skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I did the opposite. I had elementaryOS optimized for laptop use running on a thinkpad T430s. I was happy with it for a bit but ended up reverting to a MBP for the following reasons:

- As others have pointed out, the MPB gestures/touchpad are second to none. The size alone, let alone the responsive and consistent gestures are conducive to my productivity

- OSX posix support has never let me down. As of today, I have been able to develop anything on a Macbook that I would use linux for. This increases my productivity and battery life

- On some variations of linux, notably elementary (which I somewhat ironically chose in order to get as close to the OSX experience as possible), alt+tab goes to the next open window as opposed to the one you most recently used, as it does on OSX. This drove me crazy

- OSX has more support for more apps than linux does

- You can always run linux in a docker container or a VM if you absolutely need it

Just my two cents for someone who is weighing between Mac/Linux
I think introversion and shyness/social anxiety or lack of social skills always get confused. Plenty of introverts I know can function extremely well in social situations although they may not enjoy them. On the other hand others (like me) don't do well in social situations even if they want to and try repeatedly.

In the end it's about social skills and being able to perform if needed. If you lack these you are at a disadvantage no matter if you are introvert or extrovert (there are plenty of extroverted people who don't have social skills and are not successful).
In many ways you're already most of the way there. By and large the biggest issues with switching to Linux for the average user is the plethora of random applications that only support Windows or Mac. Most of that software is stuff that already only supports Windows so it's not like you're using any of that as is.

The fastest way to learn how to use Linux as opposed to macOS or Windows is to dive right in and start using it at least on your personal computer.
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OK, let’s see if we can think of one solution to that problem… Oh! Enforce existing anti-trust laws!

This, plus the fact that the increasingly monopolistic reality of ISP in the United States is a direct result of overregulation.

We don’t need more laws. We need to enforce some of the most basic laws that have existed fore more than a century.
God, no. This is a job to me, and it has been for a long time now. For a long time now I’ve focused on extracting the most money, the best working conditions, the least stressful environment. It still sucks; our industry is simply terrible for the humans who work in it. But at least I have a clear idea what I’m doing it for.

I also don't write code outside of work, because I just don’t see anything computer-related as a path to satisfaction or happiness. Forgive me, but I think this is a positive sign of personal development- computers are ultimately so simple that I don’t really think they can do anything truly interesting. And they lack all sense of physical accomplishment, as opposed to cooking or gardening or fixing up old cars or a million other things.
I could easily think of reasons unrelated to houses for wanting a domain like white.house or dog.house.
SF has had the first quarter with negative demographics last year.

Without positive demographics the last round of homebuyers wont make any profit from their purchase, which makes them vulnerbale to changes in economic winds.
If I need to compile a React Native App, this would do the trick right?

Looking to give Apple the least amount of money as possible.
Note that this is only true for smartphones, and it the gap is likely fading.

However, even with AES-supporting hardware arriving in cheap crap android phones, there's too little focus on performance on cheap crap phones and terrible network coverage that is the reality in by far the majority of the world.
Addendum:

I suppose one way to think about this is to imagine old-school computers. I'm talking about the ones built from TTL logic chips; pre-6502/8080/etc.

ARM is basically selling a virtual "board" with their CPU implemented using those logic chips. You, as the designer, can then connect their board up to other boards to have other functionality you want. A graphics board, a sound board, etc.

The difference between those days and today is that these are all virtual. So after you've plugged the boards together a compiler can come through and optimize everything into a final single "board". Which is actually a set of masks used to fab chips on a single piece of silicon.

And these boards are somewhat abstractly specified, letting you enable and disable whole portions of it and have the design adapt accordingly (disabling instructions/functionality/etc).

This analogy isn't far from the truth, since a netlist is really just a list of logical operations, aka just like TTL logic chips, and their connections.

Modern chip development is simply an evolved form of these primordial design techniques. We've replaced manual place and route with "compilers" and optimization algorithms (the original 6502's masks were _hand drawn_. Engineers crawling over a giant plastic sheets making cuts to draw all the transistors and wires). We've replaced manually specifying netlists with higher level languages like Verilog and VHDL. We replaced TTL level CPUs with integrated CPUs. And then eventually replaced whole boards with SoCs.

So if you want to learn chip design; start from the beginning; history is very illuminating. Transistors -> TTL logic chips -> 6502/Z80 designs -> SoCs.
I went from GNU/Linux to Mac in 2013 and back to GNU/Linux about a year ago. (Never owned a Macbook, though.)

Laptop-wise, I can recommend the Asus Zenbook. The keyboard backlight does not work on Linux, and Bluetooth is a little flakey, but apart from that it works very well for me (on openSUSE Tumbleweed, at least).

