skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't be trusting your production data to anything in beta. The whole point of open beta testing is to pool the technical risk. So use it, but don't rely on it. If you can't afford to use it in parallel with some existing system, then don't use it.
Whoops, I misread the post above and thought they were using Skype/video chat as an example of a computationally intensive application. My bad!
If your MacBook Air is connected to your monitor then it will likely have standard USB ports on it like most do today. That said few people use external storage or thumb drives anymore especially the target demographic of the MBA.
I agree with you, but this is a different argument.
Is your kid ok?
http://hps.org/hpspublications/articles/powerlines.html
> But what do we do, enforce reproduction strategy at gunpoint?

No need for gunpoint. Making access to reproductive options legal, safe, widely available, and well-publicized is probably good enough.
Hell, make this for the rest of us. You don't need to be old to want that kind of internet.
> Another such area of work is logical time, manifest as vector clocks, version vectors, and other ways of abstracting over the ordering of events.

Vector clocks and version vectors are variations on the Lamport clock concept (and that quote is from a paragraph that mentions Paxos, another Lamport invention, cited in the bibliography).
It's a strange paradox. SF has such a large population of the indigent in no small part because the city is both very generous to the indigent and because the climate is permanently mild.

SF has a per captia homeless population well above average for the US.
It looks like a very nice machine.

At $999 though, it's about the same price as a MacBook Air. I haven't compared specs (SSD? Ram?), but the Chromebook is a device intended to store all your data in 'the cloud', right? On the other hand, it's got a touchscreen which the Air does not. The Air's a lot smaller/lighter/prettier though.

At any rate, the Chromebook is definitely no longer priced below a premium laptop like the Air.
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. I've read a lot of data, eg the link below, that shows that engineers do very well, but aren't the top major.

With that in mind, it's not as if all students from all majors are required to take the exam- the data represents those people that self-selected to take the lsat.

http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/AAS/Phil/upload/LSAT-Scores...
You're probably buying cut and sanded sheds - which are found in heavy elk populated areas in the spring.
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Our society can't operate without an integrated workforce and you can't have an integrated workforce if you segregate people based on their income.

For every software engineer in the Bay Area there is an army of waiters, cooks, janitors, sanitation workers, retail workers, office workers, school teachers, nurses, and unskilled laborers that supports him. And if you move them all out, well, I don't think that I have to explain the consequences of that action.
This is excellent!

If they can switch everyone to this instead of poaching it would be huge positive for those animals.
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The cost of renting or buying property isn't limited to the income you get from your salary. I know of renters in expensive cities that have split one bedroom or studio apartments between multiple people. You can bet that whoever rented the woman in the article their garage to live in is using that money to help pay the mortgage.
What is going to happen more and more is search and rescue crews overburdened with saving all the clueless, unprepared morons who think that nothing can happen to them because their cellphone is getting two bars, leading to increased trail closures: http://ktla.com/2014/06/26/popular-dangerous-path-to-eaton-c...
You get a touchscreen. But, yeah.
Point taken, though the effectiveness of glasses is (I would hope) a little less likely to be the product of placebo effect. The high prices of glasses feels more like a matter of branding and style, in the same way a t-shirt with a swoosh on it costs $30, and one without costs $10 (USD).
Once you have a database of toys that parents have, there are other ways you might usefully use the data, like allowing parents to join toy swap or library groups, provide purchase recommendations based on similar toy choices (you could perhaps even monetise via affiliate sales of toys), etc.
It has the option of a 3200x1800 screen.
FWIW, my anecdotal experience is the exact opposite of your anecdotal experience, which I guess is the nature of such things.
Beautiful execution but I find the purpose misguided. I am a parent too so maybe that's a cultural difference (EU vs US?) but if my kid choked on a toy I would pay closer attention to toys going forward rather than look for toy vendors to do my parenting for me.
Not all decisions (yes, including "rational" economic decisions) are solely about price. A rational consumer (and much more so a not-quite-totally-rational everyday person) frequently makes choices that don't optimize for price at the expense of all other considerations.
Here's the original journal article (which is open access):
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/pdf/s12940-015-0003-1.pdf
Yes it freaking does. How are this many people this wrong in this thread. Jesus Christ.
So, bad example of interviews: the reason we know they are broken is because the code doesn't work.

Look, the entire hacker thing comes down to: does the code work? If it does, you're fine. If it doesn't, you're not. The computer sure as day doesn't care about the particulars of the person who generated the source code for the hack, so why should we?

Everything else is FUD, spread by people that are fools, well-meaning but not understanding, or both.

Don't try to bring in the baggage of other failed "meritocracies" into this, because we can actually, objectively, test whether or not the code works.
We do the same thing in Texas for white tail deer, and other exotics.

