skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Understood, however a couple points:

1. He's based in a totally different country, I'm in Canada and he might as well be based in Japan (an example but close enough).

2. The chances of him discovering the app are slim.

3. The chances of him finding out the I created the app are even slimmer, and because the app isn't a direct competitor the chances of him looking up who founded the company isn't likely.

I think based on those 3 points, my odds are good. But I truly appreciate the dialog here because it got me thinking.
Hurray I guess, but would we be saying the same thing if Jamie Dimon or one of his deputies were put in charge of the SEC? Damned if you do, damned if you don't, hoping for the best.
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I did that. It's still the wrong default.™ That's why I use KDE/Dolphin, you can beat it into something usable but you still have to eat the ugly which bothers me more than it should.
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> ... another news article saying women aren't strong enough to participate ...

I'm 36, and a white male. I've played computer games my whole life... ZX Spectrum, Master system, SNES, Amiga, PC, Wii, PS3. I'm a grown man who still plays table-top RPGs with dice and bits of paper. I was bullied as a kid, not badly, but enough. I have difficultly relating to people.

And I'm here to tell you that you are so epically wrong on this.

Firstly, men don't need to talk like that to other men either. That's exactly the kind of behaviour that makes "gamers" as a culture seem like a bunch of 5-year-olds compared to regular folks. It's not okay. Your advice to women is to get better at games in the hope they don't get bullied as much. Someone always loses. The bullying is the problem, not the women.

Secondly, it's not the same when men abuse women. Abuse about physical appearance cuts far far deeper because of the way women are taught to value themselves by their appearance. Threats of rape and violence are far more real when made against women because women are ALREADY live under the threat of being raped by strangers and family members alike (and don't try the men-get-raped-too line, we do, and it's awful, but it's rare enough that we don't all live in fear of it).

Thirdly, you're conflating 'strength' with a willingness to voluntarily suffer verbal abuse and threats as part of something that's supposed to be a leisure activity. Who wants that?

Fourthly, you're also dismissing people's pain as irrelevant, or misguided, something that would make anyone feel small. They're telling you that they're hurt, and you're saying it doesn't matter. It's your choice, but it's an approach that won't help you in life. Take that as sincere advice from someone who has real problems with empathy and has had to work hard at it.

Actually you know what, I take it back, you're not "epically" wrong on this, you're historically wrong. In a decade or two anyone in tech or games who reads opinions like the one you just shared will be repulsed, almost as if they were reading a defence of apartheid, or a justification why women shouldn't have jobs. Don't be that guy.

The good news is that it's just an opinion. Own it then let it go. Be the guy who sees the problem and changes things. It's the mature, empathic response. Level up.

Or... you could tell me that I'm a gay, or a dentist, or whatever. Your choice, right?
[0; 2] and [0, 2] are both valid in Rust, but mean different things.

http://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html#array-expressions

I suggest learning the language before making an attempt to criticize it.
I'm not arguing in favor of the status quo, I am in fact very much against it. I'm simply realistic enough that I don't think that HBO simply selling their shows to the world as downloads from their website will magically lead to them making more money.

As to the music industry it responded to a serious decline in sales and for all their attempts at going digital their growth is at best pretty flat and they are still far off their pre-crash peak. So streaming and DRM-free downloads at best helped the music industry slow their decline, it certainly didn't lead to them making more money.
Sure they do. My mother is still using my MacBook white 2008, which I upgraded from 1GB to 4GB RAM and replaced the battery. I also expect to get at least two more years from my MacBook Pro 2012 after upgrading my disk to a SSD and the RAM to 16GB.

I was specifically replying to this comment:

> Why is hardware upgradeability so important? What's the harm in just upgrading to the next device?

Not everybody has the money to buy the next device, so upgrading is a great option to get a couple more years of work from a little old but otherwise solid laptop.
For the effort to absorb "big changes" I would also weigh porting to PostgreSQL.
In London it is popular because it is the cheapest form of taxi and in many cases quite significantly without sacrificing any convenience and in many cases adding much more convenience.
The focus on private student loan lenders seems odd considering that $1 trillion out of the $1.2 trillion of outstanding student debt is public. I think a lot of private student loan providers are great. For instance, SoFi often offers rates lower than that of Sallie Mae, but discriminates on the school and the major, which seems reasonable. There are other benefits such as the ability of former students to be able to default on their private debt.

[0] http://www.consumerfinance.gov/newsroom/student-debt-swells-...
> To me it seems strange not to know the gross anatomy but to be able to sequence the DNA; I can see how it could happen.

