jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Apple's screwing it up with software. Too bad because they undoubtedly had the best OS ever.

I remember seeing a few posts here and there where people complained about performance degrading each time they upgraded OS X. My last 3 laptops had been Mac's (a White Macbook, then a Macbook Pro from 2010, then a Retina Macbook Pro from these days...) and while I feel 'satisfied' I also kind of noticed that performance is always worse, and somehow the more I upgrade, the more I feel like a pain the ass when I use that computer. Since there are no serious benchmarks on to this (I wonder why) I always thought that it was more of a 'feeling' than something real, or that maybe, sure there was a bit more lag but I'm running more 'advanced' software.

So yeah, that was me dreaming about how $4,000+ dollars on laptops had not gone down the drain when I paid a visit to an old friend. I asked my friend to borrow his computer because I needed to check an email and he did. Old friend's Macbook is one of these [1], that is, a laptop that wasn't even top of the line TEN YEARS AGO. I've opened and became surprised that battery still worked. "Dude, have you ever replaced the battery on this?" "Nope" "Weird, maybe he just doesn't use it too much"... Laptop woke up almost immediately, it had OS X Tiger running... Tiger... not even leopard.

And then I started using it... HOLY F* (excuse the expletives) I WISH MY F* RETINA MACBOOK WORKED LIKE THAT. Everything was smooth, Firefox opened like immediately (no SSD obv. but ok maybe it was already on RAM), I was able to finish my work and read a few articles and I felt really comfortable the whole time, and I want to clarify on this, I didn't felt that I was using a computer to do my work, that was kind of the magic that Apple products used to have (all of them, even iPods...). Now I'm always like, oh I gotta do this, click ... wait ... open this ... wait ... send this ... wait ... change this setting ... wait. Now I can state it for sure, Apple is really screwing it up on its software.

I haven't dropped Apple because fortunately for them, most other laptops feel even worst (at least they haven't screwed the trackpad yet...) but as soon as a well-made Linux notebook appears I'm out.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/MacBook_P...
If his last name is in fact Wozniak, I'm not sure I see a problem.
Great items to throw out there. Getting the clutter out of my workspace and moving to one big monitor has bee huge for me. Just makes you focus on work. I don’t allow myself to do distracting things when in my workspace. Make sure to take breaks and walk away, then you can check whatever online vices.
I find the notion of ARM-based Macs dubious and I think JLG is on the mark in seeing iPad being positioned to replace low-end PC’s.

What did Apple gain from switching from PPC to Intel in the first place? They gained faster processors (their market share was insufficient to keep performance parity) and the ability to virtualize or even dual-boot Windows on Mac hardware. I don’t see these factors changing; iPhones and iPads don’t have the performance properties of laptops and desktops, meaning even Apple’s internally-developed ARM architecture is going to treat Macs as as much of an afterthought as Motorola and IBM did back in the day. Meanwhile, even if Windows compatibility is less relevant, the ability to virtualize Linux distros on Macs has become more relevant.

If I’m a software developer and I want to run my code on a x86-based Linux server somewhere, I’ll often want my development environment to be capable of reproducing that same environment, and tools like Vagrant and Docker accomplish this on Macs using virtualization. Without a shared CPU architecture, these tools will either stop working entirely or rely upon emulation, which would hinder performance and potentially introduce inconsistent behavior compared to the real hardware. Now, it’s true that iOS development relies on the Mac performing ARM emulation. But there’s already a working solution for this, and you can still use actual iOS hardware for testing. If I had to connect my Mac to an x86-based Linux box for testing and development, why wouldn’t I just use the Linux box? And the Linux box is a server that I can either Remote Desktop or SSH into, why would I need a Mac to be able to do that? Maybe I’m biased because I already think Macs aren’t a very good development environment, but I don’t really see switching CPU architectures as a move that makes them any better. All bets are off if ARM servers actually take off, though.
In a liberal economy, pretty much all poor people are where they are from having made bad deals. That does not mean that they had good deals available to them. One of the other (unfortunate) consequences of liberalism is that people are free to setup the deals they offer to other people such that all deals available are bad deals.

My comment is not intended to be a value judgment on either poor people or rich people, just a description of why things are the way they are.
Just due to being on HN, you're statistically likely to be someone who has plenty of savings already.

Most of America does not.

If people are getting laid off en-masse, the majority of those people will, within a few weeks, not have enough money to afford basic necessities. Giving each of them $1k/month would soften the blow considerably.

