skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's about how much a good manual crimper costs. But man, the results you can get out of them are fantastic.
Yes, but did you ever mark mailing list email as spam? (actual spam even)

If so, maybe gmail thinks "this sender is spammy". That's the mailing list.
Yeah I've heard these things mentioned around.

Musk also explicitly said that 1/3rd of the new gigafactory's capacity will be dedicated to producing batteries for storage (e.g. the powerwall).
The only time I really notice the fans is when I'm running a website in debug mode in visual studio. Note I have no issues with running a vm in VMware Fusion all day, or with using visual studio in it. Which I assume is a fairly high base level load.
I remember renting this game from blockbuster back in the day. The game was so good I barely noticed that it had the McD's tie-in. The anti-gravity stuff added another level of complexity to each of the stages, and there were tons of secrets. This may be the nostalgia talking, but I feel like it was ahead of its time for platformers in '92.
> printed in red, was the Russian word секрет. Secret.

That'd be "секретно". "Cекрет" is what pirates print on their treasure maps in kindergarten :)
Agree 100% with this post.

Gawker's response to this controversy demonstrates that they are amoral. Yes, they fucked up by posting it in the first place, but the response--removing the post and having the CEO issue this mealy-mouthed non-apology reflects an unscrupulous mentality. A) you can't take something back on the Internet, you can only discuss and move on from it, and B) Denton isn't sorry for posting, and his tone amounts to "I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids."

Ever since Gizmodo got kicked out of CES for drunken stupidity I have not respected Gawker. Every time they sink to a new low, they embrace it with enthusiasm and pride. This latest example really shows their true colors though. Gawker has no moral compass. Anyone who advertises on any of their properties should be ashamed.

Someone should dox all their executives and see how they like that. Bonus points for taking it down the next day and saying "sorry, not sorry."
OR you could just hack their system with this sweet website:

http://hackertyper.net/

EDIT: Be sure you put your browser in private browsing mode first so you can't be reverse hacked!
That sort of information gets out anyway. We all know what the salary range is for the various engineering levels. Example, I'm a level 3 engineer, so the salary band is (off the top of my head) somewhere from 85k to 103k/year. The raises given this year ranged from 1% to 6%. So we all know roughly how people are doing, but only our manager knows exactly who got what % raise.
It's been an issue since they switched from the G4, TBH.
I agree. It seems no one is capable of saying that math and science are extremely important while also admitting that advanced math and science are actually not used in the day-to-day lives of most adults. Why is that so hard?
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Few hacks yes, less painful I have to disagree with. It is the present and of course the future, but what I have seen is that the hacks shift to do anything possible to reduce noise, and the artist's time shifts to doing whatever they can do deal with noise. It never ends up being 'fire and forget' because renders end up either overkill on cpu time or with noise somewhere in the image.

Forward raytracing as it currently stands is awful to use at the moment on a large scale for final motioned blurred images that can be sold to a client, but because it is simpler it is still better than alternatives. That is because getting the same results out of (REYES) renderman was something left to a handful of gurus and fanatics.

Now we have a state where renders take 8 hours per frame per character per pass but people still like it better. So be it, but that is still very painful.
Mac or PC, the idea that laptops should not get warm, or that you put them directly on your naked legs or something and then you complain about their heat is completely alien to me...
The web site is derived from the code at the correct URL, which is http://www.elizium.nu/scripts/lemmings/ from 2003. It was one of the first examples of how Dynamic HTML could be used for a "real" application.

This web site has changed a few things, perhaps most notably is the addition of the two buttons to "Play" and "Download", which are links to ad sites, or possibly to what is a spyware/video app. These buttons have nothing to do with playing or downloading the game.
This is their first album after a 15 year gap.
I should point out that this post shaming the Conde Nast CFO followed about three raving angry posts against reddit that were submitted on the same day. Reddit of course is owned by Conde Nast. Considering that gawker usually has no more than 10-20 posts per day on the main site, it is extremely unusual for four of them to be aimed at the same company.

