skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally understand your frustration, but frankly I think you're being a bit harsh on them. I have recently started providing CS courses independently and trust me, it's not as easy as it seems. Shit happens. As a first timer, I know I have made mistakes and I have learned from them. I know my current course wasn't all that but I know my next would be better. Obviously I am going to email people telling them about my newest venture, though I would try not to make seem like spam.

Anyways, everyone deserves second chances. Just because my first code draft had bugs in it, doesn't mean I should stop coding. (though I really should remove those bugs before shipping)
I think just the opposite. You pass a law and think you've done something, but actually the problem remains exactly as large as is was the day before. And now you have another excuse for more bureaucracy, call lines for snitching on neighbors, excuses to fine people exorbitant fees which can hit a family very hard, etc. I think it's the worst possible action we could take.

There was a period in Bay Area about a year ago, before some of the more strict regs were enacted, when the local papers were running front page stories almost daily about water shortage and the city's refusal to implement "common sense policies" and other such nonsense. No one said a peep about that bag of almonds which wasted as much water as your entire house would use that month, lawn watering included.

I see it as a means of subjecting the population toward ever increasing levels of scrutiny, control, and government interference. The drought is just an excuse. The policy has zero meaningful impact except to expand government largess and the populace's willingness to kowtow to authority.
SQL Azure probably need less RAM than Windows Azure VMs on the other hand.
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YES, I'm typing this from my uncased, unscreened S2, which has been dropped hard, many times. The thing is indestructible, which is all the more incredible when you consider that it doesn't really look it
A la carte shows not channels. The TV people want it to be a discussion about channels, but the concept of channels doesn't make sense when one looks at the idea from a distance. Sports watching seems to be its own world due to the live nature of the content.
WHY 2015 WILL BE THE YEAR OF REMITTANCES
The bus killer on this page is a real work of art, if I remember correctly it kills PCI/AGP/ISA using card covers! (website was down when I clicked)
Someone joked that this would be useful to ensure people won't randomly plug USB drives into their computers. Sounds insane, except that...

"During a stop-over in Hong Kong, he finds a spare USB key in his hotel room. Curious, he inserts it into his laptop. By the time he arrives in Australia, his computer is infected."[1]

This was the one of the infection vectors for a large flare-up between the Chinese government and a number of Australian based mining companies, all well before the Snowden leaks that have only made the world more complex.

Given the choice between frying an employee's USB / computer (small monetary loss) and allowing trade secrets to fall into the hands of competitors / customers (large monetary loss), it's not crazy to opt for the former.

Standard practice has even gone further. A colleague of mine purchases fresh laptops for when he goes overseas and then never uses them again. He doesn't even work in an industry where commercial secrets are common. I'd hope that anywhere that features security implications or commercial secrets would also act at this level.

Perhaps an innocuous version of this, which starts a high pitch whistle, would be useful in a corporate environment. Less destructive but resulting in the the same security awareness.

[1]: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20100419/cyber/
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If one wanted something dangerous to humans, one could just pack a USB stick full of explosives and use the current from the port as a detonator. I'm sure that's already been thought of before.
Remember that there is a github repo with code you can use to test your specific Hardware. Why not run it & post results?
Bundling is better for some consumers, unbundled is better for some consumers, depending on their preferences. An incomplete analysis can be found here: https://livingeconomics.org/article.asp?docId=288 , incomplete because it doesn't reflect that when moving from a pure bundling to mixed-bundling regime, the bundle prices should theoretically increase, and also because it's an analysis of markets where marginal costs are positive.

Furthermore, for TV in particular, there's the effect that an unbundled channel will get lower viewership than a bundled channel, and thus will receive lower advertising revenues, so the unbundled price will be driven up considerably higher.

In short, people who are crazy about one or two channels/content sources will love unbundling, people who watch a lot of channels will hate the (inexorable) advent of unbundling.
Are you ready to release the Kraken with itemz?
if you're monitoring everything players do, doesn't that create an incentive for them to write their own tests locally and only interact with your servers when they have stuff already working? so they look like a genius instead of a guy who made a bunch of mistakes. "look i never make any syntax errors, hire me". but seriously whatever you monitor, players will have incentive to try to figure out and game it. and that incentive messes up the regular experience, it's an incentive to do something other than beat the level.
Hopefully! Otherwise the energy needs will be met with fossil fuels that exacerbate climate problems that desalination is trying to be a solution for.
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. Obviously, if they reference Danny the Word programmer as a ninja rockstar to a Fortune 500 on a regular basis, their business is going to take a nosedive.
They even had a "tick bomb" advertising campaign about this problem.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22*%20is%20about%20to%20*%2...
Exactly! I wouldn't be too surprised if they do… it looks doable.

