skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But today, compared to Apple's pricing, they are so cheap that I can get equivalent HW for half the price (equivalent wrt performance, not manufacturing quality!).

Agreed. With Linux I can control the price of my hardware. I can move my environment, the part I care about, up and down the price spectrum as I care to and where I can afford.

I care much more about what I'm doing with the abstract "computer" in front of me than what it physically is. Particularly something as fast-changing and fast-obsoleting as computer hardware. And obsolescence does matter, as newer softer slowly comes to expect newer hardware.
I studied 8 months for the Google Interview
> I have use cases for each, and cant really understand the religious nature of this discussion.

Linux: Free Softwaaare! (My favourite)

MacOS: It Just Wooorks! (And is damn pretty)

Windows: Gaaames! (And a host of other programs)

Another way to look at it is, Linux is Hippie, Windows is Business, and MacOS is Beauty.

Of course it will get religious: if you deliberately chose one platform, you likely care about its strongest suit enough to shun the other two. Most free software advocates will use GNU/Linux, and urge everyone to follow suit. They're virtuous. Most people who need such and such software will use Windows, because they have work to do, dammit. They're practical. Apple users are… I don't know, loyal? Apple does have strong followers.

Me, I still feel a little guilty about my Windows desktop. But… games…
Oh sorry that sentence was meant to be "you can not write off 100% of the interest that is an income property."

For instance if you have bought a property as a pure investment property and the total mortgage + interest is being covered by the tenants monthly rent. You can not then write off that interest at 100% since you are not actually incurring that interest payment yourself correct?
Me too, I sometimes come off rude when I happen by a coworker or somebody I know in the street, because I just don't look at people, instead looking straight ahead.
You gotta be careful of the Laffer Curve[0] though. Tap into the rich too much and they'll leave. Make it illegal to leave... well, your country is going downhill fast.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
A theory that challenges gravity and nixes dark matter passed its first test
I used to think like that in my idealistic 20s (card-carrying member of Free Software organizations, regular attendee of RMS talks, etc), and given the choice I'll still favor free / open source building blocks (especially in a professional context). I'm thankful for what the movement has brought us.

That said, growing up I've come to realize that one's time is valuable, life is too short and at the end of the day you have to pick your fights.

Even as hackers, there are times when we find ourselves with the "end user" hat on. Creative work for example (photo/music editing in my case) is already challenging and time-consuming enough not impose additional burdens upon yourself, like dealing with inferior / immature desktop Free software when there's an alternative that gets you there faster.

macOS in my view has always struck that rare balance between polished end-user tools and large amounts of familiar Unix / open source / standards based components under the hood to satisfy the hacker in us.

As most people I'm slightly worried about Apple's hardware vision lately, but the state of desktop Linux simply isn't good enough to warrant a switch back for demanding users yet.
Isn't the name Piwik PRO confusing for customers of Piwik? Can I call my company Microsoft PRO? Or can I call my product Windows Pro? I at least can't call it Lindows in the USA, that's for sure.
It seems scammers are targeting first generation immigrants to US more than anyone else. Now - as a immigrant myself I can imagine how traumatic it can be to get call from IRS when you don't know your way around tax system.

Obviously - people on HN are an exception but often times - life of an immigrant hangs by a thread - "there is an EAD renewal coming up in Feb if it doesn't get approved (for some reason), you lose your job, lose your home, may even have to go back to your home country".
Yes, it is technically possible. Search for "hackintosh".

However, there's no way to do it legally. It violates the Apple EULA. If you ever get in trouble and take it to court, Apple will probably win: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psystar_Corporation
As other people and myself have said elsewhere, they buy information from many personal information brokers, and this data (presumably) wants a real name to be linked. They can't know that fake names are fake in all instances (and have gotten a lot of backlash by trying to do so), but there real name policy would have a real effect on their ability to link offline data to your online profile so they can better sell your eyeballs to advertisers.
Try KeePass, it works just about anywhere
I've given up on using Inkscape on my Mac, but I am stuck with OS X for a while. Are there any other vector graphics programs that are cross platform and not too expensive? I don't want to invest in learning an OS X only tool.
Here's what I could find in a couple minutes:

https://github.com/openai/universe-starter-agent

OpenAI's example universe agent. Remember that while their goal is an agent that works in any and all environments (read: games), you could certainly optimize yours just for MarioKart.
The Startup Funding Bible: How to Raise Money Like a Unicorn
Top of the line XPS 15, including touch screen is $1650:

- i5 Quad Core (i5-6300HQ)

- 8GB RAM (upgradeable to 32)

- 256GB HD (upgradeable)

- 2GB Graphics card (GTX 960M)

Lowest quality new model MBP (15" w/ touch bar) is $2399:

- i7 quad core

- 16GB RAM (not upgradeable)

- 256GB HD (not upgradeable)

- 2GB Graphics card (Radeon Pro 450)

So for $750 you get a little more RAM, slightly better CPU, and Mac build quality (I have no idea how the graphics cards compare). That seems like a pretty big difference to me for fairly similar specs. Especially considering that you can upgrade your XPS in the future.

