skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately most spdy / HTTP2 implementations mandate TLS. This means websites that rely on ad revenue cannot benefit from these improvements without losing revenue. I'd really love to use spdy / HTTP2 but ad revenue is more important, so I'll be continuing to sprite for the near future.

Given how awful ad serving architecture is these days for smaller publishers (chains of javascripts and iframes), I don't anticipate this being fixed for quite a while.
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I was afraid of what might happen to Apple after Steve Job's death. He said Tim wasn't a gadget guy. I am trying to give Apple a lot of grieving room, but enough is enough. I'm particularly irritated because I'm having OS X and iOS problems simultaneously. I'm actually so impressed with Microsoft lately, I'm thinking of putting all my meager savings on their stock. This is coming from a guy who literally thought Microsoft was evil.
(Bots can ape humans by playing out scripts.)
Why middleware just won't die
Leaving aside upgrades and repairs, it makes disassembly for recycling purposes overly difficult, i.e. expensive, when everything is glued. This reduces the profitability and therefore likelihood of recycling each individual component to the maximum of its potential.
Yeah, I don't understand. If the government hacked a private corporation and published 50,000 internal documents online, there would be a shitstorm. But some group of rogue hackers does it and suddenly it might be ok? What's the difference?
What about aluminium? It's pretty much the reverse--hard to mine, easy to work. So that's a big bonus pre-fossil fuel society didn't have, the aluminium is already mined and out there.

Now on the other hand, I find it puzzling how so many people in this thread (and also part of the assumptions in the article) seem to forget all the things we could do perfectly well without fossil fuels.

Glass? Brick? Mortar? Is it maybe because in America you don't see as many obviously before-fossil-fuel buildings that contain all these materials?

I don't see many people mentioning specific years, neither could could I find a clear number on several WP pages, but considering most of the graphs about production/consumption, we didn't start using fossil fuels until about 1800-1850 (with coal), with significant numbers not even beginning to appear until after 1850.

Any idea what sort of technologies we already had before that? It's not too bad :) Yet, the Industrial Revolution was already on its way since 1760.

We had microscopes, architecture, surgery, books, printing presses ...

And just because most things today are made out of plastic doesn't mean they have to be. A lot of those things exist only because plastic is so ridiculously cheap it's not even cost-effective to develop an alternative. Remember old things being built to last? That's how you make up for the ridiculous cheapness of plastic. It almost sounds cheesy and old-timey to repeat, but if you do the mental math it adds up: a styrofoam cup is maybe 1000x as cheap, so it made economical sense to consume and throw away. I already easily use a coffee mug on average 1000s of times (daily coffee times a bunch of years) before it breaks, and that's without even trying. Some of the plastic things, like shopping bags, don't even really last if you try (shopping bag, used four times before it rips somewhere?) that's the sort of thing we'll stop making as soon as the margins stop being insane and use the resources spent on something 1000x more durable instead of 1000x as cheap. Remember that oil and/or plastic won't just 100% disappear, suddenly. It's a really weird luxury state we live in at the moment, but plastic is still pretty awesome as a material even if it's quite expensive and not as plentiful (just look at glass or fine pottery), in particular as durable alternatives become economical again.
If only US policemen listened more closely to Sun Tzu.
The list lacks the coffee bean head screw used in coffee makers. At least there is another security screw type that is somewhat compatible... http://maultech.com/chrislott/blog/pix/spanner-screw-bit-sma...

(from http://maultech.com/chrislott/blog/20100627_nespresso.html )
Exactly like me! :) I couldn't put it down to save my life.
Linux Kernel 4.0 Codenamed ‘Hurr Durr I’m a Sheep’ Released, Upgrade in Linux
I did a fresh install from a seemingly healthy, semi-recent MBP and Yosemite's WindowServer seemed to begin a slow strangulation on my machine.

Solved it by buying a top-of-the-line machine, which I'm sure Apple is loving.
absolutely! jfeighery,
Because they have not been properly educated to fully appreciate our corporate overlords.

I, for one, welcome Sony's involvement in politics, their relentless subversion of free trade agreements to impose rent-seeking behavior on intellectual property, their wise usage of public money to pursue evil pirates and the "wag the dog" campaign against North Korea to distract attention from security policies and an upcoming box office flop.
But luckily the US is changing that by re-defining who is or is not a civilian.

Last I checked the official stance was that any able-bodied adult or adolescent male in a war zone is considered an enemy combatant in official statistics.
Launching a Digital Currency Initiative
You're absolutely right.

Actually, Scandinavia in general has high quality developers on the cheap compared to the states. This while their quality of life seems on a whole better - seems a win/win to invest in or open satellite offices there :)
All of New York City's 592,130 Trees, Mapped
And a display, a glass panel, speakers, multiple boards for auxilliary logic, a touch pad, a few -- well, two -- outside ports, and a lot of internal connections. All of which can break, but aren't user servicable.

