skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair point, and perhaps my wording was a bit harsh. That said, drivers talk, and I would be pretty surprised if drivers weren't aware of this.

It would make for a pretty interesting survey. I wonder what would happen if drivers didn't know and suddenly found out. Guessing many would stay the course because they need the income.
I picked the bracket that was 1 higher than the one I "felt" like I was in. Human Beings tend to lowball ourselves. After a few times of doing this and seeing them meet your price though you start to get a sense of your own worth.
Yes. Next question?
you should hear what people say when we suggest that they make their own backups in addition to the ones we provide for them.

adults acting like children. nothing more, nothing less.

take responsibility for your own data. back it up yourself.
I've been using OSX since 2003 and I think it's better than ever. My guess is some people are just nostalgic for a time when computers were easier to master/understand.
Boy that osx style dock really disguises the ancient gnome2 desktop with that awful transparency effect. /s
I'd really-really need DNS for non-running containers, somehow. Nginx can't start if an upstream container is down, as its name won't be resolved.
My home systems are Windows and my Work machine is a mac. I find I'm more productive on Windows for Office/Browser like stuff and more productive on my Mac for dev kinds of things.

However, I generally avoid most of the default software that comes with both OS's with one exception: Windows Explorer is lightyears ahead of finder. Finder is really quite terrible and behind in usability and UI from Explorer. So while I avoid Finder, I still use Explorer for many tasks...so many that I don't bother with most "organizer" apps.

There's some things on Windows networks that are really nice, like WDP (which is much nicer than VNC).

Both OS's are pretty rock solid in my experience and across multiple machines. It's actually the Linux machines I come in contact with that are super flaky.

However, I've found that software on my work Mac is pretty crashy/flaky compared to Windows. I also notice that app developers seem to play more monetization games in OS X-land compared to Windows e.g. I just had a free app I've used for a year auto-update and disable itself because the author decided he wanted to turn it into a paid app. To be fair, the crashy flakiness seems to coincide much more often with some combination of opening-closing the lid and losing VPN connection to some servers.

Either way, both OSs seem to be about even to me for 90% of what I do, and the parts where they are better than one another don't really overlap.
How has this paper not won an IgNoble prize?
i don't have kids, and so have no first hand knowledge here. most of my second-hand anecdotal experience is that people have kids, and they often still have ideas, but no time to really implement them.

i did have one coworker at my old job who said that the limited free time he got once he had kids motivated him to be more productive, and actually made him better at getting side projects done. probably the exception, and he was a pretty motivated and focused guy anyway, as far as i could tell.
You must have worked in a shitty place if your weren't with any programmers that laughed or drank beer.
MyDP/Slimport adapters typically have a Micro-USB port to allow you to connect a charger, so yes.
No, do not wave away Sales' culpability in this. Those in Sales are adults, who are fully capable of taking responsibility for their actions.
The Opportunistic Culture
> This is fairly stupid, considering that Ubuntu's marketshare was pretty much 100% PC, 0% tablets

Ubuntu is both a commercial AND a community project. The goal has always been to take the power of Linux, make it usable for 'general users' and take it to the market winning new users.

The PC market is shrinking, so much so that all the major manufacturers are struggling (e.g Dell going private, HP splitting itself etc). Meanwhile the growth in the next billion units is a) in China b) on 'mobile' devices.

IF you were in charge of strategy what would you do?

> They gave their main demographic a slap in the face ...
> Now, according to DistroWatch, Ubuntu is below Mint and
> Debian in terms of popularity.

The demographic for 'traditional' Linux is something like 2-4% of the PC market: the biggest thing that's happened since the 2000's is OSX has stolen developer user-base from Linux. These users are well -served (arguably habituated) by the older interfaces, but more general users are not well-served.
Even if you put aside the goal of winning new users, you simply cannot build a successful business on 2% of the market (particularly when that 2% of desktop users is not orientated towards buying anything and hates advertising).