I'm on a Macbook Air now, but for my next laptop I'll be deciding between the 2 above (or possibly the last model rMBP).
Numbers?

Plus at societal scale "wealth" doesn't necessarily work the way it does at the personal level. I can go to the gas pump and buy as much gas as I could personally want at the price posted on the sign. You'll find that if you stepped out and tried to buy ten billion gallons of gas at that price that the situation will change in numerous ways. Confiscating the "wealth" of the rich and trying to use it to buy things that nobody is even making right now is not something you can casually assume will work; the economy itself will need time to adjust before it could even supply the desired goods at such a different scale.

The point here being not that it's impossible, or even undesirable, but merely that naively taking stock of what "the wealthy" have by current measures and assuming you can confiscate arbitrary amounts of it and use it to buy arbitrary amounts of consumer goods without having to account for any of the prices of the goods involved in that operation changing in the process isn't effective.
However, when you work a job (Especially a "customer-facing" government job - at least in the US) you're instructed to ask every person with a service animal or a cane / other indicator of blindness if they need help.
Red - Everything is open and on Github.
eventually someone needs to buy digital assets from apple for the cards to be worth anything
> We measure success or failure of such economic policies with statistics, not by political opinion polling.

You can't go by statistics in an economic move like demonetization this early. The move itself is done keeping in mind the long term impact. 70% of those polled understand that and hence keep an open-mind.

> They have been conducting raids to catch black money hoarders and counterfeit currency forever. They have escalated it recently, but it could have been done without demonetization as well.

The reason it has escalated is because of demonetization. It wouldn't have been possible without it. There would be no way for the Government to track cash to catch these hoarders/evaders.

> What benefit did we get out this whole scheme?

These are the two benefits I directly get from this scheme:

1. Home loans reduced by 90 basis points (and will continue to reduce).
2. Property prices have dropped and will continue to drop significantly as most of the property transactions happened in black.

There are many other benefits but they don't directly affect me (like 10 year fixed rate of interest for senior citizens, 6000 rupees for pregnant women, moving of people from informal economy to formal economy etc). But these two benefits are more than enough to resonably change my lifestyle.

> My family have personally suffered significant monetary loss on our 100% tax paid cash, and suffered significant loss in business because of this chaos.
Millions of citizens have hard time feeding their family because of this jumla.

What kind of business is your family in that caused "personally suffered significant monetary loss on our 100% tax paid cash"? I'm curious to know and understand.
I would wager it's a large-city thing in general; I've noticed people walking by an obviously blind woman in the subway in New York, and offered to help her get to her train.

(It was a little awkward, because I don't know any blind people, and wasn't sure how to help her - I started out offering my arm, then realized she couldn't see it, then sort of slid it under hers, and she jerked away. I felt like an asshole; clearly I should have asked her what she would prefer, or at least announced what I was going to do. So if anyone else is ever in the same situation, think about it a little more than I did.)
That's not what he's saying. He's saying "developers are switching from OSX to Linux, here are some links for the interested, I did it years ago and I'm really satisfied".

The article doesn't even mention what his reasons were for switching.
Switching to Windows? Install Archlinux as the WSL Host
Don't require WebRTC on the landing page. Apple browsers don't support it but I can't imagine you want to prevent those people from even learning about your product.
It really depends on the area. For quantum computing and quantum info theory it seems that mostly it is just linear algebra. The functional stuff is left for the really really clever people only (not me btw!)
When someone suggested in a recent thread that Amit Patel of http://redblobgames.com was an early Google employee, they were challenged to find a source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13300539

At the time I thought: "How likely could that be? Unless Amit Patel is the equivalent of `John Smith`, they are probably the same person." Now it seems to me that the name is actually pretty common ...
CBRE Group Acquires Floored, Inc
That looks very helpful, I'll have to check it out!
The ZX81 had the revolutionary ability to support both screen refresh, and keyboard input simultaneously! Well - as long as you didn't engage 'FAST' mode - which made your FOR NEXT loops go super-fast, at the expense of blanking the screen.
Adtech lobby petitions FCC to relax private data usage rules
Just start learning quantum mechanics, I reckon.
For one, this project is open source and can be installedon your own set of machines.
The easiest way to get consistency is to have a single person in charge of the UI. It doesn't need to be a UX designer specifically, just someone with a strong sense of style.

For a contrary opinion on the cost of usability testing, see "hallway usability testing" at https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/08/09/the-joel-test-12-s...
Sometimes it wouldn't hurt if open source applications adopt UI defacto-standards made popular by popular proprietary applications.