Not to mention that it wasn't too long ago -- still isn't, in many devices -- that the "logic board" was not a discrete piece of hardware, but a place where you could plug in discrete components to repair and/or upgrade your computer.

Yes, you can hand your device back to Apple to get it repaired. But two or three years down the road, that's gonna be more expensive than just chucking it, at best recycling a few of the materials. If it was more maintainable, your nerdy teenage relative might have a fair chance of recovering the device instead (free laptop!).

And yes, there's a tradeoff between repairability and a host of other desired attributes -- cost, compactness, etc. Presumably Apple is judging that the market demands the latter while it doesn't care about the former -- at all. It's that totality that I take issue with.

What's more, Apple, more than any other tech company, continuously shapes what the market wants: if they brought out a series a smartphones that are user-servicable (say as a feature of an entry-level Apple Phone for emerging markets), the other manufacturers would fall in line quickly. It's rare that it works the other way round, although they've done it twice now for mobile device size, first for tablets then for phones, sort of a blow to the Apple mystique.

And of course only a fool would recognise that the manufacturers interests are not at all aligned with consumer interests regarding maintainability. Planned obsolescense is what makes this market -- a perfect storm of rapid technological progress and lack of repairability. When consumers want ever sleeker and faster devices, that's something Apple engineers can deliver, again and again. But a device that will just last them a decade is a device you only sell once in a decade.

Finally, Apple is hardly unique or particularly noteable in any of this. As usual, they're just good at what they're doing. Unless there's a surprising change in market demands, I fully expect most other laptops to look like this in a couple of years, just like most phones now come with glued in batteries and most laptop displays are fused with the front glass, turning a 30 USD repair into a 600 USD one. If anything, the fact that Apple devices are well-built and only start at the middle-end going into high-end means that people will be disinclined to just chuck them and get a new one instead.
anyone who is an employee of a corporation, knows that every email they write/send on a corporate mail server, absolutely can come into public purview

Is this coming from the HN crowd that registers domains with contact information anonymity enabled, loves to incorporate in Delaware and complains about privacy and NSA spy programs?

Could you please turn your emails public so we can review them in case you might be doing something wrong? No? Thought so.

It's for the courts to decide if Sony is doing something wrong. Wikileaks is a nice idea and I've supported them for a while, but they can't help but shoot themselves in the foot with dubious behavior like this.
>But I think both can agree that this generates more e-waste than necessary

How so?

https://www.apple.com/recycling/

The components are separated for recycling.
"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"

~ Carl Sandburg
And way back in time, Apple had even factory-disabled my second NVIDIA card on my MBP because it had created heating issues in tests. So, I installed gfx, or something, to get it working. And then, predictably, major major heating issues.

And it was easily solved! Apparently Apple (the rumor is Jobs ordered this, but who knows) didn't want the fans spinning too fast, which caused noise. So they governed the speed on those, too. Solved with SMC Fan Control.

I wasn't too happy about being somewhat deceived by their specs for my equipment, even if they thought their intentions were "good".
Most of them are "designed" by the market, not
psychologists — addictiveness is a selectional pressure.

If a car is reliable, is it because of the highly paid expert engineers who improve the design; or the multi-billion-dollar company that hires those engineers; or the free market competition that discourages unreliability?

I'd say the answer is "all of them, but in different ways"
How's is this whistle-blower material?
>What this meant was the wording of the instructions would be procedural rather than declarative. Instead of “Your tax is 15 percent of the amount on line 42,” we had “Multiply the amount on line 42 by 0.15 and write the result on line 43.”
OwnersCircle (YC S14) is hiring a full stack Rails developer
No need to say sorry. Truth might be bitter but is still truth. It's going to be a little doom's day today in the finance world worldwide.
> Obligatory SMBC link: http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2225*

Sadly, this really works that way sometimes. Just yesterday an unexpected moment of introspection triggered a small anxiety attack in me. Thank God we have Hacker News...
It may be frightening but it is a very natural urge. Most people use sport and competition as an outlet for this. Personally I think the idea of trying to nullify our innate desires is a a lot scarier.
It also looks like the markets are dropping sharply (SnP futures etc). I wonder if there is a connection?
Patio11 on going to university: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1182552
What is the use case? If you want to verify that someone is who they say they are, and really are a member of HN, then you can give them a string and ask them to put it in their HN profile. You can retrieve the HN profile, verify the string, and know that the person you're "talking to" is indeed a member of HN.

