skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did this for a year or two.

Pros:

* It's a mac, with decent specs, on a budget. Considering I was running dual boot on a machine I already owned, it was free!

Really, that's the biggest and only one.

Cons:

* PITA to set up and make everything work, and this on a hardware configuration that is explicitly supported. In my case, to get everything working, I had to wipe my OS (since a GPT partition table is required), install, bail out and reinstall after finding the right combination of kernel flags, and then after I got it running, I had to hex edit my graphics driver (!!!) to get the second display to work.

* Updates are scary, and will ~%50 of the time lead to a broken system. Unbreaking it is easy (usually just updating and rerunning the prep tool), but still annoying.

* Never was able to get sleep mode to work. I had to disable it, since if I used it, my CMOS was wiped!

-

That sounds bad, but this was also years ago. The tools have gotten better, and I had a working system in an hour or two with a lot less screwing around just a month or so ago. Everything but sleep mode Just Worked too, though updates were still scary.
Thank you for the suggestion as I am unfamiliar with Niresh's Yosemite Zone. I purchased both the OS and hardware. How is that illegal?
So it connects to the internet via... cellular networks? Is that possible for $5 (and only $5) without a service fee and/or the costs of integrating with multiple carriers?
Isn't the Mini a much better alternative? You can replace the disc, and don't have to spend money on an expensive screen.
Okay there's no need to ridicule someone else out for sharing (as was asked) a book that meant something to them, even if it's a religious text. Your response is just mean-spirited.
You've already finished wat, undef, random3, and random4?
Does humans have any value outside of what they can offer to corporations? Would there even be any point to keeping humans around?
We had them, for decades. They involved the use of punched cards and a butterfly ballot. The voter could physically inspect the ballot to determine which holes were punched. Sadly, the "hanging chad" of Bush v. Gore (2000) pushed many states into using electronic machines, with predictable results.
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Bagpuss really is genius. Probably the finest children's TV show ever made in Britain. Certainly in a different league to the rest of this list!
If someone has sufficient physical access to an airgapped computer to both install malware and place detection devices around it, wouldn't there be far simpler ways to exfiltrate data?
Me too -- would add that despite the time I sunk into troubleshooting, I don't feel like I learned anything useful in the process.
Size matters a lot here. For $5, I'd put a tiny tracker on all my expensive belongings. If the tracker is bigger than, say, a US quarter, then the number of things I could put it on would be much smaller.
Yes I was betrayed by spell check :(
I'm saving up for Airwolf.
> I'm not convinced that kids learn lessons like these better when it's spelled out for them.

From another angle, showing events with consistent and guaranteed moral consequences could be seen as mis-educating viewers that if people misbehave then benign forces will appear on the scene, putting things to rights and dealing out appropriate punishments and rewards.

Sadly, in the real world, this is far from often the case.

Obviously, you don't want kids to grow up thinking "great, I'll be a bully and a thief, I'll get what I want and nothing will happen to me," but neither would I want them to grow up thinking "I'll just go along with whatever shit unpleasant people throw my way because something bad will happen to them before long without me having to do anything, and my innate goodness will be rewarded automatically."
I tried that about 5 years ago because I was temporarily broke, already owned a mostly compatible PC, and wanted to do iPhone dev. It was a nightmare. It took like a week to set up & managed to brick itself within a year. If you absolutely _need_ a mac then just buy a mac. I've even recommended that people who want to make an iPhone app buy a mac, make the app, and then sell the mac again when they're done, because the alternatives, like hackintosh, are such a pain. If you don't absolutely _need_ it to be a mac then just go linux and save yourself a ton of aggravation. Apple laptops are head and shoulders above the competition, but their OS kinda stinks compared to linux, especially for power users(this coming from someone who's used OSX about 5 times as much as linux). Oh and those trashcan mac pros are insanely powerful if you really _need_ OSX on beast mode.
Not really used the pen on the linux side much but touch works fine.
double finger scroll & pinch to zoom works in chrome (but not firefox, or at least I can't get it working). The graphics are fairly snappy with wayland too.

