skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Thanks for calling my honest reply a lie and me a liar"

I did no such thing. In fact, I specifically admit to having "No idea ... about any of these people".
Chrome. A web browser built for speed, simplicity, and security.
According to w3schools' browser trend analysis its user base is only rising, even as Microsoft Edge's install numbers are presumably growing. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/default.asp
Best giving them all a whirl and making up your own mind. A good starting point is The Live CD List[1] website. If you're switching from Windows to Linux for the first time, Linux Mint will certainly smooth the transition for you. Also for newbies, Ubuntu is a great first option.

I usually test distros in a VM instead of installing them on bare metal. So far I have not found a distro specifically tailored to development though, and the question really should be what tools are best for development?

In that case, Emacs/Vim[2] would be a good start, and being able to develop without an Internet connection helps harden your coding ability too as you're not so reliant on the solutions of others. Go for one day of coding without Stack Overflow/Google and see how you fare.

[1]: http://livecdlist.com/

[2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1430164/differences-betw...
Safari, it's just got the best performance on my Mac and syncs with iDevices, on Windows I use Chrome but have Firefox and Tor for other purposes.
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Is there a compare / contrast between this project and Gnome Terminator?

https://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/p/introduction.html
Pi-Hole [1], for example.

Using a proxy in your system settings together with e.g. Privoxy (which runs locally or remotely on e.g. a RPi) also works (but that is proxy-based filtering).

Both DNS-based and proxy-based filtering can be circumvented. I just use uBlock everywhere, and have been playing around with AdNauseam. These work well enough.

The only time those fail miserably is when a browser is being embedded in an application, like on Android and iOS apps. I tend to buy the premium version anyway if I really like an app (no subscriptions though!).

There are 2 ways to circumvent those apps with ads. 1) use web browser (w/uBlock) instead or 2) use a DNS-based filtering (such as a Pi-Hole). However the latter option requires network access to the DNS server of the Pi-Hole which isn't there when you're roaming (e.g. on 3G/4G or a foreign Wi-Fi network). A workaround to that is using a VPN to your RPi. For me, that is too much work (had a similar setup in past), and the upload speed on my home network isn't to write home about (YMMV). Btw, not sure if all of this can be worked with DNSCrypt since when you're roaming there's the vulnerability of DNS hijacking.

[1] https://pi-hole.net
The kernel is necessarily so general purpose that it's hardly equipped at all to make correct, performant scheduling decisions at the app level.
The user should be responsible for updating the firmware.
Good for you Richard. Still don't care
It's always just one or two more features and before you know it - C++
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I've been using Gentoo since 2002 I think.

It's a great distribution for developers, especially if you're developing Linux packages. It's very easy to create your own local overlay and test your package changes against a system, without needing your own custom repo or VM.

I'm glad you mentioned Void too. I'm currently using that on my router.

I like how Void is systemd free and Gentoo makes it optional.

If you try building a Linux From Scratch (LFS), think of Gentoo as LFS with package management.
I don't know what the options look like but Dell sells Linux laptops too. So does System76 but those ones looked a little clunky last I checked them out.
Chrome - still speedy, still simple (with lots of advanced features) and still secure. The channel release system, dev tools and syncing all my files/settings between devices is a god send.
It's still mainly the core developer, with PRs and issues coming in from other contributors. Development seems to be pretty active and responsive, though. I think it's in a very usable form at this point.
RMS is right about the VPN block which surprises me that others in tech are giving Netflix a pass on this. It's not just a matter of Netflix tracking, it is anyone else in the middle - especially if watching over free WiFi while on the go or traveling. Disabling VPN opens up tracking and security issues through other background apps or processes running in the background at the same time Netflix is. Netflix also implemented their block very poorly - banning all VPN usage instead of allowing usage by region tied to billing info.
> This is not just a rogue request from some crazy official ...

This post is a mirror image of the opinion espoused by pabloski, yet he got downvoted. It would appear some people want to live in an echochamber where only the point of view they espouse is published.

