skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the recommendation - I'll check those out.

I mainly listen to the Bonkers and Hardcore Til I Die mixes (and occasionally older stuff like Dreamscape and Slammin Vinyl).
Just a minor thing, I love your application (and the pricing) but the monthly/weekly switch on the pricing page has such a fine contrast between them that it was hard to tell that they were button.

#e3e3e3 is almost indistinguishable from #fff for me - 15' Macbook Pro 2015 Retina on maximum brightness using Google Chrome.
There isn't a $4 tax on bagels in New York, and yes, if there were it would just be transferred to consumers. Much like the local cigarette tax.
> 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.

Here too.
Good stuff.

Try to always link to your website in your blog post. Read this post and the example, yet didn't visit their product as there was no link to it.
I think advertising has some good and necessary uses in alerting consumers to legitimate value propositions. It also can encourage people to do things that are not in their best interest, for example to drink either Pepsi or Coke, or to use tobacco products before their advertising was widely banned.

So I would separate advertisements into good (new restaurant near you that you would like to know about) and bad (preying on human weaknesses). Which one is this kind of ad best suited for?

> providing value to users will maximize revenues.

I'm not so sure.

The "chumbox" ads seem to be literally all bad, selling things with net negative utility.

What are the socially valuable uses for this that are going to outcompete miracle pills and snake oil?
Announcing MongoDB 3.4
Why bother showing your name to the driver before the ride starts?

I understand the need for the reverse. As a customer you want to know the type of car, color, and the name/pic of the driver helps identify them as well.

But unless you're going to show a pic of the passenger to the driver with the intention of the driver being able to spot them (which would lead to MUCH worse things than "Tyrone" not getting a ride), I see no point of giving any info about the passenger besides a statistical star rating.
Where did you get it for 980? I tried configuring one and a base model with 8gb of ram and 256gb ssd turns out to be over $1250. With 32GB ram it goes above $1500.
It's funny how the "lol" can change anything. I didn't think there was anything particularly wrong with the tone until I reached the very end.
Shameless plug to a YouTube playlist I made a few years ago to share my favorite pieces of "music for work" to a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMnZa55isA8&list=PLf8nKJTmIH...
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I'm surprised by the number of people saying they can't listen to anything with lyrics while they program! Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's just never a problem for me, I'll listen to just about anything
Sadly the mac mini is single PSU and single 1 gig nic.

(putting aside under powered/poor storage)
At least for consumer grade computing, they want Windows out here so they can make a lower TOC argument to companies. After all future employees will already be familiar with Windows and perhaps MS Office, so there will not be as long a training period.
This article entirely ignores why (given the choice) people avoid the sort of work style incompatible with remote employees.

There's a very revealing section at the end where he talks about the necessity of occasional in-person meetings:

It’s amazing what you can accomplish in a two day trip. Creative problem solving becomes easier, people identify closer to real faces instead of just avatars, and all around it can be a great experience than sitting around computers all the time.

This entirely corresponds with my experience. In a multi-timezone remote team, this is something that happens once every few months, at great expense and inconvenience. Everyone else calls it "Tuesday".
I agree with this. One middle ground that I have found to exist, between totally distributed and all in one office is the multiple distributed offices model. If the development team is scattered among several corporate offices, they tend to meeting using video chat and slack and a remote person can drop right into the team without issue.
Are there any Asus laptops which work painlessly with Linux?
Single PSU, can't rack mount, limited storage.

Which means I can't shove it in the server room, monitor it, use UPS properly, and its all limited to 1 gig ethernet.
I'm now imagining the sheer amount of heat that a rack of 152 MBPs would produce. Something around 10 kW I reckon. Enough to heat a house.
Show HN: App for receiving notifications from the command line
Just Fix It: How Nike Learned to Embrace Sustainability
How does a standing desk represent a loss of desk surface space? Unless you're talking about one of those tiny podium-style desks, which, yeah, you may find yourself resenting.

