skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in that situation once, in a previous job. It sucked, so instead of fighting fires all the time, we fixed it. We sought out and exterminated bugs, we set up better monitoring, we wrote automated fixes for the things that could be automatically fixed, and so on. Pretty soon things quieted down for good.
"Why do you need to "burn" any calories and boost your metabolism? If you care about longevity, you need to actually slow down your metabolism and restrict your caloric intake."

That's why it's called the exercise paradox[1][2], or the athletes paradox. Or whatever. The point is, you are correct - exercise increases your total metabolism and you eat more and burn more. But exercisers live longer and healthier and do not seem to pay the oxidative price for their increased metabolism that it appears they should.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10334116
[2] http://www.aspetar.com/journal/viewarticle.aspx?id=10
Let me know what you think! Scraping techniques and data transformation methodologies I discuss in this post can really be applied to many use cases, School Admission case is just an example.
It has the worst CPU in the entire Mac lineup as far as I know, worse than the 11 inch MBA (which is such a confusing brand message. The MB Air is heavier and more noisy than the regular MB, but the MB isn't as powerful as the Air, bit strange right?)

In any case, it doesn't really scream '32gb' to me. i.e. what could you possibly need 32gb of ram for where you won't get bottle-necked to hell and back by a processor more often used in tablets and small 2-in-1s than laptops.

Let me know what you were planning to use the memory for, genuinely curious!
That is a monumentally stupid thing to say, and that's coming from a guy who's an active reader of /r/mensrights. I know the author personally and she's telling the truth.

Women with careers who accuse others of rape are telling the truth. False rape claims always come from someone who believes she stands to gain, and women with careers ruin their careers by reporting rape. Because of mouthbreathers like you. Go climb back under your rock.
Somewhat relatedly, as a person who's discussed these issues with you in the past, it sounds like you'll be gathering new evidence. How will your beliefs change?

For example, suppose $GROUP is over/underrepresented among top starfighter performers. What will be your new belief about $GROUP's technical talent and the causes of over/underrepresentation in tech in general?
Barely related, but I just thought I'd point out that the author writes, in my opinion, quite nice sci-fi too [1], ranging from short stories to a web serial.

[1] http://qntm.org/fiction
Does anybody know what Meerkat's stack is? I'm curious as to see how they're handling streaming video from thousands of people at a time.
The "form over function" focus fallacy has been the Apple hater's M.O. for a long, long time.
>Does anyone know why NASA's open source code isn't in the public domain like it's supposed to be?

That only applies to works done by federal employees. Most of the coding is probably done by contractors, who are not required to release their work under public domain. However, it seems NASA might have made it a part of the contract to release the code under an open source license.
http://arstechnica.com/science is a little bit better than the rest of the site, but its median article quality is also going downhill.
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For networking, I think this is a great place to start: http://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Protocols-Addison-Wesl...

For OS, I would recommend looking at Bach (on the design of UNIX) and Tannenbaum's books.
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Rowhammer hardware bug threatens to smash notebook security
I haven't used Windows in a while so maybe these are fixed now.

* Directories are sorted separately as if they're some mystical entity that can't be mixed with files. Makes navigating by typing a PITA.

* List views can't show or sort by the size of directories.

* No spring-loaded folders makes drag and drop a huge PITA.

* I find the disclosure triangles to view multiple subdirectories in a single window extremely useful http://www.bgcarlisle.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Fi...

Just lots of little stuff like this.
Disagree (in some cases). Many side projects will go months with no cashflow, which is fine because the owner(s) have day jobs.

No cash to pay salaries for a funded or full-time startup does mean that the startup is dead, though.
There is a lot of fishy things about those numbers. Most notably HD video which I generally use as light usage benchmark was the 'worst case' actually given numbers. If that i5 dell is equal to a 2013 i5 mackbook air for similar useage patterns then actual heavy use-sage should clock around 6 hours for an brand new i5 from full charge to zero.

http://www.howtogeek.com/196582/why-you-probably-dont-want-t...

And an i7 would drop down to around 4.5 brand new under heavy usage. And around 2 before you start looking for a charger once the battery ages a little.

PS: The only reason I bring this up is their base numbers are rather low and they don't seem to have a way to configure the systems before checkout. Overall the i5 version seems like a real mackbook competitor, but their low end model seems to be designed more for halo effect (battery life, and price) vs an actual reasonable choice.
Advertising is good at selling some products, but advertisers are spectacular at selling advertising. So we've had almost a century-long bubble in bullshit.

