skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not mince words. Ubuntu and linux OS'es in general are TRASH as far as user experience is concerned.

Lately I even tried elementaryOS, and it's worse than Ubuntu. They keep saying how it's not a copy of OS X, and it evidently isn't as far as user experience is concerned, but on top of that they're obviously inspired by a design that's now completely outdated. At least Ubuntu is looking ahead and thinking of touch interfaces.

Ubuntu is genuinely the only somewhat passable option for people who don't know, nor should know, what process thread is, or even how many cores are in their CPU. Ubuntu has a somewhat consistent UI but still suffers from all kind of major bloopers. I mean, what the fuck. It's 2017, and it still doesn't save the last window size & position in most apps. It drives me mad. Some do, some don't, so it ends up worse than not supporting it at all.

I got fed up with Windows and Ubuntu so I bought a five year old Mac Mini. Sierra looks amazing, and it runs silky smooth. I don't AAA game and this will most likely serve me very well for web development. Came with a big SSD drive too.

It's kinda sad nobody can compete with Apple. But if anybody will I don't think it's the "free software" world.
UbuntuBSD already exists and has even been mentioned on Hacker News.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326457

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326681
I was just thinking. Humans seem to frickin' love armour!! In reality it was only used in certain circumstances by certain people and only for a very short window in human technological development. But ever since it has been a part of out art.
I agree with you about "virtue signaling". I don't agree with Rayiner about this stuff, but in a good, sort of bracing way --- until I get to the line where he says that everyone trying to do something politically about climate change is doing so in bad faith.
Does anyone know how to setup a multi user notebook? Because of the nature of the notebook and how it maintains state ... that a single instance is usable by a single person.

We are building dashboards in Jupiter and really would love it to be multi user... Without getting into the hub and stuff (way too complex to set it up)
That's another way of saying people hate political crap.
Because what if you do this:

# Good bye, everything up to this point
echo "crap" > notes.md

Or are in another directory
ctrl-alt-t is my go-to hotkey!
What's interesting is how quickly the game theory of r/place was learned, and how most sizes represented the size of the community.

Even in dedicated attacks, like the nuking of the American flag, the size of the community directly correlated to the amount of real-estate. The black blob showed how over-extension could collapse the whole structure.

The other thing I found interesting was how quickly the quality of discernible images/logos evolved. Monochromatic communities dominated to begin with, as users experimented with cooperation. Those same users were drawn to more detailed and interesting designs, relegating the collapse of monochromatic communities as background color for more interesting designs.

Honestly, this is a goldmine for anyone studying group dynamics or social sciences. There's a lot of dynamics going on in a very short amount of time. I'd love to see more detailed research going into the development of r/place
IT Security Pros Are Also Slow to Change Passwords
I like it. Also thought about an iMama :D
I should have been clear, I was thinking of Cool Ranch Doritos (this was covered in an NPR piece years ago and that was one of the examples). As for Mountain Dew... "citrus". It is the classic case of amplitude.

Take away the acid and it would be sickeningly sweet. Dial down the sugar and it would be absurdly tart or bitter. It's only together, in mass quantities that it achieves a kind of blitz effect.
Building an aquaponics greenhouse, wanted an outside hobby
Ask HN: What are best tech blogs to read
what are best tech blogs to read? What are your's personal favourite,please share with others.
Yes, as many times as I can stand.
Project: I am developing a platform that lets people try any products before buying them. Its free if they buy one of the products they try on the spot or else they shell out a tiny flat fee for the trial.

https://dais.me (it's not live yet)
Is this an open beta? Sounds interested I'd love to give it a spin.
So are you saying that Microsoft releases the necessary API specifications for writing a replacement for DWM.exe?

My point was that when the source code is available, the users will even write complete replacements, instead of just adding small patches.
They didn't ban political symbols, they ban bullying and acting disrespectfully. The swastika fits that, the LGBT flag doesn't.