I do have a few annoyances, eg the insert key is shared with prt sc and there is no right hand ctrl key (I remapped "menu" in gnome shell). Actually I do miss my x220 keyboard layout quite a bit :)
I must recommend against any use of Tonymac's tools.

https://tkware.info/2013/01/27/hypocrisy-thy-name-is-tonymac...

https://tkware.info/2013/01/29/honor-among-thieves-the-tonym...

(tl;dr: DRM in the installer, bogus legal threats when this was called out)
I propose to replace welfare/disability fraud/etc with a guarantee job (FDR style) that pays in-kind benefits. I.e., if you claim you can't find a job, the government will give you a job fixing our crumbling infrastructure, providing child care for working women, or similar things. In return you get a room in a government dormitory, a healthy meal from the government cafeteria, a government track suit, etc.

Now the "sit at home playing video games and get free money" choice has been removed. You'll still have a minimum standard of living, but you must contribute to the world rather than simply living a life of leisure. I.e. shared responsibility.
I have a Hackintosh for web development. It's extremely stable - the only kernel panic I've had was due to Razor mouse drivers. I have hardware that is very hackintosh compatible however. Also, I ended up changing out my USB wireless adaptor for a PCI express one which is natively supported by OS X rather than mess about with drivers etc. Everything works - iMessage, Facetime etc. If you have compatible hardware and some free time I would recommend it, I would NOT recommend it if your hardware is atypical and requires bludgeoning to get Mac OSX onto it.

I should add that due to my experiences with OSX my next desktop purchase will definitely be a mac.
>hardware is getting faster

Considering that the end of Moore's Law is more or less here already, as pointed out in many HN articles, that's really no longer something we can take for granted.
Care to enlighten some of us unwashed? I'm a physics grad student and I certainly learned things like Borel resummation in school (er, it was in textbooks they assigned us on QFT at least...)
The SGI O2 was one of the best looking workstations ever designed. I still have mine, gutted with a x86 Linux box inside but still.
First, I don't like it. Most of the time, it is awkward stuff, and horribly boring, exercising just to exercise. I'd rather do so much other stuff.

Second, I don't usually find the gains to be motivating. I have trouble sticking with it after a month or two.

Third, I'm not really willing to spend money on equipment or go out of my way to a gym. I'd rather not be seen.
Adding a check box in a relational database most likely involves running ALTER TABLE to introduce a new column which in most relational databases locks the table.

Now lets say you are doing 15,000 requests per second on that table.... is preventing those from executing acceptable in your system? Its not in mine which is why we don't run ORM generated migrations.
Do you take maintenance time (is money) into the equation too?
I read the parent comment as; getting to the point where computers understand speech that well, is a far more difficult challenge than a large number of robotic challenges.
> People can be both ends and means and be quite content. Personally, I think there is too much emphasis on people being ends unto themselves in the current culture.

That's because society is really nothing but a lot of people working together in an alliance. If we didn't make people themselves the end they would have no reason to participate in society.
I had a beefy gaming pc, but the graphics card died. I didn't have the money to shell for a comparable one, and I had been using the machine for developing more than gaming. So I got a cheaper graphics card and a wifi card, and went through the set up.

I've been using it for 2 years and a half now. I was on mavericks for a while, skipped yosemite, and did the clover setup for El capitan. Now I have regular updates that don't break everything, and this works pretty much as well as my MBP. I'm on android, so I don't worry about iMessage, but everything else works just fine.

It might save you some bucks if you get some deals on parts, but I'd say it's almost as efficient to get a mac mini. I'd say that the only advantage, is that you can easily upgrade parts if you come across the money since you have your own case and build.
Java. It's the past, present, and future. We'll never rid ourselves of it.
I think that's what they were going for... They're following the "Vice" model (which I actually like). News the averge modern person can relate to. Walter Cronkite is dead and gone man.
Wow, this advice is very valuable. I'll definitely investigate. Thank you.