I personally think both sides of any argument deserve an airing
Wow, thanks. I made an erroneous connection between the two over a decade ago and have assumed ever since that Lessig was somehow involved with the Archive(board member, legal team, early Kahle collaborator). TIL.
I occasionally boot into Manjaro/XFCE, it's nice. But i find it a bit odd that you use the term "stability" in conjunction with any rolling distro.
How much wattage needs to be spent increasing its intelligence? How many watts will that save in achieving its original goals?
C++ without polymorphism or inheritance is how the people that I think are worth listening to seem to do things.
Can you change this to something else? One of my big frustrations with Google's assistant is that I have to say "Ok Google" which is long and clunky. I'd rather just say "Google" or even rename it to something else. Voice input should be fast and fluent. A four syllable activation phrase that doesn't quite roll off the tongue is neither.
I'm self taught, but my job is becoming more computer science focused every day. I have a lot to catch up on and study in the coming year to keep up to bridge what I already know from building applications to the computer science concepts I lack.
Mozilla Firefox, the only browser that doesn't crash the computer with my 200 active tabs.
I too have a to-do list that I will never drain. The 24 hours in a day are an immutable tyrant governing all of our choices. Ask anyone who has taken a sabbatical for a month or two...most people spend the year leading up to sabbatical dreaming of all the hobbies, back-burnered side projects, house repairs, travel, etc. they will tackle during their sabbatical. Then reality hits and you only get 1/4 of them done before having to go back to the grind.
I wonder whether fewer people in the US will be naming their children "Alexa" or "Siri" in the coming years.
His reference to "The truth is irrelevant." is not literal. He is making an ironic comparison between the real truth and the truth that is fed to us through the media.
Sounds like they are trying to get the same deal most of the EU countries have, Germany, France, ... Where user data has to be stored in the home country.
I think that's difficult to conclude. A good example might be the implementation of 'smart' features on televisions. I'd love to buy a no-nonsense television that I could simply plug in to an HDMI cable and have display whatever I throw at it. I have a cable box, AV receiver etc. that provide the necessary source content. But it still takes up to a minute for my TV to boot; it displays adverts; it needs software updates; it contains a microphone. That's a bunch of sully features I'd rather not have, but I can't exactly vote with my money here!

(It's technically possible to do that, but I'd have to pay a massive, huge premium for a mediocre product. I don't think that situation counts.)
Well that iMac has 5K display. Try to find that for your PC and see how much it costs together.
My friend's name is Alexis, we basically turn off Alexa when she's over. Now, what if Alexis is helping me pick out a doll house for my daughter and I say Alexis, Order me a dollhouse?

Now let's say this is a biopic that happens to be playing on your TV? All true events, and if you enabled purchasing directly from your Echo without safeguards you'll get an attempt to purchase a dollhouse. None of this is fraud, none of this is intentional. These are all shortcomings with where we're at.

Now if I ran an advertisement that said "Alexa, order me a SuperafunTime My Brand Dollhouse"- I should be slapped with whatever the law allows.
What do you think about Chrome's privacy?

It seems in Goog's interest to mine browsers for as much as it can get out of the user: do we have any reason to think it's not happening?
Touche ctr shill man
Nah. In 2013, macs were slightly more expensive than a comparable PC spec-wise, but still a fairly good deal. In 2016, the prices appear to have almost doubled and is totally unreasonable, while the specs are... malnourished. They even took away the escape key and the magsafe port. :(
Russia does not want to become dependent on "the West"

Is this a problem?
I share your observation about STEM. I do feel hopeful after I learned about STEAM - the term defined I believe by John Maeda. The A is for the arts and its importance as the reason why STEM exists... Meaning all the science/engineering efforts should be in the service of humanities.
I would actually argue that this is the least interesting that PCs have ever been. The only thing they're doing that's interesting is copying features from more interesting form factors like tablets and cell phones. The PC (laptop/desktop, doesn't matter the OS) is complete.

This years fastest processor is exactly the same speed as last year. This years video card plays the same games as last year. What interesting things do we have? A touchscreen? It's interesting because it turns out PC into a tablet. Folds over on itself? Turns the PC into a tablet.

4K is nice but it's not any more interesting than any other resolution. VR is nice but that doesn't make a PC more interesting, it makes VR interesting. You can do VR without a PC.

PCs are commodity products with little compelling reason to upgrade anymore. VR is the most interesting thing happening, and most people are doing it on their phone instead of on a PC. They sell the Gear VR at Walmart, for crying out loud.
switched away from ubuntu because the unity desktop ate most of the ram on a 4G ram laptop -- some large builds would hang forever but worked fine when I logged in to console-only.

I use mint xfce now and the only complaints I have are palm detection (probably a driver issue) and wifi trickiness after sleep (probably a driver issue).
The full paper (http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2017/01/01/1606034114.full...) is an interesting read. This study shows that evolutionary adaption to urbanization is significant and observable.
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Chrome mostly, but Firefox at work. I would like to change to Vivaldi, but I miss the sync from Chrome too much.
I suspect the only near-term actually interesting innovation will be docking stations (keyboard/mouse/video screen) for our phones so that we're always carrying around the same PC.

That doesn't seem too far off in the future to me.
Edit: i was wrong
What is the value add for SUSE over Ubuntu? Sell me on it. I'm open minded. I use Ubuntu Server because I know it well, but honestly I don't have any other preference. I don't generally rely on package managers for prod deploys (I like source and it works well with my security restrictions).
Exactly. This has been true of every Apple product. If you compare only the specs, Macs, iPhones, iPads etc. are more expensive. If you factor in resale value or the fact that they last twice as long as a comparable Acer/Samsung device then they are absolutely worth their price.
It’s not entirely clear what kind of PDFs you are building, but I’d like to hear more.

