skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
haha thank you, I was scratching my head as to the downvotes. HN is weird. I do recognize that it's difficult to maintain a healthy online community, and that if you forced people to comment when downvoting, you still don't necessarily get constructive criticism.

s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ?
I have thousands of hours experience behind the wheel of a car. But in an emergency, I'm still likely to do the wrong thing because I have very little experience with driving emergencies or driving at the edge of performance.
Would it? Maybe quite a large purse. But it's got a 12" screen. The purses my wife carries could not fit a 10" iPad, much less a MacBook -- and my wife isn't running with a clutch or anything.
I live in the eastern US away from any major metro center and I see some deer around, sometimes a lot and sometimes not, but it's really not "obvious" that they're overpopulated. I wouldn't have any way to draw that conclusion without hearing it from someone in the field who actually knows what constitutes overpopulation for that kind of species. There are also tons of squirrels everywhere but nobody draws the conclusion that they're overpopulated.
Guy sells every house in Silicon Valley
The most disappointing thing to be is they used a lower quality 480p webcam. So many people use Skype or Google Hangouts that a high resolution webcam is a must.
The Prophet - By Kahlil Gibran.

Beautifully written prose. A co-worker lend it to me and I kept it in my desk until I was clearing up before leaving the company. Decided to read it before giving it back to him... it had an impact on me (more compassionate and considerate).

Sounds silly, but I still look back fondly at my decision to read it before giving it back - it meant that much to me!!
Europol kills off shape-shifting 'Mystique' malware
What about support for Microsoft's new container technology?
This seems like something you would buy if you've never done any travel before, rather than something useful for regular travelers.
"Harry Potter and The Methods Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky. I am really liking the recasting, so far.
> 3) Doesn't explain the statistical violence peaks of the 1970s and 1980s in our society.

I thought that at this point it was pretty much accepted that by far the strongest factor here was leaded gasoline.
This might be of interest to you:

http://23zillion.com/about/

(And your vids are AMAZING.)
Wall Street, Silicon Valley - what's the difference?
Stretching this a bit, when someone marriages this with the MIT things that auto-assemble... we'll risk getting some sort of Stargate's Asurans race, which are based on nanites. Self-assembling nanobots [0].

Of course this is just sci-fi... but nonetheless...

[0]http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Asuran
I'm in the same boat. It certainly isn't easy to digest, light reading, but some of the initial ideas seem very interesting.
Dunno udemy.

Coursera seems to offer more of an academic lesson plan (learn linear algebra, algorithms, history of modern China) which doesn't seem very applicable to a specific tech job. These are more for people who want to learn for the joy of learning.
(Same thing would be said about edX although I think it's owned by the schools (could be wrong))

I would say they didn't go after Udacity most likely because of the small, and also younger, user base where as Lynda.com seems to appeal to more of the people who want to transition out of a job into another job.

This is all pure speculation though as I've only done a few courses on udacity and coursera and actually never done any on Lynda.com but have known people who have.
I know of tech companies in the southeast that have team events in which they'll go out hunting for the day. I imagine that's less common in Silicon Valley :-)
Those Xeon chips are mainstream server chips, are they not? And this restriction seems to affect only a few Chinese entities. So what's to stop China from getting the same chips from Intel through another company? Is the U.S. just going to play whack-a-mole with them?

Also, the reason given for this is so hilarious. China is using the supercomputers to "research nuclear explosions". China is doing WHAT?! Stop the presses! China is going to have a nuke!

That said, I think this is a good outcome for China. It will just force them to build out their own chips (okay, on top of ARM, MIPS, OpenPOWER or even RISC-V - but why not?!). More competition for Intel is a good thing.
Effective modern C++ by Scott Meyers.
Apple doesn't claim to do semver
The shininess of the new business model is evidence that the existing regulatory structure is broken and ought to be changed, but in absence of a large, growing, profitable company, who would be pressing for the change? The power would all be concentrated in the existing industry. Only because Uber has sidestepped taxi regulation have they grown powerful enough that fixing the law has become a possibility. If they had tried to do things "the right way" they would never have gotten anywhere.
My apathy stems from the act of hunting a live animal. While I understand hunting for food for survival, hunting for sport or hunting for food when it's not essential doesn't sit well with me.

