix all of them as they died. Pleasant overall experience.

I have a maxed-out 15" retina, and I still miss my T430s sometimes... (dat trackpad)
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> So under uselessd a service or socket file cannot depend on the presence of certain mounts, for instance (RequiresMountsFor=).

Of course it can - you just write a script that checks for the mount being there and if not attempts to mount it, with a timeout, then put it in as a dependency.
That's kung fu, and it's extremely satisfying to cultivate it in everything you do. I've been inspired to learn how to do stuff like that since I saw a chef drop ingredients into a recipe without measuring.
"Hotel prices often fluctuate wildly -- a room may cost $59 one week and then a few weeks later cost $299 because a trade show is in town, etc."

You don't think this will happen with AirBnb, similar to "surge pricing" with Uber? Continuing with supply & demand, at times of great demand, prices will rise no matter if it's a hotel or AirBnb, even if there is a great deal more supply, there will always be huge bursts of demand (trade shows, what-have-you).

AirBnb would seem to flesh out the low-to-mid-range end of the market. If money isn't an object, there are places to stay in NYC (I think--I'm not at that level, myself!). But if you're looking to stay in NYC comfortably for fairly cheap, AirBnb exists with offerings that fit that, albeit they may be illegal (right now). I just question whether that market is "worth" more than the major chains (based on valuations, which I know is a shaky number to use).
I would recommend a ThinkPad T420 or X220 (if you want the classic keyboard) or a T430, X230, or 2013 X1 Carbon (if you don't mind the new one). They're all pretty cheap on eBay, and you can get ones that have been barely used. Make sure you don't get the 2014 X1 Carbon, as it's an unmitigated disaster.

Also, remember to get a machine with maxed out RAM (if the RAM is not user-installable) or max it out yourself (if it is user-installable). Also, make sure you get the max resolution screen and replace the HDD with an SSD, if you get one with the former.
Lenovos have great specs and the best keyboards, but Dells (used to) at least win on support.
Disclaimer: I am not a data scientist. I just know a few, and I have some Google-fu.

> Should I learn R or Python (nltk, scikit-learn, pandas etc.)?

Honestly, whatever is most convenient at first. Getting a good grip on your first one is orders of magnitude more important than what language or system it is, and since convenience and ease of use help a lot with focusing one's attention on learning an mastery, that's what counts. Eventually you might grow out of the one you picked, and if you keep coding stuff you'll inevitably branch out to other languages and systems. All the data scientists I know know and use both R and Python (with bells and whistles). All of them.

> Should I learn hadoop or focus more on machine learning techniques?

From what I read, and from what one of those data people told me, hadoop can be a waste of time in many situations. Namely, for almost anything small enough to store and process on a desktop computer, you'll probably do it faster using something else (and with less headache). But hop to page 8 of this survey for a better picture from the horse's mouth: http://www.paradigm4.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/P4-data-...

The rest of the survey I linked above is probably well worth your time as well. Obviously, take into account the survey was run and presented by paradigm4, and do your mental corrections and debiasing accordingly.
I use a Sony Viao FW series laptop I purchased in 2008 (swapped in a SSD about 2 yrs ago).
At work I use a Lenovo T430 and I'm considering buying a Yoga Pro 2 for home as an upgrade to the Sony.
I looked into buying 15" MB Pro but I can't really find a justification for the price premium.
All the Asus products I have had have worked OK, and decent driver support.

I have on occassion bought Acer PCs for non-devs at the office, and have regretted it every time. Sure they are cheap, but they also break down very fast and/or have lousy driver support, its just not worth the hassle. I still remember the stationary Acer PC I buy for one of our salesguys. Everytime he went above 50% CPU usage it sounded like a vacuum cleaner, and could be heard from the hallways.
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Yes, sorry. The stuff about humans was a bit obs urred but I should have read it more carefully.

I'm still trying to work out how many humans were used. It's a frustratingly dense read on mobile.

EDIT: 65 control; 27 anorexia; 14 binge eating disorder.

It's interesting, but I want to see very many more samples taken from women at different hospitals and the community.
I don't own or maintain this project, I just like it and thought I would share it with HN.
Read your post after I submitted mine.

I'm curious what you disliked about the Lenovo's trackpad.

