skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've made the switch 4 years ago and never looked back. I thought it'd be struggle to take the bike when (good) public transport is available (Berlin, Germany) but I've found that it doesn't require any willpower: I prefer the independence and that I get to see the city, and not just the subway walls.

Anything within a 10km radius is absolutely no problem. During the day I'm faster than a car, and at night it's just fun. Rain is a still problem, even though I noticed I don't actually mind getting wet that much. Once inside, you dry within half an hour.
Bah!, can't access it from the UK!
> The components are separated for recycling.

Where is that stated? I read these pages and all I could find was Apple saying that Apple requires its external recycling companies to respect local laws, i.e. they are shipping 20ft containers to East Asia and are done with it.
I doubt it.

However, a man (or woman) could go to war to defend their country against an aggressor and do so effectively without torturing or raping anyone. However, they pretty much have to be prepared to kill people... Indeed many modern armies will investigate and eventually punish rapists and torturers whilst they giving medals for doing lots of killing...

So 'murder' (or killing people) is a necessary condition for fighting a war. Rape and torture are neither necessary nor sufficient.
Does Intel need an amd64 license? If so it seems whoever owns amd64 will get an x86 license.
Looks really good. Some questions:

1. It looks like google or github login is required. Any plans for anonymous comments? Or maintaining local user accounts, or connections to existing login systems?
2. There is no moderation. Any plans for editorial review options?

Thanks.
LOL, the new Godwin's Law: Edward Snowden.

(See my valid but then NSA downvoted answer to the question below regarding GO vs. Rust that no one else could answer and were forced to make jokes about -- if you are wondering what I mean.)

Sorry rust thread. :(

(now kicked off the front page)
I hope your correct, on that being a typo!
It would be a B grade third course project if not on the Google SERP.
I thought the same thing. Why couldn't they just make the ground green?
Pringle:
https://www.google.co.uk/?q=(x*x)%2B(y-x)-(y*y)
What I have done is to pick milestones that must be met in order for me to continue. I too share your emotional frustrations and depression. For example, my family recently fell apart.

So, figure out what would need to happen in order for your business to become sustainable. Break that into small milestones. Inform your partner what advancements must be made in order for you to continue.

Potential milestone examples:

* 10 paying users within one month.
* 1 full time salary supported by paying users by month 3
* A couch to sleep on by yesterday.

You are young, you are ambitious, you are intelligent. Give it one more final rally and if it fails move on to something more stable for a couple of years. Then re-evaluate.
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Reminds me a bit of this book on a modern take on stoicism:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0195374614

Had a part about negative visualization where one would contemplate the negative aspects of life as much as the positive as a sort of counterbalance to hedonic adaptation. One would fall into a good life as being the norm and start to become overly negative about inconsequential aspects of it and hope for the next step up where the cycle would repeat. Instead, using this negative visualisation thing, one would contemplate how life would be without a paying job or a family or arms which I suppose leads to positive thoughts about having such things.
the optimist says that to save space Apple had to glue and solder so much, the pessimist says it's so that Apple can charge more for repairs/replacements

I think it's a combination of optimising for space and cost - every connector that needs to be aligned and connected, and every screw that needs to be installed, requires time and labour. It's far cheaper and faster to glue and solder everything together. This is known as DFM in the industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_manufacturability

One of the more obvious examples of this in laptops is the move from keyboards with shaped keys to flat "island-style" ones; the latter are cheaper to produce.
Yeah, I've been using it for a while on my windows boxes. I was very happy at first, but later on I got issues with updating the products. I haven't tried it in a while though.
> It was a nice ideal when laptops were just PCs put into smaller boxes, but as manufacturers put the effort and investment into satisfying our demands for smaller, faster, lighter, I don't think the expectation of poking around inside them is reasonable.

A big part of the annoyance with Apple is their tendency to explicitly take steps against repairs: insane amounts of glue, multiple "weird" screws (the macbook here uses pentalobe, torx, philips and tri-wing in a single machine), non-standard formats & connectors (I don't expect them to ever swap their non-soldered SSDs for M.2, even though they've altered the connector and format multiple times).

Having the machine be "hard to repair" because it's highly integrated is one thing, taking decisions which deliberately hinder repairability and have basically no other advantage is quite another.

> We don't see people complaining about the repairability of their R-Pis, Chromecasts, SoC systems etc.