As far as I understand, DNA sequencing is about breaking target into pieces and using clever tricks to fish out nucleotydes and determine their order. It seems to me that you don't need to know where and how DNA is exactly located to be able to brute-force its sequence.
Mentally I've classified stacks into the same category as turn-key: not worth bothering with. ANNE might be a good choice for the types of problems you face, or your specific workflow. As for the rest of us? We probably have our own unique stacks.

The concept of stacks died alongside the last relevant stack: LAMP.

It is a nice article on Neo4J, but there is virtually nothing on why you would use node, express or angular. Most likely because practically anything else could take their place.
They're both the real file. The file does exist only once. Are you saying in the spatial Finder you can't have duplicate views of a particular directory open?

Or are you referring to the files themselves? So if you open up somephoto.jpg in Preview, you couldn't open it up a second time?

I'm struggling to understand you here.
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Very apt. Thanks.
Yea, but it was fixed when someone said that the finder sucked and now we got 1200 comments... ;)
Phoenix creator here. This is a huge release for us that really streamlines the development process and adds some big ticket items on our way to 1.0 later this year. I would be happy to answer any questions.
Perhaps a good approach would be to assume a format is compromised as it is, but still focus on doing the best possible job of testing students. It should be possible to gear things such that plagiarism does not really do enough to be worth it (e.g. you would still do poorly on oral presentations / interviews, exam essay questions, etc.).
Eugh, Neo4J. Before you start using a graph database, ask yourself, what proportion of my queries are going to require complex graph traversals? If the answer isn't 'a metric shitton', then you might do better in choosing a more traditional datastore.
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From Forbes, yesterday:

"Today, there are more than 80 unicorns, or companies with a valuation of at least $1.0 billion—that’s more than double the number last year, and, according to CB Insights, just three fewer than the last three years combined. As for unicorn exits: 2014 saw almost twice as many billion-dollar exits (32) as 2013 (17)." (http://www.forbes.com/sites/truebridge/2015/03/09/too-many-u...)

It's hard to tell if the "80 unicorns" includes the 49 exits from 2013 and 2014, although the wording (to me) suggests they do not. Regardless, many of these companies have co-founders and an early CTO hire often gets ~5-7% in options (which are then diluted, granted.) Also, if the minimum to be included is $1bn, then the average is somewhat higher (although not too much higher, given the shape of the distribution.)

So, between the 2-5 people who might own more than 2-5% of the company, the 80-129 unicorns over the past few years, and the average unicorn valuation of $1.5bn to $3bn, all somewhat informed guesses, my swag was about 200 people with paper net worth of >$30mm. I mean, you could easily see a company like Slack, which grew very quickly, having 4 or 5.

Of course, per the referenced paper, these people probably aren't flying much on private jets since, to my knowledge, NetJets doesn't accept unexercised stock options as boarding passes.
Goddamn Tornado was/is the best Python HTTP server ever. Asides from the wide utility library of non-blocking IO (years before node got popular) it had Sinatra-style class based routing that was far simpler than django's bizarre route.as_route() stuff.

A friend once said the worst thing about Tornado was how little publicity it got.
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As you can see, there is a lot of hate towards my comments above, and most people here seem to think my thoughts are a net detriment to the discussion so I will stop posting.

I'd just like to say in closing that I want to pay money for a product I'm not getting right now. The main argument against this seems to be that by allowing me to pay for it, this product would suffer. I will bow to the majority opinion and get out of here.
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I work in the solar industry, and utilities are increasingly losing talent to the solar industry (my co-founder is one of them). The main reason people are switching is because they see themselves as having a more successful career in the solar industry.

How can we make it so security talent has a better career working somewhere else? It could be multi-pronged. A combination of increasing private sector jobs and pay, decreasing public sector funding, and a healthy dose of public shaming might drain spying organizations of some more talent. Other thoughts?
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I have no problem voicing my beliefs publicly. I'm always more than willing to explain the policies of the NSA, and happy to denounce the actions of Edward Snowden. I don't think he was a traitor, by definition, but what he did was wrong. It isn't necessary to divulge confidential information, the situation is pretty clear. I don't see any point in re-litigating the whole thing on this particular thread though, it would be off topic.

I just wanted to say that people who support the NSA aren't hiding in fear. Only a small minority of people who work for the government, directly or as contractors, are ashamed of their employer or having a crisis of conscience. In general, nothing polarizes people and brings them together like an external threat. If everyone is shouting that you're bad, the most basic human instinct is to shout back even louder.

This whole thing has been a delight for management in the intelligence services. Some employees and contractors are much more motivated now. And many of those who support Snowden are still indifferent about the issues that he raised. It's either "go team!" or "eh, a job's a job." Only a minority are racked with self-doubt because of what's being posted about their employer on hackernews and reddit. Most will gladly tell you what they think, openly or in private, with no fear of criticism or backlash.
Quite sad to see that move now, especially when seeing that it's still actively used in Iran and Turkey, two countries who block or censor twitter at will.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Twitter
The Air came out at a time when optical disks were actually pretty necessary. In fact, Apple released the air with the ability to use the optical drive on a desktop or laptop connected to your network.