Although you might not want to get your ship too close to one with an accretion disk - it'll burn up. (If you do, at least use an all-black paint-job and look stylish.)
It's a very new shortcut in Windows, afaik since Win8.
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APPL said research kit will be open source, so if that is indeed true, then it will depend on those non profits if they will support android. if health kit gets ported to android.
It would be cool to create a version of this that just sounded a really, really loud siren. Then you could leave it lying around the office, and listen out for the bunnies.
People have been hooking into the Finder for ages.[0]

And in Yosemite they've started opened up the Finder more with official extensions support.[1]

I don't see how Dropbox can do the things it does in the Finder and you couldn't do Tortoise Git on the Mac. It's just that nobody has done it.

[0] http://totalfinder.binaryage.com

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...
The potential damage this implies is ridiculous.

Looks like I'm stocking up on Raspberry Pi-s to deal with my curiosity from now on...
Or just `open /tmp`
Attaching the global brand of MIT or Stanford to your name clearly has value. The education itself? Highly debatable. Being around successful people also has value, but it's also debatable. It's easy to spend time around amazing people without becoming one yourself.

As far as evidence, how would one prove that the value of the brand is more important than the education itself? From what I understand, many employers give nearly as much weight to attending either of those schools (and others) as they do actual graduation from them. At best it's difficult to say whether it's the education, the actual understanding and knowledge gained from these institutions, or merely being associated with them that indicates future economic value.
Here are parts to design into your USB device to prevent that.

http://www.mouser.com/applications/usb30_circuit_protection/

http://www.te.com/content/dam/te/global/english/products/Cir...
> Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an industry and hopefully become independent, both metaphorically and financially. Business, much like life, is not a movie and not everyone gets to have a story book ending.

Quite daunting. Everyone hears the success stories and dreams of doing the same, or maybe even better but most fail. The reason I believe people push themselves to entrepreneurship is they ask themselves - "Why can't we? We are as smart as them and we have all the knowledge before us". Failure sucks and not everyone is capable of handling it in a positive way - "So what, I'll do better next time. I won't quit.". Perhaps, what scares me the most from my own 'business adventure'.
I'm sure that is true, but aren't we overlooking the fact that the tech sector has an extreme amount of content to offer compared to any other sector? Plus there's a large amount of content that can be had straight from the source.

Wasn't it simply due for a shakeout regardless?
There is no doubt whatsoever that my self-published work is notable; consider what I just stated, that Living with Schizoaffective Disorder is on a reading list that the State of California Mental Health Department distributes to its county clinics.

Despite that, the simple fact that I choose to self-publish - or rather, refuse to permit dead-tree publication - is regarded as making me non-notable.

There are lots of wikipedia articles about dead-tree writers whose work is arguably far less notable than my own.
Your app is not accepting email with the new longer domain extensions. eg: .systems
I always ask for the easier Project Euler tests (or give them a couple) to do; the reason they are good test (IMO) is that they are too small a task to leverage frameworks and can demonstrate things like good approaches to engineering and programming practice (even if the questions are mathematical)
What do you think the strike price was at 100 employees? I mean seriously. I know a guy who was around number 70 at Google and his strike price was about 30 cents.

Correction:
The S-1 listed only a handful of the top people.
Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, Syncthing, BTSync, Aerofs, and others would all serve this use case.
Apple quietly killed its glowing logo
Guilty as charged. :-)
> Plus there's a large amount of content that can be had straight from the source?

Exactly. How many articles have been written in the past day on the new MacBook that are actually just worse than reading the Apple.com page itself. Filtering can be done by link-sharing sites like HN and Reddit.
> Bundling seems so obviously the better way to approach this (180 channels for $65).

180 basic channels, not including HBO. HBO is $15/month on top of your basic cable package, at least from my cable provider. Oh Showtime, too? That's another $15. Oh, Cinemax? Yup, another $15.
Right sorry, I was reading it as $900 for gold per watch not per ounce!
Yeah, that's right. Unfortunately different people put different meaning into "static analyzer". Obviously linting is also done via static analysis of the code.
Apple only supports a subset of OpenGL 4.1 last time I checked.

iOS8 supports WebGL. iOS4 already supported WebGL but exclusive to iAds. There is the new iOS only metal graphics API to compete with OpenGl/WebGL in AppStore.
Especially if it used capacitors or an onboard battery to keep the siren going when someone inevitably yanks it out quickly :)
Given that auto redial was also a popular default, having the speaker on is important so you know when you've dialed a person instead of a computer. A terrible default would have been having the modem speaker be on for the duration of the call, and not stop once the handshake is done.
Government is probably the only entity that can bankroll a wide swathe of basic research. That's about as 'long-shot' as it gets.
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So Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson don't count? Those last three are literally going to space.