I've used a sit-stand setup for about 4 years now and will never go back. My neck, back, and wrist pain are significantly reduced. Note that a standing desk alone will NOT suffice. Neither sitting not standing for extended periods is particularly healthy or comfortable.

Always make sure that whatever height desk you use, you're rising your monitor to an appropriate height above the desk surface to allow you to look straight ahead at it instead of downwards. This is especially important with laptops, but even external monitors tend to be too low by default. With a laptop, use an external keyboard and mouse whenever you're at your own desk, and put the laptop itself on a riser.

Previously I used two risers on top of a normal height desk. When sitting I would put the laptop on the low riser and the keyboard and mouse on the desk. When standing, the laptop would go on the upper riser and the keyboard on the lower one.

I finally got a hydraulic desk, and love it. I never could find a riser quite tall enough to raise a laptop quite to eye level atop a normal height desk. And I'm not very tall.

There's more space to spread out the keyboard and mouse even when standing. It's also easier to set up an external monitor to work at both heights. Not cheap but totally worth the investment.
Reactive Microservices with Eclipse Vert.x
You could host several WordPress sites on a free tier AWS EC2, too. Where things get a little more complicated is when you're getting real traffic and want to be fault tolerant and redundant.

RDS is here because keeping your database on the same server as your web server is not ideal at scale.

EFS is here because at some point you want to scale horizontally and it's one method to share underlying code (and perhaps cache).

ELB is here because if you have more than one web server, you need a load balancer

And as you scale, you could add services. This guide isn't for anyone who can host a tiny site on a tiny instance. You'd do that in AWS the same way you would with Digital Ocean.
Ask HN: Useful anthro-ish survey of differing concepts of free speech?
The more I look at free speech issues, the more I realize that different people mean very different things by the term.

I'm looking for a book (or perhaps a blog post series) that takes an anthropological look at theories of free speech. That is, I am not looking for something written by a person pushing a particular theory. Instead, I'd like to find someone who talks to people from different schools of thought, writes reasonably neutrally about their concepts, and talks about the people as people, trying to understand what motivates their different approaches.

Anybody seen something like that?
oh dear: "And it’s so easy to use, you don’t need your own IT department."
> We’ve also extended the platforms that MongoDB runs on, including ARM-64, and IBM’s POWER8 and zSeries platforms.

I would love to meet the people running MongoDB on zSeries.

That's got to be a special combination of "We need this because I heard it's web-scale!" and "Management said we have to put this on the Z!".
Seems to me this happens most often when it is not the driver who is the one paying for the fuel.
Tips on giving your business a boost at Christmas
For the most part I like Apple's engineering efforts. They're in the rather cool position of having enough margin to do things mostly right. After 20+ years of Windows I started using Macs a few years ago, and they were great for getting work done.

Of course, Apple has screwed things up all along: Skeumorphic apps. Lack of repairability of devices. The howling, churning cesspool that is the iTunes UI.

But they do awesome things, usually on their own (with the help of a pile of money), with small teams, and that's pretty admirable.

But then we have the last couple of years, and it seems like stuff is going off the rails. This "server" thing is laughable without hardware to back it up. Office infrastructure (which this claims to be) needs to be run on hardware utterly different from any of Apple's current offerings. Oh, you can probably get away with running it on a spare laptop or mini or whatever, for a while. But anyone making their company financially dependent on this thing will eventually be let down, and hard, and that is going to suck.

Maybe next week Apple will announce a rack-mounted "pro" (or Apple's cool-but-screwy take on real server hardware) and everyone will breathe a sigh of relief that Apple hasn't gone full bull-goose crazy and left the tracks entirely, that there is someone at the helm who knows WTF they are doing. Could happen. Not holding my breath.
who will give me 600m for lolgifs? I have few stacks of floppies full of them
The votes in the tested ballots are not counted in the election itself. A member of the public can secretly vote for their preferred candidate, and vote for an entirely different candidate in the auditing.
I find Jazz to be quite helpful. Miles Davis (Milestones, etc) or John Coltrane (A Love Supreme, etc) works for me.

