skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody is claiming a gold standard. With that said, I prefer windows explorer because you can simply type a path into the address bar (with tab completion if you need it) and navigate to a place on the filesystem. That's all. If finder added this one feature I'd be overjoyed. Instead, I find myself opening up menus to get to so many locations on the machine. For example, if you want to simply go to your home directory you have to use the 'GO' menu, which is just too much work for something so simple and common.
Regarding number of ports, consider this: Apple already has a fairly well-tested theory undergirding this in the Apple Display + Macbook combination.

The Apple Display pushes power to the notebook via magsafe and interfaces its host of ports (Ethernet, Firewire, Thunderbolt, USB) through a single Thunderbolt cable.

In this new model, there will be only one cable necessary … and most users, while mobile, don't need more than one port at a time. And when plugged in, thanks to the new USB standard, the display its tethered to will push power and connectivity to it.

The Macbook Air took it partially there, and now they're fully closing that loop.
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Sure, every once in a while I'm sure someone has a bad experience with their support but I feel it's a well-accepted notion that Apple has the best support in the consumer tech industry. A few sources I found in a couple minutes of searching:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0%2c2817%2c2452946%2c00.asp
http://blog.laptopmag.com/tech-support-showdown
http://www.thestreet.com/story/11366677/1/the-best-and-worst...
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/04/apple-is-top...

I've dealt with Dell, Microsoft, Acer, Asus, and HP in the past on multiple occasions for each, and it was always a headache. With Apple, it was always as simple as walking into the store and walking out with my issues resolved. I've even had them fix a keyboard that broke due to my fault on an out of warranty machine for just the cost of parts. The fact that you can go to a physical location and get service puts them on a different level.
I don't think it's really a breakthrough - Hall Effect Thrusters and similar ion propulsion have been around for a while. The Soviets used them in the 70's. Its more the technology has reached a level of maturity and relability that it is now a good choice.
Some notes on DRAM (#rowhammer)
I wrote a paper on this in grad school. A few of these services (I cannot recall which and I don't have a copy of the paper handy) actually state in their ToS that you must include an OSI approved license in your repo.
Just sugar for me, carbs were fine (although I wasn't eating very many high GI carbs anyway)
I believe some pay TV smartcard hacks also made use of clock glitching, basically sending a shorter-than-usual clock pulse that means some of the internal signals don't make it to their destinations on time. The pay TV hacking industry had some pretty clever tricks a decade or two ago.
How about showing the actual filesystem? Instead of some restricted fictional view? For example, how the hell do you get to /tmp from the Finder?

What's with the stupid column per directory level? This is an extremely bad use of display space.

Haven't used Windows in a long time, and the equivalent in Linux is useless. (Or, more precisely, I don't use it.) But there are a number of irritations that have been there for a long, long time.
Why waste half a drive?
OmniSharp – .NET in Your Editor of Choice
I guess you might be confusing the very unfortunate use of the acronym CTF for security-related programming games with the usual meaning of Capture The Flag, as in a game mode in First-Person Shooters where people work as a team to capture enemy's flag and bring it back to their base.
I have tried both strict Paleo and the keto diet, and not found this to be true in practice
There are apps for features 1,3.... I use copy path app myself
That is an atypical scenario unless your job requires frequent presentation. Even then, you are used to having an adapter in your bag or pocket.

To me, this is a great tradeoff: I get a lighter and thinner laptop for 100% of my computing, the downside being an adapter when I return the the dark ages of VGA connectors.

In fact, for my MacBook Pro, I will have fewer connections. Instead of power and Thunderbolt, I will just get one of the connectors that bridges power, external monitor and USB peripherals and plug in a single thing when I "dock" my laptop.

I will take that any day over the awkward Dell and Thinkpad docking stations I see my coworkers use.
Ask HN: Resume tips for new graduate
I am graduating with a degree in Computer Science in May and I am looking for tips to perfect my resume. Anything you can tell me is greatly appreciated.
It isn't meant to be a simpler solution, but staying on analog video was never an answer. The only reason VGA projectors are still in use because they still work because we have all these passthrough options. Without them businesses would have replaced them as soon as VGA was going out of style, aka, 2002.
It sounds like a Jedi power.
On the bright side, passive cooling generally can't fail, unless you physically snap something in two or separate the heatsink from the die. Notice that laptops generally have cooling problems as they age- I'm sure some of this is due to the processor degrading over time, but most is going to be due to gradual failure of the cooling system as the fan dies and the fins fill with dust. Neither is usually a problem with passive systems.
They can differ, but they are usually extremely generous. I know loads of people who pay less for Princeton, Harvard, and MIT than they would for state school.
CMU provides a good education that's very heavy on theory. I knew a lot of people in CS who didn't really think theory had much bearing on what they wanted to do after undergrad, and for the majority of them this will probably be true. The sad reality is that anything more interesting than having an idea and building the next social x, or ephemeral y over app-engine will probably require understanding that boring stuff from parallel or distributed quite well. I really wish the school could find a better way to provide for people mainly interested in joining industry after graduation without watering down the difficult systems/theory courses that are the foundation of a good CS education.

