skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it doesn't seem like there's really any difference between different laptops. I'm on a 15" MacBook Pro at the moment because I needed a Mac to work on an iOS project, but now I use it to code financial stuff.

Everything I do is on remote connections of one sort or another, and OSX has a simple way to swap out one virtual desktop with another. Everything that requires real computing power I do on a cloud, and everything else I think would work fine on any reasonable machine.

I'm sure a windows/linux system could do the same as my MBP, and in terms of work it wouldn't really matter as we use windows and linux together. I think more or less any laptop in the price range would be able to drive multiple screens, and it's really just a question of minor things like whether keyboard/trackpad feels nice.

So it is a bit of a hair thin decision. If this whole no-ESC no-Fkey thing seems to go badly for other devs, I won't get another Mac. I need F keys to step through a debug, and it's annoying to change key bindings.
This is a pretty cool idea! Concerns for running unknown code aside, it seems like the results of this type of thing would be prone to potentially frequent change.

I wonder if there'd be a way to maintain consistency, something like a requirements.txt file that got spit out to describe what the results of the search terms mapped to when the code was run.

It could just contain the search term and link to the chosen question. Although you'd still run the risk of the answer itself being edited. The code itself would have to be cached in whatever this file was.
I'll stick with my current MacBook Pro until a change is much more appealing, and I've already started discussions with people on what a great Linux laptop solution looks like.
Twitch plays Rover? :)
This was the subject of one of the presentations at 2016 US LLVM Developers' Meeting [1].

[1] http://llvm.org/devmtg/2016-11/
Thanks for your sincere advice and I have to admit I admire your "eloquence", not a native English speaker so I'm not sure this is the right word, I guess what I'm trying to say is that I really really like the way you worded your understanding of the situation...
That's why when I see photos of the Syrian war, I see so many blond and blue eyed children. I assume they are the descendants of the Slavs(slaves) you are talking about
2016 MacBook Pros may not be compatible with current Thunderbolt 3 devices
That's really not an acceptable solution. Especially in an age where "We can alter this contract however we want, whenever we want" is apparently valid.
I never really bought into this--always was a windows person. Of course, didn't do development on windows--I used cygwin first, and then when vagrant became mature, used vagrant + virtualbox.

Can't recommend that highly enough! Way better than cygwin, plus offers a level of isolation you can't get on the mac unless you use something like vagrant also.
I think the easiest solution would be just not to use web fonts at all. Do you need fancy fonts on a website with technical documentation? I think you don't but sadly PHP developers added a whole megabyte of fonts to PHP manual. As a result one has to wait until the fonts are loaded to see the text.

And web fonts are often poorly rendered on Windows.

I want an option in Chromium that would allow disabling web fonts by default and enabling them on a per-site basis (like it has an option for disabling JS). And what surprises me most is that mobile browsers (which are often used on slow and metered connections) do not have such options at all.

I remember old Opera browser that is now long gone had a lot of options to make user experience better on poor connections (and a builtin domain block list). Well, at those times internet users had higher average IQ and now typical Internet user would not even understand what is the meaning of "disable JS".
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I don't need more than a text editor, a browser and a commandline to do web development. So I would be fine with just Linux if that's all I ever did.

To do anything at all with iOS I need a Mac. So I expect that I will always have one around as long as iOS is a thing for me.

Windows is my favorite desktop and it is the best performer in my opinion. I absolutely need it to do work for most clients. Windows is the one that I will probably never be able switch away from completely.
Somewhat related
https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi
with the vim frontend
https://github.com/laurentgoudet/vim-howdoi
I'm pretty happy that pico-8 1.9 support is done. Now just waiting for my one month old order to ship in "November".

edit: Wow, glad I checked my spam folder. I had to confirm my mailing address to get my pre-order to ship!
On X-based systems, xsel -ob | sort | xsel -ib

But if you're in a high-octane development environment like vi, there's no need to resort to a separate terminal window to invoke 'sort clipboard'. just mark a range of lines (v) then :!sort to filter through good old unix sort.
As a long-time user of KDE neon i can only say that it is a brilliant mix of Ubuntu Xenial and KDE.
If you have questions about using it...just ask.
I bought a Dell XPS 13 the day after the announcement.

