skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have had good experience with swappa.com (Bought 2 devices from there). I am not sure if it would have helped in your case though.
I've slowly come to the belief that if a product can't survive light use without damage, it's not a quality product, no matter how expensive it is.

This is why I prefer tough soft-touch-plastic ThinkPads to dentable aluminum MacBooks, super-reliable Hondas to repair-prone BMWs, and unbreakable Corelle dinner ware to delicate fine china.

I don't need my belongings to punish me for being a clumsy monkey. A product which silently conforms to the realities of human use is a beautiful, and sometimes rare, thing.
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With publishers dropping off like this; when will the decreased business show up in Google's revenue? Google being the biggest advertisement broker thru AdSense and similar programmes.
The motto of grave robbers
MM is often used to denote millions, but I don't think BB is used to denote Billions. Do you have a cite that indicates otherwise, because I don't see it on a quick search.
But using MIT doesn't make it any easier for my users to install custom software on their devices. Any problems which exist compiling GPLed software apply to compile MIT-licensed software.

There's simply no way that MIT-licensed software is superior from a user's perspective.
The graph shows it currently as being at 5%.

I really doubt any browser will start installing it by default, so I think adblock will be limited to:
a) Really technical people (HNers)
b) Friends of HNers that are bothered enough by the real web experience while on their friend's systems that they go ahead and install adblockers.

I don't see adblockers covering more than 10% of web users, and they're likely the least valuable 10% of web users (they may earn a lot, but they don't have burning holes in their pockets either).
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Regarding (1):

When I ctrl-click (two-finger tap on a trackpad) on a file in Finder, I get a popup menu with several options, one of which is "copy". If I do this and paste in to a terminal window, I get the full pathname.

Alternatively, if I hilite the file in Finder, and press standard command-C (copy), then again the full pathname is pasted into the terminal window.

I thought this was widely known.
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I should have called you out on some more of this earlier, but re-reading your reply, I feel like I need to comment on two points even though it's quite tardy;

> Men aren't harassed based upon their appearance.

I have been harassed based on my appearance, and many of my friends have reported the same. Anecdote isn't data, but your statement is categorically false. The harassment may be different (e.g. men being put-down or physically provoked versus women being cat-called) but it is all harassment.

> When men are raped, they aren't asked about their appearance, or if their appearance was provocative.

Also, categorically false. Questions as to consent, or mistake of fact regarding consent, are always raised at trial by competent defense. Let me clear, provocative appearance is not even remotely consent, but it is regularly part of the story told by the defense, regardless of the gender of the accused and the victim. I'm just stating legal fact here to debunk your claim, not endorsing anything.
Interesting, I'd never seen this. For what it's worth, early Dropwizard versions used Guice heavily. We yanked it out because we found the indirection of dependency injection wasn't buying us much. Subsequently, others have put it back in through the use of modules (i.e. https://github.com/HubSpot/dropwizard-guice).
More people are spending more time on the internet on more devices.

So far, this has protected Google from decline. Eventually Google will become a blue-chip stock because they can consistently match advertisements to users better than anyone else can.
OS X doesn't support Valgrind or GProf. That's enough for me to keep a Linux VM around. Additionally, I've found that software is often easier to build under Linux.
4 GB was fine on my previous 2011 MacBook air except when I started up my VMware Windows XP machine - then I had to shut down a few other applications. Other than that - the basic 20 apps that I usually have running, including Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Mail.app, Safari, Google Earth, and even a few custom ones, like GNS3/Dynamips, a Cisco Router Hypervisor/Simulator that I would run networks with 8-10 Cisco 7206 routers on, all ran just fine on 4 GB - and, once again, I have never, under any scenario, had memory pressure on my Mid 2013 8 GB MacBook Air.

What I've noticed, is that some apps, when left on my Windows 7 system, Like google earth, seem to eat a lot of memory, and then when I come back to them - I'm either getting a "Low memory warning", or I have to wait for everything to swap back in. For whatever reason, under OS X 10.8.x, this has never been an issue.

Honestly though - a lot (most?) of it probably has to do with flash drives - they make everything feel just so much more nimble.
Give Xtrafinder a look: https://www.trankynam.com/xtrafinder/

In my experience, trying to replace core OS apps with 3rd-party replacements just never quite works 100% in all situations. My preference is more toward apps that augment/improve the core OS apps. Xtrafinder is of this type, adding additional functionality to Finder, rather than being a wholly separate app like TotalFinder.
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I, for one, will believe Tepco over my lying eyes that containment structures exploded.
I agree. I think the demise of newspapers is largely from those buying advertising finally having hard and credible evidence that they were overpaying for a few centuries.