Furthermore, in an interview in pando daily, an ex Gawker editor said that Nick Denton once complained to him that silicon valley companies "do not fear me anymore."

For someone that has followed Gawker for many years now it is becoming increasingly likely that Nick Denton is using Gawker to scare/blackmail other companies to do his bidding. Gawker has always had periods of intense criticisms of some company (Google for example) that start and end suddenly without rhyme or reason.

The fact that Nick Denton eventually took down this post of course does not matter at all. The damage has been done.

My guess is that old Nick Denton wants something out of Conde Nast, and that is why he is applying full pressure.
Your example is certainly also a thing that happens.

But I'm going to also call it naive to say it's hard to imagine. I have a good friend in HR, and she has all sorts of friends working in HR and legal departments. Let's just say some of their conversations are very eye opening.

It's not hard to imagine at all, in general legal departments are conservative and executives want exactly what they want, no excuses. It can lead to all sorts of crazy machinations to get things done while covering the appropriate asses.
Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention
Don't know about that, have a late 2013 rMBP and never had any problems.

What exactly do you people do? Put the laptop on your bare (maybe even oiled) legs, while sunbathing?
That was the reason Google gave for firing Randy Wigginton for leaking the 2010 company-wide raise in the wake of the collapse of the wage cartel [1]. "You can share your own salary, but you can't share other peoples'." It's possible that this was mistaken and this was just Google covering its ass when getting rid of a troublesome employee, but that's where the information came from.

[1] http://gawker.com/5696695/google-fired-an-apple-legend-for-l...
You've cut off the part of the sentence that I was replying to.
What is the difference between a "self adjusting computation" and a "genetic algorithm," or is it merely a choice of terminology? Here is a scholarly article that uses both in the same title: http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-540-87734-9...
> What are you talking about?

Please don't degrade HN threads with uncivil jabs.

Apart from that sour note, this comment is excellent, and I hope you post more about that experience.

Edit: detached from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9908463 and marked off-topic.
Earth: A Global Map of Wind, Weather, and Ocean Conditions
Their reasons were maintainability due to static typing.
Hmmmmm.

So you're next in line to try to pull the sword from the Manuka stone?
I believe capsicum is/will be used for sandboxing sshd, ping and tcpdump. Furthermore i know about Security Appliances making use of it, but that's about it, to be honest.
Virtualbox - sounds like some kind of ports problem, maybe GTK vs Qt? Works for me on PC-BSD and FreeBSD -CURRENT under KDE.

Suspend/resume should be working pretty well in -CURRENT, unfortunately 11.0 is still a ways out if you want a -RELEASE.
I think the most commonly used framework is JRebel: http://zeroturnaround.com/software/jrebel/

According to the FAQ, it doesn't create multiple class loaders, it just extends the exiting ones.
Flux in Depth. Store and Network Communication
My brand new Macbook overheats from watching Netflix. Battery life when working (no video) is about 3.5 hours. Was really hoping for that 7-8 hours.
The drought is costing California farms $1.8B in revenue
Consider this in terms of anonymisation. Eight items (NB: not bits) of information were sufficient to identify an individual among 7.3 billion in the world.

Or the several millions in Ireland.
I also neglected statistics, it seems there's no avoiding it these days. What cured me was a MOOC from edx/MITx called 6.041x. It literally had me close to tears a couple of times. There was carnage, whining and general malaise. I couldn't imagine a better course for persistent programmers who don't know when to quit.

It's been offered during the spring term for the past two years, so maybe Feb 2016 will see the next run.

https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-probability-science-...
Hi Cawbv,

I'm glad to see another motivated teacher. I currently work in ed tech and would like to learn more about t he challenges you face in the classroom. I was recently at ISTE and was able to get a good amount of feedback. But none from someone who was motivated to develop theheir own solution. I'm the lead engineer of a company and am not interested in selling you anything. Just want to gain insight into your challenges. Please email me at pablo@moondropapps.com
I did yeah :)
Most new routers have the WPS button anyway. Then it's mostly automatic.
> I think the point was more that Erlang was produced at considerable expense, so the cost of recreating Erlang for your own project is probably more than the cost of simply producing your project in Erlang.

