skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a somewhat different approach. I generally either prefer to get a "shit" version of something or a super-premium version. If the thing is simple and timeless and easy to transport, I opt for the timeless route. If I think I might not keep it for more than a year or two, I usually get the cheap one.

Midrange "luxury" items seem to be barely better quality than the best-cheap-options available, while most of their cost seems to go to marketing (or styling, in the case of clothes/fashion products). They also quickly depreciate.

Super premium items, however, usually retain their value and are significantly more satisfying to hold/use. The place where this has been the _least_ true, in my experience, is with electronics. All electronics depreciate quickly. There is no timeless smart phone.

Incidentally, Kia has been doing a great job lately. I rent a car almost every week, and after comparing the Kia Forte with the Jetta and the Optima with the Passat, I prefer the Kia in both cases. The VW automatic transmissions don't seem to shift very smoothly, and I actually found the trim levels to be comparable and the Kias more fun to drive.
"The force of the ion thruster on the spacecraft is comparable to the weight of a single sheet of paper."

That is magnificent.
Monsanto Roundup anyone?

98 pesticides found in bee pollen!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175290

and from
Wikipedia:

Glyphosate can harm the bacterial ecology of soil and cause micronutrient deficiencies in plants.[63] Other studies found that while "recommended dosages of glyphosate did not affect growth rates", much higher dosages reduced respiration in nitrogen-fixing bacteria.[64][65]
LVM can only shrink devices by full extents, but LVM is just a wrapper around device-mapper (plus metadata management). By creating device-mapper devices directly with the linear target, you could have gotten sector (512 byte) granularity for offset and size.
>what do Finder complainers consider the gold standard of file browsers that Finder should aspire to be?

When bash is more useful than finder, there's probably an issue.

Case in point: not being able to open a specific path (unless I bookmark it)

Case in point: when I open my home directory in finder, I don't necessarily want the directory tree that was last expanded to still be expanded. For directories with a large item count, this can take a _long time_, even on a retina imac.

Renaming a file is always an exercise in "did I click it in just the right way? Oh, crap, no, don't launch it to edit it."

Windows Explorer has neither of those issues.
I keep seeing people mention "a mess of shell scripts", and then use replacements which are dozens if not hundreds of lines of custom-configuration files.

Shell scripts, when you're not dealing with autotools generated script, aren't really that big, or even that complicated.

Not to mention that the ability to chain disparate tools and subshells can be incredibly elegant and powerful.
My sister, a summa cum laude classics major gratuate from Princeton, analyzed and translated previously unknown fragments of Sappho as her senior thesis.

Her advisor stole her research wholesale, down to her direct phrasing and mistakes, and published it under his name.

Princeton's administration blew her off completely despite pretty overwhelming evidence he had plagiarized the research wholesale. Certainly more than enough evidence that any student would have been suspended or expelled for the same conduct.

It was very saddening.
Most people in Beijing don't have cars, that is a scary thought.

Self driving cars will eventually allow Beijing to optimize traffic flows given the limited infrastructure that can be built for a city of its density. Until then, I'm a slave to didi dache.
Ask for references who have been successful with similar terms. Then you will have a better idea what the arrangement might offer in your situation.
I'm a former Windows user and now an all Mac user and I find that Finder is sub-par compared to Explorer.

Even silly things like wanting to create a new folder and instinctively right clicking to look for a "New Folder" option. Nope, gotta go to the top menu and do it from there!
Best route to drive across the USA and see all the major landmarks
Valve Talks ‘Advanced VR Rendering’ – Live Blog
This seems like a conflict of interest for some reason... I wonder if she'll ever go back to Google in a few years?
Many people get cars through their SOE's (less now of days), and saving on gas really is an issue. But the main problem is parking: where do you charge the bugger if you don't have a space in a garage with a power outlet?
A Frickin' awesome idea.

My best wishes in your success!!!