Advertising wasn't (and isn't) valueless, but the benefits were overextolled.
What's the primary win of doing this? Isn't DW still tied to Jetty which has a more traditional threading model?
Fair enough, in my particular case it's complicated for example - before I even began speaking with this client, I already began coding an application in a particular niche space... it so happens that this client is also in the same space. However, my application is totally different, I just hope that there isn't an issue there because technically, I'm not stealing anything proprietary, and my app is obviously different. I just wonder, how that works.
I think the naming points to the future. In a couple of years, the changes that seem daring and unforgivable in this version will seem bland and expected and there will be no reason to hold on to the current MBA line with its fans and obsolete connectors. Then it quietly disappears and we are back to two lines, the MB and MBP.
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What is the definition of "exercise" though? Running marathons and tens of miles a day? I never said that sedentary lifestyle is good, but more (when it comes to exercise and anything) is not necessarily better. Strength exercise is nice, but my concern with it is increased caloric needs (due to increased basal metabolic rate) and also - growth factors such as IGF-1. When I see people jogging next to cars exhausts for "health" here in Orange County under the skin-burning sun, I really get the feeling that most people are out of their minds nowadays.
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The MB is far from cheap, especially for such an underpowered device.

Comparing it to the 11' MBA, I see the MB as being better in virtually every way. But the MBA 11 is the cheapest in the macbook lineup, the price difference with the 12' is so big that its niche is essentially catering to a lower-end price segment.

For the 13' the price difference is still there, but not as big. But the 13' has 3 hours more battery, better ports and an extra 1 inch, while again being cheaper.

Add to that the fact that the MB is actually quite underpowered (1.1ghz, HD 5300), the MBA 1.6 Ghz, HD 6000 is a significant step up. Meaning for any dev work for which you don't need a MBP (probably the majority of web stuff both front/back end, and a fair bit of development outside of that), you're going to want to more powerful MBA.

The MB to me feels like a replacement for the 11' for rich peeps who want a slick device for school, entertainment, office work (e.g. PR, marketing, management), while the MBA 11' is in the cheap macbook niche and the MBA 13' is in the 'all-day aspiring workhorse that's not quite as powerful as a MBP, but very affordable' niche. The new MB is certainly not in the cheap niche, and it's not quite all-day or an aspiring workhorse.

Longer-term though, I have no clue. It's a confusing lineup for sure. MB is less powerful than the air. What? Air is thicker, bigger, noisier than the MB, what? The Air/Pro was a great lineup, the new MB is a weird one in the story.
What do we do??

-We die.

Fantastic name for this product.
I think you just said that if the adjuncts left, universities would hire more FTE teaching positions. Isn't that exactly what the adjuncts want?
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Well it's possible that one of these days Google will fix the huge battery drain Chrome causes on OSX.....
Yes, I read that.

I would love to improve our hiring process, and include more realistic work samples as part of it.

However, I don't feel that a full-fledged work-sample test is realistic, especially if every employer started requiring it. Imagine applying to a few different jobs, and each requiring you to do 20 hours of learning of their material followed by some open ended realistic problem, that could take many hours to complete. If you were looking around at a few different employers, this would be a full-time job itself; some candidates would skip it because they could find a job which required less effort up front easily enough, some would simply not have the time because they are working a full-time job while doing it.

On the other hand, if there is a shared work-sample test like this one, that will be used by a number of employers, it means that it can be more in depth than any single employer could do, while simultaneously wasting less of the candidate's time as they do the one test, rather than one per potential employer.

So yes, in a way I am viewing this as a replacement for a technical phone screen, because I am interested in improvements to that process but haven't come across any potential improvements which seem viable, but this one sounds like it could have potential.

The "read the resume, read their existing code samples, and do a phone screen" approach covers a lot of ground in a little time, so while there are a large number of problems with it, it's pretty hard to improve on without spending a lot of the candidate's time to get up to speed on a more realistically sized problem, and a lot of good candidates aren't willing to devote that much time unless they really, really want to work for that particular employer. We're a small company, working in a niche business, so it's hard to get that kind of dedication from a single candidate.
On the plus side, it is far more difficult to install an ad-blocker on a mobile device.

Most adblockers are not on the computers of the HN-type, but rather installed by HN-type people on their friends computers. (ie: I've probably installed them on 5-10 systems). However, I probably wouldn't bother installing it on friend's phones/tablets, since I use mine, not their's.

On the negative side, mobile ads should pay less, since I'm less likely to whip out my credit card and buy something big/profitable on it. At least that is me anyway.
Thanks! I hadn't seen stylestats or parker yet.
Very hard to say. I tend to doubt it. Even before ad blockers became popular, the number of click throughs was very, very low.