Inkscape, Krita and Gimp have a good or at least good enough UI (it took some years). I don't understand why Blender has such a unique UI. It feels more like Unix Motif style app from 1994, something that was used for Jurassic Park. 3D editors and 3D CAD apps got a lot more user friendly - pretty much every 3D editor from 3DMax to UnrealED, Unity Editor and 3D CAD like Soldworks, CATIA, Creo and the open source FreeCAD have a very similar user interface and UX. You don't need a manual, if you know one, you can easily pick up an additional app and learn the details starting from there. I wish Blender would over an alternative mode, with more "traditional" mouse and keyboard mappings and re-arranged toolbar-icons.
Can a phone drive that many pixels at a speed that's useful for VR?
Yes, there are certainly quite a few exeptions, some doing a mix like downwell: predefined enemy/block types progressing stage to stage and random level arangement.

I just wanted to make my point that it doesn't need to have progressing levels for the basic thrill. I really like clever human-designed levels though :) Much more surprising and less optimization, more quick grasping and adaption required.
Really? I almost never feel guilty unless the devs put some actual personality into the characters I'm killing (like Undertale).

With things like Skyrim or Deus Ex, the NPCs seem like lifeless robots (shoot them in the foot and they die, for example) and I feel nothing as I turn cities into mountains of skulls and rivers of blood.
India's nominal GDP is $1,820 per person.
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Thanks, this is awesome advice.

> Use Inbox, Google Now, Google Trips and Google maps with offline areas. Make tickets and hotels insanely easy.

I've been using Google Flights to track flights and get good prices. It alerts you when there's a price change so that you can get your ticket for cheap. It's absolutely awesome. I didn't know about Google Trips, I'm downloading it now.

> Sneakers, basic shirt, sweatpants. Fuck being overdressed, this is about being comfortable and getting through security as fast as possible.

My girlfriend won't let me do it, but that's exactly what I said last time. Having to take your belt off with jackets and all is a pain. I also wonder if there are clothes build specifically for travelling (like, with special pockets or things like that).

> Get a gym bag (I prefer simple black leather bag) or a light backpack, don't carry those tiny suitcases around.

Big time. I have a backpack and it works. I only have carry on, no suitcase to board. I'm wondering though what the best backpack would be to travel in Europe, like one that fit exactly the size Ryan Air wants.

> Comfortable earphones and a movie or even better, a physical book for the flight so you don't carry your notebook on the plane.

On my last flight I actually spilled coffee on my laptop. I guess both your advice to not carry a laptop and not buying coffee is good advice ;-)

> A traveler pillow is awesome.

Really? I've considered making the investment, but then the actual flight for me is just 1h30m (the whole thing like getting to the airport etc. 6 hours door to door).
Emotions drive stronger memories of later, unemotional events
Loved this idea - started building such a service as my first side-project for 2017.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris

DC has 158.1 km2 with 681,170 people or 4,308 people per km ^2.

Paris has 105.4 km2 with 2,265,886 people or 250,065 people per km2

In other words DC has less than 2% of Paris's population density. Note, Paris is a turist destination so many shot's look like DC, but this is the real city: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/04/15/17/278DF7CF0000057...
Gunshot wounds are contagious; bullets spread like the flu, study finds
This is a great read. Going off a tangent to this, if anybody is looking for a breakdown of the US Presidential motorcade, Tyler Rogoway does a great job in this article :

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/4518/the-fascinating-an...
Your Server as a Function [pdf]
I don't understand the downvotes on this comment. Is everyone really that naive to think that they NYT is nothing more than a liberal mouthpiece?

This is what contemporary media is for. Not informing people, but telling them what to think.
So this insanity is going on everywhere. I mentioned something about real estate being the new Swiss bank account in another thread. I wonder how long this can continue?

Is there no flip tax there? Or maybe the flip tax is insignificant compared to the profit made in flipping the property?
It's worth keeping in mind that state governments in the US also wield a lot of power and the gerrymandering at that level can be unbelievable (see "North Carolina is no longer a democracy" recent stories).

The state governments control how voting works in the state, which can lead to distortions at the federal level.
I like it, already found some good stuff.

The only nit so far is that it updates and reflows the page constantly so when I click the story is changing out from under my cursor.
Nice. Do you have a link for the awesome aluminum suitcase? I might consider buying it although I now travel with a backpack and it works great as your hands are free.
> But the subway employees that looked right at him and then chose not to help?

I was always taught not to offer help to someone disabled unless they ask, because it's demeaning otherwise to assume they can't be independent.

In the video when he calls for help they come right over.
It's buying corporate assets and shares in order to keep failing companies afloat and forcing out CEOs whom they view as under-performing. It's passing a law forcing every single individual in the country to spend their own money purchasing a particular, expensive service from a corporate provider.