Giving them $3k/month would, for most of them, get them back close to where they were before the layoff, and keep the economy functioning.
A teacher at my highschool did the thermite demo over a large ceramic dish, it shattered the liquid iron blob burned through the floor into the classroom below
apart from Netflix's Drive to Survive, there is also Amazon Prime's GP Driver.

https://www.amazon.com/GRAND-PRIX-Driver-Season-1/dp/B078WFL...
As said in the article though, spinning and weaving actually takes up much more time than sewing. I would say the biggest innovations in clothing were the cotten gin, the power loom, and dry cleaning. Before dry cleaning, a suit had to be unstitched to be cleaned.
"Active up to 12 hours a day"
They are on Rails 3 which is pretty old for Rails standards and they got there recently. See http://shayfrendt.com/posts/upgrading-github-to-rails-3-with...

This is their architecture in 2009 https://github.com/blog/530-how-we-made-github-fast
Couldn't find anything more recent.
If anyone from GitHub is reading this, I know that many of us would like to help. I imagine that the mitigation of this attack has been very costly. Is there a place we can donate to help offset the cost of this attack? Maybe I will purchase a subscription, but a one time payment would be preferable for many of us.
What? Of course private office is better. In an open office, I always have to worry about if my fart is too loud for the person next to me to hear. It's like every time I have to pass gas, it interrupts my train of thought so I get to let out a silent one. Or even better, some times I have headphones on, and totally forgot that I'm in an open office.

In a private office, I wouldn't have to worry about this.
One overlooked factor is the modern consumer being desensitized to advertising. This created huge advantages in the last 50 years but modern consumers see so much advertising that they are largely immune to it.
Sure, but you also have to remember malaria is much more localized than influenza. The same region of the world that has to deal with regular outbreaks of influenza also has some of the only areas with malaria. (South America and India also have malaria, but I don't know mortality rates.)

People in Europe don't die of malaria. It just doesn't happen. People in Europe do die of influenza, and that is a global problem, but this is a localized disease that kills a half million people a year. Now, this might be just a case of me coincidentally finding stats to back up my argument, but I searched for "malaria deaths africa" and found this graphic:

http://www.rbm.who.int/gmap/3-2.html

It looks like Sub-Saharan Africa has about 71% of the worldwide cases and 86% of the worldwide deaths. Concentrated in a population of comparable to the US or the EU - not the world. If these statistics are accurate, the death rate is so much higher it's not comparable to influenza. The top 4 countries, Nigeria, DRC, Uganda and Ethiopia have a higher population than the US, but they also apparently account for half of the malaria deaths.

So it's not like the flu, for the countries with prevalent malaria, it's many, many times worse.
The author mentions thinking about doing an iPhone app, but being put off by the $9500 price.

I know the revenue share pitch is a big old red flag for any developer worth their salt (most people who want to do a revenue share have some sort of scammy half-baked idea with nothing else to offer for which they want half of the revenue).

But this guy is clearly bringing something important to the table (a curated database of etymological data), and the app wouldn't be that complicated (depending on whether the database ships with the app or is lazy-loaded from the server).
Unfortunate that they restricted their initial launch to iPhone users only.

I want to try it, but all I see is a blank page. I suspect I'll have forgotten entirely about Path by the time they launch apps for other mobile platforms (or a web interface!)
Can you share more details about how you usually work ?
Mine was for a French social networking site 4 years ago. They used to send mails everyday to say "hey look at the people who you might know". The links on the mail would automatically log the user on the website. When I sent the code live it took 2 days (and more than 50000 mails to found out that when I sent a mail to person Z about person Y the link logged in Z ON Y's account.

[1] I knew it was a bad idea to automatically log on the target of the mail. But it was the policy. And it still the case as far as I know. And if you forgot your password don't worry It's stored in plaintext...
They have compute nodes with GPUs. From their website:

22 GB of memory
33.5 EC2 Compute Units (2 x Intel Xeon X5570, quad-core “Nehalem” architecture)
2 x NVIDIA Tesla “Fermi” M2050 GPUs
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: Very High (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
API name: cg1.4xlarge

So they have new awesome Fermi GPUs but the instances cost $0.50 more per hour than the standard HPC compute nodes. Generally exciting for anyone with GPU code and the desire to run on a cluster.
You are right on in this comparison. The limitation may be brutal, but it is simple and effective. Path is an "inner circle", and people should think of 50 as a high number they are unlikely to ever reach.
HN killed RSS.
Drone startup -- www.airphrame.com --- in Downtown SF is hiring full stack web developers. You'd be one of the first 10 employees.

We’re looking to hire a Full-Stack software engineer with solid foundational programming skills and at least 4 years professional experience and has built several large web apps using different front end frameworks.