There are two things I miss: At work, we use a VoIP-based PBX which also supports software clients; the client is available on Windows and Mac. So on the Mac, I could work from home and use my headset for telephony, which was very, very convenient. On Linux, I have not been able to get this to work.
The other thing is that on macOS, the text input widget understands the basic emacs key navigation shortcuts (Ctrl+A -> Jump to beginning of current line, Ctrl+E -> Jump to end of current line, etc...); all the muscle memory I had build up over years of using emacs finally paid off in a big way, because I could use part of it everywhere.

Apart from those two pain points, I was very happy to get back on the GNU.
The Boat and the Buoy – Survival to Startup
I really hope some sort of media subscription service becomes common place.

If I want to read articles online, I'd love to pay $10/m and have it go to the content creators. Ads for me are unacceptable, but I'll happily pay, and I barely even read tech articles.

The specifics of the implementation would have to be very consumer friendly though. Ie, I can't imagine I make all sites combined more than $1/m from my ad traffic each month.. maybe that's not true, I just don't see it happening. So I don't want to (as a consumer) pay $5/m per site or anything silly like that. That's why as a consumer I like the idea of splitting an amount (say, $10/m) up between all places I go.

I remember a service like that... flutter I think? It never caught on though, because people don't like paying. We've got a tough hill to climb in this ad war, heh.
"Domo also has spent $600,000 for catering services from Cubby's Chicago Beef, which describes itself as 'a cute little sandwich and salad restaurant.' It’s owned by Josh James and his brother Cubby. ('The menu does look delicious, but there must be caterers in American Fork, Utah, that aren’t owned by the boss,' remarked Shira Ovide of Bloomberg). Domo also has bought $200,000 in furnishings from Alice Lane Home Collection, an interior design company partially owned by James, at which Drew James, another brother, is an executive."

Wow.
Yeah, I'm not a conspiracy theorist but there are definitely big things held back from the public.

Example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

> The operation was officially sanctioned in 1953, was reduced in scope in 1964, further curtailed in 1967, and officially halted in 1973.

and

> Project MKUltra was first brought to public attention in 1975 by the Church Committee of the United States Congress...

22 years they kept that from the public. Seems like they did a pretty good job keeping that secret.
I imagine reviewing positive training data for that model is terrifying.
Poke around the Northwest Side of Milwaukee, vastly oversupplied for its current population and economic stature. I see a 5-bedroom apartment for $46k [0]. Sure it's not $0, but it's damn close as housing goes. (Note that this area is not particularly dense, just poor. But Tokyo shows us that we can also have rich areas dense enough to be affordable).

[0] https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5748-N-36th-St-5748-Milwa...
Really stinks when you're remote with limited connectivity though. If you're plugged in all day then it would work, yeah
WatchOS 5 first take: Walkie Talkie, workout auto detect, and smarter Siri
Teaching My Computer to Write Its Own Music (2015)
Hyperbole will kill us all
Ymmv, but my personal experience was great. It’s shorter than LSD and I got more out of it than any other recreational drug use. I would compare the psychological impact to spending an afternoon removing and cleaning all the books on your bookshelf, except the bookshelf is your own brain. You get to examine a lot of material, you delve into some volumes but not into others, you maybe rearrange in a way that’s slightly more pleasing (but it will never be perfect, it’s a bookshelf and you’re going to see it differently next time you look at it), and you get to rediscover things you may have forgotten. You also might make some connections that, having read some of your books years apart, weren’t immediately apparent. It’s also very serendipitous in a similar way. You’re going to look at most of what is there, and if you’re not in the right frame of mind, you might end up fixating on the journal you kept when you were going through a rough patch at the expense of paging through something more pleasant. You might get something out of that, or it might take you somewhere that’s not so great.

Edit: Also, for anyone interested in mushrooms or any other kind of psychoactive substance, read the Erowid article and any other material you can find. Drug use is risky. Some risks are minor, some are major. Don’t engage in any recreational drug use without a clear understanding of the hazards you’re exposing yourself to.
> You can't complain "they're adding ads!" unless you have a credible solution for somehow bringing in billions of dollars otherwise, and the WhatsApp founders didn't

What about business features? Pretty much every business in my country advertises a Whatsapp number, from large companies to mom-and-pops. People contact them over Whatsapp to ask questions, make complaints, order stuff, everything. I can't believe Facebook is unable to monetize that.