Failing that The Orb.
> every reporter and journalism student.

How about every citizen? If you want to know what an echo chamber looks like, it's us. We get the journalism we deserve.
I've been working remotely for ten years and I also strongly agree. In a remote-only company you're a team member like any other. When the org simply "tolerates" remote work there is always the sense that you're the outsider.
For me it is Nectarine Demoscene Radio at https://www.scenemusic.net/demovibes/

Something about all the blip-blops that sets the right mindset.
The Top 3 Risks of Scaling Your Startup
Is this a good solution for syncing home profiles?

I would like to have both a laptop for on the go work, and a home desktop Mac. Ideally, these would share the same profile, or at least documents, bookmarks, etc. Several VMs; this is tricky because the laptop would not have all the hard disk space of the desktop, so I'd want to selectively sync these.

Is running OSX Server a solution? If so, would it be on a separate machine, or would (say) the desktop Mac run Server, a user profile there being able to be logged in locally, and synced with the laptop too?
Frivolity is nothing new. They'd get it as much as we do.
Neat science, Hoping appropriate effort is being taken by the community to address nanoparticulate when we come to releasing these to the 'wild' http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?pid=S1413-812320080002000...
It's always validating to see someone else write a blog post of the same decisions you made. This guide is good. For doing the uploads folder onto s3, I couldn't recommend S3-Uploads more it has served me well https://github.com/humanmade/S3-Uploads
I was thinking where is the memcache in all those diagrams, AWS has very simple redundant memcache setup.
Thank you for the excellent feedback and insight. I will definitely give the pdf a read. I agree with all of your points, which admittedly I was not fully aware of when I first embarked on this project. As you've already implied, there are some nuances that may forever be inevitable due to the inherent design of Kafka. But I wouldn't want to dismiss it as unsuitable for job queues so early. It would depend strongly on the use case of course (e.g. jobs that are idempotent or without hard requirement to be processed), but as I am hoping that Kafka's API matures further with finer control over messages and that this could work fairly well for the most part. For now I will take note and update the documentation to clearly explain what KQ is (and what it is not), and what the best practises and use cases must be taken into account before using it. Thanks again!
Of course users flagged it. Boring though it may be, that's usually the explanation. The [flagged] annotation shows up when the flags cross a high threshold. Posts without URLs also get a standard penalty.

Cherry-picking a single detail from a complex body of information does not make for a good HN post, because it's too editorialized: the one who cherry-picks that detail essentially determines the story for everyone else. When the subject is political, multiply this paragraph by 10x; when it's inflammatory, by another 10x.

This and other comments of yours use phrases like "silently hidden" which suggest manipulation of the site for political ends, but we don't do that, and everything that happened to this post and its follow-ups (12840284, 12844254) was completely standard. They're just not good posts for HN, and as they get more meta (e.g. "why was my post about why was my post flagged flagged"?), they get worse and worse.
Known falsehoods do not deserve airtime. This is not about censorship.
The thing is that users update their sites very little and memcache is another expense.
My point is that happiness is not about material things; it's about doing what you want to do - Not what you have to do.

There is a difference between doing something because you want to versus doing it because you have to. I'm not saying that I'm not responsible for my own decisions, but I certainly feel like my hand was forced to some extent.

When I think about people who are less fortunate than me, I think the feeling of powerlessness must be 100 times stronger - Most of these people aren't even aware of what's happening to them.
"Lenovo ideapad (cheap ones, superfish, avoid) and Lenovo Thinkpad (no superfish, mostly good) should be thought separate manufacturers. They're not comparable."
John Cage's 4' 33''

Seriously, I don't like noise when I'm in the flow.
Someone needs to convert `capital_P_dangit` to a userscript :)

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/capital_P_dan...
When I worked there until mid 2015, I had a top-spec retina MBP mated to a pair of thunderbolt monitors. It was definitely possible to get a Mac Pro if you wanted one, but you needed to express some kind of need.
> Put gmail and facebook into a real desktop qt program and a 10-15 year old laptop would be glad to run them

Depends on how much mail you keep.