It's tough to serve more than one users-base, but Linux (Ubuntu in this case) can as it's very flexible. There's still a massive pot-pourri of software and options in the repositories! I find self-described 'geeks' complaining about Unity really bizarre - if you're a power user it's literally 3 commands (touch .xinitrc; vim .xinitrc; exec <wm-of-your-choice) to change the interface.

> That's an argument in favor of incremental evolution and refactorings IMO

That works if the old thing can be incrementally improved. The issue for Linux is that it's simply fallen behind the significant changes in the client market. At an infrastructure and applications level the FOSS/Linux environments aren't competitive to the other mobile offerings. And, it's basically impossible to maintain one complete stack for the desktop and a different one for the mobile space at the sizes the Linux companies are.

> Now I'm 30, and I just want the damn thing to f'ing work reliably.
> I don't need rounded corners, or transparency, or animations or even a desktop background.

The thing is that puts you in the 2%, the things you care about are quite different. General users do care about animations, basically the whole UI "experience": to get them to change you really have to show them something different. Of course, you have to have some level of stability, but you don't win new users by telling them you are so much more stable - users just restart the app or device, they carry a battery charger everywhere and just shrug and plug-in. You only really have to read some of the comments in this thread to see what I mean ;-)
Not sure what you're trying to say here?

I work at a company where the dress can be anywhere from hoodies to jeans and collared shirts.

We have sales people who are really awesome and extroverted, yet they come in wearing hoodies, or hawaiian shirts on hawaiian shirt day, but also know how to dress more formally when necessary.
I see, thanks! I'll look more into it, it sounds interesting.

By the way, how did you manage to install Keybase FS? It won't work for me at all.
rsync.net is the shit. I can vouch for them 110%.

Also backblaze's b2 is pretty damn good/cheap. I use it as a secondary backup.
>Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian?

On this question, at least, I certain have used Atlassian's products. Jira I've used at a good handful of gigs, both contract and full time. And I have enjoyed using Bitbucket when I've had the chance - frankly I even prefer its interface that of Github. But the culture that has grown around Github makes it difficult to ignore if you're involved in open source, or if you want to share code publicly; it is the "go to" spot.
And then they'd have to prevent you from visiting sites outside the EU that aren't following their stupid rules. So then you need a "great firewall of Europe".
Introducing ES2015 Proxies (in Chrome 49 and later)
I wonder if this is a North American thing. I noticed in Sweden and the Netherlands the newly-built houses tend to have a more "solid feel" and sensible arrangements. Though I can't speak for their structural integrity since I'm no expert. They also seems to be less attached to faux-period styles and more readily embrace contemporary designs.
On the one hand I agree with your sentiments, on the other hand I disagree with your approach.
<One community in Okinawa, Japan has one fifth the risk of colon and breast cancer and lives seven years longer than the average American.>

Apparently, this has nothing to do with their far healthier diet than the average American, in the author's eyes.

Also, teaching people to do bodyweight squats with their torso leaning forward and stopping well below parallel is just bad, bad, bad.
The trick is, I think GitHub stopped being a software company. At some point (after Tom left), GitHub was taken over by finance people to just pump money out of the VC system. Is there any other explanation for why GitHub The Corporation has completely stopped interacting with GitHub The Community?

GitHub raised $250 million last year and, as you mentioned, there's nothing externally visible to show for it (as consumers of their public platform). (random guess: the $250 million could have been $150-$200 million in cashing out stock to individuals (like crooked groupon shenanigans) then maybe $50 million for operations? How many billions of dollars does it take to write an issue tracker with more features than redmine from ten years ago?)

Same comments were making the rounds months ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10165681#up_10166913

All this gets back to a bigger trend we see these days: closed platforms are like governments (google, apple, github, twitter). We don't allow (sane, first-world) governments to exist without citizen representation. We must demand user-level representation in corporations running global scale closed platforms everybody relies on. Community powered social platforms don't exist without the community, and private corporations exercising extended "we don't give a crap about the users even though we have millions (or hundreds of millions) of them" patterns must be... corrected.

