skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr
1998-2009 (11 years in use) Toshiba Tecra
2009-Present (6 years) Toshiba Satellite

Toshiba Tecra 780CDM
Specs and picture (almost identical, except mine featured a CD-ROM only drive) http://resource.toshiba-europe.com/europe/computers/flyers/t...
In-use 1998-2009
OS: Originally Win95C, upgraded to 98SE, later Win2k
Miss the plethora of ports (PS/2, S-Video, Composite Video out (RCA connector), 2x USB, 4x3.5mm audio jacks, external floppy drive connector [not wasting a USB or other port], parallel, serial, VGA, 2x PC-Card slots, IR port, built-in data and fax modem, separate port for external snap-on web cam). I could connect a mouse (serial), keyboard (PS/2), PC-Card Ethernet interface, external floppy disk drive, snap-on web cam, external monitor, printer (parallel), scanner (USB), speakers, microphone, and still have 1xUSB port, 1x audio out, 1x audio in, 1x PC-card slot, , not to mention the S-Video or Composite jacks to connect a projector or TV to. I have yet to see other business-oriented "portable workstations" to offer this level of connectivity without a dock (though today, even the average power-user has little use for most of these ports).

Another feature I miss was the quality of this machine. It was built solid. Despite having a metal-free exterior, a thick, well-designed plastic case kept this machine protected. I once tripped over the power cord, and the entire machine went flying into the wall while on and transferring data The only thing that was damaged was drywall; the power connector on the motherboard, power cord, hard disk, screen, etc. were all fine. I do not believe any hardware upgrades nor part replacements were performed. Still works to this day and used on occasion (despite the battery being completely dead).

Toshiba Satellite L355D-S7902
In-Use 2009-present
Pic: http://www.toshiba.com/us/computers/laptops/satellite/L355/L...
Detailed Specs: http://cdgenp01.csd.toshiba.com/content/product/pdf_files/de...
This machine has been my daily driver since. The build quality is nothing like the Tecra (understandable as it is a consumer-oriented, budget-priced model), but I've been really surprised how its held up. Case build quality was noting like that of my Tecra laptop, but outside of some creaking, it does not flex unless pressed hard on the back of the screen or sides of trackpad. The hinges for the screen have become wobbly but I live with it (and has spring-loaded clips that hold the lid shut when its closed). Originally came with Windows Vista. Downgraded to XP with nearly all hardware working (took a bit of time to find a suitable WiFi driver). Installed Win7 Beta when it came out and then Win7 when the beta expired after the Win7 release. Been dual-booting with openSUSE for the last few years and I've ended up only booting into windows when I need to (which is decreasing in frequency). Upgraded to a SSD 2 years ago and the performance increase has outweighed the capacity decrease. Battery was also upgraded for $15 on eBay and I can get at least 2 hours with moderate-to-heavy use. Looking forward to many more good years of use out of it.
How to Thoroughly Insult and Offend People – Gina Likins
This comment doesn't make any sense. A list is a thing, just as a table is...

What are you trying to say?
Comparisons to print designers misses the biggest point about web design, that is that we have no way to guarantee a width, a position or even choice of font. Print designers know an A4 page is always 210x297mm, web designers have no idea what to expect.
Wow, this IS a huge pain solver. I can't simply recall how many nights I've been spending trying to fix the centering in CSS during my early days as a frontend dev. Thank you,bookmarked!
If only... There are some things in Nancy that I'd love to make some small changes to, if only to get some more comprehensible errors output when the Razor viewengine blows up because you typo'ed something in a view. I love NullReferenceExceptions...

BTW:
Is there something weird going on with justification on this page?
That's not true at all. CA and leaf Certs have extensions and policies and can be used for any particular purposes. All the cert verification has to do is check for the code signing extension / policy.
I meant that the source is still the leak. Honestly, this is Paparazzi-level stuff here. Plus, these are run-of-the-mill private emails, there is no public-interest angle here at all.
So, as a Seattle resident myself, I have a bit of an odder definition of "downtown" that the OA might be sharing. To me, downtown stretches from Belltown to Chinatown: the Space Needle marks one edge whereas Uwajimaya might mark another. On the eastern side, the WSCC might mark the boundary, making First Hill somewhat of a gray area.

That's a much, much larger area than the central/financial/business district and it might be what the author actually means: especially with how Belltown has changed.
Just a practical consideration, but the HTML table tag is actually a lot more restrictive (<table> can only contain <thead> <tbody> or <tr>, so no wrapping span to regroup some table rows) than using <div>s. Can be important depending on third party libs.
Life was the first non trivial program I ever coded. It was in GW Basic and required you to input the cells by typing in their grid coordinates one at a time. and it rendered the steps in the simulations using asterisks on the screen.