I use GMail's storage as it's intended, I don't delete anything other than spam. Over the course of however many years I've been using it my mailboxes have expanded to the point that simply keeping track of the current state of things causes Mail.app to drag my '08-era Macbook Pro to a crawl. That's a native app built by the designers of the platform. Thunderbird wasn't much better. Simply opening either one up basically maxes out 4GB of RAM, and unfortunately the model I have doesn't like 8GB.

I stopped using a local mail client and went back to webmail pretty much because of that.
Thanks for sharing all examples
>Because moving an existing site to another platform is non-trivial.

It's not just that it's non-trivial, it's that when it comes down to a real analysis, these "clearly better" alternatives aren't clearly better at all. They generally much, much worse.

There is a hipsterism in technology just like every other field where people identify themselves by the things they reject. The GP post is such a claim, with over the top bombast making everyone know how much they dislike Wordpress, acting as if there is some unnatural force (e.g. user delusion) keeping it popular. It's popular because it may just be the best option for the purpose it serves.

And I don't develop Wordpress themes or plugins, and of course curse it occasionally. I leverage it as a tool.
> Looks like a pretty good first attempt at a distributed filesystem.
You are damn right. It is.
~~
3 years ago, the most widely used DFS in baidu was Peta which is similar to HDFS V2. We have migrate to AFS now.
> VP9 Video Playback

> Opus Audio Playback

> WebM Container

All supported

I didn't know this yet. Good on you Microsoft, I guess.
Anecdote is not data but I have had good experiences with mid-range Toshiba laptops (me or my family have had 3) and now lately I bought my kids a couple of mid range Lenovas (2) and they seem fine. I just got an MSI and it seems good and a good value.

I use MacBook Pros at work a lot and they are fine, but they seem very overpriced.
I'd guess that too but it's not that cold where I am (12° C) and anyway I've seen it on the mellowest summer nights where no heating or air-conditioning would be required.

Glad to see it's not just me :/
That is one disadvantage. If you bothered to read the rest of my comments you would see that I said it depends on your use case. If you just need a basic website you are much better off using a site builder than wasting quite possibly 1000s of dollars on support when something breaks. Be honest. So many non profits with limited budgets have wasted so much money that should have been spent on the actual purpose. All because of the lies they have been told by shady agencies who want the sweet sweet support contracts that junk like WordPress requires.
Sometimes, if i read Comments like that.. i want an favorite Link here too. Thanks for Sharing!
If you want to rack mount, or if you have a sysadmin on staff, it is not for you. Think small office server somewhere with no IT department.
It's Datasette that created the site
I have ADHD, and it's really difficult to describe to people how the "self stimulation" works.

It's almost like I need to keep part of my brain busy so the other "quieter" part can work.

Music, driving, pacing around, and to a lesser extent fidgeting or tapping can all "placate" that part of my brain so the other can actually do work. I'll even do things like play music while listening to a talk or presentation while working, because without the music keeping me "busy" I just can't focus on the topic of the talk.
My situation is very similar, actually. My wife and I are of different nationalities and would ideally like to have the flexibility to move to each others home countries when needed and still be able to work without much hassle. She's making an effort on her part, and this is a part of my effort :).
Many the Standard network protocol stack signaled during its development in the last 30 years.
For (a), you say "speech/sounds" but link to a source that only mentions speech. Is the effect definitely there with non-speech sounds. I assume it is, if we include sounds like a jackhammer, but does it apply across the board?