I'd say the life they lead up to "harvest" is significantly better than that of a commercial chicken or pig. Live on huge ranches - with a steady and regulated feed supply, and are encouraged to breed?
The German Federal Ministry of Finances publishes earnings and spending on a dedicated website [1] since 2012, also allowing you to drill down.

[1] http://www.bundeshaushalt-info.de/
You guys are killing it. Wish I had a product I could write around rethink....currently at the day job our stuff is mostly Mongo....all layered under django-nonrel with lots of mongo crud so a port wouldn't really be an option I don't think.
He didn't ask for his name to be published and she outed him under her real name on her employer's Twitter account. 'The patriarchy' is not conspiring against her to keep her name public, it's just maintaining the status quo.
This problem is already addressed by several lines of popular satellite communications products: http://www.findmespot.com/en/
Sake – a self-describing build system using YAML for its input format
As an actual owner of a Chromebook Pixel... what would make you buy the new model instead of a similarly priced MacBook Air (much better battery life, more realistically sized SSD, better designed with no loose hinges etc, can still boot into Linux if you want)? Just prefer ChromeOS to OSX? Or the touchscreen? Something else?
Okay, let's see if this helps any:

My genetic disorder costs on average $100,000 annually to keep me alive in a torturous fashion. My oldest son has the same condition. That's $200,000 annually that we "should" be spending on medical care. I am a former military wife. I am entitled to get that care through the military medical system -- which means at tax payer expense. Though, in reality, most people with my condition get a lot of that care covered by some kind of state aid and/or charitable program and the like (as well as often qualifying for disability in their 30s). Being sick all the damn time means you not only have high medical bills, you are also can't work.

We have gotten ourselves well and my productivity is rising. I no longer receive food stamps and I am now well enough to do freelance work to help support us.

Going someplace where the climate is good for my expensive medical condition is a financial win/win scenario, good not only for me but also for other people who would otherwise be getting stuck with the bill.

If you read much about homelessness, helping solve the problems of the homeless is typically cheaper than trying to "take care" of them while controlling their lives and so on.
There is a class of developers these are being marketed towards. For example developers working with c9.io, and other dev tools inside a crouton chroot could be interested. And the heavy weight machines these developers may need would be hosted in the cloud....
I'd say a general purpose computer at the very least is one that doesn't make too many assumptions about what you should and shouldn't do with it. These ultralight notebooks seem indended primarily for consuming media and the web - which is fine, if that's what you want. But having more ports and more local storage is still less opinionated.
It's totally BS but also put a smile on my face. It's pretty crafty and I can imagine this technique being used for humorous effect :)
Your sentiment is naive.

People build up support structures - extended family, close friends, church and hobby/interest ares. The cost of moving once you have a family is a often a whole lot higher than easily quantifiable dollar values.
I work for a company with a similar HR Manual. It simply reads "Use good judgement."

The company is Nordstrom, a retail store that has been around for more than 100 years and comes up often in "Best Places To Work" articles. It's pretty great.
This seems to be heavily inspired by thedrop.club (launched on HN several weeks ago, by YC partner Justin Kan)
I do not understand this insistence that money spent on building more housing here is bad whereas spending the same amount of money on having 'those people' move out of sight to somewhere else is somehow good.

Where does this housing get built? Why would you build it on some of the most expensive land (SV) in the lower 48?

I think the gap in your understanding is because you're just not listening to everyone telling you that the government's limited money will go further if it doesn't have to render/compensate landowners in the most expensive real estate market in the country.

It's ludicrous to suggest that the government spend money buying land to build co-op housing in SV.
A few responses are to that tune, and they are greeted with long and careful explanations of why that is not a reasonable response.
Is that a case of the trail becoming popular because it is on maps? The link doesn't talk about that aspect of it, just that it is not an officially maintained trail and more rescues/recoveries have taken place in recent years.
You should probably make it more apparent that it's satire.
> It makes no financial sense to live in the Bay Area

Until your first layoff. Then it's an absolute blessing to live somewhere where your next job is one more exit up 101.

This is the thing that everybody who works in tech forgets. If you live in Pittsburgh, Tulsa, or Lubbock, you are in for a many month job search--or you are leaving the city--when (not if) you get laid off.

Seagate had this problem a couple years ago. They wanted VLSI layout people in Pittsburgh and were offering comparable to Silicon Valley money--and nobody from the tech cities would bite. Why? Everybody knew that they were going to be the most highly paid people in the office and subject to getting axed first. And would then have to move back to Silicon Valley.
Here's Peter's HugeCollections repo[1].

I expected to see some native code being called via JNI, but it's all done in Java.

[1] https://github.com/peter-lawrey/HugeCollections
This is how it's done :)

Also, have you actually gone into record stores and previewed records before buying them? I may purchase this record player[1] as a way to check out records at the store, but I wasn't sure if this was a thing store owners typically allow. Any insight?