As for an overpopulated animal, I imagine there must be a better way to deal with that than allowing people to shoot them. Don't get me wrong, I'm not some bleeding heart when it comes to animals, they aren't all perfect snowflakes of uniqueness, I don't don't see the reason to cause an animal that can feel pain to feel that pain without a good cause. To me, "we've been doing it for generations" is not a good cause.

Edit: I'm still interested in having this discussion, but preferably along one of the established threads sprouting from this, unless the point of view hasn't been covered in a reply. There's as little point in me replying the same thing multiple times as there is in having multiple replies to this stating the same thing, but that doesn't mean there aren't interesting things to be said on this topic.
Google is close to making Android Wear work on the iPhone
No need for the snark - salaries in Europe are a different story compared to the USA (aside from Switzerland perhaps); you can find some data here: http://www.payscale.com/research/IE/Location=Dublin-Dublin/S.... Of course, you are not the only one wondering what is going on with that: http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-range-of-software-pro..., http://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineeri....

A salary of €40,000 results in a monthly take-home of about €2,540 (http://ie.thesalarycalculator.co.uk/salary.php) - plus pension, which is a fairly good salary in a city like Dublin for a developer at the beginning of his career (of course you would starve in SF with the same money!).
Charging and mouse for me. I suppose I can use a wireless mouse but all the ones I've tried that don't have a usb dongle seem so jumpy. Bluetooth doesn't seem ready for that frequency yet.
Author here. Feedback welcome :-)
I don't think this necessarily needs to be downvoted. It's pretty clear the new Macbook trades usefulness for portability and style - and is partly aimed at the masses as a fashion accessory.
My girlfriend has a fitbit dongle plugged into her macbook, and may occasionally need to plug in a mouse (i don't remember if it's bluetooth, but mouse makers hate using BT so probably not).

With this in mind, she'd also want to charge and a single port is dreadful for that. She's no programmer, not even close to technically inclined. Just a normal student studying to become a teacher.

A teacher would want a laptop lightweight like this, but when they need to plug in a mouse, maybe a printer? plug it into the projector, into the power because they're low on battery, possibly plug in a usb dongle for a powerpoint remote control...

Well, that's a bit more than a single port (Albeit, obviously personalized for a single type of job).

Multiple ports are much more important than you're giving them credit for. If it's around the end of day at that coffee shop, some of those people might be plugging their phone into their laptop, too.
I agree that it looks somewhat underpowered currently. Worth remembering that this was also the case with the Macbook Air when it launched.
With a service, someone is performing something, not having something done to them

The idea that sex is having something done to you, as opposed to something you're doing for or with someone, strikes me as a rather old-fashioned and sexist attitude. I'd like to believe that my wife and I share something better than that.

Of course, there are a lot of personal values tied up in this question, so I don't think that either your opinion or mine necessarily prevails. That being the case, I think the best indicator is what each individual chooses to do of their own free will.
Same here. As a kid in rural South Carolina the first place I saw a deer was at a county fair locked up in a pen. We had over hunted them to the brink. There were also many plants you no longer see today. All kinds of hardwoods and shrubs have almost disappeared.

Today when I pull into my driveway at night there are always several deer peering back. before they dart off into the woods.
Our 'rigorous' investigation resulted in safer airline travel.

Our ancestors' attempt to explain it by inventing elemental gods and pleasing them...does nothing.
You could break the text up into sentences [1] and do sentiment analysis [2] on the sentences with 'remote' in. Then flag based on that.

[1] https://opennlp.apache.org/documentation/1.5.3/manual/opennl...