As shipped, it had flaky wifi and the audio clipped both through the speakers and headphones.

Thinking of trying another brand after I get my refund.
I suspect some age related conservativism is due to health and looks.
More than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single Macedonian town
That's the point. I'd like to see if that happens. I'd bet that nothing violent would happen and if that's the case I see a sad, sad future for all the current democracies in the world.

The only case worse would there being riots, and the government rolling in and declaring some form of martial law while no other nation lends a hand or steps in to sanction the ruing government.

This would prove that either a) the citizens of most western nations will no longer fight for things they believe in, or b) they can no longer fight for what they believe in and no one will aid in defense of the values that western people hold. That's a scary state of affairs.

In my opinion either of those outcomes prove it's ok for any ruling class to bully around the majority and that no one, not even in the international community, will provide them any faults for doing so.
As an opposite argument, I valued the chance to skip hours of introductory video after simply solving the tests.
I was kicking around the idea of looking for a tech job in LA a while back. The names you mentioned seemed to be the ONLY ones worth pursuing. It's just not the same as San Francisco.
I think the commenter was being facetious haha
Thanks. Looks like it uses fastboot (like Android).
The first part of your post is the answer to the part after "ninjaedit".

If the political spectrum had more than one-bit resolution, you'd see all sorts of colours. Here, is only black or white. From afar, it looks grey, hence the apparent 50-50 split. Everyone falls into one of two buckets, and chances are roughly equal.
Same here. I've done it a few times as a dual-boot with my desktop and had issues that caused me to uninstall after a month or two. I think the trick is going to be buying hardware that's 100% compatible from one of the lists people have put together.

I've had the same problem with every Linux distro I've tried, but I dumped them due to UX jank, not compatibility problems.
> Do you ever feel like all you're doing is copy/pasting from Stack Overflow?

I don't really feel like anyone is taking this very seriously.
If kaiser Wilhelm can hold the throne in a democracy for 100+ years he likely is doing a bang up job
I bought a pixel, coming in a week or so. Can't wait. Glad to be able to listen to music and charge my phone at the same time, glad to ditch itunes and its increasingly aggressive efforts to ruin my music listening experience, etc.

Also just had my company buy me a new macbook pro because I need it, but didn't buy my own (which I'd usually prefer) because I'm keeping my options open.
Because font choice can communicate a lot. Font choice can establish a brand, font choice can create a mood.

Web fonts are better than the stuff people did to do this in the old days. Crazy abominations like siFR [1] or rendering out a gif of your text and using that instead of just delivering some ASCII text that screenreaders can deal with? Web fonts aren't perfect, especially on slow connections, but they're the least horrible solution we have for people who would like to control the finer aesthetic details of how their sites look.

[1] https://mikeindustries.com/blog/sifr
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It seems pretty apparent from the readme that it's a joke along the lines of "If you're going to just copy and paste the first thing you find on Stack Overflow, you may as well do this."
They could use their safetynet to check
No. I actually really like Apple hardware, and can usually deal with the limitations. I was hoping Apple would offer a USB-A port and 2TB of storage on the 13" MacBook Pro, but I still ordered one without. The graphics and memory limitations don't bother me much.

However, I really keep hoping someone comes out with a competing operating system and ecosystem similar to Mac OS, but I haven't found anything that compares. Elementary is the closest I've seen from the open source world, but it needs a LOT more features and polish. I like Mac OS, but the quality issues and general product direction in the past few years have me itching to be able to replace it if I need to.
How do you know it was a guest?
I did not intend to call you a noo[n] (and neither to misspell it that way. Typing on the phone is hard). Neither did I mention anything related to open source to cause you any annoyance.

