skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anywhere with an outlet.

Looking at the current Asus ROG 17" laptops, it looks like they've got a model that's only 7.5 pounds with a battery the same size as in the MacBook Air 13". Or you can get a 10.5 pound machine that's got a battery the size of what's in current 15" MacBook Pros and was in the 17" MBPs. And most of those manage to stay less than 2" thick, but they're all at least twice as thick as a current MBP. All in all, they've got almost as much in common with an iMac as with a MacBook Pro. (Seriously: the 21.5" iMac is only 2 pounds heavier.)

10 pounds of textbooks in a backpack is regarded as a public health problem. 10 pounds of computer cannot be taken seriously as something made for use on the go. We really do need some more specific terminology to draw distinctions between the different classes of hinged computers.
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The bloatware tends to be installed by wireless carriers and mainline re-branders (e.g. HP), not back-alley Chinese OEMs. If you're buying a no-name tablet and you're not in a Verizon store, it might very well be fairly clean.
Not sure if you mean the microsoft surface keyboard or an onscreen keyboard. I don't use the ms keyboard covers at all, haven't even purchased one (mechanical usb keyboards instead). I know there have been issues running the surface pro keyboards under linux, but don't know the current status.

On screen keyboards seem to work fine but I haven't put much effort into configuring, just tested.
I will build a prototype for you in two weeks for $4,242
Ask HN: How to escape from mediocrity?
There are moments in which I feel strangled in mediocrity, surrounded by very smart and intelligent people.

I know that these feelings don't last, and in this special case there are not objective reasons to such feelings, but reason is of no avail. Have you felt that same sensation and if so, how do you overcome those moments of low self-esteem?

Edited: Mostly Grammar and to suggest an irrational sense of mediocrity.
> Could you explain why accepting tips is so complicated? What specific law means you cannot do it?

If tips come in individually and in small numbers and you need to track the rate of exchange, origin and everything the money I lose money actively by needing to track it. There is no point in accepting small amounts.

The reason actual tips work in Austria is because they are tax except within a regulatory framework. That however does not apply to software developers.

> Let me put this another way. If your friends give you money for your birthday, do you give it back to them and tell them you can't accept their gift because of tax and regulation?

Actual gifts are a different tax code (they are tax free). I can however not just pretend that any of my income is the same. This is not a "but if i read the law like this" thing.

> but if Austria makes it hard to accept cash gifts of small amounts then something is seriously wrong with Austrian law and this is not something to be defended.

From what I have heard it's not in any way easier in other countries and it does not have to be because that was never the problem. The whole point of bountysource and other systems is to accumulate money and to simplify the whole process. It makes everything easier, even if taxes would not be concerned. It's what makes the whole tipping thing save and easy through a middleman.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/dn456835.aspx

public class MyConfiguration : DbConfiguration
{
public MyConfiguration()
{
SetExecutionStrategy(
"System.Data.SqlClient",
() => new SqlAzureExecutionStrategy(1, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30)));
}
}

The above SqlAzureExecutionStrategy will retry instantly the first time a transient failure occurs, but will delay longer between each retry until either the max retry limit is exceeded or the total time hits the max delay. The execution strategies will only retry a limited number of exceptions that are usually tansient, you will still need to handle other errors as well as catching the RetryLimitExceeded exception for the case where an error is not transient or takes too long to resolve itself.
Very performant on the front end. Impressive.
Junk/spam is far more complex than that. That alone will not be an issue almost certainly.

HOWEVER, there are many issues with this site that will cause messages to get marked as spam with a high frequency (including my innocuous test message to a gmail address).

1) There's no recommendation to setup SPF for your domain. This is the big one. SPF is a big deal, and not having any spf will give you a higher spam score.

2) The creator of this service did not setup a reverse dns entry for the ip to the mx domain. There's no reverse dns at all (even though he's hosted with ramnode and ramnode supports rdns).

3) The creator does not allow you to add dkim signing keys; you can't dkim sign your messages.

The above factors ensure that google has a high chance of marking you as spam, as well as any other sufficiently strict spam software. amavisd did not mark it as spam for me, giving it only a spam score of a little over 2, though I have mine configured at a high threshold compared to many people.

Because of the above reasons, I wouldn't consider using this. The lack of a rdns entry is especially unforgivable because it's so easy and helps with your spam rating so much. The other factors are all additional complexity because the owner of the domain (user) would have to do additional work beyond the dns record, but those should also be there.