For me, the MBP's is disagreeable bc of the additional friction.
With apologies to uselessdguy, I have to agree that the name is not an asset. I have NO problem with clever names, but sometimes they are a bit too much. For example, I always though that Lesstif (a clone of Motif) was a silly, off-putting, name. As to the substance of it, I'm not thrilled with systemd and generally agree with the argument that it's taking on too much. So I wish the uselessd project well, if for no other reason than it may encourage systemd to address some of it's shortcomings.
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Yes, to me this piece flies way past the "technically privileged" assertion. And in this way, it is one of the best counter-arguments to the "technically privileged" accusation some people have against our field.
I would describe your job as "sole proprietor" rather than as "software developer". It doesn't seem to be the software development that's giving you problems, but rather the difficulty of running a small business in the gaming industry.
Good, destroying a device you legally purchased is unacceptable, whether you knew it was a counterfeit or not. It's not their job to police that kind of stuff.

Failing to work with counterfeit devices is completely fine and would have been a much better approach than straight up bricking them.
Your liver may only be able to store about 400-600 kCals of glycogen, but your skeletal muscle tissue scan store a great deal more. The catch here is that only those muscle tissues can use that glycogen (and are very resistant to using ketones and/or free fatty acids).

This is why nutritional ketosis is driven primarily by hepatic glyocgen depletion.

Many cyclical ketogenic diets use this hack to replete glycogen in their muscle tissue (in the form of a once per week carb refeed) in order to fuel glycolytic workouts during the week. While it's hard to completely avoid filling your hepatic glycogen stores during the refeed, they can be burned through pretty quickly by the brain in the course of a day or two provided you restrict dietary carbohydrate to < 20g/day. It's also worth noting that glycogen repletion is generally preferential to muscle tissue first, then the liver second.
We're running DELLs here. As a developer I really can't complain - the Latitude E6530 is a performance beast. I'm hitting mine with 3 HyperV instances right now and it isn't even breaking a sweat.

We've had horrific experiences with the top-of-the-line Asus and Toshiba laptops.
The only thing to be cautious about when going with Lenovo devices are the models that have Whitelisted hardware in the BIOS.

We've run into a few devices with this 'feature' that makes it impossible to swap out faulty wifi, bluetooth, what-have-you devices.
A little late, but there is no way to submit every piece of available (or even easily-researchable) information in one article. So I think every article would be guilty of lying were that the case.

Also, the facts that you listed are not the facts that really sell his story. It's the connections, not the business Google was doing. Google's a company, I am at peace with the fact that they're selling their products to the highest bidder (the government has a big wallet, filled with money we give it). It's the connections with schmidt, and the other high-ranking Google employees and various parts of gov't.

Also, remember, the only company that seemed to really fight surveillance (I might be getting this wrong, I only really read pretty standard news sources) was Yahoo.

I don't know why everyone is focusing on the DARPA funding... I don't really like it, and I'm worried about the priorities of the research, but that's not so relevant to google.
Thanks for the info. I've never purchased an Acer product but heard from people that they were decent. :)
http://www.vrbo.com/info/list-your-property?

I think their pricing is similar to ABB

Also Homeway has a large inventory, I believe, but a lower market cap: 3B vs 10B.
I'd consider that fusion of paradigms to be a huge strength of the language.
Sounds like someone who's whole life revolves around their work. Of course, if your whole life is about work, then it will only be finalized by perishing.
It isn't religious hate. The Vatican is a stupidly well-off organization, and seeing well off organizations panhandling for things they can easily fund themselves seems disingenuous, at the least.
I don't know why mumble/murmur doesn't get more love. I self host and that is how I keep up with friends from all over the world...
I was using dell for years and 3 years ago switched to Asus. If you are not after an utrabook you can get a very powerful Asus machine in your price range.

Also recently bought a lenovo yoga pro 2. Everything is nice about it but default windows installation is a bit bloated.
I've been buying Dells with Ubuntu for something like 10 years, and once in a while have a minor annoyance with something, but not more than I see people complaining about on twitter with their Macs.