Nobody complains about the repairability of an RPi because no specific step to make it harder to repair for no value were undertaken.
Really spot on. Just one thing - according to Rene Girard religion is a way to control and confine aggression. It controls aggression by aggression in a very dangerous way - but at the core it is a 'social technology' with the goal of limiting the outcomes of conflicts. I believe that theory has a lot of truth in it.
I amn't sure, but you should follow http://www.codeproject.com/ to find coding related solutions.
I agree that the schooling system, for most schools, is optimised for many things other than learning. Organised childcare would seem to be the primary goal for many classrooms, learning a secondary goal. Grouping by age instead of ability and interest is a poor idea in my observation. I think streaming and do grouping by level should be done much earlier. The goal should be to get talented kids to work together and in competition and achieving their learning as early as possible, and only mix them with the less talented kids occasionally. The least achieving kids should be prepared for life with an education in good solid skills and common sense, rather than making them try and fail at topics they can't do, which just turns them off learning for life.

Anyway, I'd redesign the whole thing if you gave me the job. That's all.
Search it in Google and look into the cached version.
Not posting a link because the cached version may/will be updated sooner or later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3dUeGNIX4M

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/typehoverswipe/
Axis labels? Anybody?
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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CV2nyQ3...
This is a quite nice design.

Obviously (?) this is a 2-port hub in the connector housing, with one port going to the extension cable, and the other to the through-port.

Those hubs chips will need energy to run, so there will be a limit to how many you can daisy-chain.

I didn't see any mention of what this limit is, it would have been interesting to see if the higher power spec of USB 3.1 means it comes closer to infinity than for USB 2.0.
It would be interesting to have the Industry Leaders, such as Apple, and Samsung, come out and explain what their thinking is regarding abandoning modular construction.

Even Samsung, with the Galaxy 6, no longer includes a replaceable battery.

My guess, is that in order to increase reliability, and reduce cost, companies have come to the realization that it's most straightforward to do that by abandoning multiple "plug in" components, and just soldering the memory, cpu, flash onboard.

For better or worse, I think the Macbook is the way of the future - and I suspect that in 2-3 years, the vast majority of the laptops being sold will be just a small stick of logic-board+flash+memory in the same way the Macbook is today.
apparently before 2013 as shown in this 'google boobs' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQjNpFCjfKE
As someone who has a failed startup under their belt, you know it's failed when you don't want up with a 100% chance of optimism that it's going to work out.

My strong suggestion, when/if you reach that stage (and it sounds like you're there), just let everyone know you need to move on.

It will be OK, I promise. Your investors will be OK. They invested knowing they might lose their investment. Your co-founder will be OK. He may be frustrated with you for X number of months or even years, but that's OK.

You tried your best, and it didn't work out, but that's OK. You're only 25, you basically paid yourself to learn a ton of about a ton in a short compressed time period. \

Eventually you'll learn to be impressed with how much you did in this timeframe.

Once you leave, give yourself time to heal and reflect.

These are the experiences that teach us and help us grow, but you'll need time away to see that clearly.

Good luck! Keep the good fight going and know there's a community of us who had something not work out, but were able to rebound and make the next one work... or the next one.. or the next one.. :)
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>This is more freedom and more transparency. What is wrong with that?

People have an inherent right to privacy, and they don't (generally) forfeit that right when they decide to coordinate their actions with other people (within or without the context of a corporation) that also have a right to privacy.
I think when you said JavaScript you meant programing language

C: https://notabug.org/koz.ross/awesome-c

Java: http://www.fromdev.com/2014/10/most-widely-used-java-librari...

Erlang: https://github.com/drobakowski/awesome-erlang

Elixer: https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir

Python: https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python

Heck here is a list of the lists: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome#programming-language...
Yeah, the negative visualization aspect very much reminded me of stoicism.
This is exactly the reason this question is difficult, with a strong case on both sides.

There are laws. Those laws have intent. Then, there is the actual behavior of individuals and corporations in practice. Loopholes, perhaps intentionally left open. There is a law limiting corporate donations. There is a practice for circumventing it. Without reveals like this, it looks like lots of private individuals donated money but in reality, a corporation effectively got around the legal restriction placed on it.

Those restrictions are there to prevent auctioning off legislation and policy. This is no joke.

These are not pictures of your wife in lingerie. This is squarely in the public interest. It's in the pubic interest to have the law updated so that this will be illegal, so that courts can do something about it.
To late to edit this and it came out a little further to one side of the argument than I was going for.

A better analogy would be what one would expect from a private security company which is contracted to protect certain houses businesses. They might phone the police if a house they are not contracted to protect is broken into as a matter of public duty but they would not attempt to intervene themselves. I guess one could draw a similar line somewhere (I'm not sure where) for Cloudflare who are effectively the digital equivalent .
This comment by jasonlbaptiste in response to "Ask HN: How to become a millionaire in 3 years?":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1447467

Best comment I've ever read here.
A deep dive into the Amsterdam startup ecosystem (Tech.eu)
> I think it's a combination of optimising for space and cost - every connector that needs to be aligned and connected, and every screw that needs to be installed, requires time and labour.