Perhaps the creator will see this and improve these problems.
IMHO we're better off without certain kinds of intelligence research. I can't imagine any good that could come from distinguishing a certain group of people as more or less intelligent. On the other hand, this information would undoubtedly be used as a rationale for all kinds of discrimination.
This is a silly op ed piece designed to generate outrage based on a single, biased, anecdotal incident. The Seattle media, from kiro to the stranger, has devolved to this on just about every issue. Whether the issue is crime, urban planning, or bike lanes its much easier to generate their pennies from outrage than actually reporting on a substantive issues. By reading these "stories" we do nothing but reinforce the negative feedback loop.

If single sourced anecdotal evidence is all we need I'll share mine: In the past two years my house has been broken in to once & prowled twice (that I know of). My car has been broken in to twice. My neighbors cars have been broken in to three times, at least. In every incident Seattle PD have been on scene within 7 to 15 minutes. Reports after the fact usually get a single car/officer. In progress has been multiple cars boxing in a sweeping the neighborhood. As I recall canine has come out twice to try and track perpetrators on foot. For the home burglary the responding officer spent about an hour walking the scene, taking photos, and trying to recover prints. Dispatch and responding officers have never been anything less than responsive, courteous, and professional. But that's not enticing link bait, is it?

Edit: The plethora of downvotes without comment are fun. Do you object to my characterization of seattle media as "link bait" or posting my own anecdotal incidents?

For context this is my neighborhood: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2014/10/24/shooting-suspect-in... http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2014/10/18/police-arrest-man-f...
> So he has a generalised feeling that Bitcoin is bad because it's popular and has vocal fans, and that regulation is good yet also complicated, so anything which seems simple must be unregulated and therefore bad.

The only (or at least, the main) argument we ever hear in favor of Bitcoin is that it's unregulated, and therefore it's liked by people who dislike regulation. Why, then, is it surprising or illogical for someone to dislike Bitcoin because they're in favor of regulation? Being in favor, or against, regulation is a matter of personal political opinion, and that, in turn, shapes one's opinion of Bitcoin. This argument makes just as much sense as those for Bitcoin.
Regardless that it's for custom domains, the smtp server will call itself "mx.pawnmail.com" during the SMTP protocol negotiation.

The parent comment is not correct in thinking that matters, but they are correct that it will be identified as pawnmail, just not as part of the email address itself.
It's not just you, I might also be crazy. I find "if it's not something you're willing to write me an email about, it's probably not something worth bugging me about" a useful filter.

The difference in the requests I get over IM-type platforms vs emails (or even ticket trackers and the like) is pretty big. For whatever reason, most people don't want to bother writing an email, so they'll actually do more investigation on their own before sending one...
I think that it would. While Giuliani's "broken windows" theory was probably overshadowed by the fading of crack and the clarification of gang territory, it seems pretty conclusive that enforcing minor crimes leads to keeping felons off the streets. Enforcing subway turnstiles led to the capture of a TON of gun-carrying felons that would have otherwise gone on to rob, rape, and murder New Yorkers.

Unfortunately, liberals have somehow seized upon such measures as fascist. My parent comment has received at least five downvotes, for nothing more than saying cops are people too. Stop-and-frisk measures in New York, which were enormously valuable in stopping felons from their next murders, have become persona non grata since black people are disproportionately like to be found breaking parole, carrying weapons, or transporting drugs.

I consider myself liberal, but I'm really disappointed by our kneejerk responses to crime prevention. I think a lot of it stems from white guilt, a self-loathing for which police now serve as whipping boys.
Washington is a conceal carry friendly state, I wonder how reporting an attempt at a citizens arrest would have changed the situation.

Here in Santa Cruz we have a very high property/lifestyle crime problem, thankfully the PD haven't given up, but the courts have made things here basically catch and release.

The story basically comes down to laziness on the part of the police. Seattle doesn't have the budget problems of Oakland where this same situation has basically been going on for a decade.
This is also called the "efficient market hypothesis", and is a cornerstone of basic equity valuation. The idea is that if you have information that a company's stock is sure to rise in the future, it is rational for you to pay any amount up to the point at which you believe it will be valued in the future to acquire it now. And so the stock price will instantly reflect all public information about the future prospects of the stock.

You may call it "dumb money", but if so, then all money is dumb.
Wikipedia was just an example.

And frankly, the birds make these lovely noises, the people who record them should not restrict usage - there is no creative input.

Essentially to make them part of free culture we are going to have to relicense them or rerecord them.
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Only Pawnmail staff have @pawnmail.com email addresses. Domain owners can register email addresses under their own domain (such as @joesmith.com), which may or may not contain filtered words.

However, you have a good point. It would probably not be the ideal name for a service like to GMail, in which all users live under the @gmail.com domain.
Perhaps you are mistaking a difference in political creed for hatred. I have no hatred, blind or otherwise, for police. My brother will graduate the NY Police Academy in two weeks. However, I envision and work toward a world where police in their current form don't exist at all.

