skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to use a 14 inch in a packet commuter train or in an airplane. 12.5 are small enough that they can be used anywhere, the whole point of a laptop for me. If I need more screen space when at home I can plug an external monitor.
I know I have :)
True. Apple makes a disgustingly large margin on each, so I suppose less volume doesn't neccessarily mean less revenue.

Having said that, decreasing volume, something which is now never-ending for Apple in the last few quarters, consecutively, is a marker for doom, or at least the end of life of the product line.

When you're selling less and less, you can't keep revenues up by just increasing the margin on each unit forever. It's unsustainable and unstable.
No. The entire premise of amortized analysis is to get a more optimistic "eventually O" number. "Eventually" is not good enough for real time. Yes you can get a real hard worst-case number, but that's a different analysis from amortized analysis. Unless all of your amortized operations are happening between deadlines, it's useless--worse, dangerous--for safety. And amortized analysis is almost never used that way. You don't have language run-times that reinitialize between every deadline.
You're complaining about lock-in, yet recommend hosted site-builders?
and cache invalidation is notoriously easy to get right...
What's its bandwidth use like? If there's 20 people in the same office listening online, Youtube, etc. can get a bit heavy on the bit-flow.
For me I actually avoid music I know/like and just go for straight up instrumental (usually piano or acoustic guitar playlists on Spotify). If it's music I know I'll get distracted by trying to find a song I like more than what shuffle gave me. But with instrumental I can work and enjoy the music at the same time effortlessly.
Digital nomad startup on Product Hunt
I totally get your point. I've posted my own projects here in the past only to see them sink faster than a tabloid editors ethics, but I take that as part of the 'luck' and natural filtering nature of this platform. It certainly doesn't mean I bear a grudge for any other post that does make it to #1. Especially if it saves me from the 700th post this week on "Why I won't be buying another Apple device ever"...

I really don't think this is (or should be) a place where everyone gets a participation medal, but from what I have seen, the success and failures of posts by people announcing new products here seems to mirror the success rate (and seemingly random stickiness) of real world product launches, so perhaps that might help creators to get used to it and build up some resilience.
Chain Reaction Records FTW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUWXoGTMePo&list=PLB851A38A6...

If you want it more boring even than that you could go for some drone music from the likes of Thomas Köner or Celer, or Gas.

Beyond that lies field recording.
I manage a wordpress installation for a school community site - wordpress's greatest strength (and biggest source of frustration) is it's flexible and popular plugin ecosystem that gives me useful plugins, including a shopping cart system for fundraising, an events calendar and photo galleries, all managed from the same WYSIWYG interface as a blogging engine and a decent CMS.

I could re-write all those plugins in another CMS, but the fact that wordpress is so popular and so flexible is the reason I don't see myself replacing it any time soon.
I think we should wait for OP’s explanations before jumping on a conclusion.
second that, UX390UA (aka zenbook 3) not only looks sexy it also packs incredible power (core KL i7) in a tiny body.

Be sure to watch Lisa's comparison with the 12" macbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhoAACXWNHU
He says they helped, not that they built the entire thing. But yeah I'd also be interested in a write-up explaining how he used the service to build the web-app.
We do exactly this, but we keep our site code including plugins in github and the images in EFS. I would really like to see some recommendations on dealing with the Linux stat issue over NFS.
I run https://ghost.org/ inside a Docker container and I'm quite happy with it.
Thanks for the helpful info. Can per-app-vpn (e.g. IKEv2) be configured for any app, or does it require special support from the app developer?

While searching for info about per-app VPNs, I found this guide for on-demand VPNs that are associated with specific web sites, https://www.derman.com/blogs/Setting-Up-iOS-OnDemand-VPN
x220 is neither thin nor light! Especially with the extra battery. This is why I buy the x200 Thinkpad because they are small and can be used anywhere, yet thick an heavy because they are, or at least used to be, loaded.
It doesn't necessarily follow from what perilunar or fennecfoxen said that they think 'no government' is the right answer: even if you think the government policy-making wields force, that can just mean the bar for what government should be doing is higher, not that nothing at all ever clears that bar.