I learned about off by one errors and multidimensional arrays coding it. I still remember the rush of elation when I first rendered the blinker on screen and it worked.
Will be implementing this in my department and every department I'm a part of from here on out.
Docker is a fully supported on SmartOS -> https://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/LX+Branded+Zones
Is there something the US did right which Europe did not? Not sure what that might be. The VSB TV standard here is junk compared to DVB. We're stuck with VSB, because the incumbent broadcasters couldn't see past the few years of the transition period. And it didn't solve the co-channel interference, anyway.
The top grandes écoles have the best math/physics students coming in. These students are obviously likely to also be the best math/physics graduates coming out.

The only way that wouldn't happen is if the grandes écoles brainwashed their students into stupidity, while Epitech and 42 had a time-distorted super saiyan training chamber.

That doesn't say much about the quality of the curriculum.
Python being Python, you can prevent non-malicious problems of the sort you mention (const and private functions / variables). Const via overwriting setattr / etc, private functions via stack inspection (among other things. There's a sliding scale of thoroughness versus clean code here.)

Though it won't protect you from malicious intent (though this is still the case with C / etc), and it's caught at runtime as opposed to at compile time.
In my small city for decades there were maybe two homeless people in their 50s or 60s who would ask for change they were alcoholics everyone knew them in my small city. Eventually they either died or got help.

Now within the last five years there has been a massive increase in street beggars all in their 20s. They get a milk crate and sit on it all day at a busy corner with a cardboard sign "need food".

There is a group of three who come here every year from somewhere? Two guys and a girl who go to the median at street intersections and put up a sign walk down the line of cars looking for money.

When fall came they would all leave but now it's a year round thing every day even in the winter.

I talked to a few of them one guy in particular was (?) a bit older my age, mid 40s, he said he had a bad back, a catheter, his guitar was smashed so he was asking for more money for that I think someone gave him one. Then he was on the news a few times and it seems he was fairly well-known guitar player. I'm not sure where he went but I know many people tried to help, I said I knew of some jobs, but it seems he disappeared when the police wanted him due to a warrant or something like that. Local news http://goo.gl/eBXSv6 His bio on CBC http://goo.gl/OxF9eu

This is all rather shocking for this small town it has been so sudden, and it's new faces from away not locals. It seems word is out that people are generous here and they are you often see people giving money.

I agree it seems to be 99% Millennials it's as if someone flipped a switch five years ago and suddenly homeless people at every second corner asking for money.
Example data from Australia (peak at 6-8pm, clear power mismatch to solar):
http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departm...
It seems to me, that something similar could be constructed with node's PhantomJS bindings, but not sure that there would be much less overhead... it does feel a little awkward having the Ruby dependency...
I completely agree we should stop being paranoid about what's going to happen when we let other people loose on our beautiful code.

But I don't think having private methods or marking variables const is about paranoia, it's about communicating intent to the people who come behind you and using the compiler to enforce that intent. Every piece of extra context you can give to someone reading your code helps them understand why it's there. Identifiers like const and private are almost like nonverbal communication for code.
> It would be interesting to see studies that isolated the effects of genes and environment.

The colorado adoption project can be good source of that type of information, in my limit understanding, example:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7755514
I think there is a sweet spot that you have to hit where you have the focus to start on a solution to a small part of a big problem, but still show investors that there is a clear path to eventually tackle more and more of the bigger problem. Reid Hoffman talks about "boil the ocean" startups that are just too big to tackle, but if you approach it as boiling a cup or a pot first, and convince investors that there is still an ocean to be boiled down the line, you have a good shot.
No, no, no. This is the new paradigm.
This owes at least in part to the fact that tables are not optimized for page layout. And that was especially true 10 years ago. Popular browsers couldn't render partial tables, and you had even more performance problems nesting them.

Grid based layouts are obviously useful but the table tag isn't the right tool.
flexbox will be nice. once widely supported.

<div style="display:flex; align-items:center; justify-content:center; width:100%; height:100%">dynamic both v and h aligned center</div>
Columbia Engineering Professor Invents Video Camera That Runs Without a Battery
We have started using freshdesk. Not sure how good of a solution it will be but it seems really powerful.
There is a good example of try{} catch{} in post 7 of this thread at unix.com:

running unix command from java

http://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers/1...
If I'm reading this correctly, you're saying that someone will use a function for which there is no documentation, no external reference, and the user hasn't even seen the code (since they didn't see the comment saying not to use it)? Just a function name and (maybe) a method signature in the autocomplete? The caller deserves whatever woes befall them.
I own a little agency here in Bolivia, and we will start doing this this month. It's a fantastic idea and one I hope catches on. Imagine the contributions if everybody did even a little slice of work.