This should be inscribed in 50-foot tall letters of fire hanging in the air above Silicon Valley.
Great comment. As part of the marketing team at a well funded but very money-conscious startup, I can confirm this awareness that most web ads have no visible effect on the bottom line, or the cost of customer acquisition is so high as to be prohibitive. On the web, people are overwhelmed with marketing messages. It's very hard to find the right demographic, and then to convince them to act. This has always been true, but it has become much more measurable since the Internet came along. Unless you are a large corporation with the belief that "branding" can be bought, and the budget to back it up, there's no reason to buy online ads in most venues.
Same with the JTAGulator units. 10+ years ago, countermeasures would reprogram the very-difficult-to-desolder TSOP EEPROM on the receiver.

The manufacturers seemed to use an externally accessible JTAG access point to program the receivers in the factory, which was a convenient boon to hackers that didn't even need a screwdriver to reprogram the units through their parallel ports.
Proponents of nuclear power like to take situations out of context to make silly comparisons...

You may not be wearing a suit for the immediate radiation level (which may or may not fluctuate), or not even for most things you touch accidentally, but rather for the freak speck of dirt or whatever that is actually contaminated, can make you sick or travel outside the perimeter on the bottom of your boots.

So registering a low radiation level outside the plant does not mean the area is safer than a hot spring.
fyi, http://www.tothetradeapp.com/ returns a 404, I think you wanted the same URL, without the trailing /. You might want to put a redirect, or render the homepage on the URL with /.
On a popular space webcast, TMRO, the host mentioned their YouTube revenue was a "rounding error" compared to their revenue through Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/tmro). They get $1000+ per episode.
Google AdSense stopped being a viable source of ad income for even large-traffic publishers more than 6 years ago.

To be clear: as-based sites can absolutely survive, but you need a sales team and good as-ops. The best CPMs are going to come from sales people getting deals done, not algorithms and text ads.

That market died in 2008.
I think one of Om's earliest blogs (may have even been an acquisition) was about being a digital nomad. I was just getting in to tech/startup news at the time and for whatever reason, that one stuck out to me. (Can anyone find a link?) I've always enjoyed reading their content over the years and will be sad to see them go.
The metrics are often broken. Think about how you measure it...

Ideally, you want to pay the ad platform for sending you a user who will buy your product. So you say something like:
"I'll pay you X for every user you send me who buys something".

Great, right?

Except now the ad can simply optimize for users who were GOING to buy your product anyway. So now you've spent money getting users who would have been there anyway.

What you really want is to pay for users "Who buy my product, but would NOT have bought it without the presence of the ad". And that's a much harder thing to measure.
In the big data space, you had to read Gigaom. They cared a lot about projects like Hadoop, and it showed. Derrick Harris has been doing great work for years. RIP for a solid tech publication.
How a 24-Year-Old Aspiring Space Colonist Is Preparing to Give Birth on Mars
Out of curiosity, could you provide a link to your search terms or to the result you used?
> the Finder "was" your files, it wasn't just "a browser for" your files

I don't see the difference. When I open Finder I see _my files_, I don't even think about the Finder as a browser.
Yes this still works in Yosemite
First guess, they didn't take the native advertising wave, losing thousands per article to cough cough Techcrunch-likes cough cough
Battery is about 3h worse than the MBA 13'.

The port sucks but usually anything you want to plug in for longer periods of time are not a problem.

i.e., a USB stick? Take out charger, plug in, transfer files, put charger back in. No problem.

A mouse or keyboard or monitor? Well you're probably at home or work, so you buy a usb hub and stick it on your desk. Problem solved.

It sucks as the new MB is supposed to be the lightest most portable Mac in the lineup, dedicated hubs don't fit that story. And it's another $50-150 depending on if you need 1 or 2, or a fancy slick one.

Me I'm just gonna go with the refreshed 2015 MBA 13'. Better battery, 1 inch bigger screen, a lot cheaper with all the ports I need and hey, a better processor, too (1.6gh instead of 1.4 and HD 6000 instead of HD 5000 on the new 2015 version versus the older 2014 one).
Silicon Valley headquarters: Googledome, or temple of doom?
I like this idea, but I also like the one proposed here http://ortask.com/a-better-way-to-hire-developers-and-tester...

I fear that starfighter will overlook goood candidates simply because they are not good at gaming, which makes the second approach by ortask more interesting and maybe balanced.
"Scientific and Engineering C++" by Barton and Nackman had a good example of doing units in C++ using templates. This blog post describes the basic approach http://learningcppisfun.blogspot.com/2007/01/units-and-dimen...
Pao Testifies to Withering Bias at Kleiner
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-bullshit-joachim-bauer...
Depends on how powerful each party is.

As an individual or small company, the NDAs you give to others are totally meaningless. You generally don't have the desire/funds to pursue people who violate the contract, and it's often difficult to prove anything.

Large/smart companies will also realize that they have all the power, and they'll include upper limits to the damages they have to pay. One of my companies was recently, egregiously ripped off by one of the 3 largest insurance companies in the world, and they had capped their liability at $100k. Fortunately, there was easy-to-prove malice, so they will end up having to pay us some day.