Tariffs were the first major thing the first US congress implemented to ensure domestic manufacturing could be established and compete with what were up until then cheap imports.
SPA is very broad. Static content work best when delivering only the minimal assets needed to render. Googles AMP does a very good job at this.
Dynamic apps have a very different set of concerns. All SPAs aren't the same. Only the stateless, pure renders, like React and Vue, offer a compelling potential to unify the concerns of static content and apps that need to run across multiple platforms and network conditions. It comes at increased complexity and cost to maintain a multi-platform structure. If there's no business or consumer benefit there's not need to over engineer a solution to use a SPA.
> * With only very few exceptions, every engineer has access to the near-entirety of source code at FB (Oculus, Whatsapp, Instagram...).

Sorry, this could be slightly off topic for this thread. I'm curious if this kind of access also applies to all the data that users put up on the platforms? To put it in other words, how does FB prevent or work to prevent LOVINT [1] like cases? If it's the same kind of access, wouldn't working in the company make the employee uncomfortable that there are people who can look at all information?

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24...

P.S./disclaimer: I personally dislike FB as a platform and as a company for privacy and other policy reasons I don't agree with (like "authentic names", for one). So my bias may be showing in my question, although it's intended to know more and not meant as an attack.
Cheap, unregulated IP telephony and disposable phone numbers have made it easy to spam phones, unfortunately.
Hashids: generate short unique ids from integers
The first tumblr link at the bottom in the comments linked me to FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition

https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
Turn your network inside out with one pf.conf trick
There is no way that's cheaper than s3 though.
Affinity Designer. I've played with it some but I can't get past a few UI choices that are Just Plain Wrong to someone like me who's spent about fifteen years using Illustrator.
Luckily I only travel within Europe (Italy-Poland and back), so I don't need a passport :-)
He's a populist, which is bad, but lost the popular vote (which is probably the biggest marker of a populist) so therefore... what, where was I again?
Luckily I only travel within Europe (Italy-Poland and back), so the security checks aren't that bad. The rest is, though.
Even if there wasn't any fraud involved, the expected result of forcing prices for the end-consumer below the market price is shortages for the end-consumer.

Since people often tend to mentally model the non-end-consumer part of the chain as having infinite supply (since in their day-to-day lives it appears to be the case) in their mind, that is often counter-intuitive. It may be easier to understand the flip side of the same principle, which is that if you hold the price above the market price, you'll end up with excesses left unsold, because insufficient numbers of consumers want to buy at that price. Since this is phrased in terms of the end-consumers not wanting to spend more than they want to, it's less counter-intuitive, and perhaps less politically offensive to some's sensibilities. But it's the exact same effect.
> It's not a question of possibility

Yeah it really is. Quantum states just do not even fit in classical memory. Like, exponentially so. The parent was specifically asking about "possibility" not speedup.
>> I tend to use the term Open Source because Free is confusing because it means both 'no charge' and 'liberty'.

Would you consider to use term "libre software", because "open source" is confusing because it means both "one can read the code" and "one can do certain things with the code"?
Haha, yes.

Too late to edit the post, but yes.
Not if a large enough group of people is willing to accept iTunes gift cards as payment.

As long as they are a token that is sufficiently expensive to get hold of, I don't see why an economy can't work even if nobody ever spends them with Apple. It'd be like an economy based on gold coins in which nobody ever melts the coins down for their value as raw gold.
I think people like to support the "underdog". Whatever is popular will inevitably have people that rebel against that popularity. Maybe it's a bit of the hipster attitude.

I use a MBP for work, and while the build quality is great, I find the machine itself to be...meh. My older one had more ports, some that I used often and still miss. I would never have a new Mac for that very reason. The OS is decent, usable certainly, but I really would rather be using Linux. I don't have any very strong opinions though. I'd be fine with any machine with a unixy OS on it.

I think very strong, hardline opinions on this kind of stuff can sometimes betray immaturity. The world is rarely "black and white".
Ground is an "implied pole" as you'd need it for anything, it's just 3 different upstream channels (L,R,mic) feeding into it.
MSSQL has one:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176005(v=sql.1...

Postgres has explain and some third parties make query tuners.

Oracle has a host of third party tunes, Solar Winds being the first that comes to mind.

I don't know if any of these can do it off a proposed schema but you could create a dummy database and your insert/read routines run a script against it to simulate transactions and run the capture on these tools and they will explain the recommended adjustments. Some of them like MMSQL query tuner will export a script that can make the adjustments.

The biggest thing for DB performance for most CRUD applications is to ensure you eliminate table spools on joins. If you find all of those you are ahead of the game in most instances.
Calling out Republicans specifically over identity politics seems kind of silly, given how much of the Democratic Party's politics is based on race and gender.
ThoughtWorks has a great Engineering culture. It's run by most engineers. The amount of freedom is amazing. Pretty transparent culture.