Another interesting discussion is the ethical side of things. I do feel some obligation to pay back to my home country for things it has provided (free education, healthcare, etc.), many of which were financed with tax income.

But paying the whole amount from current and future gains would be tad too much. Also, would it be possible to achieve higher and more direct impact with dodging the taxes and distributing that money via philantrophic means? Just some questions I'm thinking about in the whole picture.
Curious about the business model when it is released and whether it will be open source.

Also curious about the tradeoffs and benefits compared to existing tools.
I've had good success running OS X El Capitan on an i3 Intel Nuc. It's my main music composition platform, mostly for Logic Pro. It's a cheaper Mac Mini in that you can get one with the required parts (SSD and laptop RAM) for under $400 USD.

As I own no other Apple products, it helps having an Mac in house to run the occasional Mac only software.

Here's a guide [1] with a matrix on how to install it on other NUC models.

[1] http://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/guide-el-capitan-on-the-in...
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Do you have any suggestions? I'm currently leaning towards the Lenovo X260 or an older X220.
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> If you have ever ordered pizza from a static IP

Most homes in the USA do not have static IPs. So this approach to mapping would not work.
But you can't.

Because if you knew the error than you'd know you are wrong.

I think you are thinking of statistical significance perhaps?
The big issue with such a situation is that for the worker, there is no difference if they work or not, since they are anyway in both scenarios earning the bare minimum to survive - so in essence such a system is stating in practice that the value of that labor is already zero.

However, in a concept where the "bare minimum to survive" is unconditional, then the incentives of employer and employee become aligned with the true situation of economy, since the amount that the employer would be replacing by automation is equal to the amount that the employee is getting above that bare minimum, and the decision to automate this task or not becomes the same for a particular employer as for the whole economy.

Also, even for the classic welfare model, this argument fails in the normal case where there cannot be workers earning the bare minimum to survive, as there is a labor price floor, the minimum wage, which is supposed to be (and in any currently functioning welfare state, actually is) a "livable wage" that's strictly larger than the bare minimum to survive, and larger than the long-term benefits such a worker would receive.
> Moral of the story: Always use 3 equals unless you have a good reason to use 2.

NaN === Nan // => false
[] === [] // => false
{} === {} // => false
[1] === [1] // => false
[0] === [0] // => false

I guess i never see the gains in the triple vs double equal sign wars.
My web stack checks for a specific header at each potential level of entry, and in the absence of a value, generates one. Then each layer's logger will log it back out. It's pretty straightforward for web requests - just use the plumbing that's already there, headers.
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Gotta say, not a fan of that login popup to even read the content... F12 delete overlay all the way :)
By that logic, society should have collapsed already. The combine harvester automated the work of millions of peasants-with-scythes, and that was decades ago.

And yet most people agree that society is better now that most of us aren't forced to spend all day scything the fields!
Probably depends on whether it is a $5 one off cost and/or a recurring cost to keep the service going.

For $5 one off cost per item and say $15 for the monthly service I'd stick them to pretty much everything.

NB Also depends on size and battery life of tracker and accuracy (e.g. finding a Kindle in a house requires a small tracker and reasonably good accuracy).
I've used one for 2 years ... things worked and it was rather stable ... but stay away from updates.
Later i bought a macbook and used it for a while , now days I run ubuntu , everything works well for software dev and all that ... but webex and other fancy webapps(flash or activex) are always a problem.
My company uses lync , so i use a combination between bitlbee weechat and bitlbee-libpurple ... works but sharing desktops and voice calls obviously can't be done.