This might not be the case, but it feels like you're acting naive to further an agenda.
But there was far less overtaking pre-DRS than there is now according to this site [1] which tracks such things.
These stats don't include:

The overtaking figures for each race (across all data sets) do not include:

* Position changes on the first lap of the race

* Position changes due to drivers lapping backmarkers

* Positions gained in the pits

* Positions gained due to drivers yielding

* Positions gained when a car has a serious technical

problem; e.g. puncture, accident damage, etc.

[1] http://cliptheapex.com/overtaking/
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Politicians that will actively engage in that obstruction.

Pretty gross.
I just took a look at the source, and I think this is the simplest non-trivial example of a Go command-line app I've seen. It's exactly what I've been looking for to get started with a tiny little project of my own.

Thanks for sharing!
Problem1: I want to travel, but I don't know where.
Problem2: Skyscanner's search-everywhere feature doesn't help 100% on that.

Project: Events + Flights + Airbnb. Events for now are Film festivals, music festivals and sports events.

Check it out: www.natzar.co
I'll start with: https://blog.codinghorror.com/
There goes society.
What downward spiral? This isn't unique to adtech, this is human behavior. We all influence each other.

When your friend recommends a product, they are influencing you, but might not know what's actually good for you or what your needs/wants are and might not even be honest with you. At least with advertising there are some standards and it's that same human behavior/influence harnessed and purchased through technology. Politics, news, communications, etc. It's all the same.
Xervo shutting down – recommends switching to Zeit/Now
Location: Currently in Mumbai, India. Looking for remote work

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Can be discussed

Technologies: Python, Django, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Git, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kabhay7/

Email: kabhay007@gmail.com
I am building a self-service Fps-Visit editor from photos.
Here is one Fps-visit, made in 2 hours :
http://free-visit.net/index.php/fr/23-modules-positions-50/b...
It's like an old photograph of Times Square, where most businesses shown are long defunct and many were of dubious character. Nonetheless, it still holds meaning and tells a pretty cool story.
Medical? Ah, that's fine as long as it ain't for abuse.
I'm sure it would be much more effective to go full Netherlands on Manhattan and set up dikes and seawalls and pumps.
Thanks!

We're still preparing some benchmark numbers/performance numbers that we will hopefully share in the coming weeks. We do have some write performance numbers in there as you can see. There is also a lot of churn at the moment as we're still in beta and refining some key features, so I don't want to speculate too much on how performance looks until after we get a few more of our query optimizations tuned.
The reason that housing is expensive and perhaps that mental illness rates go up is because of politically induced market failure in the form of zoning density restrictions. It is an artificial constraint that is readily fixed. See my post higher up in this chain.
A good read, as with anything by Gladwell, but I have a few quibbles (as with anything by Gladwell):

> There are five known fundamental tastes in the human palate: salty, sweet, sour, bitter, and umami.

I always hate when folks call savoury 'umami' instead. We already have a perfectly good word in English for the taste; we don't need to add a new one!

> And so he turned to ketchup, because, alone among the condiments on the table, ketchup could deliver sweet and sour and salty and bitter and umami, all at once.

I'm pretty sure A1 & HP deliver much the same effect. Even Worcestershire sauce does.

Finally, and most importantly: there's a much simpler reason for the failure of World's Best Ketchup to take over the market: no-one is likely to trust a product named 'World's Best' to actually be the best. Grey Poupon seems to come from France, with its name & packaging: one is tempted to believe that it's an ancient brand, one which might well be excellent — or even the world's best. But World's Best Ketchup is clearly new, and there's no particular reason for me to believe it's actually all that good. It could have just been invented by some team of accountants in a conference room at the Holiday Inn.

Never mind that Grey Poupon isn't actually French. Never mind that Jim Wigon really seems to love his ketchup. The vast majority of folks don't know those facts.
Disclaimer: I work on the hub.