On HN, you probably have a large proportion of people who believe that, like many government services, police will be successfully and peacefully deprecated by voluntary systems yet to be invented.
1) In many countries, unlike USA, a majority of people don't ever handle a "tax return" or "file taxes" - if your income consists of standard salaries or student stipends or social security/etc, then the employer is required to handle everything and you can generally ignore the issue unless you start doing business or selling real estate or whatever. For a normal person, the cost of starting to file taxes (and investigating how it needs to be done) it's orders of magnitude larger than any reasonable amount of tips - generally, hiring an accountant would be cheaper&safer than doing it yourself and any non-standard income less than the accountant fee is not worth the hassle.

2) Those tips are strictly different from personal gifts - they're payment (voluntary, but still) for stuff you did, so tax wise, they would be considered equivalent to commercial export of software. Taxes on international commerce are tricky (e.g., determining if value added tax applies in this case, etc), most jurisdictions have some simplified paperwork, guides and assistance for small business with the expectation that they're domestic, not international.

3) If you're asking "which specific law prohibits" - it's entirely opposite, it's not like there are specific laws for each taxable thing - the general law mandates that any and all income is declarable and taxable, and then there are specific laws to make exceptions for things such as birthday gifts from relatives or tips for waiters.
Amazon and Hulu integration is on our todo list. It's unfortunate that we can't pull Netflix data since they're shutting down their api in 10 days.
> blind hatred for the police

Reactions to a detailed first person account are "blind"? What, pray tell, is your standard of acceptable sources for a debate?

> I understand why cops are leery of having citizens pursue and enforce vigilante justice.

1. The victim of theft did not "enforce vigilante justice" even when the police refused to help him.

2. The victim of theft did not propose enforcing vigilante justice at any point in the process. All of his suggestions involved letting the police do their job while he assisted from a distance.

What are you trying to say? Because it sounds like you're accusing this guy of doing something he didn't do in order to avoid acknowledging that there is a problem.

> This could EASILY have led to a shootout.

Half of a policeman's duties could lead to shootouts. Should police everywhere avoid confronting criminals because such confrontations could lead to a shootout? No -- that would be ridiculous. Deciding that you aren't going to enforce petty theft laws because the cost/benefit is off is effectively equivalent to making petty theft legal. Even if this petty theft isn't important, you surely must acknowledge the importance of discouraging petty theft in general and the unsuitability of the "eh, not worth it" attitude for achieving that goal. The need for enforcement follows.

> I'd rather give [the police] the benefit of the doubt

It's very easy to pretend there isn't a problem when it doesn't affect you.
Just yesterday in the civic center area here in SF I'm getting a sandwich and this mentally ill (or really high, or both) bum lady walks into the shop and proceeds to howl at the top of her lungs for 10 minutes, dance around the shop, kick down a bunch of seats. Right next to her is a hole in the wall punched by some other mentally infirm person that same day.

Nothing. The staff is used to it, I'm used to it, the other patrons are used to it, we just let them do their thing and hope they don't throw anything at us in the process. This is right on Market St, you'd think the city would be proud of its downtown.

What am I supposed to do as a resident? I'm not a cop, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not a psychiatrist, I can't fix this. I'm just a guy who gives away something like half of his income in taxes and it's not clear what's happening to all that cash. If we're going to keep this place in an embarrassing state, I would at least like some of my money back.
> 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 criminal

Surely it's possible to use the same database collecting info on Patriot Act violations to sift through and report on petty crimes also, even predict where and to/by whom they might happen? If the police won't do it then surely there's someone out there who could hack into the machines running the algorithms for such terrorism and high profile crime prediction to do the same for car breakins?
http://devdocs.io/
I think what strikes me as the large-scale problem here is that some people are baffled by the concept that not wanting money might be a rational decision. As a completely different example of the same decision being rational, let's remember when Tarsnap wasn't accepting Canadian customers (despite a presumably sizable potential market) because dealing with Canadian sales tax law was too much overhead. Even if the path to accepting money legally is clear and well-documented, it still might not be worth it.

Not to mention I've heard stories of developers whose motivation to work on open-source projects has gone _down_ since getting paid, since it makes it seem like work instead of a hobby.