[2] http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/
The Haptic Endorphin Addiction – Why Apple Watch Will Be a Hit
Well, the use case for this laptop is for portability. Why would you need a million ports if you're gonna be traveling or at the coffee shop?. The only time I use an additional port is to charge my iphone, and I could easily do that with the wall charger. This is not a work laptop
It's OK to work while on holidays.

Eg. you can check your email and do a bit of work to keep things going at home, it's not legal, but it is understood to happen and you'll be fine.

Full time work however is NOT allowed without a working permit.

Your link at [1] even confirms that at pretty much the first line. There is no specific exclusion for "remote work".
Sure, here it is: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/84952/software-develop...

As noted elsewhere in the thread, please keep in mind that salaries in Europe are generally much lower compared to the States :)
Aye, maybe "clutch" is what I'm thinking of. I really think that the difference between 2lbs and 3.5lbs is really what makes the difference for this use-case, as well as the smaller size.
The Hard Thing about Hard Things (for the 3rd time).
I have to agree. I have an older macbook that if I upgrade to another above Snow Leopard, it runs pretty slow. But I do understand that support for older devices has to stop at some point.
With all due respect, in my mind whether scientific studies "bother someone" or not shouldn't really be a primary concern. What should be primary concern is understanding these phenomena and whether or not they truly have a long term impact on humanity's well being.

Lack of water, mass starvation, and other similar problems should be more of a concern than whether a news story "bothers someone".
Microsoft hasn't announced docker support yet, so we'll have to wait and see. Since the script is fairly Linux specific, I don't imagine it will work in a Windows container without a lot of work.
"Building financial technology is hard. Really hard. Startups are always hard, but fin tech is a whole different level of self-inflicted pain. You’ll be regulated. You’ll deal with big banks. They’ll see you as little and cute until you’re meaningful. Once that happens, they’ll want to crush you out of existence."

- Max Levchin http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/max-levchin-hates-credit-cards...
Out of curiosity, how much is 10lb of laundry? I don't think I have any idea how much my clothes weigh.
Show HN: An infinite scroll board of random links on the internet
This is what I use.

Daily:
https://github.com/trending
http://www.rssheap.com/articles

Once a week
http://css-weekly.com/ -- Mondays (sometimes Tuesday)
http://html5weekly.com/ -- Wednesdays
http://javascriptweekly.com/ -- Fridays

Intro to follow certain leaders and such:
http://uptodate.frontendrescue.org/

Javascript Specific:
http://dailyjs.com/

CSS Specific:
https://css-tricks.com/

Occasionally browse the "Picks" for Codepen:
http://codepen.io/

Which is how I find awesome up-and-comers like mo.js
http://codepen.io/sol0mka/full/ogOYJj/
Reversing Apple80211
That metallurgy book looks awesome! I just picked up my blacksmithing hobby again recently, so this is very timely. Thanks!
Last week I finished re-reading LOTR. It was awesome.

Besides that, I am currently reading Scala in Depth (Suereth) and re-reading Refactoring (Fowler).
Maybe this will result in banks upgrading their systems from COBOL/FORTRAN to something slightly more modern, like... Java/C++.

Or are they just going to skip a generation, and move directly to io.js/Node.js?
I'm a bit unhappy about the notion of any sort of "right-to-farm" program.

I used to live in Wheat Ridge, Colorado. As the name implies, before Wheat Ridge was a suburb of Denver, it was named after the abundance of farmers in the area. My dad and grandparents lived there when you could still see cattle or horses on in some places. The local high school's sports team is even named "the Farmers."

So there was something romantic about having the one of the last farms in Wheat Ridge right next to my neighborhood. The owner was too stubborn to sell until a couple of years ago, because the city had no means of forcing the sale of the land. Despite the nostalgia, everyone pretty much hated the farm because it dragged down land values and contributed little tax income to the city compared to the ~40 or so houses that are now replacing it.