No Computation Without Representation.
looks like what Motorola delivered on 5 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Webtop

(despite negative reviews, I had one when it came out and plugged it into hdmi monitor or webtop to use like a computer quite often...although primarily useful for watching netflix on big screen and browsing internet.)
The only reason I still use Github is because of the network effect. If they fall apart, I'll migrate to a self-hosted Gitlab instance and that will be the end of that.

I'm just hoping that, should GH fail, it hold off on failing until I learn Ruby sufficiently well to review the entire GL code base so I can deploy it with confidence.

EDIT: Yes, "with confidence" is a very important qualifier that is drastically important to the meaning of that sentence. It's not a prerequisite for deploying at all, but without reviewing the entire codebase I cannot feel confident about its security.
""Cut", for example, has never been on the Mac. "

Apple Notes would like a word with you. Specifically the word 'Cut' under the Edit menu.

Apple Calendar would also like the word with you.

Terminal. Script Editor.

Not sure how you come to some conclusion that Cut is not "on the Mac".

My Apple devices regularly need me to switch WiFi off and on, in my home which has an Airport Extreme and Express, both with latest firmware.
That lean start up culture
>You must have worked in a shitty place if your weren't with any programmers that laughed or drank beer.

Indeed. If anything, the beer culture has penetrated deeply in the startup world. I'd even say that it seems almost contrived at this stage, as if there's something amiss if there isn't beer in the fridge. Maybe the cargo cult extends to beer: "Everyone else is doing it, so we have to do it to."

Mind you, I have no problem with beer being made available in the office. But I wonder, at times, about why it happens.
I'm not sure you're using the term "ASCII" correctly. There are virtually no characters in ASCII that aren't printed on a key on a typical US keyboard.

Especially when you say "with a font that has all the necessary characters". ASCII is ASCII. All fonts (except Wingdings) have 100% of the ASCII characters.

Maybe you're pasting in Unicode; maybe you're using the Windows-only ALT-numeric keypad garbage.

But I suspect your "nice formula" that renders in a text editor maybe isn't as clean or standard as you think.
If Windows 7 is "magically rebooting and bluescreening" often enough to comment on, then you have a hardware problem.
Or, alternatively, "I know we have our product, but these guys don't want it. Instead they want this [custom engineering project] that's tangentially related to our core product. They are offering to pay lots of money for us to ignore our main product and add [cancerous project] to it, at which point we can surely sell it to tons more customers!!

CEO: "$$$!!!"

B.D.: "Pivot!"

Engineers: "There goes our sprint"

Product Managers: "I'll be updating my resume..."
This is the most bizarre thing I've seen in a long time. And I frequent the internet. I'm with you. I can't believe it's real!
> Fair use only exists in case law

Specific applications of fair use appear in case law, and the question of whether any particular use qualifies as fair use would require determination by the court if sued, but fair use itself exists in statute, specifically 17 USC 107: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/107
runc doesnt use docker format containers, you just provide a filesystem. You can store your containers for runc by curling a tarfile if you like.
I think you're right but people tend to take for granted the features that are worthwhile and underestimate the difficulty of making anything ever work correctly all.
It's been a long time since I've reminisced about the MID/UMPC craze. I remember trying to save my money for months for an OQO and reading review blogs on all the new devices every week. What a time to be alive.

Looking back, the present mobile device market feels so boring in comparison.
He also misread the NYT story about the study showing "the death rate was higher in people that sat more than six hours per day."

No, that was for people who sat for more than six hours of their leisure time per day. Not the same thing.

I'm using a standing desk, but I'm sitting on it, cross-legged, with my monitor in my lap. Am I doing it wrong?
Ask HN: A Question for Ethnographers (or Armchair Ethnographers)
I'm interested in understanding, at a deep level, the longitudinal day-to-day impact of technology on people's lives. To do so, I'd love to read some in-depth ethnographic narratives of the style: "A day in the life of a 20 year old white male in 1990" or "A day in the life of a 30 year old single mother in 2002", tracking through every year from perhaps the 1970s to today (even earlier if possible, I have no idea what's out there).