Example: one could characterize investment in cleantech as hedge fund-like speculation (other example: US monetary policy), albeit with the dividends paid to the American economy (and some larger proportion to Tesla etc shareholders). I think reasonable people can disagree over whether that is an appopriate action for a government to take (i.e. whether it is in their purview/mandate) separate from whether other issues are (utilities, defense, welfare, etc). A rejection of one is not a rejection of all, and similarly support for one is not support for all.

(Speaking generally: I don't know the specific views of perilunar or fennecfoxen)
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I can't decide whether this is amazing or horrible, and I like it.
How about a Mac Pro ? Up to 12 cores, 64-gigs of ECC RAM, dual ethernet
Lol exactly.
Wouldn't be an issue if apple would update their Mac Minis...
I have been listening to Civilization 6 soundtrack recently. It all-instrumental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb922Sry_DI
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That's what we Repl.it are focusing on. We currently have almost all the top bootcamps using our platform: https://repl.it/classroom
Any idea why that web IDE at Google isn't part of Google Apps For Business? Sounds like it might be a good fit.
Hi, what was the parameter you used for that face example, it's really impressive.
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Or the proven Celery
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> not hiding runtime costs

Except the costs of garbage collection, I suppose.
I hosted all my own services on Linux for a decade and a half. I was concerned about using Gmail because of privacy issues. I pointed a vanity domain at my house, and did web sites, VPN, and email (among other things, like Nagios). But, oh god, email. I tortuously configured Postfix with all the anti-virus and blackhole and spam filtering bells and whistles, and procmail to fetch from other accounts and combine them, and then set up some sync server software (I forget which one) to handle sync'ing contacts and notes with my phone. Then I realized that 90% of the email I got was from someone else using Gmail, so Google had a copy of most of my email anyway, so I threw in the towel. When I started using Google, I realized how pitiful my home-brewed attempts at spam-proofing my email had been, despite all my efforts. Mostly, though, I was just really glad to have the time back, and not feel the need to go over and tweak every moving part of my stack whenever Gentoo would rev one of the pieces or Ubuntu would release a new version, so that I could keep up with all the security issues without needing to read every notice. As with most things, YMMV, but that's my perspective. Now I use iCloud because I trust Apple more. (Not completely; just more.)
Well you could run it on a Mac Pro. No redundant power supply but 128GB of RAM and dual network.
All "modern" hardware for AmigaOS is either discontinued or not yet shipping, and also very expensive for the performance. This seems to be the normal state of affairs - as far as I can tell, by the time any modern AmigaOS hardware has semi-decent driver support it's no longer available, and a bunch of the onboard hardware simply never works properly.
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How are 1800 comments in one HN thread post-Macbook-pro launch, an "insignficant sample"? Stats 101. And should we ignore the qualitative evidence that this issue has been picked up by multiple independent sources, including the ultra-Apple-friendly Macrumors itself?
I don't think OP is saying there is literally no hardware on which to run the OS, just that by restricting it to Apple products and then not producing any actual server-grade hardware, the offering seems pretty pointless.
Reactor Room is great too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lMim6e6SCM
Yes, totally agree with your observations. I am also hoping to eventually move into the "everyone is remote" model. Minority remote model just does not work for me. I consistently get rated less in performance appraisals despite doing more contributions to the project. This is also because I have to deal with a stupid manager...
> I Have a Unicode Email Address

too bad.
I have its predecessor, the 303UB and on paper it's great, but it's not as nice as I expected.

The 4K screen has a "faux 4K" pentile-like layout so smaller text and any type of thin line look horrid on Windows and stock Ubuntu (I Hackintoshed it for better multi monitor support and OSX anti-aliasing looks much better, making me wonder if Retinas have the same type of "faux 4K")

The screen also has the same horrible yellow tint defect as several other 13" 4K models I looked at.