Sorry to hear you found the hub too complex. We're working on making easier-to-use hub setups that fit different use cases. Can you tell us a little more about what your use case was and (optionally) which parts of the hub setup you found too complex?

Thanks!
Problem: Whimsical, web based, zine based, Windows 95 themed operating systems just aren't what they used to be.

Project: https://whimsy.space
Cyborgs at Work: Employees getting implanted with microchips
Typeset in the Future: The Book
Working on a deep reinforcement learning library that can be used in practical applications and not just simulations. The idea is that there might be many developers/ml enthusiasts interested in deep reinforcement learning, but existing research code is often tightly coupled with simulations like OpenAI Gym, somewhat brittle and requires a lot of know-how to adjust for a new problem. The goal is to have a library that allows to create and configure different deep RL agents with just a few lines, so they are easy to play around with.

Development is going slowly because there is a lot of research output that is difficult to integrate into one consistent architecture (also a weekend project), but working prototype with example usage is here:

https://github.com/reinforceio/tensorforce
>ugly trolling and hate speech is that the alt-right

Or your preconceived notions of conservative people are wrong.
I blame them for using C
I agree that clients prefer/want their consultants onsite and many of the companies won't compromise on this. But for the ones where cost is the primary factor, they would just keep the critical people onsite. (Onsite coordinator, architect guy etc.,). Regarding timezone, consulting firms already run several projects matching US time.
The whole thing is so complex and has so many facets that there is no straight forward solution to it.
So both my wife and I watch every race. I have been to the Singapore race in the past. What an amazing party. The races themselves are getting to be quite dull. The lack of passing and things like DRS have made the racing all about the first few seconds. With the exception of Max V. amazing driving in some of the races last year it is not as fun as it used to be. I really wish they would mandate a single engine and a singe car type. Lets make it about the drivers and the strategy. The teams with the money win here.
Chrome, Firefox and Safari newest versions on macOS 10.12 with Polish language as default.
The reddit experiment is way more interesting. Everything on million dollar homepage is trashy ads for very shady websites. /r/Place is populated by fan communities and jokes and memes. I set it as my desktop background and still keep finding interesting things in it.
We are planning are trying to get our extension onto major cloud providers like Amazon RDS and similar, so that might be useful for your use case.
Home-Made Book Scanner Uses an iPhone, Scans 24 Pages per Minute
Who is hiring product managers? (April 2017)
Even DRS is a "hack" to fix the difficulty of following.

The challenge is to find a decent set of regulations that allow decent downforce and fast cars, without too much wake disturbance.
How Hackers Hijacked a Bank’s Entire Online Operation
Looks like its all filled up!. Fall positions will be posted soon.
Surely you mean "What should you be working on?"

Too many projects, nothing is ever finished :(

I envy the people who a) have some creative ideas and b) manage to ship them. More than once an offhand remark of "wouldn't it be nice if we had X" made me write the damn thing in a much better way than I could have ever described a project of mine. Maybe that's also the reason I'll probably never start a company again (and if, it would be consulting again, not a product)

To not completely derail the topic, I recently launched a small microblog at http://f5n.org/nano/ - mostly to test a web framework and also to not clutter my blog with small blurbs. As you can see I immediately stopped using it after the launch :)
Cool Ranch could be high amplitude since if offers Fat and Salt in addition to Sweet and Spice.

Mountain Dew has a strong flavor but is still low amplitude since the "blitz" or main flavor is easily identifiable. You would make billions if you could figure out how to add salt and fat to a mountain dew.
An idea: have an unobstructive popup that says "hit ESC in 5 seconds to undo <the action>", and do the move/copy only if the user doesn't press that key in the specified time. Maybe use backspace instead of ESC because the MacBooks' touch bar thingy. Allow to disable/ change the interval.
Changes between C++14 and C++17
> I assume that you think that Amazon would be clearing parts of the African Serengeti and protecting it's racks from lions, wildebeest and tribesmen.