Subjectively, I find that instrumental music is much better for me than the alternative.
It already pushes the boundaries of "obvious promo post presented as some sort of operational wisdom". I think they realized their limits and held off making it too obvious.
How to Pitch Influencers
I'm pretty sure most voter fraud/electronic count type issues can be solved with git (and/or blockchain). Anyone working on that?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11290577
Maybe not in a non-standard header, though…
A Macintosh computer. Sold by the same company that makes macOS Server.
I am a touch typist and rely on keyboard shortcuts for most of the tasks I do. I also carry a mouse when I carry Windows machine. I find mouse more accurate and reliable in comparison to touch pad.

As I own a mac I have some bitter experience with it when it comes to keyboard shortcuts. For example:

If you cmd+M to minimize an app, how would you bring it back.

Navigating in application windows in Mission control using arrow keys.
Apple’s new MacBook Pro may be the world’s fastest stock laptop
I think your "death by a thousand cuts" comment really resonates with me; but it is a point against MacOS (and Windows!), not for.

Yes, most things "just work". But if something just doesn't quite work in the way you want it to, you often have to move heaven and earth to hack around the problem, maybe even "accepting" that there's nothing you can do, and constantly suffer that irritation every time you butt up against it.

Personally, I have always preferred having my environment "just-so". After suffering constant little niggles when I'm forced to use MacOS or Windows, it's wonderfully refreshing to come home to my configured linux system.
I just downloaded the eBook and spent 15 minutes reading two chapters. Useful material, thanks! Except for working as a contractor at Google, I have been working remotely since 1998, when my wife and I moved to the mountains of Central Arizona. I frequently read articles on remote work, and I find Zapier's eBook on the subject to be better than most material I have seen on this subject.
I recently got an HP Spectre, I would not recommend it (due to unresolved driver/hardware issues) but the build quality is pretty good! Keyboard is very nice with excellent travel.
I have been in software development for about 8 years and I have worked remotely for 4 of those. My opinion is that there is no way to have a fully remote-only working career in software. It is a perk that you may be able to get in some situations, but it is never guaranteed. Executives have this image in their mind of developers swiveling their chairs around and bouncing ideas off of each other, or sharing key insights randomly at the water cooler, that they just cannot give up (even though I believe it is a complete fiction). They have many names for this, like "synergy," "collaborative environment," etc. It's a specter that will haunt you as long as you choose to tele-commute.
If you read all the comments here, nobody seams really 100% happy with their laptop. And apple really blew it.
Great compilation! I listen to maybe half of these already, but curiously not while working generally. I especially like Emancipator, Tycho, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Kiasmos.
The Alive '97 album is perfect for that if you like Daft Punk.
Could Alexander the Great Have Defeated the British at the Battle of Waterloo?
#ITUDOA – as if we didn’t already have enough to be worried about…
I've made just over $6,000 this year from https://swingtradebot.com - my site which allows people to find and track stocks based on technical analysis signals.

That revenue is about 50/50 from Adsense and subscriptions. I made the site freemium in May and subscriptions have become the majority of the revenue the last couple of months. It's currently doing about $1,400/month -- ~$900 from subscriptions and the rest from ads.
I've been a long time fan of the music produced by autechre.

When I really need to isolate myself from the outside world to concentrate on a difficult problem, the go-to choice is Incunabula.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incunabula_(album)

I'm not sure whether it's my absolute familiarity with the album, or that fact that it bears listening to on repeat.
Some interesting excerpts:

"Key is the development of a single record for a voter that aggregates all
that is known about them."

"The impact of press coverage should be measurable in
reach and impact, and TV effectiveness measured by attention and other
surveys."

"Build tools that measure the rate and spread of stories and rumors, and
model how it works and who has the biggest impact. Tools can tell us about the origin of stories and the impact of any venue, person or theme."

"For each voter, a score is computed ranking probability of the right vote."

"It should be possible to link the voter records in Van with upcoming
databases from companies like Comcast and others for media measurement
purposes."