I look forward to the results.
Intel integrated graphics on bleeding edge Arch Linux here. I'm stuck at OpenGL 3.3. I can only use shader language GLSL 1.30.

And people say Intel has the best OpenGL support... :) Or maybe nvidia fares better?
Right click in your home folder -> Show View Options -> Show Library Folder.

That said, I preferred that they never removed it, but for the common user, they wont ever need it.

To get to it, you can also hold down Option when pressing the Go menu item.
I don't see the Redskins playing in the playoffs either!
> I'll take my psi-researching acid-dropping 50s-70s woo-woo nuts over today's boring hidebound curmudgeons any day.

Walter Bishop comes to mind...

I agree with your sentiment. The atmosphere of skepticism went into overdrive now. It seems as if a lot of otherwise smart people don't expect anything else than incremental improvements for profit of what is already here. And it's as if people lost hope. Hard problems are hard, be it living on another planet, slaughtering Moloch or conquering death - but they all are in the realms of scientific possibility, and I wish more people would be enthusiastic about pursuing them.
It reminded of how pickup artists market their books/seminars[0], which gave me a little chuckle. Nevertheless, I'm excited about this, and signed up immediately.

[0]: www.blueprintdecoded.com/
I use http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net/ on linux, which is pretty-much a clone of total commander. I still like total commander better.

As for open source - this one is, but it's written in delphi (pascal?) which makes it hard to contribute. Then again, it works well, so not sure what to contribute anyway.
People think that sitting is very bad for you because it is correlated with all kinds of undesirable health outcomes. Does anyone know whether these effects disappear when controlling for level of activity?
Roundup, however, is an herbicide...
-shift+command+G to go directly to a path

-Press return to rename the selected file
> It has literally all the advantages of a wireless setup

...except for the main advantage, which is the wireless setup's entire reason for existence?
If you want to make a devops omelet at a place that has an over the wall mentality, you have to break some eggs (and walls).

I was part of a successful transition to devops from a thoroughly silo'd operation, where the boss basically gave the dev team the responsibility and authority to make it happen. He was also able to snag some of the traditional ops team and make them part of the new team. After a period of storming, the new team came up with some innovative ways to get the job done. Once the team realized that they were it in terms of getting it done, it got done. Quality and job satisfaction improved, cost was reduced.

I've also seen various unsuccessful transitions. In every case, the responsibility was divided into various silos, which sandbagged everything.
Tech news site Gigaom is closing its doors
The timeframes don't line up very well for that to be true. The glyphosate (roundup) patent expired in 2000, but your article suggests colony collapse disorder wasn't visible until 2006. With ~30 years of widespread use by that point, with no noticeable effects on the bee population, why would it suddenly change?
It probably offers increased positive signalling during mating and social rituals, but nothing technical.

I attended Basel World (the luxury watch exhibition) once, where the lowest price watch was like 40k CHF (~40K USD). They didn't really do much more than a normal watch, but attracted plenty of attention anyways.
Like we are going to find that exercise helps prevent diabetes, heart disease and dementia?
Didn't MacBooks come with those connectors before? It's like when iPods and iPhones used to come with the desktop stands

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7357/11147888116_9be011e0b1_n...
I don't think ECC will help. Where you can flip one memory bit, you can flip two consequently.
TIOBE Index for March 2015: All time high for F# at position 11
I couldn't refrain myself for posting something I just wrote
http://pothibo.com/2015/3/churn

I think JavaScript people might need to read it.
Germany pushes for widespread end-to-end email encryption
Not that anyone should take the TIOBE ranking seriously - as discussed in other thread, the methodology is not reliable (and the fluctuation is suspicious too) - but it's interesting to see F# high on the list.
patio11's writing style seems to run that way. I find it difficult to read, but he's presumably tested it. Maybe he got stuck at a local maxima.
But they're --- for lack of a better term --- useless when it comes to actually getting real-world systems built.

Part of the issue here is that each of us has a different understanding of what it takes to get a "real-world system" built.