The real benefit of a good education should be giving you the initial knowledge and desire to become an outstanding contributor to your area of interest whether you end up in academia or industry. I know a lot of folks who missed this and viewed the specialized classes they had to take as one more roadblock before being handed a pretty piece of paper and going off to work at fb/google/etc.
What You Can Learn from How Jeff Bezos Sleeps
Yosemite is moderately buggy, and iOS 8 is buggy as shit. Meanwhile, I've been using Outlook 15 and now the Office 2016 Preview, and I have to say I'm really impressed. Thanks to Microsoft, and despite Apple, I'm really loving my Mac right now.
I believe the camera has focusing components that move as well, but I think they're very close to having nothing moving.
>> .com's cannot be MITM-proofed in a practical manner, unless they imported into a blockchain.

> Trying to "import" domains from traditional TLDs into a blockchain really isn't a good idea. This would require miners to somehow validate ownership at time of registration and on every update. I've seen no plausible proposal on how to do that without introducing significant risks of forking the blockchain.

You could import a domain into a blockchain using DPoS, with some number of delegates agreeing on a published DNS record over a given period of time. An attacker's ability to disrupt the process is limited by their ability to disrupt the publication of DNS information more generally.

> Making blockchain validation depend on external data is trouble.

This gets closer to the real problem. You are basically using the blockchain to perform triangulation of cryptographic information which is ultimately controlled by a third party. Throwing that information on the blockchain doesn't make it magically impervious to MITM attacks.
Loss of MagSafe is huge. I can't count how many times it's prevented a mangled receptacle or saved a laptop from flying to the floor.
Thanks. I would have figured hot spot to be better.
An exploit tool could always run slower and hide from that.

Also consider that it might work better when your laptop is in lower power mode because of reduced voltages.
This one works:
http://spiro.fisica.unipd.it/~antonell/schwarzschild/live/
The Fair License is shorter. The WTFPL is about the same size as the Toybox license and has the same intent, but is far more legally ambiguous. I wouldn't use it for anything beyond toys.
You cannot willingly transfer information to a second party and agree to terms that make you partially forfeit copyright so they can enable others to see or modify the information you gave them? Then what the hell is every Facebook post ever that the company mines for personal information? Thats in their TOS, and you agree to it by posting to their service.
I would suggest Starfighter Recruiter, LLC have a contract with a VP, CTO. Something to the effect of...

"We provide you the names of people interested in your fine company, along with our certificate of credibility. You in turn agree that the interview process will be entirely on the intangibles[1] of interpersonal relationships, career goals, etc".

Along with that would be a rider that would involve Starfighter Recruiter LLC taking liability for providing a measurably crappy candidate, as well as disclaimers all around relating to intangibles.

Personally, I don't really want to futz around with long-winded negotiations and alpha male chest thumping. I want to demonstrate my capability, discuss my career goals and interests, and verify that fine hiring company is actually a reasonable place to work that meshes with me and my career aspirations.

[1] I.e., candidate is a loud-mouthed jackass that can't work with anyone, but can pass any technical challenge with flying colors.
Shift+Command+G doesn't seem particularly strenuous. Admittedly, you need to work to learn the shortcut, but like all shortcuts, once you've got it it costs nothing.

[edit] it's Shift+Command+H for the home directory, which you were targeting specifically, Shift+Command+G lets you type in the path to any directory (with tab completion)
Meerkat has gotten ridiculously popular. I think it and Magic are in some competition for 2015's "Accidental Startup that came out of nowhere"

Very interesting seeing feeds from today's Apple Watch event. I can't help but think Meerkat is what uStream mobile should have been all along
> Does that mean I subconscious _don't_ want to share???

No, it's just a reminder that releasing software is kind of a pain. You have to write docs, you have to choose a license, you have to organize things, tag your repo, maybe make a .tar file if your project is big enough (or it's expected by your audience).

> Nothing earth-shattering but it's a start I hope...