Linux offers a lot of pick your own adventure style options for everybody. Yes, it takes a bit of time to get used to it, but so does getting used to the cmd/ctrl abomination in Macs. I don't see people complaining about that.

The only application that by default violates the normal keyboard shortcuts is the terminal and even that has menu options for changing them to what you like. I don't know what application doesn't respect common shortcuts to break your muscle memory but I then I am not a distributed systems engineer so what do I know.
But the header files are still there, aren't they? One still has to write a method name and arguments twice.
I'm in love with my razer blade stealth. Same form factor, lower price, aluminum unibody, great screen, 7500U standard. Bezels are on the large size though.
This is true, they don't understand how 5+ fonts make it hard to load and render. But they do care about bandied about stats like 83% of people will leave a site if it doesn't load in -0.3 milliseconds.
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1185/

"StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted."
How does this differ from other distros in a way that people migrating from macOS (as the title suggests) should prefer this one?
Yes, general relativity is all about the "metric tensor" of space, which is just a fancy way of saying it's about assigning distances to paths. For paths you can actually physically take (i.e. movement slower than the speed of light relative to local space) this ends up corresponding to the time experienced along that path.
Without money we would all be rich
But is it a bad thing for the population to not be fully in charge? Isn't the point of "tyranny of the majority"[1] that sometimes the majority can/will make the wrong decision?

Part of electing representatives, to me, is that I hope the would make the tough calls and do the right thing, and not the popular thing. Can not part of representation (if it could be made to work well) be to defer to a person's wisdom? Certainly, the majority of the population is not even remotely qualified in the area of computer encryption, for example — should they, with no knowledge of the subject — be making decisions on how to legislate it?[2]

(It's for reasons like this that I'm interested in forms of government where you can delegate your vote on topics to someone with more expertise or trust in that area; my hope being that it results in better decision-making than what a simple majority is capable of.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority

[2]: Though sadly, in the US at least, I don't think our form of representation adequately handles niche issues like that.
I would like to echo your sentiment with my own story.

I've owned a GoPro since Christmas of 2014. After less than a year of use the camera would start washing out videos while recording with flares of green and pink then freezing typically after 11 seconds of filming.

When I looked on support forums I found that this was a known issue with my GoPro version. However GoPro would not admit the defect and after talking with support they could do nothing for me.

I decided to keep using the camera as I use it for primarily 1 second videos. 2 months later I take it diving, the housing fails at 30 feet (its rated to 120 feet). I call support again:

I'm offered 10% off my next GoPro.

In my opinion GoPro is a dishonest company who does nothing to stand behind its products of which their price does not match their dismal quality.

ProTip: Ebay sells action cameras with all the same features, better build quality for a third of the price
I'm looking at putting together a gaming/multimedia pc soon. Would it be easy to use or configure the KDE environment to suit a TV screen?
There was atrocities during Stalin times true. However they were purely ideological by nature; not against ethnicities, cultures etc (those were in fact actively preserved) - Stalin himself was from a tiny minority nation of Georgians. USA, OTOH, eradicated native Americans on a large scale, brought slaves with destroying their culture. USSR after Stalin was far, far less racist than USA, up until its fall in 1990s.
Varnish Extend: hybrid and private content delivery infrastructure
I'm the lead developer for Joyent of ContainerPilot, which is the tool at the core of our Autopilot Pattern implementation examples. The lifecycle events you recognize in Distelli are definitely similar. And Chef's new tool Habitat has a supervisor that was independently developed but ended up having interesting parallels with ContainerPilot. So there's a universal idea lurking under there, which is why we called Autopilot a "Pattern" rather than a tool in itself.

But it's not clear to me from a casual glance at the the docs whether Distelli lives inside the container during those hooks? That's part of the distinction of the Autopilot Pattern is making the higher-level orchestration layer as thin as possible.