If you're the one signing the NDA and the other party is large and powerful, you actually could be successfully sued.

So in short: NDAs are powerful when you have the resources to back them up with lawsuits. As a developer, I've signed NDAs and non-competes for many small-to-medium businesses, and I've never been tempted to violate them, so I can't attest to the validity of that situation.
Oddly, the math invoked by that quote is 100 years old.
Interesting.. so what's the backstory behind the company that got the contract?

It may just be the PIs have a good track record..
If the drought in California is a continuing trend, which many believe will be the case, desalinization may be the only option. Desalinization requires a lot of energy and that demand could be met by solar and potentially, in the near future, fusion energy. http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.htm...
I'm willing to believe the first two comparisons even though I haven't used webpack, but I have tried to use make on multiple occasions over the course of decades. (That is, I've attempted to write new Makefiles and to modify existing ones to fit a purpose; I'm not talking about just using a Makefile someone else already wrote.) make is not nice. I admire anyone who can use it!

To be specific, what advantages does webpack have over gulp that webpack doesn't also have over make? (I would also accept advantages that gulp has over grunt that gulp doesn't also have over make.)
They were indeeded a "tech demo", not intended to scare Japan which was already on the edge of capitulation, but to the Russians to show them that the US would have the upper hand for the post-war negotiations.
Can you (or andrewbinstock) comment with regard to google adwords ? I don't think of those as the same thing as banner ads ...
That's why you set up a few dozen small radios as a neighborhood meshnet.
True, but you had a radically improved form factor that was actually light and had a nice battery, while the performance was fine for the type of users it marketed to.

Meanwhile this thing takes away ports from your 13 inch MBA, takes away 1 inch of screen, takes away 3 hours of battery, takes away CPU performance, and it gives back? It's not like the MBA is heavy, thick or noisy. The retina screen is really nice but to me it doesn't really look like a good deal.

Not saying it won't be popular, I think it'll be very. Just don't see it being so interesting right now myself even if I had $100m to spend, there's some big tradeoffs with this new MB.

Strangest thing to me wasn't really the pricing fit, I think I would've done the same. But that we ended up with an 'Air' line that's heavier, bigger, thicker and noisier, and hell better performing, than the regular MB line. At least it's still got better battery life, well the 13' that is!

Looking forward to 2016's edition!
It's the ever-reliable Lewis's Law: "Comments on any article about feminism justify feminism."
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Under-reporting of rape and sex crimes is rife all over the world, including in so-called developed societies.
In Open and Save dialogue boxes, you can also start typing with a / to open up a "go to path" dialogue box that lets you enter the unix path (with tab completion).
I'm surprised this isn't mentioned more. I haven't used anything since that come close to working half as well as Explorer in XP...
im also building a wizard style app. I do feel like react could help but the work it takes to reimplement it seems unprofitable.
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Thanks for the comment. Looking to buy 8gb soon, but it's disheartening to hear people call it sluggish or saying they're pushing 16gb let alone 8.

Hell I don't know how the people with 4 do it! In any case it's always useful to hear what people are actually doing. Can't imagine pushing 16gb when doing some basic front end work for example.
“How did you go bankrupt?
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”

― Ernest Hemingway
Scaled-down nuclear reactors will not see wide use because neither governments nor investors will fund them. Governments fund big stuff that generates kickbacks and weapons fuel. Investors fund stuff that could conceivably make a profit.
Apple Watch and Why the Internet Is Rigged
Achieving 16:10 by taking a standard 16:9 resolution and making it less wide rather than making it taller is not better.
So some intern put together a list of all the licenses?
Maybe he/she met is a promoter of FastCompany.
It would also be interesting how the adblock ratios are for both. My full machines have adblock running for most pages, on mobile I don't.
Almost no one praises the books! In fact, that's the one caveat in most otherwise glowing reviews; that is a testament to the game design, that the only concrete narrative is the least effective narrative. However! - I think Blow was at least trying to do something that explains how stilted it seems, though I'm not entirely sure what. For example: it takes only a slightly charitable perspective to make a coherent story when the books are read in reverse order, and confirmation bias be damned, it seems intentional.
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Hah, he missed it.

Braid is about the history of the atomic bomb, and Tim is actually Oppenheimer trying to reach the princess (the atomic bomb)

When you find out how to climb that hidden ladder in the epilogue, you can catch the princess, and she explodes.
Another benefit of the mapping is that the window's properties such as height, width, display style (list or grid) remained the same even after closing, they are properties of the directory, not of a specific file browser instance.
I like this idea, but I also like the one proposed here http://ortask.com/a-better-way-to-hire-developers-and-tester....
I fear that starfighter will overlook goood candidates simply because they are not good at gaming, which makes the second approach by ortask more interesting and maybe balanced.
The only security model that can stop that kind of malware is to only allow software from the App Store (i.e., the iOS model).
That's obviously false. Whether you can survive on ads is strictly based on your cost of operations.