Apple's abandoning of the optical drive played a huge role in ensuring everyone provided a non optical disk way of getting their software or media content.
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Completely agree that this is the solution, although I would probably go even further and kill college loans for good.

I "get it" that this was done with the best of intentions - to help more students get into college. However, these sort of "guaranteed money from the government" solutions always end up distorting the market, and it's for the worse for the students.

Whatever alternative solution exists it shouldn't allow for "virtually unlimited" sums of money to be requested to help students go to college. But even if you limit let's say to $10,000 the maximum amount for a student loan and let's say without any of that, the cost of college would be $100,000, the student still wouldn't have to pay "only $90,000" in the end. The private colleges would just end up raising the price to $90,000. And now you've just made it so the colleges get $10,000 free money from taxpayers. This always happens with subsidies and such.

What's worse, is that those who get the free money, "get used to it", or in other words, they become less efficient and more costly, so that when the government tries to cancel that subsidy, those who got it are outraged about it and say they would have to cut jobs and whatnot. I assume if the governments puts a limit on private loans too, the teach union will go immediately to the streets as well.
Fairly new OSX user and I kind of hate finder. My first gripe is of course the feeling that no one cares about these basic conveniences @apple.

Some of these are also found from other people's comment but I want to highlight that they also matter for me.

1. The fact that most file browser has editable auto-complete location field.
2. That it doesn't show the size of the selected files in status bar.
3. That when you try to fix it by opening the info menu on the selection it does the most idiotic thing possible (in my judgement) and open a separate info window for each file. As far as I know I have no way in finder to find the size of a selection (to guess the time for a copy operation or space needed).
4. That the most basic operation in a file manager getting inside a folder or getting back requires a two key action (cmd+enter, cmd+delete). Seriously?
5. That opening a file is not the default but renaming is. Again seriously?
6. No cut-paste.
7. No compact view. Without it browsing a large selection of files quickly and organise cut/paste don't really work for me.
8. Zero find ability without index. Am I suppose to index all my portables?

I have been using xtraFinder so I don't know if I remember all the problem correctly. But I was almost ready to rip my hair off when I first moved to OSX specially when it felt like most people were happy with finder. It feels to me that for apple finder is kind of a file viewer in a limited sense and you are suppose to only organise files through the respective programs iPhoto, iMovie etc. I will shy away from calling finder a 'File Manager'. The way I try to manage/organise my files, finder is a nightmare.

The gold standard for me right now is Nemo. Handles all the above case and as a bonus (for me)

Just start typing and the cursor moves through sub selection starting with that prefix. Very helpful with a quick find or selection.
The core count is good. My suspicions is that this could greatly reduce compute intensive costs in data centres. Thus bringing down cost per hour. Sweet.
If I want to optimize for longevity of career and salary, then a college degree is the obvious choice.
That of course, depends on the strength of said CEO's principles.

This would be, of course, one of the hardest tests of professional principles you could imagine a CEO going through. I personally think Mr Cook would be a good candidate for passing this test, as he seems to have a track record for standing up for what he believes in.

I also have a feeling that the US government would think twice before taking on the Apple PR juggernaut head to head. It would be too closely matched for comfort. Apple probably have greater mind-share than any of the political parties.

As you say, it would be an interesting standoff!
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We could start by ceasing to teach students to technically avoid "plagiarism!" accusations with the simple-minded application of a thesaurus. "Write it in your own words." Which often becomes s/word/similar word/. This was never a good idea. There may have been some tiny amount of value in this approach[1] when it was required to actually find a thesaurus and a dictionary and learn new words, but that is certainly lost today when there are myriad tools which will automatically do this for you. I'd still argue that it does more harm than good since it teaches students how to use others' ideas without attribution.

[1] Not as an exercise to instil honesty or principle, but as a simple vocabulary and grammar teaching activity.
HTTP/2 could have mandated that it would only be used under a encrypted connection. It could have added opportunistic encryption.

The builders of technologies decided not to go that route. I wish they did, but we can't put all our eggs on the assumption that they will fix the situation for us.
According to the article: " Also, babies born to mothers with active genital herpes have a more than 80 percent mortality rate"

How can this be if 1/6 people has herpes in the US ? Seems like you would hear about a lot more infant deaths.
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Also - persistent.
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So is that essentially to say you agree with surveillance of citizens, without warrant or probable cause?
1. Yea, I feel the real reason is Revenue collection.(It just might backfire when parents get back home and look at that bill. "Sweetie--I think we will introduce to kids to camping next year?"