My question to those familiar with the Ethnography universe:

Are there accessible highly detailed Ethnographic narratives of the form "A day in the life of a 20 year old in San Francisco, during 1970, 1971, ..., 2015", with a different subject each year to keep the age constant, but drawn from a similar socio-economic + educational + ethnic background?

I have full academic journal access, so doesn't matter if it's pay-walled.

Thanks!
Isn't that trying to time the market?
I just sent you one.
Although I think this kind of story is plausible in general, it may be worth pointing out that Federal judges, who hear patent cases, are always appointed (at a national level) and never elected, unlike local judges. So they don't have election campaigns to contribute to.
For me it's supervisor and beanstalkc and fabric but you can run your fabric scripts with Python2 easily enough.
Google wanted to take on Facebook. I'd contend that they didn't succeed, and I suspect most would agree. LinkedIn has a market, but it apparently isn't the one Google wanted.

Interestingly, there are people posting on Google+ that make for the occasional, decent content. Far more, certainly, than the awful "inspirational" memes I see so often on my LinkedIn feed.
My point is soccer is so boring. so very, very boring. Fun to play, terrible to watch.

Football is boring too really.
And what IDE on Linux handles all those, without installing 30+ plugins?
This isn't surprising. I'm gonna generalize:

Without VC money, startups are led by "culture" (i.e. collective personality and desires of each member of the team). It has amazing results in the long-term.

With VC money, startups replace their culture (seen as irrelevant) by short-term expectations. Pressure , competition and hierarchy are built. Good for short/medium-term valuation. Terrible for long-term commitment.
If an illegal rave happened in a warehouse, and you sent out a weekly paper newsletter of raves, would you be guilty of trespassing? Would you be guilty of whatever all the occupants of that night's rave are guilty of, like the drugs in their pockets?
"Science for more than a half-century has found ways to complicate the matter ..."

Peterson, T. C. and Wallis, T. W. R. (1997), Running in the rain. Weather, 52: 93–96. doi: 10.1002/j.1477-8696.1997.tb06281.x

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/j.1477-8696.1997....

But all this is model and theory. What about reality? To predict the weather four
days in advance you may want to use a model, but to truly determine whether a walker
or a runner would get wetter in the rain one can simply conduct an experiment. ...
we purchased two identical pairs of hats, sweat shirts and pants, ... Departing
at the same time, Dr Wallis ran the lOOm at a velocity of 4.0ms-' while Dr Peterson
walked the same distance at 1.4ms-'. The total water absorbed by the walker was
0.217kg and by the runner 0.130 kg.
Running, therefore, produced a decrease in wetting of 40 per cent.
Demo here: https://jsfiddle.net/xb9mr7bn/9/
Even if I had said "Hucksters" then you would have most likely thought of something other than a creative agency. I could probably shave with the amount of edge you've got there.
The most upvoted and commented story about AirBnB is "Airbnb Nightmare: No End In Sight"[1]. Also in the top 10 are "The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As Users Home Is Utterly Trashed"[2], "Airbnb Victim Speaks Again: Homeless, Scared And Angry"[3] and "Dear AirBNB, No thank you for the XXX Freak Fest"[4]. There are more in the top 20.

A single comment sounds like poor evidence to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820615

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813956

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2820605

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407796
I get you. Yes, it does combined readline and optparse-type functionality. It's similar to Commander.js, with the exception that you have the option of staying in the "shell" after the first command executes, and then it is its own environment with its own commands.

On piping, I hard coded those to keep it short. Every single command can receive "args.stdin", which is a stdin stream from previous commands. To pipe out, the "this.log" command does all of the heavy lifting.