And I have had occasion to hack on low-level stuff like kernel drivers, now and then, so knowing the whole system well because I use it every day has been an advantage.
I thought this was going to be something bashing programmers by the nature of the title. Glad I was wrong. Great story and something that all aspiring programmers should stick to.
Get a new 15" rMBP for OS X and take your old MBP and boot directly to Win7 on there.
Like the roaring successes of Home, Paper, and whatever that Snapchat clone thing was...?
I've had the Samsung Series 7 NP700Z7C-S01US for the past 3 years and its been rock solid. Fast, big screen, and huge battery. Very, very good on power. Easily lasts 5 or 6 hours just browsing. Not sure if Samsung makes them anymore, but if you can find one, you won't regret it. The newer laptops barely beat it in specs.
And that's assuming it's actually counterfeit. Can you imagine the storm if "isCounterfeit()" turned out to be less than 100.000000% accurate?
Won't work with TouchID - reads the blood vessels in addition to the prints.
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Fructose is shunted directly to the liver. It does have a glycemic index of 19, but that's on par with some sugar alcohols (which generally speaking are thought to not have an effect on blood sugar).

> Even protein spikes insulin

Can you explain this mechanism? From my research, this is a demand-driven process via gluconeogenesis. The effect on blood sugar is so minimal here as to suggest that insulin secretion is nominal at best.
This has been a common request, so I'm definitely going to be adding these features in
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I don't think that anyone understands that sentence in the way that this is trying to debunk. Are there people who read that sentence and think that there's a larger amount of gut bacteria than human body in the human body by weight or volume?

That would require that there be people that think that the human gut itself weighs more than the rest of the body.

>"[That] is technically true, in the sense that Vin Diesel is outnumbered by a small bag of crickets."

In what sense is Vin Diesel not outnumbered by a bag of crickets? Combat skill?
There should be lawsuits. I really hope a class action gets started with people who were bitten by this.

I'm serious. This kind of behavior needs to be nipped in the bud and made a massive example of, or else we will see it in the future.
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Off topic, but I would kill to have such view outside of office window like that in the headline picture.
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The paper is very dense, overall. It is detailed in the legend of the 4th figure:

... Ctr, n=65, AN, n=27 BN, n=32 and BED, n=14

Crt = controls, AN = anorexia, BN = bulimia, BED = binge eating disorder.

http://www.nature.com/tp/journal/v4/n10/fig_tab/tp201498f4.h...
I'm 29, and I have already started feeling this. Just a few years ago, I could do 12-14h coding days sustainably, but now, anything above 11h sustained for weeks really shows in my output quality. Luckily, my overall productivity is still rising due to learning and experience, despite the degrading mental capabilities. I don't know what me at 35 will look like. I now see where the ageism comes from.

I find it incredibly sad that I even need to think about this. I regret that I even participated in this circus in the first place. I now only work for companies with don't have the ass-in-seats-for-80h policy. It's actually interesting that in startups where this works, people self-select and end up there. It's amazing how much more you can achieve if you can afford to take a step back, and not worry how you can run in circles even farther and faster.
Humorous names aren't exactly new to free software.
Employers worried about schools not teaching critical-thinking skills
That ten thousand hours thing is bullshit. You can become great at something in far less time with intelligent, focused practice. You may not be the complete expert, but you can achieve great things in that field. Stop imposing these limitations on yourself and just go out and learn something.

Everybody's art sucks in grade 5. It's very rare for a good artist to be good as a child. It's entirely developed from practice. 2-4 years of art school can take crappy amateurs and turn them into skilled professionals, whether they're 17 or 47.
Yeah, I know this is true for the AMD driver, at least. Their Catalyst ("fglrx") OpenGL implementation is shared between Linux and Windows, with a fairly low-level wrapper for each OS. [1][2]

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?106228-RadeonS...

[2] http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/...
Came here to say that + VMWare is what I use and it seems at least as nice as any Windows laptop I've used.
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This might or might not be an issue. Personally, I've never encountered it.
"So under uselessd a service or socket file cannot depend on the presence of certain mounts, for instance (RequiresMountsFor=). Nor can a service run maintenance tasks periodically with supervision on the maintenance task, and with all the privilege-dropping, isolation, and security features easily accomplished with a systemd service. (And even if a cron implementation implemented such features, they'd work gratuitously differently from systemd services.) Nor can the availability of a device trigger the reliable, monitored launch of a service with all those same systemd features."

Well it isn't called usefuld.
The URL is valid (copy and paste or type it in).