Fixed! Read your comment, understood it, but I think you probably meant the opposite
Intellectual pursuits may buffer the brain against addiction
I have a latest-model rMBP 15" with a R9 M370X. I use it for developing iOS apps and it works great… even with long periods of repeated tweak+compile sessions, it only gets moderately warm and still manages good battery life. The only thing I can find that really gets it cooking is WoW, but laptops aren't made for gaming anyway and the heat is fixed by dropping WoW's settings down to something more reasonable.

The thing about modern Macs is that Apple designs the hardware (and OS, for that matter) assuming that the user will be running well-written, efficient applications. When you use software like Chrome and Hangouts where efficiency wasn't ever a serious consideration and extended periods of 100% CPU usage are a given, well yeah, of course you're going to get a lot of heat. The solution is to use (and thus, encourage the creation of) well-optimized, efficient software, not to cram in more cooling.

Honestly, there's no reason for desktop software to be as gluttonous as it is. If desktop software developers went to the lengths that mobile devs do to make things runs smoothly, we'd be in good shape. It's fine to make use of the absurd power than modern computers afford us, but only do so when the power is truly needed (video encoding, etc) or when there's some significant benefit to the user. Even then, do so in an intelligent way (use CPU cycles for the actual task at hand, not for expensive abstraction layers, VMs, etc) and offload as much as possible to HW acceleration instead of lazily dumping everything on the CPU.
If you have a malicious person in your home with physical access to your unlocked machine, your wifi password is the least of your worries.
If your computer is behaving in this manner, the cause is most likely broken hardware, not a design defect. The only solution is to take your laptop to an Apple store for diagnosis and repair.

I've had the 12" MacBook since its release in April. I use it as my main development machine. I have no problems with Skype, Hangouts, WebRTC video chats, etc. I've had exactly one overheat warning, and it was completely understandable. I was outside, in 90ºF weather, and my laptop was in direct sunlight. I maxxed-out the CPU cores for too long. OS X warned me that performance was reduced and, "Closing Google Chrome may help cool your Mac down." That's it. No data loss. No suspending to RAM. I ignored the warning and my laptop worked fine.

Hundreds of thousands of people use the same Apple hardware in the same way. If Hangouts or Skype reliably caused these problems on the MacBook, tens of thousands would be complaining. Instead, we just get a few isolated cases. Curiously, they don't seem to troubleshoot by checking Activity Monitor, Intel Power Gadget[1], etc.

Every time I've managed to troubleshoot with someone who complained about these sorts of issues, the cause has been an overlooked (or deliberately unmentioned) hardware issue. For example: Someone posted a video of their extremely slow MacBook[2]. I helped him troubleshoot, and it eventually came to light that the laptop had been dropped, bending the frame. It was so bad that the heatsink had been separated from the CPU! It's amazing that the machine ran at all. The video is a testament to Apple's design and engineering, not an indictment of it.

Now when I hear about supposed design issues in popular hardware, my explanations weight toward "clueless/disingenuous user" and away from "design defect." Both happen, but the former is much more common than the latter.

1. https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-power-gadget...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FF_iYZg5oU
Looking around the site and other pieces written by the same nick, I find it unfair to label him as "Microsoft hostile". After all, he has written a quite favorable review of a cheapo 7" Windows 8.1 tablet.

http://cd-rw.org/t/hands-on-with-the-affordable-linx-7-lamin...
Thanks for the feedback. I initially had Facebook and Google logins, but since its a meteor app there is a less than desirable user flow (it opens a Cordova browser which looks awful and possibly even looks fake).