It seems to me that Facebook is severely biased towards ads because they already have a platform and it's a market they obviously know well. That doesn't mean ads are the only way to make money.
They way I use Facebook and the kind of information I have shared with it (photos, places, connections) I have already established a valid identity with them. I don't use Facebook as some anon profile "LonelyGirl99". By paying them a premium fee Facebook and I would bind into a new agreement about not persisting my information for ad tracking and wherever possible ask its third party affiliates to do the same. Say you and I are both logged in and actively commenting on TechCrunch. You are a free user and I pay premium. TechCrunch can request FB to have metrics for free users but not for premium. Unless FB provides a backdoor, has a bug or TechCrunch savvy programmers can hack FB social plugin to extract info about premium users as well. Similarly, FB will also not sell my meta-data to advertisers. Even if I fall well into the targeting of advertisers I will be excluded. FB will not even give me "opt-out" options. I will be opted-out by default unless I choose I want to be opt-in. I will have more tight control over shared entities as well. If my ex tagged me in his/her pictures and then we are unfriended, then I would still have the option to go through his/her pictures and choose to remove myself (I think FB allows this currently anyway). Basically the contract b/w me and FB will be iron clad.
FWIW I had a startup as a contract client that sounds like they did something similar. Spent hundreds of thousands throwing a "relaunch party" to pander to investors. I assume this strategy is not rare. Only difference is that it didn't work for them and they went under a few months later.
Apple should port Messages app to Android and other platforms, this is a great opportunity for them to capitalize on. It is unlikely though, as the strategy is to get people to buy iPhones to get Messages.
Yup, peace and quiet with privacy in mind. Not sure what Facebook employees don't understand.
Mark Zuckerberg lied to Congress about Facebook data scandal, Congressman claims
Quantum stopwatch stores time in a quantum memory
I agree that you should own the data that was created because of your interaction with the device, but I do not agree that the reason is that you own the device.

Here's an example: You go to the library (or a privately owned web cafe), and write your stories there. It doesn't matter that you don't own the device. It's still your data.
Not sure if I want to switch to Android.
Bad summary and bad headline. It is not removed. From the very last line of the CoC:

> And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
It seems like a good way to learn Python, but after you've learned enough you will lose interest in maintaining your friend's web store for practically no money.
The Importance of Teaching Robots to Hug
Lebanon took the vast majority, nearly doubling their population. The U.S. has taken a fraction of 1% of those refugees, with the total number being less than the daily mean number of deaths. The world's melting pot, a nation of immigrants, has become one of the more anti-immigrant and anti-refugee in the world.
I'm not an apply fan by any means, but when they were already working on it internally, while he was publicly trashing the idea -- yes.

Steve would have been trying very hard to avoid the 'Osborne Effect', which was very well known to everyone in the early industry. Osborne portable/luggable computers had a very strong market share and growing, based on the CP/M operating system. They announced that they would be coming out with a DOS-compatible machine, far too early as it turned out. Everyone decided to wait for the introduction of the DOS machine, sales and revenue went to effectively zero, and the company died before it ever introduced the new machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Computer_Corporation

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-amazing-rise-and-fall-of-...
SilverPush

Use ultrasonic inaudible sounds for tracking you

Your TV ads could play these beacons to which your phone is actively listening.

Or websites and physical places could play them.

See: https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/24/silverpush-audio-beacons/
Ask HN: Anyone Building Next Gen IDEs?
I'm looking around, and one of my interests is the human-code interface. Is anyone building the next generation of IDEs - integrating AI for code generation, visual UIs for an overview of structure, etc?
OpenCart 100%
That's really sad. I love my Portege X-30D. It was the lightest notebook that supported full 32GB RAM, has 2 Thunderbolt 3 Ports, HDMI and USB 3.

Really sad to hear.
Part of the Mac experience has always been that, since Apple have full control of the hardware, everything Just Works. However, Dell seem to be getting there. Developers here get a choice of XPS 13's running Ubuntu, or MacBook Pros, and most choose the XPS. 18.04 gives you a binary choice of 100% or 200% UI scaling for HiDPI, but that seems to be good enough. Oddly, 16.04 Unity gave you a nice incremental slider for UI scaling. Nonetheless, Windows also doesn't handle HiDPI very well, and I think Apple are the only ones who've cracked it. Indeed, most other companies seem to be copying Apple in this regard - I prefer to have 1080 screens and just make use of the raw pixels rather than faff with HiDPI.

No hardware is infallible, and we've had problems with our machines, but Dell customer service has been great - they usually send an engineer out the next day for our company.

Can't deny, though, most people's machines display Ubuntu Experienced An Internal Error as soon as they log in, and we just dismiss the prompt. Doesn't seem to affect usability. Otherwise, the machines run Ubuntu very, very smoothly with all the hardware working. I upgraded one of our older XPS 13's to 18.04 with no problems.
I still love my self-hosted WordPress instance. I wanted, for so long, to not use WordPress (for stupid reasons).