BUT: If you go there from HN he dispays just the gif

Wow, ... he seems to protect his article from the HN-crowd :-D
because it's a popular circlejerk. nothing to see, move along.
The MyFitnessPal app is great and includes a barcode scanner which makes it super easy to find the calories/macros for a big chunk of your food. It also allows you to set your goals for your macros (fat/protein/carbs) which is very handy. I'm able to hit my macro goals within +/- 5% a day which seems quite good.

I weigh and log virtually everyting (not coffee/tea/water though) but as you said, measuring calories is imprecise at best. I'm currently targeting ~3400kcal a day and I would estimate a healthy error margin of +/- 400kcal a day on that figure.

The biggest benefit is that it makes me totally conscious of what's going into my body and developing a feel for the caloric content of various foods (e.g. wow I had no idea 2 cups of spinach was only ~10 calories!).
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Is this fake physics or real? How deep is the fluid, what methods are used etc...

Looks really neat.
We do not want to set a precedent whereby a company responds to customer feedback, and then gets hit by a huge lawsuit anyhow. That just incentivizes companies to dig their heels in, because it means there's no change in outcome between speedily responding and trying to stay the course, at which point staying the course is the only sensible choice.

There's a time and a place for mercy, and giving positive feedback to the company for rapidly reversing course. They ate their crow; save the nuclear escalation for a company that refuses to.
Modded out of the FP. Guess the mods know best heh.
I'm also using a Sager gaming laptop which I bought a few years ago for ~$1300. Ran into an issue with the GPU overheating and needing replaced a year or so ago, but other than that it's been a fairly rugged and reliable machine. I will likely be buying my next laptop from Sager.
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Legal risks... it is Spain.
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Start a startup with dad.
This will probably sound like a troll comment, but it's a serious question:

Is it not the case that lacking critical thinking skills is a desirable trait for most jobs? (Cashier, dishwasher, pastor -- have to be smart enough to follow your tasks, but not smart enough to figure out how bad you're being screwed over by the system.)

Technical jobs, like Dice caters to, are obviously an exception. I mean in general.
Not really. The drivers are terrible under Windows: I can't get my MBP 2014's wifi to work under Windows 8, the Thunderbolt ethernet adapter does not benefit from plug and play, the trackpad is terrible... I would have expected a lot better from Apple.
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I have to assume that gaining mass/muscle/strength wasn't the intention of your weight lifting then. I can't imagine you're much stronger than you were 3 years ago which if that's what you're going for is just fine.
It's very redundant so it gzips to 3kb.
You can get a similar effect just by switching from eating a lot of grains to eating a lot of vegetables.
They have already damaged my equipment. I don't give two shits about hurting a corporation's feelings. They've already hurt my physical items. Once they've gone down that path, it's now an actionable tort. I can't believe their legal team approved of this.

They need to be made an example of.
Map makers do sometimes put fake things (like little roads) that don't exist on their maps, to hopefully be able to spot third parties copying their data to make and sell their own maps.
I don't think the author meant "technically privileged" as "those unfairly given an advantage for whatever reason". To me, it read more as, "folks who grew up immersed in this stuff" vs "folks who come to it later in life". I started coding in high school, and I think I approach it very differently than people who never wrote a line of anything until sometime in college or later. It strikes me as a legit difference, not one to bemoan as unjust but worth pointing out to people just getting started who might be intimidated.
Maybe they should reach out to affected parties and help them replace their destroyed equipment.
From a photographic website, here is the current crop of high-DPI laptops:

http://www.lightandmatter.org/2014/general-photography-artic...

The Dell M4800s are well spoken-of online ( haven't used one myself ), mainly for their raw power and robustness.
No, it really isn't. Even in our world thinking Internet == TCP/IP is a faux pas, roughly equivalent to thinking Internet == WWW. Legally speaking I suspect the term borders on meaningless. Obviously a company offering "internet access" must do something to discharge their contract but I seriously doubt you could ever nail them on this.

And if you could and did today, in a month the contracts would be rewritten anyhow, making this a completely moot point.
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I have a T420 and I generally agree, but since the OP mentioned he will still be working with OSX, that means he will probably set up a VM on it.

Since this is exactly what I do, I will say that running XCODE with the emulator in OSX (iAtkos) on the VM is painfully slow even with Maxed everything.

I would strongly suggest scaling back a bit on the ThinkPad settings and also having a Macbook for OSX/iOS dev.

I think it also depends on what OP is developing - ours is super heavy 3D graphics intensive so that is why we need as few layers between us and hardware as possible.
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