I'll take your feedback on board though thank you!
There was a recent documentary about this subject: http://www.aliveinside.us/
Thanks for the feedback. I will be looking to change this to a less intimidating image.
Ask HN: What's the best alternative to MacBook Pro 13“ retina?
Are Ideals of Canine Beauty Making Our Dogs Fat?
You already know if you have cancer. The doctor not only can withhold information about your neighbor, they are mandated to.
FreeBASIC. It is simple, has OOP features, Strongly typed, it has threads and is compiled.
or you could learn math & science...way better
Thanks for the feedback. I agree that autonomous data collection would be preferably. But with body measurements it would be difficult to achieve.

I understand that people may not be comfortable measuring their body accurately. I will look to provide help and guides in app to solve this.

Body measurements are the purpose of this app, so image analysis and estimation based on silhouettes would not achieve the desired outcome.
Looks like they had a working prototype. Pretty impressive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvtxjSrImHw
Thank you for your comments. I will definitely try to provide guidance and coaching in app to help people take accurate measurements.
Remember that free food is not seen as a fringe benefit, so it can increase compensation by a fair amount due to the reduced tax burden.

That's one of the reasons why it's so offered - it's a very cost effective way to increase compensation.
HackerRank in Swift – STDIN
Great to hear, sounds like an fascinating project and look forward to trying out the AWS library. Funnily enough the project I considered using OCaml for was to build a language & runtime for container orchestration.

Yes, OCaml dev seems to be picking up again - I used to use OCaml/JoCaml a few years ago but moved to Haskell and F# in the meantime. However am very excited by the work on Flamba, multi-core and hopefully modular implicits, as OCaml always felt most natural.
This will be an option soon.
So he compares PC shipments to IOS tablet and Phone plus maybe Mac shipments and says Apple sells more computers? Kind of like comparing apples and oranges: totally bananas.
This is why the first thing I install on any Mac is MenuMeters. Beautiful, simple, and, as you impress, essential:

http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/
Depending on the product, enterprise customers also publically and strategically source from multiple vendors to ensure they're not beholden to vendor lock in.

Consumers rarely act in so organized and thoughtful a pattern.
When people write something like this in a piece : "Since credit was expanded out of thin air by banks without underlying stocks of gold to cover it, ..." you know they are confused.

Banks don't "expand credit" out of "thin air" they capture future economic output by funding it in the present. You say to the bank "loan me $100,000 to build a house." and the bank says "sure if you agree to pay me 5% of that loan amount every year for the next 30 years." They have agreed to loan you money today, and you are going to give them all that money back and you are going to give them some additional money (5% of the loan amount per year) that you make over the next 30 years as well. And then they calculate what the total amount would be over 30 years and they divide that by 360 months, and that becomes your "monthly payment".

So no money was "created out of thin air" rather future money that doesn't exist yet, but the bank has reason to believe will exist, has been allocated to that bank because you are going to give it to them. And to get that money to loan you they tell other people, "hey, we'll pay you 2% interest on your money if you keep it in our bank." They net the difference (3%) and the world goes around and around.
The option to delete your account will be included soon. We currently do not send any emails at all. But when/if we do, there will be the option to opt out.
As with everything in law, intent is key. Just because something can be accessed by the public, does not mean it is intended to be accessed by the public.
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Rest assured I'll be adding this soon. Thank you for your feedback.
BTC-E Dips to $150 Unexpectedly.Blames Samuel L.Jackson
The Rush from Judgment (1997)
The Message Is the Medium: Reasons ‘Assistants-As-App’ Work
Germans did not have much oil in WW2 [1], they even converted coal to synthetic fuels [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_Campaign_of_World_War_II
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel
Syntax is crucial when developing for reliability. Brainfuck trivially proves this. Both semantics and syntax need to support reliability.
> I would argue that the old forms of work and the corporate form we know today is due for some refactoring.

I completely agree.

It does seem that startups sometimes go out and raise money simply because it's the expected thing to do. And with the cost of getting a product to market and a business off the ground so incredibly low these days there is much less of inevitable need for VC than there was, say, in the 90s.