The Internet is overflowing with ad-based sites, and will continue to be. Some will die, the radical majority will not. Five years from now there will be more ad supported sites than there are today.

The alternative to Google is to run your own advertising. This is especially true for sites with the scale of Gigaom.
As a (very) small-time publisher, but with a fairly reasonable sample over the years, CPM ads pay about 1/5th what CPC ads do. I think that shows how much "brand awareness" versus "I'm trying to make a sale" advertising is worth.

Edit: CPM pays 1/3rd the rate, but CPC ads make up 90% of revenue, which makes sense if they generally pay more. I run a rather diverse set of sites, but I stay away from tech.
Andrew, any insight into the prevalence of AdBlockers among your tech savvy audience? Do you feel that was a factor?
Most likely it is possible. Take this "Alex" you frequently speak highly of. If you gave Alex a different work sample test, do you believe he'd have done poorly on it? If not, then there is some common factor (call it H) both tests are measuring.

(I can confidently state that you do believe he would have performed similarly on a different test - if he didn't, this whole idea would be fundamentally invalid.)

Now the important question is to determine, for any particular subtest, how closely a person's score correlates with the hidden factor H. This is, for example, how IQ tests are created. You can take a look at the literature surrounding them. Key starting points would be principal component analysis, clustering, hidden markov models and the like.

There is no simple recipe - every data analysis problem is different in it's own way. But there are general themes. I'm happy to discuss in more detail, feel free to write to me if you are interested.
You're right about ad block. Ad block grew an insane amount (300%) in the past two years:

http://i.imgur.com/XIf0JRW.png
First time I visited Koren's website and read about his "perfect amp" was about 10 years ago (around 2006 - when I was designing and building my "perfect amp"). So this article definitely brings me back to simpler times.

I always found this design waaaay too complex. Some sections seem unnecessary while others don't make sense (but that's just me - and it doesn't help that the schematic is drawn a little convoluted). But I suppose it totally depends on his amp's application (e.g. playing records, studio monitors, live guitar, bass amp, etc), so it really may be the perfect amp ...for his specific application.

My thoughts... the power supply is a little too "verbose" for a tube amp -- just unnecessarily complex, and may actually remove some of the imperfections associated with that crispy "classic tube amp" sound. But I am a strong advocate of a well-designed power supply, so I can't say anything bad about it. But there's too much going on between phase-inverter and power amp stages (output drivers I presume). I would never do that, but to each their own. However, I do like that he used 6550s. Great tubes!
Awesome news, best of luck Tom!
Just because you chose a great username:

if you're wearing a tie, wear a coat.
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Metrics was created before Servo. Some folks at Netflix wanted to use Metrics but ran into fundamental differences of opinion with us (Yammer) that we weren't willing to yield on. So Netflix built Servo and Dropwizard kept going with Metrics.
This thread has attracted some hilarious HNers.

Over the years, I've learned not to buy shitronics.

Not because they have shitty reliability.

I avoid buying shitronics because I run my electronics to the ground.

I'm currently typing this on 9 year old Core 2 Duo Dell that runs plenty fast.

Down in the basement is another Dell about 11 years old that's been running 24/7 for the past 10 years. Unlike my high-end Core 2 Duo Dell, the basement one is a Celeron POS that was a $299 special.

It was slow on day 1 and it is still slow on day 4015, but it keeps chugging along. And every time I use it, I curse myself for not spending a little bit extra for faster machine.
Still it's massively useful. It means more space for the battery and it also indirectly means that if you need no fan, you probably generate very little heat, which means you have a crazy efficient CPU meaning even more battery.

Which is how they can do the same amount of battery life as the 11', despite having a bigger screen and a retina display.

And a big part of that equation is probably the fanless chip. But it's true it's not like users were complaining about e.g. the MBA lineup being so noisy.
Traffic stayed the same and eCPM went down 97.5%?

I guess:

1) You write articles that are exclusively marketed toward an HN crowd (adblock-heavy).

2) Some advertiser(s) were heavily directly targeting users at your site and stopped

3) Your traffic stayed the same, but because of changing search results, so you got more low-value traffic while losing high-value traffic

I'm down 75% as well, but it's largely due to my abandoning my pages and competitors making specialized sites on my niches.
"Ideally, you want to pay the ad platform for sending you a user who will buy your product."

Brand advertising is built around the concept of "When a person is making a buying decision, I want them to buy my product."

We know it works, because when you stop doing brand advertising for things like Toilet Paper, Detergent, Toothpaste, Deoderant, etc... sales go down. And when you start the advertising again, sales go up.