--Interesting Technology--
Scala Backend. Technologies include http4s, Slick, Postgres, PostGIS
With a preference for statically typed languages front end. (ie. typescript)
AWS skills a plus. Linux System Admin a plus. Devops skills a plus.

--Interesting Business--
At Airphrame, www.airphrame.com, Our goal is to deploy a fleet of fleet of flying robots, potentially 10,000’s across the world, that are constantly updating geophysical data (such as 3D point cloud sets) for mapping platforms, environmental & civil engineers, and other business who can utilize such data. We’ve been in business 3 years, have recently raised 5M serA, and have paying customers who love us. In the present, our data is invaluable to maintaining utilities infrastructure (dams, powerlines, highways, rail, etc). In the future, robots (for delivery, cars, etc) will depend on good mapping data to navigate the physical world - and we will be an essential part of that.

--Interesting People/Place--
We’re a small and highly skilled group who prefers working with top talent than at a big company. Founded by three engineers: Mechatronics, Unmanned Systems, and Software, you’d be in the first 10 employees. We have a young environment with offices in MidMarket SF and a robotics laboratory (aka adult treehouse) in Oakland.

APPLICATION PROCESS
Please send an email to: jobs at airphrame.com, subject: [Position Name]
Please include github account or code samples
Career Page: http://www.airphrame.com/careers/
> "... which seems something of a dead end."

Based on what, exactly? If anything 'all this effort' should indicate the complete opposite of what you state.
I know of a fairly pretty famous programmer of software everyone has heard of that chain smokes pot while (prolifically) coding. Me, I could never focus enough to bother looking at the screen for a few minutes.
How about revenue and profit?
That we are having this exact same discussion AGAIN.

Yes I believe we are living in Bizarro-world.
I think that it doesn't just involve more pressure; it's just really difficult to make a game that could live up to the extremely high expectations people have. It takes time to come up with good ideas after all.

I completely agree with your point that a little hierarchy is necessary to get things that absolutely need to get done finished. On the other hand, as a developer I can also see how you wouldn't want to release something unless you are confident it'll be great. The difficulty is finding that balance, but given that they intentionally chose to stay private, it seems to make sense the company culture is to focus on the quality of the product.

I'll admit I kind of admire the freedom from time pressure they have.
Who were the participants? Random people off the street, or professional tasters who actually pay attention to what they're eating?
I checked your link because the claim seemed improbable to me. Here is what I found:

- 77% US adults currently own a desktop/laptop computer (interestingly, this seems to hold mostly steady since 2008)

- 85% US adults own smartphones

There is no "only own a smartphone category" in the data. There is a "relies on their smartphone for internet access, with no broadband internet". This one is just 15% of adults, though slightly higher in the 18-29 age group.

I can't see anything in that link that would support the majority of people using only a mobile device.
I prefer to say “shite removal” after the last half a decade.

At least TPB adds value to peoples lives.
>Being able to unsubscribe without any friction is also a bit of an issue.

For a while I was known amongst coworkers and friends as "that guy who will cancel or reduce your Boston Globe subscription fee for 10 bucks." They make you call during business hours and go through a whole guilt routine where a human tells you statements implying you'd be a bad person for missing out on important news and not supporting local journalism, followed by questions prompting you to justify why you want to exhibit these antisocial traits by canceling your subscription. Then, if you didn't yield to that tactic, they beg to reduce your cost to a promotional rate of first half off, then 90% off, for 6 months. Then, finally, you can cancel and the agent says goodbye in such a way as like you just stepped on a puppy. I never found a way to get the call center to go off this script. My 'clients', empathic and intellectual Bostonians, simply could not bear to partake in this shame and/or degradement of the Globe.
>To help you stop worrying about things that don't matter.

Kind of you to want to help me. I don't really do social media in general.

Elon wanting to fix Twitter made me want to create an account to see if I could detect conservative censorship. No history of anything to judge me against except who I connect to and likes. This is all it takes for twitter to censor. I'm basically going to delete twitter because it's pointless for me to stay on a platform that actively censors me for no valid reason.

You're wrong though to say it doesn't matter. This insidious degree of censorship skews democracy in an unhealthy way and effectively breaks understanding. Maintaining peace when understanding is broken can only be done by force temporarily.

So for example, Twitter and Canadian media covered the freedom protest in Ottawa as nazi confederates looking to overthrow the government. This was utterly false. Countless international media saw this remarkable story and covered the protest only to find that it was completely false.

Our PM reacted to protest as if it were nazi confederates looking to overthrow the government by using a never before used emergency act to crush a peaceful protest. He seized people's bank accounts who werent even involved beyond being a donor. After he pulled the trigger he realized the huge mistake he made and has been touring the world talking about how he supports democracy.