And I assume you think of me as some kind of idiot. Of course I understand that Kenya is not as you just said, but I consider Kenya an underdeveloped country that does not have its act together. I really don't see how you can argue against that based on facts.
That video you linked was very interesting. The car just doesn't work properly until it's being driven very hard. So the challenge for the beginner is to go fast right away. If you take it too easy, the tires and brakes are cold and don't work, and you'll crash. The amateur driver was much more experienced than most, and he really struggled.
I find this interesting in what it lacked:

* No Google / Twitter / Facebook / Amazon

* No news networks (except NPR)

* Hardly any corporations except for Tesla, Space X, AMD, Lego and IKEA

* No GTA, FIFA, large corporate games

* Only 6 actual people (1/3 of which was the Dutch dutchy)

* No films

* No iconic logos - e.g. Olympics rings, Nike, McDonalds
Maybe it is the attitude that makes it "TRASH." It seems you have only tried Unity and elementaryOS? Right now I use Cinnamon, which is similar enough to Windows to not be "TRASH" imho.

Also here is a Linux joke for you:

If you don't like certain things, just fork it and do your own thing.
I'm a little skeptical. I've looked into real-time data recently and have found it is quite expensive by which I mean several thousand a month with some platforms requiring a yearly fee of up to 20K. How are you planning to make money if you have those expenses and seemingly no money coming in from the options?
StarshipHub

I'm going to be living on a sail boat, probably. I mean I own the boat.

StarshipHub is (going to be) my management console for dealing with the two types of data.

* Live, real-time(ish) data about things like how much water you have, or the GPS co-ords of all the boats who's AIS transmitters you can hear.

* Static cache of files, mostly web sites.

For the former, I'm using rethinkdb. For the later, ipfs (because it's neat). The frontend is going to be written in ember, and the server in python/aiohttp/websockets.
I'm gonna go against the grain here and say I don't think this should be legal. Hiding behind the idea "we only sold you a license" is ridiculous. You sold a product, it includes supporting software. Unless their is actual misuse by the customer you shouldn't have the right to arbitrarily terminate that license.

That seems like a contract that clearly shouldn't be allowed.
Many engineers are in the business of providing dopamine hits to users, most aren't in businesses considered "questionable morality".
Thanks for the requests. The first is already captured by an issue [1]. If you thumbs-up there it will be moved up in priority. For the second, I'd ask you to file a new issue.

Thanks,
Michael

[1]: https://github.com/fman-users/fman/issues/43
Hotsockets
With all the sources telling you different things?
When has Broadcom ever given a sign that they care about their reputation among end users? They want the OEM design wins, and anything after that is not their problem.
Affordable Care Act Gains Majority Approval for First Time
Sounds really interesting. Would you mind shooting me an email at aakil at safezero dot org?
Fanatic does not mean no criticism.
Did I say anything about debt?
Mount Everest climbers enlisted for canvas bag clean-up mission
Windows+10+is+four+times+more+popular+than+Mac+and+Apple+figures+reveal+it
For context, which channel?

I watch Sky F1, which provides a decent amount of technical context, but I don't know what content is delivered by Channel 4, or how it compares to Sky.
For me, endurance racing (WEC) is quite a bit more fascinating and impressive than F1. Racing a car on the cutting edge of race technology for 2 hours is one thing, but 24 hours is a whole different ballgame.
Still not seeing your point. The goal is x. We achieve x/2. We still achieved something. We proved we can actually make an international agreement with long term goals and short term sacrifice and make improvements. I don't really blame politicians for taking further credit and trying to spin their success as even more impressive. Do you think the Paris agreement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement) would ever have happened if not for that initial (however small) success? Reading the aims it seems on the surface to provide reasonable goals that balance growth and fairness with trying to prevent climate change.

What should they spend political capital on? Seems like this section is also going to help develop technological solutions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Agreement#Ensuring_finan...
Sounds like a good plan. Freelancing on top of a regular job, even if you're remote is no small task.