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Vestax-VES-HANDYTRAXUSBBLK-Handy-Trax-...
Totally! And moreover, Apple's been on this get-rid-of-all-the-cables kick since at least the introduction of AudioVision 14 Display... in 1993. Anyone else remember the NeXT's unified power/display/keyboard/mouse/audio cable? ADC cables that passed power, display, and USB through the Cinema displays?

Aside from not relying on outside technologies for their success, eliminating cables has basically been Apple's central theme since (and before) their comeback. At least it's based on a standard this time.
Nontrivial, but how does it compare to the 100K a year the article mentioned needed to life them out of poverty? 5K to move and then 20K a year to lift them out of poverty in a different area would allow us to help far more families.
What advantage would this have over something like cassandra?
Dear long web post, light grey on white hurts my eyes, thanks...
Last-gen Pixel owner here (recently upgraded to the new XPS 13).

I wish more manufacturers would follow Google's lead and start using 3:2 displays in laptops. An XPS 13 (2015) with a 3:2 display and USB C would be the most amazing device ever.
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I created an issue for this on our docs repo[0]. Thanks for the feedback!

[0]https://github.com/rethinkdb/docs/issues/674
Sure, many of the people buying this won't be running ChromeOS.. but then they shouldn't really be complaining that it doesn't fit their needs. A Chromebook is not a general purpose device, it was specifically designed for a narrow use case, ChromeOS. The fact that you can do something else with it, does not mean it was designed for that.

I'm not going to buy a vehicle designed for hauling freight, and complain that it isn't sporty enough. Which, in my opinion, is what complaining about the lack of storage in a "Webbook" is like. You're buying a device, specifically tailored and designed for people who are using a web based operating system. It doesn't even let you install things by default, outside of web apps.
Dave is incredibly skilled and capable. Looking forward to seeing where the business goes.
This laptop is a niche device, it will not appeal to persons who want the most notebook for the price.
Did you pay for the other illustrations on your home page? They look a bit disparate, and some turn up elsewhere in an image search:

https://dribbble.com/shots/1553377-Changing-Homes?list=users...

http://dabbled.org/this-robot-has-expired/

http://www.creativebloq.com/illustration/illustrations-strip...

If not perhaps consider paying one of the illustrators (Daniel González stuff looks excellent) to make you a set of illustrations which are all in the same style - your pages would look a lot more coherent if they didn't have a grab-bag of styles going on, and also you could have a lot of liability if you don't have permission for every image on your site.

It's not really on to just copy images from the web without attribution or payment - you could be sued for a lot of money for that basecamp image for example which is still up.

Otherwise, it's a nice site and great idea though.
Rent control doesn't force the cost of living to drop: it just shifts it.

The ROI on apartments drops substantially, so investors aren't incentivized to make new buildings, but instead maintain their current ones as cheaply as possible until they're unserviceable.
3rd party market lock-in is one of the reasons I switched to Android too. I understand Apple is out to make money like everyone else, but skipping micro-usb is (from my perspective) not a product enhancement.

Their delayed support on NFC arguably killed the user adoption for the tech as well, but i digress.
I like astronomers' way of naming things...so simple.
Ugh. I hate to think of all of the "I told you so's" from the misguided people in Portland who continually vote against fluoridating the water with no actual scientific basis for doing so.
Where did you see this? I tried adding it to my cart and I don't see the option. And I don't see it in their 'configuration' description.
Unfortunately the government continues to the cut funding for the CBC.

And the CBC doesn't help its public perception (who have the power to advocate for increased funding) when they give leeway to their stars like Jian Ghomeshi and Amanda Lang that would be unacceptable in other companies.

And it's even considering selling it's Toronto HQ amid staff reductions and budget cuts.

My point? Enjoy CBC while it lasts. Because in a decade or so, it may not even close to comparable to the likes of NPR, BBC, et al.
Filing a complaint to the FTC or BBB is no more difficult than filing a credit card dispute. In both cases you merely supply evidence of the fraud.

But I am not claiming a legal action is as likely as a chargeback to make the customer whole. I am claiming a legal action works just as well as a chargeback to put pressure on merchants to keep them honest.

> honesty isn't the only reason for charge backs

What other reasons? Illegal charges after theft of credit card billing information? I would say this is an argument for Bitcoin since using Bitcoin makes impossible for the merchant to steal or lose your billing information :) So what other reasons for a chargeback are you thinking about?
Wow, what a read. I am surprised that barely any background checks were done by the investors. Considering how hard it is to get any sort of investment funding from Angels in New Zealand, I can't help but feel annoyed at this wasted opportunity. If this is all true, I can't for the life of me understand why he didn't just tell the truth. "rags to riches" and all that -- you don't need "prestige". (well, you don't, do you? or is that how SV works?)
The use case is people who have a requirement to store data and probably never need to access it, either for reg requirements, or legal requirements, etc. In which case paying a couple of hundred bucks for retrieval is fine, especially if they can access at a high level of granularity

edit: Also as others have pointed out, Nearline is limited in retrieval time as well, so the cost difference isn't nearly as large.
> It seems like nobody at BB cares about the restore process

Brian from Backblaze here -> I care! It just keeps getting bumped by something higher priority. I have a spec for how to speed up the restore tree browsing, it's just waiting for us to have a spare moment. For a while the Vaults took precedence.