That's somewhat obvious because each of us has different "real worlds", so even within the same language/ecosystem there is a huge disparity in what skills are required to be genuinely successful in different teams/organisations/applications.

To put it in concrete terms, when I worked in banking, the main impediment to building successful "real-world" systems was getting clear, unambiguous requirements that could be translated into something implementable. Some of the best developers in that organisation were excellent at their job because they could take the incomplete and inconsistent desires of a banker, and turn that into a coherent and complete "world view" about the system they were required to build. We were primarily a Java shop, and they could produce an adequate application within the frameworks available to them, but I shudder to think what they would have said if you asked about "coupling and cohesion" or the java memory model, or how dynamic proxies work, or even how they should choose between making a field a short, int or long.

So, for my current (startup) organisation, I wouldn't hire those people - despite them being instrumental in producing some of the most satisfying and successful (ROI) systems I've been involved in. This team needs people who can do hard engineering, and if my former colleagues applied for a role here they'd end up looking like the proverbial "inept programmer" that we're debating.

This is a reflection on their skills, but it's also a sign that similarly named roles ("software developer") in different teams require and cultivate different skill sets.
8" is not pocket size.
Scientists Find New Class of Drugs That Dramatically Increases Healthy Lifespan
It wasn't quite like that (at least in the usual cases). You had to do something that would get the other end to send it back out again, such as putting it in a ping payload.

The reason for the "bug", if I'm remembering correctly, is that Hayes or US Robotics or some company like that had a patent on the guard times that were supposed to surround the +++.
Show HN: A simple Chrome extension for quickly doing advanced Google searches
I've posted this before and there are a large number of other examples, but the United States also engages in this activity against its targets [1][2]. (The US has been known to target democracies as well.) In addition there has been a number of studies and campaigns on Americans inside the US during elections linked to the DoD and to political parties [3][4].

This isn't to say that this behavior is justifiable because the US also does it - or that the US is evil for doing it. It's important to know that this is how 21st century propaganda works and also that all powers, including those with myths of 'liberty', participate.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/usaid-effort-t...

[2] http://minerva.dtic.mil/doc/samplewp-Lieberman.pdf

[3] http://jhfowler.ucsd.edu/massive_turnout.pdf

[4] http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/internet/computer-scientist...
And then your kid wants to use the computer but can't because you have the only CPU in your phone and you kick yourself for buying into the modular convergence snake oil.
[project Critique] Gift Automation Service
Considering the $10,000+ price tag on the gold Apple Watch, I'm surprised their gold MacBook isn't priced for high-end luxury consumer.
I'm looking for feedback on my latest project: www.gifthandler.com

Elevator Pitch: Receive reminder emails for upcoming events (birthdays, mother's day ...) which suggest the perfect gift and a personalized message based on how users described their gift recipients.

What I'm Looking for: Sign up for the service, test us out, sign up in the "Gift Yourself" section to give us some direction on picking out gifts for other people. I'm looking for design and usability feedback - I've only begun building the site over the past few weeks. I love the concept, but understand it still looks like middle school club's website.

Thanks so much YCombinator readers!
It was a 9.0 earthquake. Tied for fourth in the list of largest earthquakes ever recorded.

So, yeah, pretty extreme.

Edit:

Try throwing a 9.0 at, say, Hoover Dam (or worse, the Three Gorges Dam in China) and see what happens.

Hint: the death toll won't be zero.
I love the dell venue 8 pro (5000), but I really wish dell would stop fucking around and go all out with it. Give us a proper display output, let us charge and dock at the same time, give us a 4GB option, get USB 3.1 with type-C connector on it, put some properly fast storage on it, give us the beautiful OLED 'infinity' display that you're offering on your android tablet for the windows version too. THAT would be a device worth raving about. The CPU, the battery life, all the technology is there.