And yet the keyboard alone uses both glue and about 90 screws (https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/YYpaGaNumhQuR5M6)
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Why can't we blame ordinary people for being so dumb?
Look at that second image!
For pretty much any business, that's pennies.
Reimagining our front-end architecture at Yuppiechef.com
Russians arrest Nazi malware thieves
Search in Google following for Batman:

2 sqrt(-abs(abs(x)-1)*abs(3-abs(x))/((abs(x)-1)*(3-abs(x))))(1+abs(abs(x)-3)/(abs(x)-3))sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)+(5+0.97(abs(x-.5)+abs(x+.5))-3(abs(x-.75)+abs(x+.75)))(1+abs(1-abs(x))/(1-abs(x))),-3sqrt(1-(x/7)^2)sqrt(abs(abs(x)-4)/(abs(x)-4)),abs(x/2)-0.0913722(x^2)-3+sqrt(1-(abs(abs(x)-2)-1)^2),(2.71052+(1.5-.5abs(x))-1.35526sqrt(4-(abs(x)-1)^2))sqrt(abs(abs(x)-1)/(abs(x)-1))+0.9

link to the same: http://bit.ly/1G0rLgk
It's clear enough that users do not place a high priority on serviceability.

It's harder to draw conclusions about how much absolute value is placed on it when it barely exists in a product category.
How do you get a page where you can edit the expression graphed?
While this is nice, I don't like the idea of one company being the one-stop-shop for all of our knowledge.
Do Model Animals Tell Us Anything about Human Aging?
Off topic: I think starting a company with another person where they are economically at a different level is a bad idea - economic alignment can be a factor in start up failure.
> so that the user never has to look at the keyboard except when the keyboard needs cleaning.

The user should learn to touch-type.
It's huge not because it needs to be but because it needs to fit the PoP bottom package to match the flash chip on top. The flash chip actually needs to be that size, so there you go.
Very interesting move, I think. It's going to be fun to watch someone take this theoretical road and actually try it.
All societies, at some point in the past, may have started at similar level of privacy ...etc. Due to various reasons, if we see now, some societies are more open than the rest and this is due to the choices they made consciously or accidentally or made by influencing entities in those societies. Wikileaks is following the same trend but may be with more speed/velocity.

If we see history, there are no absolute boundaries of privacy and it changes with time and it may feel outrageous now but if we see multiple similar incidents, then it becomes natural,common and after few years, it becomes standard of life and I won't be surprised if future generations in these societies feel proud of that level of transparency and make fun of those who lack that level of openness.
The NSA will never be on trial for corporate espionage, so I'm not sure what you're going on about.

The problem with the NSA is that they're a government entity doing something very dangerous from a democratic point of view and of dubious value overall. It's a totally different problem from private citizens publishing stuff they may or may not be entitled to.
Only if your understanding of "leading companies in ewaste" is that their products tick a bunch of boxes for materials used to be easily recyclable.

But that is not the essence of the term. To avoid ewaste, you should avoid creating any in the first place. Creating products that will be useful for 10+ years instead of until the next model cycle.
It started out as a clone of http://nightchamber.com. That functionaluty was simple to emulate. Now I am trying to build a complete loginless social network. Although, the logging in process is highly device dependent, it will involve making the user approve the devices he intends to use the network from. What's fun is the number of ways I had to come up with that will make sure that the correct user is logged in regardless of the device he accesses it from.

Its on github: http://github.com/arkokoley/nightowl
Italy certainly hasn't become the place to create a company, but it is improving, slowly.

I think with all the good things Italy has, it doesn't have to be run perfectly, or have the best laws: it just has to suck less. If you think about it, California is similar in some ways. It is not the most "business friendly" state in the US - but it does have a lot of other things going for it, so people go there anyway.
The armchair historian and anthropologist in me wishes we had something like this for the corporations of the 1800s. To a historian or anthropologist, the mundane, everyday interactions are every bit as important to study as the momentous occasions.
The free market also prefers awful and addictive things like Mcdonalds, cigarettes, and Facebook.
When personal profit and easy gratification are the main drivers of a system then don't solely expect good things to pop out... good AND bad things arise.
Not all places are equal for raising money. Competition has not not suddenly equalized the markets for capital across the whole world. Why's this? Exactly one reason:

1) Physical Proximity - nearly all investors will only consider you if you can pitch them physically in-person. This is the source of the great inefficiency in equal access to capital for everyone in the world. Note: you'll have to physically be there long enough to become friends with the introducers, since most investors don't allow you to approach them directly.