Part of running Backblaze without VC funding is we can only hire programmers when we can afford it out of profits, and we're up to about 6 programmers (the result of a recent burst of hiring) which handle all of: Windows, Macintosh, iOS, Android, and in the datacenter they built the pods, the Vaults, and the web front end. But we'll get there, I swear.

> or that it doesn't sell new subscriptions.

This is unfortunately the heart of the problem. The most important thing to get smooth as glass is the BACKUP part, that sells new subscriptions. If we have your data safe, we can always hobble through a restore even if it is a little slow and clunky we can get all your files back after your laptop is stolen. If it held up sales, we'd jump over and do the one week of work to speed it up.
I think the 'controlling for socioeconomic status" was just between the states, not an all encompassing control of economic status. Two states with a similar rise in economic activity and ADHD wouldn't fail afoul of the control. Maybe.

This article might hold up, but my past experience with statistics in medical papers does not give me great hope. For a while, my job was to review the math in interesting papers (well, interesting to who ever flagged it) from medical journals. In the three years that I did this, I encountered exactly zero that didn't commit some grave statistical sin.
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If you compare the new Dell XPS 13 or even a Vaio Pro 13 (sadly not sold in the US anymore), it's pretty surprising to compare them to the Pixel.

They both have much more connectivity options, 16:9 13" screens while being a full pound lighter. The Sony's keyboard was great. There's not much of a selling point in favour of the Pixel given that it's heavier and doesn't have a real disk drive or many ports / connectivity.

Unfortunately I returned my new Dell XPS13 because I was so disappointed by the keyboard. But it's really not that bad, I was going to get it again when the Linux version is launched. But now I'm going to try a Pixel out instead. If I could still get a Vaio Pro, or a Panasonic Let's Note, or many of the other Japanese high-end ultrabooks in the US, I would gladly do that instead of the Pixel.
Asians got in rather easily though so the effect of workplace biases can't be that hard to overcome. Why did they get accepted? Because they are awesome at tech! If women suddenly became as awesome at tech as Asians then they would get accepted as a group in a heartbeat.
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You don't add 40% more fuel/air mixture, you make the mixture 40% richer. Fuel is such a small part of the fuel/air mixture that 40% more fuel volume has virtually no effect on the compression stroke.

Timing out the injectors is an issue if they are marginally sized, and the ECU can throw a fit because it thinks the injector timing can't possibly be as off as the lambda sensor tells it.

On my old VW Passat, you could program an offset into the ECU to account for the latter problem. I test-ran it on up to about E85 without any other changes, and got noticeably less knock retard until the injector time saturated somewhere around E60.
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The typical usage of local storage for webapps is as a cache. That's different in practice from the traditional desktop pattern of installing apps.
Pure bullshit. Fluoride (F-) is a weak base. Dental plaque produces acid (H+) which is one cause of tooth decay. F- + H+ <-> HF. The Fluoride neutralizes some of the acid to reduce tooth decay.
Useful useful!
Being an accountant, civil engineer, or construction crew has never been fashionable, but people have always signed up to do it anyway.
Thanks man, you're too kind.
Innocence 2015
Fixed the history issue. Though I guess I was too late, already buried.
Or as HBO put it, "making the world a better place through minimal message-oriented transport layers."
If Netflix's goal is to attract more easy-going employees and avoid paranoid engineers, it's working for them.
Consider the people you are hearing it from and are around.

Most of the people in my life (outside of work) have no issue. Most of them don't have second monitors or external hdds. They might have a thumb drive or a Chromecast.

If you're a power user get a power user machine. Get a MacBook Pro.
It should be noted that this is a pivot of a failed YC startup: http://blog.shoptheorem.com/post/109312542795/an-end-and-a-b...
How does this compare with something like Xero?
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8080442
>but i'm not sure how many would choose a Pixel over some other highend brands for a Linux machine.

I'm curious to know what other ultrabooks make great hardware for a linux laptop. Do you know a few?
I think science articles should be banned from HN. The userbase is clearly not educated well enough to deal with the issues. It only produces comments from armchair scientists conjuring up whatever pet theory they can explain away the results with. Comments like the classic freshman stats quote "correlation does not equal causation", or the standard response starting with "Judging from the abstract", or the always informative "I didn't read the paper, but what if they forgot to control for X?"

The only topic that gets worse comments than science on HN is gender issues.

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