I keep a minimal set of plugins activated and my blog just works. It allows me to focus on content instead of trying to do a bunch of "dev work" on it.
VPN puts you on corpnet. And yes, I'm well familiar with our various account protection techniques (I work on the token server) - I was calling out that some companies trust their systems enough to make it remotely accessible, not saying it's a bad thing that I could be productive on the bus ride home.
> I've invested in overcoming social anxieties

How?
Hi @sunsetMurk, did you signup for the beta? We are reaching out to each user to build user stories and build a set of templates based on those. In any case, AdWords should be out in ~10 days and Facebook shortly after.
> Some Facebook employees mocked WhatsApp with chants of ‘Welcome to WhatsApp—Shut up!’

Pretty sure I would, too.

Edit: This was ambiguous. I didn't mean I'd mock WhatsApp. I was agreeing with the orginal post that I'd prefer WhatsApp culture.
HA! "Staring goats" sounds like a variation on "stink-eye". I misread coffeeacc at first too, which also lead me to realize I left out the "at". I finally realized they were just making a pun. Which, by the way coffeeacc, I always excuse, no matter how bad. Yours was pretty good though :)
Parts of the government aren't that great at secrets, sure.
But like someone else wrote, the government isn't a single entity, but a collection of entities. Moreover, a substantial (if not the vast majority) of classified work is performed by contractors (SRI, Lockheed etc) which have their own procedures in place.

We know through OSINT that the government has kept plenty of secrets and they have done so very very well for decades, before leakage or disclosure. Finally, with such a poor SnR these days due to information overload and psyops, even if the government isn't that great at secrets, you still have the herculean task of sorting through the information haystack looking for the needles.
Came here looking for a gateway to another galaxy.
Apple's development of a collapsible iPhone is expected to come in 2020
> (Apple touchpad > pointy nub > Non-apple touchpad, and that is not up for discussion)

I think you must have palmed your touchpad while typing out that list and somehow messed up the order. This is what you actually meant: 3 physical button trackpoint with textured nub gifted upon us by the Thinkpad Gods of old >>>> apple stuff > other stuff. There shall be no further debate!
How rapidly is China catching up in science?
I would expect initial benchmarks to be bad. Remember the fixes Cloudflare had to apply to ffmpeg (adding NEON-specific intrinsics to code that already had x86 ones). That's probably fairly common in most software we run (because most of us run it on x86 machines). ARM-optimized software will eventually be written.
Yes, my IDE is vim but it's a hard sell to a lot of folks... especially having to map a shortcut key to "import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()" for breakpoints...

Rodeo [1] was an attempt at an IDE but development died, and now that yhat's been acquired, there's no sign of any further development. I wish the Jupyter folks would push more in this direction (and they are with Jupyter Lab) but I get the sense they are really invested in the notebook paradigm.

[1] https://www.yhat.com/products/rodeo
For patent litigation (fighting out infringement claims in court), I'd say it's mostly done by large general practice firms and medium-to-small boutique firms that focus on IP.

For patent prosecution (drafting of patent applications and advocating before the patent office to get them issued), there are some solo practitioners, and probably more small practices than there are for patent litigation, though the big firms do prosecution as well.
Every company I've worked for wants an official WhatsApp business API.

And apparently that's what they proposed to Sandberg, according to the article, but the financial projections were nowhere near what ads would bring.
How did you earned that position despite your experience? Seems impressive to jump that far given that industry prefers very young and buzzword oriented (or phds in that particular field).
Write a blog post about how to set it up. send it out to some people you might be interested in targeting as clients see what they say.
Don't you guys think that GitHub was meant to give heads up about acquisition to its subscribers, at least to premium users? Yes this would give away the whole "secret" but if acquirer is some evil corp? Or a foreign entity? I feel like there is an important law missing regarding acquisition of companies who run premium plans.
How's the Pixelbook? Anything missing for software development? Can you run everything without needing crouton/ubuntu installed?
If you just pull the current version and not the full history it isn't that bad (769.04 MiB).

$ git clone https://public-inbox.org/git/ --depth=1
Cloning into 'git'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 349282, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (349282/349282), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (324048/324048), done.
remote: Total 349282 (delta 25234), reused 348128 (delta 25234)
Receiving objects: 100% (349282/349282), 769.04 MiB | 8.26 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (25234/25234), done.
Checking out files: 100% (349024/349024), done.
> At what point does any user stop to complain about their single threaded performance on their handheld device?

That's in the world where developers make performance at least their third-highest priority, and a couple hundred MIPS can run the vast majority of apps without regularly lagging. Let me know if you have any ideas to make that world become real.

> Quite literally the two devices are incomparable as Apple is a service with proprietary devices.

They have the same form factor and run largely the same apps. It's crazy to say that iphone and android are incomparable.
Yarn registry is down, again