That may not be what you're looking for, but without more information as to what you are doing, it's hard to suggest anything else.
I've been running Win7 on a Dell Optiplex 980 for years, and have never had a BSOD. Except yesterday when I pressed Ctrl-Up arrow/Ctrl-Right/Ctrl-Down in Visual Studio. That was just asking for it :o)

(Ctrl-Up flips the screen).
Who exactly are you and who exactly gave you authority to examine private correspondence?
Post-modern Western journalists and politicians are spectacularly ill-equipped to understand and hence deal with, people who actually believe in something, whatever that thing may be.
There is a big qualitative difference between the conflicts in Europe and the wars waged by America. Wars in europe are nationalistic, vicious and leave deep scars even decades later on. It's fair to say we still haven't recovered from the scars of the 2 WWs and are still suspicious of each other. The US army is worldwide police. Their soldiers are basically heavily armed "policemen" who execute missions in exotic countries. That's why hollywood sees war as fun, technical an inhuman.
Yes, you right, Scala comunity tend to be friendly and helpful when you want to learn something. But only until you criticize something about Scala :) That's at least my experience. After some critique I even had some private emails saying that "yes, I feel the same" but nobody dared to step in and say it publically. Maybe they just learned the lesson.
Did he edit his comment after you replied? I totally agree with what he said to GP: "don't include me in your 'we think war machines are cool.'" That's bad form in general, doubly so on this touchy subject.
Can you see the irony in your comment? "If you'd like to change a certain behaviour, you should indulge in that same behaviour as much as you can."

How do you fix a broken process, if the only way to do it is going through the same broken process?
No, it doesn't. In all those cases, courts (remember?) have the power to request the emails and use them as evidence of wrongdoing. If they are not doing that, there are legal ways for all of us to chime in and pressure them to do so. Release private company emails to the world (without much discretion, giving how useless most of them are) is completely stupid. It's the opposite of what Snowden did with the NSA documents and completely disconnected from responsible disclosure.
The reason Bitcoin is not used for remittance is not due to trust, it's due to the fact Bitcoin doesn't have an advantage in the remittance space.

There are companies such as https://transferwise.com/ that provide cheap money sending with no Bitcoin involved. Quick, simple and easy to understand.

Bitcoin has many strengths, but remittance isn't one of them.
One force having all knowledge and controlling it, even using their advantage of information asymmetry to control it, I would say, is different enough from EVERYONE KNOWING THE TRUTH, that yes, perhaps we can have this discussion.
XP boost have no level after lvl 30, which is reached quickly, and is where the real game begins.

IP boost allows you to buy runes quickly, this happens outside the game. Runes have in-game effects, but the difference between T2 (which are extremely easy to buy without spending a dime) and T3 are minor.

I played LoL for years without spending a single penny in it, and I never were under the impression that the game was purposely made boring to force me to buy in-game items.

Freemiums game feels that way. At first, everyting is fun, and they even give you some 'free' currency to hook you on spending, and after a few hour, if you don't pay, the game becomes boring as fuck, because everything take hours.
Accountancy is largely (to paraphrase Keynes) moving rocks from one place to another. He was right Keynes, essentially for economies to continue growing indefinitely most jobs have to be bullshit jobs.
Human sexual dimorphism? Ridiculous. Humans aren't animals.

Funny how the far right and far left so often suffer from the same defects if you look close enough.
A bit misleading title, but Bhutan has its own share of problems. The Bhutanese refugee issue, a large scale eviction of Bhutanese citizens of Nepalese origin is a prime example of the Druk kingdom's shady regime.

[1] http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/art...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhutanese_refugees
[3] http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49e487646.html
> I'm 25, I feel like I'm losing at life already. It was okay to be broke earlier, because it's expected. It's not anymore, when almost none of your peers are.

I would _strongly_ recommend disregarding third-party success metrics.

You're carving your own path. Keep learning. Keep playing. Money will eventually come.
Good job WikiLeaks, I applaud it. We already know fulltime employees are sitting on this site trying to spread lies.
Tipue Search 5.0 released. Tipue Search is a jQuery site search engine
this opens a new era in the car-sharing business!
It may also be just a piece of propaganda, especially since it's written by Spiegel.

Somehow all opponents to the pro-US mainstream opinion end up there being narcissists (IS), evil dictators (Putin, Assad) and weak governments (Iraq, Afghanistan, just recently Greece), usually ridiculing them without asking for their motives.

A few months ago Spiegel even had to defend itself openly because people cancelled their subscriptions due to what was perceived as warmongering (Kriegshetze)

My own opinion is that unless media reports positive and negative aspects from both parties (because there is never only one culprit, neither in politics nor in marriage), they cannot be taken seriously.
The thing is, Sony in the past acted like a bully. Now the bully is being bullied.

Turnabout is fair play? I don't know, but that's the sentiment behind this sort of action.