The touch screen has a layer above the screen that becomes really noticeable in certain light (Bot that the touch screen is really of any use on a non-transforming laptop).

The list goes on.
Three Tips for Building a Long-Term, Sustainable Project
It's good to see a powerful server platform available at $19.99. Where do I install this? Mac Pro was last updated Dec, 2013. Existing customers would find this cool, but it's high time to build professional hardware with truly professional standard.
I'm thinking mostly about the principle of minimality (what can be out of the kernel should be). But there's some more contributions from L4.

The ACM did a talk on those insights 20 years later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdoaFc5-1Rk

The associated NICTA SSRG paper: https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/nictaabstracts/Elphi...

A more recent NICTA SSRG paper: https://ts.data61.csiro.au/publications/nictaabstracts/Heise...
IMHO that depends entirely on the model, Lenovo has awesome machines (e.g. older Thinkpad X series) and some really crappy machines (e.g. ideapad).

Maybe the only exceptions to that are Razer and Microsoft who don't do low-end crap.
Interesting take!

If I were developing a new OS, I certainly wouldn't have a default text terminal...

That just looks gross.

But my interests differ. I would focus on the graphical user interface as my number one concern.

It would always run in a OpenGL type graphics mode, where you could spawn any number of text terminal-style windows, but I would definitely skip a full-screen text mode. Its just never needed.

Does that make sense?
These publication rely on getting people to actually read their content. Of course they'll always write articles like this.
They'd rack mount really great also. Just stack them on top of each other. At 18mm thin you'd be able to go 152 high in a 9ft rack! Good luck hitting numbers like those with a blade loaded with Xeons.

Each one comes with a built-in KVM console, and boy does it look good! Finally, no more pushing that cart with a 17" CRT around the data center so you can use vi in a 40x80 console. These laptop servers have retina screens, baby.

Only one question should stand between you and outfitting your data center with MBPs: Space Gray or Silver?
I agree with you. I work in a team split into two and it used to be balanced between the two locations (Berlin & Zurich) but then Zurich had an additional engineer there and I immediately felt the difference of another person there coz the other person in Berlin is the Product Manager, therefore the inbalance is even greater.
I didn't enjoy working part time only because I felt like I fell out of the loop.

I'd come to work and a bunch of stuff was already done, etc.

So I'd say, try and make sure that you don't get so caught up in new stuff that you're no longer productive with old stuff. That can also be very frustrating.
Use of Portable Screen-Based Media Device and Sleep Outcomes
The new MBP 13" is smaller than the Air, so the only issue is the price?
Listen to the Cloud - I listen to a nice mix of Ambient music and ATC radio chatter at http://listentothe.cloud. I built this a couple of days ago and topped at /r/programming
Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-server/id883878097?mt=...
Matches, Rankings, the Social Network, League of Legends, and Ruby?
so umm if the poster didn't do it...why is this here?

I'm not saying it should not be here...just asking what exactly the "show HN" in about. If it's about showing of the skills of codegophers...should they have not worked on something more complex?

just confused.
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Jeonse
The few places I've seen that use OS X Server tend to run it on whatever old Mac Pro got decommissioned last upgrade cycle.
Those instructions says to use the “Odin” floppy disk image, which is a third-party project which was last updated in 2005.
Ask HN: What are 20 top activities to make me be better open-source developers?
I was watching a lecture and the speaker suggest if you want to achieve a goal or target write the goal down on the top of a paper and write list of 20 activities (or answers) that will make you better to achieve that goal or target, and make a plan and do them every day to make you better in it.

I could write some answers, but I like to know what are your 20 activities to make a developer be a better open-source developer.

Then What are 20 top activities to make me be better open-source developers?
Consumer HP is practically two brands at this point, HP people know and hate, and "premium-HP" which made the Spectre, easily one of the best laptops I ever owned.