2. Third party vendors will hate these bands--if they required to implement them? Why--because so many skim the till. It's easy to do with cash.
Om had a great video show on, IIRC, Revision3 years ago (back before YouTube was used so regularly for these kinds of things). I used to watch it religiously. It's such a shame tech industry news (as opposed to tech news) got taken over by Gawker, Pando and other clickbait sites.
Here it is:
https://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/now-that-gigaom-is-all-grown-u...
Also interesting, this video of visiting a black hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_TU6T4-0LU
I want to be able to pay $0.10 to watch something once on a specific screen much more than I want to be able to play more expensive downloads on any device.

($0.10 is just a for discussion purposes number estimating the ballpark per view revenue from ad supported stuff; of course they will resist doing this, ads also make the experience worse and don't undermine purchasing the way a price near cost on demand service would)

Some parent might chime in that this would be terrible for kids videos, I'm not trying to say it should be the only way to pay.
Re: point 2.

http://i.imgur.com/LNRaPK7.png

It does.

Re: point 1.

True but I'm not sure how that would work as in the details view you're showing the files available in a particular directory. How would it sort by path? How does it work in Windows?
Well as you're seeing with gay marriage bans being overturned, just because the majority want to strip the minority of their rights, they shouldn't be allowed to.
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I think the problem now is not a better excel but a better access; spreadsheets are pretty good at what they do but biz people use them when they should use a database because they find databases less intuitive.
I'm sure the widespread death and destruction and disruption of trade caused by the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars were a significant brake on the improvement of standards of living.
> So where is this reported decline? It doesn't show up in numbers anywhere.

"Network paid clicks, which include clicks related to ads served on non-Google properties participating in our AdSense for Search, AdSense for Content, and AdMob businesses, decreased approximately 11% over the fourth quarter of 2013 and decreased approximately 7% over the third quarter of 2014"[1]

"Average cost-per-click, which includes clicks related to ads served on Google sites and the sites of our Network members, decreased approximately 3% over the fourth quarter of 2013 and decreased approximately 3% over the third quarter of 2014."[1]

"Google's Ad-Price Declines Continue for 12th Straight Quarter"[2]

> There isn't a single cite in this entire thread to back that claim up outside of the anecdotal examples.

ChuckMcM cited Google's earnings report in a top-level comment[3] nine hours before you claimed there isn't a single cite.

[1] http://investor.google.com/earnings/2014/Q4_google_earnings....

[2] http://adage.com/article/digital/google-s-ad-rate-declines-c...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175725
I can't definitively say that you MUST touch but you have to get very close, if not always touching. It also has to be oriented correctly (mouse ears up), there's not too much wiggle room on any of the readers (turnstile, room, handheld). I did assume it'd be a simple swipe but it's more, touch and hold for a second. Sometimes it's almost instantaneous, sometimes I had to take it off to get it to work right.
Its clickbait headline, or maybe they're going for outright sarcasm given how little is changing.

Technically its true that the install process is a little different but not much, and theres some minor changes in user configuration. I've looked into it and the most exciting "DBA level" changes are YEAR(2) is finally utterly expunged, and there's some new reserved words "NONBLOCKING" and "OPTIMIZERCOSTS". Thats about as exciting as it gets.

Its not transparent upgrade but its not like they're changing the default db engine to an embedded nosql engine, or changing the default char encoding to EBCDIC.
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All that went away, but record label executives endured some short-term pain of analog dollars becoming digital pennies. They had to start signing artists to 360 deals that gave them a cut of more than just album sales. The movie and TV industries looked at the music industry and said, "We need to be careful that doesn't happen to us." Because for movies and TV, there are no live performances and so on that can make 360 deals lucrative. It's a game theory question as to what's the best thing to do. Will your utopia truly arise in the future or will it not? And Netflix is possibly the only company willing to make a real move and find out. The rest are frozen with fear that analog dollars will become digital pennies.
The infection is asymptomatic in most cases, the sentence clearly applies to people for which it is not, and during outbreaks...
Oh yes, I will get file without DRM. Wether they let me pay for it or not, I will get them.
Well, someday if you work really hard, you can make the leap from pundit on the Internet to making that call. In the meantime, can we make HN better and avoid making silly comments top voted? "Does anyone get the irony..."
That thread essentially states 'they didn't fire Linus (from his own project), so it must be a ruse.'

Really?
The main argument against this seems to be that by allowing me to pay for it, this product would suffer.

No. The main argument against is that by setting up the infrastructure needed to let you pay for the product you want in the way that you want will probably lead to the company making less money. No one is saying that it wouldn't be nice if it worked the way you want it to work (I want it to work the way you want it to work), just that it's financially unrealistic.