How fitting to see so much horse-beating from someone called shutupalready.
Apple patches many security vulnerabilities including remote code exec
Cheeky. Are USB condoms really worth it? And do they have any that prevent excess current? (I really like sticking things into ports.)
There is a github repo with a rowhammer test based on memtest86+:
https://github.com/CMU-SAFARI/rowhammer
iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers were never any good. They were afterthoughts, always have been.

I've been an Apple user for about 15 years, never used any of Apple's own software besides the OS, Keynote, the Mail app, and I've regularly replaced the latter for long periods.

The notion that Apple's application software was ever on par with their hardware and OS is a myth. Keynote is pretty much the only exception.

For ten years people have been posting this BS about Apple application software going downhill, while in reality it was always mediocre to start with.
Damn I almost had an hearth attack :)
Ask HN: How to Download Linux Mint Kernel Source?
I'm asking here at HN because the Linux Mint forums are useless, no one answers questions at Stackoverflow, and Kuro5hin just makes fun of me whenever I try to ask a serious question.

My specific problem is that I want to build - from source - the exact same kernels as I have on my Linux Mint installation. I'm pretty sure this can be done but I'll be damned if I can find any documentation as to how to do it.

I need this because I'm going to do some rather serious kernel hacking - not device driver work, but in the core of the kernel. What I want to do is to run a bunch of userspace tests on an unpatched kernel, then reboot on my patched kernel then run all those same tests.

I am running Linux Mint 16 Petra Cinnamon 64-Bit in VirtualBox on my MacBook Pro, and 17.1 Cinnamon 64-bit natively as well as in VirtualBox on a homebuilt Xeon box.

$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 17.1 _Rebecca_ - Release amd64 20141126]/ trusty contrib main non-free

deb-src http://www.linuxmint.com/ trusty contrib main non-free

$ sudo apt-get update
...
Err http://www.linuxmint.com trusty/contrib Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://www.linuxmint.com trusty/main Sources
404 Not Found
Err http://www.linuxmint.com trusty/non-free Sources
404 Not Found

While it would seem to make sense that the non-free sources aren't posted, I would expect there to be source to at least some of them.

$ uname -a
Linux hal9000 3.13.0-37-generic #64-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 22 21:28:38 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks! -- Mike
Personally I hate it, I use NexusFile whenever I can. It may just be personal preference but I think Explorer is hard to use, doesn't preview anything like Finder does (and the Enlightenment File Browser also does on Linux). I think a lot of my dislike actually stems from the Windows file system, I just don't like the way in which files are organised (in comparison ti unix-like systems).
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I've often wondered if there was some condom-like* attachment available that acted as a go-between for the USB port and a connected device that would prevent/mitigate some of the issues with sticking unknown devices into ports.

* There is a device called a 'USB Condom' but it's only for charging purposes, and completely restricts data access.
I don't know if your statement about the decades of orchard development are true. There was a huge rush to convert acres to almonds in the last few years. 1/3rd of the acres in almonds were less than ten years old in 2013, and much of the new acres are in useless desert places of Kern, Fresno, San Joaquin counties and so forth. The long-standing orchards in places where you should actually grow nut tress -- Glenn, Tehama, Butte, Sutter, Colusa counties -- are the ones that are very old and they aren't in danger because water falls in those places. From the damn sky.
> All it means is a 33% drop per click, not per
> thousand visitors, or gross revenue over a same period.

Actually it does. Allow me to explain.

In a purely statistical way, for any given web page getting 'n' views, and to keep our units consistent we will define pageviews/1000 as its traffic or T. Some fraction of those views will include an ad click. This is the 'Click through rate', and it can be calculated per thousand page view to get a 'CPM' or clicks per thousand. If you are an AdSense advertiser, Google will tell you what the CTR is for each page on your website that has AdSense ads on it. Each click gets some amount of money, this is the 'cost per click' or CPC. The product of those three, is Revenue per thousand or RPM, so

RPM = T * CTR * CPC

If you multiply CPC by .66 (down by 33%) that multiplication goes right through to RPM. (or revenue). Regardless of how much traffic you are getting.

If Google got better at matching ads to users, then your click through rate (CTR) would go up because the ads would be more appropriate to what the viewer was looking for or interested in. It would not affect the cost per click which is what the advertiser is paying Google, you would just get more clicks per thousand.

Web site publishers really only have two things to try to optimize, click through rate and total traffic.