I’ve done this for 13 years (Mostly Quark instead of InDesign, but the same tools and tricks).

Let me know if you want to work together.

rusty

[you can email, feepish @ google’s free email]
And this is the reason I'll never use that feature.

The quality of many top Amazon results is often not accurately portrayed with all the fake comments, swapped products, etc. plus, with the various seller and shipping options, I frankly don't trust Amazon to pick the best product and options for me.
I don't particularly care about the Netflix tracking, but the security ramifications of having to turn off my VPN if I want to use Netflix. Netflix is a security risk because of their VPN policy.
I tried watching season 1 of Humans but was jaded by first watching Akta Manniskor (Real Humans), the Swedish series it is based upon.

It seems that sometimes a lower production budget yields a better story. Forced to rely instead on the viewer's imagination and subject interest. Especially if it's done with aplomb and intelligence.

I found the dialogue in Humans to be too "explanatory." Haven't seen a full episode of Westworld yet, but imagine the same is true. Big budgets tend to to that.
I'm finding Chrome and Firefox to be annoying, so I've been using surf[0] quite a lot recently (however I'm writing this from my work computer on Chrome)

[0] = http://surf.suckless.org/
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I am looking for a browser which offers separate windows for separate "projects". I'd like to have one window for "general browsing", one window for "research for fitness related stuff", one window for all my open tabs for "web development research" and a few other things.

Ideally it should be possible to open such windows via command line so that "browser -w fitness" opens the window with all my fitness-related tabs.

I used to use the Tab Groups in Firefox but there were too slow if you use a large number of tabs.
BFA in Illustration, currently leading the UI team at a 'big data' company in NYC. I'd say what translates from art to tech is the constant spiral of learning and improving. It takes a lot of patience and persistence to learn how to draw and paint. It doesn't come fast, it's years of struggle until your skills converge with your aesthetics. Programming is a lot like that, and it's never ending. You're committed to being a life long observer of what's going on, taking influence from things you like; it's always changing and growing, and that's what keeps it interesting.
The mass media had all the power, for some time, they controlled all the information. They used that power to publish biased articles, half truths, etc.

People got tired of that, and therefore, started distrusting the mass media. And now the mass media says "this hurricane of fake news, this has to be stopped!"

The mass media forgets: this is all your fault. This monster, you created it. In this past election, most newspapers decided to side with Clinton. Why would you do that? Now all Trump supporters and even some Clinton supporters hate you and won't trust you again for a long time.

You had the power and the responsibility to tell the truth. You decided to publish half truths because you had certain interests. Money, power. People got tired and they went for the ONLY alternative that there is: the tabloids, the liars.

It's ALL your fault. You are shameless scoundrels, writing a title that says that "media literacy backfired". No, your strategy of manipulating the public backfired. Now deal with it.
I have an MFA in 'Literary Arts' and studied creative writing and visual art in undergrad.

I have worked in a silly amount of industries, from retail to cleaning beach houses to coaching ceos. I have consulted for large energy companies, small non-profits, and, most recently, marketing agencies.

A friend in the startup game inspired me to stop dabbling and make a go of it as a coder, mainly for $$, but also because I enjoy endurance problems and painful growth.

I make art because people are fascinating. The emotional systems they construct around themselves- and the systems they are woven into- endlessly blow my mind.

Making good art requires a fascination with human systems. All of them.

I have stood out to my employers as someone who 'isn't like other coders' because I am interested in the emotional stakes of their lives, and have developed the skill of re-communicating those emotional stakes back to them in an artful way.

Art teaches you to see. This is helpful, socially, professionally, because most people want to be seen.

This understanding has been powerful and lucrative, for sure.

The creative writing workshop process also thickened my hide and killed unproductive parts of my ego.

Most professional meetings with supposedly 'high stakes' don't come close to the kind of personal vulnerability required to put your poem, your inner life, in front of a group of strangers.
I just wrote a very long and pointless comment trying to express this very idea. It's not that the PC is any more interesting than it has been, it's that a lot of interesting things are happening in tech, and the PC is the way to access them.

It's like saying that cars are interesting again because the city built a new stadium. No, the stadium is interesting. The car is just how you get there.
MFA Digital Arts and New Media. This is an interactive perspective.

Right now the crossover between the arts and virtual reality is incredible. You need to be able to: dress a set, light it, do sound design, puppetry (avatars/rigging), sculpt / model, paint, and code. Artificial intelligence for agents and their behaviors. Narrative to tie it all together. Oh -- and to take risks, withstanding brutal critiques while taking the advice that helps and ignoring the advice that doesn't. To document the entire process, present it in public, and speak about it with alacrity. How to research new methods & materials, and adapt them to your practice.