Everyone has to start somewhere! Nice job.
How are you planning on combating cheating? For sure people will post solutions online to your CTFs.
I wouldn't be surprised if it`s mobile masts what's killing them..
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) users only: ClientLogin will shutdown in July 2015
As someone who plays in a lot of "conventional" CTFs (e.g. DEFCON, Codegate, GitS, etc.), this sounds very cool, even if my participation in those already gets me some job offers :)

One question: for a less "just for fun" site like this, with no time barriers, how do you plan on dealing with people just following write-ups? You can randomly generate the flags, but people could still follow the steps. You can say "don't write write-ups," but write-ups will still be written ;)
Ask HN: Non-circumvention clauses and distribution agreements
I've been approached by a vendor who wants to negotiate a distribution agreement for a piece of software and associated SaaS services. They claim to have a number of identified customers, etc.

They're asking for (1) a non-circumvention clause, and (2) a geographically exclusive distributor agreement.

I have to admit that I'd never even heard of a non-circumvention clause before this. I've been around the block for a while, and these just do not seem to be common in software or SaaS industries. Even NDAs have gone somewhat out of fashion in many cases, but I'd not even encountered this beast. Perhaps if I'd been in sales or marketing instead of corporate dev and engineering I would have seen them.

The second part I consider problematic just about to the point of being a show stopper. It frankly does not seem to make much sense. Geography for software and Internet services is kind of hard to even pin down. In many cases you don't even know for certain where your users are, etc. It might make sense for a hardware or other physical goods company but I just don't get it here.

I'm curious about whether anyone else has ever encountered such a thing before, and when/if it would ever make any sense. Or is this bizarre to "run away!" levels?

Apologies for the vagueness, but I can't disclose exact details or participants.
A bohemian skirt, a headband, and some flats.
Agreed. My first instinct is why is this in gold? Why is everything in gold?
It is strange to see an argument like "They didn't like our change to the license descriptions to a more political one". You want everything to be copyleft, including your infrastructure, that is fine and consistent. Say so, act accordingly and encourage others to do so, but that is just petty.
I'm sure it's not the gold standard, but the best file manager I've ever used is Windows Explorer from the XP era, with the blue left pane replaced with the hierarchical filesystem view.
I don't think that you're the target audience - along with the majority of us here.
I used to be a Path Finder guy but since I moved almost all my file management to the terminal I haven't even installed Path Finder since I switched to a Retina MacBook Pro in late 2013. But I could definitely agree as a power- or semi poweruser Path Finder seems much more sensible but to be honest my mother understands Finder so much better than Path Finder and The Explorer on Windows. For me OS X probably peaked around Snow Leopard but there's probably a lot of novice users that like the new features and iOS-users that switched to OS X probably likes the similarities in App Store, Launchpad, etc. Sadly it feels that Apple is giving us powerusers less and less love.
"Greetings, Starfighter! You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the Frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan Armada."
There are still many laptops with all the interfaces and features, right? Beauty of choice, and all that.
(Not a downvoter, but) I'm just saying that as a user who doesn't know what things like ipmitool or efibootmgr are, all I know is that it was very easy to install OSes as I wanted, dual-boot, etc with BIOS and whenever I hear about UEFI it's scary/intimidating, for instance this article says:

> If you absolutely insist on having more than one OS per disk, understand everything written on this page, understand that you are making your life much more painful than it needs to be, lay in good stocks of painkillers and gin, and don’t go yelling at your OS vendor, whatever breaks.

I've dual-booted with multiple OSes per disk with BIOS several times and had no problems at all. So I can't help but get a bad impression of UEFI.
So in switching from thunderbolt to usb-c, I'm wondering about the technical reasons. They went from 20-40g/s of thunderbolt to 5 in this version of usb-c, which is quite a reduction by itself. My understanding of previous USB specs is that USB is poll (and thus creates a lot of CPU load), versus firewire which was push. Is USB 3.1 now finally push?
Anyone know if Ubuntu will do the retina justice?
SMS = heavy user? I can't send a single text without needing to correct something. How do I correct _anything_ with no screen?

(That said I am impressed with how far speech to text has come)
Look at it another way: the incremental unit cost of flavours, colours and carbonation probably isn't much. So really, every bottled beverage is primarily driven by logistics, marketing and consumer willingness. I doubt water is any more profitable than cola.

The difference with plain water is it's pretty much a true commodity product; assuming free-market economics, if it really were feasible to lower prices it would have already happened.
Whatever happened to companies spending the resources to train and mentor green recruits?
Jeans and a collared shirt. If it's a senior position throw a coat over it if it looks right, but don't throw the wrong coat on (yes, it's a total judgement call)
I wonder how much Intel pays for its sand.
Looks like truly handy software. but my god that website. I mean, if you have have a counter that old, I wouldn't touch it either, but the rest... oiy. I want keybindings for browsing through screenshots, damnit!
I don't know if it would be an exact clojure clone, would need a few tweaks and the addition of native channels.
> Where is this hyperbole of 3 days of interviews coming from?