Instead what Dell do is release a 3000 model, with no digitizer and 1GB of ram. I have to assume that Dell are far too afraid of cannibalising their mid-range laptops to produce something truly great in the small tablet space, a very foolish and short-sighted position I think.
One thing I can't forget is a picture of a black hole from telescopes.

We should really call this an artistic rendition of a black whole, because they look nothing like that. At least not as sexy.

I can't find the original but here:

https://thetruthbehindthescenes.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/...
When somebody asks for a definition of a word, it's not generally considered necessary to explain the term and then also go into detail regarding other, unrelated definitions of the term.
Coincidentally, this writer has done several writeups on Primer and unraveling its twisted story-line.

http://qntm.org/primer

qntm loves his time travel.
"Narrowly avoided making large parts of a space constrained country unfit for habitation."

Nonsense.

"Think I'm being alarmist?"

Yes.
Patrick.

You're fired.

Anonymous Throwaway Account? Yes, you over there. I'm looking RIGHT AT YOU. Yes you.

You're the new CEO.

Get to work. Explain this to everyone else on HN. The clock's ticking!
Or instead of a Make-like tool you could just use Make itself :) Works really well.
Angular – ng-conf 2015 media
I'm in the skeptic camp too, one of inevitable bonuses of a full college is having many fields in close contact.

Cross academic pollination probably is one of the best aspects of college, and honestly with the amount of resources at their disposal, they could facilitate programs for the current state of "Startups" as a minor or even major, ideally paired with an unrelated field.

This on paper looks more like a trade school, I imagine a program like this could be designed to churn out competent programmers but beyond that, I'm not so sure.
No, I wasn't. And I was wrong. I'll fully own up to that.
Hey, Marketers: Your Data Isn't as Accurate as You Think
Are the individual LEDs under the keys controllable with software?
SEEKING WORK

My skills are best suited to working with large, legacy code-bases. I understand complex systems quite fast and make improvements in a way which doesn't break things and improves the codebase a little bit everyday.

Have work experienced with all the modern-day web development technologies - Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.

Remote - matt@mattmccormick.ca
Make sure the power brick that your powered hub came with is capable of powering the N+ devices you have at the same time. Most of the 4 port hubs come with 2A power supplies, however sometimes they skimp on actually being able to deliver that power.
Gigaom shutting down
IIRC, when they designed the plan, they took historical data of the past 100 years and made sure the plant was built to sustain any disaster that happened in that period. But this one was stronger.
Hopefully most of us already know these tips and tricks, but for a new user Shift + Command + G is something that they will probably never discover. Even click and enter to rename is excessively complicated compared to adding a rename option to the context menu like Windows.
I see a lot of people hating much on the one port. Arguably, I wouldn't have minded just one on each side, but to be honest, I operate all most all of my connected things wirelessly. Bluetooth mouse, bluetooth keyboard, wifi sync of iOS devices etc.

If I had the use for more things connected, I'm either sitting down and connecting an external screen, in the same place always or I'm not doing it for long enough time for power to be an issue. Thus, a dock or dongle at that place would be natural (hell, I use one atm just to convert from HDMI to mini-DVI).

I see this as a good and pleasant move to pressure more things to go wireless. Still waiting for Airtame[0] to get out, so I can get rid of that annoying cable from monitors to my Air :)

The one gripe I do have, is the rather low GHz on those CPUs :( Max of 1.3GHz? Ugh...

[0] https://airtame.com (I know other products like it exist)
> The point isn't that the taxpayers should cover his mortgage, but that the unemployment benefits should be more commensurate with how much one has paid in. ... If he shouldn't be able to profit off of the state, then the state shouldn't be able to profit off of him.

FUTA is only paid on the first $7,000 of an employee's income. The state portion of unemployment insurance is generally similarly capped, just like FICA (Social Security/Medicare) tax.

So your point is invalid.
It is great to see a review of how multiple factors kill bees, but I hope it does not deflect attention from the use of neonicotinoids.