That said, raising capital can be incredibly useful for a company. It can fund initiatives that otherwise simply wouldn't be possible with cash on hand. And traditional lenders might be hesitant to give loans to a very young organization with few assets.

I would imagine there are various creative ways to handle this A co-op could always sell shares to an investor if they decided to not be 100% worker-owned. And a co-op could always decide to seek a traditional exit event at some point if they wanted to (there are plenty of publicly traded coops). Or you could structure some kind of joint venture. I imagine though that the biggest problem would be that most investors wouldn't want to take on the added risk of dealing with an unusual corporate structure if they didn't have to.
Weekend Reading: As We May Think by Vanevar Bush (1945)
> It's also true that people get fired without warning.

Who decides who is getting fired and for what kind of reasons do people get fired for at Valve? Like how does that process work from top to bottom? Does a general consensus build among some of the people who've been there longer and they start plotting your downfall behind your back, take it to Gabe Newell and then you're out the door?

I've read about this before[1] but was curious if you had any more insights.

[1] http://www.develop-online.net/news/valve-s-perfect-hiring-hi...
I have a colleague who flew relief aid missions into Russia in the 70's and 80's, and said the Soviet civilian maps were just terrible - they'd show roads in the wrong places and didn't show secret military bases, etc. He figured this out after accidentally flying over a Soviet army base in what is today eastern Ukraine... and then talked his East German military connection into getting him a copy of the military maps.
My aversion comes from relatively poor language syntax - it's more verbose than it should be. Lack of powerful type system. And less-than-stellar performance. Out of these, the language is the most annoying.

Can you state which language constructs Erlang has that other languages don't, that are critical to concurrency? Cause it looks like someone built a great VM and cluster library, then tossed in a language for fun.

And please explain why Erlang's features are not possible in other languages. Not just unavailable at the moment. Or do you mean the guarantees are different? As in other languages will let you have corrupted shared state? (I view that as a positive; let me escape guarantees when I want too.)

Or perhaps point me to a decent intro that'd cover all this? I looked at it before and didn't get the real point why we need Erlang the language or why in theory, you can't have OTP with the CLR or JVM.
Thanks for your feedback. I agree that it's more involved and effort to track measurements, but without developing a companion piece of hardware (smart tape?) I see no solution for this.

You get a much more precise indication of the way your body is changing for your help extra effort however. This app for example will be of far more use to a body builder than a weight tracker would be.
Actually my team from Cupertino was county champ in Math Counts and 2nd in the state. We lost to the team we beat in counties because they went through a training montage to avenge their loss. ;)
We will be providing clothing sizes based on leading UK manufacturers in the near future.
Dell XPS 13".

See http://www.anandtech.com/show/8983/dell-xps-13-review or http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/04/dell-releases-updated...
Stunning Evolution of Millennials: They've Become the Ben Franklin Generation
In case anyone reflexively thinks, as I did, "probably making a mountain out of a typo molehill", the author says:

> To be fair, "Kelsey" can be an androgynous name, but female pronouns were used in the original news release, so these had to have been deliberately changed. One of the news organizations that changed my gender had actually interviewed me, in person.

and, heartbreakingly:

> … why does it matter? The women who set the path before I came along had to deal with much more egregious social norms and behaviors. By comparison, these "small" things hardly seem noteworthy. However, even small things add up over time to create an environment that makes it clear when you’re an outsider.
Gawker has been banned on HN for years. Spillover gawkery seems just as off-topic, not that the indignation isn't justified.

We've penalized this post, but won't kill it, because the thread has some good comments.
To be fair, this is a blog post, not an article; and I think that the HN title (which is not the blog post's title) is about as succinct an abstract as you can get. (EDIT: I'm sorry, I'm wrong; it is an article on The Chronicle of Higher Education. I think that my second sentence still stands.)
How is this different than lazy evaluation?