Documentation, refactoring, updating the readme, whatever!
A study done in Australia on alternative medicine looked into the effects of meditation on ADHD, and yes the results were positive.

http://m.ccp.sagepub.com/content/9/4/479.short

(Free link: http://www.freemeditation.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/adh...)
For Source, that's probably the GoldSrc/Quake legacy. You can see this somewhat in the source on GitHub - WinQuake has both client and server mashed into one process, but there are clear divisions, with the cl_.c/h and sv_.c/h files.
Get PDF Page Count Without Saving and Enhanced PDF to TIFF Conversion
For a long time, I thought that maybe there was some great technical complication I just didn't understand that made this much harder than it seemed from the outside.

There is: Screenwriters often don't leave room for that narration to occur to when writing. So how are you going to fit all the narrative information into an audio track without breaking up the flow of dialog? This is especially problematic for situations where you you jump from one scene into a completely different one involving other times, places, characters or whatever for story reasons, and that scene's dramatic impact often depends on the abruptness or incongruity of the transition.

I'm looking over my current script in regards to this and while it would work fine for some scenes it would be hugely problematic for others. I have characters who show up unannounced and start talking before they appear on screen, characters who engage in important expository conversations immediately after they show up (but whose appearance differs significantly from how they looked previously), character that react to things that are not fully articulated to the audience, and things that are deliberately left ambiguous or paradoxical for aesthetic reasons.

I'm certainly not against making it easier for blind people to enjoy movies and would cheerfully work with someone one this, but just because you have a copy of the script doesn't mean you're going to have all the answers to convey those things to the audience. I think I would rather rewrite large chunks of it as a radio play than have someone trying to do an additional voice-over track explaining what's going on in the gaps between the dialog and this film has substantially less dialog than most (about a 3:1 action:dialog ratio, whereas most drama films are more like 1:1).

Besides all these factors, adding something like this isn't free or even cheap. Sure, Netflix can afford to throw money at the problem, but if this becomes a requirement for selling your film it's going to be an expensive overhead for indie producers. You basically have to write a second script, fit it in between the existing dialog and sound effects and music, and pay an actor (or multiple actors) to voice it, plus the studio rental and the sound editing. Doing this properly would add probably $10,000 to a film's production budget, Bear in mind that streaming revenue going to the producer from a service like Netflix is (estimated) about $0.25.

Also, as Kingett has said, "now comes the easy part." Adding description tracks on Netflix for all of the movies and TV shows for which they have been available all along.

Few people actually do this. I think it might be better if there were some open-source portal where volunteer 'readers' do this for blind people and upload them.
It's worth noting, that googlebot does seem to do page renders with JS, though not as frequently and usually several days behind a non-js detected change. Bingbot definitely does, and this can even be seen in google analytics oddly enough (google doesn't seem to do any filtering for non-browser rendering).

Came to a lot of this knowledge when changing a url structure for a few hundred thousand pages (with permanent redirects in place)... the bing bot results on analytics were really surprising, and had to adjust filtering.
I have not found a project yet that I could divorce the layout from the content without the use of javascript. i gave css many attempts at this. mainly from the desire to make the content easy to manage for others. or just for aesthetics. but css was (is) too clunky to make that separation. yet people still argue that not limiting yourself to what css can provide you, thereby giving up on the purity of content vs layout separation debate, is somehow blind use of web standards. i've since assumed css's goal was lofty from the start.
This is the modern problem though at least in my region, most people don't carry any cash at all not even coins. Everything is bought using debit cards even credit cards are not as common as debit.

Even the parking meters here have stickers with numbers on them and you use an app (Hotspot) to add money to that meters, although you can still use change of course.

Elderly people are the only people I know of who use coins and cash.
Stamps.com is nothing like Pets.com.
But if you are still using the table tag for anything but tabular data, you're living in the 1900s and arent cut out as a modern day web designer /snark
All mediums have constraints. Perhaps our designs should be better a working within those constraints. Obviously, vertically centering in all situations is something CSS doesn't do so well in some situations and just fine in others. Know the situations in which it doesn't work and design another solution.
adding more language tracks, something Netflix has been doing for years

Netflix doesn't do that. Producers pay to have that done or take the language track in part-payment from an international distributor who pays to have it done. Also dubbing in new dialog is way easier because you replace existing dialog, you're not trying to fit in around it.
I ain't got no tears using Typescript these days!
Ask HN: Which SciFi novel(s) would you want made into a TV series?
HBO has announcer Asimov's Foundation will be made into a series. What Sci Fi book or books would you want made into a TV series?
What sort of stuff do you do, is it similar to steps in the '7 minute workout' type things? Do you have an app or just alarms set throughout the day?
Maybe?

The question to me is

a) how well do they learn things and understand the deeper principals such that their understandings generalize?

B) what do they end up learning/creating? Is it like the mit media lab where they're encouraged to innovate 5-10 years out, or are they building stuff that's existed for a long time like Ray tracing?