Look at the positive: I bet loads of corporate execs are now going to give their IT teams extra money to "not end up like those Sony guys".
Is there an alternative to Bloomberg? I haven't ever heard of traders using anything else.
Ask HN: How to deal with failure as a programmer?
I consult multiple businesses with their software projects for decent rates, however yesterday I got a call that I lost a client several hundred dollars in sales & subscribers and created a small accounting nightmare by messing up a part of the stripe integration. The problem was not apparent when he had 20 customers, has been lingering as I was away and now that he has several hundred subscribers certain parts are falling apart and he is furious.

At the same time I am booked for another client and am likely going to under-deliver by their deadline and the project has been a bit of a nightmare.

People don't seem to call when everything is going well and just pay their invoices, but when something goes wrong I am the person that wrote the broken code at the end of the day.

I enjoy writing code, and most of the time everything goes well and everybody is very happy.

But today is not one of those days, today I had 2 people independently shouting at me on the phone. Is that just part of running a business and growing up? Is that just part of being responsible for complex things? How do you deal with that stress on a psychological level?
Show HN: Butler – a tool for people too lazy to remeber long shell commands
From the plans page: Business plan, 100 comments per month, $49 per month. That seems ridiculously expensive to me - ¢49 per comment! Is this a typo for "100k comments per month" perhaps?
SEOcial Media: The new marketing metric
A $57m food startup's user is ashamed but can't stop
Unfortunately, existing x86 license is non-transferable. I guess it is possible to make another contract though...
So how do you do è, ê and ë in OS X? In Windows, it's the French keyboard (a mere Alt-Shift away), and e+', e+{ or e+}, a small price to pay for convenience. You can't get away from double keystrokes. Except for é, which is /.
New Dark-Web Market Is Selling Zero-Day Exploits to Hackers
this resonates me! i think "happiness" is actually a relative, sliding-scale thing. if you've been comfortable and secure for a long time then i think you're actually going to find it hard to be happy, since a relatively high level of happiness has become your "normal" and you take it for granted. yet if you're going through struggles and grief a lot, it's much easier to feel happy about basic things.

like the article said, pain and suffering shouldn't be avoided but should be accepted as a normal part of life. and when you're going through it, it's heartening to look at your suffering as a down payment for greater joy and appreciation later on.
Try to do a non emotional analysis first. An emotional analysis will make you quit at some point. Everyone has a few lows now and then; it only takes one of these to call it quits. Look at the numbers and prospects. Analyze this on the time frame of your needs. It looks, from your text, that you can hang in for six months at the most, and even then with some effort.

Look at the numbers. Is there money coming in? Are there sales prospects in the pipeline? When can the company free cash for your salary? Can the company cut some costs in order to free cash for your salary? The scenario, for a six month time-frame should be clear. Talk it out with your partner. Make sure he knows your predicament.

Then, and only then, look at it emotionally. Can you realistically make the effort? Assume there's a relevant chance it does not pan out. More so if the plans hang in undeveloped sales prospects. It's awfully different if you're about to close a couple of decent contracts than it is if you're just starting sales pitches.

Unfortunately, and any founder will tell you this, outside opinion is very unreliable. Hear from people that have founded companies. Everyone else has a different risk profile. I can't count the number of times I was questioned "why don't you take a corporate job? With your skill level, you'd be a demi-god.". Even other founders are biased. It's truly a personal decision, and must be taken as rationally as possible.
Anniversaries- the style of celebration varies from one culture to another
Generate a string of random characters and ask the user to add it to their "about" information.
Clustered mobile camera lenses promise 52-megapixel after-shot focusing
((Standard grammar reps can ape sense.)) )

Why reattach to attacking who is writing it before asking anything about what I actually worded? That is the literacy problem.

Judgemental life script doctors? How do we know self-determinate order if we are telling people why their words form before asking logically for sense?

"The robots are already here, and they're called [social structures and empathic dictation]. Be very very scared. Don't ask when it will happen. It's already happened." —Tim Berners-Lee
This is off-topic. But for anyone interested, the manga series "Jin", by Motoka Murakami has a very nice depiction of some of the health issues in Tokyo towards the end of the Edo period. The protagonist is a doctor trained in modern medicine, who gets sent back in time and we see his treatment efforts without modern equipment or medicines.
Hacked site – getting trojan emails
I and my co-founder are almost in the same situation right now (except that we don’t have rent). I think it's more about you and if you have the power to keep going but yes you should have customers and built something or part of it.
Many DPRK tour companies will take care of this sort of thing for you; they run specific marathon tours. They take care of visas and travel and hotels and all the rest of it, like every tour they run, and also get you a slot on the marathon.

I could suggest the tour group I went there with, but suffice to say if you search you'll find a handful of good groups that come with recommendations.
I use format because you can break lines within the parentheses. You also get to name parameters, which is nice and explicit.

I also import print_function from the future, mainly because you can break lines inside the parentheses.

I also use ' '.join([...]) for the same reason when building a large-ish string, you can break lines inside parentheses (or square brackets in this case).

I like breaking lines inside parentheses and other delimiters.