Directly from the comment I'm replying to.
The answer is at the bottom of the announcement: "I have no announcement to make about my involvement with Appointment Reminder at this time. We will, naturally, continue keeping all commitments to our customers."
That doesn't sound very 2 factor.
A Clarification of the Monty Hall Problem
Will you be allowing anonymous participation?

Yes. You can participate anonymously or pseudonymously. I think we say in three places that we only give out contact details if candidates ask us to.

What, are you going to keep a record of the time I fiddled with it for an afternoon and then use that to disqualify me from a job?

Our incentive is to find reasons why you're hireable, not reasons why you're not.

What if I don't want to feel like my performance is owned by you?

Your performance is owned by you -- we won't have copyright to your code or anything. Signal we gather, though? Owned by us. That's the trade: we give you a really fun game to enjoy, but we control the universe you play in and, inside that universe, we control everything and see everything. If you do not like this trade, that's your prerogative and I respect your opinion. Nobody will force you to play Starfighter.
Honestly they don't seem to be a good fit. I mean they are going to get in, no issue, but they already know how to run a business (charge more) and they can pretty easily get access to investors.

The more interesting question is if they will ever end up teaching at YC.
ultimate facebook machine basically

annihilate Google pixel 2 sales (if anyone expect any) before start
Convincing Failure
That's how offshoring companies like Infosys, TCS, Cognizant, Wipro, do: bizdev person gets a fat cut like x% from the offshoring contract. They are like enterprise sales at big companies.

In the states, most of bizdev is about selling a product. Companies like IBM do swap deals: AT&T outsources it IT work, in return IBM buys stuff from ATT (cellphone, network, phone services, etc).

So, the parent poster should troll on Linkedin and look for the bizdev folks who work for Indian offshoring companies, and network with them, and see where it leads to.
Ask HN: Content moderation for Google Play: what do apps like Vine or MeetMe do?
We are making an Android app that initially will have about 3500 new user profiles created and edited per day, that will be visible to the new users. User profiles contain a thumbnail and a line of text.

Google can permanently ban the app from the Play Store for porn/NSFW user profiles.

Apparently many apps such as Instagram, MeetMe, MoCoSpace, etc have this problem, but they have no apparent NSFW content. How do they moderate their content in real time? Do they pay their employees/contractors for moderation, or is this moderation community-based? What are the recommended services to moderate this content?
They mean no powerpc or other non-intel chips. I've run it on several x86_64/amd64/x64 processors.
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>The tone of the post is as politically neutral as it can be. My hope is to draw out some productive dialog rather than piling on stink for flies.

I am sorry, but that is a line with a negative width: if you so much as hint that this may in part be the fault of males (as a whole or, even worse, individuals) pitchforks will be out. If you do not hint strongly enough that this is the fault of males (as individuals and as a group) pitchforks will be out on the other side. As a more personal point the sheer toxicity of those debates continues to shock me, even after spending more than a decade on the internet. Vi vs Emacs debates don't tend to end in treats of rape and/or genocide but "why aren't there more women in computing" almost always do.

This isn't to say that we can't draw any benefit from your writing, just be aware that of the things you can't say (http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html) this is the thing you can't say most.
I don't really think such reviews are a good metric of anything, but I concur. The software quality has definitely taken a decline in recent years.
I think the problem is that file management does not fit Apple's vision for the future. It is simply too abstract a task with too many use cases to really design something simple and elegant in the spirit of how Apple normally approaches problems. There are obviously a million ways to make the Finder better than what it is, but what Apple really wants to do is kill it entirely. Of course they're nowhere near being able to kill it, so instead they hold it at arm's length as a necessary evil.

In the meantime, if, like me, you are stuck on OS X because it's the best GUI for a *nix now and in the foreseeable future, I suggest buying PathFinder (http://www.cocoatech.com/pathfinder/) to bridge the gap. It's certainly a much better tool than Finder or Windows Explorer.
HealthKit is not an app.
Mixins in JavaScript
The display adaptor has a spot to charge from so you can drive a display charge and use USB, all
at the same time.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ1L2AM/A/usb-c-vga-multip...
That was before VirnetX sued them for $708 million for patent violations, reduced to $368.2 by the judge. To avoid having to license the patents in question, Apple re-architected FaceTime so it's no longer peer-to-peer and instead routes everything through central servers.
The one video adapter to rule them all http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NXDD5HQ/

Otherwise, completely agree - the current situation is messed up. Yet I'm glad Apple is leading the way, just like with SSDs.

Full disclosure: I don't own any Apple products or stock.
surprised this wasn't addressed in the keynote. I can see a lot of clever Apple-y solutions to this problem.

It wasn't addressed because Apple offers no solution (yet?).
Bandcamp has paid out $100M to artists