In my view, agriculture seems to work against the interests of an expanding suburb or city, and shouldn't be encouraged if it has a negative impact on surrounding homeowners.
What kind of issues? I've literally noticed no differences besides UI.
Show HN: ScholarCheck – Programmatically verify students' emails
A bright person can pick up a new language or framework in a few days or less, but it will take some time working in that ecosystem before they're really writing natural and idiomatic code. All other things being equal, I would prefer to hire someone who has experience in the same stack.
It's because they were bought by linkedin, not many people's favorite. They're known for doing some borderline shady practices.
You're making the mistake of thinking that the software that Twitter builds today should be the same as the software they built early on as a startup company. You can't make those comparisons because as company during those times Twitter was facing completely different realities. What were those realities early on? Twitter had:

1. Small team, small budget, smaller set of technical skills.

2. The need to do a lot with less.

For these needs, I would argue that Rails was the perfect tool for Twitter early on. It likely gave them a competitive advantage in their development.

However as with all fast growing prodcts, nearly every app experiences a new set of challenges every time its traffic scales up by an order of magnitude. Twitter being an extreme example of among the most difficult-to-scale apps you can imagine (data is rapidly being created and read -- by its nature its inherently hard to cache).

Their original app was built by relatively inexperienced developers hacking together an MVP. By the time they reached scale the had a roster of senior developers capable of rebuilding the system way more professionally than they ever could have in the early days. Rebuilding the core functionality was trivial, and this time, they could build it from the ground up to support 5000+ tweets a second.
I'm a huge fan of John Dies At The End. It's really not for everyone but I found it incredibly entertaining. The follow-up, This Book Is Full of Spiders is also worth reading.
Being a night owl might be bad for your health
It's a fascinating look at how to create almost failure free systems out of mechanical things that break and humans that do stupid things.

Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow is a great book on the topic of how to put together complex systems that are forgiving of user error: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

Here's a summary: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~kell0956/docs/systemic_failures_1.pdf

The book uses airline safety as one of its primary examples. Here's an article applying it to a previous aircraft disaster: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/08/disaster-book-club-what-you...
I can't remember the last time I had more than one port in use. With battery life as good as it is in modern laptops one port is all I need. I like that there is no fan in Macbook and it is thin and highly portable. By the time my Retina Macbook Pro dies I think the Macbook will have a powerful enough processor and enough ram for my needs. At that time I will get a Macbook. I like that there is only one port and that I don't have to fiddle with getting the connector the right side up to plug it into the port. My only concern regarding the Macbook is the new touchpad. Does it allow click and hold for copying/pasting text? This wasn't clear to me from the videos I've seen.

I'm guessing that these will replace the Macbook Air in a couple of years.
Also because they have less money - by many, many orders of magnitude.
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Isn't that a bit like auto accidents vs motorcycle accidents? Although closely related, one mode of transport is inherently more dangerous. And that more dangerous mode is only used by a small subset of the population.
I'm starting Hardwiring Happiness. If you've read it, what did you think, and did it impact your life? How so?
I agree on the mouse part, but I've found an external trackpad works fantastically well.
The designers are trying to "make a point", but what that point is, exactly, is unclear.
Wells Fargo Investing in Environmental Startups
Read Zen back in the day. On the surface, it's simplistic but once you gain an understanding of where Pirsig is going, it is amazingly complex. Its definitely not light reading. It takes some real concerted effort but, in the end, it's worth it.
The simplest version control for designers
Works the same way for whoever uses it.
It probably doesn't help that Ann Arbor is called A^2.
Next step is wireless headphones. iPhones can't get thinner with the classic 3.5mm port. This analog jack is the only port besides the advanced USB-C port on the new macbook. I think that Apple's big push next year will be bluetooth headphones, driven by Beats, with the goal of removing the analog audio port.
They should have disrupted more! Meritocracy, motherfuckers.
I'm just guessing, but perhaps the mainboard doesn't have the lanes for two.
I love the concept from Google Glass to Google Cocoon. Very clever.
Allegedly, there were over 1,600 Twitter employees with options valued over $1M at IPO:

http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-ipo-created-1600-mill...
Do you mean that it is hard to determine user intent, context, etc. in order to push highly relevant notifications to a user?
Interestingly, the release notes for the 2015-004 patch that includes the fix specifically mention it is also available for Mavericks and Mountain Lion.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
Just How Important Is Scientific Accuracy in Jurassic Park?
Anna Karenina. It's probably my favorite book, and this is probably read #7 or so.

It's a very observant novel about love and marriage and adultery and divorce in most every permutation, life and death and meaning.

It's different every time I read it and has something to say to readers in any phase of life.
Being positive? You're putting words in my mouth. I'm talking about less whining and insulting toward other people's companies and projects. No need to be positive.

Honesty about predictions is bullshit. You can't be honest about predictions. Predictions are by definition about events that didn't happen yet (what will happen), or never can happen (what would have happened if something in the past had been different).

Real talk? Predictions are not about real things, they are about predicted things.
I don't find that too surprising but the battery life being so below what Apple says and other models is very odd.
How to land on a comet
> but I think Apple sees what I see in that weight and battery life are more important than number of ports.

The review specifically talks about the disappointing battery life. If Apple cared about battery life, they would have opted to use their fancy stacked battery to give the 13 inch even better battery life. As it stands, Apple's own webpage lists the Macbook's battery life as worse than the 13, and this review has it not even meeting those expectations (a departure from most recent Apple products which have fared quite well in battery life tests). So I think you're going to be seeing lots of charging with this thing. Apple seems to now have made their intentions clear: thinner at all costs, even battery life.
Just make a copy of the binary that's editable by the user. Or copy its code into a new program. There's nothing special about the specific root-owned systemsetup binary. (It's not setuid.)
"Politics - Observations and Arguments" by Henrik Hertzberg. Collection of work by Hertzberg, the longtime New Yorker writer. Excellent, succinct writing that illustrates beautifully a rational, progressive political stance.
Jeff Gothelf on Lean Product Design
And, if the iPhones eventually get a type-C as well (and there's a high probability), you'll be able to feed up to 100W to it, according to the specifications.

Also by the specs, it could even work backwards, in theory.
I'm a teacher and I can't remember the last time I needed more than one port. Printing is always done over a network at my college. I haven't plugged in a printer in at least 10 years. I never liked trackpads until I used Apple's trackpad. Now the only time I use a mouse is for gaming. Once the Macbook gets more powerful I will definitely be buying one.
Can you link to this? I wasn't able to find info about this fixed yearly fee plan on their site.
Sailing to the Reefs by Bernard Moitessier
It rather sounds like your preference for brew is that brew is a user-level tool that can't update system packages. There's certainly a case to be made user-scoped package managers are valuable, but "my package manager is capable of updating everything including my kernel" is a feature, not a bug, IMO - brew's constant conflicts with OS X's Apple-provided toolchains should be more than sufficient evidence as to why.

apt-get et al are extremely capable package managers, and in my experience result in much more stable and consistent installs than brew does, specifically because it can be aware of things like OS-level dependencies which it can then manage.
Any code running as any user on an unpatched version can become root (and do whatever it wants, E.g. install keyloggers)

Sandboxed apps (from the app storr) may be blocked from doing this, I'm not sure.
Indeed. #ShitHNSays worthy.
I use Panda. Whenever you open a new window or tab, it serves a lot of different sources. But be warned, it can be a huge time sink.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/panda-4-news-inspi...
Immorality aside, it is illegal.
I like how most people here have a fiction and non-fiction book on the go at the same time. Not just me then :)

Currently reading The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, after finishing East of Eden, which I loved. On the non-fiction front I'm reading Big Data by Kenneth Cukier and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Both interesting and compelling in their own ways.