I'll take a second to plug all the programs at UC Santa Cruz -- Department of Computational Media, Center for Games and Playable Media, Digital Arts and New Media MFA.
They're saying something more specific than "urbanisation affects living things" though. The paper tells us 1) that the adaptation has influenced our genetics 2) the approximate timeline (and speed) it took to see that adaptation and 3) that it can be seen across species and across urban centers (in other words, there's an "urbanize" pressure on evolution regardless of if you're in New York City or Delhi). I thought #2 and #3 were surprising, and not necessarily what you would expect.
That is clearly an invitation to Netflix and chill.
Yeah, it's been a historical constant that Apple desktops were very pricey compared to PC with similar specs.
Jobs (or was it Cook?) said something about the post-PC era and the verge ran with it.

Now they are admitting they were wrong in the own way...
I have a BFA in Glass Sculpture and am now a full stack dev and business owner.

I agree with the points here but would like to add one thing. "The Creative Process". In learning how to create successful art work, you discover and become entrenched in this.

You learn how to take an idea and move it through phases of conception, sketching, planning, material/media choice and collection, prototyping, iteration, critique/feedback, execution, refinement, polish, installation, transporting, storage, transaction, and sometimes defense of concept.

All of these processes are part of making art. To developers, some of this may sound familiar!

An appreciation of process and an understanding that every action and choice is part of that process can attribute to success in development. Artists who enjoy the creative process are likely to succeed in other disciplines which require extensive processes.
> I think for the most part recently the bigger companies are the ones putting one over on end users. (changing terms, shutting down services).

For some things, this is true. However you can be sure an entity like Microsoft or Google isn't going to accept a few thousand quid to inject ads or affiliate links into customers websites. A one-man-band that's struggling to turn a profit though, it's less certain. There are a lot of people trying to make a quick buck online and most people have a price.

There are definitely some great things out there being built by small teams that I might miss out on, but that's how it is unless we can tightly control what third party scripts can do on our pages. Sometimes a service will be "so good" that I'll do it anyway, but it's always a trade-off. I don't think most people are as anal about this as me though!
The only computer that interests me today: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/power-144-chip

I know I know
For a gaming PC, 5K isn't so useful, because it's so difficult to render 5K at an acceptable framerate and graphics detail.
That's not the impression I got from the article. He was just paraphrasing the little girl, saying "Alexa ordered me a dollhouse", which coincidentally sounds like "Alexa, order me a dollhouse".
> I find Arch to be a great imperative distro, but functional ones are simply superior.

Can you tell me more about what an imperative and functional distro is?
Your comments did more than anyone else's in this thread (that I read) to destroy productive conversation. I understand how these things feel and that it's always, with high confidence, the other person who blew it—but civil conversation requires that we each catch ourselves in that bias.

It looks like you've been using HN primarily for political arguments for a while now. That's not what this site is for, so please don't. (Edit: actually, that last bit was probably unfair on my part—it was probably just a case of election-seasonitis, which afflicted most commenters, rather than an abuse of the site. Sorry about that.)
For the HN crowd, I'm surprised most comments here focus on ordering things via voice. There's a much more disturbing lesson here and it's not far fetched at all compared to most doomsday theories. Right now, Alexa et Al can control your home, I'm sure it's one step away from summoning your Tesla. What comes after that? Then all you need is an IoT exploit deployed and an implanted Alexa time bomb that's triggered by a commonly uttered phrase. Without the exploit, you could probably get pretty far with a mass broadcast, "Alexa, have Tesla drive to Times Square"
You only think this because the universe you inhabit is small. What if the universe the simulator is running in is far larger than this one?
I'm not a lawyer, but wouldn't it require intent? It's not like the TV station is profiting from people receiving dollhouses.

At most there's some form of tenuous indirect profit, but seeing as there's a backlash I doubt doing this was their intent.
It's useful to catch things you need before you forget. Like if your grabbing some advil and take the last two you can just order more and not stop whatever you were doing. It's a total #firstworldstrugs but not entirely without use and value.
Parametric polymorphism is a powerful abstraction. Makes for much more readable programs than ad-hoc polymorphism a la vanilla C.
Exactly!!! To me this is the obvious consequence. Another thing is Fermat's principle, if time doesn't exist then what is light minimizing as it moves through space?
Kind of. Except for when you get noticed or become too big to skip.
I don't use Chrome for my daily browsing two reasons:

1) there are only 5 entries in the adress bar dropdown box. Firefox shows ~10. This used to be configurable a few years ago but they removed that option
2) Chrome fully loads every tab on startup which is very annoying if you use a lot of tabs (I think there are plugins for this?)
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Many, perhaps, but zero of those subject to (for one example) HIPAA data sharing rules.