Good luck!
Over the last several hundred years Ireland has had massive economic issues. This may have little to do with religion but I don't think it supports whatever point your trying to make.
Are you sure about that? First, many higher-order constructs boil down to simple first-order control flow after partial evaluation (see e.g. AnyDSL https://anydsl.github.io/#publications). Inferring stack size bounds in the presence of higher-order programming features is also possible, and was implemented (as the "static region optimization") in MLkit.

But the main point is that code in a high-level programming language looks very different from C or even Rust code. Sparks in Haskell, or processes in Erlang, or even individual goroutines in Go, are typically executing comparatively tiny programs. If the call graph of the program in question is acyclic, then it should be easy to get a bound on the maximum stack size.

To be clear, I agree with you that a 1:1 threading model is the better design for Rust, simply because it's the only design where you can guarantee zero overhead and don't need a complicated runtime. What I don't agree with is that the M:N threading model is inherently inferior. Especially for a high-level programming language, I would assume that you can reduce the overhead significantly through static analysis and a good implementation.
Proud owner of an Hackintosh here, I've been using one for quite some years now (6-7 years) back when installing it was a real pain in the ass and a real gamble, now with the right hardware, you can install OSX faster than installing Windows 10 or Ubuntu. Upgrading to a new version is a bit of a pain in the ass sometimes, but no more so than on linux most of the time.

I've tried multiple times to switch to Linux (multiple distros) and making it play happy with 24K monitors & 224" was never easy, Windows 7/10 lags when the 24" monitors are running, so I've to keep them off when using Windows (mostly for gaming), OSX has been running the show great and smooth.

I recommend you try it, although again, the secret here is in buying the right hardware, of which there're plenty of guides online.

Good luck.
I thought you still have to load proprietary firmware onto Intel cards?
I've used a hackintosh as my main dev machine for 4 years now. Got everything working, audio, webcam, usb3, even some additional SATA PCI-E controller. What I basically did was using one of the lists of "recommended" hardware from tonymac's site and bought the best of each component.

I've got some issues with updates as many other people commented, but having a HDD specifically for timemachine backups was key for not stressing too much about it. I can try updating and risk breaking everything, and I know my stuff is going to be there even if I roll back to a previous version.

I'd definitely recommend it, but it's not as easy as buying a MBP. But the results are really good.
Hi,
I was the first MySQL DBA hired Pinterest and before that I worked at Facebook and GoDaddy. At none of these places did we run active/actice. One of the first things I did at Pinterest was rip out the multi-master configure because it is dangerous.

Why MySQL?
Really easy replication, no vacuum, and great point lookup performance.
I thought about a Hackintosh as well, but I ultimately decided on just getting two monitors and keyboard/mouse and hooking up the MBP to the setup. Way better than the headache of dealing with a Hackintosh in my opinion. You also have the benefit of only having one computer to deal with, so no issues with syncing files and apps. It's also much cheaper than building a whole computer.
So to get this working you need to have an image of your disk ready at all times, to be able to go back when you need it. I suppose you have your Users (home) folder on a different partition so you can just whipe the root partition.

I'm glad with my Macbook. It's expensive, but it works. I've thought about moving to Ubuntu, which I use at work since five years, but still lacks in some points compared to the Mac. And finding a modern laptop that just works with Ubuntu, while being significantly cheaper than the Macbook is not easy.
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Get a T450s / x250 - they are very well supported.
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I like how apparently everyone dismisses string theory predicting Bethe Ansatz results as immaterial largely because no one outside of condensed matter and some math people bothers learning about BA.
This reminds of I conversation I had with a mobile developer. He came up with a prototype to show to a client. The prototype was just interactive screenshots with nothing going on in the backend. After showing it to the client, the client was excited that the app was pretty much done. The developer explained that this was just a prototype and all the coding still needed to be done. The client couldn't understand and kept saying that it was basically done.
I run several hackintoshes + real Macs as my primary work machines and personal use. Getting Facetime/iMessages to work is relatively straight forward and easy if you'd like them (even easier if you have a real Mac too).