(As far as the root, some of it is derived from my experiences as a perhaps-foolishly-early adopter of Docker in prod at my previous gig at a streaming media startup. The rest is derived from both principals with which Joyent's own Triton infra is built and our experiences speaking with enterprise devs and ops teams.)
For my personal devices, my plan is to eke out my mid-2010 MBP until such time as the next wave of laptops are released, and hope they support a developer's workflow more appropriately.

For work: i work in an OS-agnostic kind of world.
... liver consumption ...
> My point is that this line of thought absolves others of responsibility for their actions.
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As an application developer, I remember wrestling with some really annoying stuff on the application side to deal with MySQL. IIRC, it was something like the default ORM for a python-based framework requiring a reflection API that Postgres and SQLite have and MySQL doesn't. This and other war stories probably generalizes to many other application developers preferring Postgres, but there's a ton of people using MySQL, so that probably means that it solves a bunch of the problems that the wizards in operations have.

That's why I listed both. I'd use and recommend Postgres as a default in a heartbeat based off personal experience, but I wouldn't have personal experience with MySQL's strengths and people use and recommend it as well.
Looks like white Windows 8 ?
The recent discussion about Elementary OS [1] showed good aesthetics and positive response [2].

Honest question, does it bring any significant benefits apart from being on 'The latest and greatest of KDE community software packaged on a rock-solid base.' ?

[1] https://elementary.io/ ( A fast and open replacement for Windows and macOS )

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12830761
As a Venice OG, I can say they've been ruining what used to make the place unique. Then again, having a Silicon Valley clone has helped my real estate valuation.
For me it's about tabs. Can't stand when an app opens a URL in a mini browser inside itself. If it's a web link just open it in the damn browser!
That's definitely interesting I'll have to re-flash my CHIPS and see how it works out.
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PHP The Right Way[0] is a helpful living doc.

Also I found it helpful to start messing around with WordPress[1] in a vagrant box[2][3]. Start by playing around modifying pre-built themes and plugins.
There are tons of tutorials, just google[4] around.

[0] http://www.phptherightway.com/

[1] http://wordpress.org/

[2] https://github.com/Varying-Vagrant-Vagrants/VVV

[3] https://github.com/vagrantpress/vagrantpress

[4] https://duckduckgo.com/

EDIT: I know those aren't really books, sorry
I won't, because I never purchased any Apple products.
it doesn't work with USB 3.0 though. I couldn't find a usb 2.0 hub and I'm stuck. They need to figure that out.
Read the article. Says quite clearly the monument will be on display for 100 days, then they will dismantle it and hand the books out to the public. Exactly as she did in 1983 in Argentina.
Absolutely. VIRB Edit can handle your Garmin data files, and gives you many options for how you'd like to display the data. And as I mentioned, I import my GoPro videos, as VIRB Edit doesn't seem to care.

The software, for those who are interested: https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/into-sports/apps/virb-edit/p...
Coming soon: Parallel ESI in Varnish for performance boost on websites using ESI
I was thinking the same thing about the freeze.

Something like the equivalent of `pip freeze`
Iterating on this idea just a little bit, you realize you want to apply any shell filter to your clipboard ...

#!/bin/sh
# save as xfilt
xsel -ob | "$@" | xsel -ib

so, for instance, get a bit of json in your clipboard http://json.org/example.html and run xfilt jq .glossary.title. Now your clipboard contains "example glossary" instead of the whole json file.

One wrinkle is, if you get your filter wrong, you have to return to the original source to copy again, because the operation is destructive each time...
I wonder what a video like this does for the first impression from an employer's point of view.

ITT Tech was viewed as cheap because their commercials played in the cheapest time slots, alongside adult hotlines and As Seen on TV ads.

If an employer had never heard of Udacity and did research from scratch, they might like what they see. If they recognize it as one of those commercials that play in the middle of the night, they might just skip right over the resume.