And the same probably goes for a lot of other brands (IdeaPad vs Thinkpad for example)
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My experience is a lot like yours (especially "must have heard it a thousand times").

I apply one more trick, that I got from some self help book once: my energy level is not always the same, and too little energy is a problem for concentration but so is too much energy. If it's just right, I'll likely be able to find the flow and then the music matters less.

Rage Against the Machine and Rammstein can improve energy levels. Very quiet music (current favorite Carrie & Lowell by Sufjan Stevens) can quiet me down so I can concentrate.
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I have had a Lenovo ideapad Z510 for almost 3 years now, it has worked flawlessly on both Windows (8 then 8.1 then 10) and Linux (Ubuntu / Arch).

Not all ideapads are as crappy as they're believed to be.
Reasons for switching from Quickbooks, Xero, or similar
For anyone out there that has outgrown Quickbooks, Xero, or a similar accounting system, what were the reasons that made you make the switch?
Mac Minis are underpowered dual-core, I wish they kept the quad core options around. And the Mac Pro is so outdated for the price tag it's not even funny (although I could consider one if the price were slashed by a half or more).
That's a cool conky setup, do you have any files available publicly to checkout?
The T460p has fully expandable RAM (almost 5 pounds), but it's a lot bulkier than the other variants (but somehow has smaller batteries), and for inexplicable reasons uses inferior materials. (Pure ABS plastic like on L/E series Thinkpads, not fibre-reinforced.)

Lenovo's model policy is somewhere between "annoying" and "fucking insane", every laptop is seemingly made by a different team and none ever talks to each other.
From the PDF (linked in the article):

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE To date, this study is the first systematic review and
meta-analysis of the association of access to and the use of media devices with sleep
outcomes. Bedtime access to and use of a media device were significantly associated with the
following: inadequate sleep quantity, poor sleep quality, and excessive daytime sleepiness. An
integrated approach among teachers, health care professionals, and parents is required to
minimize device access at bedtime, and future research is needed to evaluate the influence of
the devices on sleep hygiene and outcomes.
Call it VeraCrypt, because TrueCrypt is dead now.
Most common dysfunction
CSV of all the tracks: https://fzak.pl/FILEZ/codersplaylist.csv

Youtube playlist of some of the tracks:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOEg5uEc0bD0wwIEEKTNc...
Static site generators are just fine for personal blogs. They don't fit the bill at all when you have a group of people all writing on one blog and you need things like access controls and media file management.

Also, not sure why google rendering JavaScript would have any effect on static site generators.
"Lenovo" could mean "IdeaPad" or it could mean "ThinkPad T series", which occupy very different positions. The same could be done for pretty much every manufacturer on your list.
First paragraph reminded me of most software project stories in the old days. Fun.

There are a bunch of other roads that have been popping up recently IIUC.
I used to listen to various types of classical music on moderate-to-low volume, but I found that on average, it has a negative impact on flow. My mind gets into a cadence with the music (I'm sure there's a term; I don't know it), and that cadence can be devastating for certain types of problems, and often leads to deep stress or frustration and the complete inability to focus at its worst. Even music/sounds that are good for meditation can be detrimental. My mind is chaotic, and I find that to be extremely positive.

Perhaps it's possible that if the problems I'm dealing with are similar enough that such cadence would be beneficial---it does trigger memories and some even nostalgia. These days, I have too many diverse issues that it's just safe to be in silence, though I find that the white noise of my (loud) forced air system (heat/AC) provides a fairly positive effect. Yet white/pink noise does not. Does anyone have any suggestions there?
Which implies the ability to present your receipt to a third party for compensation of your vote?
Two systems. One assigns a unique a temporary code to you on arrival at the polling station, much like those "take a number" queues at places. Then another unconnected voting system with printable receipt.

Step 1) You queue, get a "Temporary Voting Id"

Step 2) Enter the booth, enter your "TVID"

Step 3) Vote

Step 4) The Machine prints your Receipt with your vote clearly visible and your TVID as local proof its you and your vote is right.