Machines:

Dual Xeon | 64GB RAM | GTX960 | 4x4TB HDD, 3x5000GB SSD

(My oldest) Core i5 | 24GB RAM | GTX 680 | 3x4TB HDD, 150/250/500 SSDs

Intel Nuc i3

I'm happy to answer any questions!
JSON is slightly broken in Chrome for more than two years
Yes, I trivialized a complex social evolution on my comment to make the point that labour conditions were not changed simply because it made sense economically in the factory owner's yearly budgeting. The main driving factor was recognition from all around that the labour conditions needed to change for ethical reasons, and the factory owners had to acquiesce to the demands of the society.
I only need __one__ power user (or employee) to do the same thing with the proprietary software. It happens all the time.
Not yet. I might do that later, but it requires some cleanup work.

The code has three parts: Markdown to HTML text, HTML DOM to Markdown, and the editor. The total size is about 30KB uncompressed (27KB JS + 3KB CSS). It didn't use any icon font or images.
iOS 9 bug that lets you bypass iPhone lockscreen
Thanks to Pandoc, I never need to use Microsoft Word at work. If someone wants me to upload some documentation to Sharepoint, I just write it in Markdown and convert to docx with Pandoc. Wonderful piece of software.
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It's not immediately clear for me when to use BDR and when would I choose XL. Can somebody do a quick comparison? I like this quote in the announcement email:

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IS Postgres-BDR RIGHT FOR YOU?

BDR is well suited for databases where:

- Data is distributed globally

- Majority of data is written to from only one node at a time (For example, the US node mostly writes changes to US customers, each branch office writes mostly to branch-office-specific data, and so on.)

- There is a need for SELECTs over complete data set (lookups and consolidation)

- There are OLTP workloads with many smaller transactions

- Transactions mostly touching non overlapping sets of data

- There is partition and latency tolerance

However, this is not a comprehensive list and use cases for BDR can vary based on database type and functionality.

In addition, BDR aids business continuity by providing increased availability during network faults. Applications can be closer to the data and more responsive for users, allowing for a much more satisfying end-user experience.

---

But I can't seem to find something similar for XL and especially a diff between the two.
I've been looking at Linux laptop options. It's mind boggling that it's so hard to find good options.

See Dell: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/06/the-xps-13-de-dell-co....
Here's what I do to satisfy my cravings for Macs. I just buy used Macs from OWC/MacSales (www.macsales.com). The 2012 machines are pretty affordable and will give me years of service even if bought today.

I have outfitted all my family members with used Macbook Airs (average price $499) except for my son who is holding out because he believes he needs nothing but top end Graphics Cards to run games.

I know this doesn't directly address the Hackintosh question, but provides an affordable alternative to splurging on brand new latest and greatest Macs or hacking together an unsupported system.
Happy birthday, I used it for both outputting pdf, and often when encountering a very long html pages without styling (quite common around these parts) to output epub.
I appreciate your input. Those tools/site worked at the time. If I were to do another build, not sure I will any time soon, then I may look for other avenues.
We already experienced automation for decades. Has that lead to higher unemployment? If not, why will it lead to that in the future?
A car will last for decades if you're willing to pay for proper upkeep. But new cars are tremendously safer than those built 10+ years ago. Look at recent crash test videos. If you were going to be hit by a drunk driver which vehicle would you rather be in? The safety factor alone makes new cars more cost effective for many of us (depending on the value you place on your life and health).

Safety improvements in light aircraft have been far slower and more limited.
Can your 4 year old refute Aquinas? It's a little condescending to say he "pointed it out" to everyone, as though it's some trivial subject.
I've been using one for a little over a year with frequent OS updates and have had no problems so far. However, setting it up was stressful and each time I apply an OS update I image the drive prior, in case something does go wrong.

Once you have it setup, the biggest drag is that you have to be ready to fix the potential damage after each update.