> But it's hard to get money in any country, rich countries have more competition

Absolutely not true. I wish Europeans would stop spreading this myth to each other. Disclaimer: I'm currently living in Europe for the past 3 years, and several other places before this. I hear this myth here constantly.

Some cities are FAR easier to get money in than others. The "more competition" idea that it balances out equally everywhere is complete nonsense.

Some have written about this in far better detail than I will here, but consider:

1) Some cities have the convention of making early stage investments in 1 DAY, after 1 pitch meeting. Not 3 to 6 months and dozens of meetings for every single investor, as is often the convention in EU. Competition for speed between investors is hugely beneficial to the entrepreneur, in this case.

2) Almost no cities in the world, except for a couple, have tons of rich, active angel investors who themselves got rich by starting tech startups.

3) The incredible density of founders and investors within certain places is 1000x greater than the lesser cities. This speed and efficiency of being able to see dozens of investors per week with nearly zero overhead helps enormously. The density of each investor being able to immediately introduce you to several more has an exponential compounding effect.

I found these to be a good intro as to why not all cities are created equally. EU and SV are enormously different in key ways that few outsiders realize:

http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
Even if Apple uses high quality components that fail less frequently, it's still computer hardware at the end of the day. Hardware fails, no matter how much QA you do, so #2 is never moot.

Experienced bad memory on a MBP Retina (late 2013) recently, it was purchased in December 2013. You can't swap out the memory because it's soldered to the motherboard, so the entire motherboard has to be ordered from Apple and replaced.

This wouldn't be so bad if you could easily move the SSD to a new Mac, but that's not an option either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value

If your strategy involves doing something that eliminates your upside potential, while leaving downside potential, then the strategy has negative expected value and is a bad strategy.

If nearly 100% of non-consulting startups go through bad times, but you've chosen the strategy of cutting your losses as soon as you run into bad times, it's fair to estimate that the eliminating the upside potential may have lowered the expected value for that strategy to below 0. Might as well go gamble or just do a fun hobby in that case.

Non-consulting tech startups are particularly rigged against using this strategy of cutting out as soon as things turn bad, because it's typical that founders are forced to take a big loss relative to their alternatives until the very end when the exit happens. The norm is for it to always be financially worse than the more stable alternatives, until eventually maybe it turns good at the end.
What would you recommend they do then? Not evolve the platform? Retain deprecated methods?

I don't get it.
now sir, you got this one wrong. for intellectually based people (let's assume most college people are), dating with somebody you don't have that much to say is meaningless and frustrating experience. same goes for (most) guys too.
The Perfect Render
JavaScript doesn't have tanh built in, so you have to use an approximate:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6118028/fast-hyperbolic-t...
He meant go to work for n someone n elses consultancy. Not jump immediately into running your own.
A laptop is meant to be portable, with a significant number of moving parts (keys, hinges, trackpad [until recently],) and ports that see frequent insertions/removals. These factors result in a device that can break down in many, many ways. If one tiny failure results in the entire device being unusable (or requiring replacement of many [working] parts at significant cost,) well, you're going to get complaints. :)
DDD revisited
Not sure if it's a good idea for me to wade into that particular religious war... :-)

Some good comments on both sides here:

http://www.quora.com/Python-Web-Frameworks/What-are-the-adva...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/ktjm2/jinja2_or_mako...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3435972/mako-or-jinja2
Please bear in mind that making things work like the Mac is a matter of taste and not everyone prefers it.
My browser history might be useful, but I dont want you looking at it until my children are dead.
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It's always darkest before the dawn. 6 months is not enough time to know. You will probably feel like this several more times on your journey. Welcome to startups.

Since you are broke my suggestion would be to focus on one thing: go find a customer who will pay to use what you built. Delight that customer and then go find others.

You could start consulting (sell websites or seo or something else related to what you do, that virtually everyone needs). That can give you some cash if you aren't yet ready to find a customer. But seriously, 6 months is not long enough. Plan on a decade, and in the mean time just focus on your next right step. Get to $1000/month.
The thread itself and all of the comments :

"I quit my job last March and it was a bad idea" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3102143).
If you had a powerhouse computer it was fine. The midrange laptop I had at the time was not happy with it. It also broke compatibility with most of the games I had.
There is missing one more important factor - security of online shop, Still Google recommends for secure networks - https://www.google.com/safetycenter/everyone/start/safe-netw...
> The difference is that the duties of government are clearly spelled in law, and are financed by everyone

So if the government passed a law saying it was ok for them to hack private entities and make their records public, it would be ok?
Our civilization is doomed. Society will fall apart because Google decided to do 3d plots in their search engine.
I guess, we're flooding the maths-render servers.
I imagine it cuts down on people loading their user page to check for that stat.