You make me want to have more concrete plans for getting out of debt. Best of luck.
Almost ready: postscriptum.co

sends messages after your death
A lot of customer support platforms already started offering chat features a few years ago. (I used to work in the industry.) The same can be said for Facebook and Twitter integration.
Retired German man solves one of world's most complex maths problem
Great, thanks. You just made me want to play STALKER again. :\
I'm not sure if Spotify does this, my experience is mostly in video, but if some or all content is going to be encrypted, you start with a small http/unencrypted section and then get the license to play the encrypted part. This is because you can put the unencrypted section on a edge CDN but getting a license is going to have to go through a server that could have some significant time (say up to a couple of seconds depending). This makes it so you start right away (better UX).

I do have some experience in music, and this is likely for uncompressed or hidef playback. Some labels force encryption for hidef (but in general most of the music services stream straight progressive unencrypted even though their contracts require encryption in all cases).

Edit: but doing this is really tough. You're going to need to stitch together those two stream without a gap. This takes a lot of engineering. I've done this in flash and pure js. So this is not an arbitrary decision.
There's a popular adage that technology only becomes useful when it starts being used for porn. The reason is that, when the technology was thought up, the idea was not to use it for porn, but for something else. However the fact that the porn industry has independently found the technology useful, despite it not being targeted at them at all, shows the true potential of the technology.

The same can be said about social networks, except swap porn for nazis.
You can kill 2 birds with one stone by placing what you want to see over what you want to sensor. But yeah, if you want to sensor many different places, there is an opportunity cost there.

As for your second point, I'd argue that any variance b/w individuals wasn't that much. Much more effective than staying online for an hour and getting a few more pixels in, is propagandizing to a subreddit of 10,000 people and getting each of them to drop one pixel. Those who got their voices heard were not those staying up 24 hrs placing dots, it was those who wrote calls to arms on subreddits and mobilized others.
Do you memorize and rehearse the fully written-out talks?

For the most part you don't come off as having scripted the whole talk, but there are tells in your transcripts that they were written first.
It seems more likely they would go damns and dikes then let the water over run the city. Manhattan surrounded by a wall where the ground of the city is were it always is, and a 50ft wall around it.
Indeed. Isn't that what much of this thread is about, aimed at the developer/company in question here as well?
And I suspect if Heinz and World's Best switched marketing budgets that somehow this article would suddenly be about how World's Best hits all the right flavor notes and Heinz is "lower amplitude."
>"why neoliberal capitalism is the only real villain of the book"

I doubt that neoliberal capitalism will be "the real villain" 100 years from now. Capital is in the process of being superceded by information (a further rarification/reification of social relations).

Either way, it's hard to imagine neoliberalism making a good sci-fi villain. At all.
There was also the Sega Genesis X-Men game. The whole game is supposed to take place in a hacked Danger Room, at one point you need to reset the computer and you do it by resetting the actual Genesis itself. The cartridge had to have a special battery to do this and it blew my mind as a child.
A skilled operator reading a runbook would seem less likely to exacerbate the mess than a naively written script. The operator can think, "wait a minute, this isn't right." Maybe they won't when they're sleeping off a night of drinking at 3am, but they could. The Python interpreter can't.

To make the script less naive, you'd need a development environment with the same infrastructure components as production, and the freedom to make them fail so you can develop your script against their failure states.
My problem with Swagger is almost the opposite... it solves the problem (APIs are very complicated to use!) by embracing this complexity with more complexity and more tools. Rather, I believe the solution is a push to just have simpler APIs.

It's crazy to me that it's harder to write a Swagger file than it is to write the API itself. And there's a lot of tooling that benefits from Swagger, but... I've found they all work 80%. Codegen, documentation, etc get 80% of the way there.

(Also, OAS 3 has linking, which is very similar to your hypermedia complaint)
For those that don't read materials about optimization as much as they maybe should, what is "w​⋆"? It used without introduction and I don't know what it is. Perhaps this a convention I am not aware of?