What was different then was that vendors viewed Web ads as an expensive form of advertising, but one which they had to do.
Interesting comment! Not entirely sure how relevant or accurate this is, but I thought I would point out that in Feb 2014, Om Malik from Gigaom wrote:

> In 2008, our company decided that we would not pray at the altar of pageviews and advertising metrics that do nothing but devalue our readers’ time and attention. Instead, we opted to take the road less traveled — subscription revenues.

https://gigaom.com/2014/02/20/now-that-gigaom-is-all-grown-u...

The post described their pivot into another line of business. (I'm not sure how much Gigaom relied on subscription revenue vs. advertising.)
Another one bites the dust. Pity.
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They couldn't use the USB trademark if they broke compatibility with other USB-certified products.

They own Lightning themselves so they can do whatever they want there.
The Globe and Mail could use his abilities again too, I'm sure.
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A better analogy would be: "buy a new car if you want a new engine or nicer seats". Which is what most people actually do.
The XPS is using the new Broadwell-U Intel processor, which is a die-shrink, and lower power usage is expected from this.

I'm not sure why you think it's fishy. As long as Anandtech has kept their benchmark tests consistent across different units tested, it should be fine. I'm not sure how you got HD video viewing as a light benchmark test, I've never heard of that before. Generally, decoding a highly compressed chunk of data and using it to constantly update the display seems close to a worst case scenario to me, unless you are doing serious data crunching (e.g. encoding) which while more common than it used to be, I wouldn't consider common enough to include as a regular benchmark in a general purpose review.

According to Anandtech's article, the 13-inch Macbook Air has a 54 Wh battery and the Dell has a 52 Wh battery, so the XPS battery is slightly smaller. The hardware drawing power from the battery is different through (Broadwell-U @ 14 nm vs Haswell @ 22nm), so extrapolating numbers in that way is not likely to yield very accurate results.
You're right they're not the same as banner ads. Alas, I don't enough about their economics to provide an intelligent insight.
There are alternatives. Once you get use to it, it's actually not a problem. The only issue is people who are prone to temptations. I have trained myself to seek pleasures outside of food and food to me is just a necessity, not a source of pleasure, and I don't have any internal struggle anymore and the only problem now is people who don't know me and who keep insisting that I try this or that. And, of course, the wasted time to explain my eating habits to people - 2 meals a day within 8 hours, and so on.
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Well, you'd have to try to provide something that Google can't, like "native advertising". But any respectable organization would not run native.

Google is simply too good at matching viewers to advertising that is valuable to them (and therefore the publisher).

Running your own advertising is hard to be successful with, unless you can convince your advertiser to really overpay.
What I'd really like to see is how this would differ for a Kerr metric[1], since it's assumed that most stellar or galactic core black holes will be rotating.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerr_metric
I won't repeat what is here: https://github.com/gwizard/gwizard#whats-wrong-with-dropwiza...

In order to make this reply have a bit more substance than just a link, the idea of using Guice is pretty neat if you think about unit testing your code. Instead of letting the container (jetty) instantiate the webapp, let Guice do it.

This means that you can run tests without firing up the container. In other words, no need to test through the http layer by making requests to a web server. Additionally, by removing a rather large layer of code, tests run much faster.

Instead, now you write your tests directly against your Resource class methods (yea static compiled code!). Building up routes, query strings and POST requests is a thing of the past. No need to mock your data layer either since you can test against a real in-memory database.

Here is an example of what I'm talking about:
https://github.com/gwizard/gwizard-example/blob/master/src/t...
or some ArchiveTeam projects at least.
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> I disagree with your assertion that lambasting Google's hiring practices is an easy sell in the market. The last time I tried I was dismissed out of hand by a talent consultant.

That... wasn't my assertion at all.
That has long been understood. An old saying from the days of print and TV/radio ads: Half of all advertising is wasted, but nobody knows which half.
It's median salary for all grads, not median entry level. So it's 20K every year over likely 10 years, which blows nearly any fixed education cost out of the water.

The average net price of an MIT education (4 years) in 2012-2013 was $40K: http://web.mit.edu/facts/tuition.html

You can't make these numbers not add up to demonstrating the value of a high quality education unless you speculate that education has nearly 0 value and simply attracts inherently brilliant and valuable people. You then have to further hypothesize that there is negligible benefit to being surrounded by such people.