Damage is done, I don't see how Canadian society heals from this in the current state.
This is one of the biggest mistakes we're collectively making right now, intentional or not. Ideally, every job should offer the opportunity to learn more and/or move into better-paid roles eventually-- and even if that's too much to ask, we could still be doing far better than we are.

I showed a lot of promise in a field I was interested in early in life, but there was nowhere to go to level up in it without going back to college (which I couldn't afford either the time or the money for). Now I'm staring down a dead end at middle age with no idea what's next, other than that both my pay and my workload will be miserable compared with what I should be capable of.

One apprenticeship at the right place & time would have dramatically changed my life, and I'd be contributing to the economy on a whole different level.

When all the entry level jobs are dead ends, everybody loses.
Without even reading the article, I thought, "Ballmer probably feels the same way about hiring you".
You could pay me to work for Ballmer.
Yeah, but you missed the second half of my sentence :) It's not the only thing they do, and it's certainly not the whole of a good governance mechanism. I do agree with you about the PP, but it's a move in the right direction, at least they have awareness of the issues that need to be addressed. There is no silver bullet, but they can (hopefully) work toward something that works most of the time.
You seemed to be the one who made the grand statement about it being a game of skills.

How is me saying that it's both skills and luck a message-board dork argument? Pray tell.

The point is that there are games that are not luck. Such as chess or go then there are games that are pure luck such as drinking games with highest card drink.
And then it hits. The iPad is for the nightstand. And for the sofa, and for the places between where you stand in line and where you sit at your desk. That’s why every iPad poster and billboard features it on a lap or a knee. They’ve stopped short of showing it on a chest in bed, but that’s where mine gets its most use.

Another use for a compact tablet/slate: shower radio. No, you don't put it in the shower, but it does quite well on the windowsill right outside to the shower, at the other end of the tub from the shower-head. There's no danger of it getting wet, yet I can use the NPR app to continue listening to the radio.

I've been doing this with the old Windows XP slate. The iPad is lighter and more convenient for this purpose.
There is luck involved in boxing. There is much less luck involved in boxing than there is in poker, because poker is a game that is about managing risk and uncertainty.

Chess and Go may be "pure skill" games, but there are very few popular games, sports, and practices that are similarly pure, and so the notion of how valuable or important "skill" versus "luck" is becomes murky.
I had to put the plugin back: http://twitter.com/gideonklok/status/15475873118

Btw. I did already opted into the html5 beta tests here and there. That might have influenced the result.

I'm using http://clicktoflash.com/
Personally, I can't stand when people claim ideas are worthless and execution is everything. The fact is that ideas INFORM flawless execution. Ideas and execution are inextricably linked.
Scenario 1: You work for six months and then take on Bob and give him 20%.

Scenario 2: You and Bob start working together from day one and it's a 50/50 split.

The same person in an even slightly different situation can behave wildly differently.

It's quite possible that Bob will feel awkward and detached. Never really able to commit, and always feeling that deep down it's really your company. The last thing you want is a co-founder with a morale problem, especially one lurking beneath the surface.

This is the kind of problem that happens when you're trying to have your cake and eat it too.
Okay, how about clothing that melts away when it gets wet? Got anything there?
I second this. The price is premium, but so is the product.
Yep. But to me that only changes what the problem is that the toolchain solves. It doesn't affect the social and economic pressures on how the relevant toolchains evolve.

To a certain (admittedly limited) degree the "limited space" problem with FPGAs maps intriguingly to the "limited memory" conditions that early LISP and FORTH compilers spawned in.
Unpaid internship in NYC = way to weed out qualified folks who don't come from money already.
More likely he has a Hobby not a business
http://www.irs.gov/irs/article/0,,id=186056,00.html
Back in the old days companies would hire smart/capable people and train them up.

This mentality works well when you don't expect your workers to leave in under 5 years. I don't really know if this is a good or bad thing, but given the structure of American businesses it doesn't make as much sense to take on a new person, train them, then take the risk of them taking their skill set elsewhere.
I had to use Myspace, MSN Messenger and Google Chat, because all my friends were there, too.
You have to use what people you know use.

What use is switching to some messenger that no one you know uses?

Obviously you can always fall back on SMS and e-mail, probably, but that is a path to social isolation in many cases.

So, it’s not exactly the same as having two ISPs to pick from but to pretend that your choice is completely free and unconstrained is also a dangerous lie to tell yourself and others.

To solve this … well, I don’t know. Probably regulation? Benevolent tech giants that for some reason decide to push open, federated messengers?