There seems to be a bit of a language war taking place. The Science abstract suggests "reducing pesticide use through adopting more sustainable farming methods", while the Vox article talks about "reducing pesticide use when possible". The news article phrasing suggests that pesticide reduction is optional.

The Science title is "Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers", while the Vox title is "A new theory for why the bees are vanishing". The paper clearly blames pesticides, while the vox title suggests (on a quick read) that pesticides are really only a theory, and may not be the latest one at that.

One HN comment states "It would be helpful to know exactly what's killing them instead of just assuming the reason is obvious." The corollary is that maybe we should research more and wait before drawing conclusions. I agree with the statement, but not the corollary.

I grew up with the schoolyard buzzing in summer time. In Vancouver, Bumble bees and honey bees were everywhere when the flowers bloomed. At recess and lunch, the grass would be a blur of flying insects and a single clover would often be crawling with several bees.
Those days are long gone. The fields are dead. Wikipedia tells me that some of the species may be extinct. I think the time to act was long ago. I hope it is not too late.
Om Malik started out very good on his own as gigaom and was a really nice blog to follow for tech news. I had a little part in moving him from MT to WP. Gigaom the company was when the message started getting diluted among all the CNN like content. Still sad to see them go. Good luck to everyone for something new.
The discussions of bee deaths tend miss a crucial point imho. The bees under discussion are not wild creatures having their habitats attack by one or another outside factors. The bees under discussion are a domesticated creature, kept by professional bee-keepers for a variety of fruit and vegetable industries.

Like all agriculture, bee keeping is driven by costs and benefits. As a standard procedure and just as an example, bee-keeper remove most honey and feed their bees on corn syrup [1] - this weakens the hive but not necessarily enough to enough to kill it and it makes money for the bee keepers. You can imagine there are many related variables in this. How much the bees are exposed to pesticides is likely one of these variables.

It's cost effect to keep hives at the edge of survival - until whatever the next bug is appears and remedial must be taken. These work 'till something else comes along.

Maybe "colony collapse" is mysterious but overall situation is pretty clear, just The Jungle applied to bees [1].

[1] http://phys.org/news/2013-04-high-fructose-corn-syrup-tied-w...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle
Didn't answer they question everybody really wants to know: what is up with Enoch Root??
>Unfortunately, the technology industry is fundamentally unserious as to how it presently identifies and employs engineers.

Ok, so lets replace whiteboarding ancient algorithms and useless trick questions with a capture the flag game!! That'll make the industry seem less "unserious."

This is so unfathomably ridiculous. I can't believe you're marketing this as an interview replacement. If I get asked what my "Starfighter score" is before a job interview, I will be running as fast as I can in the other direction before they finish their sentence.

There will be people who become great at this game, and if (god help us) this gains momentum, they will get jobs.

I can only hope the rest who are developing applications and actually writing programs will come out on top, and employers will recognize that some people want to build things and not just improve their ranking in a game.
> I also tried the poetify weblink but the website doesn’t seem to be running at present.

I know :( I upgraded Ruby past 1.8 and broke my own app :( but the code is there for you to have a gander at and the README gets at what I was trying to do.

> Your markup project sounds intriguing. Would love to keep in touch to hear how it progresses, do you have a preferred way of being contacted?

Your database of poetry consumable via an API sounds intriguing. I would love to keep in touch to hear how it progresses! Would this be able to support a poetry sharing social network of authors, followers, and readers?
I would have loved to have seen a more thought-out solution e.g. where the fraternity had one month to come up with a plan on how they would do volunteer work with under-privileged black communities over the next year. And how they would meet X ratio of black students into their fraternity or then be disbanded. Otherwise likely this has just taught them don't get caught in the future and not much else.
For me? Lack of tabs and lack of right-click open-in-terminal. I don't use Windows much anymore, but I remember those, so I guess they're the worst ones. But nevermind the file manager, it's the Windows terminal that really sucks.