I was interested in pursuing a new field at Western Governors University after reading comments on sites like this and Reddit where a couple people said "I happily hire WGU grads because I know they put real work in". Then, I saw one of their commercials play on Comedy Central at 2 AM, and it immediately stopped those plans for me. You can't take anything seriously when it airs after this: http://www.perfectsmileteeth.com/
This isn't a legal issue but instead an extremely serious social/political issue. This is a microcosm of the history and future of politics. You have a majority that want one thing, and a ruling class that doesn't necessarily share the interests of this majority--or any of their subjects for that matter.

Now I don't have any valid opinion as to if the decision to leave is a good or bad one but that's not what I'm talking about. What I'm interested in is a direct refusal to adhere to the requests of the majority. If the British people show their government, and the international community at large, that this is an acceptable practice then I think there will be many side effects that cannot be fully understood from our perspective. It's basically a free check to any political organization to blatantly act against the wishes of a majority of it's population. If they can do that without recourse then there will be a stigma of non-compliance that will follow in reference to the wishes of the populous of that country.

It's not a questions as to if it's legal to do it. It's a question as to the precedence it sets for the government to ignore the wills of the people.
Filip, good job! Bra jobbat!
Macs are horribly expensive in Brazil these days (US$ 5-6k for a decently configured MBP). Next year I plan to buy a gray-market Mac Mini and a fast notebook for Linux, and try a "Hackintosh" VM in it.
I'll agree that morals exist, but they exist largely as things we indoctrinate children to believe without question. I'm not saying that it's a bad thing (or a good thing). I'm saying it's not a useful method to change an adult's behavior.
Human Adaptation of Ebola Virus During the West African Outbreak
Hi All,

This is Chad, CEO of Iron.io. It's true that we had to make some hard decisions and say goodbye to some friends. That said, a majority of the team is still here and dedicated to operating and growing the company. IronWorker fires up millions of containers per day for our 300+ customers, and we are fully committed to both expanding the service as well as releasing a new, open source sync service, next week... stay tuned.

Feel free to reach out to me to discuss any of this, or if you simply want to talk serverless computing.

email: chad [at] iron.io
twitter: @chadarimura

Chad
i've been using apples for over 25 years, off and on, mostly on. so probably not unless i buy one and it's just complete garbage.

not saying it's impossible, just very unlikely. much of their software is approaching trash-tier, so hey, anything is possible.
> The only part of your statement that is still probabilistic is "entropy will not decrease"

The markov/IT version of the 2nd law is a statement about macrostate entropy (taking the entire microstate ensemble for each macrostate), and in that sense it is not probabilistic. See the Cover&Thomas reference I gave earlier for the exact definition. It is indeed different than how it is usually taught in physics, in which the microstates are differentiated.

I guess we both need to be more careful about mathematical definitions in the future ...
I'm usually quite good keeping track of TLA's but it's late and I've drawn a blank on what ITT stands for. Wikipedia is being no help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT

Anyone?

(PS - I'm not ashamed to ask. I think it's a tiny public service to ask the meaning of an acronym as it reminds everyone else that these aren't necessarily universally understood even in our own little tech bubble)
It depends, does malloc have some form of hardening? does the compiler insert stack canaries?
Not at all. If you need to add words to a person's statement in order to refute it, you are engaging in rhetorically useless behavior.
No. I need Excel and I need the unix shell.

Calc + DataPilot doesn't cut it when it needs to.

I abandoned Windows a while ago and have been much happier since.

My 2015 MBP is the best computer I've owned. It's cool. It's quiet. It's fast. It's light. The battery lasts. The screen is great. I hear they last. My previous was an equally priced HP Elitebook and I hated it.
You can always work at jpl
It makes me curious - do we (mac users) like our hardware, do we like our UI, do we like a combo of both or is it something else? Regardless, cool to hear you got elementary running on a mac!