Step 5) You fold your printed ballot and put it in a box.

Step 6) You fold your ID Receipt and place that into a "Validation Box" as you leave.

Step 7) All machines keep and print a "Tally" used as the count.

Step 8) All ballots and validation id's are saved in boxes and shipped ready for recounts if needed, ID's can be matched to ballots to validate attendance and votes anonymously.

Bonus Step) ALL vote machine should produce a "Vote Audit" when asked that will show a full history of votes (without times and in random order) and the ID's used and ALL id generation machine should produce all vote id's generated (again without times and in random order)
If you need a high-powered machine, don't get a laptop.
What commercial flight route has the biggest number of stops/layovers?
So you went to kah lej ee?
The alternative would be to provide a hypervisor and boot Linux in top.
Peter Theil defends support of Trump
Some historical background might be helpful: to configure network devices, the IETF specified SNMP in the 1990s. Cisco only did a read-only implementation of it, as their configuration concept did not align with SNMP very well (a change of a single SNMP variable gets effective immediately, which is cumbersome in cases where several variables need to be changed in unison). So network operators resorted to 'expect' scripting of the routers' CLI, which was a brittle and ugly solution. Netconf/YANG was done to replace that.
This is by no means a new tool, just a newer version. But hey enjoy that reeeeaaalll tall horse :)
I sort of do this, but I pick one CD. Usually it's Keith Jarrett but Bach works as well. Especially the harpsichord concertos.
Because ASUS used to be pretty big before the post-PC dip. This only shows that they are regaining lost ground (or Apple is having problems, take your pick).

Also as an ordinary person why would you be interested "margins and revenues"?
Yes and no. There are so many dofferent parts to an operatong system that you quickly favor the text console because its so easy to do. If you are going to work on a GUI first thing, you might as well forgo the operating system bit and just write it as a program in some other OS while you perfect it
We trialed Nitrous with our kids at ScriptEd (after school coding non-profit) a couple years ago. Their free tier was leaps and bounds above Cloud9. Sad to see them go.
Not sure if this is anecdotal or not, but the Dell business-laptop lines (Lattitude et al) have been having hard-drive corruption problems at the company where I work for ages.

As for Razer, I hear their products are excellent (laptop wise).

As for their peripherals, please guys, there's Roccat just down the road and it's cheaper and better.

With Clevo resellers, you get excellent components for the money, but the chassis is usuallt not the 'sexiest'. I'de go with a clevo reseller purely because you can get a rediculous spec for little money (1TB SSD, i7, 8-16GB RAM in clevo world is like 256GB SSD, i5, 8GB RAM in the 'branded' world)

As for Samsung, I've owned one for 5 years and it's still going strong. Flexy chassis though.

HP...sticky keyboard I've heard from friends and wider.

Lenovo...still not forgotten SilverFish crap. As for hardware though, I've heard their business line up is tough and rugged as fck. Suits the frequent traveller I suppose.

Don't talk to me about Apple...planned obselence, bribing developers to not developer for Linux and only MacOS (even though they are 99% the same fcking thing), rip off, etc. Battery is good and heard the frame is rugged enough though. MacOS is obviously stable as hell, depending on release (lol Sierra tho).

As for the others, can't say.

As a preliminary list, i'de say:

1) Clevo reseller (think SCAN, PCS, XMG, etc.)

2) Razer

3) Lenovo

4) Samsung
Once upon a time we had a message broker based around Qmail.

I can't quite imagine taking the step to IMAP, though.
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So instead of preparing paper ballots starting a month in advance, we try to print paper receipts for the millions of people who vote all on one night?
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Branding > conversion
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Cheers to the op, prompted me to finally pull the old thumb out and go and do it :)
As I understand it, no. For mass provisioning there are more "enterprise" grade third party tools for the provisioning, and it can back on to Active Directory (with some additional software I think) for enterprise deployments.

From what I understand, I don't think macOS Server scales to large volumes of users.