C) if everything is team based, do the smarter/type a ppl end up doing all the work or does everyone contribute equally enough to learn?

D) is there any kind of mentorship? The stuff I've learned from my mentors across school was never what was being assigned in class; understanding that there are things that you would never think of as entire fields needs guidance for the not yet educated

Sounds like a cool concept for self starters however.
No, DARPA plans to expand Memex so it works outside that single sphere. I'm not reading anything that suggests it's designed to work outside that sphere.

But we could go back and forth on the distinction between "seeks to" and "designed to" all night, so I'll leave it at that. :)
Agreed. It's not a complete wild-ass-guess, though.

So, I draw from a couple of resources. From the Lore of Running, by Tim Noakes (a well respected exercise physiologist) he discusses the mental energy required to stick with a training program that involves hard workouts. He notes it is a pretty well observed phenomenon for him (and many others), that doing thinking tasks on hard workout days can be harder. His example was writing and his research work in the midst of training hard.

From Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman shows how the brain sort of "crashes" when glucose levels fall. He also discusses how we have this finite bucket of cognitive energy and I don't think it is a stretch to say that working out hard drains that bucket. There is enough anecdotal data that supports this at a high level.

And finally, in the book The Sports Gene I was introduced to some fascinating studies in rodents.

"Here at Axon Sports, we talk a lot about the brain’s role in playing sports. From vision to perception to decision making to emotions, the brain plays a critical role in sports success. What have we learned about neurogenetics that can influence an athlete’s performance from a cognitive perspective?
DE: One of the most surprising things I learned in my reporting was that scientists know quite well that not only does the dopamine system in the brain—which is involved in the sense of pleasure and reward—respond to physical activity, but it can also drive physical activity.
One of the scientists I quote in the book suggests that this may be why very active children who take Ritalin, which alters dopamine levels, suddenly have less drive to move around. That’s precisely what he sees when he gives Ritalin to the rodents he breeds for high voluntary running, anyway. And it appears that different versions of genes involved in the dopamine system influence the drive to be active. (Interestingly, native populations that are nomadic and that migrate long distances tend to have a higher prevalence of a particular dopamine receptor gene; the same one that predisposes people to ADHD. I discuss in the book the possible link.) "

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21676789
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3441939/

I think you can coherently weave these together to get a picture of how hard exercise can benefit someone with ADHD. Maybe the mechanisms aren't correct, but the end result is pretty clear to me.
afaik the worst of the memory leaks were fixed with the 2.0 release, and they also upgraded QtWebKit to 5.3 which fixed some pretty egregiously outdated constraints (like not having access to Function.prototype.bind) present in the previous version. Sadly this tool utilizes phantomjs 1.9 which means the memory leaks are still present and major WebKit features are still missing.

One great use for headless is to separate non-UI framework/platform tests from UI tests - at my previous gig we wrote all the tests for the runtime platform against phantomjs to avoid the unneeded overhead of a full browser for things like data validation or mocking service calls, but used selenium to do the visual/interaction tests for the application UI itself. it's also a nice separation of concerns, though of course we hit all the same problems you mentioned as we were also pinned to 1.9.
The secret sauce for me was to buy a treadmill and place a drawing board on top of the handles. I place my laptop on top of the drawing board and do stuff I normally do. Right now I am typing this comment and using the treadmill at the same time. Hours pass by quickly while you are immersed in coding, reading hn, watching youtube etc and when you get off the treadmill you notice that you walked 5+ miles in 3+ hrs.

The other thing is to read a lot of papers on google scholar so you can convince yourself of all the beneficial aspects of doing a cardio.
i've lived in sm for 6 years now. it's changed dramatically even in that short period of time.

i like to think of santa monica as an improved version of san francisco, with the rest of los angeles attached as a bonus. if you live and work (i.e. no commute) in santa monica, it's easily the highest quality of life in urban california, and i've lived in pacific heights, downtown san diego, and central LA proper.
ITT: French people busy scornfully labelling technically proficient Epitech/42 programmers as "code monkeys" (just ctrl-f for monkey). Meanwhile hackers in the US are too busy building things to care what other people call them. Makes me glad I moved over.
Muscular dystrophy robot-building twins enable themselves through 3D print tech
"some kind of arrangement of material, mentorship, progress tracking, experience sharing, feedback"

There is (more or less) all that in 42, thanks to the "peer to peer" approach.
A nice standard reply. But how do you verify that your usage has the impact you think it does?

When I started estimating the complexity of my code - just using rule of thumb and line counts - I found that most uses of classes were unjustified. The "right size" of a class was quite large, especially so in the top level of an application.
> The caller deserves whatever woes befall them.

Why?
Iceland is pretty right wing compared to the other nordics.