So all you would need to do is expect both "args.stdin" and "args.words" - that would cover input both from a directly executed command as well as stdin. This works very well in practice.
Great Idea! At my day job we occasionally (ie: a couple times a year) need customers to send us "large" files (too large to email) and the customers do not typically themselves have enough technical ability to "host" it (be it through dropbox/google drive/etc) themselves. I spent a couple days looking for something similar a year ago and ended up with a dated product at a very expensive price. [Our web-hosting is currently sucky shared hosting we've had for decades /w a small upload limit]. I was thinking of rolling my own solution but never got around to it, glad to see somebody is working on it. PS: Assuming it works, I'd start charging right now, skip this "free for now" nonsense.
5 Major tips to shorten your programming learning curve
Nope, not in the Federal court system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_judge#Te...

No Federal judge has ever been fired due to a reduction in the number of positions on the judge's court. (It's quite possible that a decreased caseload could result in fewer new judicial confirmations, but that affects would-be judges, not presently-serving judges.)
None of which contradicts my thesis: that it wasn't rejected, but that Apple wasn't ready at the time of release to undertake the task of opening it to all comers.

The supposition that it was only due to the outcry of the development community is exactly that, a supposition.
No, and you're countering rhetoric with rhetoric so here are the specs: bare metal 96G RAM, 16 cores, 36 disks (also tried 36 SSDs). Nothing exotic, and something similar you should be using to test before releasing another ill-fated storage engine based on "It works on my Macbook Pro with an artificial load test, ship it!". On the same box carbon is usable, and TSDB can scale linearly across a cluster of these machines. Influx burns down as soon as more than a few GB of metrics are persisted even after backing off collection.
Every business (and I'd argue project) needs to grow and change with how the world is developing. The Palm Pilot software was perfectly fine in 2004(?) but wouldn't stand a chance serving users-needs in 2016.

The Linux distro's actually serve multiple 'customer' segments. On the client side there are at least two customers (at a minimum), one is end-users, the other is the OEM's who pay for Linux to be preloaded. The traditional OEM's need a solution to the PC market shrinking while the devices market has eaten their lunch.

It's true you have to determine the difference between a short-term 'trend' and a long-term shift. I'm sure you don't think that the mobile market is a short-term 'trend'.
If you're on OS X and using docker-machine, the command to upgrade is `docker-machine upgrade default` where default is the name of your VM.
I have a project at work involving Cybersource who we've chosen as a processor recently. I'm curious what they considered significant volume.
Exercise: imagine this was written in 1989; how many edits would you need to turn this into an optimistic defense of the long-term prospects of the Japanese economy?
Fred Wilson Criticizes Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for Waiting to IPO
This is really cool.

Since this is a filesystem that streams data on demand, how does it behave under poor network conditions? I'm also curious how much data it caches locally, e.g. if I'm on a laptop and lose wifi for an hour, how much of the data in the keybase filesystem can I reasonably continue to access?
The .PDF metadata says it's from 2008, produced on a Mac running what was then a fairly high-end package (Acrobat Distiller from the InDesign CS3 suite.) Assuming nobody went to the trouble of adding bogus metadata, it's easy to believe that it really came from an ad agency.
It's funny -- on the one hand, people SAY they want this (only fully cooked new features). Yet everyone is really quick to jump up and down and complain and bash $company for lacking innovation when their new OS or the next version of their software comes out and the focus has been on stability/bug fixes.

Not just Wall-Street types either; I see this primarily from tech people. Examples: Android M, OS X Snow Leopard (I think, I may have that release wrong but there was one there that was definitely 'not many new features'), basically anything where the next version isn't predominantly new shiny.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
I would ask a few taxi drivers how their compensation structure works and if they are independent contractors or not.

I asked one in BC, Canada recently, and found out they have to take monthly $100/day taxi lease, minimum 1 month and then make that money + more back with whatever hours they can get. I'm guessing the drivers are 'independent contractors' too.
Nice to see building from stdin working again.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/15785