If you have heard the term 'click bait' it specifically refers to ways that a web site tries to increase its click through rate by making it more likely you will click on a link (or advertisement). This is the number a web site has under its control. It can also buy AdWords to put its content at the top of search results, or pay a company like OutBrain to put a link to its content at the bottom of an article, both of these are called buying traffic because you are paying someone (Google or the site running Outbrain 'ads') if someone clicks on that link and comes to your web site. If the amount of traffic increase * CTR * CPM (your marginal revenue gain) is greater than the amount you spent to get the traffic, then it is a good deal for you. However, for more and more people that number is negative, they just lose money faster because their ad revenue is going down and the amount they keep is further reduced by the cost of the traffic they bought.

And to your final question, yes fraud detection does improve click quality but that hasn't been reflected in advertisers willing to pay more to advertise as Google's sinking CPC number shows.
Plus, at least in Redwood City, CA, Comcast wouldn't give us HBO on our $63/basic cable, they wanted us to purchase a Digital Cable Box (~ $90), and then pay $85/month for Digital Cable.

And then, and only then, would they give us the 6 month $15/month HBO promo.

Between Amazon Prime (Which I have already for free shipping), Netflix ($8/month), and HBO ($15/month) - I have pretty much all the entertainment I'm really interested in for $23/month.

Every so often something good will pop up that Netflix doesn't have - at which point I'll go to ITunes for $20-25 to pick up a season.

On an annual basis, way, way, way less than I would have paid for cable.

My only concern is that I don't know if I'll be able to watch HBO on the road, or whether I'll need an Apple TV.
You buried the lede here: you're selling BCC! Somehow HN won't feel right without regular updates on BCC's progress.
But you can have two windows open showing the same file. Which one is the real file? In the spatial Finder, a file could exist only once.
Not likely. If (and that's a big"if") the Apple watch succeeds, others will copy the concept - much like the iPhone caused the world to move from buttons and resistive stylus-based screens to capacitive ones.
Apple planned to replace its very old HFS(+) filesystem with ZFS, there were even dev beta releases and demonstration to the media. But OSX 10.5(?) didn't ship with ZFS. So OSX is stuck with an decades old filesystem almost as basic and bad as FAT32, where Windows has NTFS (and ReFS, ExFAT), Linux has Btrfs/XFS/extfs4 and *BSD/Solaris has ZFS.
My ideal mobile device is an x86 phone that can dock into a tablet which can then dock onto a laptop, which can then dock onto a stationary docking station with GPU, monitors, storage (I was one of the people who backed the Ubuntu Edge, such a shame that it didn't make the goal).

I think we're coming very close to making this possible on both the hardware and the software front. Core M seems only a few generations of optimizations away from being feasible for smartphones in terms of power consumption (Atom is already there if performance is not a top priority), and Windows 10 scales pretty well between tablet and desktop at the moment, and integrating the Windows Phone functionality into the core OS seems like it could be a possibility eventually. The power management improvements to Hyper-V in Windows 10 should make it possible to run other OS's (possibly even Android eventually) in parallel with very little overhead and power consumption penalties.
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Deciding to put a stranger-USB device in your computer is a thing you do, and decided to do. Getting hit in the head with a bat isn't.
Iirc you used to be able to have the path visible at the bottom of the finder window but like so many things in OSX you have to set it to visible in the View or settings menu. I'm at work on a Winbox right now, anyone want to confirm this?
Agreed. I searched for a pair of boots (for research - I buy those offline, since I like to try them), and since I happened to click on an Amazon link, I'm now getting inundated with ads for boots, most of which don't even ship to me!

Meanwhile, Hack-a-day is the only site I remember buying something through their ads, since they actually show relevant stuff. It's not an amazing discovery that I'd be more interested in buying a Raspberry Pi after seeing an article about someone using it in an interesting way, than a pair of boots!
The thing I say about rice is this: at least you can eat it. You can't say that about alfalfa, which uses over 5MAF of water per year (double the water input of rice) for negligible economic benefit (~a billion dollars in water needed to grow ~a billion dollars of alfalfa). This is chiefly used to feed cattle and more than 2/3rds of it is exported.
This is jaw droppingly terrible, both in its description of quantum criticality (the article) and the assumption of the paper that this is somehow biologically meaningful. In fact, this is so bad I might even be roused to write a Quora post on it.

For a better description of quantum critical points, see the book by Sachdev (http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Phase-Transitions-Subir-Sachde...) and for a better take on quantum criticality in molecules similar to these, see (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1307.7676.pdf)
Noooo!!!!!! That was the best part of the landing page!!!!!!!