Constructing such a hypothesis without evidence is clearly grasping at air.
Ask HN: 15m of your time for 15m of mine to try an experiment?
Hi HN. I'm asking for a few of you to join me in a 30 minute Google hangout.
Format First, 15 minutes would be of you walking through our product with myself and a few devs from our team. We're looking for honest candid feedback on our product's first time experience from sophisticated users. The second half is your 15 minutes to ask me anything in a 1 on 1.
Must be a resource issue on their end. Would be interesting to know how many engineers were working on Watchkit/Apple Watch instead of e.g. iOS8. Now THAT is one buggy release. Especially considering how long it has been live already.
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> The reason is that vendors have (finally!) discovered that effectively nobody ever buys anything by clicking on a web ad

There have been a few times I've seen an ad on a website that looked like it was for something I wanted, and wanted to click it.

The problem is that I pretty much ignore the ads while I'm reading the page content, and so I only noticed these ads when I'd finished the content and clicked a link to leave the page, and my eyes are wandering while I wait for the new page to start loading. I click back to try to get back to the ad, and something else has taken over its spot. I might refresh a few times to try to get the desired ad back, but that has never worked for me.
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I've heard that it's the farmers that are taking up the bulk of the water, and if they weren't planting water-intensive crops like pistachio nuts and almonds, we wouldn't be in a drought. Is this correct, or just hogwash?
No, not uninhabitable. But there have been orders of magnitude more people killed in dam disasters than nuclear plant meltdowns. I haven't done the math, but I would suspect this is true even adjusting for the popularity of dams.

Here's the worst dam disaster on record:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

There are some parallels with Fukushima; in general most of the dam disasters you can find quickly are kicked off or exacerbated by concurrent natural disasters and/or poor maintenance.

I'll grant you that as a force multiplier for disaster, nuclear has more potential than e.g. hydroelectric. But both can be deadly: you can die of thyroid cancer or by drowning, either way, you're dead; your home could be uninhabitable or just washed away, either way, you're homeless.
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Asking to learn.

How is this better an an online polling software - like surveymonkey or polldaddy?

From reading the press release, it seems like it is a data collection software from patients. Is there more to it?
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Eh well the M isn't even as performing as the MBA lineup, let alone the MBP lineup. I wouldn't expect the MB to be anything near a powerhouse.

And the MBP 13' has better battery life by 1-2 hour than the MB. (not the non-retina MBP, which is 2 hours worse), but the retina (which is priced the same as the MB. (although you'd need to add 128gb storage to make it equal which increases the price a bit).

The keyboard doesn't actually seem any better. Yes it's backlit by individual button and yes the buttons are a bit bigger than normal with a new system. Is that better? I'd say it looks like they did a good job of not making the keyboard suck more. After all, they have less space for the keyboard as it's 12' big, less travel for the keyboard as it's thinner. But less travel is generally worse, less space between keys (more mistakes) is generally worse, keys right next to the touchpad is generally worse.

So I'd prefer the MBP keyboard and battery, the MBP screen, CPU and Graphics, magsafe charger and ports.

The MB's pros is the touchpad (will have to try it first, looks interesting but I doubt the 3rd click will see much software support the first year anyway, beyond that it's nothing new). And the fact it comes with 256gb at the same price. But it doesn't make up for a shitty CPU and graphics, tight keyboard with little travel, 1 port requiring externals, 1-2 hours less battery and 1 inch less screen.

If I wanted the smaller form factor I'd still go for the MBA 13'. 3 hours more battery, extra inch, a lot cheaper, better performance.

Sorry couldn't answer your specific question, haven't seen benchmarks, just know the M sits between their low-power low-performance chips and the i5/i7 core chips. The fact it draws 5 watt and is fanless tells you enough :P
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Totally understandable. The $0.33 in this scenario includes payment processing fees which we pass along to the sender. After fees, the gross rate is $1.00 and you net 70% of the gross.
We're currently in Beta. Appreciate any constructive feedback/input from the community. Thank you in advance.
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We will work on making this clearer and less confusing. Thanks for the feedback.
Unless the EU makes it happen
I haven't yet cultivated any answers to my own questions to have fomented any clear ideas or call to action. I'm presently mired in Andrew Keene's The Internet Is Not The Answer, Alexis O'Hanian's Without Their Permission, and my own hunches and experiences from my lived experience and those of people I've met. Perhaps there's an essay in it somewhere.

Unfortunately there's no clean, quantifiable solution to human problems like labor relations that I can see. High-tech companies want to filter out potential hires to get the most highly-skilled candidates for the least amount of money they can get away with. They ultimately want to make more money with less capital and labor costs in order to maximize profits for their founders and investors. Which seems rather contrary to other engineering disciplines where, it has been related to me, they took in the hires they came across and made them into the engineers they needed.
There is a trend towards awareness advertising - I think this is because the Super Bowl is barely more measurable than a bunch of display ads. The amount of $ spent on web and mobile advertising is tiny compared to the time spent there. If branded ads can make it on TV, perhaps that's the future rather than click through.