There is a worldview that seems to me to be prevalent in the cryptocurrency community (I don't know which direction causation runs, but there's certainly a bit of correlation) that everyone wants micropayments and microtips -- cf. the tip bots on Reddit. It's not uncommon to see the tipbots get downvoted, and the tippers to be completely confused why someone might think it unwanted or off-topic.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/234ds8/tipping_in_...
Does anybody know more about FHP (the Fountainhead Project) than what little I can read here:

http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~mark/fhp.html
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It's true, though. They are not legally obliged to help you: http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/04-278.ZS.html
They definitely did bet too heavily on netbooks, but that market has long since crashed. Chromebooks picked up a significant chunk of what was left in that segment. The more recent trend has been Intel's push for "ultrabooks", initially spurred by their desire to have a Wintel competitor to the MacBook Air. It hasn't been as disastrous as the netbook fad, but almost everything that superficially appears to be competition cuts corners in big ways and ends up being cheaper but a lot crappier and also basically unprofitable.
I suppose the nutgraf is: running your own email server is a better/recommended solution over pawnmail?
Multiple people said this, it's a shame how we didn't think of this before! We'll be adding this feature during the next couple of days! Thanks for pointing it out!
Because beginners generally don't care about tooling, external libraries etc. They want a compiler (and preferrably a REPL) and some language pointers and then write a program that searches for primes or whatever.
Nobody does as it doesn't really exist.

Not wanting to participate in the aptly compared Lord of the Flies culture of high school is perfectly understandable, though. Moving from high school to a large university sees most all of that culture evaporate, and that lack of a strong social structure favoring the individual can certainly seem a whole lot more normal considering in the real world a person is much more free to leave rigid social structures if they choose.
So, your experts concluded the tech works or at least could work ? Are we calling bullshit on the naysayers then ?
In addition to the 'urbanite high expectations outrage' factor, the clash is driven by a new technology: location tracking of stolen goods.

This leads to interesting hacker-cultural questions: How will policing adapt, if at all? Can more tech help?
The hwpmc support Brendan's using here is in stock FreeBSD, but the default callchain capture depth is only 8 frames in FreeBSD 10.0, so you'd want to set in loader.conf:

kern.hwpmc.callchaindepth=32

The default is 32 in FreeBSD-Current and the upcoming 10.1 release.
Not really a gamble -- you usually can find reliable info about Linux support on the internet, provided that the device is not too exotic.
You won't get a proper global Mercator map through light projection (a so called geometric projection) from a sphere, the relation is purely mathematical.

A central cylindrical projection is what you get when you put a light in the center of a sphere and project that on a cylinder

http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/ProjCyl/ProjCE...

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Peter_Mercator/Draft_fo...

You could get pretty close with Braun type stereographical for non-global uses with a fixed light source.

http://www.progonos.com/furuti/MapProj/Normal/CartHow/HowBra...
Netflix will be shutting down their API in 10 days. So unfortunately pulling their data won't be possible. We'll look into other services asap.
http://fridaysuntil.com

Not really a large audience. :)
To chime in bit on FreeBSD, going Linux -> FreeBSD can be relatively painless, and FreeBSD will be a good place to stop if there is no further need of performance/purity/cleanness.

The was a time it was the only blessed BSD distribution for Java, unicode support has been pretty good for years, the ports management is easy and forgiving, documentation is generally clean and complete, help resources have a polite and professional feel.

In general there are stronger alternatives for a production server (OpenSBD definitively) but it's a very nice environment for a workstation or development server.
There have been some really really awful Lenovo Thinkpad trackpads in the last 2-3 years -- one specific one that I have used that you see a TON of complaints about was the X230 trackpad (google it, it's a mess). One of the worst I have ever used, with no amount of adjustment that can fix it -- Lenovo really dropped the ball when cutting costs. The worst part was that the X220/T420 and plenty of other older models had perfect trackpads.
The level of public safety in a particular city frequently comes down to how much property tax its population is wiling to pay.
The Seattle police lost a lawsuit about the ability to use overwhelming force:

http://crosscut.com/2014/10/20/law-justice/122409/judge-toss...

But they won't use any force against known criminals who are right in front of them.

Could the two be related? Especially because the "non-arrest" policy for break-ins appears to be recent.
If I'm reading you right you are:

1. In a great position
2. Have a great attitude and self awareness

I developed very strong programming skills by being in a situation where I was the weakest member of the team and felt like you do.

In my opinion just work hard and ask lots of questions. Take advantage of being around smart people and find ways to use their intelligence and experience to make yourself better!

On the other hand- I'm feeling something similar with my whole team. We're all very smart but only a couple of us (none in management) care about code quality and our lack of any testing or even a modicum of QA causes many bugs to be repeated and lowers our morale. In this case I feel surrounded my mediocrity and people who don't care and I'm looking for another job where I can join a team who takes pride in the craftsmanship of their work.
> Your email messages are private and are only used in the event of a legal order or search warrant.

Okay; Which jurisdiction?
Urban decay refers to buildings and infrastructure falling apart. That is not happening in downtown Seattle. It seems you are using the term to refer to scary-looking people.